Zihe Rao

36.9k citations

380 papers · 18.5k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 72

Impact in

Infectious Diseases top 0.05%
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Animal Science and Zoology top 0.2%
- Animal Virus Infections Studies

Papers in

Infectious Diseases 111
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology 50
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research 47
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology 20
Virology 17

Co-authors: Mark Bartlam Zhiyong Lou Haitao Yang Yuna Sun George F. Gao Luet‐Lok Wong Fei Sun Liming Yan
Journals: Protein & Cell (29 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (25 papers)Nature Communications (24 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (20 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (18 papers)
Partner nations: China United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Zihe Rao

369 papers receiving 18.2k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development 2021 · 327 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2019 Science
2019 Nucleic Acids Research
2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005 PLoS Biology
2005 Cell
2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Zihe Rao, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Transcription regulation of African swine fever virus: dual role of M1249L Nature Communications ·Dongming Zhao, Nan Wang, Xiaoying Feng, Zhenjiang Zhang, Kai Xu, Tao Zheng, Yunge Yang, Xuemei Li, Xianjin Ou, Rui Zhao, Zihe Rao, Zhigao Bu, Yutao Chen, Xiangxi Wang	2024	1
2	De novo design of SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors with characteristic binding modes Structure ·Yan Zhu, Jiaolong Meng, Bo Feng, Yao Zhao, Yi Zang, Lingling Lu, Mingbo Su, Qi Yang, Qi Zhang, Lu Feng, Jinyi Zhao, Maolin Shao, Yuanyuan Ma, Xiuna Yang, Haitao Yang, Jia Li, Xuefeng Jiang, Zihe Rao	2024	2
3	Structural and functional insights into the T-even type bacteriophage topoisomerase II Nature Communications ·Yuhui Xin, Runqi Xian, Yunge Yang, Jingyuan Cong, Zihe Rao, Xuemei Li, Yutao Chen	2024	3
4	The Key Roles of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FadD23 C-terminal Domain in Catalytic Mechanisms Frontiers in Microbiology ·Mengrong Yan, Lin Cao, Li Zhao, Weihong Zhou, Xiang Liu, Wei Zhang, Zihe Rao	2023	6
5	Architecture of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus Protein & Cell ·Zixian Sun, Jing Cheng, Yuan Bai, Lin Cao, Daoxin Xie, Fēi Dèng, Xinzheng Zhang, Zihe Rao, Zhiyong Lou	2023	17
6	An intermediate state allows influenza polymerase to switch smoothly between transcription and replication cycles Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Huanhuan Li, Yixi Wu, Minke Li, Lu Guo, Yaqi Gao, Quan Wang, Jihua Zhang, Zhaohua Lai, Xing Zhang, Lixin Zhu, Ping Lan, Zihe Rao, Yingfang Liu, Huanhuan Liang	2023	11
7	Enhancing the Thermal and Kinetic Stability of Ketol-Acid Reductoisomerase, a Central Catalyst of a Cell-Free Enzyme Cascade for the Manufacture of Platform Chemicals MDPI (MDPI AG) ·You Lv, Shan Zheng, Adi Goldenzweig, Fengjiang Liu, Yan Gao, Xiuna Yang, Ajit Kandale, Ross P. McGeary, Simon J. Williams, Boštjan Kobe, Mark A. Schembri, Michael J. Landsberg, Bin Wu, Thomas Brück, Volker Sieber, Mikael Bodén, Zihe Rao, Sarel J. Fleishman, Gerhard Schenk, Luke W. Guddat	2022	4
8	Structural basis for replicase polyprotein cleavage and substrate specificity of main protease from SARS-CoV-2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yao Zhao, Yan Zhu, Xiang Liu, Zhenming Jin, Yinkai Duan, Qi Zhang, Chengyao Wu, Lu Feng, Xiaoyu Du, Jinyi Zhao, Maolin Shao, Bing Zhang, Xiuna Yang, Lijie Wu, Xiaoyun Ji, Luke W. Guddat, Kailin Yang, Zihe Rao, Haitao Yang	2022	106
9	Dual activities of ACC synthase: Novel clues regarding the molecular evolution of ACS genes Science Advances ·Chang Xu, Bowei Hao, Gongling Sun, Yuanyuan Mei, Lifang Sun, Yunmei Sun, Yibo Wang, Yongyan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Mengyuan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Dan Wang, Zihe Rao, Xin Li, Qingxi J. Shen, Ning Ning Wang	2021	27
10	Structural analysis of a trimeric assembly of the mitochondrial dynamin-like GTPase Mgm1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Liming Yan, Yuanbo Qi, Derek Ricketson, Lei Li, Kelly Subramanian, Jinghua Zhao, Caiting Yu, Lijie Wu, Reta D. Sarsam, Melissa S. Wong, Zhiyong Lou, Zihe Rao, Jodi Nunnari, Junjie Hu	2020	44
