Weiran Feng

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Weiran Feng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiran Feng has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Weiran Feng's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (5 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (4 papers). Weiran Feng is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (5 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (4 papers). Weiran Feng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Weiran Feng's co-authors include Maria Jasin, Yu Zhang, Rohit Prakash, Pei Xin Lim, Chun-Chin Chen, Elizabeth M. Kass, Mark Tomishima, Erika Brunet, Loélia Babin and Khadija Lamribet and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Weiran Feng

12 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Homologous Recombination and Human Health: The Roles of BRCA1, BRCA2, and Associated Proteins

2015 589 citations Rohit Prakash, Yu Zhang et al. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weiran Feng United States	10	940	479	245	173	71	14	1.1k
Yi-Tzu Lin United States	12	903 1.0×	275 0.6×	285 1.2×	275 1.6×	80 1.1×	14	1.1k
Ji-Young Kim South Korea	9	836 0.9×	371 0.8×	224 0.9×	239 1.4×	26 0.4×	20	1.1k
Rachel Litman Flynn United States	12	1.3k 1.4×	271 0.6×	122 0.5×	162 0.9×	76 1.1×	18	1.5k
Valérie Borel United Kingdom	15	1.2k 1.2×	367 0.8×	97 0.4×	118 0.7×	84 1.2×	21	1.3k
Massimo Bogliolo Spain	16	608 0.6×	122 0.3×	170 0.7×	165 1.0×	50 0.7×	28	740
Jiřı́ Hatina Czechia	16	475 0.5×	251 0.5×	225 0.9×	184 1.1×	18 0.3×	38	906
Serena Fernandez Italy	9	916 1.0×	530 1.1×	84 0.3×	343 2.0×	52 0.7×	9	1.1k
Wenlin Chen China	15	777 0.8×	239 0.5×	163 0.7×	206 1.2×	53 0.7×	36	952
Zi-Qiang Zhou United States	11	780 0.8×	212 0.4×	113 0.5×	234 1.4×	71 1.0×	11	854
Linda Hartmann Germany	8	531 0.6×	173 0.4×	132 0.5×	173 1.0×	51 0.7×	10	804

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weiran Feng

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14 of 14 papers shown

Feng, Weiran, Erik Ladewig, HuiYong Zhao, et al.. (2025). ERG-driven prostate cancer initiation is cell-context dependent and requires KMT2A and DOT1L. Nature Genetics. 57(9). 2177–2191.

Xiao, Xiao, Shiqi Liu, Weiran Feng, et al.. (2024). Response of tomatoes to inactivated endophyte LSE01 under combined stress of high-temperature and drought. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 207. 108321–108321. 4 indexed citations

Lim, Pei Xin, et al.. (2024). BRCA2 promotes genomic integrity and therapy resistance primarily through its role in homology-directed repair. Molecular Cell. 84(3). 447–462.e10. 29 indexed citations

Xiao, Xiao, Ting Liu, Wei Ren, et al.. (2023). Targeted control of soil erosion through selective regulation of Eleocharis yokoscensis using mixed endophytes. CATENA. 232. 107415–107415. 2 indexed citations

Feng, Weiran, Xiao Xiao, Junjie Li, et al.. (2023). Bioleaching and immobilizing of copper and zinc using endophytes coupled with biochar-hydroxyapatite: Bipolar remediation for heavy metals contaminated mining soils. Chemosphere. 315. 137730–137730. 22 indexed citations

Li, Guoliang, Lindsay J. Celada, Wenfu Lu, et al.. (2023). Lysosome‐dependent FOXA1 ubiquitination contributes to luminal lineage of advanced prostate cancer. Molecular Oncology. 17(10). 2126–2146. 10 indexed citations

Wasmuth, Elizabeth V., Arnaud Vanden Broeck, Kayla E. Lawrence, et al.. (2022). Allosteric interactions prime androgen receptor dimerization and activation. Molecular Cell. 82(11). 2021–2031.e5. 32 indexed citations

Feng, Weiran, Zhen Cao, Pei Xin Lim, et al.. (2021). Rapid interrogation of cancer cell of origin through CRISPR editing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(32). 14 indexed citations

Vanoli, Fabio, Mark Tomishima, Weiran Feng, et al.. (2017). CRISPR-Cas9–guided oncogenic chromosomal translocations with conditional fusion protein expression in human mesenchymal cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(14). 3696–3701. 40 indexed citations

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Feng, Weiran & Maria Jasin. (2017). BRCA2 suppresses replication stress-induced mitotic and G1 abnormalities through homologous recombination. Nature Communications. 8(1). 525–525. 121 indexed citations

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Feng, Weiran & Maria Jasin. (2017). Homologous Recombination and Replication Fork Protection: BRCA2 and More!. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 82. 329–338. 47 indexed citations

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Chen, Chun-Chin, Weiran Feng, Pei Xin Lim, Elizabeth M. Kass, & Maria Jasin. (2017). Homology-Directed Repair and the Role of BRCA1, BRCA2, and Related Proteins in Genome Integrity and Cancer. PubMed. 2(1). 313–336. 216 indexed citations

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Feng, Weiran, et al.. (2017). A light intensity monitoring method using FBG-based fiber optic sensor. 30. 1–3.

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Prakash, Rohit, Yu Zhang, Weiran Feng, & Maria Jasin. (2015). Homologous Recombination and Human Health: The Roles of BRCA1, BRCA2, and Associated Proteins. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 7(4). a016600–a016600. 589 indexed citations breakdown →

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