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Biology and Biochemistry

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Medicine

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Jianfeng Xu 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 Jianfeng Xu sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 664 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jianfeng Xu 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 Jianfeng Xu sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 116 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jianfeng Xu is affiliated with Arkansas State University in the United States and has an extensive academic record primarily focused on medicine and related biomedical fields. Their research contributions span multiple disciplines, prominently including Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The main research areas of Jianfeng Xu center around prostate cancer, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular attention to topics such as prostate cancer treatment and research, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, and genetic associations and epidemiology. Additional topics of interest include genetic factors in colorectal cancer, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and colorectal cancer screening and detection.

The scientist has published in a variety of journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Prostate
  • The Journal of Urology
  • Urologic Clinics of North America
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Annals of Vascular Surgery

Some of the recent papers authored by Jianfeng Xu include:

  • "Diagnosing hereditary cancer predisposition in men with prostate cancer" (2020, Genetics in Medicine)
  • "Validation of a prostate cancer polygenic risk score" (2020, The Prostate)
  • "Distinct Genomic Alterations in Prostate Tumors Derived from African American Men" (2020, Molecular Cancer Research)
  • "Safety and efficacy of zanubrutinib in relapsed/refractory marginal zone lymphoma: final analysis of the MAGNOLIA study" (2023, Blood Advances)
  • "Observed evidence for guideline-recommended genes in predicting prostate cancer risk from a large population-based cohort" (2021, The Prostate)

Throughout their career, Jianfeng Xu has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Brian T. Helfand
  • Zhuqing Shi
  • W. Kyle Resurreccion
  • Kathleen A. Cooney
  • Jun Wei

Jianfeng Xu's works often intersect with subfields such as pulmonary and respiratory medicine, genetics, oncology, molecular biology, and pathology and forensic medicine, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach within biomedical sciences.

Best Publications

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • REVEL: An Ensemble Method for Predicting the Pathogenicity of Rare Missense Variants

    Nilah M M. Ioannidis;Joseph H H. Rothstein;Joseph H H. Rothstein;Vikas Pejaver;Sumit Middha

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Inflammation in prostate carcinogenesis

    Angelo M. De Marzo;Angelo M. De Marzo;Elizabeth A. Platz;Siobhan Sutcliffe;Jianfeng Xu

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Genetic susceptibility to asthma--bronchial hyperresponsiveness coinherited with a major gene for atopy.

    Dirkje S. Postma;Eugene R. Bleecker;Pamela J. Amelung;Kenneth J. Holroyd

  • Major Susceptibility Locus for Prostate Cancer on Chromosome 1 Suggested by a Genome-Wide Search

    Jeffrey R. Smith;Diha Freije;John D. Carpten;Henrik Grönberg;Henrik Grönberg

  • Genome-wide association study identifies a second prostate cancer susceptibility variant at 8q24.

    Julius Gudmundsson;Patrick Sulem;Andrei Manolescu;Laufey T Amundadottir

  • A genome-wide search for asthma susceptibility loci in ethnically diverse populations

    David G. Marsh;Nancy E. Maestri;Linda R. Freidhoff;Kathleen C. Barnes

  • Neutrophils mediate insulin resistance in mice fed a high-fat diet through secreted elastase

    Saswata Talukdar;Da Young Oh;Gautam Bandyopadhyay;Dongmei Li

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Germline Mutations in HOXB13 and Prostate-Cancer Risk

    Patrick C. Walsh

  • Cumulative Association of Five Genetic Variants with Prostate Cancer

    S. Lilly Zheng;Jielin Sun;Fredrik Wiklund;Shelly Smith

  • Copy number analysis indicates monoclonal origin of lethal metastatic prostate cancer

    Wennuan Liu;Sari Laitinen;Sofia Khan;Mauno Vihinen

  • Raman spectra of CuO nanocrystals

    J. F. Xu;W. Ji;Z. X. Shen;W. S. Li

  • Androgen-induced TOP2B-mediated double-strand breaks and prostate cancer gene rearrangements

    Michael C Haffner;Martin J Aryee;Antoun Toubaji;David M Esopi

  • Germline mutations in the ribonuclease L gene in families showing linkage with HPC1.

    J. Carpten;N. Nupponen;S. Isaacs;R. Sood

  • Evidence for a prostate cancer susceptibility locus on the X chromosome.

    Jianfeng Xu;Deborah Meyers;Diha Freije;Sarah Isaacs

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

  • Comment on: Cumulative Association of Five Genetic Variants with Prostate Cancer

    S. L. Zheng;J. Sun;F. Wiklund;S. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Isaacs
William B. Isaacs Johns Hopkins University
Henrik Grönberg
Henrik Grönberg Karolinska Institute
Fredrik Wiklund
Fredrik Wiklund Karolinska Institute
Deborah A. Meyers
Deborah A. Meyers University of Arizona
Patrick C. Walsh
Patrick C. Walsh Johns Hopkins University
John D. Carpten
John D. Carpten University of Southern California
Janet L. Stanford
Janet L. Stanford Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Johanna Schleutker
Johanna Schleutker Turku University Hospital

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