Xi Cheng

14.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
54 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Xi Cheng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Xi Cheng has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Organic Chemistry and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Xi Cheng's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (8 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Xi Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (8 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Xi Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xi Cheng's co-authors include Wonpil Im, Yifei Qi, Jumin Lee, Sunhwan Jo, Jeffery B. Klauda, Caixia Gao, Jin‐Long Qiu, Yanpeng Wang, Qiwei Shan and Yi Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xi Cheng

52 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

CHARMM-GUI Input Generator for NAMD, GROMACS, AMBER, OpenMM, and CHARMM/OpenMM Simulations Using the CHARMM36 Additive Force Field

2015 2.8k citations Jumin Lee, Xi Cheng et al. profile →
CHARMM-GUIMembrane Buildertoward realistic biological membrane simulations

2014 1.8k citations Xi Cheng, Sunhwan Jo et al. profile →
Simultaneous editing of three homoeoalleles in hexaploid bread wheat confers heritable resistance to powdery mildew

2014 1.3k citations Xi Cheng, Caixia Gao et al. profile →
CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder for Complex Biological Membrane Simulations with Glycolipids and Lipoglycans

2018 418 citations Jumin Lee, Xi Cheng et al. profile →
CHARMM-GUI Martini Maker for Coarse-Grained Simulations with the Martini Force Field

2015 350 citations Yifei Qi, Xi Cheng et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xi Cheng

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Easily accessible 3D flow fields through 3D-patterned GDL to enhance PEMFC performance via excellent water–gas separation transport 2025 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Xi Cheng, Can He, Qinglin Wen, Yuzhuo Jiang, Wenbin Li, Jiahao Huang, (unknown), Xingyu Zhu, (unknown), Fandi Ning, Lin Sun, Bin Tian, Xiaochun Zhou	2
2	Screening and discovery of an antiviral candidate inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 envelope (2-E) channel 2025 ·Current Research in Microbial Sciences ·Han Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yan Zhang, Ziyue Li, (unknown), (unknown), Jingshan Shen, Xi Cheng, Shibo Jiang, Zhaobing Gao, Xinling Wang, Xiangrui Jiang, Bingqing Xia	1
3	Risk and prognosis for brain metastasis in primary metastatic cervical cancer patients: A population-based study 2025 ·Open Medicine ·(unknown), Qing Xu, Huixia Huang, Yangyang Pang, Haoran Li, Xi Cheng	0
4	Establishing benchmarks to determine the embodied carbon performance of high-speed rail systems 2024 ·Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·(unknown), Xiaodong Li, (unknown), (unknown), Jian Chen, Peng Chen, Xi Cheng	1
5	Advances in the Research on Plant WRKY Transcription Factors Responsive to External Stresses 2023 ·Current Issues in Molecular Biology ·(unknown), Xi Cheng, Dongmei Yin, Dongliang Chen, (unknown), Hua Liu, (unknown)	36
6	Antagonistic control of seed dormancy in rice by two bHLH transcription factors 2022 ·Nature Genetics ·Fan Xu, Jiuyou Tang, Shengxing Wang, Xi Cheng, Hongru Wang, Shujun Ou, Shaopei Gao, Boshu Li, Yangwen Qian, Caixia Gao, Chengcai Chu	62
7	Molecular insights into differentiated ligand recognition of the human parathyroid hormone receptor 2 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Xi Cheng, Lihua Zhao, Yuzhe Wang, Chenyu Ye, Xinyu Zou, Antao Dai, Zhaotong Cong, Jian Chen, Qingtong Zhou, Tian Xia, Hualiang Jiang, H. Eric Xu, Dehua Yang, Ming‐Wei Wang	25
8	Structures of the human dopamine D3 receptor-Gi complexes 2021 ·Molecular Cell ·Peiyu Xu, Sijie Huang, Chunyou Mao, B. Krumm, X. Edward Zhou, Yangxia Tan, Xi‐Ping Huang, Yongfeng Liu, Dandan Shen, Yi Jiang, Xuekui Yu, Hualiang Jiang, Karsten Melcher, Bryan L. Roth, Xi Cheng, Yan Zhang, H. Eric Xu	57
9	Crystal Structures of Membrane Transporter MmpL3, an Anti-TB Drug Target 2019 ·Cell ·Bing Zhang, Jun Li, Xiaolin Yang, Lijie Wu, Jia Zhang, Yang Yang, Yao Zhao, Lu Zhang, Xiuna Yang, Xiaobao Yang, Xi Cheng, Zhi‐Jie Liu, Biao Jiang, Hualiang Jiang, Luke W. Guddat, Haitao Yang, Zihe Rao	183
10	Concentration Dependent Effects of Ca<sup>2+</sup> and Mg<sup>2+</sup> on the Phosphatidylethanolamine-Phosphatidylglycerol Bilayer 2019 ·Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica ·Tao Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Xi Cheng, (unknown), Xin Yan, Bo Peng, Hualiang Jiang, Huaiyu Yang	3
11	A review of development and reform of emission permit system in China 2019 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·(unknown), Wang Jinnan, Hongqiang Jiang, Dong Cao, (unknown), Jun Bi, Jing Zhang, Xi Cheng	11
12	Animals as amplification hosts in the spread of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus: A systematic review and meta-analysis 2018 ·International Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Can Chen, Peng Li, Kefeng Li, Hongling Wang, Yaxin Dai, Xi Cheng, Jianbo Yan	76
13	An allosteric ligand-binding site in the extracellular cap of K2P channels 2017 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Liping Chen, Xi Cheng, (unknown), Xiao‐Na Li, Bing Zhang, Li Li, Shilei Zhang, Fei Guo, Yang Li, Huaiyu Yang	34
14	CHARMM-GUI HMMM Builder for Membrane Simulations with the Highly Mobile Membrane-Mimetic Model 2015 ·Biophysical Journal ·Yifei Qi, Xi Cheng, Jumin Lee, Josh V. Vermaas, Taras V. Pogorelov, Emad Tajkhorshid, Soohyung Park, Jeffery B. Klauda, Wonpil Im	89
15	Molecular dynamics simulation strategies for protein–micelle complexes 2015 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Xi Cheng, Jin‐Kyoung Kim, Yangmee Kim, James U. Bowie, Wonpil Im	17
16	CHARMM-GUI PDB Manipulator for Advanced Modeling and Simulations of Proteins Containing Nonstandard Residues 2014 ·Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology ·Sunhwan Jo, Xi Cheng, Shahidul M. Islam, Lei Huang, Huan Rui, Allen Zhu, Hui Sun Lee, Yifei Qi, Wei Han, Kenno Vanommeslaeghe, Alexander D. MacKerell, Benoı̂t Roux, Wonpil Im	256
17	NMR-Based Simulation Studies of Pf1 Coat Protein in Explicit Membranes 2013 ·Biophysical Journal ·Xi Cheng, Sunhwan Jo, Francesca M. Marassi, Wonpil Im	15
18	The interaction between strigolactones and other plant hormones in the regulation of plant development 2013 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·Xi Cheng, Carolien Ruyter‐Spira, Harro J. Bouwmeester	138
19	Advances on molecular mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions 2012 ·Hereditas (Beijing) ·Xi Cheng, (unknown), (unknown), Jin‐Long Qiu	10
20	Identification and Genetic Analysis of Two Putative SDD1 Alleles in Arabidopsis 2010 ·Chinese Bulletin of Botany ·Kai Liang, Pingping Qian, Xi Cheng, Qianqian Qin, (unknown), Yanping Zhang, Suiwen Hou	1

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