Xiaoping Li

11.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
53 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Xiaoping Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoping Li has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Xiaoping Li's work include Gut microbiota and health (8 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (7 papers) and Light effects on plants (5 papers). Xiaoping Li is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (8 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (7 papers) and Light effects on plants (5 papers). Xiaoping Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xiaoping Li's co-authors include Krishna Niyogi, Patricia Müller, Magnus Rosenquist, Arthur Grossman, Olle Björkman, Stefan Jansson, Connie Shih, Adam M. Gilmore, Leonas Valkūnas and Donatas Zigmantas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoping Li

50 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Non-Photochemical Quenching. A Response to Excess Light Energy

2001 2.3k citations Xiaoping Li, Krishna Niyogi et al. profile →
A pigment-binding protein essential for regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

2000 1.2k citations Xiaoping Li, Olle Björkman et al. Nature profile →
Carotenoid Cation Formation and the Regulation of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

2005 641 citations Xiaoping Li, Krishna Niyogi et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Xiaoping Li	4.0k	2.8k	884	677	509	53	5.5k
Youn‐Il Park	4.4k 1.1×	3.8k 1.4×	982 1.1×	425 0.6×	433 0.9×	153	6.3k
Anja Krieger‐Liszkay	6.8k 1.7×	5.4k 1.9×	1.6k 1.8×	1.6k 2.3×	548 1.1×	149	10.4k
Yoshitaka Nishiyama	4.8k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.9×	655 1.0×	157 0.3×	129	7.4k
Hajime Wada	5.0k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	1.9k 2.2×	366 0.5×	284 0.6×	145	6.4k
Poul Erik Jensen	5.5k 1.4×	3.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	950 1.4×	178 0.3×	198	8.4k
Beverley R. Green	4.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 1.7×	747 1.1×	304 0.6×	113	6.0k
N. Murata	3.2k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	868 1.0×	332 0.5×	127 0.2×	66	4.9k
Lee McIntosh	6.7k 1.7×	4.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.2×	669 1.0×	141 0.3×	87	8.6k
Min Chen	3.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 1.7×	729 1.1×	104 0.2×	159	4.7k
Richard T. Sayre	2.6k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	2.1k 2.4×	513 0.8×	96 0.2×	103	6.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoping Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xiaoping & Guoying Zhou. (2025). Spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation status of medicinal Aconitum species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under climate change. Global Ecology and Conservation. 64. e03937–e03937.

Dai, Mingzhi, Fangfang Zhao, Xingwei Shi, et al.. (2025). Cultivation and sequencing of microbiota members unveil the functional potential of yak gut microbiota. mSystems. 10(9). e0036725–e0036725.

Wang, Hongmin, et al.. (2023). Mesenchymal and Neural Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes in Treating Alzheimer’s Disease. Bioengineering. 10(2). 253–253. 22 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoping, et al.. (2023). A golgi-targeting and polarity-specific fluorescent probe for the diagnosis of cancer and fatty liver in living cells and tissues. Talanta. 268(Pt 1). 125367–125367. 8 indexed citations

Yang, Diqi, Xiaoping Li, Beibei Yu, & Hui Peng. (2023). Qualitative lysine crotonylation and 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation analysis in the ovarian tissue proteome of piglets. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 11. 1176212–1176212. 3 indexed citations

Guo, Hai‐Yang, et al.. (2022). Extraction of Corn Bract Cellulose by the Ammonia-Coordinated Bio-Enzymatic Method. Polymers. 15(1). 206–206. 21 indexed citations

Li, Xiaobao, Xiaobao Li, Zhengjie Tang, et al.. (2022). Chemical and Enzymatic Fiber Modification to Enhance the Mechanical Properties of CMC Composite Films. Polymers. 14(19). 4127–4127. 16 indexed citations

Wang, Qi, Qiang Sun, Xiaoping Li, et al.. (2021). Linking gut microbiome to bone mineral density: a shotgun metagenomic dataset from 361 elderly women. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2021. 1–7. 9 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoping, et al.. (2021). Volatile metabolites of willows determining host discrimination by adult Plagiodera versicolora. Journal of Forestry Research. 33(2). 679–687. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoping, et al.. (2018). Laboratory decay resistance of palmyra palm wood. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoping, Suisha Liang, Zhongkui Xia, et al.. (2018). Establishment of a Macaca fascicularis gut microbiome gene catalog and comparison with the human, pig, and mouse gut microbiomes. GigaScience. 7(9). 55 indexed citations

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Liu, Yali, Yi Yang, Xiangjin Kang, et al.. (2016). One-Step Biallelic and Scarless Correction of a β-Thalassemia Mutation in Patient-Specific iPSCs without Drug Selection. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 6. 57–67. 48 indexed citations

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He, Qing‐Yu, Xiaoping Li, Chuan Liu, et al.. (2016). Dysbiosis of the fecal microbiota in the TNBS-induced Crohn’s disease mouse model. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 100(10). 4485–4494. 30 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoping, et al.. (2014). New flavonoids from Campylotropis hirtella with immunosuppressive activity. Fitoterapia. 95. 220–228. 19 indexed citations

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Hildebrand, Falk, Tine Ebersbach, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, et al.. (2012). A comparative analysis of the intestinal metagenomes present in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) and humans (Homo sapiens). BMC Genomics. 13(1). 514–514. 46 indexed citations

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Salabei, Joshua K., Xiaoping Li, J. Mark Petrash, Aruni Bhatnagar, & Oleg A. Barski. (2011). Functional expression of novel human and murine AKR1B genes. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 191(1-3). 177–184. 25 indexed citations

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Kim, Eun-Ha, Xiaoping Li, Reza Razeghifard, et al.. (2009). The multiple roles of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein complexes define structure and optimize function of Arabidopsis chloroplasts: A study using two chlorophyll b-less mutants. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1787(8). 973–984. 129 indexed citations

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Chin, Brian, et al.. (2004). Genomic analysis of mutants affecting xanthophyll biosynthesis and regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Photosynthesis Research. 82(3). 265–276. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoping, Adam M. Gilmore, & Krishna Niyogi. (2002). Molecular and Global Time-resolved Analysis of a psbSGene Dosage Effect on pH- and Xanthophyll Cycle-dependent Nonphotochemical Quenching in Photosystem II. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(37). 33590–33597. 86 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoping, Olle Björkman, Connie Shih, et al.. (2000). A pigment-binding protein essential for regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting. Nature. 403(6768). 391–395. 1210 indexed citations breakdown →

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