Cheng Sun

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Cheng Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Sun has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 13 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Cheng Sun's work include Nerve injury and regeneration (9 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (9 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (9 papers). Cheng Sun is often cited by papers focused on Nerve injury and regeneration (9 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (9 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (9 papers). Cheng Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Cheng Sun's co-authors include Tingting Yan, Qiwei Zhai, Xianglin Shi, Xinjian Ge, Fang Zhang, Sang Won Park, Justin Lee, Umut Özcan, Yingjiang Zhou and Zhiqiang Lv and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Medicine and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Sun

98 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

SIRT1 Improves Insulin Sensitivity under Insulin-Resistant Conditions by Repressing PTP1B

2007 627 citations Cheng Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cheng Sun China	32	1.7k	704	678	612	570	101	3.9k
Dongmei Wu China	37	2.0k 1.1×	537 0.8×	474 0.7×	136 0.2×	371 0.7×	130	4.0k
Robert B. Hamanaka United States	32	4.3k 2.5×	965 1.4×	799 1.2×	122 0.2×	642 1.1×	53	7.3k
Antonella De Angelis Italy	36	2.2k 1.3×	481 0.7×	205 0.3×	122 0.2×	82 0.1×	86	5.3k
Brian Clarke United Kingdom	18	5.8k 3.4×	2.2k 3.2×	619 0.9×	164 0.3×	1.7k 3.0×	61	7.9k
Shangcheng Xu China	33	1.3k 0.7×	512 0.7×	450 0.7×	164 0.3×	191 0.3×	75	3.5k
Liu Cao China	49	5.8k 3.3×	1.4k 2.0×	2.3k 3.5×	1.5k 2.4×	722 1.3×	157	10.2k
Yanqing Wu China	39	1.6k 0.9×	275 0.4×	448 0.7×	66 0.1×	205 0.4×	124	3.8k
Craig McFarlane Singapore	29	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	360 0.5×	52 0.1×	514 0.9×	50	3.0k
Dongmei Gao China	45	3.0k 1.7×	277 0.4×	455 0.7×	39 0.1×	627 1.1×	217	6.8k
Nan Wang China	30	1.4k 0.8×	412 0.6×	150 0.2×	47 0.1×	322 0.6×	122	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Cheng Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cheng Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cheng Sun. Cheng Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hu, Yanqin, et al.. (2025). ROS-responsive oridonin and dihydroartemisinin hetero-polymeric prodrug NPs for potentiating ferroptosis in gastric cancer by disrupting redox balance. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 252. 114637–114637. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Qi, Yingjie Zhao, Qiuxia Yu, et al.. (2025). Effects of Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) in Programmed Cell Death: Execution Mechanism and Regulatory Pathways. Cell Biology International. 50(1). e70105–e70105.

Sun, Cheng, et al.. (2025). Emerging role of histone and non-histone lactylation in metabolic reprogramming of female-specific malignancies. World Journal of Surgical Oncology. 24(1). 29–29.

Sun, Cheng, et al.. (2025). FrugalNeRF: Fast Convergence for Extreme Few-shot Novel View Synthesis without Learned Priors. 11227–11238. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Hao, Yingjie Zhao, Fan Chen, et al.. (2025). Peroxiredoxin 6: A Regulatory Target in Cellular Senescence and Age-Related Diseases. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 43(7-9). 400–426. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Zhaopeng, Jinyu Ma, Jie Liu, et al.. (2024). All-organic nanocomposite with strong photo-pyroelectric response and its application in retinal prosthesis. Nano Energy. 129. 110002–110002. 5 indexed citations

Wu, Yuting, Jinyu Ma, Jing Chen, et al.. (2024). Ablation of CD44 Attenuates Adipogenesis in White Adipocytes via the Tryptophan 5-Hydroxylase 2/5-Hydroxytryptamine Axis to Protect Mice from High-Fat Diet–Induced Obesity. American Journal Of Pathology. 195(2). 247–264. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Xi, Jinyu Ma, Zhaopeng Wang, et al.. (2024). Wireless and Opto-Stimulated Flexible Implants: Artificial Retina Constructed by Ferroelectric BiFeO₃-BaTiO₃/P(VDF-TrFE) Composites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(36). 48395–48405. 5 indexed citations

Zhao, Yingjie, Qiuxia Yu, Weirong Hu, et al.. (2024). Extracellular CIRP induces abnormal activation of fibroblast-like synoviocytes from patients with RA via the TLR4-mediated HDAC3 pathways. International Immunopharmacology. 128. 111525–111525. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Jinyu, et al.. (2023). Cold‐inducible lncRNA266 promotes browning and the thermogenic program in white adipose tissue. EMBO Reports. 24(12). e55467–e55467. 7 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yingjie, Cheng Sun, Fan Chen, et al.. (2023). ASIC1a-CMPK2-mediated M1 macrophage polarization exacerbates chondrocyte senescence in osteoarthritis through IL-18. International Immunopharmacology. 124(Pt A). 110878–110878. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shouping, et al.. (2022). SIRT1 attenuates neuroinflammation by deacetylating HSPA4 in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1868(5). 166365–166365. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaohui, Jianqiang Li, Fan Yang, et al.. (2021). Histone H3 methyltransferase Ezh2 promotes white adipocytes but inhibits brown and beige adipocyte differentiation in mice. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1866(6). 158901–158901. 12 indexed citations

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Zhang, Luping, Ru Zhang, Cheng Cheng, et al.. (2020). THOC1 deficiency leads to late-onset nonsyndromic hearing loss through p53-mediated hair cell apoptosis. PLoS Genetics. 16(8). e1008953–e1008953. 20 indexed citations

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Hua, Jie, et al.. (2018). LncNEN885 inhibits epithelial‐mesenchymal transition by partially regulation of Wnt/β‐catenin signalling in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms. Cancer Science. 109(10). 3139–3148. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Yongjun, Lili Man, Cheng Sun, et al.. (2015). CD59 mediates cartilage patterning during spontaneous tail regeneration. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12798–12798. 8 indexed citations

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Gu, Shuping, Chao Liu, Ling Yang, et al.. (2014). BMPRIA Mediated Signaling Is Essential for Temporomandibular Joint Development in Mice. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e101000–e101000. 36 indexed citations

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Alonso-Peral, María Magdalena, Cheng Sun, & Anthony A. Millar. (2012). MicroRNA159 Can Act as a Switch or Tuning MicroRNA Independently of Its Abundance in Arabidopsis. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34751–e34751. 42 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yingjiang, Justin Lee, Candace M. Reno, et al.. (2011). Regulation of glucose homeostasis through a XBP-1–FoxO1 interaction. Nature Medicine. 17(3). 356–365. 229 indexed citations

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Espinoza‐Lewis, Ramón A., Hongbing Liu, Cheng Sun, et al.. (2011). Ectopic expression of Nkx2.5 suppresses the formation of the sinoatrial node in mice. Developmental Biology. 356(2). 359–369. 61 indexed citations

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