Liangkai Chen

5.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
158 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Liangkai Chen is a scholar working on Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liangkai Chen has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Physiology, 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 29 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Liangkai Chen's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (24 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (21 papers). Liangkai Chen is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (24 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (21 papers). Liangkai Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Liangkai Chen's co-authors include Liegang Liu, Wei Yang, Zhao Peng, Andreas K. Nüssler, Shuang Rong, Wei Bao, Zhilei Shan, Taoping Sun, Wenwu Sun and Ping Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Liangkai Chen

140 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Associations of Serum Carotenoids With Risk of Cardiovasc... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 40 80 120
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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.

  1. Associations of Serum Carotenoids With Risk of Cardiovascular Mortality Among Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: Results From NHANES
    2022 131 citations Liangkai Chen, Liegang Liu et al. Diabetes Care profile →
  2. Associations between biological ageing and the risk of, genetic susceptibility to, and life expectancy associated with rheumatoid arthritis: a secondary analysis of two observational studies
    2023 67 citations Liangkai Chen, Yanyan Li et al. profile →
  3. Global epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in patients with NAFLD or MAFLD: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    2024 43 citations Limin Cao, Huiyuan Liu et al. BMC Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Liangkai Chen China 30 690 586 419 353 312 158 3.1k
Ahmet Aydın Türkiye 38 1.1k 1.7× 722 1.2× 494 1.2× 426 1.2× 209 0.7× 277 5.4k
Yinglun Li China 28 1.6k 2.4× 342 0.6× 490 1.2× 434 1.2× 139 0.4× 65 5.2k
Tzung‐Hai Yen Taiwan 31 1.1k 1.5× 252 0.4× 228 0.5× 509 1.4× 167 0.5× 269 4.3k
Konstantinos Tsarouhas Greece 27 522 0.8× 237 0.4× 274 0.7× 276 0.8× 124 0.4× 86 2.9k
Luís Cristóvão Pôrto Brazil 34 816 1.2× 365 0.6× 160 0.4× 380 1.1× 221 0.7× 259 3.9k
Rafael Noal Moresco Brazil 35 753 1.1× 504 0.9× 361 0.9× 476 1.3× 242 0.8× 209 4.2k
Simone Perna Italy 38 812 1.2× 1.7k 2.9× 399 1.0× 338 1.0× 541 1.7× 225 4.8k
Abdürrahim Koçyiğit Türkiye 39 1.1k 1.6× 545 0.9× 397 0.9× 389 1.1× 591 1.9× 241 5.2k
Qi Zhang China 34 1.6k 2.3× 1.2k 2.0× 390 0.9× 762 2.2× 203 0.7× 300 5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Liangkai Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liangkai Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liangkai Chen

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

All Works

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Wang, Ziping, et al.. (2025). Association Between Serum Methylmalonic Acid and Poor Cognitive Performance. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 34(4). 474–485.
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Zhang, Tingjing, et al.. (2024). Associations between different coffee types, neurodegenerative diseases, and related mortality: findings from a large prospective cohort study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 120(4). 918–926. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Fubin, Jingyi Xu, Yu Peng, et al.. (2024). Dietary flavonoid intake and risk of hormone-related cancers: A population-based prospective cohort study. Phytomedicine. 133. 155950–155950. 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Limin, Huiyuan Liu, Jinguo Jiang, et al.. (2024). Global epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in patients with NAFLD or MAFLD: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 101–101. 43 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dai, Lei, et al.. (2024). Diabetes status, genetic susceptibility, and incident arrhythmias: A prospective cohort study of 457,151 participants. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Research & Reviews. 18(3). 102971–102971.
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Wang, Shuai, et al.. (2024). Life's Essential 8 and risks of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among individuals with type 2 diabetes: A cohort study. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Research & Reviews. 18(6). 103066–103066. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hehua, Honghao Yang, Yashu Liu, et al.. (2024). Long-term noise exposure and cause-specific mortality in chronic respiratory diseases, considering the modifying effect of air pollution. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 282. 116740–116740.
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Zhang, Tingjing, et al.. (2024). Machine learning and statistical models to predict all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes: Results from the UK Biobank study. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Research & Reviews. 18(9). 103135–103135. 3 indexed citations
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Zheng, Gang, Yixiao Zhang, Qing Chang, et al.. (2024). Sugar types, genetic predictors of the gut microbiome, and the risk of chronic kidney disease: a prospective cohort study. Food & Function. 15(9). 4925–4935. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Liangkai, Qiang Wang, Yanling Lv, et al.. (2023). Association of plasma advanced glycation end‐products and their soluble receptor with type 2 diabetes among Chinese adults. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 40(2). e3735–e3735. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Ying, Lei Luo, Liangkai Chen, et al.. (2023). Long-term release kinetic characteristics of microplastic from commonly used masks into water under simulated natural environments. The Science of The Total Environment. 876. 162526–162526. 16 indexed citations
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Chen, Liangkai, et al.. (2023). Gut microbiota combined with metabolome dissects long-term nanoplastics exposure-induced disturbed spermatogenesis. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 267. 115626–115626. 13 indexed citations
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Chang, Qing, Yixiao Zhang, Tingjing Zhang, et al.. (2022). Healthy Lifestyle and the Risk of Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Fatty Liver Disease: A Large Prospective Cohort Study. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Benchao, Liangkai Chen, Xueting Hu, et al.. (2022). Association of Serum Uric Acid With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 46(2). 425–433. 107 indexed citations
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Liu, Xin, Lei Zhang, Liangkai Chen, et al.. (2021). Identification and prioritization of the potent components for combined exposure of multiple persistent organic pollutants associated with gestational diabetes mellitus. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 409. 124905–124905. 8 indexed citations

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