Ling Gao

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Ling Gao is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ling Gao has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Surgery, 28 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ling Gao's work include Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (18 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (17 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (15 papers). Ling Gao is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (18 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (17 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (15 papers). Ling Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Ling Gao's co-authors include Jianyi Zhang, Biao Xu, Jinxuan Zhao, Jiaxin Hu, Xuan Sun, Xueling Li, Shuaihua Qiao, Fu Chen, Jun Xie and Vladimir G. Fast and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ling Gao

76 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Mesenchymal stromal cell-derived exosomes attenuate myoca... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2019 2017 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Mesenchymal stromal cell-derived exosomes attenuate myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury through miR-182-regulated macrophage polarization
    2019 588 citations Ling Gao et al. profile →
  2. Large Cardiac Muscle Patches Engineered From Human Induced-Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Cardiac Cells Improve Recovery From Myocardial Infarction in Swine
    2017 338 citations Ling Gao, Zachery R. Gregorich et al. Circulation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ling Gao China 24 1.5k 1.1k 576 475 412 84 2.9k
Zhen W. Zhuang United States 28 1.7k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 469 0.8× 425 0.9× 691 1.7× 61 3.4k
Huang‐Tian Yang China 31 2.7k 1.8× 631 0.6× 261 0.5× 985 2.1× 229 0.6× 90 4.3k
Rabea Hinkel Germany 27 1.3k 0.9× 587 0.5× 298 0.5× 364 0.8× 120 0.3× 82 2.4k
Pieter A. Doevendans Netherlands 34 2.6k 1.7× 1.9k 1.7× 354 0.6× 563 1.2× 647 1.6× 54 4.0k
Tomosaburo Takahashi Japan 32 3.6k 2.4× 1.2k 1.1× 453 0.8× 310 0.7× 894 2.2× 53 5.5k
Atsushi Iwakura Japan 21 1.4k 0.9× 718 0.7× 158 0.3× 276 0.6× 295 0.7× 58 2.6k
Winston Shim Singapore 31 1.5k 1.0× 722 0.7× 315 0.5× 185 0.4× 243 0.6× 74 2.6k
Sanjay Sinha United Kingdom 32 3.1k 2.0× 1.2k 1.1× 396 0.7× 866 1.8× 363 0.9× 104 5.4k
Lingfang Zeng United Kingdom 37 2.2k 1.5× 715 0.7× 230 0.4× 604 1.3× 210 0.5× 75 3.7k
Hiroyuki Hao Japan 24 991 0.7× 1.6k 1.5× 278 0.5× 291 0.6× 504 1.2× 139 3.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ling Gao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ling Gao

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

All Works

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Liu, Sifeng, Ling Gao, Xin Ning, et al.. (2025). Long‐Term Minocycline Treatment Exhibits Enhanced Therapeutic Effects on Ischemic Stroke by Suppressing Inflammatory Phenotype of Microglia Through the EMB/MCT4/STING Pathway. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 31(3). e70328–e70328. 3 indexed citations
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Wan, Ye, Haowen Li, Xi Sun, et al.. (2025). A Rapid In Vitro Endothelialization Approach for Small‐Diameter Vascular Grafts via Covalent Reaction. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(24).
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Luo, Wei, Qing Wang, Yanshan Gong, et al.. (2024). hUCMSCs Regulate Bile Acid Metabolism to Prevent Heart Failure–Induced Intestinal Injury by Inhibiting the Activation of the STAT3/NF‐κB/MAPK Signaling Pathway via TGR5. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 575–589. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Yuanyuan, Meng Wang, Linna Liu, et al.. (2024). Enhancing AI reliability: A foundation model with uncertainty estimation for optical coherence tomography-based retinal disease diagnosis. Cell Reports Medicine. 6(1). 101876–101876. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhiwei, Xiaoting Li, Jiawei Zhuang, et al.. (2024). miR-590-3p Overexpression Improves the Efficacy of hiPSC-CMs for Myocardial Repair. JACC Basic to Translational Science. 9(5). 557–573. 8 indexed citations
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Gao, Ling, Peng Li, Jian Wang, John H. Zhang, & Ying Xia. (2024). Mitochondrial stress: a key role of neuroinflammation in stroke. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 21(1). 44–44. 18 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yun, Teng Ma, Hao Cao, et al.. (2023). hESC‐Derived Epicardial Cells Promote Repair of Infarcted Hearts in Mouse and Swine. Advanced Science. 10(27). e2300470–e2300470. 16 indexed citations
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Shi, Hongrong, Dazhi Yang, Wenting Wang, et al.. (2023). First estimation of high-resolution solar photovoltaic resource maps over China with Fengyun-4A satellite and machine learning. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 184. 113549–113549. 28 indexed citations
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Villanueva, Jeanette E., Ling Gao, Aoife Doyle, et al.. (2022). Donation After Circulatory Death: A New Frontier. Current Cardiology Reports. 24(12). 1973–1981. 16 indexed citations
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Villanueva, Jeanette E., Ling Gao, Aoife Doyle, et al.. (2020). The cardioprotective potential of the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor empagliflozin in donor heart preservation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 39(10). 1151–1153. 5 indexed citations
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Gao, Ling, Zachery R. Gregorich, Wuqiang Zhu, et al.. (2017). Large Cardiac Muscle Patches Engineered From Human Induced-Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Cardiac Cells Improve Recovery From Myocardial Infarction in Swine. Circulation. 137(16). 1712–1730. 338 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chan, Juliana C.N., Pongamorn Bunnag, Siew Pheng Chan, et al.. (2017). Glycaemic responses in Asian and non-Asian people with type 2 diabetes initiating insulin glargine 100 units/mL: A patient-level pooled analysis of 16 randomised controlled trials. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 135. 199–205. 19 indexed citations
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Iyer, Arjun, H. Chew, Ling Gao, et al.. (2016). Pathophysiological Trends During Withdrawal of Life Support. Transplantation. 100(12). 2621–2629. 46 indexed citations
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Banerji, Mary Ann, Michelle A. Baron, Ling Gao, & Lawrence Blonde. (2014). Influence of Baseline Glycemia on Outcomes With Insulin Glargine Use in Patients Uncontrolled on Oral Agents. Postgraduate Medicine. 126(3). 111–125. 6 indexed citations
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Watson, Alasdair, Ling Gao, Lin Sun, et al.. (2013). Enhanced Preservation of Pig Cardiac Allografts by Combining Erythropoietin With Glyceryl Trinitrate and Zoniporide. American Journal of Transplantation. 13(7). 1676–1687. 23 indexed citations
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Jabbour, Andrew, Ling Gao, Alasdair Watson, et al.. (2011). A Recombinant Human Neuregulin-1 Peptide Improves Preservation of the Rodent Heart After Prolonged Hypothermic Storage. Transplantation. 91(9). 961–967. 22 indexed citations
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