Zuwei Qian

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 739 citations indexed

About

Zuwei Qian is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Zuwei Qian has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 739 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Zuwei Qian's work include RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (2 papers). Zuwei Qian is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (2 papers). Zuwei Qian collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Zuwei Qian's co-authors include Michael Rosbash, Hongkui Zeng, Michael P. Myers, Jeffrey Wilusz, Vipin Suri, Joan E. Rutila, Julia A. Yaglom, Ravi Allada, Wei Guo and Scott B. Marrus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Zuwei Qian

9 papers receiving 729 citations

Hit Papers

A light-entrainment mechanism for the Drosophila circadia... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 100 200 300
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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.

  1. A light-entrainment mechanism for the Drosophila circadian clock
    1996 390 citations Hongkui Zeng, Zuwei Qian et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Zuwei Qian
Kathryn D. Curtin United States
Mi Shi United States
Weifei Luo United States
Ana Depetris-Chauvin Germany
Gerard P. McNeil United States
Jaejung Lee South Korea
Kiran Padmanabhan France
Mili Jeon United States
Christian Papin France
Colby R. Sandate United States
Kathryn D. Curtin United States
Zuwei Qian
Citations per year, relative to Zuwei Qian Zuwei Qian (= 1×) peers Kathryn D. Curtin

Countries citing papers authored by Zuwei Qian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zuwei Qian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zuwei Qian

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

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Li, Haohan, Yunping Zhao, Zuwei Qian, et al.. (2025). Lysine demethylases 6 A and 6B as epigenetic regulators in therapeutic resistance of cancer. Clinical Epigenetics. 17(1). 198–198.
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Chai, Guoqi, et al.. (2025). Monitoring Forest Damage Caused by Pine Wilt Disease with Remote Sensing Technologies: A review. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 14(1). 286–305.
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Xu, Hao, Kaikai Shen, Yuting Wen, et al.. (2025). KAT2A: a prognostic biomarker influencing proliferation and immune escape in lung adenocarcinoma. BMC Cancer. 25(1). 1753–1753.
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Ke, Z. J., Kaikai Shen, Li Wang, et al.. (2025). Emerging roles of mitochondrial sirtuin SIRT5 in succinylation modification and cancer development. Frontiers in Immunology. 16. 1531246–1531246. 5 indexed citations
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He, Housheng, Jie Wang, Tao Liu, et al.. (2007). Mapping the C. elegans noncoding transcriptome with a whole-genome tiling microarray. Genome Research. 17(10). 1471–1477. 48 indexed citations
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Suri, Vipin, et al.. (1998). Evidence that the TIM Light Response Is Relevant to Light-Induced Phase Shifts in Drosophila melanogaster. Neuron. 21(1). 225–234. 120 indexed citations
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Zeng, Hongkui, Zuwei Qian, Michael P. Myers, & Michael Rosbash. (1996). A light-entrainment mechanism for the Drosophila circadian clock. Nature. 380(6570). 129–135. 390 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rosbash, Michael, Ravi Allada, Wei Guo, et al.. (1996). . Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 61(1). 265–278. 57 indexed citations
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Qian, Zuwei & Jeffrey Wilusz. (1994). GRSF-1: a poly(A)+mRNA binding protein which interacts with a conserved G-rich element. Nucleic Acids Research. 22(12). 2334–2343. 49 indexed citations
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Qian, Zuwei & Jeffrey Wilusz. (1993). Cloning of a cDNA Encoding an RNA Binding Protein by Screening Expression Libraries Using a Northwestern Strategy. Analytical Biochemistry. 212(2). 547–554. 15 indexed citations
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Qian, Zuwei & Jeffrey Wilusz. (1991). An RNA-Binding Protein Specifically Interacts with a Functionally Important Domain of the Downstream Element of the Simian Virus 40 Late Polyadenylation Signal. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(10). 5312–5320. 17 indexed citations
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Qian, Zuwei & Jeffrey Wilusz. (1991). An RNA-binding protein specifically interacts with a functionally important domain of the downstream element of the simian virus 40 late polyadenylation signal.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(10). 5312–5320. 38 indexed citations

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