Ji Cheng

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Ji Cheng is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ji Cheng has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Surgery, 17 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 15 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ji Cheng's work include Anesthesia and Pain Management (10 papers), Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (8 papers) and Nausea and vomiting management (7 papers). Ji Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Anesthesia and Pain Management (10 papers), Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (8 papers) and Nausea and vomiting management (7 papers). Ji Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Ji Cheng's co-authors include Lehana Thabane, Afisi Ismaila, Charles H. Goldsmith, Lora Giangregorio, Lorena P Rios, Marroon Thabane, Rong Chu, Jinhui Ma, Reid Robson and Kaixiong Tao and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The American Journal of Medicine and European Heart Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ji Cheng

64 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how

2010 2.1k citations Lehana Thabane, Ji Cheng et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ji Cheng	985	682	522	507	429	68	5.0k
Reijo Sund	1.3k 1.3×	586 0.9×	346 0.7×	496 1.0×	349 0.8×	228	4.9k
Tanja Stamm	946 1.0×	615 0.9×	300 0.6×	403 0.8×	250 0.6×	298	8.5k
Pasqualina Santaguida	1.1k 1.1×	501 0.7×	425 0.8×	571 1.1×	296 0.7×	110	6.4k
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos	542 0.6×	521 0.8×	882 1.7×	636 1.3×	329 0.8×	53	6.1k
Tim Friede	592 0.6×	514 0.8×	524 1.0×	422 0.8×	383 0.9×	331	7.5k
Johannes C. F. Ket	748 0.8×	575 0.8×	333 0.6×	724 1.4×	365 0.9×	125	4.7k
Victoria Allgar	770 0.8×	590 0.9×	320 0.6×	723 1.4×	495 1.2×	199	4.7k
Chuen Seng Tan	984 1.0×	502 0.7×	387 0.7×	546 1.1×	526 1.2×	237	5.1k
Isabel Elaine Allen	759 0.8×	521 0.8×	415 0.8×	488 1.0×	723 1.7×	231	5.3k
Marroon Thabane	957 1.0×	573 0.8×	397 0.8×	521 1.0×	264 0.6×	40	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ji Cheng

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

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Wang, Yakun, et al.. (2025). Clinical efficacy of percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale in children diagnosed with migraine. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 12. 1611338–1611338.

Liu, Jing, Jie Jin, Changguo Wang, et al.. (2025). Use of metagenomic next-generation sequencing for accurate diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 17(9). 6771–6778.

Yang, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2024). The Hydraulic Fracturing Optimization for Stacked Tight Gas Reservoirs Using Multilayers and Multiwells Fracturing Strategies. Energy Engineering. 121(12). 3667–3688. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Ji, et al.. (2020). A Cross-Sectional Study on Subjective Fever Assessment in Children by Palpation: Are Fathers as Reliable as Mothers?. Emergency Medicine International. 2020. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Ji, et al.. (2019). Multimodal treatments for resectable gastric cancer: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 45(10). 1796–1805. 8 indexed citations

Cheng, Ji, et al.. (2019). Systemic therapy for previously treated advanced gastric cancer: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 143. 27–45. 8 indexed citations

Choong, Karen, Heather Clark, Sayem Borhan, et al.. (2017). Early Exercise in Critically Ill Youth and Children, a Preliminary Evaluation: The wEECYCLE Pilot Trial*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 18(11). e546–e554. 41 indexed citations

Guo, Jianping, Ji Cheng, Brian J. North, & Wenyi Wei. (2017). Functional analyses of major cancer-related signaling pathways in Alzheimer's disease etiology. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1868(2). 341–358. 47 indexed citations

Cheng, Ji, Jianping Guo, Zhiwei Wang, et al.. (2017). Functional analysis of Cullin 3 E3 ligases in tumorigenesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1869(1). 11–28. 60 indexed citations

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Wu, Chuanqing, Shaobo Hu, Ji Cheng, Guobin Wang, & Kaixiong Tao. (2017). Smoothened antagonist GDC-0449 (Vismodegib) inhibits proliferation and triggers apoptosis in colon cancer cell lines. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. 13(5). 2529–2536. 24 indexed citations

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Cheng, Ji, Eleanor Pullenayegum, John K. Marshall, Alfonso Iorio, & Lehana Thabane. (2016). Impact of including or excluding both-armed zero-event studies on using standard meta-analysis methods for rare event outcome: a simulation study. BMJ Open. 6(8). e010983–e010983. 128 indexed citations

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Cheng, Ji, Kaixiong Tao, & Peiwu Yu. (2016). Laparoscopic splenectomy is a better surgical approach for spleen-relevant disorders: a comprehensive meta-analysis based on 15-year literatures. Surgical Endoscopy. 30(10). 4575–4588. 7 indexed citations

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Cheng, Ji, Kaixiong Tao, Xiaoming Shuai, & Jinbo Gao. (2015). Sodium phosphate versus polyethylene glycol for colonoscopy bowel preparation: an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Surgical Endoscopy. 30(9). 4033–4041. 12 indexed citations

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Marcucci, Maura, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of safety and effectiveness of factor VIII treatment in haemophilia A patients with low titre inhibitors or a personal history of inhibitor. Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 114(7). 56–64. 3 indexed citations

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Paul, James, Norman Buckley, Uswa Shahzad, et al.. (2015). Randomized controlled trial of gabapentin as an adjunct to perioperative analgesia in total hip arthroplasty patients. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie. 62(5). 476–484. 36 indexed citations

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Orlov, David, et al.. (2014). What Epidural Opioid Results in the Best Analgesia Outcomes and Fewest Side Effects After Surgery?. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 119(4). 965–977. 32 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shiyuan, James Paul, Norman Buckley, et al.. (2014). Empirical comparison of four baseline covariate adjustment methods in analysis of continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials. Clinical Epidemiology. 6. 227–227. 68 indexed citations

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Duffett, Mark, Karen Choong, Jennifer Foster, et al.. (2014). Clonidine in the sedation of mechanically ventilated children: A pilot randomized trial. Journal of Critical Care. 29(5). 758–763. 26 indexed citations

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Pai, Menaka, N Lloyd, Ji Cheng, et al.. (2013). Strategies to enhance venous thromboprophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients (SENTRY): a pilot cluster randomized trial. Implementation Science. 8(1). 1–1. 303 indexed citations

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Paul, James, Aman Arya, Lindsay Hurlburt, et al.. (2010). Femoral Nerve Block Improves Analgesia Outcomes after Total Knee Arthroplasty. Anesthesiology. 113(5). 1144–1162. 310 indexed citations

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