Xiaowei Wang

13.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
124 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Xiaowei Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaowei Wang has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Molecular Biology, 53 papers in Cancer Research and 18 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Xiaowei Wang's work include Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (33 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (29 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers). Xiaowei Wang is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (33 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (29 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers). Xiaowei Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Xiaowei Wang's co-authors include Yuhao Chen, Nathan Wong, Weijun Liu, Issam El Naqa, James S. Lewis, Gongyu Tang, Minsu Cho, Julie K. Schwarz, Xiaoxia Hu and Rebecca D. Chernock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Medicine and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Xiaowei Wang

116 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

miRDB: an online database for prediction of functional microRNA targets

2019 2.0k citations Xiaowei Wang et al. profile →
miRDB: an online resource for microRNA target prediction and functional annotations

2014 1.4k citations Xiaowei Wang et al. profile →
miRDB: A microRNA target prediction and functional annotation database with a wiki interface

2008 589 citations Xiaowei Wang profile →
Prediction of functional microRNA targets by integrative modeling of microRNA binding and target expression data

2019 577 citations Xiaowei Wang et al. profile →
OncoDB: an interactive online database for analysis of gene expression and viral infection in cancer

2021 193 citations Gongyu Tang, Xiaowei Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaowei Wang United States	37	6.9k	5.4k	808	770	586	124	9.4k
Cun‐Yu Wang United States	57	6.6k 1.0×	2.0k 0.4×	1.8k 2.3×	1.6k 2.0×	561 1.0×	115	10.8k
Lianbo Yu United States	37	4.1k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	1.7k 2.1×	1.3k 1.7×	917 1.6×	155	7.6k
Xiaofeng Zhou United States	44	3.6k 0.5×	2.5k 0.5×	758 0.9×	407 0.5×	344 0.6×	115	5.9k
Xiaojun Ma China	41	2.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.3×	1.8k 2.2×	783 1.0×	511 0.9×	167	6.6k
Xiao‐Jing Wang United States	48	5.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.3×	3.2k 3.9×	1.5k 1.9×	671 1.1×	179	9.7k
Myriam Polette France	51	2.9k 0.4×	2.5k 0.5×	2.6k 3.2×	678 0.9×	875 1.5×	145	6.5k
Jianjun Chen United States	62	10.5k 1.5×	5.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.7×	2.1k 2.7×	398 0.7×	270	13.5k
Xuefeng Liu United States	39	2.8k 0.4×	1.0k 0.2×	1.1k 1.4×	554 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	192	6.0k
Marc Mareel Belgium	46	4.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.2×	2.5k 3.1×	740 1.0×	911 1.6×	131	7.9k
Eiichi Morii Japan	53	4.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.3×	2.5k 3.1×	2.9k 3.8×	1.4k 2.3×	431	10.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaowei Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaowei Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaowei Wang

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

Wang, Xinqiang, et al.. (2025). Faulty feeder identification under high impedance faults for flexible grounding distribution system based on leakage resistance identification. Electric Power Systems Research. 245. 111604–111604.

Lu, Xuke, Kang Zhao, Yapeng Fan, et al.. (2025). GhDMT7‐mediated DNA methylation dynamics enhance starch and sucrose metabolism pathways to confer salt tolerance in cotton. The Plant Journal. 123(2). e70364–e70364.

Wang, Xiaowei, et al.. (2025). Barriers and facilitators of complications risk perception among rural patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative content analysis. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 1110–1110.

Gao, Chunsheng, et al.. (2025). Exosome-Delivered Hsa_Circ_0000116 Facilitates Osteosarcoma Cell Malignancy via PI3K/Akt/mTOR and p38/MAPK Pathways. DNA and Cell Biology. 44(3). 153–160. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaowei, et al.. (2024). Active Detection of Interphase Faults in Distribution Networks Based on Energy Relative Entropy and Manhattan Distance. Electric Power Systems Research. 241. 111397–111397. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Tongtong, Zhiyi Chen, Xiaowei Wang, et al.. (2024). Nicotine aggravates high-fat diet-induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice via inhibition of CISD3. International Immunopharmacology. 142(Pt A). 113067–113067. 3 indexed citations

Tang, Gongyu, et al.. (2024). SpatialDeX Is a Reference-Free Method for Cell-Type Deconvolution of Spatial Transcriptomics Data in Solid Tumors. Cancer Research. 85(1). 171–182. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaowei, Jian Lan, Xiao Xiao, et al.. (2023). Healthy sleep pattern reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease: A 10-year prospective cohort study. Sleep Medicine. 105. 53–60. 14 indexed citations

Sun, Lulu, et al.. (2023). Deep-supervised adversarial learning-based classification for digital histologic images. 70–70. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Mengxing, et al.. (2023). A test of miR-128-3p and miR-33a-5p in serum exosome as biomarkers for auxiliary diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 15(5). 2616–2626. 11 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Subhajit, Jiayi Huang, Matthew Inkman, et al.. (2023). Radiation-induced circulating myeloid-derived suppressor cells induce systemic lymphopenia after chemoradiotherapy in patients with glioblastoma. Science Translational Medicine. 15(680). eabn6758–eabn6758. 60 indexed citations

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Huang, Ying, et al.. (2023). The Prognosis of Patients Tested Positive for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia from Different Sources. Infection and Drug Resistance. Volume 16. 4779–4787. 4 indexed citations

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Yamasaki, Evan, Pratish Thakore, Sher Ali, et al.. (2023). Impaired intracellular Ca ²⁺ signaling contributes to age-related cerebral small vessel disease in Col4a1 mutant mice. Science Signaling. 16(811). eadi3966–eadi3966. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Shan, Sridhar Nonavinkere Srivatsan, Yuhao Chen, et al.. (2021). Nonsense-Mediated RNA Decay Is a Unique Vulnerability of Cancer Cells Harboring SF3B1 or U2AF1 Mutations. Cancer Research. 81(17). 4499–4513. 37 indexed citations

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Yap, Timothy A., Jane N. Winter, Lisa Giulino‐Roth, et al.. (2019). Phase I Study of the Novel Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2) Inhibitor GSK2816126 in Patients with Advanced Hematologic and Solid Tumors. Clinical Cancer Research. 25(24). 7331–7339. 128 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yinghao, et al.. (2019). ZEB2-AS1 Accelerates Epithelial/Mesenchymal Transition Through miR-1205/CRKL Pathway in Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals. 35(2). 153–162. 15 indexed citations

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Volders, Pieter‐Jan, Kenny Helsens, Xiaowei Wang, et al.. (2013). LNCipedia: A database for annotated human lncRNA transcript sequences and structures. Digital Commons@Becker (Washington University School of Medicine). 1 indexed citations

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Hu, Xiaoxia, Julie K. Schwarz, James S. Lewis, et al.. (2010). A MicroRNA Expression Signature for Cervical Cancer Prognosis. Cancer Research. 70(4). 1441–1448. 247 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaowei, et al.. (2009). [Expression of Beclin1 in primary hepatocellular carcinoma].. PubMed. 29(1). 151–3. 1 indexed citations

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Leri, Annarosa, Yu Liu, Pier Paolo Claudio, et al.. (1999). Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Induces Mdm2 and Down-Regulates p53, Attenuating the Myocyte Renin-Angiotensin System and Stretch-Mediated Apoptosis. American Journal Of Pathology. 154(2). 567–580. 99 indexed citations

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