Xiao‐Ou Zhang

17.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
46 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Xiao‐Ou Zhang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiao‐Ou Zhang has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cancer Research and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Xiao‐Ou Zhang's work include RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers). Xiao‐Ou Zhang is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers). Xiao‐Ou Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Xiao‐Ou Zhang's co-authors include Li Yang, Ling‐Ling Chen, Yang Zhang, Xuhua Lu, Qing-Fei Yin, Jian‐Feng Xiang, Haibin Wang, Shanshan Zhu, Chen Tian and Yang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Xiao‐Ou Zhang

43 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Circular Intronic Long Noncoding RNAs

2013 1.8k citations Yang Zhang, Xiao‐Ou Zhang et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Complementary Sequence-Mediated Exon Circularization

2014 1.5k citations Xiao‐Ou Zhang, Yang Zhang et al. profile →
Diverse alternative back-splicing and alternative splicing landscape of circular RNAs

2016 754 citations Xiao‐Ou Zhang, Rui Dong et al. Genome Research profile →
Human colorectal cancer-specific CCAT1-L lncRNA regulates long-range chromatin interactions at the MYC locus

2014 583 citations Jian‐Feng Xiang, Qing-Fei Yin et al. Cell Research profile →
Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Jurassic granites in the Liaodong Peninsula, NE China

2005 458 citations Xiao‐Ou Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiao‐Ou Zhang China	27	5.9k	4.3k	438	317	282	46	7.0k
Hongtao Li China	23	962 0.2×	300 0.1×	143 0.3×	89 0.3×	222 0.8×	100	1.9k
Jinyang Zhang China	17	1.6k 0.3×	1.2k 0.3×	109 0.2×	51 0.2×	42 0.1×	43	1.9k
Atsushi Suzuki Japan	35	2.6k 0.4×	392 0.1×	43 0.1×	40 0.1×	701 2.5×	159	5.5k
Andreas Schreiber Australia	32	2.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	5 0.0×	535 1.7×	343 1.2×	134	5.0k
Farhad Kosari United States	31	1.4k 0.2×	614 0.1×	26 0.1×	41 0.1×	477 1.7×	68	2.7k
Zhijun Duan China	32	2.8k 0.5×	418 0.1×	11 0.0×	632 2.0×	301 1.1×	104	4.2k
Heather M. Brown United States	22	807 0.1×	178 0.0×	31 0.1×	191 0.6×	267 0.9×	47	1.9k
Hong Wen United States	30	3.0k 0.5×	307 0.1×	7 0.0×	125 0.4×	425 1.5×	77	3.7k
Simona Fontana Italy	25	1.9k 0.3×	1.1k 0.3×	10 0.0×	82 0.3×	242 0.9×	63	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiao‐Ou Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiao‐Ou Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiao‐Ou Zhang

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Liwen, Dandan Hu, Dan Su, et al.. (2025). Interrogating subclonal heterogeneity of liver cancer with single-cell multi-omics analysis. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 39021–39021.

Wang, Qin, et al.. (2025). The Dynamic Landscape of 3′‐UTR Alternative Polyadenylation Across Mouse Fetal Development and Anatomy. Advanced Science. 12(19). e2502443–e2502443.

Zhang, Ya & Xiao‐Ou Zhang. (2024). Unveiling circRNA-mediated ceRNA networks in ischemic stroke by integrative analysis of multi-source gene expression profiling. Heliyon. 10(17). e36988–e36988. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Shengyi, Qin Zhao, Yiding Zhao, et al.. (2023). BCL2 is a major regulator of haploidy maintenance in murine embryonic stem cells. Cell Proliferation. 56(12). e13498–e13498. 6 indexed citations

Li, Ying, Xiao‐Ou Zhang, Yan Liu, & Aiping Lu. (2023). Allele-specific binding (ASB) analyzer for annotation of allele-specific binding SNPs. BMC Bioinformatics. 24(1). 464–464. 1 indexed citations

Gu, Xiaobing, Mingdong Wang, & Xiao‐Ou Zhang. (2023). TE-TSS: an integrated data resource of human and mouse transposable element (TE)-derived transcription start site (TSS). Nucleic Acids Research. 52(D1). D322–D333. 3 indexed citations

Fan, Kaili, Jill E. Moore, Xiao‐Ou Zhang, & Zhiping Weng. (2021). Genetic and epigenetic features of promoters with ubiquitous chromatin accessibility support ubiquitous transcription of cell-essential genes. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(10). 5705–5725. 10 indexed citations

Ghanta, Krishna S., Zexiang Chen, Aamir Mir, et al.. (2021). 5′-Modifications improve potency and efficacy of DNA donors for precision genome editing. eLife. 10. 38 indexed citations

Moore, Jill E., Xiao‐Ou Zhang, Shaimae I. Elhajjajy, et al.. (2021). Integration of high-resolution promoter profiling assays reveals novel, cell type–specific transcription start sites across 115 human cell and tissue types. Genome Research. 32(2). 389–402. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yang, Tuan M. Nguyen, Xiao‐Ou Zhang, et al.. (2021). Optimized RNA-targeting CRISPR/Cas13d technology outperforms shRNA in identifying functional circRNAs. Genome biology. 22(1). 41–41. 113 indexed citations

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Wang, Erika Yan, Uroš Kuzmanov, Wenkun Dou, et al.. (2021). An organ-on-a-chip model for pre-clinical drug evaluation in progressive non-genetic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 160. 97–110. 33 indexed citations

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Jiang, Tingting, Xiao‐Ou Zhang, Zhiping Weng, & Wen Xue. (2021). Deletion and replacement of long genomic sequences using prime editing. Nature Biotechnology. 40(2). 227–234. 145 indexed citations

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Wu, Zheng, Sebastian Oeck, A. Phillip West, et al.. (2019). Mitochondrial DNA stress signalling protects the nuclear genome. Nature Metabolism. 1(12). 1209–1218. 104 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiao‐Ou, T Gingeras, & Zhiping Weng. (2019). Genome-wide analysis of polymerase III–transcribed Alu elements suggests cell-type–specific enhancer function. Genome Research. 29(9). 1402–1414. 59 indexed citations

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Zhang, Gen, Shikui Tu, Tianxiong Yu, et al.. (2018). Co-dependent Assembly of Drosophila piRNA Precursor Complexes and piRNA Cluster Heterochromatin. Cell Reports. 24(13). 3413–3422.e4. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiao‐Ou, Rui Dong, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2016). Diverse alternative back-splicing and alternative splicing landscape of circular RNAs. Genome Research. 26(9). 1277–1287. 754 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiang, Jian‐Feng, Qing-Fei Yin, Tian Chen, et al.. (2014). Human colorectal cancer-specific CCAT1-L lncRNA regulates long-range chromatin interactions at the MYC locus. Cell Research. 24(5). 513–531. 583 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Xiao‐Ou, Qing-Fei Yin, Haibin Wang, et al.. (2014). Species-specific alternative splicing leads to unique expression of sno-lncRNAs. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 287–287. 44 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiao‐Ou, Qing-Fei Yin, Ling‐Ling Chen, & Li Yang. (2014). Gene expression profiling of non-polyadenylated RNA-seq across species. Genomics Data. 2. 237–241. 12 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yang, Xiao‐Ou Zhang, Chen Tian, et al.. (2013). Circular Intronic Long Noncoding RNAs. Molecular Cell. 51(6). 792–806. 1835 indexed citations breakdown →

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