Xi Zhou

6.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
147 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Xi Zhou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xi Zhou has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Infectious Diseases and 25 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Xi Zhou's work include Viral Infections and Immunology Research (18 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (18 papers) and interferon and immune responses (16 papers). Xi Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Immunology Research (18 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (18 papers) and interferon and immune responses (16 papers). Xi Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xi Zhou's co-authors include Yang Qiu, Muhan Huang, Ting Shu, Zhu‐Hong You, Yujie Ren, Tonghai Jiang, Jingfang Mu, Yang Han, Yuanyang Hu and Di Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Xi Zhou

138 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

The ORF3a protein of SARS-CoV-2 induces apoptosis in cells

2020 345 citations Yujie Ren, Jingfang Mu et al. profile →
Fast and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA using suboptimal protospacer adjacent motifs for Cas12a

2022 272 citations Muhan Huang, Yang Qiu et al. profile →
Fast and sensitive CRISPR detection by minimized interference of target amplification

2024 61 citations Xi Zhou et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Xi Zhou	1.9k	1.2k	550	360	358	147	3.7k
Richard Orton	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	279 0.5×	309 0.9×	166 0.5×	82	3.4k
Pei Hao	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	531 1.0×	189 0.5×	93 0.3×	148	4.9k
Aiping Wu	1.3k 0.7×	1.9k 1.5×	515 0.9×	321 0.9×	100 0.3×	125	3.8k
Kenneth Ng	1.6k 0.9×	959 0.8×	499 0.9×	83 0.2×	327 0.9×	101	3.3k
Craig B. Wilen	3.4k 1.8×	2.0k 1.6×	1.0k 1.9×	303 0.8×	493 1.4×	66	6.1k
Alex Sigal	3.2k 1.7×	1.4k 1.2×	606 1.1×	209 0.6×	67 0.2×	46	5.7k
Jiang Du	1.3k 0.7×	751 0.6×	223 0.4×	176 0.5×	333 0.9×	130	2.9k
Marjolein Kikkert	1.9k 1.0×	2.6k 2.1×	1.1k 2.1×	318 0.9×	421 1.2×	69	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Xi Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xi Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xi Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xi Zhou 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 Zhou. Xi Zhou 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

Zhang, Bowen, Xi Zhou, & Yujie Ren. (2025). Host-virus molecular arms race: RNAi-mediated antiviral defense and viral suppressor of RNAi. PubMed. 4(5). 100276–100276.

Wang, Chong, Muhan Huang, Bingyu Guo, et al.. (2025). Severe enterovirus A71 infection is associated with dysfunction of T cell immune response and alleviated by Astragaloside A. Virologica Sinica. 40(3). 451–461.

Wang, An, et al.. (2025). Herpes simplex virus 1 encodes a STING antagonist that can be therapeutically targeted. Cell Reports Medicine. 6(4). 102051–102051. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Xi, Xinyu Zhang, Barbara Vona, et al.. (2024). METTL3-dependent m6A modification of PSEN1 mRNA regulates craniofacial development through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Cell Death and Disease. 15(3). 229–229. 8 indexed citations

Wang, An, et al.. (2024). Single-cell RNA-sequencing reveals a profound immune cell response in human cytomegalovirus-infected humanized mice. Virologica Sinica. 39(5). 782–792. 2 indexed citations

Kong, Jing, et al.. (2023). Alphavirus infection triggers antiviral RNAi immunity in mammals. Cell Reports. 42(5). 112441–112441. 12 indexed citations

Ren, Yujie, et al.. (2023). Human cytomegalovirus UL36 inhibits IRF3-dependent immune signaling to counterbalance its immunoenhancement as apoptotic inhibitor. Science Advances. 9(40). eadi6586–eadi6586. 7 indexed citations

Zhao, Bo-Wei, et al.. (2022). A geometric deep learning framework for drug repositioning over heterogeneous information networks. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 23(6). 82 indexed citations

Yang, Jingyi, Maohua Zhong, Ejuan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Broad phenotypic alterations and potential dysfunction of lymphocytes in individuals clinically recovered from COVID-19. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. 13(3). 197–209. 21 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fang, Linlin Qi, Xiangyue Li, et al.. (2021). HIPK2 phosphorylates HDAC3 for NF-κB acetylation to ameliorate colitis-associated colorectal carcinoma and sepsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(28). 37 indexed citations

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Wang, Lei, Zhu‐Hong You, Xi Zhou, et al.. (2021). NMFCDA: Combining randomization-based neural network with non-negative matrix factorization for predicting CircRNA-disease association. Applied Soft Computing. 110. 107629–107629. 21 indexed citations

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Kwong, Cheryl H. T., Jingfang Mu, Shengke Li, et al.. (2021). Reviving chloroquine for anti-SARS-CoV-2 treatment with cucurbit[7]uril-based supramolecular formulation. Chinese Chemical Letters. 32(10). 3019–3022. 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Lei, Xin Yan, Zhu‐Hong You, et al.. (2021). SGANRDA: semi-supervised generative adversarial networks for predicting circRNA–disease associations. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(5). 43 indexed citations

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Jia, Lina, Xin Yan, Zhu‐Hong You, et al.. (2020). NLPEI: A Novel Self-Interacting Protein Prediction Model Based on Natural Language Processing and Evolutionary Information. Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 16. 1612730475–1612730475. 4 indexed citations

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Wu, Yongjian, Ting Wang, Dawei Zhang, et al.. (2020). Plasminogen improves lung lesions and hypoxemia in patients with COVID-19. QJM. 113(8). 539–545. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanbin, Zhu‐Hong You, Liping Li, et al.. (2018). Predicting Protein Interactions Using a Deep Learning Method‐Stacked Sparse Autoencoder Combined with a Probabilistic Classification Vector Machine. Complexity. 2018(1). 16 indexed citations

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Yang, Yating, et al.. (2018). A Neural Network Based Model for Loanword Identification in Uyghur. Language Resources and Evaluation. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanbin, Zhu‐Hong You, Li Xiao, et al.. (2017). Predicting protein–protein interactions from protein sequences by a stacked sparse autoencoder deep neural network. Molecular BioSystems. 13(7). 1336–1344. 86 indexed citations

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Jiang, Tonghai, et al.. (2017). A Novel Data Integration Framework Based on Unified Concept Model. IEEE Access. 5. 5713–5722. 9 indexed citations

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Xia, Hongjie, Peipei Wang, Jie Yang, et al.. (2014). The identification and characterization of nucleic acid chaperone activity of human enterovirus 71 nonstructural protein 3AB. Virology. 464-465. 353–364. 12 indexed citations

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