Xingfeng Liu

921 total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 550 citations indexed

About

Xingfeng Liu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Xingfeng Liu has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 550 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Physiology and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Xingfeng Liu's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (7 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (6 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (5 papers). Xingfeng Liu is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (7 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (6 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (5 papers). Xingfeng Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Xingfeng Liu's co-authors include Anming Meng, Feng Liu, Zhi Xiao, Shaocong Hou, Pingping Li, Lijuan Kong, Song Cao, Song Sun, Yu Zhang and Yu Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Xingfeng Liu

35 papers receiving 546 citations

Hit Papers

Trimethylamine N-oxide impairs β-cell function and glucos... 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30 40
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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.

  1. Trimethylamine N-oxide impairs β-cell function and glucose tolerance
    2024 44 citations Lijuan Kong, Xiaojing Jiang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xingfeng Liu China 15 274 109 66 57 47 39 550
Huifang Sun China 14 400 1.5× 153 1.4× 38 0.6× 33 0.6× 34 0.7× 44 838
Patrick K.K. Yeung Hong Kong 13 248 0.9× 76 0.7× 42 0.6× 25 0.4× 96 2.0× 18 565
Masaki Kobayashi Japan 16 271 1.0× 123 1.1× 31 0.5× 18 0.3× 34 0.7× 60 711
Emily Y. Chen United States 15 268 1.0× 195 1.8× 49 0.7× 30 0.5× 69 1.5× 24 630
Xiaojie Li China 12 205 0.7× 84 0.8× 45 0.7× 86 1.5× 84 1.8× 34 635
Yannis Gerakis Chile 6 207 0.8× 143 1.3× 193 2.9× 123 2.2× 113 2.4× 6 556
Denis V. Abramochkin Russia 17 369 1.3× 54 0.5× 18 0.3× 41 0.7× 20 0.4× 110 781
Nikolaï N. Modyanov United States 19 830 3.0× 63 0.6× 61 0.9× 56 1.0× 21 0.4× 49 1.1k
Jessica M. Adams United States 13 187 0.7× 236 2.2× 27 0.4× 15 0.3× 50 1.1× 19 658
Xuyang Wang China 12 223 0.8× 56 0.5× 12 0.2× 23 0.4× 56 1.2× 31 543

Countries citing papers authored by Xingfeng Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xingfeng Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xingfeng Liu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xingfeng Liu. The network helps show where Xingfeng Liu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xingfeng Liu

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

All Works

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Chen, Yibing, Qian Jiang, Xiaowei Xing, et al.. (2025). Macrophage Derived Galectin‐3 Promotes Renal Fibrosis and Diabetic Kidney Disease by Enhancing TGFβ1 Signaling. Advanced Science. 12(35). e04032–e04032. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Yu, et al.. (2025). Study on the hydrogen diffusion behavior in pipeline girth welds based on segmented moving double ellipsoid heat source model. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 217. 105556–105556. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xuanwei, Yan Li, Guang Liang, et al.. (2025). Hippocampal P2X4 receptor induces type 1 diabetes rats with neuropathic pain through microglial-derived neuroinflammation and neuronal damage. Neuroscience. 570. 225–235. 1 indexed citations
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Kong, Lijuan, Xiaojing Jiang, Qian Jiang, et al.. (2024). Trimethylamine N-oxide impairs β-cell function and glucose tolerance. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2526–2526. 44 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Yibing, Chunxiao Ma, Xiaohong Peng, et al.. (2024). Galectin-3 impairs calcium transients and β-cell function. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3682–3682. 15 indexed citations
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Hou, Shaocong, Andrew M. Johnson, Xingfeng Liu, et al.. (2024). Intestinal epithelial cell NCoR deficiency ameliorates obesity and metabolic syndrome. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 14(12). 5267–5285.
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Li, Jingyi, Xingfeng Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, et al.. (2024). Saracatinib inhibits necroptosis and ameliorates psoriatic inflammation by targeting MLKL. Cell Death and Disease. 15(2). 122–122. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Xingfeng, Kai Wang, Luhai Wang, et al.. (2022). Hepatocyte leukotriene B4 receptor 1 promotes NAFLD development in obesity. Hepatology. 78(2). 562–577. 26 indexed citations
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Liu, Xingfeng, Kai Wang, Shaocong Hou, et al.. (2022). Insulin induces insulin receptor degradation in the liver through EphB4. Nature Metabolism. 4(9). 1202–1213. 21 indexed citations
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Lei, Ying, Luyao Wang, Kaiwen Guo, et al.. (2021). Paracrine FGFs target skeletal muscle to exert potent anti-hyperglycemic effects. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7256–7256. 54 indexed citations
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Liu, Xingfeng, et al.. (2021). PRG-1 relieves pain and depressive-like behaviors in rats of bone cancer pain by regulation of dendritic spine in hippocampus. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 17(14). 4005–4020. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Feng, et al.. (2018). Insights on the Sargassum horneri golden tides in the Yellow Sea inferred from morphological and molecular data. Limnology and Oceanography. 63(4). 1762–1773. 45 indexed citations
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Gao, Qian, Junfeng Zhang, Xiumei Wang, et al.. (2017). The signalling receptor MCAM coordinates apical-basal polarity and planar cell polarity during morphogenesis. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15279–15279. 21 indexed citations
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Liu, Xingfeng, Qiang Wang, & Anming Meng. (2015). Detection of Smad Signaling in Zebrafish Embryos. Methods in molecular biology. 1344. 275–286. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Pengfei, Gaoyang Zhu, Yixia Wang, et al.. (2014). Maternal Eomesodermin regulates zygotic nodal gene expression for mesendoderm induction in zebrafish embryos. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. 6(4). 272–285. 25 indexed citations
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Liu, Xingfeng, Shunji Jia, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2013). Araf kinase antagonizes Nodal-Smad2 activity in mesendoderm development by directly phosphorylating the Smad2 linker region. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1728–1728. 27 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yu, Xiang Li, Jingjing Qi, et al.. (2009). Rock2 controls TGFβ signaling and inhibits mesoderm induction in zebrafish embryos. Journal of Cell Science. 122(13). 2197–2207. 30 indexed citations
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Liu, Xingfeng. (2009). The preference for palliative care among advanced cancer patients and their families. Zhonghua huli zazhi. 1 indexed citations

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