Zhao Lai

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Zhao Lai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhao Lai has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Zhao Lai's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (10 papers). Zhao Lai is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (10 papers). Zhao Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Zhao Lai's co-authors include Loren H. Rieseberg, Takuya Nakazato, Christian Lexer, Kevin Livingstone, Andrea E. Schwarzbach, David M. Rosenthal, Olivier Raymond, Lisa A. Donovan, Yi Zou and Yongbiao Xue and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhao Lai

107 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization

2003 968 citations Loren H. Rieseberg, Olivier Raymond et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhao Lai United States	31	2.3k	1.8k	1.4k	1.0k	397	109	4.6k
Ken Kawamoto Japan	25	2.6k 1.2×	3.0k 1.7×	2.9k 2.0×	457 0.4×	582 1.5×	42	6.6k
Eli A. Stahl United States	34	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.6×	506 0.5×	123 0.3×	64	6.2k
Anders Larsson Sweden	29	1.7k 0.8×	854 0.5×	530 0.4×	982 1.0×	354 0.9×	76	4.4k
Justin C. Fay United States	36	3.4k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	2.8k 1.9×	358 0.4×	256 0.6×	91	6.4k
Mikita Suyama Japan	28	3.9k 1.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	412 0.4×	290 0.7×	101	6.0k
Nives Škunca Switzerland	12	3.1k 1.4×	1.2k 0.7×	772 0.5×	277 0.3×	399 1.0×	15	5.3k
Brent S. Pedersen United States	37	3.5k 1.5×	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	286 0.3×	373 0.9×	79	5.5k
David A. Jones United Kingdom	60	5.2k 2.3×	6.3k 3.5×	1.0k 0.7×	543 0.5×	449 1.1×	205	12.5k
Christine Müller Germany	50	1.7k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	3.4k 3.3×	150 0.4×	115	6.8k
Ya Yang China	26	1.6k 0.7×	853 0.5×	591 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	109 0.3×	99	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhao Lai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhao Lai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhao Lai

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Weldon, Korri, et al.. (2025). Low-frequency ultrasound reverses insulin resistance and diabetes-induced changes in the muscle transcriptome in aged mice. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. 328(6). E899–E910.

Chen, Yihong, Yi He, Prabhakar Pitta Venkata, et al.. (2024). KDM1A/LSD1 inhibition enhances chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer. Molecular Carcinogenesis. 63(10). 2026–2039. 2 indexed citations

Zou, Yi, Zhao Lai, Joseph D. Fondell, et al.. (2024). Expression activation of over 70% of Chlamydia trachomatis genes during the first hour of infection. Infection and Immunity. 92(3). e0053923–e0053923. 6 indexed citations

Lai, Zhao, Yidong Chen, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, et al.. (2024). PELP1 Is a Novel Therapeutic Target in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Research Communications. 4(10). 2610–2620. 1 indexed citations

Venkata, Prabhakar Pitta, Yi He, Salvador Alejo, et al.. (2023). Pharmacological inhibition of KDM1A/LSD1 enhances estrogen receptor beta-mediated tumor suppression in ovarian cancer. Cancer Letters. 575. 216383–216383. 15 indexed citations

Pahari, Susanta, Eusondia Arnett, Abul Azad, et al.. (2023). A new tractable method for generating human alveolar macrophage-like cells in vitro to study lung inflammatory processes and diseases. mBio. 14(4). e0083423–e0083423. 13 indexed citations

Pratap, Uday P., Michael Tidwell, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, et al.. (2023). Preclinical Development of Brain Permeable ERβ Agonist for the Treatment of Glioblastoma. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 22(11). 1248–1260. 4 indexed citations

He, Yi, Salvador Alejo, Prabhakar Pitta Venkata, et al.. (2022). Therapeutic Targeting of Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells Using Estrogen Receptor Beta Agonist. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(13). 7159–7159. 14 indexed citations

Komaniecki, Garrison, Rachel G. Mendoza, Mark A. Subler, et al.. (2022). Astrocyte Elevated Gene-1 Cys75 S-Palmitoylation by ZDHHC6 Regulates Its Biological Activity. Biochemistry. 62(2). 543–553. 13 indexed citations

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Zou, Yi, Korri Weldon, Ye-Hong Huang, et al.. (2021). Identification of a GrgA-Euo-HrcA Transcriptional Regulatory Network in Chlamydia. mSystems. 6(4). e0073821–e0073821. 10 indexed citations

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Venkata, Prabhakar Pitta, Yihong Chen, Salvador Alejo, et al.. (2021). KDM1A inhibition augments the efficacy of rapamycin for the treatment of endometrial cancer. Cancer Letters. 524. 219–231. 16 indexed citations

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Muraoka, Wayne T., Xiaowu Wu, David M. Burmeister, et al.. (2021). Whole blood resuscitation restores intestinal perfusion and influences gut microbiome diversity. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 91(6). 1002–1009. 13 indexed citations

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Robles, Andrew J., Raushan T. Kurmasheva, Abhik Bandyopadhyay, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of Eribulin Combined with Irinotecan for Treatment of Pediatric Cancer Xenografts. Clinical Cancer Research. 26(12). 3012–3023. 11 indexed citations

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Lane, Rebecca, Hongyan Guo, Amanda Fisher, et al.. (2020). Necroptosis-based CRISPR knockout screen reveals Neuropilin-1 as a critical host factor for early stages of murine cytomegalovirus infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 20109–20116. 25 indexed citations

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Robertson, Chadia L., Rachel G. Mendoza, Nidhi Jariwala, et al.. (2018). Astrocyte Elevated Gene-1 Regulates Macrophage Activation in Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis. Cancer Research. 78(22). 6436–6446. 26 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Susannah E., Daniel R. Merrill, Caroline Zhu, et al.. (2018). Polytrauma independent of therapeutic intervention alters the gastrointestinal microbiome. The American Journal of Surgery. 216(4). 699–705. 23 indexed citations

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Akiel, Maaged, Chunqing Guo, Xia Li, et al.. (2017). IGFBP7 Deletion Promotes Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 77(15). 4014–4025. 50 indexed citations

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Shen-Gunther, Jane, Yufeng Wang, Zhao Lai, et al.. (2017). Deep sequencing of HPV E6/E7 genes reveals loss of genotypic diversity and gain of clonal dominance in high-grade intraepithelial lesions of the cervix. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 231–231. 22 indexed citations

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Hodgins, Kathryn A., Zhao Lai, Kristin A. Nurkowski, Jie Huang, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2013). The molecular basis of invasiveness: differences in gene expression of native and introduced common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in stressful and benign environments. Molecular Ecology. 22(9). 2496–2510. 48 indexed citations

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Rieseberg, Loren H., Olivier Raymond, David M. Rosenthal, et al.. (2003). Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization. Science. 301(5637). 1211–1216. 968 indexed citations breakdown →

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