Hengli Tang

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Hengli Tang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Hepatology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Hengli Tang has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Hepatology and 19 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Hengli Tang's work include Hepatitis C virus research (20 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (19 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (12 papers). Hengli Tang is often cited by papers focused on Hepatitis C virus research (20 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (19 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (12 papers). Hengli Tang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Hengli Tang's co-authors include Flossie Wong‐Staal, Jason M. Robotham, Feng Yang, Guo‐li Ming, Hongjun Song, Emily M. Lee, Christy Hammack, Henry Grisé, Sarah C. Ogden and Zhexing Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Hengli Tang

66 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Zika Virus Infects Human Cortical Neural Progenitors and Attenuates Their Growth

2016 914 citations Hengli Tang, Christy Hammack et al. Cell stem cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hengli Tang United States	34	1.8k	1.1k	1.0k	1.0k	926	66	3.9k
Margaret R. MacDonald United States	35	1.6k 0.9×	999 0.9×	548 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	410 0.4×	60	4.0k
Hideki Tani Japan	31	1.1k 0.6×	621 0.6×	367 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	485 0.5×	95	3.0k
Stacy M. Horner United States	34	2.7k 1.5×	870 0.8×	254 0.2×	506 0.5×	602 0.7×	61	4.4k
P J Barr United States	39	3.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.7×	989 0.9×	771 0.8×	1.4k 1.6×	66	7.0k
Eiji Morita Japan	29	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	513 0.5×	944 0.9×	128 0.1×	75	4.8k
R. Padmanabhan United States	31	2.3k 1.2×	443 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	349 0.4×	84	4.6k
Christopher K. E. Bleck United States	30	1.6k 0.9×	759 0.7×	737 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	66 0.1×	71	4.0k
Yasuhiro Yasutomi Japan	31	853 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	215 0.2×	1.1k 1.1×	257 0.3×	141	3.9k
Nihal Altan‐Bonnet United States	27	1.8k 1.0×	705 0.7×	292 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	151 0.2×	43	3.7k
Nolwenn Jouvenet France	28	1.1k 0.6×	790 0.7×	846 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	75 0.1×	58	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Hengli Tang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hengli Tang

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

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Ogden, Sarah C., et al.. (2025). A single mutation in the PrM gene of Zika virus determines AXL dependency for infection of human neural cells. Journal of Virology. 99(4). e0187324–e0187324. 2 indexed citations

Álvarez, Pablo, Angélica Medina, Marta Nieto, et al.. (2025). Old World alphaviruses use distinct mechanisms to infect brain microvascular endothelial cells for neuroinvasion. Cell Reports. 44(10). 116305–116305. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Hengli, et al.. (2024). Zika Virus Neuropathogenesis—Research and Understanding. Pathogens. 13(7). 555–555. 7 indexed citations

Cheng, Yichen, Mausumi Basu, Janhavi P. Natekar, et al.. (2022). Intrinsic antiviral immunity of barrier cells revealed by an iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier cellular model. Cell Reports. 39(9). 110885–110885. 14 indexed citations

Tang, Hengli, et al.. (2022). iPS Cell Differentiation into Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 2429. 201–213. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Ruili, Miao Xu, Hu Zhu, et al.. (2021). Biological activity-based modeling identifies antiviral leads against SARS-CoV-2. Nature Biotechnology. 39(6). 747–753. 34 indexed citations

Tharappel, Anil Mathew, Yichen Cheng, Eric H. Holmes, Gary K. Ostrander, & Hengli Tang. (2020). Castanospermine reduces Zika virus infection-associated seizure by inhibiting both the viral load and inflammation in mouse models. Antiviral Research. 183. 104935–104935. 7 indexed citations

Lee, Emily M., Steven A. Titus, Miao Xu, Hengli Tang, & Wei Zheng. (2019). High-Throughput Zika Viral Titer Assay for Rapid Screening of Antiviral Drugs. Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 17(3). 128–139. 10 indexed citations

Li, Feng, Emily M. Lee, Xia Sun, et al.. (2019). Design, synthesis and discovery of andrographolide derivatives against Zika virus infection. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 187. 111925–111925. 32 indexed citations

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Hammack, Christy, Sarah C. Ogden, Chongchong Xu, et al.. (2019). Zika Virus Infection Induces DNA Damage Response in Human Neural Progenitors That Enhances Viral Replication. Journal of Virology. 93(20). 51 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yichen, Alyssa J. Rolfe, Christy Hammack, et al.. (2018). An hPSC-Derived Tissue-Resident Macrophage Model Reveals Differential Responses of Macrophages to ZIKV and DENV Infection. Stem Cell Reports. 11(2). 348–362. 27 indexed citations

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Zhao, Liang, et al.. (2017). Identification of a common Ara h 3 epitope recognized by both the capture and the detection monoclonal antibodies in an ELISA detection kit. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0182935–e0182935. 8 indexed citations

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Tang, Hengli, Christy Hammack, Sarah C. Ogden, et al.. (2016). Zika Virus Infects Human Cortical Neural Progenitors and Attenuates Their Growth. Cell stem cell. 18(5). 587–590. 914 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jiang, Jieyun, Wei Cun, Xianfang Wu, et al.. (2012). Hepatitis C Virus Attachment Mediated by Apolipoprotein E Binding to Cell Surface Heparan Sulfate. Journal of Virology. 86(13). 7256–7267. 130 indexed citations

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Yang, Feng, Jason M. Robotham, Henry Grisé, et al.. (2010). A Major Determinant of Cyclophilin Dependence and Cyclosporine Susceptibility of Hepatitis C Virus Identified by a Genetic Approach. PLoS Pathogens. 6(9). e1001118–e1001118. 79 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhe, Feng Yang, Jason M. Robotham, & Hengli Tang. (2009). Critical Role of Cyclophilin A and Its Prolyl-Peptidyl Isomerase Activity in the Structure and Function of the Hepatitis C Virus Replication Complex. Journal of Virology. 83(13). 6554–6565. 120 indexed citations

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Tang, Hengli. (2009). Hepatitis C: Methods and Protocols. Methods in molecular biology. 12 indexed citations

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Tang, Hengli, et al.. (2001). Mapping the Functional Domains of HAP95, a Protein That Binds RNA Helicase A and Activates the Constitutive Transport Element of Type D Retroviruses. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(33). 30694–30700. 23 indexed citations

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Reddy, T. Raghunadha, Hengli Tang, Weidong Xu, & Flossie Wong‐Staal. (2000). Sam68, RNA helicase A and Tap cooperate in the post-transcriptional regulation of human immunodeficiency virus and type D retroviral mRNA. Oncogene. 19(32). 3570–3575. 69 indexed citations

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Reddy, T. Raghunadha, Weidong Xu, Modem Suhasini, et al.. (1999). Inhibition of HIV replication by dominant negative mutants of Sam68, a functional homolog of HIV-1 Rev. Nature Medicine. 5(6). 635–642. 132 indexed citations

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