Lei Gu

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Lei Gu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Gu has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Lei Gu's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Lei Gu is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Lei Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Lei Gu's co-authors include Roland Eils, Benedikt Brors, Zuguang Gu, Matthias Schlesner, Yang Shi, Andrés Blanco, Chih-Hung Hsu, Jianzhao Liu, Erdem Sendinc and Chuan He and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Lei Gu

32 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

circlizeimplements and enhances circular visualization in R

2014 2.5k citations Zuguang Gu, Lei Gu et al. Bioinformatics profile →
DNA Methylation on N6-Adenine in C. elegans

2015 507 citations Eric Lieberman Greer, Andrés Blanco et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Gu China	16	2.1k	565	434	398	396	33	3.8k
Dave Clements United States	11	2.7k 1.3×	656 1.2×	519 1.2×	280 0.7×	591 1.5×	22	4.5k
Timothy T. Harkins United States	31	1.9k 0.9×	631 1.1×	735 1.7×	307 0.8×	498 1.3×	63	3.5k
Måns Magnusson Sweden	6	2.4k 1.2×	636 1.1×	713 1.6×	437 1.1×	640 1.6×	7	4.7k
Jennifer Hillman‐Jackson United States	6	2.5k 1.2×	587 1.0×	457 1.1×	289 0.7×	538 1.4×	7	4.0k
Fernando García-Alcalde Spain	13	2.1k 1.0×	682 1.2×	686 1.6×	556 1.4×	350 0.9×	24	3.8k
Martin Čech Czechia	6	2.4k 1.2×	580 1.0×	438 1.0×	261 0.7×	539 1.4×	18	4.0k
Max Käller Sweden	12	2.6k 1.2×	693 1.2×	746 1.7×	470 1.2×	679 1.7×	31	5.0k
Aysam Guerler Germany	10	2.6k 1.2×	582 1.0×	450 1.0×	262 0.7×	541 1.4×	14	4.1k
Matko Bošnjak United Kingdom	11	2.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.9×	639 1.5×	373 0.9×	337 0.9×	16	4.8k
Jake R. Conway United States	10	1.5k 0.7×	404 0.7×	291 0.7×	343 0.9×	309 0.8×	14	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lei Gu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lei Gu. The network helps show where Lei Gu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Gu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Teng, Da, Kenneth D. Swanson, Zhixin Niu, et al.. (2025). DHODH modulates immune evasion of cancer cells via CDP-Choline dependent regulation of phospholipid metabolism and ferroptosis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3867–3867. 9 indexed citations

Tang, Hong-Wen, Jui–Hsia Weng, Yanhui Hu, et al.. (2021). mTORC1-chaperonin CCT signaling regulates m ⁶ A RNA methylation to suppress autophagy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 53 indexed citations

Blanco, Andrés, David B. Sykes, Lei Gu, et al.. (2021). Chromatin-state barriers enforce an irreversible mammalian cell fate decision. Cell Reports. 37(6). 109967–109967. 29 indexed citations

Gu, Lei, Longfei Wang, Hao Chen, et al.. (2020). CG14906 (mettl4) mediates m6A methylation of U2 snRNA in Drosophila. Cell Discovery. 6(1). 44–44. 38 indexed citations

Gao, Yan, et al.. (2019). Constructing a Chinese electronic medical record corpus for named entity recognition on resident admit notes. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 19(S2). 56–56. 9 indexed citations

Dreijerink, Koen M.A., Anna C. Groner, Alba Font‐Tello, et al.. (2017). Enhancer-Mediated Oncogenic Function of the Menin Tumor Suppressor in Breast Cancer. Cell Reports. 18(10). 2359–2372. 61 indexed citations

Shen, Hongjie, Wenqi Xu, Rui Guo, et al.. (2016). Suppression of Enhancer Overactivation by a RACK7-Histone Demethylase Complex. Cell. 165(2). 331–342. 132 indexed citations

Shen, Che-Hung, Sebastian Trousil, Dennie T. Frederick, et al.. (2016). Loss of cohesin complex components STAG2 or STAG3 confers resistance to BRAF inhibition in melanoma. Nature Medicine. 22(9). 1056–1061. 58 indexed citations

Ma, Li, et al.. (2015). MRG-DBSCAN: An Improved DBSCAN Clustering Method Based on Map Reduce and Grid. International Journal of Database Theory and Application. 8(2). 119–128. 1 indexed citations

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Greer, Eric Lieberman, Andrés Blanco, Lei Gu, et al.. (2015). DNA Methylation on N6-Adenine in C. elegans. Cell. 161(4). 868–878. 507 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Huiwen, Bin Wei, Yuting Guo, et al.. (2015). CUG-BP1 regulates RyR1 ASI alternative splicing in skeletal muscle atrophy. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16083–16083. 18 indexed citations

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Lipka, Daniel B., Qi Wang, Nina Cabezas‐Wallscheid, et al.. (2014). Identification of DNA methylation changes atcis-regulatory elements during early steps of HSC differentiation using tagmentation-based whole genome bisulfite sequencing. Cell Cycle. 13(22). 3476–3487. 25 indexed citations

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Gu, Zuguang, Lei Gu, Roland Eils, Matthias Schlesner, & Benedikt Brors. (2014). circlizeimplements and enhances circular visualization in R. Bioinformatics. 30(19). 2811–2812. 2531 indexed citations breakdown →

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Niu, Shen, Tao Huang, Kaiyan Feng, et al.. (2013). Inter- and Intra-Chain Disulfide Bond Prediction Based on Optimal Feature Selection. Protein and Peptide Letters. 20(3). 324–335. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Qi, Lei Gu, Andrew C. Adey, et al.. (2013). Tagmentation-based whole-genome bisulfite sequencing. Nature Protocols. 8(10). 2022–2032. 130 indexed citations

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Cai, Yu‐Dong, Zhisong He, Xiaohe Shi, et al.. (2010). A Novel Sequence-Based Method of Predicting Protein DNA-Binding Residues, Using a Machine Learning Approach. Molecules and Cells. 30(2). 99–106. 6 indexed citations

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Shi, Xiaohe, Xinlei Li, Wencong Lu, et al.. (2009). Prediction of interactiveness of proteins and nucleic acids based on feature selections. Molecular Diversity. 14(4). 627–633. 10 indexed citations

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Niu, Bing, Lin Lü, Lei Gu, et al.. (2009). Prediction of interaction between small molecule and enzyme using AdaBoost. Molecular Diversity. 13(3). 313–320. 19 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei, Zhonglai Luo, Dianxiang Zhang, & Susanne S. Renner. (2009). Passerine Pollination of Rhodoleia championii (Hamamelidaceae) in Subtropical China. Biotropica. 42(3). 336–341. 16 indexed citations

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Gu, Ben–Yuan & Lei Gu. (1989). Escape process of resonant-tunneling electrons from a quantum well. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 40(9). 6124–6128. 4 indexed citations

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