Shiya Cheng

758 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 492 citations indexed

About

Shiya Cheng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Aging and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shiya Cheng has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 492 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Aging and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Shiya Cheng's work include RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (4 papers). Shiya Cheng is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (4 papers). Shiya Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Shiya Cheng's co-authors include Xiaochen Wang, Melina Schuh, Chun So, Wei Zou, Hong Zhang, Yanwei Wu, Henning Urlaub, Luisa M. Welp, Alexandra Stützer and Baohui Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Shiya Cheng

14 papers receiving 484 citations

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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.

HIV-1 capsids enter the FG phase of nuclear pores like a transport receptor

2024 49 citations Liran Fu, Shiya Cheng et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shiya Cheng China	11	258	151	102	99	90	15	492
Mario Dejung Germany	13	331 1.3×	168 1.1×	13 0.1×	25 0.3×	101 1.1×	22	519
Edith Browaeys France	12	159 0.6×	46 0.3×	19 0.2×	56 0.6×	143 1.6×	16	416
Suvagata Roy Chowdhury Germany	8	195 0.8×	100 0.7×	50 0.5×	17 0.2×	11 0.1×	10	351
Joseph F. Welk United States	8	293 1.1×	13 0.1×	49 0.5×	79 0.8×	55 0.6×	11	368
Ayako Sakamoto Japan	10	346 1.3×	66 0.4×	7 0.1×	146 1.5×	30 0.3×	14	539
Tamika K. Samuel United States	7	150 0.6×	52 0.3×	37 0.4×	44 0.4×	53 0.6×	7	353
Sharon L. Karmon United States	7	615 2.4×	69 0.5×	17 0.2×	171 1.7×	17 0.2×	7	758
Sharon Wui Sing Tan Singapore	6	128 0.5×	35 0.2×	18 0.2×	16 0.2×	138 1.5×	6	391
Kausik Chakrabarti United States	11	224 0.9×	37 0.2×	20 0.2×	29 0.3×	147 1.6×	20	417
Katarzyna M. Tyc United States	10	198 0.8×	25 0.2×	21 0.2×	23 0.2×	57 0.6×	18	301

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shiya Cheng

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Fu, Liran, et al.. (2025). Nuclear pore passage of the HIV capsid is driven by its unusual surface amino acid composition. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(12). 2476–2491.

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Heim, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Translational repression by 4E-T is crucial to maintain the prophase-I arrest in vertebrate oocytes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8051–8051. 1 indexed citations

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Fu, Liran, et al.. (2024). HIV-1 capsids enter the FG phase of nuclear pores like a transport receptor. Nature. 626(8000). 843–851. 49 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Shiya & Melina Schuh. (2024). Two mechanisms repress cyclin B1 translation to maintain prophase arrest in mouse oocytes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10044–10044. 5 indexed citations

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Zaffagnini, Gabriele, Shiya Cheng, Marion Claudia Salzer, et al.. (2024). Mouse oocytes sequester aggregated proteins in degradative super-organelles. Cell. 187(5). 1109–1126.e21. 26 indexed citations

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Welp, Luisa M., Shiya Cheng, Alexandra Stützer, et al.. (2024). The maintenance of oocytes in the mammalian ovary involves extreme protein longevity. Nature Cell Biology. 26(7). 1124–1138. 26 indexed citations

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Cheng, Shiya, Chun So, Luisa M. Welp, et al.. (2022). Mammalian oocytes store mRNAs in a mitochondria-associated membraneless compartment. Science. 378(6617). eabq4835–eabq4835. 94 indexed citations

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So, Chun, Shiya Cheng, & Melina Schuh. (2021). Phase Separation during Germline Development. Trends in Cell Biology. 31(4). 254–268. 52 indexed citations

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Hu, Jun-Yan, Shiya Cheng, Haibin Wang, et al.. (2019). Distinct roles of two myosins in C. elegans spermatid differentiation. PLoS Biology. 17(4). e3000211–e3000211. 18 indexed citations

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Cheng, Shiya, Kai Liu, Chonglin Yang, & Xiaochen Wang. (2016). Dissecting Phagocytic Removal of Apoptotic Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans. Methods in molecular biology. 1519. 265–284. 2 indexed citations

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Cheng, Shiya, Wei Zou, Rui Miao, et al.. (2015). PtdIns(4,5)P2 and PtdIns3P coordinate to regulate phagosomal sealing for apoptotic cell clearance. The Journal of Cell Biology. 210(3). 485–502. 41 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanwei, Shiya Cheng, Hongyu Zhao, et al.. (2014). PI 3 P phosphatase activity is required for autophagosome maturation and autolysosome formation. EMBO Reports. 15(9). 973–981. 43 indexed citations

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Cheng, Shiya, et al.. (2013). Autophagy genes coordinate with the class II PI/PtdIns 3-kinase PIKI-1 to regulate apoptotic cell clearance inC. elegans. Autophagy. 9(12). 2022–2032. 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Haibin, Qun Lu, Shiya Cheng, Xiaochen Wang, & Hong Zhang. (2013). Autophagy activity contributes to programmed cell death inCaenorhabditis elegans. Autophagy. 9(12). 1975–1982. 35 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Wei Zou, Yihong Yang, et al.. (2012). Autophagy genes function sequentially to promote apoptotic cell corpse degradation in the engulfing cell. The Journal of Cell Biology. 197(1). 27–35. 66 indexed citations

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