Wenhua Liang

60.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
282 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Wenhua Liang is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenhua Liang has authored 282 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 122 papers in Oncology and 62 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Wenhua Liang's work include Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (98 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (71 papers) and Lung Cancer Research Studies (40 papers). Wenhua Liang is often cited by papers focused on Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (98 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (71 papers) and Lung Cancer Research Studies (40 papers). Wenhua Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Wenhua Liang's co-authors include Jianxing He, Hengrui Liang, Caichen Li, Wei‐jie Guan, Wei Wang, Jianfu Li, Shiyue Li, Ruchong Chen, Ke Xu and Weixiang Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Wenhua Liang

261 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

Cancer patients in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2020 2020 2015 2021 2024 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Cancer patients in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a nationwide analysis in China
    2020 2.9k citations Wenhua Liang, Wei Wang et al. The Lancet Oncology profile →
  2. Development and Validation of a Clinical Risk Score to Predict the Occurrence of Critical Illness in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19
    2020 829 citations Wenhua Liang, Hengrui Liang et al. profile →
  3. Development and Validation of a Nomogram for Predicting Survival in Patients With Resected Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
    2015 470 citations Wenhua Liang, Jianxing He et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →
  4. The association between CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and the clinical outcome of cancer immunotherapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    2021 211 citations Feng Li, Caichen Li et al. profile →
  5. Global cancer statistics for adolescents and young adults: population based study
    2024 41 citations Hengrui Liang, Shen Lao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wenhua Liang China 41 5.1k 3.4k 2.2k 1.4k 1.2k 282 9.7k
Wei Wang China 43 4.2k 0.8× 2.8k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 823 0.7× 440 9.9k
Christopher M. Booth Canada 44 3.2k 0.6× 1.7k 0.5× 985 0.5× 1.9k 1.3× 645 0.5× 323 8.7k
Mieke Van Hemelrijck United Kingdom 47 2.3k 0.4× 2.4k 0.7× 474 0.2× 1.5k 1.1× 420 0.4× 364 7.8k
Francesco De Cobelli Italy 50 1.6k 0.3× 3.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 2.8k 2.4× 357 10.5k
Diego Serraino Italy 57 5.7k 1.1× 2.2k 0.7× 971 0.5× 1.9k 1.3× 172 0.1× 379 12.6k
Joseph Aisner United States 55 5.2k 1.0× 3.9k 1.2× 766 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 453 0.4× 308 10.8k
Vincent Launay‐Vacher France 40 10.6k 2.1× 4.8k 1.4× 816 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 857 0.7× 158 16.3k
Marianne Paesmans Belgium 57 7.9k 1.5× 4.3k 1.3× 546 0.3× 1.0k 0.7× 1.7k 1.4× 337 13.0k
Paolo Bruzzi Italy 67 5.1k 1.0× 1.7k 0.5× 434 0.2× 1.7k 1.2× 617 0.5× 325 14.3k
Christopher R. Flowers United States 61 9.8k 1.9× 2.7k 0.8× 322 0.1× 1.7k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 549 19.5k

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All Works

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Li, Cheng, Ju Guan, Wenhua Liang, et al.. (2025). OsWRKY72 enhances salt tolerance in rice via SKC1-mediated Na+ regulation. Plant Stress. 17. 100962–100962. 2 indexed citations
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Zhong, Ran, et al.. (2024). Exhaled Volatile Organic Compounds Detection in Pneumonia Screening: A Comprehensive Meta-analysis. Lung. 202(5). 501–511. 2 indexed citations
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Deng, Hongsheng, Juan Zhou, Hualin Chen, et al.. (2023). Impact of lymphadenectomy extent on immunotherapy efficacy in postresectional recurred non-small cell lung cancer: a multi-institutional retrospective cohort study. International Journal of Surgery. 110(1). 238–252. 29 indexed citations
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Peng, Haoxin, Xiangrong Wu, Shaopeng Liu, et al.. (2023). Multiplex immunofluorescence and single‐cell transcriptomic profiling reveal the spatial cell interaction networks in the non‐small cell lung cancer microenvironment. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 13(1). e1155–e1155. 44 indexed citations
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Liang, Wenhua, Bo Wang, Jinsheng Tao, et al.. (2023). A machine learning–based multidimensional model integrating clinical, radiomics, and cell-free DNA methylation biomarkers for the classification of pulmonary nodules.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(16_suppl). 3070–3070. 1 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yuan, Jun Liu, Minghui Wan, et al.. (2023). The association of postoperative radiotherapy with survival in resected N2 non-small cell lung cancer. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 15(1). 42–53. 2 indexed citations
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Liang, Wenhua, Yun Feng, Bo Cheng, Jinghong Li, & Jiaxi He. (2023). 1263MO The impact of PET-CT and brain MRI for metastasis detection among patients with T1-stage lung cancer: Findings from a large cohort study. Annals of Oncology. 34. S732–S732.
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Yang, Yuying, Wenhua Liang, Yaping Zhang, et al.. (2022). Immune Escape Adaptive Mutations in Hemagglutinin Are Responsible for the Antigenic Drift of Eurasian Avian-Like H1N1 Swine Influenza Viruses. Journal of Virology. 96(16). e0097122–e0097122. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Feng, Yi Zhao, Ran Zhong, et al.. (2021). No benefit of chemotherapy in Osimertinib-treated postoperative non-small cell lung cancer patients. Translational Lung Cancer Research. 10(8). 3689–3693. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Bo, Hongsheng Deng, Yi Zhao, et al.. (2021). Management for Residual Ground-Glass Opacity Lesions After Resection of Main Tumor in Multifocal Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review. Cancer Management and Research. Volume 13. 977–985. 10 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yuan, Nicholas R. Mayne, Chi‐Fu Jeffrey Yang, et al.. (2019). A Nomogram for Predicting Cancer-Specific Survival of TNM 8th Edition Stage I Non-small-cell Lung Cancer. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 26(7). 2053–2062. 48 indexed citations
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Liu, Yang, Lanlan Shan, Jianfei Shen, et al.. (2019). Choice of surgical procedure – lobectomy, segmentectomy, or wedge resection – for patients with stage T1‐2N0M0 small cell lung cancer: A population‐based study. Thoracic Cancer. 10(4). 593–600. 19 indexed citations
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Wen, Yaokai, Hengrui Liang, Zhichao Liu, et al.. (2019). Non-intubated spontaneous ventilation in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a meta-analysis. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 57(3). 428–437. 27 indexed citations
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He, Jiaxi, Jiaxi He, Jianfei Shen, et al.. (2017). Prognosis of primary tracheal tumor: A population‐based analysis. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 115(8). 1004–1010. 18 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yuan, Jiaxi He, Jiaxi He, et al.. (2016). Adoptive Immunotherapy in Postoperative Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0162630–e0162630. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Zhihuang, Wenhua Liang, Yunpeng Yang, et al.. (2016). Personalized Estimate of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting. Medicine. 95(2). e2476–e2476. 18 indexed citations
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Liang, Wenhua, et al.. (2011). Thenar Palmprint Image Binary Classification Method Based on SVM. Jisuanji gongcheng. 37(18). 209–210. 1 indexed citations

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