Tong Lu

632 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 497 citations indexed

About

Tong Lu is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tong Lu has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 497 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Tong Lu's work include Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (5 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (3 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (2 papers). Tong Lu is often cited by papers focused on Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (5 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (3 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (2 papers). Tong Lu collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Tong Lu's co-authors include Miaolu Tang, Jiao Li, Nan Li, Wei Li, Stephen Y. Chih, Michael Glantz, Dawit Aregawi, Hong‐Gang Wang, Patricia Yee and Brad E. Zacharia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The EMBO Journal and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Tong Lu

8 papers receiving 490 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.

Neutrophil-induced ferroptosis promotes tumor necrosis in glioblastoma progression

2020 302 citations Patricia Yee, Yiju Wei et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tong Lu China	5	203	179	164	134	103	9	497
Amanda M. Hamilton Canada	16	242 1.2×	124 0.7×	220 1.3×	53 0.4×	104 1.0×	37	749
Kohei Nakajima Japan	14	111 0.5×	150 0.8×	145 0.9×	68 0.5×	142 1.4×	55	569
Huiqin Sun China	15	349 1.7×	128 0.7×	251 1.5×	215 1.6×	40 0.4×	18	849
Ziwen Pan China	11	376 1.9×	71 0.4×	94 0.6×	238 1.8×	112 1.1×	14	549
Wan Su Yun South Korea	16	241 1.2×	81 0.5×	411 2.5×	75 0.6×	144 1.4×	25	726
Anna Degrassi Italy	17	226 1.1×	80 0.4×	144 0.9×	145 1.1×	35 0.3×	26	736
Takuhito Narita Japan	8	175 0.9×	95 0.5×	182 1.1×	118 0.9×	28 0.3×	12	578
Tomoya Hikita Japan	15	470 2.3×	108 0.6×	151 0.9×	185 1.4×	75 0.7×	20	688
Yiwei Peng China	7	228 1.1×	41 0.2×	215 1.3×	76 0.6×	134 1.3×	13	419
Yuanyuan Cheng China	10	251 1.2×	105 0.6×	304 1.9×	51 0.4×	80 0.8×	16	550

Countries citing papers authored by Tong Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tong Lu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tong Lu

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Wang, Zepeng, Xinyu Li, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2025). The insular cortex-nucleus tractus solitarius glutamatergic pathway involved in acute stress-induced gastric mucosal damage in rats. Neurobiology of Stress. 36. 100723–100723.

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Lu, Tong, Patricia Yee, Stephen Y. Chih, et al.. (2024). LC3-associated phagocytosis of neutrophils triggers tumor ferroptotic cell death in glioblastoma. The EMBO Journal. 43(13). 2582–2605. 12 indexed citations

3.

Tang, Miaolu, et al.. (2024). Ferroptosis in glioma therapy: advancements in sensitizing strategies and the complex tumor-promoting roles. Brain Research. 1840. 149045–149045. 4 indexed citations

4.

Lu, Tong, et al.. (2022). Iron-based and BRD4-downregulated strategy for amplified ferroptosis based on pH-sensitive/NIR-II-boosted nano-matchbox. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 13(2). 863–878. 20 indexed citations

5.

Yee, Patricia, Yiju Wei, Tong Lu, et al.. (2020). Neutrophil-induced ferroptosis promotes tumor necrosis in glioblastoma progression. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5424–5424. 302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yee, Patricia, Yiju Wei, Soo Yeon Kim, et al.. (2020). TAMI-23. NEUTROPHIL-TRIGGERED FERROPTOSIS PROMOTES TUMOR NECROSIS IN GLIOBLASTOMA PROGRESSION. Neuro-Oncology. 22(Supplement_2). ii218–ii218. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yidan, Tong Lu, Yu Cheng, et al.. (2019). Oxygen-supplementing mesoporous polydopamine nanosponges with WS2 QDs-embedded for CT/MSOT/MR imaging and thermoradiotherapy of hypoxic cancer. Biomaterials. 220. 119405–119405. 113 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yu, Tong Lu, Yidan Wang, et al.. (2019). Glutathione-Mediated Clearable Nanoparticles Based on Ultrasmall Gd₂O₃ for MSOT/CT/MR Imaging Guided Photothermal/Radio Combination Cancer Therapy. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 16(8). 3489–3501. 44 indexed citations

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Chao, Y. J., Zhen Luo, Yongxian Huang, et al.. (2016). Surface Substructure and Properties of ZrB_2p/6061Al Composite Treated by Laser Surface Melting under Extreme Cooling Conditions. High Temperature Materials and Processes. 36(1). 69–77. 1 indexed citations

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