Xushen Xiong

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Xushen Xiong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xushen Xiong has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Xushen Xiong's work include RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (10 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (8 papers). Xushen Xiong is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (10 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (8 papers). Xushen Xiong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Xushen Xiong's co-authors include Chengqi Yi, Xiaoyu Li, Kun Wang, Xiaoting Shu, Shiqing Ma, Lixia Wang, Jun Zhou, Xiaowei Chen, Danyang Yi and Ying Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xushen Xiong

24 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Transcriptome-wide mapping reveals reversible and dynamic N1-methyladenosine methylome

2016 525 citations Xiaoyu Li, Xushen Xiong et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
Human microglial state dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease progression

2023 162 citations Na Sun, Matheus B. Victor et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xushen Xiong China	16	2.0k	1.0k	132	109	98	25	2.3k
Ivan Chen United States	8	1.3k 0.6×	837 0.8×	15 0.1×	289 2.7×	155 1.6×	9	1.5k
Gillian Browne United States	14	924 0.5×	328 0.3×	90 0.7×	208 1.9×	21 0.2×	14	1.7k
Zhixin Qiu China	14	838 0.4×	398 0.4×	17 0.1×	328 3.0×	49 0.5×	22	1.4k
Yejun Zou China	12	712 0.3×	163 0.2×	20 0.2×	59 0.5×	45 0.5×	19	1.1k
Astrid Zimmermann Germany	20	891 0.4×	210 0.2×	31 0.2×	397 3.6×	12 0.1×	76	1.7k
Hana Antonická Canada	25	2.8k 1.4×	150 0.1×	40 0.3×	63 0.6×	8 0.1×	42	3.0k
Carla Coackley Canada	14	722 0.4×	169 0.2×	24 0.2×	445 4.1×	26 0.3×	20	1.1k
Takashi Shingu United States	16	590 0.3×	327 0.3×	34 0.3×	193 1.8×	7 0.1×	26	1.0k
Katherine L. Eales United Kingdom	6	482 0.2×	336 0.3×	68 0.5×	131 1.2×	4 0.0×	7	910
Damien Duveau United States	15	753 0.4×	127 0.1×	66 0.5×	137 1.3×	14 0.1×	23	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xushen Xiong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xushen Xiong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xushen Xiong

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Chengyu, et al.. (2025). Genetics-mediated regulation of intestinal gene expression on microbiome contributes to human disease heritability. Molecular Systems Biology. 22(3). 369–394.

Zhou, Yuenan, Zuokun Shi, Xushen Xiong, et al.. (2025). Condensation of ZFP207 and U1 snRNP promotes spliceosome assembly. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(6). 1038–1049. 2 indexed citations

Li, Chengyu, et al.. (2025). Epitranscriptome–epigenome interactions in development and disease mechanisms. Trends in Genetics. 41(8). 691–705. 3 indexed citations

He, Jialin, Lei Xiong, Chengyu Li, et al.. (2024). Deep learning prediction of ribosome profiling with Translatomer reveals translational regulation and interprets disease variants. Nature Machine Intelligence. 6(11). 1314–1329. 2 indexed citations

Li, Chengyu, Jialin He, Yafei Yin, et al.. (2024). Crosstalk between epitranscriptomic and epigenomic modifications and its implication in human diseases. Cell Genomics. 4(8). 100605–100605. 7 indexed citations

Ma, Tianzhu, et al.. (2024). G-quadruplex-guided bifunctional platinum complexes induce multiple pyroptosis pathways for antitumor therapy. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(2). 707–722. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Liang, Xiaoting Zhang, Yuenan Zhou, et al.. (2024). Base-resolution m5C profiling across the mammalian transcriptome by bisulfite-free enzyme-assisted chemical labeling approach. Molecular Cell. 84(15). 2984–3000.e8. 18 indexed citations

Xiong, Xushen, et al.. (2024). Genetic regulation of m6A RNA methylation and its contribution in human complex diseases. Science China Life Sciences. 67(8). 1591–1600. 1 indexed citations

Hou, Lei, Xushen Xiong, Yongjin Park, et al.. (2023). Multitissue H3K27ac profiling of GTEx samples links epigenomic variation to disease. Nature Genetics. 55(10). 1665–1676. 11 indexed citations

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Xiong, Xushen, Benjamin T. James, Carles A. Boix, et al.. (2023). Epigenomic dissection of Alzheimer’s disease pinpoints causal variants and reveals epigenome erosion. Cell. 186(20). 4422–4437.e21. 68 indexed citations

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Sun, Na, Matheus B. Victor, Yongjin Park, et al.. (2023). Human microglial state dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease progression. Cell. 186(20). 4386–4403.e29. 162 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiong, Xushen, Lei Hou, Yongjin Park, et al.. (2021). Genetic drivers of m6A methylation in human brain, lung, heart and muscle. Nature Genetics. 53(8). 1156–1165. 89 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanying, Jing Wang, Xiaoyu Li, et al.. (2021). N1-methyladenosine methylation in tRNA drives liver tumourigenesis by regulating cholesterol metabolism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6314–6314. 176 indexed citations

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Liu, June, Kwok Yan Li, Jiabin Cai, et al.. (2019). Landscape and Regulation of m6A and m6Am Methylome across Human and Mouse Tissues. Molecular Cell. 77(2). 426–440.e6. 204 indexed citations

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Xiong, Xushen, Xiaoyu Li, Kun Wang, & Chengqi Yi. (2018). Perspectives on topology of the human m¹A methylome at single nucleotide resolution. RNA. 24(11). 1437–1442. 21 indexed citations

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Xiong, Xushen, Xiaoyu Li, & Chengqi Yi. (2018). N1-methyladenosine methylome in messenger RNA and non-coding RNA. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 45. 179–186. 87 indexed citations

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Xiong, Xushen, Chengqi Yi, & Jinying Peng. (2017). Epitranscriptomics: Toward a Better Understanding of RNA Modifications. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 15(3). 147–153. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoyu, Xushen Xiong, Meiling Zhang, et al.. (2017). Base-Resolution Mapping Reveals Distinct m1A Methylome in Nuclear- and Mitochondrial-Encoded Transcripts. Molecular Cell. 68(5). 993–1005.e9. 372 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoyu, Xushen Xiong, Kun Wang, et al.. (2016). Transcriptome-wide mapping reveals reversible and dynamic N1-methyladenosine methylome. Nature Chemical Biology. 12(5). 311–316. 525 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Xiaoyu, Xushen Xiong, & Chengqi Yi. (2016). Epitranscriptome sequencing technologies: decoding RNA modifications. Nature Methods. 14(1). 23–31. 332 indexed citations

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