Kaifu Chen

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Kaifu Chen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaifu Chen has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Kaifu Chen's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (28 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (25 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers). Kaifu Chen is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (28 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (25 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers). Kaifu Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Kaifu Chen's co-authors include Wei Li, Yuanxin Xi, Jessica K. Tyler, Zheng Xia, Xuewen Pan, Or Gozani, Mitomu Kioi, Benjamin A. García, Xiaobing Shi and Zhaoyu Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kaifu Chen

82 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

SIRT7 links H3K18 deacetylation to maintenance of oncogenic transformation

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaifu Chen United States	32	3.5k	518	502	395	383	88	4.4k
David C. Fargo United States	33	4.0k 1.2×	952 1.8×	598 1.2×	497 1.3×	333 0.9×	63	5.2k
Luyang Sun China	43	3.9k 1.1×	1.0k 2.0×	894 1.8×	814 2.1×	252 0.7×	95	5.7k
Andreas Hecht Germany	31	4.2k 1.2×	287 0.6×	547 1.1×	481 1.2×	490 1.3×	63	4.8k
Zuzana Tóthová United States	23	6.5k 1.9×	700 1.4×	705 1.4×	929 2.4×	511 1.3×	47	8.4k
Christian Seiser Austria	42	4.8k 1.4×	352 0.7×	737 1.5×	836 2.1×	188 0.5×	83	5.6k
Guang Hu United States	34	4.3k 1.2×	724 1.4×	549 1.1×	473 1.2×	455 1.2×	94	5.1k
Xiaohua Shen China	27	6.4k 1.9×	1.2k 2.4×	681 1.4×	372 0.9×	423 1.1×	54	8.6k
Shun-ichiro Iemura Japan	24	3.4k 1.0×	370 0.7×	299 0.6×	492 1.2×	152 0.4×	28	5.3k
Deborah L. Berry United States	22	2.2k 0.6×	366 0.7×	344 0.7×	345 0.9×	136 0.4×	51	3.8k
Yasuaki Shirayoshi Japan	26	2.6k 0.8×	217 0.4×	659 1.3×	259 0.7×	80 0.2×	87	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Kaifu Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaifu Chen

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

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Li, Shuang, Yanqiang Li, Michael Graber, et al.. (2025). O-GlcNAcylation promotes angiogenic transdifferentiation to reverse vascular ischemia. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 4(7). 904–920. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Yang, Qian Li, Yunxia Wang, et al.. (2025). Deficits in mitochondrial dynamics and iron balance result in templated insertions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5454–5454.

Wang, Yunxia, et al.. (2025). 3D spatial organization of heterogeneous nkx2.5+ progenitors in the zebrafish heart field pre-patterns cardiovascular development. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11624–11624.

Jang, Jinho, Tao Lin, Kaifu Chen, et al.. (2025). KMT2D temporally activates neuronal transcriptional factor genes to mediate cerebellar granule cell differentiation. Science Advances. 11(39). eadu7174–eadu7174.

Zhang, Yadong, Xi Wang, William T. Pu, et al.. (2025). Rapid generation of functional vascular organoids via simultaneous transcription factor activation of endothelial and mural lineages. Cell stem cell. 32(8). 1200–1217.e6. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, et al.. (2024). Transcriptional inhibition after irradiation occurs preferentially at highly expressed genes in a manner dependent on cell cycle progression. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Yang, Xin Wang, Brenna S. McCauley, et al.. (2024). Yeast EndoG prevents genome instability by degrading extranuclear DNA species. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7653–7653. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, et al.. (2024). Transcriptional inhibition after irradiation occurs preferentially at highly expressed genes in a manner dependent on cell cycle progression. eLife. 13.

Yu, Yang, Xin Wang, Qian Li, et al.. (2024). RPA and Rad27 limit templated and inverted insertions at DNA breaks. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(1). 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Kaiyuan, Yanqiang Li, Yi Yang, et al.. (2024). The detection, function, and therapeutic potential of RNA 2'-O-methylation. PubMed. 3(1). 100112–100112. 3 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Abhijit, Yanming Li, Chen Zhang, et al.. (2023). Epigenetic Induction of Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotypic Alterations in Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections. Circulation. 148(12). 959–977. 65 indexed citations

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Lv, Jie, Shu Meng, Qilin Gu, et al.. (2023). Epigenetic landscape reveals MECOM as an endothelial lineage regulator. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2390–2390. 19 indexed citations

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Cao, Jun, Xin Wang, Vivek M. Advani, et al.. (2023). mt‐Ty 5'tiRNA regulates skeletal muscle cell proliferation and differentiation. Cell Proliferation. 56(8). e13416–e13416. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Guangyu, Bo Xia, Man Zhou, et al.. (2021). MACMIC Reveals a Dual Role of CTCF in Epigenetic Regulation of Cell Identity Genes. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 19(1). 140–153. 5 indexed citations

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Xia, Bo, Dongyu Zhao, Guangyu Wang, et al.. (2020). Machine learning uncovers cell identity regulator by histone code. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2696–2696. 22 indexed citations

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Alam, Hunain, Na Li, Shilpa S. Dhar, et al.. (2018). HP1γ Promotes Lung Adenocarcinoma by Downregulating the Transcription-Repressive Regulators NCOR2 and ZBTB7A. Cancer Research. 78(14). 3834–3848. 61 indexed citations

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Park, Hyun Jung, Ping Ji, Soyeon Kim, et al.. (2018). 3′ UTR shortening represses tumor-suppressor genes in trans by disrupting ceRNA crosstalk. Nature Genetics. 50(6). 783–789. 124 indexed citations

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Zhu, Sen, Dongyu Zhao, Yan Lin, et al.. (2018). BMI1 regulates androgen receptor in prostate cancer independently of the polycomb repressive complex 1. Nature Communications. 9(1). 500–500. 63 indexed citations

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Viviano, Monica, Xiaonan Su, Jie Lv, et al.. (2017). Developing Spindlin1 small-molecule inhibitors by using protein microarrays. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(7). 750–756. 46 indexed citations

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Dhar, Shilpa S., Kaifu Chen, Guangjing Zhu, et al.. (2016). An essential role for UTX in resolution and activation of bivalent promoters. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(8). 3659–3674. 51 indexed citations

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