Xianjun Dong

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Xianjun Dong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Xianjun Dong has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Xianjun Dong's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (12 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (7 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers). Xianjun Dong is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (12 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (7 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers). Xianjun Dong collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Norway. Xianjun Dong's co-authors include Zhiping Weng, Ewan Birney, Oliver J. Rando, Jui‐Hung Hung, Anshul Kundaje, Jiali Zhuang, Brian G. Pierce, M Snyder, Poshen B. Chen and Ruowang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xianjun Dong

41 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Sequence features and chromatin structure around the geno... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2021 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Sequence features and chromatin structure around the genomic regions bound by 119 human transcription factors
    2012 590 citations Xianjun Dong, Oliver J. Rando et al. Genome Research profile →
  2. Exosome detection via the ultrafast-isolation system: EXODUS
    2021 277 citations Xianjun Dong 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
Xianjun Dong United States 22 2.6k 499 464 358 141 41 3.0k
Jafar Sharif Japan 26 3.1k 1.2× 382 0.8× 706 1.5× 318 0.9× 179 1.3× 44 3.4k
Shirley Horn‐Saban Israel 12 1.6k 0.6× 329 0.7× 383 0.8× 201 0.6× 149 1.1× 18 2.1k
Yavuz Ariyürek Netherlands 25 1.8k 0.7× 346 0.7× 530 1.1× 380 1.1× 121 0.9× 40 2.5k
Martin Teichmann France 29 2.6k 1.0× 350 0.7× 345 0.7× 176 0.5× 146 1.0× 47 3.0k
Itoshi Nikaido Japan 23 1.8k 0.7× 373 0.7× 323 0.7× 129 0.4× 172 1.2× 46 2.3k
Qi Ma China 24 2.3k 0.9× 614 1.2× 408 0.9× 287 0.8× 169 1.2× 54 3.0k
Sébastien A. Smallwood United Kingdom 23 3.7k 1.5× 512 1.0× 1.1k 2.4× 254 0.7× 229 1.6× 33 4.2k
Paul A. Ginno United States 10 2.5k 1.0× 259 0.5× 454 1.0× 269 0.8× 107 0.8× 12 2.8k
Xuyu Cai United States 14 1.9k 0.7× 810 1.6× 942 2.0× 375 1.0× 75 0.5× 23 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Xianjun Dong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xianjun Dong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xianjun Dong. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xianjun Dong. The network helps show where Xianjun Dong may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xianjun Dong

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leventhal, Matthew, Jiajie Peng, Zhixiang Liao, et al.. (2025). An integrative systems-biology approach defines mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease neurodegeneration. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4441–4441. 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Samantha Sze‐Yee, Luis M. García‐Marín, Adrián I. Campos, et al.. (2024). Uncovering genetic loci and biological pathways associated with age-related cataracts through GWAS meta-analysis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9116–9116. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Ying, et al.. (2024). Bioinformatics advances in eccDNA identification and analysis. Oncogene. 43(41). 3021–3036. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Fu‐Yu, et al.. (2023). FLED: a full-length eccDNA detector for long-reads sequencing data. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 24(6). 9 indexed citations
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Dong, Xianjun, Yunfei Bai, Zhixiang Liao, et al.. (2023). Circular RNAs in the human brain are tailored to neuron identity and neuropsychiatric disease. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5327–5327. 37 indexed citations
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Leventhal, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Integrative analysis reveals a conserved role for the amyloid precursor protein in proteostasis during aging. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7034–7034. 8 indexed citations
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Dong, Xianjun, et al.. (2021). powerEQTL: an R package and shiny application for sample size and power calculation of bulk tissue and single-cell eQTL analysis. Bioinformatics. 37(22). 4269–4271. 16 indexed citations
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Li, Chunyu, Ruwei Ou, Yongping Chen, et al.. (2021). Genetic Modifiers of Age at Onset for Parkinson's Disease in Asians: A Genome‐Wide Association Study. Movement Disorders. 36(9). 2077–2084. 16 indexed citations
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Wang, Tao, et al.. (2021). A pipeline for RNA-seq based eQTL analysis with automated quality control procedures. BMC Bioinformatics. 22(S9). 403–403. 23 indexed citations
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Ong, Jue‐Sheng, et al.. (2021). Understanding the effect of smoking and drinking behavior on Parkinson's disease risk: a Mendelian randomization study. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 13980–13980. 22 indexed citations
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Dong, Xianjun, Junko Tsuji, Adam Labadorf, et al.. (2015). The Role of H3K4me3 in Transcriptional Regulation Is Altered in Huntington’s Disease. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0144398–e0144398. 36 indexed citations
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Bai, Guang, Iris Cheung, Hennady P. Shulha, et al.. (2014). Epigenetic dysregulation of hairy and enhancer of split 4 (HES4) is associated with striatal degeneration in postmortem Huntington brains. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(5). 1441–1456. 50 indexed citations
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Hoss, Andrew, Vinay K. Kartha, Xianjun Dong, et al.. (2014). MicroRNAs Located in the Hox Gene Clusters Are Implicated in Huntington's Disease Pathogenesis. PLoS Genetics. 10(2). e1004188–e1004188. 93 indexed citations
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Cheng, Chao, Roger P. Alexander, Renqiang Min, et al.. (2012). Understanding transcriptional regulation by integrative analysis of transcription factor binding data. Genome Research. 22(9). 1658–1667. 136 indexed citations
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Fredman, David, Xianjun Dong, & Boris Lenhard. (2011). Making enhancers from spare parts of the genome. Genome Biology. 12(12). 138–138. 1 indexed citations
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Yıldırım, Özlem, Ruowang Li, Jui‐Hung Hung, et al.. (2011). Mbd3/NURD Complex Regulates Expression of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Marked Genes in Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell. 147(7). 1498–1510. 363 indexed citations
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Akalin, Altuna, David Fredman, Erik Arner, et al.. (2009). Transcriptional features of genomic regulatory blocks. Genome biology. 10(4). R38–R38. 75 indexed citations
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Dong, Xianjun, David Fredman, & Boris Lenhard. (2009). Synorth: exploring the evolution of synteny and long-range regulatory interactions in vertebrate genomes. Genome biology. 10(8). R86–R86. 20 indexed citations
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Dong, Xianjun, Pavla Navrátilová, David Fredman, et al.. (2009). Exonic remnants of whole-genome duplication reveal cis-regulatory function of coding exons. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(4). 1071–1085. 43 indexed citations
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Mungpakdee, Sutada, et al.. (2008). Differential Evolution of the 13 Atlantic Salmon Hox Clusters. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(7). 1333–1343. 57 indexed citations

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