Chenqi Xu

8.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
76 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Chenqi Xu is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chenqi Xu has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Immunology, 29 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Chenqi Xu's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (29 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (20 papers) and CAR-T cell therapy research (15 papers). Chenqi Xu is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (29 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (20 papers) and CAR-T cell therapy research (15 papers). Chenqi Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Chenqi Xu's co-authors include Xing He, Bao‐Liang Song, Binlu Huang, Xiaoshan Shi, Matthew E. Call, Kai W. Wucherpfennig, James J. Chou, Jason R. Schnell, Xingdong Guo and Wei Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chenqi Xu

71 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Immune checkpoint signaling and cancer immunotherapy

2020 935 citations Xing He, Chenqi Xu Cell Research profile →
Cholesterol metabolism in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

2020 600 citations Chenqi Xu et al. profile →
Exhaustion-associated cholesterol deficiency dampens the cytotoxic arm of antitumor immunity

2023 118 citations Chengsong Yan, Shutan Jiang et al. profile →
Tuning charge density of chimeric antigen receptor optimizes tonic signaling and CAR-T cell fitness

2023 105 citations Jian Chen, Shizhen Qiu et al. Cell Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chenqi Xu China	28	1.9k	1.8k	1.7k	635	457	76	4.4k
János L. Tanyi United States	36	1.9k 1.0×	887 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	720 1.1×	336 0.7×	113	3.9k
Kimberly R. Kalli United States	46	2.2k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	216 0.5×	101	5.5k
Erik Henke Germany	25	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	511 0.8×	582 1.3×	48	3.9k
Moorthy P. Ponnusamy United States	43	3.4k 1.8×	998 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.6×	304 0.7×	113	5.4k
Roberto Ronca Italy	35	3.0k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	882 0.5×	805 1.3×	209 0.5×	116	5.0k
Zonghai Li China	38	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	2.8k 1.7×	467 0.7×	795 1.7×	128	5.0k
Clemens A. Schmitt Germany	36	4.3k 2.3×	1.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.5×	1.0k 1.6×	245 0.5×	110	7.0k
Michael Hölzel Germany	33	2.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	588 0.9×	146 0.3×	96	4.3k
Rebecca S. Cook United States	37	2.7k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	954 1.5×	392 0.9×	73	4.9k
Joan G. Jones United States	31	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.7×	563 1.2×	70	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Chenqi Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chenqi Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chenqi Xu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Shuojun, Mingzhu Yin, Tiange Yang, et al.. (2025). Amplifying antigen-induced cellular responses with proximity labelling. Nature. 647(8089). 506–516. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Chenqi, et al.. (2025). Interpretable Interaction Modeling for Trajectory Prediction via Agent Selection and Physical Coefficient. 15422–15429.

Li, Hua, Kexin Cao, Yiming Zhu, et al.. (2025). Lipid-regulated phosphorylation hierarchy of the T cell receptor tyrosine motifs. Molecular Cell. 85(19). 3694–3710.e8.

Shi, Xiaoshan, et al.. (2024). Charge-based immunoreceptor signalling in health and disease. Nature reviews. Immunology. 25(4). 298–311. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Chenqi, Yang Li, Shi Jin, et al.. (2024). Serum soluble interleukin-2 receptor alpha may predict tubulointerstitial inflammatory cell infiltration and short-term disease progression in immunoglobin A nephropathy. Immunologic Research. 72(6). 1350–1364. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Xinyi, Wei Hu, Peng Wu, et al.. (2023). Self-programmed dynamics of T cell receptor condensation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(28). e2217301120–e2217301120. 19 indexed citations

Li, Hua, Coraline Radermecker, Abdelhalim Azzi, et al.. (2023). INPP5K controls the dynamic structure and signaling of wild-type and mutated, leukemia-associated IL-7 receptors. Blood. 141(14). 1708–1717. 4 indexed citations

Ke, Xinyu, et al.. (2022). Lipid metabolism in tumor-infiltrating T cells: mechanisms and applications. PubMed. 1(3). 211–223. 10 indexed citations

Fan, Zhenzhen, Zhipeng Chen, Lu Liu, et al.. (2020). Blocking interaction between SHP2 and PD‐1 denotes a novel opportunity for developing PD‐1 inhibitors. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 12(6). e11571–e11571. 48 indexed citations

10.

Xu, Xinyi, Hua Li, & Chenqi Xu. (2020). Structural understanding of T cell receptor triggering. Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 17(3). 193–202. 41 indexed citations

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Li, Wentao, Shizhen Qiu, Jian Chen, et al.. (2020). Chimeric Antigen Receptor Designed to Prevent Ubiquitination and Downregulation Showed Durable Antitumor Efficacy. Immunity. 53(2). 456–470.e6. 115 indexed citations

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He, Xing & Chenqi Xu. (2020). Immune checkpoint signaling and cancer immunotherapy. Cell Research. 30(8). 660–669. 935 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hou, Miaole, et al.. (2019). Extraction of Hidden Information under Sootiness on Murals Based on Hyperspectral Image Enhancement. Applied Sciences. 9(17). 3591–3591. 7 indexed citations

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Yan, Chengsong, et al.. (2018). Polybasic RKKR motif in the linker region of lipid droplet (LD)–associated protein CIDEC inhibits LD fusion activity by interacting with acidic phospholipids. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(50). 19330–19343. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Wei, Shutan Jiang, Feng Xiao, et al.. (2017). Dynamic regulation of CD28 conformation and signaling by charged lipids and ions. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(12). 1081–1092. 49 indexed citations

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Xu, Chenqi, Étienne Gagnon, Matthew E. Call, et al.. (2008). Regulation of T Cell Receptor Activation by Dynamic Membrane Binding of the CD3ɛ Cytoplasmic Tyrosine-Based Motif. Cell. 135(4). 702–713. 351 indexed citations

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Wang, Suming, Lijun Huang, Dieter Wicher, Cheng‐Wu Chi, & Chenqi Xu. (2008). Structure-function relationship of bifunctional scorpion toxin BmBKTx1. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. 40(11). 955–963. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Chenqi, Matthew E. Call, & Kai W. Wucherpfennig. (2006). A Membrane-proximal Tetracysteine Motif Contributes to Assembly of CD3δϵ and CD3γϵ Dimers with the T Cell Receptor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(48). 36977–36984. 36 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hui, Chenqi Xu, Chengzhong Wang, et al.. (2006). Two novel O-superfamily conotoxins from Conus vexillum. Toxicon. 47(4). 425–436. 12 indexed citations

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Xu, Chenqi, Linlin He, Bert Brône, et al.. (2004). A novel scorpion toxin blocking small conductance Ca2+ activated K+ channel. Toxicon. 43(8). 961–971. 15 indexed citations

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