Wei‐Qun Ding

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Wei‐Qun Ding is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei‐Qun Ding has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Cancer Research and 15 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Wei‐Qun Ding's work include MicroRNA in disease regulation (20 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (15 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (10 papers). Wei‐Qun Ding is often cited by papers focused on MicroRNA in disease regulation (20 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (15 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (10 papers). Wei‐Qun Ding collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Wei‐Qun Ding's co-authors include Bethany N. Hannafon, Stuart E. Lind, Jinchang Wu, Yvonne D. Trigoso, David H. Lum, Alana L. Welm, William C. Dooley, Yan D. Zhao, Zhizhuang Joe Zhao and Kenneth E. Blick and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cancer Research and The FASEB Journal.

In The Last Decade

Wei‐Qun Ding

59 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Plasma exosome microRNAs are indicative of breast cancer

2016 474 citations Bethany N. Hannafon, Wei‐Qun Ding et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei‐Qun Ding United States	20	1.3k	841	345	244	157	62	1.9k
Bethany N. Hannafon United States	19	1.8k 1.5×	1.4k 1.7×	252 0.7×	143 0.6×	135 0.9×	40	2.3k
Wei-Qun Ding United States	24	1.5k 1.2×	989 1.2×	379 1.1×	264 1.1×	32 0.2×	38	2.2k
Léa Payen France	26	784 0.6×	253 0.3×	1.0k 3.0×	143 0.6×	153 1.0×	97	2.1k
Kristen M. Pluchino United States	10	1.0k 0.8×	293 0.3×	1.1k 3.3×	110 0.5×	207 1.3×	14	2.0k
Qiu‐Xu Teng United States	25	932 0.7×	261 0.3×	964 2.8×	74 0.3×	206 1.3×	50	1.6k
Shailender S. Kanwar India	15	1.2k 1.0×	617 0.7×	515 1.5×	66 0.3×	38 0.2×	37	1.8k
Hubert Lincet France	24	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	461 1.3×	46 0.2×	72 0.5×	35	2.3k
Changqing Yang China	26	776 0.6×	422 0.5×	201 0.6×	51 0.2×	50 0.3×	92	1.7k
Jörg Fahrer Germany	26	1.0k 0.8×	313 0.4×	519 1.5×	50 0.2×	62 0.4×	64	1.8k
Christophe Blanquart France	26	1.6k 1.3×	376 0.4×	503 1.5×	185 0.8×	44 0.3×	80	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei‐Qun Ding

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei‐Qun Ding

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jiang, Qipeng, Meng Yang, Chunhua Weng, et al.. (2025). Tobacco black shank disease significantly affects the composition and assembly of the genotype-associated microbial community in the rhizosphere. Applied Soil Ecology. 209. 106039–106039.

Dogra, Samrita, Fariba Behbod, Chao Xu, et al.. (2025). Preferential release of microRNAs via extracellular vesicles is associated with ductal carcinoma in situ to invasive breast cancer progression. Cancer Letters. 625. 217794–217794. 1 indexed citations

Ding, Wei‐Qun, et al.. (2024). Protein Arginine Methyltransferases in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: New Molecular Targets for Therapy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(7). 3958–3958. 4 indexed citations

Janknecht, Ralf, et al.. (2024). The Influence of Melanoma Extracellular Vesicles on Benign Melanocytes: A Role for PRAME in Modulation of the Tumor Microenvironment. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 145(7). 1717–1727.e2.

Morris, Katherine T., et al.. (2024). Protein Arginine Methylation Patterns in Plasma Small Extracellular Vesicles Are Altered in Patients with Early-Stage Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Cancers. 16(3). 654–654. 3 indexed citations

Feng, Yahui, Liming Gu, Wei Mo, et al.. (2024). Tetrahydrobiopterin metabolism attenuates ROS generation and radiosensitivity through LDHA S-nitrosylation: novel insight into radiogenic lung injury. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 56(5). 1107–1122. 9 indexed citations

Xu, Xiaohui, et al.. (2023). miR-18a and miR-106a Signatures in Plasma Small EVs Are Promising Biomarkers for Early Detection of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(8). 7215–7215. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Yongzhen, et al.. (2023). Gut Microbiota Enterotypes Mediate the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Colorectal Neoplasm Risk in a Chinese Population. Nutrients. 15(13). 2940–2940. 7 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoqing, Fei Shen, Zhuqiang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Polymerase iota (POLI) confers radioresistance of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by regulating RAD51 stability and facilitating homologous recombination. Cell Death Discovery. 9(1). 291–291. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, et al.. (2023). Non-coding RNAs in lung cancer: molecular mechanisms and clinical applications. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1256537–1256537. 41 indexed citations

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Wu, Jinchang, et al.. (2022). Pancreatic Ductal Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Are Effective Drug Carriers to Enhance Paclitaxel’s Efficacy in Pancreatic Cancer Cells through Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(9). 4773–4773. 19 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoqing, Shitao Zou, Chao He, et al.. (2021). DNA Polymerase Iota Promotes Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Proliferation Through Erk-OGT-Induced G6PD Overactivation. Frontiers in Oncology. 11. 706337–706337. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Yifan, Xiaohui Xu, Blaine H. M. Mooers, et al.. (2020). SRSF1 regulates exosome microRNA enrichment in human cancer cells. Cell Communication and Signaling. 18(1). 130–130. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Yifan, et al.. (2019). The origin of exosomal miR-1246 in human cancer cells. RNA Biology. 16(6). 770–784. 49 indexed citations

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Hannafon, Bethany N., et al.. (2019). Metastasis-associated protein 1 (MTA1) is transferred by exosomes and contributes to the regulation of hypoxia and estrogen signaling in breast cancer cells. Cell Communication and Signaling. 17(1). 13–13. 53 indexed citations

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Ning, Zhonghua, Shitao Zou, Chao Gu, et al.. (2019). Integrin-Linked Kinase Is Involved In the Proliferation and Invasion of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Journal of Cancer. 11(2). 324–333. 10 indexed citations

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Jiao, Yang, et al.. (2018). Sorafenib and docosahexaenoic acid act in synergy to suppress cancer cell viability: a role of heme oxygenase 1. BMC Cancer. 18(1). 1042–1042. 9 indexed citations

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Xue, Jing, Amanda Moyer, Bing Peng, et al.. (2014). Chloroquine Is a Zinc Ionophore. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109180–e109180. 179 indexed citations

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Xue, Jing, Shuai Wang, Jinchang Wu, Bethany N. Hannafon, & Wei‐Qun Ding. (2013). Zinc at Sub-Cytotoxic Concentrations Induces Heme Oxygenase-1 Expression in Human Cancer Cells. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry. 32(1). 100–110. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jundong, Shuyu Zhang, Ling Xie, et al.. (2012). Overexpression of DNA polymerase iota (Polι) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Science. 103(8). 1574–1579. 38 indexed citations

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