Qiang Chen

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Qiang Chen is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Qiang Chen has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Genetics, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Qiang Chen's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (17 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (13 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (9 papers). Qiang Chen is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (17 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (13 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (9 papers). Qiang Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Qiang Chen's co-authors include Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Venkata S. Mattay, Daniel R. Weinberger, Daniela Mier, Harald Gruppe, Stefanie Lis, B. Gallhofer, Christine Esslinger, Peter Kirsch and Yunxia Tong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Qiang Chen

75 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans

2005 1.2k citations Peter Kirsch, Christine Esslinger et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qiang Chen China	27	1.3k	1000	770	757	725	81	3.9k
Latha Soorya United States	26	833 0.7×	1.8k 1.8×	866 1.1×	278 0.4×	324 0.4×	59	3.1k
Francesca Cirulli Italy	47	2.0k 1.6×	884 0.9×	857 1.1×	365 0.5×	714 1.0×	172	6.7k
A. Courtney DeVries United States	50	3.1k 2.4×	598 0.6×	562 0.7×	1.5k 2.0×	907 1.3×	133	7.7k
Tsukasa Sasaki Japan	34	725 0.6×	826 0.8×	581 0.8×	648 0.9×	709 1.0×	182	4.3k
Lars Westberg Sweden	34	1.0k 0.8×	562 0.6×	702 0.9×	655 0.9×	678 0.9×	132	3.7k
Cheryl L. Sisk United States	42	2.2k 1.7×	898 0.9×	709 0.9×	807 1.1×	786 1.1×	154	7.5k
Igor Branchi Italy	45	1.5k 1.2×	758 0.8×	363 0.5×	377 0.5×	649 0.9×	103	6.6k
Salomon Israel Israel	33	1.7k 1.4×	900 0.9×	349 0.5×	1.5k 2.0×	348 0.5×	68	5.2k
Mamoru Tochigi Japan	30	443 0.3×	618 0.6×	637 0.8×	408 0.5×	907 1.3×	94	3.0k
Michael Deuschle Germany	43	767 0.6×	886 0.9×	238 0.3×	730 1.0×	509 0.7×	191	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Qiang Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qiang Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qiang Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qiang Chen 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 Qiang Chen. Qiang Chen 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

Liu, Hai, Qiang Chen, Tingting Liu, et al.. (2025). SkeFormer: Skeletal Cues-Aware Bone Point Relationship Learning for Efficient FBIC via Transformers. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 28. 2145–2158.

Wang, Chao, et al.. (2025). Developing a nomogram model for predicting non-obstructive azoospermia using machine learning techniques. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 5468–5468.

Chen, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Individual and combined effects of dietary vitamin intake on cognitive function in elderly adults: the potential mediating role of serum neurofilament light chain levels. Frontiers in Nutrition. 12. 1485648–1485648. 2 indexed citations

Antonucci, Linda A., Tiziana Quarto, Leonardo Fazio, et al.. (2024). The interaction between early life complications and a polygenic risk score for schizophrenia is associated with brain activity during emotion processing in healthy participants. Psychological Medicine. 54(8). 1876–1885.

Zhang, Dan‐Wei, et al.. (2024). Maternal cardiovascular health in early pregnancy and the risk of congenital heart defects in offspring. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 24(1). 325–325. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Association of cerebral palsy with autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children: a large-scale nationwide population-based study. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 8(1). e002343–e002343. 4 indexed citations

Ursini, Gianluca, Pasquale Di Carlo, Qiang Chen, et al.. (2023). Prioritization of potential causative genes for schizophrenia in placenta. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2613–2613. 18 indexed citations

Pergola, Giulio, Rahul Bharadwaj, Eugenia Radulescu, et al.. (2023). Consensus molecular environment of schizophrenia risk genes in coexpression networks shifting across age and brain regions. Science Advances. 9(15). eade2812–eade2812. 10 indexed citations

Fu, Hui, et al.. (2023). Effects of once‐weekly glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonists on type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with coronary artery disease: Potential role of the renin‐angiotensin system. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 25(11). 3223–3234. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Yanping, Wenkai Guo, Jian Sun, et al.. (2022). Characteristics of volatile organic compounds and secondary organic aerosol pollution in different functional areas of petrochemical industrial cities in Northwest China. The Science of The Total Environment. 858(Pt 3). 159903–159903. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Qiang, Giulio Pergola, Aaron L. Goldman, et al.. (2021). G-MIND: An end-to-end multimodal imaging-genetics framework for biomarker identification and disease classification. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro). 6 indexed citations

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Xiang, Jiale, Lisha Chen, Qiang Chen, et al.. (2020). Reinterpretation of common pathogenic variants in ClinVar revealed a high proportion of downgrades. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 331–331. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhiquan, Yang Jiao, Qiang Chen, et al.. (2020). Two sigma and two mu class genes of glutathione S-transferase in the waterflea Daphnia pulex: Molecular characterization and transcriptional response to nanoplastic exposure. Chemosphere. 248. 126065–126065. 32 indexed citations

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Jaffe, Andrew E., Richard E. Straub, Joo Heon Shin, et al.. (2018). Developmental and genetic regulation of the human cortex transcriptome illuminate schizophrenia pathogenesis. Nature Neuroscience. 21(8). 1117–1125. 211 indexed citations

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Yang, Jialei, Xiaojing Guo, Lulu Zhu, et al.. (2018). Rs7219 Regulates the Expression of GRB2 by Affecting miR-1288-Mediated Inhibition and Contributes to the Risk of Schizophrenia in the Chinese Han Population. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 39(1). 137–147. 6 indexed citations

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Radulescu, Eugenia, Andrew E. Jaffe, Richard E. Straub, et al.. (2018). Identification and prioritization of gene sets associated with schizophrenia risk by co-expression network analysis in human brain. Molecular Psychiatry. 25(4). 791–804. 73 indexed citations

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Tong, Yunxia, Qiang Chen, Thomas E. Nichols, et al.. (2016). Seeking Optimal Region-Of-Interest (ROI) Single-Value Summary Measures for fMRI Studies in Imaging Genetics. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0151391–e0151391. 35 indexed citations

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Jiang, Sisi, Hao Yan, Qiang Chen, et al.. (2015). Cerebral Inefficient Activation in Schizophrenia Patients and Their Unaffected Parents during the N-Back Working Memory Task: A Family fMRI Study. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0135468–e0135468. 19 indexed citations

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Morita, Yukitaka, Joseph H. Callicott, Dwight Dickinson, et al.. (2014). Characteristics of the Cation Cotransporter NKCC1 in Human Brain: Alternate Transcripts, Expression in Development, and Potential Relationships to Brain Function and Schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(14). 4929–4940. 46 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Peter, Christine Esslinger, Qiang Chen, et al.. (2005). Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(49). 11489–11493. 1176 indexed citations breakdown →

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