Lifeng Xiang

748 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 391 citations indexed

About

Lifeng Xiang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lifeng Xiang has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 391 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 2 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Lifeng Xiang's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (7 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Reproductive Biology and Fertility (4 papers). Lifeng Xiang is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (7 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Reproductive Biology and Fertility (4 papers). Lifeng Xiang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Lifeng Xiang's co-authors include Weizhi Ji, Zongyong Ai, Yu Yin, Tianqing Li, Yuyu Niu, Kui Duan, Jingjing He, Yun Bai, Yun Zheng and Shuchao Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Lifeng Xiang

12 papers receiving 390 citations

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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.

A developmental landscape of 3D-cultured human pre-gastrulation embryos

2019 278 citations Lifeng Xiang, Yu Yin et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lifeng Xiang China	6	288	71	55	52	37	14	391
Laura A. Fischer United States	8	374 1.3×	59 0.8×	31 0.6×	41 0.8×	72 1.9×	9	502
Kyra Woods Australia	10	202 0.7×	21 0.3×	25 0.5×	27 0.5×	126 3.4×	13	376
Helen C. O’Neill United Kingdom	11	83 0.3×	87 1.2×	16 0.3×	13 0.3×	67 1.8×	25	308
Haleh Soltanghoraee Iran	11	92 0.3×	65 0.9×	13 0.2×	16 0.3×	33 0.9×	29	283
Takeshi Kuramoto Japan	10	177 0.6×	226 3.2×	21 0.4×	25 0.5×	72 1.9×	28	473
Alejandra Velásquez Chile	12	208 0.7×	110 1.5×	36 0.7×	19 0.4×	144 3.9×	21	327
Randolph B. Lyde United States	10	92 0.3×	35 0.5×	7 0.1×	20 0.4×	56 1.5×	14	294
Bianca Ferrarini Zanetti Brazil	11	80 0.3×	193 2.7×	13 0.2×	14 0.3×	61 1.6×	25	366
Gabriela Louise de Almeida Sampaio Brazil	7	104 0.4×	130 1.8×	11 0.2×	24 0.5×	49 1.3×	12	308
Kyungjun Uh United States	10	205 0.7×	90 1.3×	24 0.4×	20 0.4×	19 0.5×	34	304

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lifeng Xiang

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14 of 14 papers shown

Niu, Ben, Yingjie Hu, Yue Wang, et al.. (2025). Deciphering signaling mechanisms and developmental dynamics in extraembryonic mesoderm specification from hESCs. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4688–4688.

Yan, Guo, Jiacong Yan, Weiyuan Li, et al.. (2024). Correlation between viral infections in male semen and infertility: a literature review. Virology Journal. 21(1). 167–167. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Yinhong, Jing He, Lifeng Xiang, et al.. (2024). Molecular Mechanisms of Medicinal Plant Securinega suffruticosa-derivedCompound Securinine against Spinal Muscular Atrophy based on NetworkPharmacology and Experimental Verification. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 30(15). 1178–1193. 1 indexed citations

Fan, Xinxiang, Ya Xu, Lifeng Xiang, et al.. (2024). Impact of human papillomavirus and coinfection with other sexually transmitted pathogens on male infertility. Asian Journal of Andrology. 27(1). 84–89. 3 indexed citations

Xiang, Lifeng, Zongyong Ai, Ben Niu, et al.. (2024). The impact of dynamic caudal type homeobox 2 expression on the differentiation of human trophoblast lineage during implantation. Cell Proliferation. 57(12). e13729–e13729. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yonggang, Kexin Chen, Mei Tian, et al.. (2023). The Comparison of Two Whole-Genome Amplification Approaches for Noninvasive Preimplantation Genetic Testing (ni-PGT) and the Application Scenario of ni-PGT during the Fresh Cycle. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 25(12). 945–956. 3 indexed citations

Zheng, Yi, Mutsumi Kobayashi, Lifeng Xiang, et al.. (2022). Single-cell analysis of embryoids reveals lineage diversification roadmaps of early human development. Cell stem cell. 29(9). 1402–1419.e8. 36 indexed citations

Xiang, Lifeng, et al.. (2022). A 99.22% Energy-saving and 86.91% Area-reduction Capacitor Switching Scheme for SAR ADCs. 49. 528–532.

Duan, Kui, Chenyang Si, Shumei Zhao, et al.. (2021). The Long Terminal Repeats of ERV6 Are Activated in Pre-Implantation Embryos of Cynomolgus Monkey. Cells. 10(10). 2710–2710. 2 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yi, Mutsumi Kobayashi, Lifeng Xiang, et al.. (2021). Single-Cell Analysis of Embryoids Reveals Lineage Diversification Roadmaps of Early Human Development. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Ai, Zongyong, Ben Niu, Kui Duan, et al.. (2020). Modulation of Wnt and Activin/Nodal supports efficient derivation, cloning and suspension expansion of human pluripotent stem cells. Biomaterials. 249. 120015–120015. 14 indexed citations

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Xiang, Lifeng, Yu Yin, Yun Zheng, et al.. (2019). A developmental landscape of 3D-cultured human pre-gastrulation embryos. Nature. 577(7791). 537–542. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kang, Yu, Zongyong Ai, Kui Duan, et al.. (2018). Improving Cell Survival in Injected Embryos Allows Primed Pluripotent Stem Cells to Generate Chimeric Cynomolgus Monkeys. Cell Reports. 25(9). 2563–2576.e9. 14 indexed citations

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Duan, Song, Sheng Shen, Marc Bulterys, et al.. (2010). Estimation of HIV-1 incidence among five focal populations in Dehong, Yunnan: a hard hit area along a major drug trafficking route. BMC Public Health. 10(1). 180–180. 27 indexed citations

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