Xiaofeng Gu

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Xiaofeng Gu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaofeng Gu has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Plant Science and 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Xiaofeng Gu's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (29 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (12 papers). Xiaofeng Gu is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (29 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (12 papers). Xiaofeng Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Xiaofeng Gu's co-authors include Yuehui He, Zhe Liang, Danhua Jiang, X. William Yang, Hao Yu, Yizhong Wang, Lisha Shen, Tiegang Lu, Xuean Cui and István Módy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Xiaofeng Gu

84 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

N6-Methyladenine DNA Modification in the Human Genome

2018 379 citations Zhe Liang, Xiaofeng Gu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaofeng Gu China	36	3.6k	2.0k	985	407	323	85	4.9k
Marc Vigny France	38	2.0k 0.6×	660 0.3×	755 0.8×	481 1.2×	49 0.2×	76	4.1k
Shizhong Zhang China	34	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	330 0.3×	324 0.8×	239 0.7×	151	3.8k
Hongyan Wang China	35	2.4k 0.7×	508 0.3×	771 0.8×	95 0.2×	96 0.3×	139	3.7k
Doris Chen United States	26	3.5k 1.0×	456 0.2×	1.3k 1.4×	182 0.4×	319 1.0×	56	5.5k
Dimitris Beis Greece	24	3.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	162 0.2×	50 0.1×	72 0.2×	53	5.0k
Hong Luo China	31	2.2k 0.6×	467 0.2×	453 0.5×	170 0.4×	333 1.0×	114	4.2k
Christof Lenz Germany	29	2.1k 0.6×	305 0.2×	222 0.2×	74 0.2×	77 0.2×	98	2.9k
Enrico Glaab Luxembourg	29	1.7k 0.5×	344 0.2×	298 0.3×	427 1.0×	199 0.6×	85	3.0k
Gaël Yvert France	21	3.3k 0.9×	451 0.2×	1.5k 1.5×	503 1.2×	71 0.2×	36	4.0k
Yuhui Liu China	25	1.3k 0.3×	863 0.4×	200 0.2×	307 0.8×	69 0.2×	94	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaofeng Gu

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

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Wang, Nan, Shasha Zhang, Peter Langfelder, et al.. (2025). Distinct mismatch-repair complex genes set neuronal CAG-repeat expansion rate to drive selective pathogenesis in HD mice. Cell. 188(6). 1524–1544.e22. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Ting, Shuhan Deng, Dan Feng, et al.. (2025). Single-cell transcriptomes reveal spatiotemporal heat stress response in maize roots. Nature Communications. 16(1). 177–177. 15 indexed citations

Chen, Xinhui, Zilu Wang, Jianming Yang, et al.. (2025). YTHDF3 recognizes DNA N6-methyladenine and recruits ALKBH1 for 6mA removal from genomic DNA. The EMBO Journal. 44(17). 4899–4917. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Liwen, Dongwei Li, Weijun Guo, et al.. (2025). WD40-protein-mediated crosstalk among three epigenetic marks regulates chromatin states and yield in rice. Molecular Plant. 18(7). 1143–1157. 1 indexed citations

Xie, Linan, Kang Chen, Liwen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Re‐Engineering Fungal Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases by Module Dissection and Duplicated Thiolation Domains. Angewandte Chemie. 136(33). 1 indexed citations

Li, Shang‐Tong, Tianyi Zhu, Huanwei Huang, et al.. (2024). Mass spectrometry-based proteomic landscape of rice reveals a post-transcriptional regulatory role of N6-methyladenosine. Nature Plants. 10(8). 1201–1214. 14 indexed citations

Song, Guangshu, et al.. (2023). ZmBELL10 interacts with other ZmBELLs and recognizes specific motifs for transcriptional activation to modulate internode patterning in maize. New Phytologist. 240(2). 577–596. 6 indexed citations

Luo, Jinying, Rong Chen, Yuhong Zhou, et al.. (2023). Folate shapes plant root architecture by affecting auxin distribution. The Plant Journal. 113(5). 969–985. 12 indexed citations

He, Zexue, Mengqi Li, Yining Shi, et al.. (2023). R‐loops act as regulatory switches modulating transcription of COLD‐responsive genes in rice. New Phytologist. 241(1). 267–282. 3 indexed citations

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Wilton, Daniel K., Kevin Mastro, Frederick W. Gergits, et al.. (2023). Microglia and complement mediate early corticostriatal synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction in Huntington’s disease. Nature Medicine. 29(11). 2866–2884. 79 indexed citations

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Li, Ji, Jian Wu, Cheng Ge, et al.. (2022). Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Discrimination on MRI by Comparison of Hierarchical and Simple Layered Convolutional Neural Networks. Diagnostics. 12(10). 2478–2478. 10 indexed citations

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Geng, Qishun, Xiaoxue Cao, Danping Fan, et al.. (2022). Diagnostic gene signatures and aberrant pathway activation based on m6A methylation regulators in rheumatoid arthritis. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 1041284–1041284. 29 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2022). Circ_0003221 Downregulation Restrains Cervical Cancer Cell Growth, Metastasis and Angiogenesis by Governing the miR-139-3p/S100A14 Pathway. Reproductive Sciences. 29(6). 1822–1835. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Pingxian, Yuke Geng, Yifan Wang, et al.. (2021). Rice and Arabidopsis homologs of yeast CHROMOSOME TRANSMISSION FIDELITY PROTEIN 4 commonly interact with Polycomb complexes but exert divergent regulatory functions. The Plant Cell. 33(5). 1417–1429. 15 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaofeng & Zhe Liang. (2019). Transcriptome-Wide Mapping 5-Methylcytosine by m5C RNA Immunoprecipitation Followed by Deep Sequencing in Plant. Methods in molecular biology. 1933. 389–394. 12 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaofeng, Tongda Xu, & Yuehui He. (2014). A Histone H3 Lysine-27 Methyltransferase Complex Represses Lateral Root Formation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Plant. 7(6). 977–988. 44 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaofeng, Yizhong Wang, & Yuehui He. (2013). Photoperiodic Regulation of Flowering Time through Periodic Histone Deacetylation of the Florigen Gene FT. PLoS Biology. 11(9). e1001649–e1001649. 66 indexed citations

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Wilburn, B., Dobrila D. Rudnicki, Jing Zhao, et al.. (2011). An Antisense CAG Repeat Transcript at JPH3 Locus Mediates Expanded Polyglutamine Protein Toxicity in Huntington's Disease-like 2 Mice. Neuron. 70(3). 427–440. 107 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaofeng, Véronique M. André, Carlos Cepeda, et al.. (2007). Pathological cell-cell interactions are necessary for striatal pathogenesis in a conditional mouse model of Huntington's disease. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 2(1). 8–8. 94 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaofeng. (2003). Study on Pollen Chromosome Doubling in Zenjimaru Persimmon. 3 indexed citations

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