Chuankai Zhou

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 739 citations indexed

About

Chuankai Zhou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chuankai Zhou has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 739 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Chuankai Zhou's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (4 papers) and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (3 papers). Chuankai Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (4 papers) and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (3 papers). Chuankai Zhou collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and India. Chuankai Zhou's co-authors include Rong Li, Laurence Florens, Andrei Kucharavy, Ying Zhang, Zhihui Wen, Linhao Ruan, Jay R. Unruh, Brian D. Slaughter, Brian K. Kennedy and Chong He and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chuankai Zhou

8 papers receiving 733 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.

Cytosolic proteostasis through importing of misfolded proteins into mitochondria

2017 353 citations Linhao Ruan, Chuankai Zhou et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chuankai Zhou United States	7	626	238	116	96	77	11	739
Ryo Higuchi‐Sanabria United States	16	458 0.7×	264 1.1×	245 2.1×	144 1.5×	60 0.8×	42	796
Ulrike Topf Poland	10	648 1.0×	210 0.9×	58 0.5×	75 0.8×	46 0.6×	17	759
Annika Scior Germany	9	705 1.1×	243 1.0×	92 0.8×	88 0.9×	66 0.9×	9	804
Adrienne M. Wang United States	6	371 0.6×	96 0.4×	84 0.7×	68 0.7×	144 1.9×	6	482
Nadav Shai Israel	10	661 1.1×	248 1.0×	123 1.1×	115 1.2×	48 0.6×	11	833
Daniel W. Neef United States	11	751 1.2×	282 1.2×	110 0.9×	96 1.0×	115 1.5×	11	880
Triana Amen Israel	12	485 0.8×	209 0.9×	48 0.4×	96 1.0×	81 1.1×	22	712
Lukas Habernig Austria	12	375 0.6×	129 0.5×	50 0.4×	71 0.7×	42 0.5×	20	521
Sasha De Henau Belgium	11	273 0.4×	104 0.4×	155 1.3×	77 0.8×	27 0.4×	16	447
Rebecca Aron United States	13	970 1.5×	404 1.7×	35 0.3×	121 1.3×	187 2.4×	14	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chuankai Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chuankai Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chuankai Zhou 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 Chuankai Zhou. Chuankai Zhou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Zheng, Fan, Zanlin Yu, William A. Nickols, et al.. (2025). Metabolic environment-driven remodeling of mitochondrial ribosomes regulates translation and biogenesis. Molecular Cell. 85(23). 4437–4451.e11.

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Liu, Qingqing, Jay R. Unruh, Fengli Guo, et al.. (2023). Nascent mitochondrial proteins initiate the localized condensation of cytosolic protein aggregates on the mitochondrial surface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(31). e2300475120–e2300475120. 13 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chuankai. (2022). The Molecular and Functional Interaction Between Membrane-Bound Organelles and Membrane-Less Condensates. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 896305–896305. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenxiu, Hongbo Chen, Chaoxian Wu, Guanjun Wang, & Chuankai Zhou. (2022). Invulnerability Evaluation of Complex Combat Network Based on Entropy Weight-Analytic Hierarchy Process Method. 122–126.

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Zheng, Fan, Liying Li, Yanxiao Zhang, et al.. (2021). Proteome plasticity in response to persistent environmental change. Molecular Cell. 81(16). 3294–3309.e12. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Qingqing, Jay R. Unruh, Fengli Guo, et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial Origin of Cytosolic Protein Aggregation. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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He, Chong, Chuankai Zhou, & Brian K. Kennedy. (2018). The yeast replicative aging model. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1864(9). 2690–2696. 65 indexed citations

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Ruan, Linhao, Chuankai Zhou, Andrei Kucharavy, et al.. (2017). Cytosolic proteostasis through importing of misfolded proteins into mitochondria. Nature. 543(7645). 443–446. 353 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Chuankai, Rong Li, & Brian K. Kennedy. (2014). Life History: Mother-Specific Proteins that Promote Aging. Current Biology. 24(24). R1162–R1164. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chuankai, Brian D. Slaughter, Jay R. Unruh, et al.. (2014). Organelle-Based Aggregation and Retention of Damaged Proteins in Asymmetrically Dividing Cells. Cell. 159(3). 530–542. 180 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chuankai, et al.. (2011). Motility and Segregation of Hsp104-Associated Protein Aggregates in Budding Yeast. Cell. 147(5). 1186–1196. 106 indexed citations

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