Zhen Shen

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Zhen Shen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Shen has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cancer Research and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Zhen Shen's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers). Zhen Shen is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers). Zhen Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Zhen Shen's co-authors include Supriya G. Prasanth, Kannanganattu V. Prasanth, Vidisha Tripathi, Susan M. Freier, C. Frank Bennett, Qun Pan, Alok Sharma, Andrew T. Watt, Jonathan D. Ellis and Benjamin J. Blencowe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Shen

50 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

The Nuclear-Retained Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Regulates Alternative Splicing by Modulating SR Splicing Factor Phosphorylation

2010 1.7k citations Vidisha Tripathi, Jonathan D. Ellis et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Long Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Controls Cell Cycle Progression by Regulating the Expression of Oncogenic Transcription Factor B-MYB

2013 605 citations Vidisha Tripathi, Zhen Shen et al. PLoS Genetics profile →

Peers

Zhen Shen

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Nenad Bartoniček Australia

Jeffrey J. Quinn United States

Winston Koh United States

Henk P.J. Buermans Netherlands

Matthew K. Iyer United States

Phillipe Loher United States

Hila Benjamin Israel

Kim M. Lonergan Canada

Monika Jung Germany

Nenad Bartoniček Australia

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1.3k ×0.6

121 ×0.9

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315 ×2.4

102 ×0.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Zhen Shen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhen Shen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhen Shen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Zhen Shen. The network helps show where Zhen Shen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhen Shen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhen Shen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhen Shen 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 Zhen Shen. Zhen Shen 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

Shen, Zhen, et al.. (2025). Alpinetin Targets Mitophagy Pathways to Mitigate Parkinson's Disease Progression. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 31(12). e70676–e70676.

Shen, Zhen, et al.. (2025). Dissolution of Bovine Palatal Tissue with Degassed Sodium Hypochlorite. Dentistry Journal. 13(3). 110–110. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Shasha, et al.. (2025). Chronic intermittent hypoxia impairs BM-MSC osteogenesis and long bone growth through regulating histone lactylation. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 845–845. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Zhen, et al.. (2025). A brief survey of deep learning-based models for CircRNA-protein binding sites prediction. Neurocomputing. 628. 129637–129637. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Zhen, et al.. (2024). Community identification and carbon storage monitoring of Heritiera littoralis with UAV hyperspectral imaging. Ecological Indicators. 167. 112653–112653. 6 indexed citations

Shen, Zhen, Ariadne Letra, & Renato Silva. (2023). MicroRNAs Markedly Expressed in Apical Periodontitis Cooperatively Regulate Cytokines and Growth Factors Promoting an Anti-inflammatory Response. Journal of Endodontics. 49(3). 286–293. 10 indexed citations

Yuan, Lin, Zhen Shen, Qinhu Zhang, et al.. (2023). iCircDA-NEAE: Accelerated attribute network embedding and dynamic convolutional autoencoder for circRNA-disease associations prediction. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(8). e1011344–e1011344. 9 indexed citations

Shen, Zhen, et al.. (2022). Prediction of Back-splicing sites for CircRNA formation based on convolutional neural networks. BMC Genomics. 23(1). 581–581. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Siguo, Qinhu Zhang, Zhen Shen, et al.. (2021). Predicting transcription factor binding sites using DNA shape features based on shared hybrid deep learning architecture. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 24. 154–163. 39 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhen & Renato Silva. (2021). MicroRNAs: emerging players in apical periodontitis. Journal of Applied Oral Science. 29. e20201058–e20201058. 14 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhen, Helen Tsao, Richard Y. Liu, et al.. (2021). Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and/or Nerve Growth Factor Treatment Induces Expression of Dentinogenic, Neuronal, and Healing Markers in Stem Cells of the Apical Papilla. Journal of Endodontics. 47(6). 924–931. 14 indexed citations

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Yuan, Lin, Tao Sun, Jing Zhao, & Zhen Shen. (2021). A Novel Computational Framework to Predict Disease-Related Copy Number Variations by Integrating Multiple Data Sources. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 696956–696956. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qinhu, Zhen Shen, & De-Shuang Huang. (2019). Modeling in-vivo protein-DNA binding by combining multiple-instance learning with a hybrid deep neural network. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8484–8484. 53 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhen, Wenzheng Bao, & De-Shuang Huang. (2018). Recurrent Neural Network for Predicting Transcription Factor Binding Sites. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 15270–15270. 141 indexed citations

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Tripathi, Vidisha, Zhen Shen, Arindam Chakraborty, et al.. (2013). Long Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Controls Cell Cycle Progression by Regulating the Expression of Oncogenic Transcription Factor B-MYB. PLoS Genetics. 9(3). e1003368–e1003368. 605 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shen, Zhen & Supriya G. Prasanth. (2012). Emerging players in the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication. Cell Division. 7(1). 22–22. 9 indexed citations

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Tripathi, Vidisha, Jonathan D. Ellis, Zhen Shen, et al.. (2010). The Nuclear-Retained Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Regulates Alternative Splicing by Modulating SR Splicing Factor Phosphorylation. Molecular Cell. 39(6). 925–938. 1749 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shen, Zhen, Kizhakke Mattada Sathyan, Yijie Geng, et al.. (2010). A WD-Repeat Protein Stabilizes ORC Binding to Chromatin. Molecular Cell. 40(1). 99–111. 98 indexed citations

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Cho, Wonhwa & Zhen Shen. (2003). Efficient Immobilization of Phospholipase A2. Humana Press eBooks. 109. 303–307. 1 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhen, Shih-Kwang Wu, & Wonhwa Cho. (1994). Effects of Specific Fatty Acid Acylation of Phospholipase A2 on Its Interfacial Binding and Catalysis. Biochemistry. 33(38). 11598–11607. 14 indexed citations

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