Xijun He

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
86 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Xijun He is a scholar working on Agronomy and Crop Science, Infectious Diseases and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xijun He has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science, 25 papers in Infectious Diseases and 20 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Xijun He's work include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (26 papers), Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (20 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (15 papers). Xijun He is often cited by papers focused on Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (26 papers), Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (20 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (15 papers). Xijun He collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xijun He's co-authors include Zhigao Bu, Dongming Zhao, Renqiang Liu, Yuntao Guan, Xianfeng Zhang, Xijun Wang, Weiye Chen, Lulu Wang, Hualan Chen and Zhiyuan Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Xijun He

81 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Replication and virulence in pigs of the first African swine fever virus isolated in China

2019 296 citations Dongming Zhao, Renqiang Liu et al. profile →
A seven-gene-deleted African swine fever virus is safe and effective as a live attenuated vaccine in pigs

2020 250 citations Dongming Zhao, Xijun He et al. profile →
Highly lethal genotype I and II recombinant African swine fever viruses detected in pigs

2023 140 citations Dongming Zhao, Encheng Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xijun He China	26	1.3k	927	823	567	433	86	2.3k
Inmaculada Galindo Spain	26	1.3k 1.0×	626 0.7×	944 1.1×	591 1.0×	291 0.7×	51	2.1k
Lauro Velázquez-Salinas United States	26	1.7k 1.3×	930 1.0×	1.4k 1.7×	945 1.7×	195 0.5×	83	2.4k
Mingqiu Zhao China	22	682 0.5×	423 0.5×	286 0.3×	392 0.7×	376 0.9×	76	1.6k
Zhiyuan Wen China	22	405 0.3×	792 0.9×	272 0.3×	164 0.3×	710 1.6×	61	1.9k
Bruce W. Brodersen United States	22	704 0.6×	609 0.7×	523 0.6×	152 0.3×	183 0.4×	51	1.5k
Alberdina A. van Dijk South Africa	25	668 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	996 1.2×	243 0.4×	116 0.3×	53	2.0k
Helen Everett United Kingdom	26	474 0.4×	480 0.5×	196 0.2×	283 0.5×	1.0k 2.4×	52	3.0k
Bin Zhou China	23	365 0.3×	405 0.4×	130 0.2×	317 0.6×	249 0.6×	135	1.8k
Sun‐Woo Yoon South Korea	20	475 0.4×	623 0.7×	162 0.2×	148 0.3×	825 1.9×	70	1.6k
Zishu Pan China	20	334 0.3×	381 0.4×	130 0.2×	290 0.5×	285 0.7×	64	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xijun He

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xijun He

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xijun He

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Chong, Lei Shuai, Gongxun Zhong, et al.. (2025). Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 between ferrets in presence of pre-existing immunity. Journal of Virology. 99(11). e0156625–e0156625.

Yuan, Ye, Dongdong Shen, Jiwen Zhang, et al.. (2025). Alpha-herpesvirus US1 interacts with cGAS to suppress type I IFN responses and antiviral defense. PLoS Pathogens. 21(11). e1013669–e1013669. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jinming, Chan Li, Shuang Xiao, et al.. (2024). Safety and immunogenicity of a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine (SYS6006) in minks, cats, blue foxes, and raccoon dogs. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 14. 1468775–1468775. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jinliang, Yifan Wang, Jingfei Wang, et al.. (2024). Influenza virus uses mGluR2 as an endocytic receptor to enter cells. Nature Microbiology. 9(7). 1764–1777. 28 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaohong, Hefeng Chen, Hongyang Liu, et al.. (2024). African swine fever virus pB318L, a trans-geranylgeranyl-diphosphate synthase, negatively regulates cGAS-STING and IFNAR-JAK-STAT signaling pathways. PLoS Pathogens. 20(4). e1012136–e1012136. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Pengfei, Jinhui Wang, Shida Wang, et al.. (2024). VP2 mediates the release of the feline calicivirus RNA genome by puncturing the endosome membrane of infected cells. Journal of Virology. 98(5). e0035024–e0035024. 4 indexed citations

Hua, Rong-Hong, Jing Liu, Shujian Zhang, et al.. (2023). Mammalian Cell-Line-Expressed CD2v Protein of African Swine Fever Virus Provides Partial Protection against the HLJ/18 Strain in the Early Infection Stage. Viruses. 15(7). 1467–1467. 8 indexed citations

Zhao, Dongming, Encheng Sun, Yuanmao Zhu, et al.. (2023). Highly lethal genotype I and II recombinant African swine fever viruses detected in pigs. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3096–3096. 140 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Pengfei, Chunguo Liu, Shida Wang, et al.. (2022). Production and application of mouse monoclonal antibodies targeting linear epitopes in pB602L of African swine fever virus. Archives of Virology. 167(2). 415–424. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Antony R. Warden, Yanlei Liu, et al.. (2021). Single-Cell Microwell Platform Reveals Circulating Neural Cells as a Clinical Indicator for Patients with Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown. Research. 2021. 9873545–9873545. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Jiangnan, Jie Song, Li Kang, et al.. (2021). pMGF505-7R determines pathogenicity of African swine fever virus infection by inhibiting IL-1β and type I IFN production. PLoS Pathogens. 17(7). e1009733–e1009733. 125 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yongli, Wei Hu, Qiang Liu, et al.. (2021). Expression of immunoproteasome subunits in the brains of Toxoplasma gondii-infected mice. Experimental and Molecular Pathology. 123. 104684–104684. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Huimin, Chunguo Liu, Pengfei Wang, et al.. (2020). Implication of the Identification of an Earlier Pseudorabies Virus (PRV) Strain HLJ-2013 to the Evolution of Chinese PRVs. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 612474–612474. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Gang, Ying Yu, Xijun He, et al.. (2019). Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection of bone marrow: Lesions and pathogenesis. Virus Research. 265. 20–29. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Qiang, Yongli Zhang, Lisi Chen, et al.. (2019). Establishment of BV2 microglia polarization model and its effect on Toxoplasma gondii proliferation. Research in Veterinary Science. 125. 382–389. 8 indexed citations

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Hu, Shouping, Qiang Liu, Zhuo Zhang, et al.. (2018). Microglia Are Derived from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells After Pseudorabies Infection in Mice. Viral Immunology. 31(9). 596–604. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Qiang, Yongli Zhang, Shouping Hu, et al.. (2017). Expression of immunoproteasome subunits in the porcine lung: Alterations during normal and inflammatory conditions. Veterinary Microbiology. 210. 134–141. 8 indexed citations

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Sang, Xiaoyu, Airong Wang, Tongjie Chai, et al.. (2015). Rapid emergence of a PB2-E627K substitution confers a virulent phenotype to an H9N2 avian influenza virus during adaption in mice. Archives of Virology. 160(5). 1267–1277. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Chunyang, Guojun Wang, Chang Liu, et al.. (2015). The Immune Adaptor ADAP Regulates Reciprocal TGF-β1-Integrin Crosstalk to Protect from Influenza Virus Infection. PLoS Pathogens. 11(4). e1004824–e1004824. 16 indexed citations

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Du, Cheng, Jian Ma, Qiang Liu, et al.. (2015). Mice transgenic for equine cyclin T1 and ELR1 are susceptible to equine infectious anemia virus infection. Retrovirology. 12(1). 36–36. 2 indexed citations

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