Hongjun Liu

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Hongjun Liu is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongjun Liu has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Plant Science, 15 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Hongjun Liu's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (5 papers). Hongjun Liu is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (5 papers). Hongjun Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Hongjun Liu's co-authors include Toren Finkel, Ilsa I. Rovira, Renata Colavitti, Liu Cao, Jichun Chen, Calvin J. Kuo, Daniel Schimel, Marı́a M. Fergusson, J. Silvio Gutkind and Rogério M. Castilho and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hongjun Liu

30 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Augmented Wnt Signaling in a Mammalian Model of Accelerated Aging

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hongjun Liu China	13	844	384	261	241	230	33	1.7k
Dan Liang China	19	1.6k 2.0×	377 1.0×	138 0.5×	263 1.1×	70 0.3×	65	2.4k
Herbert Schramek Austria	26	880 1.0×	112 0.3×	221 0.8×	152 0.6×	229 1.0×	51	1.7k
Akihiko Saito Japan	25	838 1.0×	161 0.4×	531 2.0×	51 0.2×	207 0.9×	65	1.9k
Hong Qi United States	17	567 0.7×	334 0.9×	87 0.3×	154 0.6×	166 0.7×	27	1.5k
Jung Sun Park South Korea	25	1.3k 1.6×	414 1.1×	80 0.3×	94 0.4×	69 0.3×	105	2.1k
Jozef Lazar United States	27	656 0.8×	391 1.0×	232 0.9×	47 0.2×	271 1.2×	60	1.6k
Jeffrey B. Cheng United States	15	779 0.9×	257 0.7×	57 0.2×	91 0.4×	171 0.7×	32	1.9k
Daw‐Yang Hwang Taiwan	24	984 1.2×	392 1.0×	261 1.0×	44 0.2×	60 0.3×	77	1.9k
Pascale Fanen France	26	764 0.9×	218 0.6×	49 0.2×	72 0.3×	167 0.7×	93	2.1k
Larisa Fedorova United States	17	934 1.1×	181 0.5×	120 0.5×	170 0.7×	76 0.3×	35	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongjun Liu

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

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Wei, Nan, et al.. (2025). Identification of a novel mutation in the CLCN7 gene in pediatric osteopetrosis: case report. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 13. 1549961–1549961.

Zhang, Lin, Yue Hao, Mingfei Sun, et al.. (2025). Polymerization of beneficial plant height QTLs to develop superior lines which can achieving hybrid performance levels. Molecular Breeding. 45(2). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

Fan, Xiaoxing, Xiaohan Li, Yuting Liu, et al.. (2025). Uncovering chromatin accessibility dynamics in early maize endosperm and seed coat differentiation. The Plant Journal. 123(2). e70316–e70316.

Gao, Xiang, Hongjun Liu, Xuerong Yang, et al.. (2025). Constraint of accessible chromatins maps regulatory loci involved in maize speciation and domestication. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2477–2477. 3 indexed citations

Kong, Qianqian, Yi Jiang, Yunpeng Wang, et al.. (2024). Biparental graph strategy to represent and analyze hybrid plant genomes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 196(2). 1284–1297. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yan, et al.. (2024). Predictors of breakthrough invasive fungal infections (BIFI) in pediatric acute leukemia: a retrospective analysis and predictive model development. Frontiers in Medicine. 11. 1488514–1488514.

Sun, Mingfei, Lin Zhang, Hongjie Zhu, et al.. (2024). Responses of microbial communities to drought stress and humic acid fertilizer in maize. 1(1). 0–0. 1 indexed citations

Mei, Qiming, Hanxiang Li, Yanbin Liu, et al.. (2023). De Novo Assembly of an Allotetraploid Artemisia argyi Genome. Agronomy. 13(2). 436–436. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Hongjun, et al.. (2022). Gene expression trend changes in breast cancer populations over two decades: insights from The Cancer Genome Atlas database. Hereditas. 159(1). 18–18. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Qin, Jiongjiong Fan, Mengjiao Chen, et al.. (2022). Natural variation of ZmLNG1 alters organ shapes in maize. New Phytologist. 237(2). 471–482. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Changsheng, Xiaoli Xiang, Yong Zhou, et al.. (2020). Long-read sequencing reveals genomic structural variations that underlie creation of quality protein maize. Nature Communications. 11(1). 17–17. 59 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongjun, Xiaohan Li, Fangyuan Li, et al.. (2019). High frequency DNA rearrangement at qγ27 creates a novel allele for Quality Protein Maize breeding. Communications Biology. 2(1). 460–460. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongjun, et al.. (2018). Biochemical and genetic analyses of N metabolism in maize testcross seedlings: 2. Roots. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 131(6). 1191–1205. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongjun, et al.. (2017). Biochemical and genetic analyses of N metabolism in maize testcross seedlings: 1. Leaves. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 130(7). 1453–1466. 11 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongjun, Xuerong Yang, Cheng Qin, et al.. (2015). Genome-wide comparative analysis of digital gene expression tag profiles during maize ear development. Genomics. 106(1). 52–60. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongjun, Huangkai Zhou, WU Yong-sheng, et al.. (2015). The Impact of Genetic Relationship and Linkage Disequilibrium on Genomic Selection. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132379–e0132379. 34 indexed citations

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Chen, Yongsheng, Hongjun Liu, M. Paul Scott, et al.. (2012). Genetic and physical fine mapping of the novel brown midrib gene bm6 in maize (Zea mays L.) to a 180 kb region on chromosome 2. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 125(6). 1223–1235. 19 indexed citations

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Tang, Zhe, Jingmei Jiang, Xianghua Fang, et al.. (2011). Effects of Smoking and Smoking Cessation on Life Expectancy in an Elderly Population in Beijing, China, 1992–2000: An 8-Year Follow-up Study. Journal of Epidemiology. 21(5). 376–384. 30 indexed citations

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Liu, Jie, Liu Cao, Jichun Chen, et al.. (2009). Bmi1 regulates mitochondrial function and the DNA damage response pathway. Nature. 459(7245). 387–392. 392 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongjun, et al.. (2009). Theoretical analysis of spectral properties of parametric fluorescence via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Acta Physica Sinica. 58(7). 4689–4689. 1 indexed citations

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