Dingheng Zhu

628 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 415 citations indexed

About

Dingheng Zhu is a scholar working on Dermatology, Urology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dingheng Zhu has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 415 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Dermatology, 4 papers in Urology and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Dingheng Zhu's work include Dermatologic Treatments and Research (10 papers), Hair Growth and Disorders (3 papers) and melanin and skin pigmentation (3 papers). Dingheng Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Dermatologic Treatments and Research (10 papers), Hair Growth and Disorders (3 papers) and melanin and skin pigmentation (3 papers). Dingheng Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China and Brunei. Dingheng Zhu's co-authors include Bin Yang, Cheng‐Cheng Deng, Zhili Rong, Yingping Xu, Qing Cheng, Jingjing Gu, Lixue Zhang, Dong Wang, Yongfei Hu and Ke Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Frontiers in Immunology and Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

In The Last Decade

Dingheng Zhu

13 papers receiving 411 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals fibroblast heterogeneity and increased mesenchymal fibroblasts in human fibrotic skin diseases

2021 280 citations Cheng‐Cheng Deng, Yongfei Hu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dingheng Zhu China	7	171	150	87	83	68	14	415
Cheng‐Cheng Deng China	9	165 1.0×	219 1.5×	103 1.2×	88 1.1×	76 1.1×	20	501
Lauren V. Graham United States	7	109 0.6×	125 0.8×	96 1.1×	48 0.6×	79 1.2×	17	455
Zhenjun Deng Australia	9	120 0.7×	142 0.9×	52 0.6×	65 0.8×	24 0.4×	14	363
Shin Iinuma Japan	10	69 0.4×	106 0.7×	99 1.1×	47 0.6×	114 1.7×	34	426
Emily Hamburg‐Shields United States	5	65 0.4×	197 1.3×	47 0.5×	41 0.5×	51 0.8×	9	365
Dragan Copic Austria	9	88 0.5×	78 0.5×	34 0.4×	84 1.0×	49 0.7×	25	288
Yorihisa Kotobuki Japan	12	146 0.9×	99 0.7×	136 1.6×	19 0.2×	147 2.2×	26	553
Daichi Hoshina Japan	13	112 0.7×	107 0.7×	51 0.6×	16 0.2×	61 0.9×	25	397
Daphne Pala Canada	8	59 0.3×	300 2.0×	64 0.7×	35 0.4×	41 0.6×	8	507
Nadira Ruzehaji Australia	11	58 0.3×	125 0.8×	52 0.6×	85 1.0×	94 1.4×	14	416

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dingheng Zhu

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Gu, Jingjing, Cheng‐Cheng Deng, Qing An, et al.. (2025). Lactate Promotes Collagen Expression, Proliferation, and Migration through H3K18 Lactylation–Dependent Stimulation of LTBP3/TGF-β1 Axis in Keloid Fibroblasts. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 146(2). 522–534.e8. 2 indexed citations

Deng, Cheng‐Cheng, Yan Zhang, Xuan Wang, et al.. (2025). Single-cell RNA-seq reveals immune cell heterogeneity and increased Th17 cells in human fibrotic skin diseases. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1522076–1522076. 4 indexed citations

Li, Yixin, et al.. (2024). Smart Use of Skin Biopsy Punch in Treating Keloids: A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 48(15). 2965–2974. 2 indexed citations

Gu, Jingjing, Cheng‐Cheng Deng, Jun Liu, et al.. (2023). Relief of Extracellular Matrix Deposition Repression by Downregulation of IRF1-Mediated TWEAK/Fn14 Signaling in Keloids. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 143(7). 1208–1219.e6. 7 indexed citations

Zhu, Dingheng, et al.. (2023). An Open-Label, Uncontrolled, Single-Arm Clinical Trial of Tofacitinib, an Oral JAK1 and JAK3 Kinase Inhibitor, in Chinese Patients with Keloid. Dermatology. 239(5). 818–827. 6 indexed citations

Ai, Jing, Zhenlai Zhu, Lixia Huang, et al.. (2022). Chemical peeling with 35% glycolic acid for the treatment of disseminated facial verruca plana: A randomized, split‐face, evaluator‐blinded trial. Dermatologic Therapy. 35(8). e15594–e15594. 1 indexed citations

Deng, Cheng‐Cheng, Lixue Zhang, Dingheng Zhu, et al.. (2022). Risk single-nucleotide polymorphism-mediated enhancer–promoter interaction drives keloids through long noncoding RNA down expressed in keloids. British Journal of Dermatology. 188(1). 84–93. 9 indexed citations

Hu, Gang, Guangchao Li, Wei Wen, et al.. (2022). Case report: B7-H3 CAR-T therapy partially controls tumor growth in a basal cell carcinoma patient. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 956593–956593. 12 indexed citations

Li, Zhijia, et al.. (2022). Multitranscriptome analyses of keloid fibroblasts reveal the role of the HIF-1α/HOXC6/ERK axis in keloid development. Burns & Trauma. 10. tkac013–tkac013. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Xue, Ke Wang, Dingheng Zhu, et al.. (2021). PURPL represses autophagic cell death to promote cutaneous melanoma by modulating ULK1 phosphorylation. Cell Death and Disease. 12(11). 1070–1070. 35 indexed citations

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Deng, Cheng‐Cheng, Yongfei Hu, Dingheng Zhu, et al.. (2021). Single-cell RNA-seq reveals fibroblast heterogeneity and increased mesenchymal fibroblasts in human fibrotic skin diseases. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3709–3709. 280 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Dingheng, et al.. (2021). Keratoacanthoma centrifugum marginatum: An unusual case. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 36. 102468–102468.

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Hu, Gang, et al.. (2020). Racial/ethnic disparities in penile squamous cell carcinoma incidences, clinical characteristics, and outcomes: A population-based study, 2004–2016. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 38(8). 688.e11–688.e19. 4 indexed citations

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Deng, Cheng‐Cheng, Dingheng Zhu, Yongjun Chen, et al.. (2019). TRAF4 Promotes Fibroblast Proliferation in Keloids by Destabilizing p53 via Interacting with the Deubiquitinase USP10. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 139(9). 1925–1935.e5. 38 indexed citations

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