Kegan Zhu

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Kegan Zhu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Kegan Zhu has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Kegan Zhu's work include MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (8 papers) and Circular RNAs in diseases (8 papers). Kegan Zhu is often cited by papers focused on MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (8 papers) and Circular RNAs in diseases (8 papers). Kegan Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Kegan Zhu's co-authors include Ting Deng, Haiyang Zhang, Yi Ba, Tao Ning, Guoguang Ying, Jialu Li, Qian Fan, Haiou Yang, Ming Bai and Zhan Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS Genetics and Molecular Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Kegan Zhu

19 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Exosome‐delivered circRNA promotes glycolysis to induce chemoresistance through the miR‐122‐PKM2 axis in colorectal cancer

2020 412 citations Xinyi Wang, Haiyang Zhang et al. Molecular Oncology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kegan Zhu China	14	1.3k	1.2k	119	102	97	19	1.6k
Chengle Zhuang China	23	1.4k 1.0×	955 0.8×	117 1.0×	109 1.1×	37 0.4×	32	1.6k
Tianqiang Song China	18	749 0.6×	570 0.5×	89 0.7×	145 1.4×	63 0.6×	31	1.1k
Marianthi Tatari United Kingdom	11	482 0.4×	217 0.2×	67 0.6×	447 4.4×	76 0.8×	13	884
Lin Jia China	16	515 0.4×	250 0.2×	50 0.4×	121 1.2×	30 0.3×	36	769
Zhen Lu China	11	719 0.5×	390 0.3×	64 0.5×	237 2.3×	195 2.0×	22	1.1k
Chenliang Wang China	15	461 0.3×	355 0.3×	115 1.0×	332 3.3×	19 0.2×	28	947
Shenyi Yin China	10	621 0.5×	422 0.4×	27 0.2×	80 0.8×	38 0.4×	21	770
Jiantao Shi China	15	749 0.6×	246 0.2×	38 0.3×	125 1.2×	41 0.4×	37	1.0k
Jianfa Li China	23	1.2k 0.9×	957 0.8×	79 0.7×	87 0.9×	15 0.2×	35	1.4k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Pan, Wen, Mingqing Zhang, Kegan Zhu, et al.. (2025). Effects of microplastics on chemo-resistance and tumorigenesis of colorectal cancer. APOPTOSIS. 30(3-4). 1005–1020. 6 indexed citations

Zhu, Kegan, Jiayu Yang, Wen Pan, et al.. (2023). The microprotein encoded by exosomal lncAKR1C2 promotes gastric cancer lymph node metastasis by regulating fatty acid metabolism. Cell Death and Disease. 14(10). 708–708. 37 indexed citations

Hu, Dongzhi, Zhengyang Zhou, Junyi Wang, & Kegan Zhu. (2022). Screening of ferroptosis-related genes with prognostic effect in colorectal cancer by bioinformatic analysis. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 979854–979854. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Haiyang, Zhengyang Zhou, Rui Liu, et al.. (2021). Serum microRNAs as Biomarkers for the Noninvasive Early Diagnosis of Biliary Tract Cancer. International Journal of General Medicine. Volume 14. 1185–1195. 10 indexed citations

Ning, Tao, Jialu Li, Yi He, et al.. (2021). Exosomal miR-208b related with oxaliplatin resistance promotes Treg expansion in colorectal cancer. Molecular Therapy. 29(9). 2723–2736. 124 indexed citations

Li, Guoli, et al.. (2021). LncRNA PPM1A-AS Regulate Tumor Development Through Multiple Signal Pathways in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Frontiers in Oncology. 11. 761205–761205. 7 indexed citations

Tian, Fei, Peiyun Wang, Dan Lin, et al.. (2021). Exosome‐delivered miR‐221/222 exacerbates tumor liver metastasis by targeting SPINT1 in colorectal cancer. Cancer Science. 112(9). 3744–3755. 50 indexed citations

Zhang, Haiyang, Meng Wang, Yi He, et al.. (2021). Chemotoxicity-induced exosomal lncFERO regulates ferroptosis and stemness in gastric cancer stem cells. Cell Death and Disease. 12(12). 1116–1116. 76 indexed citations

Lin, Dan, Haiyang Zhang, Rui Liu, et al.. (2021). iRGD‐modified exosomes effectively deliver CPT1A siRNA to colon cancer cells, reversing oxaliplatin resistance by regulating fatty acid oxidation. Molecular Oncology. 15(12). 3430–3446. 86 indexed citations

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Yang, Haiou, Haiyang Zhang, Yuchong Yang, et al.. (2020). Hypoxia induced exosomal circRNA promotes metastasis of Colorectal Cancer via targeting GEF-H1/RhoA axis. Theranostics. 10(18). 8211–8226. 155 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinyi, Haiyang Zhang, Haiou Yang, et al.. (2020). Exosome‐delivered circRNA promotes glycolysis to induce chemoresistance through the miR‐122‐PKM2 axis in colorectal cancer. Molecular Oncology. 14(3). 539–555. 412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Qiumo, Haiyang Zhang, Tao Ning, et al.. (2020). <p>Exosome-Delivered c-Met siRNA Could Reverse Chemoresistance to Cisplatin in Gastric Cancer</p>. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 15. 2323–2335. 95 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kegan, Hanying Ding, Ao Yu, et al.. (2019). Co-targeting of EGFR by co-expressed miRNA-193a-3p/−5p in lung cancer. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 3 indexed citations

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Hu, Dongzhi, Kegan Zhu, Ming Bai, et al.. (2018). Plasma Exosomal Long Non-Coding RNAs Serve as Biomarkers for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry. 51(6). 2704–2715. 77 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haiyang, Yi Wang, Ming Bai, et al.. (2017). Exosomes serve as nanoparticles to suppress tumor growth and angiogenesis in gastric cancer by delivering hepatocyte growth factor siRNA. Cancer Science. 109(3). 629–641. 127 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kegan, M. Liu, Zheng Fu, et al.. (2017). Plant microRNAs in larval food regulate honeybee caste development. PLoS Genetics. 13(8). e1006946–e1006946. 112 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kegan, Lei Liu, Junliang Zhang, et al.. (2016). MiR-29b suppresses the proliferation and migration of osteosarcoma cells by targeting CDK6. Protein & Cell. 7(6). 434–444. 61 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kegan, Hanying Ding, Wengong Wang, et al.. (2016). Tumor-suppressive miR-218-5p inhibits cancer cell proliferation and migration via EGFR in non-small cell lung cancer. Oncotarget. 7(19). 28075–28085. 69 indexed citations

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Yan, Xin, Hongwei Liang, Ting Deng, et al.. (2013). The identification of novel targets of miR-16 and characterization of their biological functions in cancer cells. Molecular Cancer. 12(1). 92–92. 53 indexed citations

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