Xiaobo Wang

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Xiaobo Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaobo Wang has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Surgery and 27 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Xiaobo Wang's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (20 papers), Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis (14 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (11 papers). Xiaobo Wang is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (20 papers), Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis (14 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (11 papers). Xiaobo Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Xiaobo Wang's co-authors include Denise J. Montell, Li He, Gail E. Sonenshein, Klaus M. Hahn, Yi Wu, Karine Belguise, Valérie Choesmel-Cadamuro, Ho Lam Tang, Xiao Xu and Yama Abassi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiaobo Wang

148 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Mechanical Feedback through E-Cadherin Promotes Direction Sensing during Collective Cell Migration

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Xiaobo Wang	1.8k	1.1k	633	594	448	152	4.5k
Edward H. Cho	2.0k 1.1×	691 0.7×	481 0.8×	914 1.5×	322 0.7×	69	4.3k
Vivaldo Moura‐Neto	2.6k 1.5×	582 0.5×	669 1.1×	573 1.0×	400 0.9×	162	5.7k
A. Wayne Orr	2.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.5×	744 1.2×	418 0.7×	491 1.1×	117	6.2k
Troy Stevens	3.2k 1.8×	718 0.7×	479 0.8×	414 0.7×	217 0.5×	158	6.6k
Weiming Xu	3.1k 1.8×	939 0.9×	753 1.2×	793 1.3×	250 0.6×	105	6.3k
Kathrin Geiger	2.1k 1.2×	345 0.3×	693 1.1×	379 0.6×	400 0.9×	137	4.9k
Marc Baumann	3.0k 1.7×	704 0.7×	370 0.6×	306 0.5×	179 0.4×	170	6.1k
Yun Lu	2.7k 1.5×	436 0.4×	662 1.0×	636 1.1×	168 0.4×	109	5.4k
Lucia Formigli	3.9k 2.2×	790 0.7×	251 0.4×	425 0.7×	346 0.8×	113	6.7k
Hsinyu Lee	3.0k 1.7×	887 0.8×	616 1.0×	614 1.0×	447 1.0×	198	5.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaobo Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaobo Wang

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

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Huang, Hongyang, Dandan Zeng, Rong Liang, et al.. (2025). Postoperative Adjuvant Transcatheterarterial Chemoembolization Should Be Considered Selectively for Patients with Cytokeratin-19 Positive Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Volume 12. 2407–2419.

Huang, Liwei, Huamin Li, Bei He, et al.. (2025). Prevalence of cardiovascular symptoms in post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: a meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 23(1). 70–70. 7 indexed citations

Li, Shun, Hao Li, Ningwei Sun, et al.. (2024). Basal actomyosin pulses expand epithelium coordinating cell flattening and tissue elongation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3000–3000. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Yanping, et al.. (2024). IGF2BP1 accelerates the aerobic glycolysis to boost its immune escape in hepatocellular carcinoma microenvironment. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1480834–1480834. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaoya, Xueying Wang, Meijuan Wang, et al.. (2023). A 3D Tumor‐Mimicking In Vitro Drug Release Model of Locoregional Chemoembolization Using Deep Learning‐Based Quantitative Analyses. Advanced Science. 10(11). e2206195–e2206195. 13 indexed citations

Li, Yujie, Zhiyong Yang, Weifeng Yu, et al.. (2023). Serum Soluble Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 1 as a Potential Biomarker of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome. Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology. 0(0). 0–0. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaobo, et al.. (2023). Soy isoflavone reduces LPS-induced acute lung injury via increasing aquaporin 1 and aquaporin 5 in rats. Open Life Sciences. 18(1). 20220560–20220560. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaobo, et al.. (2023). The paradox of obesity in pressure ulcers of critically ill patients. International Wound Journal. 20(7). 2753–2763. 15 indexed citations

Zhang, Wei, et al.. (2023). Pexidartinib synergize PD-1 antibody through inhibiting treg infiltration by reducing TAM-derived CCL22 in lung adenocarcinoma. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 16 indexed citations

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Chang, Junli, Hongfeng Ruan, Xiaobo Wang, et al.. (2021). Cantharidin inhibits osteosarcoma proliferation and metastasis by directly targeting miR-214-3p/DKK3 axis to inactivate β-catenin nuclear translocation and LEF1 translation. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 17(10). 2504–2522. 26 indexed citations

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Zheng, Kenneth I., Xiaobo Wang, Huadong Yan, et al.. (2020). Metabolic associated fatty liver disease increases coronavirus disease 2019 disease severity in nondiabetic patients. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 36(1). 204–207. 89 indexed citations

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Liu, Jingnan, et al.. (2020). AMPK signaling mediates synphilin-1-induced hyperphagia and obesity in drosophila. Journal of Cell Science. 134(3). 3 indexed citations

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Colombié, Nathalie, et al.. (2017). Non-autonomous role of Cdc42 in cell-cell communication during collective migration. Developmental Biology. 423(1). 12–18. 15 indexed citations

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Choesmel-Cadamuro, Valérie, et al.. (2016). Myosin II governs collective cell migration behaviour downstream of guidance receptor signalling. Journal of Cell Science. 130(1). 97–103. 24 indexed citations

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Belguise, Karine, Florence Boissière‐Michot, Nathalie Boulle, et al.. (2016). PKCθ-induced phosphorylations control the ability of Fra-1 to stimulate gene expression and cancer cell migration. Cancer Letters. 385. 97–107. 22 indexed citations

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Gao, Jing, Lin Chen, Jing Zeng, et al.. (2015). The involvement of aquaporin 1 in the hepatopulmonary syndrome rat serum-induced migration of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells via the p38-MAPK pathway. Molecular BioSystems. 11(11). 3040–3047. 6 indexed citations

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Romagnoli, Mathilde, Karine Belguise, Ziyang Yu, et al.. (2012). Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Induced by TGF-β1 Is Mediated by Blimp-1–Dependent Repression of BMP-5. Cancer Research. 72(23). 6268–6278. 79 indexed citations

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Wu, Yi, Xiaobo Wang, Li He, Denise J. Montell, & Klaus M. Hahn. (2011). Spatiotemporal Control of Small GTPases with Light Using the LOV Domain. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 497. 393–407. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaobo, Karine Belguise, Christine F. O’Neill, et al.. (2009). RelB NF-κB Represses Estrogen Receptor α Expression via Induction of the Zinc Finger Protein Blimp1. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 29(14). 3832–3844. 64 indexed citations

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Demicco, Elizabeth G., Raphaëlle Romieu‐Mourez, Xiaobo Wang, et al.. (2005). RelB/p52 NF-κB Complexes Rescue an Early Delay in Mammary Gland Development in Transgenic Mice with Targeted Superrepressor IκB-α Expression and Promote Carcinogenesis of the Mammary Gland. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(22). 10136–10147. 74 indexed citations

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