Xiaojing Gao

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Xiaojing Gao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaojing Gao has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Xiaojing Gao's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (5 papers), Proteins in Food Systems (4 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (4 papers). Xiaojing Gao is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (5 papers), Proteins in Food Systems (4 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (4 papers). Xiaojing Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Xiaojing Gao's co-authors include Liqun Luo, Katherine E. DeLoach, Kevin T. Beier, Kazunari Miyamichi, Eric J. Kremer, Elizabeth E. Steinberg, Robert Malenka, Lucy S. Chong, Michael B. Elowitz and Robert C. Malenka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Xiaojing Gao

43 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Circuit Architecture of VTA Dopamine Neurons Revealed by Systematic Input-Output Mapping

2015 697 citations Kevin T. Beier, Elizabeth E. Steinberg et al. Cell profile →
Viral-genetic tracing of the input–output organization of a central noradrenaline circuit

2015 515 citations Kazunari Miyamichi, Xiaojing Gao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaojing Gao China	16	1.0k	879	651	301	274	46	2.5k
Koji Ohira Japan	36	1.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.9×	423 0.6×	270 0.9×	62 0.2×	118	4.4k
Bruno Cozzi Italy	26	567 0.6×	392 0.4×	319 0.5×	65 0.2×	64 0.2×	166	2.3k
Carolyn Ferguson United States	23	886 0.9×	772 0.9×	355 0.5×	33 0.1×	26 0.1×	58	2.0k
Heiko T. Jansen United States	27	658 0.6×	398 0.5×	341 0.5×	18 0.1×	31 0.1×	84	2.5k
Kenneth J. Muller United States	35	2.1k 2.0×	1.1k 1.3×	288 0.4×	25 0.1×	28 0.1×	77	3.2k
Garet P. Lahvis United States	25	346 0.3×	507 0.6×	640 1.0×	26 0.1×	16 0.1×	40	2.7k
Leslie T. Buck Canada	35	715 0.7×	1.7k 1.9×	237 0.4×	129 0.4×	6 0.0×	109	4.3k
Trevor J. Hamilton Canada	21	365 0.4×	206 0.2×	203 0.3×	197 0.7×	12 0.0×	54	1.6k
Yongfu Wang China	24	310 0.3×	1.0k 1.2×	83 0.1×	201 0.7×	23 0.1×	70	1.8k
Reiko Okada Japan	20	654 0.6×	336 0.4×	123 0.2×	70 0.2×	7 0.0×	53	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaojing Gao

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Xiaojing Gao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Xiaojing Gao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Xiaojing Gao more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaojing Gao

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xiaojing Gao. 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 Xiaojing Gao. The network helps show where Xiaojing Gao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaojing Gao

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Xiaowei, Luis Santiago Mille, Kristjan Eerik Kaseniit, et al.. (2025). Post-transcriptional modular synthetic receptors. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(8). 1250–1261. 3 indexed citations

Gao, Xiaojing, Yiqian Chen, Ling Lu, et al.. (2025). Uncovering dark mass in population proteomics: Pan-analysis of single amino acid polymorphism relevant to cognition and aging. Cell Genomics. 5(2). 100763–100763. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Xiaojing, et al.. (2025). A rapid, simple, and reliable quantitative method for non-cholesterol sterols based on LC-MS/MS and establishment of gender-specific reference intervals. Microchemical Journal. 217. 114812–114812.

Chen, Yufeng, et al.. (2025). Dual crosslinking approach of K+ and TGase to enhance the thermal stability and intestinal delivery efficiency of emulsion gels. Food Chemistry. 486. 144365–144365. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Ruichen, et al.. (2025). Development of a novel targeted LC-MS/MS methods for the typing of cardiac amyloidosis. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1372. 344453–344453.

Vlahos, Alexander E., et al.. (2025). Orthogonalized human protease control of secreted signals. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(9). 1351–1360. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Jiamin, Yuyang Zhao, Yuzhong Zheng, et al.. (2024). Regulatory roles of transcription factors T-bet and Eomes in group 1 ILCs. International Immunopharmacology. 143(Pt 1). 113229–113229. 4 indexed citations

Gao, Xiaojing, et al.. (2024). Protease-Driven Phase Separation of Elastin-Like Polypeptides. Biomacromolecules. 25(8). 4898–4904. 5 indexed citations

Gao, Xiaojing, et al.. (2024). Perspectives on synthetic protein circuits in mammalian cells. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 32. 100555–100555. 1 indexed citations

10.

Vlahos, Alexander E., et al.. (2022). Protease-controlled secretion and display of intercellular signals. Nature Communications. 13(1). 912–912. 30 indexed citations

11.

Kaseniit, Kristjan Eerik, et al.. (2022). Modular, programmable RNA sensing using ADAR editing in living cells. Nature Biotechnology. 41(4). 482–487. 61 indexed citations

12.

Wang, Zhenguo, Xiaojing Gao, Qingrun Li, et al.. (2021). Inhibition of a Novel CLK1-THRAP3-PPARγ Axis Improves Insulin Sensitivity. Frontiers in Physiology. 12. 699578–699578. 2 indexed citations

13.

Gao, Xiaojing, et al.. (2020). Stability and reference intervals of spot urinary fractionated metanephrines and methoxytyramine by tandem mass spectrometry as a screening method for pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. Endocrine. 69(1). 188–195. 9 indexed citations

14.

Beier, Kevin T., et al.. (2019). Topological Organization of Ventral Tegmental Area Connectivity Revealed by Viral-Genetic Dissection of Input-Output Relations. Cell Reports. 26(1). 159–167.e6. 75 indexed citations

15.

Beier, Kevin T., Elizabeth E. Steinberg, Katherine E. DeLoach, et al.. (2015). Circuit Architecture of VTA Dopamine Neurons Revealed by Systematic Input-Output Mapping. Cell. 162(3). 622–634. 697 indexed citations breakdown →

16.

Gao, Xiaojing, Olena Riabinina, Jun Li, et al.. (2015). A transcriptional reporter of intracellular Ca2+ in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience. 18(6). 917–925. 64 indexed citations

17.

Gao, Xiaojing. (2013). Drosophilachemotaxis. Fly. 8(1). 3–6. 2 indexed citations

18.

Huang, Hai, et al.. (2012). A new caryolane sesquiterpene fromHeteropappus altaicus(Willd.) Novopokr.. Natural Product Research. 27(4-5). 350–355. 2 indexed citations

19.

Gohl, Daryl M., Marion Silies, Xiaojing Gao, et al.. (2011). A versatile in vivo system for directed dissection of gene expression patterns. Nature Methods. 8(3). 231–237. 147 indexed citations

20.

Zakey, A. S., et al.. (2009). Simulation of dust aerosol and its regional feedbacks over East Asia using a regional climate model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 9(4). 1095–1110. 87 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact