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Biology and Biochemistry

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52
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World Ranking
16437
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6799

Neuroscience

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53
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19662
World Ranking
5009
National Ranking
2243

Binhai Zheng publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Binhai Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 89 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Binhai Zheng D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Binhai Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Binhai Zheng is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, Zheng's work focuses on several specialized subfields including Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, nerve injury and regeneration, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, RNA regulation and disease, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, signaling pathways in disease, and ion channels and receptors.

Zheng has contributed to various scientific publications with a notable presence in journals such as eLife, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Neuroscience, Nature, and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Their frequent co-authors include Yunbo Li, Erin M Ritchie, Yishi Jin, Daniel Romaus-Sanjurjo, and Jae Mun Kim.

Key recent publications by Zheng include:

  • Regulation of axonal regeneration after mammalian spinal cord injury, 2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Injured adult neurons regress to an embryonic transcriptional growth state, 2020, Nature
  • Blockade of IL-17 signaling reverses alcohol-induced liver injury and excessive alcohol drinking in mice, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Overexpressing eukaryotic elongation factor 1 alpha (eEF1A) proteins to promote corticospinal axon repair after injury, 2022, Cell Death Discovery

Best Publications

  • p63 is a p53 homologue required for limb and epidermal morphogenesis.

    Alea A. Mills;Binhai Zheng;Xiao-Jing Wang;Hannes Vogel

  • Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

    Carole Escartin;Elena Galea;András Lakatos;James P. O’Callaghan

  • Interacting Molecular Loops in the Mammalian Circadian Clock

    Lauren P. Shearman;Sathyanarayanan Sriram;David R. Weaver;Elizabeth S. Maywood

  • PTEN deletion enhances the regenerative ability of adult corticospinal neurons

    Kai Liu;Yi Lu;Jae K Lee;Ramsey Samara

  • Nonredundant Roles of the mPer1 and mPer2 Genes in the Mammalian Circadian Clock

    Binhai Zheng;Urs Albrecht;Krista Kaasik;Marijke Sage

  • Long-Distance Growth and Connectivity of Neural Stem Cells after Severe Spinal Cord Injury

    Paul Lu;Yaozhi Wang;Lori Graham;Karla McHale

  • The mPer2 gene encodes a functional component of the mammalian circadian clock.

    Binhai Zheng;David W. Larkin;Urs Albrecht;Zhong Sheng Sun

  • Mouse ENU Mutagenesis

    Monica J. Justice;Janice K. Noveroske;John S. Weber;Binhai Zheng

  • NgR1 and NgR3 are receptors for chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans

    Travis L. Dickendesher;Katherine T. Baldwin;Yevgeniya A. Mironova;Yoshiki Koriyama

  • Lack of Enhanced Spinal Regeneration in Nogo-Deficient Mice

    Binhai Zheng;Carole Ho;Shuxin Li;Hans Keirstead

  • mPer1 and mPer2 Are Essential for Normal Resetting of the Circadian Clock

    Urs Albrecht;Binhai Zheng;David Larkin;Zhong Sheng Sun

  • Tumour susceptibility and spontaneous mutation in mice deficient in Mlh1, Pms1 and Pms2 DNA mismatch repair

    T. A. Prolla;S. M. Baker;A. C. Harris;J.-L. Tsao

  • Genetic deletion of the Nogo receptor does not reduce neurite inhibition in vitro or promote corticospinal tract regeneration in vivo.

    Binhai Zheng;Jasvinder Atwal;Jasvinder Atwal;Carole Ho;Lauren Case

  • Assessing Spinal Axon Regeneration and Sprouting in Nogo-, MAG-, and OMgp-Deficient Mice

    Jae K. Lee;Cédric G. Geoffroy;Andrea F. Chan;Kristine E. Tolentino

  • False resurrections: distinguishing regenerated from spared axons in the injured central nervous system.

    Oswald Steward;Binhai Zheng;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

  • The neurite outgrowth inhibitor Nogo A is involved in autoimmune-mediated demyelination.

    Tara Karnezis;Tara Karnezis;Wim Mandemakers;Jonathan L McQualter;Binhai Zheng

  • Engineering mouse chromosomes with Cre-loxP: range, efficiency, and somatic applications.

    Binhai Zheng;Marijke Sage;Elizabeth A. Sheppeard;Vesna Jurecic

  • Regulation of axonal regeneration after mammalian spinal cord injury

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  • Neurite outgrowth inhibitor Nogo-A establishes spatial segregation and extent of oligodendrocyte myelination

    S. Y Christin Chong;Sheila S. Rosenberg;Stephen P J Fancy;Chao Zhao

  • Injured adult neurons regress to an embryonic transcriptional growth state.

    Gunnar H. D. Poplawski;Riki Kawaguchi;Erna Van Niekerk;Paul Lu;Paul Lu

  • Myelin-Associated Inhibitors in Axonal Growth After CNS Injury

    Cédric G Geoffroy;Binhai Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Bradley
Allan Bradley University of Cambridge
Mark H. Tuszynski
Mark H. Tuszynski University of California, San Diego
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Xaira Therapeutics
Oswald Steward
Oswald Steward University of California, Irvine
Yishi Jin
Yishi Jin University of California, San Diego
Armin Blesch
Armin Blesch Indiana University
Katerina Akassoglou
Katerina Akassoglou University of California, San Francisco
Urs Albrecht
Urs Albrecht University of Fribourg
Alea A. Mills
Alea A. Mills Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Leif A. Havton
Leif A. Havton Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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