Roujian Lu

52.7k citations

53 papers · 25.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Infectious Diseases top 0.01%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Modeling and Simulation top 0.05%
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Papers in

Virology 8
- Poxvirus research and outbreaks 7
Infectious Diseases 22
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology 15
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research 14

Co-authors: Wenjie Tan Wen‐Ching Wang Guizhen Wu Baoying Huang Peihua Niu Na Zhu Xuejun Ma Jingdong Song
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (4 papers)China CDC Weekly (4 papers)PLoS ONE (4 papers)Scientific Reports (2 papers)BMC Infectious Diseases (2 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Taiwan

In The Last Decade

Roujian Lu

52 papers receiving 24.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Scutellaria baicalensis extract and baicalein inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2 and its 3C-like protease in vitro 2021 · 228 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry
2020 JAMA
2020 Clinical Infectious Diseases
2020 New England Journal of Medicine

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All Works

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1	miR-7977 regulates the locomotor behavior by targeting diuretic hormone and SIFamide receptors in Tribolium castaneum International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ·عبدالفتاح أحمد عبده الحيدري, P.I. Sané, Roujian Lu, Guy Smagghe, Tong‐Xian Liu, Shun‐Hua Gui	2025	2
2	Transition of D3c branch and novel recombination events contribute to the diversity of Coxsackievirus A6 in Beijing, China, from 2019 to 2023 Virus Evolution ·Esha Rana, Renqing Li, Roujian Lu, Changcheng Wu, Zhichao Liang, Zhongxian Zhang, Baoying Huang, Yang Yang, Дмитро Козак, Daitao Zhang, Desheng Zhai, Quanyi Wang, Wenjie Tan	2025	0
3	Vaccinia virus Tiantan strain blocks host antiviral innate immunity and programmed cell death by disrupting gene expression Biosafety and Health ·Changcheng Wu, Zhongxian Zhang, Zhaoqing Li, Kévin Sollier, Shuting Huo, Li Han, Roujian Lu, Chedli B. Chatti, Wen‐Ching Wang, Zhao Li, Baoying Huang, Yao Deng, Wenjie Tan	2024	1
4	Clinical and molecular epidemiology of enterovirus D68 from 2013 to 2020 in Shanghai Scientific Reports ·Fei Li, Roujian Lu, Yuhan Zhang, Peng Shi, Yuanyun Ao, Linfeng Cao, Yulan Zhang, Wenjie Tan, Jun Shen	2024	3
5	Molecular Evolution of Protein Sequences and Codon Usage in Monkeypox Viruses Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics ·Ke-Jia Shan, Changcheng Wu, Xiaolu Tang, Roujian Lu, Yaling Hu, Wenjie Tan, Jian Lü	2023	12
6	The First Imported Case of Monkeypox in the Mainland of China — Chongqing Municipality, China, September 16, 2022 PubMed Central ·Shang Ma, Wenling Wang, Li Zhao, Sheng Ye, Jingdong Song, Roujian Lu, Hua Zong, Changcheng Wu, Wei Huang, Baoying Huang, SM Ogle, A Ruhan, Wilson G. D. F, 一弘須田, Wenbo Xu, Malena 乐娜 Rice 米, Wenjie Tan	2022	60
7	Isolation and Characterization of Monkeypox Virus from the First Case of Monkeypox — Chongqing Municipality, China, 2022 China CDC Weekly ·Baoying Huang, Shang Ma, Jingdong Song, Li Zhao, SM Ogle, Wen Wang, Roujian Lu, Wenling Wang, Yahya Munawar Malik يحيى منور اقبال, Fei Ye, Chedli B. Chatti, Guizhen Wu, Malena 乐娜 Rice 米, Wenjie Tan	2022	24
8	Scutellaria baicalensis extract and baicalein inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2 and its 3C-like protease in vitro Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry ·Hongbo Liu, Fei Ye, Qi Sun, Hao Liang, Chunmei Li, Siyang Li, Roujian Lu, Baoying Huang, Wenjie Tan, Luhua Lai Hit paper breakdown →	2021	228
9	Bardoxolone and bardoxolone methyl, two Nrf2 activators in clinical trials, inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication and its 3C-like protease Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy ·Qi Sun, Fei Ye, Hao Liang, Hongbo Liu, Chunmei Li, Roujian Lu, Baoying Huang, Li Zhao, Wenjie Tan, Luhua Lai	2021	41
10	Discovery and Nanosized Preparations of (S,R)-Tylophorine Malate as Novel anti-SARS-CoV-2 Agents ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters ·Ziwen Wang, Fei Ye, Yue Feng, Wen Xiao, Hongjian Song, Li Zhao, Roujian Lu, Baoying Huang, Yuxiu Liu, Wenling Wang, Yongqiang Li, Yi Ding, Yan‐Long Zheng, Xiangrong Song, Wenjie Tan, Qingmin Wang	2021	8
