Lifang Hou

34.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
339 papers, 15.7k citations indexed

About

Lifang Hou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lifang Hou has authored 339 papers receiving a total of 15.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Molecular Biology, 68 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 57 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Lifang Hou's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (79 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (44 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (39 papers). Lifang Hou is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (79 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (44 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (39 papers). Lifang Hou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Italy. Lifang Hou's co-authors include Andrea Baccarelli, Warren A. Kibbe, Nadereh Jafari, Pier Alberto Bertazzi, Steve Horvath, Eric A. Whitsel, Pan Du, Yun Li, James D. Stewart and Themistocles L. Assimes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Circulation and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Lifang Hou

330 papers receiving 15.4k 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.

An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan

2018 1.9k citations Lifang Hou, Andrea Baccarelli et al. profile →
Comparison of Beta-value and M-value methods for quantifying methylation levels by microarray analysis

2010 1.4k citations Lifang Hou et al. profile →
DNA methylation GrimAge strongly predicts lifespan and healthspan

2019 1.3k citations Lifang Hou, Andrea Baccarelli et al. profile →
Construct validation of the dietary inflammatory index among postmenopausal women

2015 302 citations Lifang Hou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lifang Hou United States	57	6.9k	3.5k	2.6k	2.5k	1.7k	339	15.7k
Stephanie J. London United States	76	3.6k 0.5×	6.5k 1.9×	3.3k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	314	18.1k
Lars Lind Sweden	87	4.2k 0.6×	3.7k 1.1×	4.9k 1.9×	1.1k 0.5×	2.3k 1.4×	681	29.2k
Anders Juul Denmark	90	8.3k 1.2×	3.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	5.0k 2.0×	5.0k 3.0×	655	29.8k
Carmen J. Marsit United States	71	10.8k 1.6×	2.7k 0.8×	773 0.3×	5.0k 2.0×	1.4k 0.9×	360	18.7k
Karin B. Michels United States	69	3.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	3.5k 1.4×	4.2k 2.5×	251	15.2k
Margaret R. Karagas United States	77	7.1k 1.0×	6.5k 1.9×	724 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	490	21.6k
Karl T. Kelsey United States	83	13.8k 2.0×	3.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	434	24.1k
Nathaniel Rothman United States	69	6.3k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	544 0.2×	1.8k 1.0×	403	17.3k
Susan M. Gapstur United States	67	5.2k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	4.2k 1.6×	850 0.3×	3.5k 2.1×	264	22.5k
Julie R. Palmer United States	68	1.9k 0.3×	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	3.4k 2.0×	419	16.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lifang Hou

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lloyd‐Jones, Donald M., Norrina B. Allen, James H. Stein, et al.. (2025). Future of Families: Cardiovascular Health Among Young Adults Cohort Study: Rationale, Key Questions, Study Design, and Participant Characteristics. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(17). e042030–e042030. 1 indexed citations

Steffen, Lyn M., David R. Jacobs, Brian Joyce, et al.. (2025). Dietary Carbohydrate Quality Is Associated with Epigenetic Age Acceleration: a Cross-Sectional Study of the CARDIA Cohort. Journal of Nutrition. 155(4). 1210–1217. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Qika, et al.. (2024). Disentangling User Cognitive Intent with Causal Reasoning for Knowledge-Enhanced Recommendation. Cognitive Computation. 16(6). 3391–3404. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jun, Godwin Imade, Sulaimon Akanmu, et al.. (2024). Analytic performance of ScreenFire HPV RS assay Zebra BioDome format and its potential for large-scale population HPV screening. Infectious Agents and Cancer. 19(1). 59–59. 1 indexed citations

Bai, Xueyan, Yinan Zheng, Lifang Hou, et al.. (2024). An Efficient Testing Procedure for High-Dimensional Mediators with FDR Control. Statistics in Biosciences. 17(3). 615–629. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Haixiang, Xiumei Hong, Yinan Zheng, et al.. (2024). High-dimensional quantile mediation analysis with application to a birth cohort study of mother–newborn pairs. Bioinformatics. 40(2). 1 indexed citations

Horimoto, Andréa R. V. R., Bridget M. Lin, Ying Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ancestry-driven metabolite variation provides insights into disease states in admixed populations. Genome Medicine. 15(1). 52–52. 5 indexed citations

Nannini, Drew R., Yinan Zheng, Brian Joyce, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide DNA methylation association study of recent and cumulative marijuana use in middle aged adults. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(6). 2572–2582. 11 indexed citations

Diakité, Brehima, A. Koné, Djeneba Fofana, et al.. (2022). Relationships between gut microbiota, red meat consumption and colorectal cancer. PubMed Central. 21 indexed citations

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Abdulkareem, FB, Yinan Zheng, Drew R. Nannini, et al.. (2022). Telepathology in Nigeria for Global Health Collaboration. Annals of Global Health. 88(1). 81–81. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haixiang, Yinan Zheng, Lifang Hou, Cheng Zheng, & Lei Liu. (2021). Mediation analysis for survival data with high-dimensional mediators. Bioinformatics. 37(21). 3815–3821. 25 indexed citations

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Fan, Lei, Xiangzhu Zhu, Yinan Zheng, et al.. (2021). Magnesium treatment on methylation changes of transmembrane serine protease 2 (TMPRSS2). Nutrition. 89. 111340–111340. 11 indexed citations

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Gunderson, Erica P., Baiyang Sun, Janet M. Catov, et al.. (2021). Gestational Diabetes History and Glucose Tolerance After Pregnancy Associated With Coronary Artery Calcium in Women During Midlife. Circulation. 143(10). 974–987. 70 indexed citations

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Lau, Chung‐Ho E., Panagiotis A. Vorkas, Gonçalo Graça, et al.. (2020). Metabolic Signatures of Gestational Weight Gain and Postpartum Weight Loss in a Lifestyle Intervention Study of Overweight and Obese Women. Metabolites. 10(12). 498–498. 7 indexed citations

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Kalhan, Ravi, David R. Jacobs, George R. Washko, et al.. (2020). Lung Function and Gene Expression of Pathogen Recognition Pathway Receptors: the Cardia Lung Study. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9360–9360. 2 indexed citations

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Zeng, Chang, Zhou Zhang, Jun Wang, et al.. (2019). Application of the High-Throughput TAB-Array for the Discovery of Novel 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Biomarkers in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Epigenomes. 3(3). 16–16. 5 indexed citations

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Leng, Junhong, Andrea Baccarelli, Lifang Hou, et al.. (2017). Association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and the risk of postpartum hypertension: a cohort study in women with gestational diabetes. Journal of Human Hypertension. 31(11). 725–730. 12 indexed citations

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Thomson, Cynthia A., Linda Van Horn, Bette J. Caan, et al.. (2014). Cancer Incidence and Mortality during the Intervention and Postintervention Periods of the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 23(12). 2924–2935. 41 indexed citations

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Kabat, Geoffrey C., Matthew L. Anderson, Moonseong Heo, et al.. (2013). Adult Stature and Risk of Cancer at Different Anatomic Sites in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 22(8). 1353–1363. 44 indexed citations

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Hou, Lifang, Sheng Wang, Dou Chang, et al.. (2012). Air pollution exposure and telomere length in highly exposed subjects in Beijing, China: A repeated-measure study. Environment International. 48. 71–77. 131 indexed citations

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