Leping Li

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
178 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Leping Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leping Li has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Oncology and 21 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Leping Li's work include RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers) and Connexins and lens biology (13 papers). Leping Li is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers) and Connexins and lens biology (13 papers). Leping Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Leping Li's co-authors include Lee G. Pedersen, Weichun Huang, Gábor Marth, Jason R. Myers, Thomas A. Darden, Clarice R. Weinberg, L. Perera, Tom Darden, David M. Umbach and Julio C. Medina and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Leping Li

172 papers receiving 10.2k 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.

Role of LXRs in control of lipogenesis

2000 1.4k citations Leping Li et al. profile →
ART: a next-generation sequencing read simulator

2011 935 citations Weichun Huang, Leping Li et al. profile →
New tricks for modelers from the crystallography toolkit: the particle mesh Ewald algorithm and its use in nucleic acid simulations

1999 556 citations Tom Darden, Leping Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leping Li United States	48	6.9k	1.4k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	178	10.5k
Akira Hara Japan	59	6.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	808 0.7×	786	16.0k
Tomoyuki Shirai Japan	53	3.9k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	2.4k 2.0×	700 0.6×	460	10.1k
Christopher P. Austin United States	59	5.7k 0.8×	962 0.7×	508 0.4×	884 0.7×	881 0.8×	172	11.9k
Akira Yoshida Japan	57	5.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	821 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	507	12.6k
Toshiyuki Sakai Japan	59	7.0k 1.0×	2.8k 2.0×	580 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	750 0.6×	281	11.3k
Susan M. Fischer United States	61	4.8k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	693 0.5×	2.0k 1.7×	1.5k 1.3×	276	10.8k
Jake Y. Chen United States	48	6.4k 0.9×	909 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	854 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	223	14.6k
James D. Brooks United States	60	6.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	2.7k 2.2×	1.0k 0.9×	365	14.2k
Min Wei China	55	6.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	524 0.4×	2.3k 1.9×	968 0.8×	331	13.1k
Ming‐Feng Hou Taiwan	52	4.5k 0.7×	2.7k 1.9×	952 0.7×	2.4k 2.0×	616 0.5×	410	10.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Leping Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leping Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leping Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Zhiquan, et al.. (2025). PPDR: A Privacy-Preserving Dual Reputation Management Scheme in Vehicle Platoon. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(6). 6636–6652. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Zhaodong, Lijun Liu, Yudi Zhang, et al.. (2025). A novel 5’tRNA-derived fragment tRF-Tyr inhibits tumor progression by targeting hnRNPD in gastric cancer. Cell Communication and Signaling. 23(1). 88–88. 3 indexed citations

Li, Leping, David M. Umbach, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2023). Sleep apnoea and hypoventilation in patients with five major types of muscular dystrophy. BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 10(1). e001506–e001506. 5 indexed citations

Li, Leping, et al.. (2023). Increased Hemichannel Activity Displayed by a Connexin43 Mutation Causing a Familial Connexinopathy Exhibiting Hypotrichosis with Follicular Keratosis and Hyperostosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(3). 2222–2222. 2 indexed citations

Fan, Wei, Shuang Tang, Xiaojuan Fan, et al.. (2021). SIRT1 regulates sphingolipid metabolism and neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells through c-Myc-SMPDL3B. eLife. 10. 29 indexed citations

Tang, Shuang, Zhan Zhang, Robert H. Oakley, et al.. (2021). Intestinal epithelial glucocorticoid receptor promotes chronic inflammation–associated colorectal cancer. JCI Insight. 6(24). 13 indexed citations

Kang, Kai, Qian Meng, Igor Shats, et al.. (2019). CDSeq: A novel complete deconvolution method for dissecting heterogeneous samples using gene expression data. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(12). e1007510–e1007510. 43 indexed citations

Youssefian, Leila, Hassan Vahidnezhad, Amir Hossein Saeidian, et al.. (2018). A novel autosomal recessiveGJB2-associated disorder: Ichthyosis follicularis, bilateral severe sensorineural hearing loss, and punctate palmoplantar keratoderma. Human Mutation. 40(2). 217–229. 12 indexed citations

Moore, Amanda J., Cassandra Love, Anupama Reddy, et al.. (2018). Id Proteins Suppress E2A-Driven Invariant Natural Killer T Cell Development prior to TCR Selection. Frontiers in Immunology. 9. 42–42. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Kai-Lei, Gang Ma, Guangdong Zhang, et al.. (2017). Tetrandrine reverses the drug resistance of colon cancer to 5-fluorouracil. Biomedical Research-tokyo. 28(11). 4843–4848. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yuanyuan, J.M. Krahn, Gordon P. Flake, David M. Umbach, & Leping Li. (2015). Toward predicting metastatic progression of melanoma based on gene expression data. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 28(4). 453–463. 21 indexed citations

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Li, Leping, et al.. (2015). Connexin26 Mutations Causing Palmoplantar Keratoderma and Deafness Interact with Connexin43, Modifying Gap Junction and Hemichannel Properties. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 136(1). 225–235. 48 indexed citations

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Li, Yuanyuan, David M. Umbach, & Leping Li. (2014). T-KDE: a method for genome-wide identification of constitutive protein binding sites from multiple ChIP-seq data sets. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 27–27. 2 indexed citations

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Zhong, Min, et al.. (2014). Discovery of functionalized bisimidazoles bearing cyclic aliphatic-phenyl motifs as HCV NS5A inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 24(24). 5731–5737. 27 indexed citations

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Yan, Jun, Yong Sik Kim, Leping Li, et al.. (2007). The Ubiquitin-Interacting Motif–Containing Protein RAP80 Interacts with BRCA1 and Functions in DNA Damage Repair Response. Cancer Research. 67(14). 6647–6656. 138 indexed citations

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Huang, Weichun, David M. Umbach, Uwe Ohler, & Leping Li. (2006). Optimized mixed Markov models for motif identification. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 279–279. 14 indexed citations

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Heinloth, Alexandra N., Richard D. Irwin, Gary A. Boorman, et al.. (2004). Gene Expression Profiling of Rat Livers Reveals Indicators of Potential Adverse Effects. Toxicological Sciences. 80(1). 193–202. 150 indexed citations

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Li, Leping, Tom Darden, Richard G. Hiskey, & Lee G. Pedersen. (1996). Computational Studies of Human Prothrombin Fragment 1 the Gla Domain of Factor IX and Several Biological Interesting Mutants. Pathophysiology of Haemostasis and Thrombosis. 26(Suppl. 1). 54–59. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Leping, Tom Darden, C. K. Foley, Richard G. Hiskey, & Lee G. Pedersen. (1995). Homology modeling and molecular dynamics simulation of human prothrombin fragment 1. Protein Science. 4(11). 2341–2348. 9 indexed citations

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Stumpf, Walter E., Hans J. Bidmon, Leping Li, et al.. (1992). Nuclear receptor sites for vitamin D-soltriol in midbrain and hindbrain of Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus) assessed by autoradiography. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 98(3). 155–164. 35 indexed citations

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