Kai Lü

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Kai Lü is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Lü has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Infectious Diseases, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Kai Lü's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (11 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (10 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers). Kai Lü is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (11 papers), Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (10 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers). Kai Lü collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Kai Lü's co-authors include Graham Simmons, Stefan Pöhlmann, Yanchen Zhou, Juliet Agudelo, Jerritt Nunneley, Hong Yu, Jianan Wang, Jun Shen, Jinyun Zhu and Hu Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kai Lü

82 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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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.

Protease inhibitors targeting coronavirus and filovirus entry

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Lü China	25	839	742	373	278	275	85	2.5k
Chunmei Zhang China	29	363 0.4×	828 1.1×	320 0.9×	303 1.1×	193 0.7×	179	2.7k
Yun Zhang China	25	533 0.6×	690 0.9×	153 0.4×	251 0.9×	167 0.6×	136	2.4k
Heidi Spratt United States	29	327 0.4×	846 1.1×	496 1.3×	555 2.0×	268 1.0×	89	2.6k
José Francisco Muñóz-Valle Mexico	32	407 0.5×	784 1.1×	224 0.6×	525 1.9×	250 0.9×	286	3.9k
Ashwani Khanna United States	30	449 0.5×	821 1.1×	243 0.7×	510 1.8×	94 0.3×	149	3.2k
Xiaoyun Zhang China	16	2.6k 3.1×	935 1.3×	247 0.7×	386 1.4×	189 0.7×	69	4.3k
Kalpana Luthra India	30	418 0.5×	491 0.7×	414 1.1×	851 3.1×	132 0.5×	165	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Lü

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Donghui, Dan Wang, Kai Lü, et al.. (2025). UKF-Based Model Parameter Estimation to Localize the Seizure Onset Zone in ECoG. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 29(9). 6613–6624.

Wang, Wei, Kai Lü, Qianqian Du, et al.. (2024). Association between depressive duration and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study 2010–2018. Journal of Affective Disorders. 364. 286–294. 2 indexed citations

Guo, Xiaojing, et al.. (2024). Association of diaphragmatic dysfunction with duration of mechanical ventilation in patients in the pediatric intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study. BMC Pediatrics. 24(1). 607–607. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Dan, Donghui Zhang, Kai Lü, et al.. (2024). Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Prediction Method With Spatio-Temporal Information Transfer Learning. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 29(3). 2222–2232. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Nan, et al.. (2024). Role of HDL cholesterol in anthracycline-induced subclinical cardiotoxicity: a prospective observational study in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with R-CHOP. BMJ Open. 14(2). e074541–e074541. 5 indexed citations

Qin, Zheng, et al.. (2022). Evaluating Sarcopenia by Using the Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia After Chemotherapy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Jia, et al.. (2020). <p>Correlation Between Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Plasma hs-CRP Levels in a North China Population: One Four-Year Follow-Up Study</p>. International Journal of General Medicine. Volume 13. 617–625. 5 indexed citations

Fan, Yan, et al.. (2020). LncRNA BDNF-AS promotes autophagy and apoptosis in MPTP-induced Parkinson’s disease via ablating microRNA-125b-5p. Brain Research Bulletin. 157. 119–127. 67 indexed citations

Jiang, Dan, Min Sun, Linna You, et al.. (2019). DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation are associated with the degree of coronary atherosclerosis in elderly patients with coronary heart disease. Life Sciences. 224. 241–248. 40 indexed citations

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Lü, Kai, et al.. (2018). The Effects of Novel Antidiabetic Drugs on Albuminuria in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Clinical Drug Investigation. 38(12). 1089–1108. 14 indexed citations

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Jin, Jing, Michael B. Sherman, Daniel M. Chafets, et al.. (2018). An attenuated replication-competent chikungunya virus with a fluorescently tagged envelope. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(7). e0006693–e0006693. 7 indexed citations

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Galel, Susan A., Phillip Williamson, Michael P. Busch, et al.. (2017). First Zika‐positive donations in the continental United States. Transfusion. 57(3pt2). 762–769. 53 indexed citations

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Liu, Hu, Jun Shen, & Kai Lü. (2017). IL-6 and PD-L1 blockade combination inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma cancer development in mouse model. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 486(2). 239–244. 127 indexed citations

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Simmons, Graham, Vanessa Brès, Kai Lü, et al.. (2016). High Incidence of Chikungunya Virus and Frequency of Viremic Blood Donations during Epidemic, Puerto Rico, USA, 2014. Emerging infectious diseases. 22(7). 1221–1228. 79 indexed citations

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Guo, Nannan, Bin Shi, Qian Zhang, et al.. (2014). The Effect of XPD Polymorphisms on Digestive Tract Cancers Risk: A Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96301–e96301. 10 indexed citations

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Yuan, Jing & Kai Lü. (2014). Economic Impact of Levalbuterol Versus Albuterol in Low-Income Population. Value in Health. 17(7). A781–A781. 1 indexed citations

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Pahuja, Sangeeta & Kai Lü. (2013). Trends in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hyperlipidemia among the united states adults: 2001-2010. Value in Health. 16(3). A277–A277. 1 indexed citations

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Mu, James, Guoqiang Jiang, E.J. Brady, et al.. (2011). Chronic treatment with a glucagon receptor antagonist lowers glucose and moderately raises circulating glucagon and glucagon-like peptide 1 without severe alpha cell hypertrophy in diet-induced obese mice. Diabetologia. 54(9). 2381–2391. 59 indexed citations

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Simmons, Graham, Stephanie Bertram, Ilona Glowacka, et al.. (2011). Different host cell proteases activate the SARS-coronavirus spike-protein for cell–cell and virus–cell fusion. Virology. 413(2). 265–274. 91 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yongliang, et al.. (2007). Enhanced Immunogenicity of Modified Hepatitis B Virus Core Particle Fused with Multiepitopes of Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease Virus. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. 65(4). 320–328. 28 indexed citations

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