Gong Cheng

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
127 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Gong Cheng is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gong Cheng has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 46 papers in Infectious Diseases and 39 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Gong Cheng's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (58 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (34 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (31 papers). Gong Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (58 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (34 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (31 papers). Gong Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Gong Cheng's co-authors include Penghua Wang, Xiaoping Xiao, Yibin Zhu, Xiaojing Pang, Xi Yu, Rudian Zhang, Yang Liu, Erol Fikrig, Kaixiao Nie and Senyan Du and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gong Cheng

115 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Evolutionary enhancement of Zika virus infectivity in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

2017 281 citations Yang Liu, Jianying Liu et al. profile →
Increase of respiratory illnesses among children in Beijing, China, during the autumn and winter of 2023

2024 48 citations Gong Cheng, Lu Kang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gong Cheng China	37	2.0k	1.5k	1.4k	973	775	127	4.2k
Fēi Dèng China	42	948 0.5×	2.5k 1.7×	673 0.5×	2.1k 2.2×	510 0.7×	288	5.8k
Xiao‐Guang Chen China	37	2.7k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	605 0.8×	203	5.4k
Penghua Wang United States	45	2.5k 1.2×	2.4k 1.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.9×	103	5.7k
Rushika Perera United States	31	2.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	489 0.3×	944 1.0×	339 0.4×	68	3.7k
Rong Zhang China	39	915 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	337 0.2×	2.2k 2.3×	1.0k 1.3×	219	6.2k
Andrew D. Davidson United Kingdom	41	2.0k 1.0×	3.2k 2.2×	496 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	576 0.7×	105	5.3k
Maurício Lacerda Nogueira Brazil	37	2.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	263 0.2×	570 0.6×	318 0.4×	217	4.0k
Marco Aurélio Krieger Brazil	34	1.6k 0.8×	536 0.4×	333 0.2×	1.5k 1.5×	291 0.4×	157	3.7k
Malaya K. Sahoo United States	33	1.2k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	155 0.1×	1.0k 1.1×	430 0.6×	133	4.2k
Renli Zhang China	24	644 0.3×	800 0.6×	275 0.2×	491 0.5×	226 0.3×	126	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Gong Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gong Cheng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gong Cheng

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tai, Wanbo, Wen Xiao, Yang Liu, et al.. (2025). Generation and characterization of neutralizing antibodies against M1R and B6R proteins of monkeypox virus. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3100–3100. 3 indexed citations

Qian, Qiuhui, Ying Cheng, Gong Cheng, et al.. (2025). In-depth comparative immunotoxicity assessment of pristine and aged PLA microplastics in zebrafish larvae: Bioaccumulation and NF-κB signaling insights. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 497. 139700–139700.

Tai, Wanbo, Xinyang Yu, Xinyu Zhuang, et al.. (2025). An mRNA vaccine against monkeypox virus inhibits infection by co-activation of humoral and cellular immune responses. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2971–2971. 8 indexed citations

Cheng, Gong, Liang Wang, Yuling Han, et al.. (2025). Epidemiological and phylogenetic characteristics of human metapneumovirus in Beijing, China, 2014–2024. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 10(1). 300–300. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Yunxiang, Yixin Su, You Shu, et al.. (2025). A unified deep framework for peptide–major histocompatibility complex–T cell receptor binding prediction. Nature Machine Intelligence. 7(4). 650–660. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Duomeng, Tingting Geng, Andrew G. Harrison, et al.. (2024). UBR5 promotes antiviral immunity by disengaging the transcriptional brake on RIG-I like receptors. Nature Communications. 15(1). 780–780. 7 indexed citations

Xiao, Xiao, Yanan Fu, Congcong Huang, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of the RLR signaling pathway by SARS-CoV-2 ORF7b is mediated by MAVS and abrogated by ORF7b-homologous interfering peptide. Journal of Virology. 98(5). e0157323–e0157323. 8 indexed citations

Guo, Xuan, et al.. (2024). A predictive language model for SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 9(1). 353–353. 3 indexed citations

Cheng, Gong, et al.. (2024). Active power optimisation scheduling method for large-scale urban distribution networks with distributed photovoltaics considering the regulating capacity of the main network. Frontiers in Energy Research. 12. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Shuo, Meijie Tian, Rong Wang, et al.. (2024). Infection and chronic disease activate a systemic brain-muscle signaling axis. Science Immunology. 9(97). eadm7908–eadm7908. 9 indexed citations

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Tai, Wanbo, Shuaiyao Lu, Guangyu Zhao, et al.. (2023). An mRNA-based T-cell-inducing antigen strengthens COVID-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variants. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2962–2962. 35 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yibin, et al.. (2023). Advances in research on arboviral acquisition from hosts to mosquitoes. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 61. 101141–101141. 5 indexed citations

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Meng, Qian‐Fang, Wanbo Tai, Mingyao Tian, et al.. (2023). Inhalation delivery of dexamethasone with iSEND nanoparticles attenuates the COVID-19 cytokine storm in mice and nonhuman primates. Science Advances. 9(24). eadg3277–eadg3277. 76 indexed citations

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Yu, Xi, et al.. (2023). Mpox Virus: Its Molecular Evolution and Potential Impact on Viral Epidemiology. Viruses. 15(4). 995–995. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Maozhong, Jing Li, Kang Lu, et al.. (2023). Genome sequencing reveals molecular epidemiological characteristics and new recombinations of adenovirus in Beijing, China, 2014−2019. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(12). e29284–e29284. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xin, Qing Tang, Lijuan Li, et al.. (2023). Viral Diversity and Epidemiology in Critically Endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalisasiaeorientalis). Microbiology Spectrum. 11(4). e0081023–e0081023. 1 indexed citations

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Xie, Hui, et al.. (2021). Epidemiology of human parainfluenza virus infection in patients with acute respiratory tract infection in Beijing, 2015–2020. 36(9). 943–948. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenqiang, Lihong He, He Zhang, et al.. (2021). The self-assembled nanoparticle-based trimeric RBD mRNA vaccine elicits robust and durable protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in mice. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 6(1). 340–340. 55 indexed citations

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Du, Senyan, Yang Liu, Jianying Liu, et al.. (2019). Aedes mosquitoes acquire and transmit Zika virus by breeding in contaminated aquatic environments. Nature Communications. 10(1). 56 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yibin, Liangqin Tong, Kaixiao Nie, et al.. (2019). Host serum iron modulates dengue virus acquisition by mosquitoes. Nature Microbiology. 4(12). 2405–2415. 54 indexed citations

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