Guocai Zhong

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Guocai Zhong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Guocai Zhong has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Infectious Diseases and 8 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Guocai Zhong's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers), COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (6 papers) and Hepatitis B Virus Studies (6 papers). Guocai Zhong is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers), COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (6 papers) and Hepatitis B Virus Studies (6 papers). Guocai Zhong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and India. Guocai Zhong's co-authors include Michael Farzan, Haimin Wang, Wenhui He, Wenhui Li, Zhiyi Jing, Yonghe Qi, Charles C. Bailey, Xiaozhong Peng, Huan Yan and Zhenchao Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Guocai Zhong

28 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide is a functional receptor for human hepatitis B and D virus

2012 1.6k citations Huan Yan, Guocai Zhong et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guocai Zhong China	17	1.7k	1.2k	721	702	432	30	2.8k
Jérôme Gouttenoire Switzerland	28	805 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	577 0.8×	532 0.8×	218 0.5×	57	2.4k
Brian J. Thomson United Kingdom	31	1.6k 0.9×	889 0.7×	377 0.5×	480 0.7×	399 0.9×	79	3.1k
David R. McGivern United States	25	916 0.5×	940 0.8×	639 0.9×	378 0.5×	341 0.8×	44	2.0k
Viet Loan Dao Thi Germany	22	716 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	951 1.3×	797 1.1×	389 0.9×	44	2.5k
Erik Depla Belgium	23	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	482 0.7×	308 0.4×	485 1.1×	48	2.7k
Xianfang Wu United States	20	551 0.3×	642 0.5×	972 1.3×	390 0.6×	672 1.6×	37	2.2k
Takayuki Murata Japan	34	1.7k 1.0×	433 0.4×	1.5k 2.1×	712 1.0×	788 1.8×	147	4.2k
Alissa M. Lancaster United States	10	546 0.3×	658 0.5×	1.9k 2.6×	374 0.5×	510 1.2×	11	3.0k
Peter Vanlandschoot Belgium	22	1.1k 0.6×	268 0.2×	696 1.0×	407 0.6×	804 1.9×	44	2.1k
Anne Louise France	21	756 0.4×	370 0.3×	381 0.5×	145 0.2×	637 1.5×	33	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guocai Zhong

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yin, Yandong, et al.. (2025). A peptide conjugate enables systemic injection of the morpholino inducer and more durable induction of T3H38 ribozyme-controlled AAV transgene in mice. Gene Therapy. 32(2). 163–171.

Zhong, Guocai, et al.. (2025). Development of a Novel Lysosomal Gene-based Prognostic Panel and Uncovering EIF4EBP1 as a Biomarker for Breast Cancer. Current Genomics. 26(5). 368–388.

Li, Jingtao, Guocai Zhong, Fengli Hu, et al.. (2024). ASPH dysregulates cell death and induces chemoresistance in hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Letters. 611. 217396–217396. 4 indexed citations

Li, Yujun, Xu-Dong Hou, Haimin Wang, et al.. (2023). Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Spikes shapes their binding affinities to animal ACE2 orthologs. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0267623–e0267623. 4 indexed citations

Ren, Wenlin, Yu Zhang, Ziyi Wang, et al.. (2023). Evolution of Immune Evasion and Host Range Expansion by the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant. mBio. 14(2). e0041623–e0041623. 11 indexed citations

Li, Yujun, Zhaoyong Zhang, Haimin Wang, et al.. (2023). Broadly Effective ACE2 Decoy Proteins Protect Mice from Lethal SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(4). e0110023–e0110023. 5 indexed citations

Ren, Wenlin, Xiaohui Ju, Mingli Gong, et al.. (2022). Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.617.1 (Kappa), B.1.617.2 (Delta), and B.1.618 by Cell Entry and Immune Evasion. mBio. 13(2). e0009922–e0009922. 23 indexed citations

Ren, Wenlin, Jun Lan, Xiaohui Ju, et al.. (2021). Mutation Y453F in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 enhances interaction with the mink ACE2 receptor for host adaption. PLoS Pathogens. 17(11). e1010053–e1010053. 48 indexed citations

Tran, Mai H., HaJeung Park, Christopher L. Nobles, et al.. (2021). A more efficient CRISPR-Cas12a variant derived from Lachnospiraceae bacterium MA2020. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 24. 40–53. 29 indexed citations

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Ou, Tianling, Wenhui He, Brian D. Quinlan, et al.. (2021). Reprogramming of the heavy-chain CDR3 regions of a human antibody repertoire. Molecular Therapy. 30(1). 184–197. 10 indexed citations

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Guo, Yan, Wenhui He, Huihui Mou, et al.. (2021). An Engineered Receptor-Binding Domain Improves the Immunogenicity of Multivalent SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines. mBio. 12(3). 19 indexed citations

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Zhong, Guocai, Haimin Wang, Wenhui He, et al.. (2019). A reversible RNA on-switch that controls gene expression of AAV-delivered therapeutics in vivo. Nature Biotechnology. 38(2). 169–175. 75 indexed citations

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Mou, Huihui, Guocai Zhong, Matthew R. Gardner, et al.. (2018). Conditional Regulation of Gene Expression by Ligand-Induced Occlusion of a MicroRNA Target Sequence. Molecular Therapy. 26(5). 1277–1286. 23 indexed citations

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Chen, Shichang, Li-Hao Zhang, Zhang Guo, et al.. (2018). An Investigation and Comparison of the Blending of LDPE and PP with Different Intrinsic Viscosities of PET. Polymers. 10(2). 147–147. 25 indexed citations

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Zhong, Guocai, Haimin Wang, Yujun Li, Mai H. Tran, & Michael Farzan. (2017). Cpf1 proteins excise CRISPR RNAs from mRNA transcripts in mammalian cells. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(8). 839–841. 51 indexed citations

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Yan, Huan, Xiaozhong Peng, Wenhui He, et al.. (2013). Molecular Determinants of Hepatitis B and D Virus Entry Restriction in Mouse Sodium Taurocholate Cotransporting Polypeptide. Journal of Virology. 87(14). 7977–7991. 153 indexed citations

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Sun, Yinyan, Yonghe Qi, Wenqing Gao, et al.. (2013). Nonmuscle Myosin Heavy Chain IIA Is a Critical Factor Contributing to the Efficiency of Early Infection of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus. Journal of Virology. 88(1). 237–248. 93 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiaye, Wenting Song, Wenjiang Chen, et al.. (2011). Improved expression of secretory and trimeric proteins in mammalian cells via the introduction of a new trimer motif and a mutant of the tPA signal sequence. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 91(3). 731–740. 42 indexed citations

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Zhong, Guocai, et al.. (2010). A sensitive HIV-1 envelope induced fusion assay identifies fusion enhancement of thrombin. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 391(4). 1780–1784. 5 indexed citations

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Zhong, Guocai, et al.. (1996). [The hepatitis A virus isolated and adapted in human diploid fibroblast cells (KMB17)].. PubMed. 18(1). 29–32. 2 indexed citations

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