Gang Xu

13.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
218 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Gang Xu is a scholar working on Nephrology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gang Xu has authored 218 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Nephrology, 53 papers in Molecular Biology and 47 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Gang Xu's work include Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (30 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (26 papers) and Acute Kidney Injury Research (21 papers). Gang Xu is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (30 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (26 papers) and Acute Kidney Injury Research (21 papers). Gang Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Gang Xu's co-authors include Ying Yao, Shuwang Ge, Ran Luo, Yichun Cheng, Junhua Li, Lei Dong, Zhixiang Wang, Kun Wang, Meng Zhang and Rui Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Gang Xu

209 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

Kidney disease is associated with in-hospital death of patients with COVID-19

2020 1.8k citations Yichun Cheng, Ran Luo et al. profile →
Renal Involvement and Early Prognosis in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia

2020 501 citations Guangchang Pei, Zhiguo Zhang et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Increased Risk of Membranous Nephropathy in China

2016 338 citations Xin Xu, Guobao Wang et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gang Xu China	39	2.2k	2.0k	2.0k	1.5k	1.1k	218	8.0k
Ying Yao China	30	2.0k 0.9×	995 0.5×	918 0.5×	822 0.5×	702 0.7×	110	4.6k
Efstathios Kastritis Greece	58	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	6.8k 3.5×	5.7k 3.7×	999 0.9×	583	15.0k
Glen S. Markowitz United States	63	1.1k 0.5×	7.0k 3.5×	3.7k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	195	13.5k
Bernhard O. Boehm Germany	59	1.3k 0.6×	454 0.2×	2.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	3.0k 2.8×	307	13.7k
Ariela Benigni Italy	77	1.1k 0.5×	5.6k 2.8×	5.8k 2.9×	853 0.6×	3.1k 2.9×	335	18.9k
Emmanuel J. Favaloro Australia	58	942 0.4×	442 0.2×	778 0.4×	645 0.4×	3.2k 3.0×	704	15.9k
Hartmut Schmidt Germany	46	868 0.4×	416 0.2×	3.8k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	360	9.2k
Xiaofeng Zeng China	42	927 0.4×	357 0.2×	1.4k 0.7×	633 0.4×	986 0.9×	488	9.2k
Jianhua Mao China	24	1.5k 0.7×	782 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	317 0.2×	266 0.2×	184	4.1k
Lai‐Shan Tam Hong Kong	55	465 0.2×	717 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	922 0.6×	874 0.8×	290	10.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Gang Xu

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gang Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gang Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gang Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gang 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 Gang Xu. Gang 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

Luo, Ran, et al.. (2025). Identifying potential mechanism and targets for treatment of tertiary lymphoid structure in lupus nephritis based on bioinformatics analysis. International Immunopharmacology. 148. 114084–114084. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Ming, et al.. (2024). Effect of acupuncture pretreatment on inflammatory response of exercise-induced skeletal muscle damage in rats based on TLR9/MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway.. PubMed. 44(1). 78–86. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Ming‐Hui, Wei Chen, Hong Chen, et al.. (2024). A Chinese Multi-Specialty Delphi Consensus to Optimize RAASi Usage and Hyperkalaemia Management in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Heart Failure. Chinese Medical Sciences Journal. 39(2). 79–90. 1 indexed citations

Li, Hengyang, et al.. (2024). Redefinable neural network for structured light array. Advanced Photonics Nexus. 3(5). 2 indexed citations

Cao, Dongxing, Nailin Yang, Gang Xu, et al.. (2023). Thymopentin ameliorates experimental colitis via inhibiting neutrophil extracellular traps. International Immunopharmacology. 124(Pt A). 110898–110898. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Yuhan, et al.. (2023). Causal relationship between coffee intake and neurological diseases: a Mendelian randomization study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 78(2). 114–119. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Yuxi, Li‐Sheng Wang, Hui Tong, et al.. (2021). Immunoadsorption Improves Remission Rates of Patients with Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis and Severe Kidney Involvement. American Journal of Nephrology. 52(12). 899–908. 5 indexed citations

Deng, Xuan, Cheng Zhou, Yi Guo, et al.. (2021). Separated parabiont reveals the fate and lifespan of peripheral-derived immune cells in normal and ischaemia-induced injured kidneys. Open Biology. 11(6). 200340–200340. 4 indexed citations

Luo, Ran, et al.. (2021). Recovery of new-onset kidney disease in COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21(1). 397–397. 11 indexed citations

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Pei, Guangchang, Zhiguo Zhang, Jing Peng, et al.. (2020). Renal Involvement and Early Prognosis in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 31(6). 1157–1165. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Ming, Naiguo Wang, Xiaoxin Xu, et al.. (2020). Facet joint parameters which may act as risk factors for chronic low back pain. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research. 15(1). 185–185. 15 indexed citations

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Chang, Xiaoyan, Qian Yang, Conghui Zhang, et al.. (2019). Roles for VEGF‐C/NRP–2 axis in regulating renal tubular epithelial cell survival and autophagy during serum deprivation. Cell Biochemistry and Function. 37(4). 290–300. 12 indexed citations

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Major, Rupert, Robert A. Grant, Saran Shantikumar, et al.. (2018). Cardiovascular disease risk factors in chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0192895–e0192895. 164 indexed citations

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Hu, Zhizhi, Nan Zhang, Chunxiu Zhang, et al.. (2017). Impact of arteriovenous fistula blood flow on serum il-6, cardiovascular events and death: An ambispective cohort analysis of 64 Chinese hemodialysis patients. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0172490–e0172490. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Xin, Guobao Wang, Nan Chen, et al.. (2016). Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Increased Risk of Membranous Nephropathy in China. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 27(12). 3739–3746. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Jianbo, et al.. (2016). Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Hypersplenic Thrombocytopenia and Situs Inversus Totalis: A Case Report. Chinese Medical Sciences Journal. 31(2). 134–136. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Gang. (2014). The Interaction between Sytactic and Semantic Modules in Chinese Learners’ English Spotaneous Speech. English Language Teaching. 7(10). 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Qiaodan, Yong Ning, Rui Zeng, et al.. (2013). Erbin interacts with Sema4C and inhibits Sema4C-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in HK2 cells. Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology [Medical Sciences]. 33(5). 672–679. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Wanhua, Danfeng Luo, Shixuan Wang, et al.. (2008). TMTP1, a Novel Tumor-Homing Peptide Specifically Targeting Metastasis. Clinical Cancer Research. 14(17). 5494–5502. 96 indexed citations

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Wu, Jingyi, Liang Huang, Mei Huang, et al.. (2008). Dominant contribution of malignant endothelial cells to endotheliopoiesis in chronic myeloid leukemia. Experimental Hematology. 37(1). 87–91. 7 indexed citations

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