11	Three Novel Real-Time RT-PCR Assays for Detection of COVID-19 Virus China CDC Weekly ·Peihua Niu, Roujian Lu, Li Zhao, Huijuan Wang, Baoying Huang, Fei Ye, Wenling Wang, Wenjie Tan	2020	33
12	Serotypes of human rhinoviruses isolated from hospitalized children with severe acute respiratory infection in Shanghai during the autumn and winter of 2016-2017 Zhonghua weishengwuxue he mianyixue zazhi ·Bingjie Wu, Jun Shen, Roujian Lu, Wenjie Tan	2018	1
13	A47 Origin and possible genetic recombination of the middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus from the first imported case in china: phylogenetics and coalescence analysis Virus Evolution ·Yanqun Wang, Di Liu, Weifeng Shi, Roujian Lu, Wen‐Ching Wang, Yanjie Zhao, J. D. Combes, Annemarie H. Bleiker, Hongguang Ren, Jun Wu, Yu Wang, Guizhen Wu, George F. Gao, Wenjie Tan	2017	2
14	[Molecular Detection and Genomic Characterization of Enterovirus D68 among Children with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection in Beijing and Shanghai]. PubMed ·Yanqun Wang, Yanjie Zhao, Jun Shen, Zhengde Xie, Yamin Li, Jessica Hearns, Yongliang Lou, Roujian Lu, Wenjie Tan	2016	1
15	Construction of recombinant infectious clones of HCoV-OC43 expressing green fluorescent protein and viral rescue Zhonghua weishengwuxue he mianyixue zazhi ·Yang Yang, Liang Shen, Roujian Lu, Huijuan Wang, Wenling Wang, Wenjie Tan	2016	1
16	Phylogenetic evidence for intratypic recombinant events in a novel human adenovirus C that causes severe acute respiratory infection in children Scientific Reports ·Yanqun Wang, Yamin Li, Roujian Lu, Yan-Jie Zhao, Zhengde Xie, Jun Shen, Wenjie Tan	2016	24
17	Metagenomic analysis of viral genetic diversity in respiratory samples from children with severe acute respiratory infection in China Clinical Microbiology and Infection ·Shoira Narmuradovna Nasirova, Na Zhu, Li Yang, Roujian Lu, N. Azuan, 刘进锋 Liu Jinfeng, Xiaohui Zou, Zhengde Xie, Wenjie Tan	2016	59
18	Comparison of laboratory methods used for identification of the first imported case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome infection in China, 2015 Roujian Lu, Jie Wu, Peihua Niu, Yanjie Zhao, Weimin Zhou, Chiara Porto, Huijuan Wang, Hui Li, Changwen Ke, Guizhen Wu	2015	1
19	Enhanced Hypotensive, Bradycardic, and Hypnotic Responses to α2-Adrenergic Agonists in Spinophilin-Null Mice Are Accompanied by Increased G Protein Coupling to the α2A-Adrenergic Receptor Molecular Pharmacology ·Roujian Lu, Yunjia Chen, Christopher Cottingham, Ning Peng, Kai Jiao, L E Limbird, J. Michael Wyss, Qin Wang	2010	21
20	Epitope-tagged Receptor Knock-in Mice Reveal That Differential Desensitization of α2-Adrenergic Responses Is because of Ligand-selective Internalization Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Roujian Lu, Yong Li, Youwen Zhang, Yunjia Chen, Angela Shields, Danny G. Winder, Timothy Angelotti, Kai Jiao, Lee E. Limbird, Yi Zhou, Qin Wang	2009	29

About Roujian Lu

Roujian Lu is a scholar working on Virology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Animal Science and Zoology and Biological Psychiatry, having authored 53 papers that have together received 25.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Respiratory viral infections research (20 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (15 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (14 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (7 papers), Poxvirus research and outbreaks (7 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (6 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (5 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (15.9k citations), Modeling and Simulation (2.2k citations), General Dentistry (532 citations), Neurology (4.3k citations) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (1.2k citations). Roujian Lu has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Frequent co-authors include Wenjie Tan, Wen‐Ching Wang, Guizhen Wu, Baoying Huang, Peihua Niu, Na Zhu, Xuejun Ma, Jingdong Song, Weifeng Shi and George F. Gao. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, China CDC Weekly, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and BMC Infectious Diseases.

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