Hua Xu

17.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
399 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Hua Xu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hua Xu has authored 399 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Molecular Biology, 171 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 30 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Hua Xu's work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (175 papers), Topic Modeling (108 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (65 papers). Hua Xu is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (175 papers), Topic Modeling (108 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (65 papers). Hua Xu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Hua Xu's co-authors include Yonghui Wu, Joshua C. Denny, Min Jiang, Yaoyun Zhang, Yukun Chen, Qiang Wei, Buzhou Tang, Jingchun Sun, Jingqi Wang and S. Trent Rosenbloom and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Hua Xu

370 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Deep learning in clinical natural language processing: a methodical review

2019 291 citations Surabhi Datta, Zongcheng Ji et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hua Xu United States	48	4.4k	4.4k	1.0k	651	494	399	9.1k
Hongfang Liu United States	42	3.5k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	404 0.6×	562 1.1×	402	8.4k
Yuan Luo United States	57	3.5k 0.8×	3.6k 0.8×	812 0.8×	381 0.6×	855 1.7×	373	12.8k
Carol Friedman United States	48	3.8k 0.9×	2.5k 0.6×	649 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	498 1.0×	156	7.1k
Jan A. Kors Netherlands	53	2.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.4×	304 0.3×	445 0.7×	783 1.6×	282	12.9k
Christopher G. Chute United States	59	5.5k 1.2×	4.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.9×	332 0.5×	1.4k 2.9×	351	14.9k
Zhiyong Lu United States	52	6.3k 1.4×	5.6k 1.3×	274 0.3×	983 1.5×	202 0.4×	241	10.3k
Martijn J. Schuemie United States	48	1.8k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	707 0.7×	502 0.8×	703 1.4×	194	8.5k
George Hripcsak United States	63	5.2k 1.2×	5.3k 1.2×	3.9k 3.8×	867 1.3×	1.4k 2.9×	371	17.0k
Nigam H. Shah United States	62	5.5k 1.3×	5.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	992 1.5×	1.4k 2.8×	287	15.5k
Yonghui Wu United States	47	1.5k 0.3×	7.8k 1.8×	435 0.4×	329 0.5×	272 0.6×	171	10.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Hua Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hua Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hua Xu

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

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Dhingra, Lovedeep Singh, Arya Aminorroaya, Girish N. Nadkarni, et al.. (2025). Automated transformation of unstructured cardiovascular diagnostic reports into structured datasets using sequentially deployed large language models. European Heart Journal - Digital Health. 6(4). 783–796. 1 indexed citations

Han, Yue, Liang Zhang, Hua Xu, et al.. (2024). In situ and one-step electrodeposition growth of PtNi alloys on Ni foam for electrochemical ammonia-nitrogen sensing. Materials Today Communications. 41. 110649–110649. 2 indexed citations

Fu, Sunyang, Maria Vassilaki, Vipina K. Keloth, et al.. (2024). FedFSA: Hybrid and federated framework for functional status ascertainment across institutions. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 152. 104623–104623. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Ning, et al.. (2024). Techno-economic evaluation and optimized design of new trigeneration system for residential buildings. Journal of Cleaner Production. 440. 140917–140917. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Bo, Hao Lin, Ting Ding, et al.. (2024). Water‐Assisted Synthesis of Layer‐Controlled CsPbBr₃ Nanoplates Spontaneously Encapsulated in PbBr(OH). Advanced Optical Materials. 12(19). 4 indexed citations

Xu, Hua, et al.. (2024). Reflections from Chinese and Japanese Physicians on Medical Disputes. Asian Bioethics Review. 16(4). 683–709. 1 indexed citations

Bastarache, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Identifying and Extracting Rare Diseases and Their Phenotypes with Large Language Models. PubMed. 8(2). 438–461. 26 indexed citations

Huang, Liang‐Chin, Surabhi Datta, Mitchell K. Higashi, et al.. (2024). Unveiling consistency: A large-scale analysis of conference proceedings and subsequent publications in oncology clinical trials using large language models.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(16_suppl). 7568–7568. 1 indexed citations

Hong, Na, et al.. (2024). Mapping Study Variables to Common Data Elements Using GPT for Sheets: Towards Standardized Data Collection and Sharing. 320–325.

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Yang, Rui, Benjamin Rosand, Tiarnán D L Keenan, et al.. (2024). Ascle—A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Medical Text Generation: Development and Evaluation Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e60601–e60601. 7 indexed citations

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Hu, Yan, Vipina K. Keloth, Kalpana Raja, Yong Chen, & Hua Xu. (2023). Towards precise PICO extraction from abstracts of randomized controlled trials using a section-specific learning approach. Bioinformatics. 39(9). 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Feng, Jian Geng, Jingyu Liu, et al.. (2023). Negatively charged bladder acellular matrix loaded with positively charged adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell-derived small extracellular vesicles for bladder tissue engineering. Journal of Controlled Release. 364. 718–733. 6 indexed citations

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Maghsoudi, Arash, Sara Nowakowski, Amir Sharafkhaneh, et al.. (2022). Sentiment Analysis of Insomnia-Related Tweets via a Combination of Transformers Using Dempster-Shafer Theory: Pre– and Peri–COVID-19 Pandemic Retrospective Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(12). e41517–e41517. 5 indexed citations

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Xu, Hua, et al.. (2022). Factors Associated With COVID-19 Death in the United States: Cohort Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 8(5). e29343–e29343. 15 indexed citations

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Duan, Rui, Chongliang Luo, Martijn J. Schuemie, et al.. (2020). Learning from local to global: An efficient distributed algorithm for modeling time-to-event data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 27(7). 1028–1036. 43 indexed citations

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Xu, Hua, et al.. (2019). Conformance Assessment of PD-L1 Expression Between Primary Tumour and Nodal Metastases in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Hua, et al.. (2019). Anti-tumor effect of aloe-emodin on cervical cancer cells was associated with human papillomavirus E6/E7 and glucose metabolism. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Jun, Heejin Lee, Zongcheng Ji, et al.. (2017). UTH_CCB System for Adverse Drug Reaction Extraction from Drug Labels at TAC-ADR 2017.. Theory and applications of categories. 14 indexed citations

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Sittig, Dean F., et al.. (2014). Quality of care metric reporting from clinical narratives: Assessing ontology components. 1327. 47–51. 1 indexed citations

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Mani, Subramani, Yukun Chen, Xia Li, et al.. (2013). Machine learning for predicting the response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 20(4). 688–695. 40 indexed citations

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