Lichun Kang

595 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 478 citations indexed

About

Lichun Kang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Lichun Kang has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 478 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Immunology and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Lichun Kang's work include Immune cells in cancer (3 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers) and Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (2 papers). Lichun Kang is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (3 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (2 papers) and Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (2 papers). Lichun Kang collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Lichun Kang's co-authors include Xiaoyue Tan, Xue Mi, Yuying Zhang, Lingfang Du, Chuan’ai Chen, Dekun Wang, Shijing Yue, Zhujun Zhang, Junbo Gong and Mianzhi Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cancer Letters and Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Lichun Kang

8 papers receiving 475 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.

Legumain promotes tubular ferroptosis by facilitating chaperone-mediated autophagy of GPX4 in AKI

2021 233 citations Chuan’ai Chen, Dekun Wang et al. Cell Death and Disease profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lichun Kang China	7	307	219	199	83	49	9	478
Chuan’ai Chen China	7	298 1.0×	210 1.0×	173 0.9×	90 1.1×	50 1.0×	9	480
Yangzhong Zhou China	7	242 0.8×	129 0.6×	180 0.9×	137 1.7×	31 0.6×	21	475
Chengxian Xu China	9	410 1.3×	246 1.1×	291 1.5×	193 2.3×	107 2.2×	13	677
Zhaoliang Lu China	12	320 1.0×	211 1.0×	149 0.7×	77 0.9×	60 1.2×	20	502
Zihao Wei China	11	369 1.2×	261 1.2×	185 0.9×	97 1.2×	96 2.0×	19	596
Jiao Liu United States	9	190 0.6×	117 0.5×	175 0.9×	80 1.0×	50 1.0×	18	378
Zhaowei Zou China	11	283 0.9×	148 0.7×	72 0.4×	53 0.6×	78 1.6×	20	454
Zhijun Xu China	11	317 1.0×	146 0.7×	117 0.6×	79 1.0×	126 2.6×	28	558
Lu Hao China	13	321 1.0×	123 0.6×	114 0.6×	51 0.6×	131 2.7×	50	548

Countries citing papers authored by Lichun Kang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lichun Kang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lichun Kang

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Yang, Dandan, Tingting Zhang, Yang Yang, et al.. (2025). Integration of CRISPR‐Cas9 screens and multi‐omics profiling reveals chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 7‐angiopoietin‐1 as a novel multidrug resistance axis in acute myeloid leukemia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(5). 1 indexed citations

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Li, Shuxuan, Chunlei Zhou, Wenjing Li, Lichun Kang, & Hong Mu. (2024). The effects of coagulation factors on the risk of autoimmune diseases: A Mendelian randomization study. Medicine. 103(52). e40893–e40893.

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Kang, Lichun, Tianyu Shen, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2023). PDIA4 confers resistance to ferroptosis via induction of ATF4/SLC7A11 in renal cell carcinoma. Cell Death and Disease. 14(3). 193–193. 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Dekun, Lichun Kang, Chuan’ai Chen, et al.. (2022). Loss of legumain induces premature senescence and mediates aging‐related renal fibrosis. Aging Cell. 21(3). e13574–e13574. 23 indexed citations

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Chen, Chuan’ai, Dekun Wang, Yangyang Yu, et al.. (2021). Legumain promotes tubular ferroptosis by facilitating chaperone-mediated autophagy of GPX4 in AKI. Cell Death and Disease. 12(1). 65–65. 233 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xun, Jing, Lingfang Du, Ruifang Gao, et al.. (2021). Cancer-derived exosomal miR-138-5p modulates polarization of tumor-associated macrophages through inhibition of KDM6B. Theranostics. 11(14). 6847–6859. 122 indexed citations

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Shen, Huan, Changquan Calvin Sun, Lichun Kang, et al.. (2020). Low-dose salinomycin inhibits breast cancer metastasis by repolarizing tumor hijacked macrophages toward the M1 phenotype. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 157. 105629–105629. 17 indexed citations

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Shen, Long, Lichun Kang, Dekun Wang, et al.. (2019). Legumain-deficient macrophages promote senescence of tumor cells by sustaining JAK1/STAT1 activation. Cancer Letters. 472. 40–49. 27 indexed citations

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Kang, Lichun, Long Shen, Liqing Lu, et al.. (2019). Asparaginyl endopeptidase induces endothelial permeability and tumor metastasis via downregulating zonula occludens protein ZO-1. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1865(9). 2267–2275. 12 indexed citations

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