11	Structural basis of trehalose recycling by the ABC transporter LpqY-SugABC Science Advances ·Fengjiang Liu, Jingxi Liang, Bing Zhang, Yan Gao, Xiuna Yang, Tianyu Hu, Haitao Yang, Wenqing Xu, Luke W. Guddat, Zihe Rao	2020	27
12	Structures of fungal and plant acetohydroxyacid synthases Nature ·Thierry Lonhienne, Yu Shang Low, M.D. Garcia, Tristan I. Croll, Yan Gao, Quan Wang, Lou Brillault, Craig M. Williams, James A. Fraser, Ross P. McGeary, Nicholas P. West, Michael J. Landsberg, Zihe Rao, Gerhard Schenk, Luke W. Guddat	2020	54
13	Structures of Echovirus 30 in complex with its receptors inform a rational prediction for enterovirus receptor usage Nature Communications ·Kang Wang, Ling Zhu, Yao Sun, Minhao Li, Xin Zhao, Lunbiao Cui, Li Zhang, George F. Gao, Weiwei Zhai, Fengcai Zhu, Zihe Rao, Xiangxi Wang	2020	18
14	Architecture of a SARS-CoV-2 mini replication and transcription complex Nature Communications ·Liming Yan, Ying Zhang, Ji Ge, Litao Zheng, Gao Yan, Tao Wang, Zhihui Jia, Haofeng Wang, Yucen Huang, Mingyu Li, Quan Wang, Zihe Rao, Zhiyong Lou	2020	145
15	Delicate structural coordination of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus Nsp13 upon ATP hydrolysis Nucleic Acids Research ·Zhihui Jia, Liming Yan, Zhi-Lin Ren, Lijie Wu, Jin Wang, Jing Guo, Litao Zheng, Zhenhua Ming, Lianqi Zhang, Zhiyong Lou, Zihe Rao Hit paper breakdown →	2019	226
16	Structural basis for neutralization of Japanese encephalitis virus by two potent therapeutic antibodies Nature Microbiology ·X. Qiu, Yingfeng Lei, Pan Yang, Qiang Gao, Nan Wang, Lei Cao, Shuai Yuan, Xiaofang Huang, Yong‐Qiang Deng, Wenyu Ma, Tianbing Ding, Fanglin Zhang, Xingan Wu, Junjie Hu, Shan‐Lu Liu, Cheng‐Feng Qin, Xiangxi Wang, Zhikai Xu, Zihe Rao	2018	39
17	Structures of Coxsackievirus A10 unveil the molecular mechanisms of receptor binding and viral uncoating Nature Communications ·Ling Zhu, Yao Sun, Jinyan Fan, Bin Zhu, Lei Cao, Qiang Gao, Yanjun Zhang, Hongrong Liu, Zihe Rao, Xiangxi Wang	2018	41
18	Seneca Valley virus attachment and uncoating mediated by its receptor anthrax toxin receptor 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lin Cao, Ran Zhang, Tingting Liu, Zixian Sun, Mingxu Hu, Yuna Sun, Lingpeng Cheng, Yu Guo, Sheng Fu, Junjie Hu, Xiangmin Li, Chengqi Yu, Hanyang Wang, Huanchun Chen, Xueming Li, Elizabeth E. Fry, David I. Stuart, Ping Qian, Zhiyong Lou, Zihe Rao	2018	32
19	Cryo-EM structure of a herpesvirus capsid at 3.1 Å Science ·Shuai Yuan, Jialing Wang, Dongjie Zhu, Nan Wang, Qiang Gao, Wenyuan Chen, Hao Tang, Junzhi Wang, Xinzheng Zhang, Hongrong Liu, Zihe Rao, Xiangxi Wang	2018	86
20	Structural Basis for the Recognition of Blood Group Trisaccharides by Norovirus Journal of Virology ·Sheng Cao, Zhiyong Lou, Ming Tan, Yutao Chen, Yijin Liu, Zhushan Zhang, Xuejun C. Zhang, Xi Jiang, Xuemei Li, Zihe Rao	2007	305

About Zihe Rao

Zihe Rao is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Virology, Molecular Biology, Animal Science and Zoology and Structural Biology, having authored 380 papers that have together received 18.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Enzyme Structure and Function (77 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (50 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (48 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (47 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (46 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (39 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (31 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (6.7k citations), Animal Science and Zoology (1.6k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (2.1k citations), Molecular Biology (8.9k citations) and Pharmacology (891 citations). Zihe Rao has collaborated with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Mark Bartlam, Zhiyong Lou, Haitao Yang, Yuna Sun, George F. Gao, Luet‐Lok Wong, Fei Sun, Liming Yan, Xiangxi Wang and Hai Pang. Their work appears in journals such as Protein & Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications, Journal of Molecular Biology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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