Junfei Zhao

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Junfei Zhao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Junfei Zhao has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cancer Research and 13 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Junfei Zhao's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Junfei Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Junfei Zhao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Junfei Zhao's co-authors include Zhongming Zhao, Feixiong Cheng, Pora Kim, Ramkrishna Mitra, Min Zhao, Raúl Rabadán, Shihua Zhang, Ling‐Yun Wu, Peilin Jia and Peter Canoll and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Junfei Zhao

74 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

STING agonist-loaded, CD47/PD-L1-targeting nanoparticles potentiate antitumor immunity and radiotherapy for glioblastoma

2023 139 citations Junfei Zhao, Yu Han et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Junfei Zhao United States	25	1.6k	587	398	284	239	81	2.4k
Matan Hofree United States	18	2.0k 1.2×	684 1.2×	538 1.4×	432 1.5×	237 1.0×	25	3.1k
Sven Nelander Sweden	26	1.4k 0.9×	468 0.8×	412 1.0×	208 0.7×	388 1.6×	74	2.2k
Edwin Wang Canada	31	2.1k 1.3×	936 1.6×	267 0.7×	161 0.6×	170 0.7×	87	3.2k
Hyun Goo Woo South Korea	32	1.7k 1.0×	931 1.6×	665 1.7×	220 0.8×	175 0.7×	106	3.1k
Sabrina L. Spencer United States	25	2.6k 1.6×	442 0.8×	855 2.1×	336 1.2×	102 0.4×	45	3.7k
Caroline Kampf Sweden	30	2.9k 1.7×	633 1.1×	429 1.1×	233 0.8×	77 0.3×	43	3.9k
Cai Huang United States	25	1.8k 1.1×	369 0.6×	466 1.2×	342 1.2×	86 0.4×	50	3.1k
Pichai Raman United States	18	1.9k 1.1×	885 1.5×	478 1.2×	429 1.5×	119 0.5×	45	2.9k
Jia‐Ren Lin United States	27	2.0k 1.2×	363 0.6×	689 1.7×	457 1.6×	111 0.5×	56	3.0k
Caroline A. Heckman Finland	31	2.2k 1.3×	662 1.1×	993 2.5×	495 1.7×	504 2.1×	135	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Junfei Zhao

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

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Zhao, Junfei, et al.. (2025). State-transition mechanisms for (2+1)-dimensional Sawada-Kotera equation with the variable coefficients in plasma physics and fluid dynamics. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 197. 116485–116485.

Li, Yuxin, et al.. (2025). Molecular Mechanisms in Idiopathic Mitral Valve Chordae Tendineae Rupture: Insights from Transcriptome Analysis and Inflammation Evaluation. Journal of Inflammation Research. Volume 18. 4771–4783.

Guan, Li, Vignesh Viswanathan, Yuyan Jiang, et al.. (2024). Tert-expressing cells contribute to salivary gland homeostasis and tissue regeneration after radiation therapy. Genes & Development. 38(11-12). 569–582. 1 indexed citations

Arrieta, Víctor A., Jasim Kada Benotmane, Junfei Zhao, et al.. (2024). Characterization of Immune Cell Heterogeneity, Key B Cell Subtypes, and Macrophages Functions Using Multiplex Immunofluorescence and Single-cell RNA Sequencing in Chordomas. Neurosurgery. 70(Supplement_1). 202–203.

Zou, Xia, Junfei Zhao, Anping Feng, et al.. (2024). Adversities in childhood and young adulthood and incident cardiovascular diseases: a prospective cohort study. EClinicalMedicine. 69. 102458–102458. 7 indexed citations

Huang, Huanlei, et al.. (2023). Totally endoscopic minimally invasive mitral valvuloplasty with a beating heart for treatment of papillary muscle rupture. JTCVS Techniques. 21. 98–101. 1 indexed citations

Viragova, Sara, Luis Aparicio, Junfei Zhao, et al.. (2023). Inverse agonists of retinoic acid receptor/retinoid X receptor signaling as lineage-specific antitumor agents against human adenoid cystic carcinoma. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 115(7). 838–852. 6 indexed citations

Guan, Li, Dhanya K. Nambiar, Hongbin Cao, et al.. (2023). NFE2L2 Mutations Enhance Radioresistance in Head and Neck Cancer by Modulating Intratumoral Myeloid Cells. Cancer Research. 83(6). 861–874. 36 indexed citations

Huang, Ying, et al.. (2023). Right ventricular dilatation score: a new assessment to right ventricular dilatation in adult patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. 23(1). 458–458. 2 indexed citations

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Reglero, Clara, José R. Cortés, S. Aidan Quinn, et al.. (2021). FYN–TRAF3IP2 induces NF-κB signaling-driven peripheral T-cell lymphoma. Nature Cancer. 2(1). 98–113. 21 indexed citations

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Cuella-Martin, Raquel, Samuel B. Hayward, Xiao Fan, et al.. (2021). Functional interrogation of DNA damage response variants with base editing screens. Cell. 184(4). 1081–1097.e19. 158 indexed citations

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Liu, Chuang, Junfei Zhao, Weiqiang Lü, et al.. (2020). Individualized genetic network analysis reveals new therapeutic vulnerabilities in 6,700 cancer genomes. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(2). e1007701–e1007701. 38 indexed citations

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Peng, Dewei, Qian Li, Junfei Zhao, et al.. (2020). Activation of PKCα participates in the reduction of Ikur in atrial myocytes induced by tumour necrosis factor‐α. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 48(3). 435–442. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhaoqi, Ioan Filip, Shabnum Meer, et al.. (2020). Genomic Characterization of HIV-Associated Plasmablastic Lymphoma Identifies Pervasive Mutations in the JAK–STAT Pathway. Blood Cancer Discovery. 1(1). 112–125. 37 indexed citations

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M, Yin, Jiayu Shen, Shaoqing Yu, et al.. (2019). Tumor-Associated Macrophages (TAMs): A Critical Activator In Ovarian Cancer Metastasis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Zhang, Yiru, Trang Nguyen, Enyuan Shang, et al.. (2019). MET Inhibition Elicits PGC1α-Dependent Metabolic Reprogramming in Glioblastoma. Cancer Research. 80(1). 30–43. 44 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yiru, Chiaki Tsuge Ishida, Wataru Ishida, et al.. (2018). Combined HDAC and Bromodomain Protein Inhibition Reprograms Tumor Cell Metabolism and Elicits Synthetic Lethality in Glioblastoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 24(16). 3941–3954. 37 indexed citations

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Zhao, Junfei, Feixiong Cheng, & Zhongming Zhao. (2017). Tissue-Specific Signaling Networks Rewired by Major Somatic Mutations in Human Cancer Revealed by Proteome-Wide Discovery. Cancer Research. 77(11). 2810–2821. 22 indexed citations

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Zhao, Junfei, Feixiong Cheng, Yuanyuan Wang, Carlos L. Arteaga, & Zhongming Zhao. (2016). Systematic Prioritization of Druggable Mutations in ∼5000 Genomes Across 16 Cancer Types Using a Structural Genomics-based Approach. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 15(2). 642–656. 34 indexed citations

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Chen, Guangsheng, Junfei Zhao, Trevor Cohen, et al.. (2015). Using Ontology Fingerprints to disambiguate gene name entities in the biomedical literature. Database. 2015(0). bav034–bav034. 9 indexed citations

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