Xiaoming Sun

10.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Xiaoming Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoming Sun has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Immunology and 13 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Xiaoming Sun's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (17 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (8 papers). Xiaoming Sun is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (17 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (8 papers). Xiaoming Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Xiaoming Sun's co-authors include Gerald M. Cohen, Paul D. Kaufman, Marion MacFarlane, David G. Brown, Jianguo Zhuang, Beni B. Wolf, Douglas R. Green, Roger T. Snowden, Michael Butterworth and M.G. Ormerod and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoming Sun

78 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Distinct Caspase Cascades Are Initiated in Receptor-mediated and Chemical-induced Apoptosis

1999 748 citations Xiaoming Sun, Marion MacFarlane et al. profile →
Ki-67: more than a proliferation marker

2018 605 citations Xiaoming Sun, Paul D. Kaufman profile →
An examination of the LPS-TLR4 immune response through the analysis of molecular structures and protein–protein interactions

2025 21 citations Xiaoming Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoming Sun China	33	3.1k	1.1k	822	769	482	83	5.3k
Diana C. Haines United States	43	2.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	949 1.2×	761 1.0×	164 0.3×	63	5.3k
Roberto Benelli Italy	45	2.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	2.0k 2.5×	1.1k 1.4×	762 1.6×	123	6.7k
Michael J. Gray United States	43	3.0k 1.0×	832 0.8×	1.6k 2.0×	887 1.2×	97 0.2×	112	6.2k
Young Mok Yang South Korea	38	2.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.8×	1.0k 1.2×	519 0.7×	210 0.4×	78	5.6k
Tong Wang China	36	2.5k 0.8×	702 0.7×	540 0.7×	748 1.0×	136 0.3×	232	4.1k
Li Fu China	52	5.2k 1.7×	1.4k 1.4×	2.1k 2.6×	2.4k 3.1×	182 0.4×	242	8.8k
Ji‐Fu Wei China	35	3.2k 1.0×	404 0.4×	451 0.5×	1.5k 2.0×	218 0.5×	188	5.0k
Fabiola Ciccosanti Italy	28	1.8k 0.6×	2.0k 1.9×	1.2k 1.5×	255 0.3×	203 0.4×	61	5.0k
Shrikant Anant United States	56	5.3k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	2.2k 2.7×	1.5k 2.0×	151 0.3×	212	9.3k
Lijun Wu China	37	1.4k 0.4×	2.7k 2.6×	2.1k 2.6×	374 0.5×	265 0.5×	106	5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoming Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaoming Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoming Sun

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

Liu, Mengyao, Xue-Qian Li, Runze Wang, et al.. (2025). “Proton-Iodine” Regulation of Protonated Polyaniline Catalyst for High-Performance Electrolytic Zn-I2 Batteries. Nano-Micro Letters. 18(1). 79–79.

Li, Dongliang, et al.. (2024). Effects of oxygen volume fraction, temperature and diffusion layer thickness on the sensing characteristics of limiting current oxygen sensor. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 184. 108837–108837. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Dan, Mengna Zhang, Liqin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Long non-coding RNAs and immune cells: Unveiling the role in viral infections. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 170. 115978–115978. 7 indexed citations

Lu, Xin, Yuanyuan Ren, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2022). SND1 Promotes Radioresistance in Cervical Cancer Cells by Targeting the DNA Damage Response. Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals. 39(6). 425–434. 5 indexed citations

Lian, Xiaodong, Ce Gao, Xiaoming Sun, et al.. (2021). Signatures of immune selection in intact and defective proviruses distinguish HIV-1 elite controllers. Science Translational Medicine. 13(624). eabl4097–eabl4097. 49 indexed citations

Sun, Xiaoming, et al.. (2021). The chromatin-binding domain of Ki-67 together with p53 protects human chromosomes from mitotic damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(32). 8 indexed citations

Wang, Xinting, Xiaoteng Cui, Yue Zhuo, et al.. (2020). Oncoprotein SND1 hijacks nascent MHC-I heavy chain to ER-associated degradation, leading to impaired CD8 ⁺ T cell response in tumor. Science Advances. 6(22). 33 indexed citations

Sun, Xiaoming, Stéphane Hua, Ce Gao, et al.. (2020). Immune-profiling of ZIKV-infected patients identifies a distinct function of plasmacytoid dendritic cells for immune cross-regulation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2421–2421. 8 indexed citations

Cui, Xiaoteng, Xinxin Zhang, Minghui Liu, et al.. (2020). A pan-cancer analysis of the oncogenic role of staphylococcal nuclease domain-containing protein 1 (SND1) in human tumors. Genomics. 112(6). 3958–3967. 111 indexed citations

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Davidsohn, Noah, Matthew J. Pezone, Andyna Vernet, et al.. (2019). A single combination gene therapy treats multiple age-related diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(47). 23505–23511. 70 indexed citations

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Einkauf, Kevin, Guinevere Q. Lee, Ce Gao, et al.. (2019). Intact HIV-1 proviruses accumulate at distinct chromosomal positions during prolonged antiretroviral therapy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 129(3). 988–998. 180 indexed citations

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Draz, Mohamed S., Ecem Saygılı, Anish Vasan, et al.. (2018). Nanoparticle-enhanced electrical detection of Zika virus on paper microchips. Nanoscale. 10(25). 11841–11849. 39 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaoming, et al.. (2017). Ki-67 Contributes to Normal Cell Cycle Progression and Inactive X Heterochromatin in p21 Checkpoint-Proficient Human Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 37(17). 56 indexed citations

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Lee, Guinevere Q., Nina Orlova-Fink, Kevin Einkauf, et al.. (2017). Clonal expansion of genome-intact HIV-1 in functionally polarized Th1 CD4+ T cells. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127(7). 2689–2696. 194 indexed citations

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Chernova, Tatiana A., Xiaoming Sun, Ian Powley, et al.. (2016). Molecular profiling reveals primary mesothelioma cell lines recapitulate human disease. Cell Death and Differentiation. 23(7). 1152–1164. 41 indexed citations

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Yu, Lin, Xin Liu, Kang Cui, et al.. (2015). SND1 Acts Downstream of TGFβ1 and Upstream of Smurf1 to Promote Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cancer Research. 75(7). 1275–1286. 83 indexed citations

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Smith, Corey L., Daniel J. Trombly, Xiaoming Sun, et al.. (2014). A separable domain of the p150 subunit of human chromatin assembly factor-1 promotes protein and chromosome associations with nucleoli. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(18). 2866–2881. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Guimin, Chao Su, Xiulan Zhao, et al.. (2012). Distribution Change of Mast Cells in Human Nasal Polyps. The Anatomical Record. 295(5). 758–763. 9 indexed citations

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Vogler, Meike, Michael Butterworth, Aneela Majid, et al.. (2008). Concurrent up-regulation of BCL-XL and BCL2A1 induces approximately 1000-fold resistance to ABT-737 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood. 113(18). 4403–4413. 264 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianli, Sen Jiang, Ruifang Yang, Fusheng Liu, & Xiaoming Sun. (2000). Mechanism of drug resistance and reversal with ligustra-zine and cyclosporin a in cisplatin-induced human epithelial ovarian cancer resistant cell line 3AO/CDDP. Chinese Journal of Cancer Research. 12(3). 197–203. 3 indexed citations

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