Heng Wang

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
245 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Heng Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Heng Wang has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Molecular Biology, 53 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Heng Wang's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (14 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (13 papers). Heng Wang is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (14 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (13 papers). Heng Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Heng Wang's co-authors include András Simon, Douglas D. Boyd, Chunhong Yan, Sophia Y. Tsai, Elly M. Tanaka, Bert W. O’Malley, Ming‐Jer Tsai, Alberto Joven, Guihong Zhang and Erhu Xiong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Heng Wang

222 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heng Wang China	34	2.3k	644	394	368	351	245	4.4k
Dustin Ebert United States	6	2.9k 1.2×	660 1.0×	541 1.4×	278 0.8×	335 1.0×	8	4.7k
Aleš Tichopád Czechia	19	3.9k 1.7×	688 1.1×	620 1.6×	278 0.8×	176 0.5×	57	6.1k
Chankyu Park South Korea	48	3.4k 1.4×	1.4k 2.2×	438 1.1×	366 1.0×	279 0.8×	342	7.6k
Linda C. Samuelson United States	48	3.0k 1.3×	1.3k 2.1×	388 1.0×	425 1.2×	374 1.1×	148	6.4k
Lan Jiang China	33	2.8k 1.2×	567 0.9×	618 1.6×	190 0.5×	288 0.8×	108	5.0k
Xiaosong Huang United States	15	4.3k 1.9×	881 1.4×	677 1.7×	514 1.4×	453 1.3×	34	6.7k
Jun Zhang China	39	3.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	382 1.0×	288 0.8×	783 2.2×	277	6.6k
Nan Su China	33	3.6k 1.5×	1.0k 1.6×	781 2.0×	380 1.0×	606 1.7×	112	6.4k
Yun Lu United States	37	2.7k 1.1×	587 0.9×	662 1.7×	449 1.2×	436 1.2×	109	5.4k
Haibo Wang China	38	2.5k 1.1×	307 0.5×	696 1.8×	354 1.0×	190 0.5×	358	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Heng Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heng Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heng Wang

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

Li, Liuyang, et al.. (2025). Oxidative adaptations in prokaryotes imply the oxygenic photosynthesis before crown-group Cyanobacteria. PNAS Nexus. 4(2). pgaf035–pgaf035.

Su, Yuhong, Shengli Li, Minghuan Liu, et al.. (2025). EXPERT expands prime editing efficiency and range of large fragment edits. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1592–1592. 5 indexed citations

Levchenko, Vladislav, et al.. (2024). Characterization of a novel variant in KCNJ16 , encoding K _ir 5.1 channel. Physiological Reports. 12(20). e70083–e70083. 2 indexed citations

Umer, Muhammad Jawad, Mengying Yang, Yuqing Hou, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide identification and functional analysis of ICE genes reveal that Gossypium thurberi “GthICE2” is responsible for cold and drought stress tolerance. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 199. 107708–107708. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Heng, Xue Liu, Ziheng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Effects of tadalafil on sexual behavior of male rats induced by chronic unpredictable mild stress. Sexual Medicine. 11(2). qfad019–qfad019. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Heng, et al.. (2023). Parental Perception of Oral Health and Oral Health Status of Pediatric Patients Attending an Urban Craniofacial Center. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 61(8). 1329–1335.

Ma, Qingle, Yi Wu, Heng Wang, et al.. (2023). Neurological disorders after severe pneumonia are associated with translocation of endogenous bacteria from the lung to the brain. Science Advances. 9(42). 13 indexed citations

Umer, Muhammad Jawad, Mengying Yang, Jie Zheng, et al.. (2023). Unravelling the Functional Role of GthGAPC2 in Cotton's Defense Against Verticillium dahliae through Proteome. Physiologia Plantarum. 176(1). 2 indexed citations

Ma, Qingle, Jialu Xu, Bo Tian, et al.. (2023). Severe pneumonia induces immunosenescence of T cells in the lung of mice. Aging. 15(14). 7084–7097. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Heng, Aziz Khan, Yanchao Xu, et al.. (2023). Genome wide identification of GDSL gene family explores a novel GhirGDSL26 gene enhancing drought stress tolerance in cotton. BMC Plant Biology. 23(1). 14–14. 11 indexed citations

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Sun, Yu, Lihua Fan, Duoquan Wang, et al.. (2022). A direct, sensitive and high-throughput genus and species-specific molecular assay for large-scale malaria screening. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 11(1). 25–25. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Wei, Shengsong Xie, Heng Wang, et al.. (2022). Identification of the CKM Gene as a Potential Muscle-Specific Safe Harbor Locus in Pig Genome. Genes. 13(5). 921–921. 4 indexed citations

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Fang, Zhi, Min Zhong, Ling Zhou, et al.. (2022). Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 8 facilitates the proliferation and invasion of non-small cell lung cancer cells by regulating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Bioengineered. 13(3). 6807–6818. 22 indexed citations

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Fu, Liangliang, Heng Wang, Peng Zhou, et al.. (2020). miR-208b modulating skeletal muscle development and energy homoeostasis through targeting distinct targets. RNA Biology. 17(5). 743–754. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Qiankun, Aamir Mehmood, Heng Wang, et al.. (2019). Computational Screening and Analysis of Lung Cancer Related Non-Synonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on the Human Kirsten Rat Sarcoma Gene. Molecules. 24(10). 1951–1951. 33 indexed citations

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Abraham, Joseph R., John Barnard, Heng Wang, et al.. (2019). Proteomic investigations of human HERC2 mutants: Insights into the pathobiology of a neurodevelopmental disorder. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 512(2). 421–427. 11 indexed citations

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Feng, Panpan, et al.. (2016). Expression and clinical significance of pituitary tumor-transforming gene 1 in gastric carcinoma. Zhonghua shiyan waike zazhi. 33(5). 1342–1344. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Jie, et al.. (2015). Numerical simulations of steady-state temperature distributions during thermoseed mediated magnetic induction hyperthermia. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 54(5). 638–642. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Heng, et al.. (2010). Combination of RFID and vision for patrol robot navigation and localization. Chinese Control Conference. 3649–3653. 6 indexed citations

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Tang, Wenhua, et al.. (2007). Mapping,Cloning and Expression Profile Analysis of Porcine NDUFS2 Gene. Xumu shouyi xuebao. 1137–1142. 1 indexed citations

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