Zhangling Chen

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

Zhangling Chen is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ophthalmology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhangling Chen has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 9 papers in Ophthalmology and 9 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Zhangling Chen's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (21 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (8 papers). Zhangling Chen is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (21 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (8 papers). Zhangling Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Zhangling Chen's co-authors include Trudy Voortman, M. Arfan Ikram, Oscar H. Franco, Jean‐Philippe Drouin‐Chartier, Niels Schaft, Frank B. Hu, Walter C. Willett, JoAnn E. Manson, Maryam Kavousi and Alexandra Zhernakova and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, The Science of The Total Environment and Diabetes Care.

In The Last Decade

Zhangling Chen

44 papers receiving 989 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.

Association of Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes With Gut Microbial Diversity

2021 210 citations Zhangling Chen, M. Arfan Ikram et al. profile →
Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohort Studies

2023 117 citations Zhangling Chen, Neha Khandpur et al. Diabetes Care profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhangling Chen China	13	508	380	221	187	87	47	998
Jamie Baum United States	22	468 0.9×	992 2.6×	346 1.6×	126 0.7×	71 0.8×	80	1.8k
Andrea J. Glenn Canada	15	367 0.7×	315 0.8×	51 0.2×	154 0.8×	60 0.7×	34	740
Sanne Kellebjerg Poulsen Denmark	16	513 1.0×	538 1.4×	499 2.3×	60 0.3×	168 1.9×	22	1.1k
Jan Gojda Czechia	18	95 0.2×	294 0.8×	240 1.1×	129 0.7×	34 0.4×	46	757
Yi Wan China	18	356 0.7×	496 1.3×	571 2.6×	33 0.2×	74 0.9×	34	1.3k
Gal Tsaban Israel	13	119 0.2×	280 0.7×	219 1.0×	54 0.3×	42 0.5×	59	876
Wanglong Gou China	17	201 0.4×	327 0.9×	662 3.0×	28 0.1×	108 1.2×	45	1.1k
Zelei Miao China	16	176 0.3×	320 0.8×	670 3.0×	29 0.2×	115 1.3×	39	1.1k
Alon Kaplan Israel	13	97 0.2×	237 0.6×	185 0.8×	52 0.3×	32 0.4×	39	679
Francesca Di Daniele Italy	13	95 0.2×	209 0.6×	114 0.5×	59 0.3×	26 0.3×	16	556

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhangling Chen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Zhangling, Elizabeth Benz, Niels Schaft, et al.. (2025). Dietary protein intake and body composition, sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity: A prospective population-based study. Clinical Nutrition. 53. 26–34.

Chen, Zhangling, Frank Qian, Geng Zong, et al.. (2025). Monounsaturated fatty acids from plant or animal sources and risk of type 2 diabetes in three large prospective cohorts of men and women. Diabetologia. 68(4). 801–814. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Zhangling, et al.. (2024). Multifaceted effects of microplastics on soil-plant systems: Exploring the role of particle type and plant species. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176641–176641. 8 indexed citations

Fung, Teresa T., Sinara Laurini Rossato, Zhangling Chen, et al.. (2024). Ultraprocessed foods, unprocessed or minimally processed foods, and risk of frailty in a cohort of United States females. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 120(1). 232–239. 16 indexed citations

Wang, Lianfang, Zhangling Chen, Yutong Li, et al.. (2024). Nonconvex weighted variational metal artifacts removal via convergent primal-dual algorithms. Inverse Problems. 40(4). 45029–45029.

Chen, Zhangling, Senlin Lin, Yi Xu, Lina Lu, & Haidong Zou. (2024). Unique composition of ocular surface microbiome in the old patients with dry eye and diabetes mellitus in a community from Shanghai, China. BMC Microbiology. 24(1). 19–19. 4 indexed citations

Luo, Qin, Jingfei Chen, Panyun Wu, et al.. (2024). The serum soluble ASGR1 concentration is elevated in patients with coronary artery disease and is associated with inflammatory markers. Lipids in Health and Disease. 23(1). 89–89. 2 indexed citations

Li, Wenjuan, Aijun Xing, Sander Lamballais, et al.. (2024). Changes in Life’s Essential 8 and risk of cardiovascular disease in Chinese people. European Journal of Public Health. 34(4). 766–773. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Kang, Zhangling Chen, Pengfei Chen, et al.. (2023). Dietary fruits and vegetables and risk of cardiovascular diseases in elderly Chinese. European Journal of Public Health. 33(6). 1088–1094. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Yusi, Junli Li, Fang Li, et al.. (2023). Impact of Epicardial Adipose Tissue on Right Cardiac Function and Prognosis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. CHEST Journal. 165(5). 1211–1223. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, Neha Khandpur, Lu Wang, et al.. (2023). Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohort Studies. Diabetes Care. 46(7). 1335–1344. 117 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Zhangling, et al.. (2023). Significantly different results in the ocular surface microbiome detected by tear paper and conjunctival swab. BMC Microbiology. 23(1). 31–31. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, Yang Hu, Frank B. Hu, et al.. (2023). Dietary Glutamine and Glutamate in Relation to Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and Mortality in the United States Men and Women with Diabetes Mellitus. Journal of Nutrition. 153(11). 3247–3258. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, et al.. (2023). Discrepancies in Vessel Density and Blood Flow Distribution in Different Areas of the Iris among Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Adult Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients. Ophthalmic Research. 66(1). 1139–1147. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiaxi, Deirdre K. Tobias, Shanshan Li, et al.. (2022). Habitual coffee consumption and subsequent risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals with a history of gestational diabetes – a prospective study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 116(6). 1693–1703. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, Frank Qian, Yang Hu, et al.. (2022). Dietary phytoestrogens and total and cause-specific mortality: results from 2 prospective cohort studies. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 117(1). 130–140. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, Frank Qian, Gang Liu, et al.. (2021). Prepregnancy plant-based diets and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study of 14,926 women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 114(6). 1997–2005. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, Marija Glišić, Mingyang Song, et al.. (2020). Dietary protein intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: results from the Rotterdam Study and a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. European Journal of Epidemiology. 35(5). 411–429. 85 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, Oscar H. Franco, Sander Lamballais, et al.. (2019). Associations of specific dietary protein with longitudinal insulin resistance, prediabetes and type 2 diabetes: The Rotterdam Study. Clinical Nutrition. 39(1). 242–249. 68 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhangling, et al.. (2018). Exponential discriminative metric embedding in deep learning. Neurocomputing. 290. 108–120. 11 indexed citations

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