Xinlu Ding

589 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 361 citations indexed

About

Xinlu Ding is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinlu Ding has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 361 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Xinlu Ding's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (5 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (3 papers). Xinlu Ding is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (5 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (3 papers). Xinlu Ding collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Belgium. Xinlu Ding's co-authors include Ji‐Song Guan, Hong Xie, Yang Dan, Zhe Zhang, Zeke Barger, Peng Zhong, Yu Liu, Danqian Liu, Chenyan Ma and Yichang Jia and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Xinlu Ding

10 papers receiving 354 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microglia regulate sleep through calcium-dependent modulation of norepinephrine transmission

2024 51 citations Chenyan Ma, Bing Li et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xinlu Ding United States	8	150	144	102	82	54	10	361
David Lukacsovich Switzerland	10	128 0.9×	209 1.5×	151 1.5×	72 0.9×	52 1.0×	23	420
Amanda L. Schott United States	3	193 1.3×	145 1.0×	62 0.6×	93 1.1×	166 3.1×	4	415
Radhika C. Reddy United States	8	119 0.8×	252 1.8×	212 2.1×	67 0.8×	76 1.4×	10	508
Ananya Chowdhury United States	11	237 1.6×	296 2.1×	124 1.2×	26 0.3×	58 1.1×	16	485
Arghya Mukherjee United States	9	204 1.4×	145 1.0×	80 0.8×	28 0.3×	21 0.4×	12	353
Hiroyuki Manabe Japan	13	219 1.5×	249 1.7×	79 0.8×	40 0.5×	46 0.9×	25	515
Jennifer C. Tudor United States	9	332 2.2×	243 1.7×	179 1.8×	99 1.2×	52 1.0×	11	634
André O. White United States	11	125 0.8×	166 1.2×	217 2.1×	60 0.7×	43 0.8×	14	407
Akiyo Natsubori Japan	9	171 1.1×	152 1.1×	76 0.7×	136 1.7×	16 0.3×	19	335
Joëlle Lavoie Canada	10	87 0.6×	157 1.1×	243 2.4×	51 0.6×	18 0.3×	13	444

Countries citing papers authored by Xinlu Ding

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xinlu Ding

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xinlu Ding

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Ding, Xinlu, Daniel N. Silverman, Peng Zhong, et al.. (2025). Neuroendocrine circuit for sleep-dependent growth hormone release. Cell. 188(18). 4968–4979.e12. 3 indexed citations

2.

Silverman, Daniel, Shuang Chang, Yufan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Activation of locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons rapidly drives homeostatic sleep pressure. Science Advances. 11(3). eadq0651–eadq0651. 7 indexed citations

3.

Ma, Chenyan, Bing Li, Daniel Silverman, et al.. (2024). Microglia regulate sleep through calcium-dependent modulation of norepinephrine transmission. Nature Neuroscience. 27(2). 249–258. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Bing, Chenyan Ma, Xinlu Ding, et al.. (2023). Circuit mechanism for suppression of frontal cortical ignition during NREM sleep. Cell. 186(26). 5739–5750.e17. 9 indexed citations

5.

Ding, Xinlu, et al.. (2022). Suv39h1 regulates memory stability by inhibiting the expression of Shank1 in hippocampal newborn neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(6). 1424–1441. 5 indexed citations

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Zhong, Peng, Zhe Zhang, Zeke Barger, et al.. (2019). Control of Non-REM Sleep by Midbrain Neurotensinergic Neurons. Neuron. 104(4). 795–809.e6. 53 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhe, Peng Zhong, Fei Hu, et al.. (2019). An Excitatory Circuit in the Perioculomotor Midbrain for Non-REM Sleep Control. Cell. 177(5). 1293–1307.e16. 45 indexed citations

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Ding, Xinlu, Sanxiong Liu, Miaomiao Tian, et al.. (2017). Activity-induced histone modifications govern Neurexin-1 mRNA splicing and memory preservation. Nature Neuroscience. 20(5). 690–699. 73 indexed citations

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Guan, Ji‐Song, Hong Xie, & Xinlu Ding. (2014). The role of epigenetic regulation in learning and memory. Experimental Neurology. 268. 30–36. 58 indexed citations

10.

Xie, Hong, et al.. (2014). In vivo imaging of immediate early gene expression reveals layer-specific memory traces in the mammalian brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(7). 2788–2793. 57 indexed citations

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