Zifu Wang

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Zifu Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zifu Wang has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zifu Wang's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (15 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (10 papers). Zifu Wang is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (15 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (10 papers). Zifu Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and China. Zifu Wang's co-authors include Ta‐Chau Chang, Gerhard Wagner, Ting‐Yuan Tseng, Christoph Gorgulla, Minghao Li, Shang‐Te Danny Hsu, Haribabu Arthanari, Patrick D. Fischer, Konstantin Fackeldey and Yurii S. Moroz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Zifu Wang

46 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

An open-source drug discovery platform enables ultra-large virtual screens

2020 395 citations Christoph Gorgulla, Andras Boeszoermenyi et al. Nature profile →
NIN-like protein 7 transcription factor is a plant nitrate sensor

2022 162 citations Kun-Hsiang Liu, Ziwei Lin 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
Zifu Wang United States	20	965	249	178	120	80	49	1.4k
Yanyan Li China	29	1.2k 1.2×	233 0.9×	180 1.0×	186 1.6×	217 2.7×	83	2.3k
Anatoly Sorokin Russia	17	1.5k 1.6×	194 0.8×	67 0.4×	207 1.7×	84 1.1×	93	1.9k
Kay Hamacher Germany	21	952 1.0×	165 0.7×	59 0.3×	144 1.2×	90 1.1×	102	1.8k
Menglong Li China	23	2.1k 2.2×	457 1.8×	58 0.3×	127 1.1×	105 1.3×	162	2.5k
Kentaro Shimizu Japan	23	1.2k 1.3×	135 0.5×	112 0.6×	270 2.3×	129 1.6×	134	1.9k
Andrzej Kierzek Poland	26	1.3k 1.3×	79 0.3×	102 0.6×	95 0.8×	173 2.2×	90	1.9k
Anurag Sethi United States	20	1.3k 1.3×	189 0.8×	72 0.4×	148 1.2×	180 2.3×	35	1.7k
Takashi Ishida Japan	17	1.7k 1.7×	182 0.7×	173 1.0×	337 2.8×	76 0.9×	70	2.2k
Sebastian Bittrich United States	12	762 0.8×	131 0.5×	66 0.4×	162 1.4×	40 0.5×	23	1.1k
José M. Duarte United States	24	1.5k 1.6×	357 1.4×	64 0.4×	477 4.0×	68 0.8×	46	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zifu Wang

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

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Chen, Honglin, et al.. (2025). Green innovation and carbon emission reduction: Empirical insights from spatial durbin and dynamic threshold models. International Review of Financial Analysis. 101. 103997–103997. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Zifu, Sarah Ahmed, David W. S. Wong, et al.. (2025). Optimizing context-based location extraction by tuning open-source LLMs with RAG. International Journal of Digital Earth. 18(1).

Lagarde, Sjoerd M., Jianglai Liu, Jia Xu, et al.. (2025). A Systematic Study of Popular Software Packages and AI/ML Models for Calibrating In Situ Air Quality Data: An Example with Purple Air Sensors. Sensors. 25(4). 1028–1028. 1 indexed citations

Zhuang, Łi, et al.. (2023). Effect of tempering temperature on the precipitation behavior of B-containing carbides and mechanical properties of heat-resistant steel. Materials Today Communications. 38. 107671–107671. 4 indexed citations

Xia, Di, Zelin Yang, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Integrated Chalcogenide Photonics for Microresonator Soliton Combs (Laser Photonics Rev. 17(3)/2023). Laser & Photonics Review. 17(3). 5 indexed citations

Wang, Zifu, Yun Li, Kevin Wang, et al.. (2023). Adopting GPU computing to support DL-based Earth science applications. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 2660–2680. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Kun-Hsiang, Ziwei Lin, Zifu Wang, et al.. (2022). NIN-like protein 7 transcription factor is a plant nitrate sensor. Science. 377(6613). 1419–1425. 162 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Zifu, Yudi Chen, Yun Li, et al.. (2022). Public Opinions on COVID-19 Vaccines—A Spatiotemporal Perspective on Races and Topics Using a Bayesian-Based Method. Vaccines. 10(9). 1486–1486. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Meng, Miao Gui, Zifu Wang, et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM structure of an activated GPCR–G protein complex in lipid nanodiscs. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(3). 258–267. 83 indexed citations

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Lan, Hai, Dexuan Sha, Yi Liu, et al.. (2021). COVID-Scraper: An Open-Source Toolset for Automatically Scraping and Processing Global Multi-Scale Spatiotemporal COVID-19 Records. IEEE Access. 9. 84783–84798. 8 indexed citations

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Fischer, Patrick D., Evangelos Papadopoulos, Jon Dempersmier, et al.. (2021). A biphenyl inhibitor of eIF4E targeting an internal binding site enables the design of cell-permeable PROTAC-degraders. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 219. 113435–113435. 23 indexed citations

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Gorgulla, Christoph, Andras Boeszoermenyi, Zifu Wang, et al.. (2020). An open-source drug discovery platform enables ultra-large virtual screens. Nature. 580(7805). 663–668. 395 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Zifu, et al.. (2017). Expression of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene is modulated by quadruplex formation in its first exon due to DNA methylation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(51). 20859–20870. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Zifu, Minghao Li, Wei‐Wen Chen, Shang‐Te Danny Hsu, & Ta‐Chau Chang. (2016). A novel transition pathway of ligand-induced topological conversion from hybrid forms to parallel forms of human telomeric G-quadruplexes. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(8). 3958–3968. 29 indexed citations

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Tseng, Ting‐Yuan, Zifu Wang, Cheng-Hao Chien, & Ta‐Chau Chang. (2013). In-cell optical imaging of exogenous G-quadruplex DNA by fluorogenic ligands. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(22). 10605–10618. 51 indexed citations

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Chang, Ta‐Chau, et al.. (2012). Structure Conversion and Structure Separation of G-Quadruplexes Investigated by Carbazole Derivatives. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 18(14). 2002–2013. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Zifu & Ta‐Chau Chang. (2012). Molecular engineering of G-quadruplex ligands based on solvent effect of polyethylene glycol. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(17). 8711–8720. 23 indexed citations

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Wei, Pei‐Chi, Zifu Wang, Wen‐Ting Lo, et al.. (2012). A cis-element with mixed G-quadruplex structure of NPGPx promoter is essential for nucleolin-mediated transactivation on non-targeting siRNA stress. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(3). 1533–1543. 24 indexed citations

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Wang, Zifu, Jagesh V. Shah, Michael W. Berns, & Don W. Cleveland. (2006). In Vivo Quantitative Studies of Dynamic Intracellular Processes Using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal. 91(1). 343–351. 25 indexed citations

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Wang, Zifu, Jagesh V. Shah, Zhongping Chen, Chung‐Ho Sun, & Michael W. Berns. (2004). Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy investigation of a GFP mutant-enhanced cyan fluorescent protein and its tubulin fusion in living cells with two-photon excitation. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 9(2). 395–395. 28 indexed citations

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