Guoqiang Gu

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Guoqiang Gu is a scholar working on Surgery, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Guoqiang Gu has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Surgery, 27 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Guoqiang Gu's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (48 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (20 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (12 papers). Guoqiang Gu is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (48 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (20 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (12 papers). Guoqiang Gu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Switzerland. Guoqiang Gu's co-authors include Douglas A. Melton, Yanwen Xu, Juliana Brown, Sui Wang, Aizhen Zhao, Ben Z. Stanger, Jan Jensen, Anna L. Means, Kevin C. Ray and Mark A. Magnuson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Guoqiang Gu

52 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Direct evidence for the pancreatic lineage: NGN3+ cells are islet progenitors and are distinct from duct progenitors

2002 1.2k citations Guoqiang Gu, Douglas A. Melton et al. Development profile →
Adult Hepatocytes Are Generated by Self-Duplication Rather than Stem Cell Differentiation

2014 320 citations Kilangsungla Yanger, David Knigin et al. Cell stem cell profile →
Diabetes recovery by age-dependent conversion of pancreatic δ-cells into insulin producers

2014 308 citations Jan Jensen, Guoqiang Gu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guoqiang Gu United States	29	3.7k	2.2k	1.9k	1.2k	475	56	4.8k
Patrick Jacquemin Belgium	31	2.0k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	868 0.4×	318 0.3×	413 0.9×	64	3.9k
Maike Sander United States	18	1.6k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	891 0.5×	431 0.3×	166 0.3×	23	2.7k
Xueying Gu United States	27	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	915 0.7×	426 0.9×	41	3.7k
Ergeng Hao United States	24	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	938 0.5×	733 0.6×	182 0.4×	40	3.1k
Michael Ray United States	9	2.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	651 0.5×	431 0.9×	10	2.8k
Paul Gadue United States	34	1.1k 0.3×	3.5k 1.6×	560 0.3×	122 0.1×	301 0.6×	89	4.9k
Patricia L. M. Dahia United States	41	3.1k 0.8×	4.1k 1.9×	728 0.4×	3.0k 2.4×	1.1k 2.4×	103	8.6k
Micheala A. Aldred United States	32	411 0.1×	1.6k 0.8×	585 0.3×	258 0.2×	271 0.6×	80	4.0k
Lawrence S. Kirschner United States	36	2.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	431 0.2×	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 3.2×	100	5.4k
Fong Cheng Pan United States	16	1.3k 0.3×	995 0.5×	633 0.3×	372 0.3×	564 1.2×	19	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Guoqiang Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guoqiang Gu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guoqiang Gu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hu, Ruiying, Prasanna K. Dadi, Alan J. Simmons, et al.. (2025). Pancreatic islet β-cell subtypes are derived from biochemically-distinct and nutritionally-regulated islet progenitors. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5758–5758.

Gu, Guoqiang, et al.. (2023). Glucose-stimulated KIF5B-driven microtubule sliding organizes microtubule networks in mouse pancreatic β cells. eLife. 12.

Osipovich, Anna B., et al.. (2023). CAMSAP2 localizes to the Golgi in islet β-cells and facilitates Golgi-ER trafficking. iScience. 26(2). 105938–105938. 3 indexed citations

Osipovich, Anna B., Emily Greenfest‐Allen, Jean‐Philippe Cartailler, et al.. (2021). A developmental lineage-based gene co-expression network for mouse pancreatic β-cells reveals a role for Zfp800 in pancreas development. Development. 148(6). 16 indexed citations

Heiser, Cody N., Bob Chen, Alan J. Simmons, et al.. (2020). Coregulator Sin3a Promotes Postnatal Murine β-Cell Fitness by Regulating Genes in Ca2+ Homeostasis, Cell Survival, Vesicle Biosynthesis, Glucose Metabolism, and Stress Response. Diabetes. 69(6). 1219–1231. 9 indexed citations

