Zhinan Xu

6.1k total citations
223 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Zhinan Xu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhinan Xu has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 35 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Zhinan Xu's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (38 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (23 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (22 papers). Zhinan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (38 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (23 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (22 papers). Zhinan Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and New Zealand. Zhinan Xu's co-authors include Peilin Cen, Lei Huang, Jin Cai, Jiazhang Lian, Xiangcheng Zhu, Jufang Wang, Peng Li, Peilian Wei, Ling Jiang and Xiangming Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhinan Xu

217 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Peers

Zhinan Xu
Comparison fields: 5 of 141
  • Molecular Biology 3.4k
  • Biomedical Engineering 1.4k
  • Biotechnology 805
  • Pharmacology 523
  • Microbiology 395
Replace Peilin Cen with:
Peilin Cen China
Byung‐Kwan Cho South Korea
Yanfeng Liu China
Sheng Yang China
Kang Zhou China
Jufang Wang China
Blaine A. Pfeifer United States
Erick Vandamme Belgium
Rodrigo Torres Colombia
Pascal Dhulster France
Peilin Cen China View profile →
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Countries citing papers authored by Zhinan Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhinan Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhinan Xu. 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 Zhinan Xu. The network helps show where Zhinan Xu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhinan Xu

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

All Works

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3 12
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Human epidermal growth factor and its application in cosmetics
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Primary Purification of Co-expressed Soluble and Insoluble Alpha-interferon 2b from Recombinant E. coli
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