Chunlong Xu

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 787 citations indexed

About

Chunlong Xu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Chunlong Xu has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 787 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Chunlong Xu's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (6 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Chunlong Xu is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (6 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Chunlong Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Slovenia. Chunlong Xu's co-authors include Qingquan Xiao, Hui Yang, Yuanhua Liu, Hui Yang, Yingsi Zhou, Bingbing He, Zikang Wang, Jinsheng Lai, Xiaona Huo and Xue Dong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chunlong Xu

24 papers receiving 765 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.

Programmable RNA editing with compact CRISPR–Cas13 systems from uncultivated microbes

2021 232 citations Chunlong Xu, Yingsi Zhou et al. Nature Methods profile →
Programmable A-to-Y base editing by fusing an adenine base editor with an N-methylpurine DNA glycosylase

2023 138 citations Yuanhua Liu, Jiamin Luo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chunlong Xu China	14	725	160	62	55	54	25	787
Ryan J. Cecchi United States	5	770 1.1×	143 0.9×	56 0.9×	24 0.4×	38 0.7×	7	865
Ramu Gopalappa South Korea	7	951 1.3×	335 2.1×	41 0.7×	31 0.6×	89 1.6×	9	1.0k
Nicola A. Kearns United States	7	798 1.1×	135 0.8×	58 0.9×	20 0.4×	69 1.3×	10	858
Changyang Zhou China	11	665 0.9×	184 1.1×	47 0.8×	34 0.6×	59 1.1×	16	707
Joy E. Horng United States	7	789 1.1×	147 0.9×	95 1.5×	25 0.5×	81 1.5×	12	851
Charles D. Yeh United States	8	641 0.9×	183 1.1×	67 1.1×	28 0.5×	96 1.8×	9	703
Yuchen Gao United States	9	913 1.3×	141 0.9×	82 1.3×	16 0.3×	65 1.2×	10	1000
Yayoi Kunihiro Japan	7	541 0.7×	225 1.4×	50 0.8×	18 0.3×	55 1.0×	8	619
Gokul N. Ramadoss United States	5	481 0.7×	90 0.6×	38 0.6×	40 0.7×	21 0.4×	6	644

Countries citing papers authored by Chunlong Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chunlong Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chunlong Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chunlong Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chunlong Xu 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 Chunlong Xu. Chunlong Xu 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, Tao, Xinxin Ke, Yingying Yu, et al.. (2025). NAPTUNE: nucleic acids and protein biomarkers testing via ultra-sensitive nucleases escalation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1331–1331. 9 indexed citations

Wei, Yinghui, Ming Jin, Shuhong Huang, et al.. (2024). Enhanced C‐To‐T and A‐To‐G Base Editing in Mitochondrial DNA with Engineered DdCBE and TALED (Adv. Sci. 3/2024). Advanced Science. 11(3). 1 indexed citations

Li, Guoling, Xue Dong, Jiamin Luo, et al.. (2024). Engineering TadA ortholog-derived cytosine base editor without motif preference and adenosine activity limitation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8090–8090. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Dong, Xiaoqing Wu, Yinan Yao, et al.. (2024). An RNA editing strategy rescues gene duplication in a mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome and nonhuman primates. Nature Neuroscience. 28(1). 72–83. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Dong, Yu Zhang, Qingquan Xiao, et al.. (2024). Adenine base editing-mediated exon skipping restores dystrophin in humanized Duchenne mouse model. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5927–5927. 15 indexed citations

Jin, Ming, Zhifang Li, Yang Dong, et al.. (2024). Correction of human nonsense mutation via adenine base editing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment in mouse. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 35(2). 102165–102165. 10 indexed citations

Ji, Quanquan, Xinxin Ke, Hufeng Zhou, et al.. (2024). Repurposing Type I-A CRISPR-Cas3 for a robust diagnosis of human papillomavirus (HPV). Communications Biology. 7(1). 858–858. 12 indexed citations

Wei, Yinghui, Ming Jin, Shuhong Huang, et al.. (2023). Enhanced C‐To‐T and A‐To‐G Base Editing in Mitochondrial DNA with Engineered DdCBE and TALED. Advanced Science. 11(3). e2304113–e2304113. 10 indexed citations

Yan, Zixiang, Xiaoqing Wu, Meng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ptbp1 knockdown failed to induce astrocytes to neurons in vivo. Gene Therapy. 30(12). 801–806. 14 indexed citations

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Yan, Zixiang, Yuqin Yao, Luyao Li, et al.. (2023). Treatment of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa caused by RHO-P23H mutation with high-fidelity Cas13X in mice. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 33. 750–761. 14 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yingsi & Chunlong Xu. (2023). Miniature genome editors derived from engineering Cas9 ancestor. 1(1). 100008–100008.

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Xiao, Qingquan, Zhijiao Xu, Yuanyuan Xue, et al.. (2022). Rescue of autosomal dominant hearing loss by in vivo delivery of mini dCas13X-derived RNA base editor. Science Translational Medicine. 14(654). eabn0449–eabn0449. 66 indexed citations

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Li, Guoling, Ming Jin, Zhifang Li, et al.. (2022). Mini-dCas13X–mediated RNA editing restores dystrophin expression in a humanized mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(3). 30 indexed citations

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Xu, Chunlong, Yingsi Zhou, Qingquan Xiao, et al.. (2021). Programmable RNA editing with compact CRISPR–Cas13 systems from uncultivated microbes. Nature Methods. 18(5). 499–506. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Zheng‐Li, et al.. (2020). miR-223 induces retinal ganglion cells apoptosis and inflammation via decreasing HSP-70 in vitro and in vivo. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. 104. 101747–101747. 17 indexed citations

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Xu, Chunlong, Sen Wu, Lawrence B. Schook, & Kyle M. Schachtschneider. (2019). Translating Human Cancer Sequences Into Personalized Porcine Cancer Models. Frontiers in Oncology. 9. 105–105. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Meiling, Changyang Zhou, Wei Yu, et al.. (2019). Human cleaving embryos enable robust homozygotic nucleotide substitutions by base editors. Genome biology. 20(1). 101–101. 21 indexed citations

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Yang, Dapeng, Sonali Majumdar, Federico Gonzãlez, et al.. (2018). DICER1 Is Essential for Self-Renewal of Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports. 11(3). 616–625. 23 indexed citations

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Sui, Dandan, Zhaolin Sun, Chunlong Xu, et al.. (2014). Fine-Tuning of iPSC Derivation by an Inducible Reprogramming System at the Protein Level. Stem Cell Reports. 2(5). 721–733. 11 indexed citations

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Xu, Chunlong, et al.. (1989). Fluorescence characteristics of photoautotrophic soybean cells. Photosynthesis Research. 21(2). 93–106. 17 indexed citations

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