Hu, Ruiying, Emily M. Walker, Chen Huang, et al.. (2020). Myt Transcription Factors Prevent Stress-Response Gene Overactivation to Enable Postnatal Pancreatic β Cell Proliferation, Function, and Survival. Developmental Cell. 53(4). 390–405.e10. 14 indexed citations

Bankaitis, Eric D., Matthew E. Bechard, Guoqiang Gu, Mark A. Magnuson, & Christopher V.E. Wright. (2018). ROCK-nmMyoII, Notch and Neurog3 gene-dosage link epithelial morphogenesis with cell fate in the pancreatic endocrine-progenitor niche. Development. 145(18). 16 indexed citations

Huang, Chen & Guoqiang Gu. (2017). Effective Isolation of Functional Islets from Neonatal Mouse Pancreas. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 12 indexed citations

Zhu, Xiaodong, Ruiying Hu, Marcela Briššová, et al.. (2015). Microtubules Negatively Regulate Insulin Secretion in Pancreatic β Cells. Developmental Cell. 34(6). 656–668. 78 indexed citations

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Sancho, Rocı́o, Ralph Gruber, Guoqiang Gu, & Axel Behrens. (2014). Loss of Fbw7 Reprograms Adult Pancreatic Ductal Cells into α, δ, and β Cells. Cell stem cell. 15(2). 139–153. 112 indexed citations

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Yanger, Kilangsungla, David Knigin, Yiwei Zong, et al.. (2014). Adult Hepatocytes Are Generated by Self-Duplication Rather than Stem Cell Differentiation. Cell stem cell. 15(3). 340–349. 320 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hickey, Raymond, Feorillo Galivo, Jonathan Schug, et al.. (2013). Generation of islet-like cells from mouse gall bladder by direct ex vivo reprogramming. Stem Cell Research. 11(1). 503–515. 37 indexed citations

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Scholten, David, Christoph H. Österreicher, Keiko Iwaisako, et al.. (2010). Genetic Labeling Does Not Detect Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition of Cholangiocytes in Liver Fibrosis in Mice. Gastroenterology. 139(3). 987–998. 179 indexed citations

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Wang, Sui, Jan Jensen, Philip A. Seymour, et al.. (2009). Sustained Neurog3 expression in hormone-expressing islet cells is required for endocrine maturation and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(24). 9715–9720. 137 indexed citations

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Wang, Sui, Jingbo Yan, Daniel A. Anderson, et al.. (2009). Neurog3 gene dosage regulates allocation of endocrine and exocrine cell fates in the developing mouse pancreas. Developmental Biology. 339(1). 26–37. 107 indexed citations

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Artner, Isabella, Yan Hang, Min Guo, Guoqiang Gu, & Roland Stein. (2008). MafA is a dedicated activator of the insulin gene in vivo. Journal of Endocrinology. 198(2). 271–279. 40 indexed citations

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Wang, Sui, Jacob Hecksher‐Sørensen, Yanwen Xu, et al.. (2008). Myt1 and Ngn3 form a feed-forward expression loop to promote endocrine islet cell differentiation. Developmental Biology. 317(2). 531–540. 72 indexed citations

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Wang, Sui, Jia Zhang, Aizhen Zhao, et al.. (2007). Loss of Myt1 function partially compromises endocrine islet cell differentiation and pancreatic physiological function in the mouse. Mechanisms of Development. 124(11-12). 898–910. 57 indexed citations

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Xu, Yanwen, Sui Wang, Jia Zhang, et al.. (2006). The fringe molecules induce endocrine differentiation in embryonic endoderm by activating cMyt1/cMyt3. Developmental Biology. 297(2). 340–349. 21 indexed citations

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Gu, Guoqiang, Juliana Brown, & Douglas A. Melton. (2002). Direct lineage tracing reveals the ontogeny of pancreatic cell fates during mouse embryogenesis. Mechanisms of Development. 120(1). 35–43. 170 indexed citations

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