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Guolong Zhang publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guolong Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 129 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Guolong Zhang D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guolong Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Guolong Zhang is affiliated with Oklahoma State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broader areas, Zhang has contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Animal Science and Zoology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology, and Mechanical Engineering.

The core topics of Zhang's work focus on the relationships between gut microbiota and health, animal nutrition and physiology, and antimicrobial peptides and their activities. Further specialized interests include research on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens, probiotics and fermented foods, coccidia and coccidiosis, as well as photodynamic therapy studies.

Zhang has published in various journals, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, Antibiotics, Current Developments in Nutrition, Microbiome, and Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhang include:

  • Gut microbiota from green tea polyphenol-dosed mice improves intestinal epithelial homeostasis and ameliorates experimental colitis (2021), published in Microbiome
  • Microbiota-derived indoles alleviate intestinal inflammation and modulate microbiome by microbial cross-feeding (2024), published in Microbiome
  • Gut microbiota-derived ursodeoxycholic acid alleviates low birth weight-induced colonic inflammation by enhancing M2 macrophage polarization (2023), published in Microbiome
  • Influence of Heat Stress on Poultry Growth Performance, Intestinal Inflammation, and Immune Function and Potential Mitigation by Probiotics (2022), published in Animals
  • Linkage between the intestinal microbiota and residual feed intake in broiler chickens (2021), published in Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Zhang has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Melanie A. Whitmore, Qing Yang, Wentao Lyu, Peiru Wang, and Junjun Wang.

Best Publications

  • A Toll-like Receptor That Prevents Infection by Uropathogenic Bacteria

    Dekai Zhang;Guolong Zhang;Matthew S. Hayden;Matthew B. Greenblatt

  • Toll-like receptor–mediated NF-κB activation: a phylogenetically conserved paradigm in innate immunity

    Guolong Zhang;Sankar Ghosh

  • Butyrate: A Double-Edged Sword for Health?

    Hu Liu;Ji Wang;Ting He;Sage Becker

  • Negative Regulation of Toll-like Receptor-mediated Signaling by Tollip

    Guolong Zhang;Sankar Ghosh

  • Bacterial direct-fed microbials in ruminant diets: Performance response and mode of action

    C. R. Krehbiel;S. R. Rust;G. Zhang;S. E. Gilliland

  • Branched Chain Amino Acids: Beyond Nutrition Metabolism

    Cunxi Nie;Ting He;Wenju Zhang;Guolong Zhang

  • Gut microbiota from green tea polyphenol-dosed mice improves intestinal epithelial homeostasis and ameliorates experimental colitis.

    Zhenhua Wu;Shimeng Huang;Tiantian Li;Na Li

  • Molecular mechanisms of NF-κB activation induced by bacterial lipopolysaccharide through Toll-like receptors:

    Guolong Zhang;Sankar Ghosh

  • A genome-wide screen identifies a single β-defensin gene cluster in the chicken: implications for the origin and evolution of mammalian defensins

    Yanjing Xiao;Austin L. Hughes;Junko Ando;Yoichi Matsuda

  • Structural determinants of host defense peptides for antimicrobial activity and target cell selectivity.

    Daisuke Takahashi;Sanjeev K. Shukla;Om Prakash;Guolong Zhang

  • Identification and functional characterization of three chicken cathelicidins with potent antimicrobial activity.

    Yanjing Xiao;Yibin Cai;Yugendar R. Bommineni;Samodha C. Fernando

  • Butyrate enhances disease resistance of chickens by inducing antimicrobial host defense peptide gene expression.

    Lakshmi T. Sunkara;Mallika Achanta;Nicole B. Schreiber;Yugendar R. Bommineni

  • Cross-species analysis of the mammalian β-defensin gene family: presence of syntenic gene clusters and preferential expression in the male reproductive tract

    Amar A. Patil;Yibin Cai;Yongming Sang;Frank Blecha

  • Butyrate promotes the recovering of intestinal wound healing through its positive effect on the tight junctions.

    X. Ma;P. X. Fan;L. S. Li;S. Y. Qiao

  • Nutrients Mediate Intestinal Bacteria–Mucosal Immune Crosstalk

    Ning Ma;Pingting Guo;Jie Zhang;Jie Zhang;Ting He

  • Bridging intestinal immunity and gut microbiota by metabolites

    Gang Wang;Shuo Huang;Yuming Wang;Shuang Cai

  • Oral Administration of Lactobacillus fermentum I5007 Favors Intestinal Development and Alters the Intestinal Microbiota in Formula-Fed Piglets

    Hong Liu;Jiang Zhang;Shihai Zhang;Fengjuan Yang

  • Rapid evolution and diversification of mammalian α-defensins as revealed by comparative analysis of rodent and primate genes

    Amar Patil;Austin L. Hughes;Guolong Zhang

  • Avian beta-defensin nomenclature: a community proposed update.

    David J. Lynn;Rowan Higgs;Andrew T. Lloyd;Cliona O'Farrelly

  • Porcine antimicrobial peptides: new prospects for ancient molecules of host defense.

    Guolong Zhang;Christopher R. Ross;Frank Blecha

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Blecha
Frank Blecha Kansas State University
Xi Ma
Xi Ma China Agricultural University
Shiyan Qiao
Shiyan Qiao China Agricultural University
Sankar Ghosh
Sankar Ghosh Columbia University
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Defa Li
Defa Li China Agricultural University
Philip A. Thacker
Philip A. Thacker University of Saskatchewan
Jennifer Harrow
Jennifer Harrow AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Alan Archibald
Alan Archibald University of Edinburgh
Hamid Dehghani
Hamid Dehghani University of Birmingham

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