Zexiang Chen

670 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 417 citations indexed

About

Zexiang Chen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zexiang Chen has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 417 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zexiang Chen's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (4 papers). Zexiang Chen is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (4 papers). Zexiang Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Greece. Zexiang Chen's co-authors include Erik J. Sontheimer, Wen Xue, Xiaolong Dong, Bin Liu, Shun‐Qing Liang, Chunwei Zheng, Tomás Rodríguez, Brent M. Znosko, Jonathan K. Watts and Scot A. Wolfe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zexiang Chen

13 papers receiving 410 citations

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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.

High-density brush-shaped polymer lipids reduce anti-PEG antibody binding for repeated administration of mRNA therapeutics

2025 21 citations Yufen Xiao, Xizhen Lian et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zexiang Chen United States	10	365	127	31	29	27	13	417
Emeric Charles United States	4	519 1.4×	59 0.5×	25 0.8×	16 0.6×	18 0.7×	4	542
James R. Rybarski United States	7	505 1.4×	59 0.5×	28 0.9×	19 0.7×	51 1.9×	13	537
Ning Guo United States	6	372 1.0×	139 1.1×	39 1.3×	16 0.6×	38 1.4×	6	415
Kangin Lee South Korea	6	388 1.1×	72 0.6×	52 1.7×	16 0.6×	48 1.8×	18	477
Maximiliaan Huisman United States	6	541 1.5×	65 0.5×	33 1.1×	11 0.4×	64 2.4×	13	582
Lukas Schmidheini Switzerland	8	301 0.8×	109 0.9×	23 0.7×	13 0.4×	20 0.7×	9	327
You Kyeong Jeong South Korea	8	580 1.6×	136 1.1×	49 1.6×	33 1.1×	64 2.4×	11	599
Anthony J. Garrity United States	4	521 1.4×	63 0.5×	54 1.7×	28 1.0×	45 1.7×	5	567
Zhen Tan United States	7	505 1.4×	40 0.3×	14 0.5×	16 0.6×	33 1.2×	10	541
Xuchen Wang China	5	183 0.5×	68 0.5×	21 0.7×	10 0.3×	30 1.1×	8	218

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zexiang Chen

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Xiao, Yufen, Xizhen Lian, Yehui Sun, et al.. (2025). High-density brush-shaped polymer lipids reduce anti-PEG antibody binding for repeated administration of mRNA therapeutics. Nature Materials. 24(11). 1840–1851. 21 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kelly, Karen, Jonathan Lee, Dimas Echeverria, et al.. (2023). Self-delivering, chemically modified CRISPR RNAs for AAV co-delivery and genome editing in vivo. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(2). 977–997. 10 indexed citations

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Liang, Shun‐Qing, Pengpeng Liu, Karthikeyan Ponnienselvan, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide profiling of prime editor off-target sites in vitro and in vivo using PE-tag. Nature Methods. 20(6). 898–907. 43 indexed citations

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Chen, Zexiang, Suet‐Yan Kwan, Aamir Mir, et al.. (2023). A Fluorescent Reporter Mouse for In Vivo Assessment of Genome Editing with Diverse Cas Nucleases and Prime Editors. The CRISPR Journal. 6(6). 570–582. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Zexiang, Karen Kelly, Xiaolong Dong, et al.. (2023). In Vivo Prime Editing by Lipid Nanoparticle Co-Delivery of Chemically Modified pegRNA and Prime Editor mRNA. PubMed. 2(6). 490–502. 15 indexed citations

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Yu, Jie, Xin Chen, Hongzheng Ren, et al.. (2023). Study on adsorption characteristics of radioactive gaseous iodine on Ag ion exchange molecular sieve. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 332(6). 2269–2277. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Bin, Xiaolong Dong, Chunwei Zheng, et al.. (2023). Targeted genome editing with a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase and exogenous DNA-containing templates. Nature Biotechnology. 42(7). 1039–1045. 34 indexed citations

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Liu, Bin, Xiaolong Dong, Chunwei Zheng, et al.. (2022). A split prime editor with untethered reverse transcriptase and circular RNA template. Nature Biotechnology. 40(9). 1388–1393. 118 indexed citations

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Chen, Zexiang, Gitali Devi, Amena Arif, et al.. (2022). Tetrazine-Ligated CRISPR sgRNAs for Efficient Genome Editing. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(5). 1045–1050. 5 indexed citations

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Ghanta, Krishna S., Zexiang Chen, Aamir Mir, et al.. (2021). 5′-Modifications improve potency and efficacy of DNA donors for precision genome editing. eLife. 10. 38 indexed citations

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Ibraheim, Raed, Phillip W.L. Tai, Aamir Mir, et al.. (2021). Self-inactivating, all-in-one AAV vectors for precision Cas9 genome editing via homology-directed repair in vivo. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6267–6267. 80 indexed citations

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Chen, Zexiang & Brent M. Znosko. (2013). Effect of Sodium Ions on RNA Duplex Stability. Biochemistry. 52(42). 7477–7485. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaoju, et al.. (2007). Field emission characteristics of lanthanum hexaboride coated silicon field emitters. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 40(16). 4775–4778. 25 indexed citations

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