Peiwei Chai

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Peiwei Chai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Peiwei Chai has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Oncology and 15 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Peiwei Chai's work include RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers), Ocular Oncology and Treatments (12 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (10 papers). Peiwei Chai is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers), Ocular Oncology and Treatments (12 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (10 papers). Peiwei Chai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Peiwei Chai's co-authors include Xianqun Fan, Shengfang Ge, Renbing Jia, Jie Yu, Jing Ruan, Renbing Jia, Minyue Xie, Ruobing Jia, Ai Zhuang and Shaoyun Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Peiwei Chai

60 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Histone lactylation drives oncogenesis by facilitating m6A reader protein YTHDF2 expression in ocular melanoma

2021 603 citations Jie Yu, Peiwei Chai et al. profile →
Lactate and lactylation in cancer

2025 116 citations Jie Chen, Ziyue Huang et al. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peiwei Chai China	24	1.8k	1.0k	455	247	188	65	2.6k
Jianfeng Shen China	21	1.2k 0.7×	359 0.3×	742 1.6×	363 1.5×	76 0.4×	63	2.1k
Qi Zhou China	26	938 0.5×	518 0.5×	872 1.9×	438 1.8×	24 0.1×	99	2.2k
Alessandra Romano Italy	30	890 0.5×	189 0.2×	721 1.6×	644 2.6×	64 0.3×	187	2.6k
Mohamed H. Abdel‐Rahman United States	24	943 0.5×	266 0.3×	637 1.4×	406 1.6×	983 5.2×	81	2.4k
Augustin Amour United Kingdom	22	1.0k 0.6×	921 0.9×	784 1.7×	291 1.2×	40 0.2×	48	2.4k
Bin Shan United States	32	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	646 1.4×	327 1.3×	29 0.2×	72	3.4k
Shakeel Modak United States	37	1.7k 0.9×	869 0.8×	1.5k 3.4×	758 3.1×	55 0.3×	160	4.7k
Hedwig E. Deubzer Germany	31	2.9k 1.7×	545 0.5×	1.1k 2.4×	155 0.6×	21 0.1×	64	3.7k
Deborah A. Tweddle United Kingdom	28	1.3k 0.7×	709 0.7×	854 1.9×	112 0.5×	24 0.1×	64	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Peiwei Chai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peiwei Chai

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Chen, Jie, Ziyue Huang, Hao Tian, et al.. (2025). Lactate and lactylation in cancer. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 10(1). 38–38. 116 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Jie, Hanhan Shi, Yongyun Li, et al.. (2025). Aurora A Kinase Inhibition Is Synthetic Lethal With the Activation of MYCN in Retinoblastoma. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 66(2). 20–20.

Yang, Ludi, Ruobing Jia, Xiang Gu, et al.. (2025). Lactylation-boosted polycomb repression of KLF4 elicits glycolysis in retinoblastoma: A positive feedback circuit between histone modifications. Cancer Letters. 625. 217804–217804.

He, Xiaoyu, Yangfan Xu, Peiwei Chai, et al.. (2025). A Penetrable AAV2 Capsid Variant for Efficient Intravitreal Gene Delivery to the Retina. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 66(1). 6–6. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Lingyu, Hui Pan, Yiran Yao, et al.. (2024). Gain of chromosome 8q and high expression of EZH2 may predict poor prognosis in Chinese patients with uveal melanoma. Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology. 13(5). 100108–100108.

Li, Te, Peiwei Chai, Qinghua Qiu, et al.. (2024). Is longer axial length protective of vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy across different ages? A multicenter cohort of 736 patients. International Journal of Retina and Vitreous. 10(1). 74–74. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Hanhan, Tianyu Zhu, Chang Liu, et al.. (2024). Single-cell sequencing depicts tumor architecture and empowers clinical decision in metastatic conjunctival melanoma. Cell Discovery. 10(1). 63–63. 6 indexed citations

Shi, Hanhan, Xiaoyu He, Zhi Yang, et al.. (2023). The Use of rAAV2-RB1–Mediated Gene Therapy in Retinoblastoma. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 64(15). 31–31. 3 indexed citations

Zhuang, Ai, Xiang Gu, Tongxin Ge, et al.. (2023). Targeting histone deacetylase suppresses tumor growth through eliciting METTL14‐modified m ⁶ A RNA methylation in ocular melanoma. Cancer Communications. 43(11). 1185–1206. 21 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiang, Ai Zhuang, Jie Yu, et al.. (2023). Histone lactylation-boosted ALKBH3 potentiates tumor progression and diminished promyelocytic leukemia protein nuclear condensates by m1A demethylation of SP100A. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(5). 2273–2289. 80 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiang, Ziyue Huang, Jie Chen, et al.. (2023). Establishment and Characterization of a TP53-Mutated Eyelid Sebaceous Carcinoma Cell Line. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 64(15). 16–16. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Jie, Ai Zhuang, Xiang Gu, et al.. (2023). Nuclear PD-L1 promotes EGR1-mediated angiogenesis and accelerates tumorigenesis. Cell Discovery. 9(1). 33–33. 59 indexed citations

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Luo, Yingxiu, Jie Yang, Feifei Zhang, et al.. (2023). A novel MYCN-YTHDF1 cascade contributes to retinoblastoma tumor growth by eliciting m6A -dependent activation of multiple oncogenes. Science China Life Sciences. 66(9). 2138–2151. 18 indexed citations

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Ge, Tongxin, Xiang Gu, Renbing Jia, et al.. (2022). Crosstalk between metabolic reprogramming and epigenetics in cancer: updates on mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities. Cancer Communications. 42(11). 1049–1082. 114 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiang, Jie Yu, Ludi Yang, et al.. (2022). Epigenetic drug library screening reveals targeting DOT1L abrogates NAD+ synthesis by reprogramming H3K79 methylation in uveal melanoma. Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis. 13(1). 24–38. 8 indexed citations

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Chai, Peiwei, Pengfei Lan, Shaobai Li, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic insight into allosteric activation of human pyruvate carboxylase by acetyl-CoA. Molecular Cell. 82(21). 4116–4130.e6. 19 indexed citations

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Chai, Peiwei, Ruobing Jia, Yongyun Li, et al.. (2021). Regulation of epigenetic homeostasis in uveal melanoma and retinoblastoma. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 89. 101030–101030. 34 indexed citations

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Chai, Peiwei, Jie Yu, Yue Xing, et al.. (2020). LncRNA CANT1 suppresses retinoblastoma progression by repellinghistone methyltransferase in PI3Kγ promoter. Cell Death and Disease. 11(5). 306–306. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Yongyun, Yang Liu, Jie Yang, et al.. (2020). A novel variant in GPAA1, encoding a GPI transamidase complex protein, causes inherited vascular anomalies with various phenotypes. Human Genetics. 139(12). 1499–1511. 6 indexed citations

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Chai, Peiwei, et al.. (2016). The Evolving Functions of Autophagy in Ocular Health: A Double-edged Sword. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 12(11). 1332–1340. 74 indexed citations

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