Ningjun Li

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Ningjun Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ningjun Li has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Cancer Research and 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ningjun Li's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (14 papers), Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements (13 papers) and Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (10 papers). Ningjun Li is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (14 papers), Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements (13 papers) and Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (10 papers). Ningjun Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Ningjun Li's co-authors include Pin‐Lan Li, Ai-Ping Zou, Fan Yi, Min Xia, Allen W. Cowley, Qing Zhu, Zhengchao Wang, Joseph K. Ritter, Pin‐Lan Li and Chun Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Ningjun Li

103 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the delivery of agrochemicals: strategies towards sustainable agriculture

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ningjun Li United States	34	1.4k	614	602	464	446	107	3.9k
C. Kennedy Canada	41	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	676 1.1×	509 1.1×	113 0.3×	118	4.7k
Yanrong Lu China	45	2.9k 2.1×	517 0.8×	626 1.0×	334 0.7×	313 0.7×	194	6.3k
Lukáš Kubala Czechia	35	1.1k 0.8×	159 0.3×	622 1.0×	257 0.6×	279 0.6×	161	4.3k
Jingqiu Cheng China	42	3.0k 2.1×	633 1.0×	577 1.0×	193 0.4×	329 0.7×	176	5.9k
Younan Chen China	39	2.3k 1.6×	514 0.8×	583 1.0×	161 0.3×	197 0.4×	132	4.8k
Xian Wang China	46	2.1k 1.5×	441 0.7×	741 1.2×	403 0.9×	75 0.2×	146	5.4k
Judy B. de Haan Australia	41	2.1k 1.5×	206 0.3×	929 1.5×	357 0.8×	100 0.2×	80	4.7k
Rong Ma United States	38	1.8k 1.3×	509 0.8×	368 0.6×	430 0.9×	126 0.3×	148	3.9k
Yong Chool Boo South Korea	38	1.6k 1.1×	95 0.2×	1.1k 1.8×	590 1.3×	168 0.4×	114	5.1k
Chunyu Zeng China	40	2.3k 1.7×	186 0.3×	733 1.2×	1.0k 2.2×	160 0.4×	138	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ningjun Li

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Ningjun & Guangbi Li. (2025). Sphingolipid signaling in kidney diseases. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology. 328(3). F431–F443.

Li, Guangbi, et al.. (2025). Collecting Duct-specific Deletion of Acid Ceramidase Promoted Sodium Retention and Salt-sensitive Hypertension. Physiology. 40(S1).

Yu, Hong, Zuo‐Xi Li, Xiao‐Bing Gao, et al.. (2024). Multi-omics data integration reveals novel genes related to autoimmune hypothyroidism in the brain: A molecular basis for the brain–thyroid axis. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 136. 111239–111239. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Weili, Justin L. Poklis, Pin-Lan Li, et al.. (2024). Mitigation of cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury through oral administration of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor PF-04457845. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 392(2). 100032–100032. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Weili, Fereshteh Ahmadinejad, Justin L. Poklis, et al.. (2023). Genetic Knockout of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Ameliorates Cisplatin-Induced Nephropathy in Mice. Molecular Pharmacology. 103(4). 230–240. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Anqi, Yan Wang, Ningjun Li, et al.. (2020). Preparation and characterization of a novel controlled‐release nano‐delivery system loaded with pyraclostrobin via high‐pressure homogenization. Pest Management Science. 76(8). 2829–2837. 23 indexed citations

Li, Guangbi, et al.. (2020). Amelioration of Podocytopathy by Smpd1 Gene Deletion in Podocyte‐Specific Asah1 Gene Knockout Mice. The FASEB Journal. 34(S1). 1–1.

Zhang, Xiwen, Weili Wang, Xin‐Ying Ji, Joseph K. Ritter, & Ningjun Li. (2019). Knockout of Sphingosine Kinase 1 Attenuates Renal Fibrosis in Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction Model. American Journal of Nephrology. 50(3). 196–203. 21 indexed citations

Xu, Xiaoyang, Aolin Zhang, Matthew S. Halquist, et al.. (2016). Simvastatin promotes NPC1‐mediated free cholesterol efflux from lysosomes through CYP7A1/LXRα signalling pathway in oxLDL‐loaded macrophages. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 21(2). 364–374. 13 indexed citations

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Zhou, Meng, Wei Tang, Yi Fu, et al.. (2015). Progranulin protects against renal ischemia/reperfusion injury in mice. Kidney International. 87(5). 918–929. 81 indexed citations

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Hu, Junping, et al.. (2015). Stem Cell Conditioned Culture Media Attenuated Albumin-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Renal Tubular Cells. CORROSION. 35(5). 1719–1728. 20 indexed citations

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West, Crystal A., et al.. (2014). Renal epithelial sodium channel is critical for blood pressure maintenance and sodium balance in the normal late pregnant rat. Experimental Physiology. 99(5). 816–823. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Caixia, Min Xia, Justine M. Abais, et al.. (2013). Protective role of growth hormone against hyperhomocysteinemia-induced glomerular injury. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology. 386(6). 551–561. 8 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qing, Miao Liu, Weiqing Han, et al.. (2012). Overexpression of HIF Prolyl‐Hydoxylase‐2 transgene in the renal medulla induced a salt sensitive hypertension. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 16(11). 2701–2707. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhengchao, Lin Tang, Qing Zhu, et al.. (2010). Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α contributes to the profibrotic action of angiotensin II in renal medullary interstitial cells. Kidney International. 79(3). 300–310. 89 indexed citations

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Bao, Junxiang, Si Jin, Fan Zhang, et al.. (2009). Activation of Membrane NADPH Oxidase Associated with Lysosome-Targeted Acid Sphingomyelinase in Coronary Endothelial Cells. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 12(6). 703–712. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Ningjun, Li Chen, Fan Yi, Min Xia, & Pin‐Lan Li. (2008). Salt-Sensitive Hypertension Induced by Decoy of Transcription Factor Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α in the Renal Medulla. Circulation Research. 102(9). 1101–1108. 59 indexed citations

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Li, Ningjun, et al.. (2006). Expression and actions of HIF prolyl-4-hydroxylase in the rat kidneys. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology. 292(1). F207–F216. 56 indexed citations

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Zou, Ai-Ping, Ningjun Li, & Allen W. Cowley. (2001). Production and Actions of Superoxide in the Renal Medulla. Hypertension. 37(2). 547–553. 258 indexed citations

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Li, Ningjun, et al.. (2000). Formation and Actions of Cyclic ADP-Ribose in Renal Microvessels. Microvascular Research. 60(2). 149–159. 25 indexed citations

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