Hongzhe Li

35.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
269 papers, 19.0k citations indexed

About

Hongzhe Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongzhe Li has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 19.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Molecular Biology, 71 papers in Genetics and 32 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Hongzhe Li's work include Gut microbiota and health (49 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (46 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (33 papers). Hongzhe Li is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (49 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (46 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (33 papers). Hongzhe Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Hongzhe Li's co-authors include Frederic D. Bushman, James D. Lewis, Gary D. Wu, Kyle Bittinger, Christian Hoffmann, Rohini Sinha, Lisa Nessel, Robert N. Baldassano, Sue A. Keilbaugh and Jun Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Hongzhe Li

255 papers receiving 18.6k citations

Hit Papers

Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Ent... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 2011 2014 2015 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes
    2011 4.7k citations Gary D. Wu, Kyle Bittinger et al. profile →
  2. Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances
    2012 732 citations Kyle Bittinger, Gary D. Wu et al. profile →
  3. The human gut virome: Inter-individual variation and dynamic response to diet
    2011 674 citations Hongzhe Li, Gary D. Wu et al. profile →
  4. Correlation Between Intraluminal Oxygen Gradient and Radial Partitioning of Intestinal Microbiota
    2014 642 citations Kyle Bittinger, Hongzhe Li et al. profile →
  5. Inflammation, Antibiotics, and Diet as Environmental Stressors of the Gut Microbiome in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease
    2015 612 citations Kyle Bittinger, Elliot S. Friedman et al. profile →
  6. Archaea and Fungi of the Human Gut Microbiome: Correlations with Diet and Bacterial Residents
    2013 596 citations Hongzhe Li, Gary D. Wu et al. profile →
  7. Comparative metabolomics in vegans and omnivores reveal constraints on diet-dependent gut microbiota metabolite production
    2014 381 citations Gary D. Wu, Kyle Bittinger et al. profile →
  8. Power and sample-size estimation for microbiome studies using pairwise distances and PERMANOVA
    2015 308 citations Kyle Bittinger, Ronald G. Collman et al. profile →
  9. Role of dietary fiber in the recovery of the human gut microbiome and its metabolome
    2021 201 citations Ceylan Tanes, Kyle Bittinger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hongzhe Li United States 57 11.5k 3.1k 2.5k 2.1k 1.8k 269 19.0k
Heping Zhang United States 70 3.8k 0.3× 929 0.3× 2.1k 0.8× 601 0.3× 1.5k 0.8× 497 17.7k
Vincent J. Carey United States 59 8.2k 0.7× 4.5k 1.5× 1.7k 0.7× 980 0.5× 1.8k 1.0× 224 21.7k
Mitchell H. Gail United States 82 4.2k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 4.0k 1.6× 1.4k 0.7× 2.5k 1.4× 338 24.1k
Mark D. Robinson Switzerland 57 29.2k 2.5× 2.0k 0.6× 5.5k 2.2× 1.3k 0.6× 2.1k 1.2× 173 46.9k
Katherine S. Pollard United States 63 10.7k 0.9× 942 0.3× 2.9k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 598 0.3× 188 15.2k
Joel T. Dudley United States 54 16.8k 1.5× 1.1k 0.3× 5.9k 2.4× 2.9k 1.4× 3.3k 1.8× 196 43.0k
Susumu Goto Japan 47 31.5k 2.7× 2.0k 0.7× 4.3k 1.7× 1.6k 0.8× 2.3k 1.3× 143 47.1k
Elaine R. Mardis United States 76 24.5k 2.1× 4.4k 1.4× 7.1k 2.8× 2.2k 1.1× 2.5k 1.4× 305 44.2k
Huilin Li United States 44 5.2k 0.4× 1.9k 0.6× 727 0.3× 969 0.5× 977 0.5× 231 9.7k
Robert Clarke United States 74 9.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.5× 3.6k 1.4× 1.1k 0.5× 2.9k 1.6× 492 27.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongzhe Li

