Falong Lu

6.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Falong Lu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Falong Lu has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Falong Lu's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (21 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers). Falong Lu is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (21 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (14 papers). Falong Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Falong Lu's co-authors include Xiaofeng Cao, Yi Zhang, Xia Cui, Chunyan Liu, Azusa Inoue, Lan Jiang, Tsukasa Suzuki, Li Shen, Shuaibin Zhang and Shogo Matoba and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Falong Lu

56 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Histone Methylation in Higher Plants

2010 535 citations Chunyan Liu, Falong Lu et al. profile →
Embryonic Development following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Impeded by Persisting Histone Methylation

2014 356 citations Shogo Matoba, Yuting Liu et al. Cell profile →
Maternal H3K27me3 controls DNA methylation-independent imprinting

2017 323 citations Azusa Inoue, Lan Jiang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Falong Lu China	29	3.5k	1.7k	597	483	317	59	4.2k
Julia Arand Germany	16	3.1k 0.9×	335 0.2×	860 1.4×	255 0.5×	446 1.4×	23	3.4k
Rafal Ciosk Switzerland	25	3.8k 1.1×	858 0.5×	308 0.5×	194 0.4×	63 0.2×	38	4.2k
Shantha K. Mahadevaiah United Kingdom	23	2.4k 0.7×	776 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	502 1.0×	219 0.7×	31	3.0k
Alex Bortvin United States	19	1.8k 0.5×	692 0.4×	413 0.7×	344 0.7×	93 0.3×	24	2.1k
Fumihito Miura Japan	24	2.1k 0.6×	197 0.1×	544 0.9×	203 0.4×	274 0.9×	55	2.5k
Takashi W. Ijiri Japan	13	1.4k 0.4×	869 0.5×	426 0.7×	218 0.5×	64 0.2×	14	2.0k
Aline V. Probst France	32	3.4k 1.0×	2.3k 1.3×	318 0.5×	91 0.2×	66 0.2×	51	4.1k
Satoshi H. Namekawa United States	32	2.4k 0.7×	597 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	417 0.9×	95 0.3×	89	3.0k
Peter Romanienko United States	17	3.4k 1.0×	708 0.4×	917 1.5×	304 0.6×	84 0.3×	29	3.9k
Jafar Sharif Japan	26	3.1k 0.9×	318 0.2×	706 1.2×	105 0.2×	160 0.5×	44	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Falong Lu

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Falong Lu's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Falong Lu with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Falong Lu more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Falong Lu

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Falong Lu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Falong Lu. The network helps show where Falong Lu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Falong Lu

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Jing, Bowen Liu, Yusheng Liu, et al.. (2025). MARTRE family proteins negatively regulate CCR4-NOT activity to protect poly(A) tail length and promote translation of maternal mRNA. Nature Communications. 16(1). 248–248. 1 indexed citations

Shu, Muya, Jiawei Liu, Lifang Liu, et al.. (2025). Divergent combinations of enhancers encode spatial gene expression. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5091–5091. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Wenyan, Lifang Liu, Feng Chen, et al.. (2025). Modular organization of enhancer network provides transcriptional robustness in mammalian development. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(2).

Liu, Yuan, Ying Liu, Di Hu, et al.. (2024). KDM2A and KDM2B protect a subset of CpG islands from DNA methylation. Journal of genetics and genomics. 52(1). 39–50. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Yusheng, Wenrong Tao, Shuang Wu, et al.. (2024). Maternal mRNA deadenylation is defective in in vitro matured mouse and human oocytes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5550–5550. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Jiaqiang, Guihai Feng, Chao Liu, et al.. (2024). Alternative splicing of CARM1 regulated by LincGET-guided paraspeckles biases the first cell fate in mammalian early embryos. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(9). 1341–1354. 3 indexed citations

Li, Yuzhuo, Yuting Xu, Chunyang Li, et al.. (2024). Reprogramming mechanism dissection and trophoblast replacement application in monkey somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5–5. 7 indexed citations

Finnegan, E. Jean, Chris A. Helliwell, Jialing Yao, et al.. (2023). Mutation in Polycomb repressive complex 2 gene OsFIE2 promotes asexual embryo formation in rice. Nature Plants. 9(11). 1848–1861. 14 indexed citations

Zhu, Wei, Ruifeng Hu, Jixiang Zhang, et al.. (2023). KLF4 facilitates chromatin accessibility remodeling in porcine early embryos. Science China Life Sciences. 67(1). 96–112. 12 indexed citations

10.

Liu, Lifang, Muya Shu, Jianwu Dai, et al.. (2022). Complexity of enhancer networks predicts cell identity and disease genes revealed by single-cell multi-omics analysis. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 24(1). 5 indexed citations

11.

Chen, Zhi‐Nan, et al.. (2022). An Optimized MPC Method for Restraining the Midpoint Voltage Fluctuation of 3-Level T-Type Grid-Connected Inverter. Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology. 18(2). 1111–1122. 2 indexed citations

12.

Shu, Muya, Jixiang Zhang, Yi Du, et al.. (2022). Single-cell chromatin accessibility identifies enhancer networks driving gene expression during spinal cord development in mouse. Developmental Cell. 57(24). 2761–2775.e6. 14 indexed citations

13.

Zhang, Honglian, et al.. (2022). H3K27me3 shapes DNA methylome by inhibiting UHRF1-mediated H3 ubiquitination. Science China Life Sciences. 65(9). 1685–1700. 9 indexed citations

14.

Liu, Yusheng, Hu Nie, Hongxiang Liu, & Falong Lu. (2019). Poly(A) inclusive RNA isoform sequencing (PAIso−seq) reveals wide-spread non-adenosine residues within RNA poly(A) tails. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5292–5292. 80 indexed citations

15.

Matoba, Shogo, Huihan Wang, Lan Jiang, et al.. (2018). Loss of H3K27me3 Imprinting in Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Embryos Disrupts Post-Implantation Development. Cell stem cell. 23(3). 343–354.e5. 109 indexed citations

16.

Inoue, Azusa, Lan Jiang, Falong Lu, & Yi Zhang. (2017). Genomic imprinting of Xist by maternal H3K27me3. Genes & Development. 31(19). 1927–1932. 105 indexed citations

17.

Lu, Falong, Yuting Liu, Azusa Inoue, et al.. (2016). Establishing Chromatin Regulatory Landscape during Mouse Preimplantation Development. Cell. 165(6). 1375–1388. 242 indexed citations

18.

Jiang, Fangfang, Falong Lu, Peixue Li, et al.. (2015). Drosophila Homolog of FMRP Maintains Genome Integrity by Interacting with Piwi. Journal of genetics and genomics. 43(1). 11–24. 14 indexed citations

19.

Matoba, Shogo, Yuting Liu, Falong Lu, et al.. (2014). Embryonic Development following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Impeded by Persisting Histone Methylation. Cell. 159(4). 884–895. 356 indexed citations breakdown →

20.

Lu, Falong, Guanglin Li, Xia Cui, et al.. (2008). Comparative Analysis of JmjC Domain‐containing Proteins Reveals the Potential Histone Demethylases in Arabidopsis and Rice. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 50(7). 886–896. 191 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact