Fei Deng

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

Fei Deng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Fei Deng has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Fei Deng's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (8 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (6 papers). Fei Deng is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (8 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (6 papers). Fei Deng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Fei Deng's co-authors include Yulong Li, Jinxia Wan, Sharon Aviran, Miao Jing, Sunlei Pan, Krishna Choudhary, Jiesi Feng, Shanliang Zhong, Yunjie He and Dandan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Fei Deng

42 papers receiving 984 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.

A genetically encoded sensor for measuring serotonin dynamics

2021 184 citations Jinxia Wan, Wanling Peng et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fei Deng China	16	526	328	154	127	92	48	998
Jen Q. Pan United States	17	1.1k 2.1×	299 0.9×	114 0.7×	268 2.1×	307 3.3×	39	1.7k
Karine Fénelon United States	17	603 1.1×	379 1.2×	117 0.8×	230 1.8×	198 2.2×	23	1.1k
Katalin Schlett Hungary	21	572 1.1×	444 1.4×	94 0.6×	90 0.7×	56 0.6×	50	1.4k
Dhasakumar Navaratnam United States	21	681 1.3×	250 0.8×	82 0.5×	377 3.0×	190 2.1×	57	1.4k
Talley J. Lambert United States	18	733 1.4×	299 0.9×	294 1.9×	117 0.9×	63 0.7×	23	1.5k
Rongwei Zhang China	17	300 0.6×	204 0.6×	78 0.5×	153 1.2×	62 0.7×	43	789
Christopher D. Deppmann United States	19	648 1.2×	539 1.6×	44 0.3×	65 0.5×	64 0.7×	45	1.4k
Priscilla D. Negraes Brazil	19	910 1.7×	409 1.2×	62 0.4×	215 1.7×	255 2.8×	34	1.5k
Jie‐Min Jia China	14	428 0.8×	333 1.0×	44 0.3×	63 0.5×	56 0.6×	27	974

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fei Deng

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

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Wang, Yuling, Lingbo Li, Jing He, et al.. (2025). Prominent involvement of acetylcholine dynamics in stable olfactory representation across the Drosophila brain. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8638–8638.

Yu, Sumei, Tianye Wang, Shifeng Chen, et al.. (2025). Hydrochemical Characteristics and Formation Mechanisms of Groundwater in the Nanmiao Emergency Groundwater Source Area, Yichun, Western Jiangxi, China. Water. 17(14). 2063–2063.

Hemingway, Christopher, Fei Deng, Yulong Li, et al.. (2025). Perinatal serotonin signalling dynamically influences the development of cortical GABAergic circuits with consequences for lifelong sensory encoding. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5203–5203.

Zeng, Zhen, Chunping Jiang, Fei Deng, et al.. (2025). Digestive characteristics of Tibetan tea polyphenols and polysaccharides in vitro and their effects on gut microbiota. Food Chemistry. 483. 144289–144289. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, You, Jialong Qi, Yi Yang, et al.. (2025). A leucine derivate-adjuvanted LNP vaccine enhances antitumor immunity through mTOR activation and metabolic reprograming in dendritic cells. Biomaterials. 325. 123539–123539.

Wei, Huamei, et al.. (2025). An overview of rapid non-culture-based techniques in various clinical specimens for the laboratory diagnosis of Talaromyces marneffei. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 15. 1591429–1591429. 1 indexed citations

Bai, Zhiyong, Lei Wang, Jing Wang, et al.. (2025). A high-performance fluorescent sensor spatiotemporally reveals cell-type specific regulation of intracellular adenosine in vivo. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4245–4245. 2 indexed citations

Zou, Xin, Jianguang Fu, Fei Deng, et al.. (2024). Genotypes and Phylogenetic Analysis of Human Adenovirus in Hospitalized Pneumonia and Influenza-Like Illness Patients in Jiangsu Province, China (2013-2021). Infection and Drug Resistance. Volume 17. 2199–2211. 5 indexed citations

Congiu, Mauro, Sarah Mondoloni, Salvatore Lecca, et al.. (2023). Plasticity of neuronal dynamics in the lateral habenula for cue-punishment associative learning. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(12). 5118–5127. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoliu, Renqiang Yu, Xingyu Wang, et al.. (2023). Abnormal brain spontaneous activity in major depressive disorder adolescents with non-suicidal self injury and its changes after sertraline therapy. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1177227–1177227. 7 indexed citations

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Lutas, Andrew, Liang Liang, Fei Deng, et al.. (2022). Brainstem serotonin neurons selectively gate retinal information flow to thalamus. Neuron. 111(5). 711–726.e11. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Yue, Linda D. Simmler, Ruud van Zessen, et al.. (2021). Synaptic mechanism underlying serotonin modulation of transition to cocaine addiction. Science. 373(6560). 1252–1256. 52 indexed citations

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Wan, Jinxia, Wanling Peng, Xuelin Li, et al.. (2021). A genetically encoded sensor for measuring serotonin dynamics. Nature Neuroscience. 24(5). 746–752. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Zhaofa, Kaikai He, Yue Chen, et al.. (2021). A sensitive GRAB sensor for detecting extracellular ATP in vitro and in vivo. Neuron. 110(5). 770–782.e5. 115 indexed citations

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Xu, Di, Tian Tian, Fei Deng, et al.. (2020). The Synthesis of Glutamine-Functionalized Block Polymer and Its Application in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Treatment. Journal of Nanomaterials. 2020. 1–13. 2 indexed citations

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He, Yunjie, Fei Deng, Shujie Zhao, et al.. (2019). Analysis of miRNA–mRNA Network Reveals miR-140-5p as a Suppressor of Breast Cancer Glycolysis Via Targeting GLUT1. Epigenomics. 11(9). 1021–1036. 52 indexed citations

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Zhou, Qiang, et al.. (2016). Effect of opaque-2 gene on grain, quality and popping characteristics of popcorn.. He'nan nongye kexue. 45(1). 24–28. 3 indexed citations

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Deng, Fei, et al.. (2016). Data-directed RNA secondary structure prediction using probabilistic modeling. RNA. 22(8). 1109–1119. 35 indexed citations

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Deng, Fei, et al.. (2012). Simultaneous Identification of Duplications, Losses, and Lateral Gene Transfers. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 9(5). 1515–1528. 14 indexed citations

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Deng, Fei, et al.. (2010). Semi-automatic 3D reconstruction of piecewise planar building models from single image. 7 indexed citations

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