Dan Zhu

10.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
143 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Dan Zhu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Zhu has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dan Zhu's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (72 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (29 papers) and Biosensors and Analytical Detection (20 papers). Dan Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (72 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (29 papers) and Biosensors and Analytical Detection (20 papers). Dan Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Dan Zhu's co-authors include Chunhai Fan, Jie Chao, Lianhui Wang, Shao Su, Kejun Hou, Hao Pei, Xiaolei Zuo, Chuanxing Xiao, Jilin Li and Dongya Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Accounts of Chemical Research.

In The Last Decade

Dan Zhu

140 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

Microbiota in health and ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2022 2017 2019 2023 2023 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Microbiota in health and diseases
    2022 1.7k citations Kejun Hou, Zhuo‐Xun Wu et al. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy profile →
  2. An Exonuclease III‐Powered, On‐Particle Stochastic DNA Walker
    2017 348 citations Dan Zhu, Shao Su et al. profile →
  3. Designer DNA architecture offers precise and multivalent spatial pattern-recognition for viral sensing and inhibition
    2019 250 citations Dan Zhu, Jie Chao et al. profile →
  4. Fecal microbiota transplantation reverses insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes: A randomized, controlled, prospective study
    2023 94 citations Zezhen Wu, Fengwu Chen et al. profile →
  5. The global, regional and national burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the past, present and future: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
    2023 67 citations Junjun Ye, Yixi Wu et al. Frontiers in Endocrinology profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Dan Zhu 5.5k 2.2k 1.2k 711 704 143 7.9k
Da Xing 6.6k 1.2× 5.9k 2.7× 2.2k 1.7× 379 0.5× 498 0.7× 338 14.2k
Madhavan Nair 2.0k 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 668 0.5× 408 0.6× 575 0.8× 190 7.7k
Ying Zhang 6.3k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 279 0.4× 443 0.6× 413 10.3k
Jeon‐Soo Shin 2.3k 0.4× 2.2k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 574 0.8× 286 0.4× 151 7.6k
Willem J. M. Mulder 4.3k 0.8× 4.6k 2.1× 3.1k 2.5× 773 1.1× 237 0.3× 184 14.7k
Yutaka Miura 4.4k 0.8× 2.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.1× 325 0.5× 350 0.5× 230 10.5k
Jörg Kreuter 5.0k 0.9× 3.2k 1.5× 1.5k 1.2× 497 0.7× 158 0.2× 154 13.7k
Arto Urtti 7.6k 1.4× 2.3k 1.1× 829 0.7× 389 0.5× 215 0.3× 418 17.9k
Yan Geng 6.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.8× 2.3k 1.9× 419 0.6× 930 1.3× 256 15.0k
Stefan Tenzer 5.3k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 372 0.5× 107 0.2× 178 10.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Zhu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Zhu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhou, Tianhua, Bowen Yang, Jing Wang, et al.. (2025). The enhancing effect of DNA tetrahedron-based lactoferrin as an assembled adjuvant in immunotherapy. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 159941–159941. 2 indexed citations
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Zhu, Dan, et al.. (2024). Non-enzymatic aptazyme-driven autonomous DNA circuits coupled with three-junction CHA for amplified live-cell ATP imaging. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 418. 136259–136259. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhixuan, et al.. (2024). Visualizing Macrophage Polarization through Fluorescent mRNA Profiling. Biosensors. 14(10). 475–475.
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Li, Xinyi, Bingjie Chen, Yaoyao Xie, et al.. (2024). Polyvalent Aptamers Structure-Mediated Fluorescent Aptasensor for the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by Coupling with HCR and CRISPR-Cas System. Analytical Chemistry. 97(1). 793–798. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Bingjie, Yi Luo, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2023). Two-in-one sensing platform for the detection of exosomes based on molybdenum disulfide-based nanozymes. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 398. 134686–134686. 16 indexed citations
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Zhu, Dan, Xiaojian Li, Yu Zhu, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Subcellular mRNAs In Situ via Polyadenine-Mediated Dual-Color Sticky Flares. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(12). 15250–15259. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Dan, Jiaxuan Huang, Shao Su, et al.. (2023). DNAzymes-Embedded Framework Nucleic Acids (FNAzymes) for Metal Ions Imaging in Living Cells. Chemosensors. 11(7). 358–358. 5 indexed citations
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Ye, Junjun, et al.. (2023). The global, regional and national burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the past, present and future: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1192629–1192629. 67 indexed citations breakdown →
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Su, Yu, Shuo Zhang, Zezhen Wu, et al.. (2023). Pharmacoeconomic analysis (CER) of Dulaglutide and Liraglutide in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1054946–1054946. 4 indexed citations
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Gao, Fei, Dou Wang, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2022). Pattern Recognition Directed Assembly of Plasmonic Gap Nanostructures for Single-Molecule SERS. ACS Nano. 16(9). 14622–14631. 77 indexed citations
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Hou, Kejun, Zhuo‐Xun Wu, Xuan-Yu Chen, et al.. (2022). Microbiota in health and diseases. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 7(1). 135–135. 1744 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Dan, Yu Zhu, Shao Su, et al.. (2019). Cancer-Specific MicroRNA Analysis with a Nonenzymatic Nucleic Acid Circuit. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(12). 11220–11226. 30 indexed citations
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Zhu, Dan, Dong‐Xia Zhao, Jiaxuan Huang, et al.. (2018). Poly-adenine-mediated fluorescent spherical nucleic acid probes for live-cell imaging of endogenous tumor-related mRNA. Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine. 14(6). 1797–1807. 22 indexed citations
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Liu, Xia, Liv Bode, Liang Zhang, et al.. (2015). Health care professionals at risk of infection with Borna disease virus – evidence from a large hospital in China (Chongqing). Virology Journal. 12(1). 39–39. 17 indexed citations
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Sommer, Andrei P., Jan Bieschke, Ralf P. Friedrich, et al.. (2011). 670 nm Laser Light and EGCG Complementarily Reduce Amyloid-β Aggregates in Human Neuroblastoma Cells: Basis for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease?. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. 30(1). 54–60. 59 indexed citations
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Sommer, Andrei P. & Dan Zhu. (2009). Green Tea and Red Light—A Powerful Duo in Skin Rejuvenation. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. 27(6). 969–971. 6 indexed citations
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He, Xinghong, Han Liu, N. Wang, et al.. (2005). Gold Nanoparticle‐Based Fluorometric and Colorimetric Sensing of Copper(II) Ions. Advanced Materials. 17(23). 2811–2815. 250 indexed citations

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