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benitez, Alain, Ceylan Tanes, Elliot S. Friedman, et al.. (2025). Antibiotic exposure is associated with minimal gut microbiome perturbations in healthy term infants. Microbiome. 13(1). 21–21. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Yu, Hongbo Liu, Amin Abedini, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the epigenetic code: human kidney DNA methylation and chromatin dynamics in renal disease development. Nature Communications. 15(1). 873–873. 23 indexed citations
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Pierson, Sheila K., Megan S. Lim, Gordan Srkalović, et al.. (2023). Treatment consistent with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease guidelines is associated with improved outcomes. Blood Advances. 7(21). 6652–6664. 16 indexed citations
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Carr, Rotonya M., Yun Li, Lillian Chau, et al.. (2023). An integrated analysis of fecal microbiome and metabolomic features distinguish non-cirrhotic NASH from healthy control populations. Hepatology. 78(6). 1843–1857. 16 indexed citations
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Gui, Jiang, Anne G. Hoen, Hilary G. Morrison, et al.. (2022). The relationship between the gut microbiome and the risk of respiratory infections among newborns. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 87–87. 13 indexed citations
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Whiteside, Samantha A., Rebecca A. Deek, Áurea Simón‐Soro, et al.. (2022). The Lung Allograft Microbiome Associates with Pepsin, Inflammation, and Primary Graft Dysfunction. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 206(12). 1508–1521. 10 indexed citations
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Raj, Dominic S., Michael B. Sohn, David M. Charytan, et al.. (2021). The Microbiome and p-Inulin in Hemodialysis: A Feasibility Study. Kidney360. 2(3). 445–455. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Zhigang, Lü Tian, A. James O’Malley, et al.. (2020). IFAA: Robust Association Identification and Inference for Absolute Abundance in Microbiome Analyses. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 116(536). 1595–1608. 3 indexed citations
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Sohn, Michael B. & Hongzhe Li. (2019). Compositional mediation analysis for microbiome studies. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 13(1). 61 indexed citations
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Lee, Jung‐Jin, Ceylan Tanes, Elliot S. Friedman, et al.. (2019). SAT0623 CHARACTERIZING THE GUT AND PLASMA METABOLOMES IN PATIENTS WITH ANCA-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 78. 1407–1408. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hongzhe, Roshanak Ghazanfari, Hooi Ching Lim, et al.. (2017). Early Growth Response (EGR)-1 Is a Key Regulator of Human Primary Bone Marrow Stroma Cells with a Dual Role in Proliferation and Hematopoietic Stroma Support Function. Blood. 130. 3777–3777. 1 indexed citations
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Ghazanfari, Roshanak, Hongzhe Li, Dimitra Zacharaki, Hooi Ching Lim, & Stefan Scheding. (2016). Human Non-Hematopoietic CD271 pos /CD140a low/neg Bone Marrow Stroma Cells Fulfill Stringent Stem Cell Criteria in Serial Transplantations. Stem Cells and Development. 25(21). 1652–1658. 35 indexed citations
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Ferri, Sarah L., Arati S. Kreibich, Holly C. Dow, et al.. (2016). Activation of basolateral amygdala in juvenile C57BL/6J mice during social approach behavior. Neuroscience. 335. 184–194. 25 indexed citations
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Zsíros, Emese, Priyanka Duttagupta, Denarda Dangaj Laniti, et al.. (2015). The Ovarian Cancer Chemokine Landscape Is Conducive to Homing of Vaccine-Primed and CD3/CD28–Costimulated T Cells Prepared for Adoptive Therapy. Clinical Cancer Research. 21(12). 2840–2850. 48 indexed citations
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Zhao, Sihai Dave, Tommaso Cai, & Hongzhe Li. (2014). More powerful genetic association testing via a new statistical framework for integrative genomics. Biometrics. 70(4). 881–890. 22 indexed citations
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Paulson, Thomas G., Carlo C. Maley, Xiaohong Li, et al.. (2009). Chromosomal Instability and Copy Number Alterations in Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 15(10). 3305–3314. 81 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuanyuan, Xiaojian Wang, Zhenghua Xiang, et al.. (2007). Promotion of cellular migration and apoptosis resistance by a mouse eye-specific phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein. International Journal of Molecular Medicine. 19(1). 55–63. 20 indexed citations
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Heltweg, Birgit, Tonibelle Gatbonton, Aaron D. Schuler, et al.. (2006). Antitumor Activity of a Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Human Silent Information Regulator 2 Enzymes. Cancer Research. 66(8). 4368–4377. 400 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaojian, Nan Li, Hongzhe Li, et al.. (2005). Silencing of Human Phosphatidylethanolamine-Binding Protein 4 Sensitizes Breast Cancer Cells to Tumor Necrosis Factor-α–Induced Apoptosis and Cell Growth Arrest. Clinical Cancer Research. 11(20). 7545–7553. 36 indexed citations

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