Rong Lu

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Rong Lu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Hematology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rong Lu has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Hematology and 13 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Rong Lu's work include Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (16 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers). Rong Lu is often cited by papers focused on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (16 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers). Rong Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Rong Lu's co-authors include Irving L. Weissman, Ihor R. Lemischka, Stephen R. Quake, John M. Levorse, Radu Dobrin, Natalia Ivanova, Xenia Schafer, Christina J. DeCoste, Iulia Kotenko and Norma Neff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rong Lu

33 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Dissecting self-renewal in stem cells with RNA interference 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 250 500 750
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.

  1. Dissecting self-renewal in stem cells with RNA interference
    2006 757 citations Natalia Ivanova, Radu Dobrin et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rong Lu United States 19 1.6k 341 328 227 227 34 2.1k
Behnam Nabet United States 22 3.1k 2.0× 237 0.7× 380 1.2× 356 1.6× 93 0.4× 41 3.6k
Jasper Mullenders Netherlands 17 2.0k 1.3× 192 0.6× 188 0.6× 440 1.9× 158 0.7× 25 2.7k
Irina Zaretsky Israel 10 1.6k 1.0× 730 2.1× 129 0.4× 331 1.5× 156 0.7× 14 2.2k
Yoshihiro Takihara Japan 27 1.6k 1.0× 348 1.0× 301 0.9× 138 0.6× 47 0.2× 88 2.2k
Jord C. Stam Netherlands 19 1.9k 1.2× 326 1.0× 149 0.5× 155 0.7× 69 0.3× 22 2.4k
Rob M.F. Wolthuis Netherlands 30 2.8k 1.8× 211 0.6× 138 0.4× 241 1.1× 158 0.7× 66 3.4k
Lev Silberstein United States 9 972 0.6× 409 1.2× 315 1.0× 306 1.3× 55 0.2× 14 1.5k
Leif S. Ludwig United States 18 1.1k 0.7× 437 1.3× 203 0.6× 362 1.6× 42 0.2× 36 1.7k
Mark Duquette United States 25 1.4k 0.9× 271 0.8× 127 0.4× 496 2.2× 60 0.3× 37 2.1k
Dominique Grall France 18 961 0.6× 299 0.9× 126 0.4× 280 1.2× 85 0.4× 29 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Rong Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rong Lu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Rong Lu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Rong Lu. The network helps show where Rong Lu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rong Lu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cho, Jae Min, Enbo Zhu, Yan-Ruide Li, et al.. (2025). Habitual Exercise Modulates Neuroimmune Interaction to Mitigate Aortic Stiffness. Circulation Research. 136(12). 1579–1594. 1 indexed citations
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Nogalska, Anna, Samir Akre, Charles Bramlett, et al.. (2024). Age-associated imbalance in immune cell regeneration varies across individuals and arises from a distinct subset of stem cells. Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 21(12). 1459–1473. 5 indexed citations
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Du, Jiang, et al.. (2024). Quantitative association between gene expression and blood cell production of individual hematopoietic stem cells in mice. Science Advances. 10(4). eadk2132–eadk2132. 2 indexed citations
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Bramlett, Charles, et al.. (2023). RNA splicing factor Rbm25 underlies heterogeneous preleukemic clonal expansion in mice. Blood. 141(24). 2961–2972. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Zheng, et al.. (2023). Lineage tracking to reveal the fate of hematopoietic stem cells influenced by Flk2− multipotent progenitors after transplantation. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 55(1). 205–214. 4 indexed citations
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Contreras-Trujillo, Humberto, Samir Akre, Jiang Du, et al.. (2021). Deciphering intratumoral heterogeneity using integrated clonal tracking and single-cell transcriptome analyses. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6522–6522. 21 indexed citations
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Zhou, Hao, et al.. (2021). Membrane-bound SCF and VCAM-1 synergistically regulate the morphology of hematopoietic stem cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(10). 13 indexed citations
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Lu, Rong, Agnieszka Czechowicz, Jun Seita, Jiang Du, & Irving L. Weissman. (2019). Clonal-level lineage commitment pathways of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(4). 1447–1456. 59 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Lisa, et al.. (2018). Functional compensation between hematopoietic stem cell clones in vivo. EMBO Reports. 19(8). 16 indexed citations
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Wu, Chuanfeng, Diego A. Espinoza, Samson Koelle, et al.. (2018). Clonal expansion and compartmentalized maintenance of rhesus macaque NK cell subsets. Science Immunology. 3(29). 36 indexed citations
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Koelle, Samson, Diego A. Espinoza, Chuanfeng Wu, et al.. (2017). Quantitative stability of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell clonal output in rhesus macaques receiving transplants. Blood. 129(11). 1448–1457. 37 indexed citations
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Wu, Chuanfeng, Diego A. Espinoza, Samson Koelle, et al.. (2017). Geographic clonal tracking in macaques provides insights into HSPC migration and differentiation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 215(1). 217–232. 24 indexed citations
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Espinoza, Diego A., Chuanfeng Wu, Xing Fan, et al.. (2017). Aberrant Clonal Hematopoiesis of the Erythroid and Myeloid Lineages in a Lentivirally Barcoded Rhesus Macaque. Blood. 130. 606–606. 1 indexed citations
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Wahlestedt, Martin, Trine Kristiansen, Rong Lu, et al.. (2017). Clonal reversal of ageing-associated stem cell lineage bias via a pluripotent intermediate. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14533–14533. 37 indexed citations
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Dimov, Ivan K., Rong Lu, Jun Seita, et al.. (2014). Discriminating cellular heterogeneity using microwell-based RNA cytometry. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3451–3451. 36 indexed citations
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Chen, Mengfei, Jingjing Huang, Xuejiao Yang, et al.. (2012). Serum Starvation Induced Cell Cycle Synchronization Facilitates Human Somatic Cells Reprogramming. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e28203–e28203. 98 indexed citations
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Lu, Rong, Norma Neff, Stephen R. Quake, & Irving L. Weissman. (2011). Tracking single hematopoietic stem cells in vivo using high-throughput sequencing in conjunction with viral genetic barcoding. Nature Biotechnology. 29(10). 928–933. 308 indexed citations
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Wu, Angela Ruohao, Joseph B. Hiatt, Rong Lu, et al.. (2009). Automated microfluidic chromatin immunoprecipitation from 2,000 cells. Lab on a Chip. 9(10). 1365–1365. 77 indexed citations
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Lu, Rong, Florian Markowetz, Richard D. Unwin, et al.. (2009). Systems-level dynamic analyses of fate change in murine embryonic stem cells. Nature. 462(7271). 358–362. 222 indexed citations
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Ivanova, Natalia, Radu Dobrin, Rong Lu, et al.. (2006). Dissecting self-renewal in stem cells with RNA interference. Nature. 442(7102). 533–538. 757 indexed citations breakdown →

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