Xiaofan Zhou

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
141 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Xiaofan Zhou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaofan Zhou has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Plant Science and 24 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Xiaofan Zhou's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (23 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (22 papers). Xiaofan Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (23 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (22 papers). Xiaofan Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Xiaofan Zhou's co-authors include Antonis Rokas, Xing‐Xing Shen, Chris Todd Hittinger, Laurence J. Zwiebel, Jacek Kominek, Hong Mā, Cletus P. Kurtzman, R. Jason Pitts, Danny Reinberg and Dana A. Opulente and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xiaofan Zhou

130 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Incongruence in the phylogenomics era

2023 110 citations Jacob L. Steenwyk, Yuanning Li et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaofan Zhou China	32	1.5k	1.2k	693	597	583	141	3.4k
María José Nueda Spain	13	2.6k 1.7×	1.6k 1.4×	653 0.9×	451 0.8×	173 0.3×	24	4.8k
Javier Terol Spain	23	3.0k 2.0×	3.1k 2.7×	737 1.1×	476 0.8×	173 0.3×	49	5.9k
Zeng‐Rong Zhu China	26	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	519 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	406 0.7×	136	3.2k
Maya Belghazi France	38	2.1k 1.4×	3.1k 2.7×	356 0.5×	488 0.8×	444 0.8×	99	5.9k
Paul R. Ebert Australia	33	2.4k 1.6×	3.2k 2.7×	529 0.8×	1.7k 2.9×	409 0.7×	86	4.9k
Guo‐Qing Li China	34	2.3k 1.5×	900 0.8×	564 0.8×	1.6k 2.7×	841 1.4×	192	3.6k
Xingqi Guo China	40	2.3k 1.5×	2.5k 2.2×	761 1.1×	1.1k 1.9×	188 0.3×	158	4.4k
Bruno Lapied France	30	1.1k 0.7×	827 0.7×	566 0.8×	1.5k 2.6×	915 1.6×	86	2.8k
Doo‐Sang Park South Korea	24	1.1k 0.7×	592 0.5×	258 0.4×	939 1.6×	137 0.2×	118	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaofan Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaofan Zhou

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

Zhou, Xiaofan, Fang Guo, Jiao Xu, et al.. (2025). Babesia infection in cattle and dogs in Suizhou City, Hubei Province, China. PubMed. 4(1). 100170–100170. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Qiao, Huilin Chen, Xiaofang Xie, et al.. (2025). Rice phyllospheric Pantoea spp. suppress blast and bacterial blight diseases. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 137–137.

Wu, Xiaoyan, et al.. (2025). Microbial diversity in coastal Casuarina equisetifolia forest and its potential in counteracting bacterial wilt infections. Pest Management Science. 81(8). 4621–4634.

Niu, Feng, Xiaofan Zhou, Xiaojun Lv, et al.. (2025). CeCl₃-Mediated Photocatalytic Selective N-Alkylation of Aniline with Benzyl Alcohol over CdS. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(39). 54943–54950. 1 indexed citations

Li, Fangping, Shiqiang Xu, Danlu Han, et al.. (2024). Haplotype‐resolved genomes of octoploid species in Phyllanthaceae family reveal a critical role for polyploidization and hybridization in speciation. The Plant Journal. 119(1). 348–363. 1 indexed citations

Liang, Zhibin, Qingwei Wang, Huidi Liu, et al.. (2023). Gram-negative bacteria resist antimicrobial agents by a DzrR-mediated envelope stress response. BMC Biology. 21(1). 62–62. 1 indexed citations

Steenwyk, Jacob L., Yuanning Li, Xiaofan Zhou, Xing‐Xing Shen, & Antonis Rokas. (2023). Incongruence in the phylogenomics era. Nature Reviews Genetics. 24(12). 834–850. 110 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Peng, Xiaofan Zhou, Tiantian Wang, et al.. (2023). Comparing genomes of Fructus Amomi-producing species reveals genetic basis of volatile terpenoid divergence. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 193(2). 1244–1262. 10 indexed citations

Yan, Hua, Comzit Opachaloemphan, Giacomo Mancini, et al.. (2022). Insulin signaling in the long-lived reproductive caste of ants. Science. 377(6610). 1092–1099. 32 indexed citations

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Wang, Kai, et al.. (2021). A LysR Family Transcriptional Regulator Modulates Burkholderia cenocepacia Biofilm Formation and Protease Production. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(12). e0020221–e0020221. 19 indexed citations

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Lv, Mingfa, Yufan Chen, Ming Hu, et al.. (2021). OhrR is a central transcriptional regulator of virulence in Dickeya zeae. Molecular Plant Pathology. 23(1). 45–59. 14 indexed citations

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Hu, Ming, Chuhao Li, Yang Xue, et al.. (2021). Isolation, Characterization, and Genomic Investigation of a Phytopathogenic Strain ofStenotrophomonas maltophilia. Phytopathology. 111(11). 2088–2099. 9 indexed citations

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Steenwyk, Jacob L., Matthew E. Mead, Patrícia Alves de Castro, et al.. (2021). Genomic and Phenotypic Analysis of COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis Isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus. Microbiology Spectrum. 9(1). e0001021–e0001021. 32 indexed citations

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Haase, Max A. B., Jacek Kominek, Dana A. Opulente, et al.. (2020). Repeated horizontal gene transfer of GAL actose metabolism genes violates Dollo’s law of irreversible loss. Genetics. 217(2). 14 indexed citations

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Shen, Xing‐Xing, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Abigail L. LaBella, et al.. (2020). Genome-scale phylogeny and contrasting modes of genome evolution in the fungal phylum Ascomycota. Science Advances. 6(45). 86 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaofan, et al.. (2019). Quartet-Based Computations of Internode Certainty Provide Robust Measures of Phylogenetic Incongruence. Systematic Biology. 69(2). 308–324. 30 indexed citations

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Jiang, Jinyan, Zhihan Zhang, Junjun Huang, et al.. (2018). Mycophenolic Acid as a Promising Fungal Dimorphism Inhibitor to Control Sugar Cane Disease Caused by Sporisorium scitamineum. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 67(1). 112–119. 8 indexed citations

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Shen, Xing‐Xing, Xiaofan Zhou, Jacek Kominek, et al.. (2016). Reconstructing the Backbone of the Saccharomycotina Yeast Phylogeny Using Genome-Scale Data. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(12). 3927–3939. 149 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaofan, David Peris, Jacek Kominek, et al.. (2016). In Silico Whole Genome Sequencer and Analyzer (iWGS): a Computational Pipeline to Guide the Design and Analysis of de novo Genome Sequencing Studies. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(11). 3655–3662. 25 indexed citations

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Rinker, David C., R. Jason Pitts, Xiaofan Zhou, et al.. (2013). Blood meal-induced changes to antennal transcriptome profiles reveal shifts in odor sensitivities in Anopheles gambiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(20). 8260–8265. 116 indexed citations

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