Liqing Zhang

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
132 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Liqing Zhang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Liqing Zhang has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Plant Science and 22 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Liqing Zhang's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (29 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (16 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (13 papers). Liqing Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (29 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (16 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (13 papers). Liqing Zhang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Liqing Zhang's co-authors include Wen‐Hsiung Li, Amy Pruden, Peter J. Vikesland, Gustavo Arango-Argoty, Lenwood S. Heath, Emily Garner, Wei Chen, Min Oh, Deng Pan and Hao Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Liqing Zhang

127 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

DeepARG: a deep learning approach for predicting antibiotic resistance genes from metagenomic data

2018 558 citations Gustavo Arango-Argoty, Emily Garner et al. profile →
mobileOG-db: a Manually Curated Database of Protein Families Mediating the Life Cycle of Bacterial Mobile Genetic Elements

2022 234 citations Connor Brown, Suraj Gupta et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liqing Zhang United States	32	2.4k	1.2k	574	396	356	132	4.1k
Christian Rückert Germany	42	3.7k 1.6×	819 0.7×	789 1.4×	168 0.4×	125 0.4×	248	5.7k
Fábio O. Pedrosa Brazil	33	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	285 0.5×	280 0.7×	104 0.3×	162	3.5k
Ming Zheng China	20	3.4k 1.4×	401 0.3×	925 1.6×	92 0.2×	188 0.5×	35	4.7k
Xiaobin Li China	34	1.5k 0.6×	372 0.3×	193 0.3×	132 0.3×	426 1.2×	207	3.8k
Xing Zhang China	39	3.6k 1.5×	2.5k 2.1×	382 0.7×	210 0.5×	88 0.2×	285	6.6k
Cong Li China	37	1.8k 0.8×	742 0.6×	1.2k 2.0×	214 0.5×	586 1.6×	211	5.0k
Jagdeep Kaur India	36	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	201 0.4×	229 0.6×	154 0.4×	191	4.3k
Haruo Ikeda Japan	54	6.2k 2.6×	1.3k 1.1×	416 0.7×	103 0.3×	148 0.4×	270	11.6k
Vahid Jalili Iran	15	1.9k 0.8×	436 0.4×	316 0.6×	119 0.3×	90 0.3×	31	3.9k
Geoffrey L. Winsor Canada	20	3.3k 1.4×	648 0.5×	1.1k 1.9×	224 0.6×	998 2.8×	28	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Liqing Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liqing Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liqing Zhang

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bai, Yun, et al.. (2025). Integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses provide insights into defense against Colletotrichum fructicola in octoploid strawberries. BMC Plant Biology. 25(1). 190–190. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Liqing, et al.. (2025). BCtypeFinder: A Semi-Supervised Model with Domain Adaptation for Breast Cancer Subtyping Using DNA Methylation Profiles. Journal of Computational Biology. 32(12). 1160–1170.

Brown, Connor, Suraj Gupta, Ali R. Butt, et al.. (2025). CIWARS: A Web Server for Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Using Longitudinal Metagenomic Data. Journal of Molecular Biology. 437(15). 169159–169159.

Fang, Xianping, et al.. (2024). Metabolomic and transcriptomic integration reveals the mechanism of aroma formation as strawberries naturally turn colors while ripening. Food Chemistry. 460(Pt 3). 140765–140765. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Xiujuan, Liyan Xiong, Liqing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, bioactivities and quality control of the <i>Gnaphalium</i> genus: an updated review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 0–0. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Pengbo, Chao Ma, Xinyu Li, et al.. (2024). Loss-of-function mutation in anthocyanidin reductase activates the anthocyanin synthesis pathway in strawberry. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 33–33. 9 indexed citations

Oh, Min, Benjamin C. Davis, Connor Brown, et al.. (2024). MetaCompare 2.0: differential ranking of ecological and human health resistome risks. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(12). 16 indexed citations

Jiang, Shuang, et al.. (2023). Revealing the role of the rhizosphere microbiota in reproductive growth for fruit productivity when inorganic fertilizer is partially replaced by organic fertilizer in pear orchard fields. Microbial Biotechnology. 16(6). 1373–1392. 19 indexed citations

Ji, Ying, Lili Song, Liqing Zhang, et al.. (2022). Different responses to elevated temperature in the representative strains of strawberry pathogenic Colletotrichum spp.from eastern China. Mycological Progress. 22(1). 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianbei, Jianbei Chen, Xiaojuan Li, et al.. (2021). Bioinformatics analysis of a TF-miRNA-lncRNA regulatory network in major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research. 299. 113842–113842. 8 indexed citations

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Logan, Latania K., Liqing Zhang, Stefan J. Green, et al.. (2020). A Pilot Study of Chicago Waterways as Reservoirs of Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MDR-Ent) in a High-Risk Region for Community-Acquired MDR-Ent Infection in Children. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 64(4). 5 indexed citations

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Armitage, Andrew D., Charlotte F. Nellist, Helen J. Bates, et al.. (2020). Draft Genome Sequence of the Strawberry Anthracnose Pathogen Colletotrichum fructicola. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(12). 4 indexed citations

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Fang, Xianping, et al.. (2019). Multi-omics reveals the resistance mechanism of grape leaves in response to Botrytis cinerea. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 45(3). 306–316. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaowei, et al.. (2019). Uncovering missed indels by leveraging unmapped reads. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11093–11093. 8 indexed citations

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Lei, Shaohua, Erica Twitchell, Ashwin Ramesh, et al.. (2019). Enhanced GII.4 human norovirus infection in gnotobiotic pigs transplanted with a human gut microbiota. Journal of General Virology. 100(11). 1530–1540. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Minqian, Jenni Firrman, Liqing Zhang, et al.. (2017). Apigenin Impacts the Growth of the Gut Microbiota and Alters the Gene Expression of Enterococcus. Molecules. 22(8). 1292–1292. 47 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaowei, et al.. (2017). UPS-indel: a Universal Positioning System for Indels. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14106–14106. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Gunjune, Christopher R. Clarke, Hong Tran, et al.. (2017). Herbicide injury induces DNA methylome alterations in Arabidopsis. PeerJ. 5. e3560–e3560. 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaowei, et al.. (2015). Performance evaluation of indel calling tools using real short-read data. Human Genomics. 9(1). 20–20. 48 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liqing & Wen‐Hsiung Li. (2004). Mammalian Housekeeping Genes Evolve More Slowly than Tissue-Specific Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21(2). 236–239. 278 indexed citations

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