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D-Index
83
Citations
37076
World Ranking
956
National Ranking
439

Liping Zhao publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

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

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 253 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Liping Zhao D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Liping Zhao is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant concentration on medicine. The scientist's work incorporates an interdisciplinary approach that includes molecular biology, physiology, plant science, genetics, and infectious diseases.

Their scholarly output includes a blend of journal articles and book publications. One notable book is Tissue Remodeling in Health and Disease Caused by Bacteria, Parasites, Fungi, and Viruses, published by Frontiers Media in 2021.

Liping Zhao's research topics cover a diverse range centered primarily on the gut microbiota and health. Other prominent themes in their body of work include diet and metabolism studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, plant molecular biology research, berberine and alkaloids research, tryptophan and brain disorders, and dietary effects on health.

The frequent publication venues for their work reflect the focus of their research interests and include:

  • mBio
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nutrients
  • Blood
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Liping Zhao include Guojun Wu, Chenhong Zhang, Yan Y. Lam, Xin Yang, and Naisi Zhao.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist (2021) in Nature Medicine
  • Guild-based analysis for understanding gut microbiome in human health and diseases (2021) in Genome Medicine
  • Endotoxin Producers Overgrowing in Human Gut Microbiota as the Causative Agents for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (2020) in mBio
  • The human gut microbiome and health inequities (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A miRNA-Encoded Small Peptide, vvi-miPEP171d1, Regulates Adventitious Root Formation (2020) in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Their main fields of study are:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Their subfields of study involve:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Physiology
  • Plant Science
  • Genetics
  • Infectious Diseases

Liping Zhao's work illustrates a substantial focus on the connections between microbiome compositions and human health, as well as investigations into how dietary factors influence metabolic and physiological outcomes. In addition, their contributions to plant molecular biology highlight a broader scientific interest beyond human health, including regulatory mechanisms in root formation.

Best Publications

  • Gut bacteria selectively promoted by dietary fibers alleviate type 2 diabetes

    Liping Zhao;Liping Zhao;Feng Zhang;Xiaoying Ding;Guojun Wu

  • Leptin Regulates Bone Formation via the Sympathetic Nervous System

    Shu Takeda;Florent Elefteriou;Regis Levasseur;Xiuyun Liu

  • Structural segregation of gut microbiota between colorectal cancer patients and healthy volunteers

    Tingting Wang;Guoxiang Cai;Yunping Qiu;Na Fei

  • Symbiotic gut microbes modulate human metabolic phenotypes

    Min Li;Baohong Wang;Menghui Zhang;Mattias Rantalainen

  • Interactions between gut microbiota, host genetics and diet relevant to development of metabolic syndromes in mice

    Chenhong Zhang;Menghui Zhang;Shengyue Wang;Ruijun Han

  • Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition

    Paul I. Costea;Falk Hildebrand;Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Fredrik Bäckhed;Fredrik Bäckhed

  • The gut microbiota and obesity: from correlation to causality

    Liping Zhao

  • AN OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGEN ISOLATED FROM THE GUT OF AN OBESE HUMAN CAUSES OBESITY IN GERMFREE MICE

    Na Fei;Liping Zhao

  • Towards standards for human fecal sample processing in metagenomic studies

    Paul I. Costea;Georg Zeller;Shinichi Sunagawa;Eric Pelletier;Eric Pelletier

  • The gut microbiota, obesity and insulin resistance

    Jian Shen;Martin S. Obin;Liping Zhao

  • Modulation of gut microbiota during probiotic-mediated attenuation of metabolic syndrome in high fat diet-fed mice

    Jingjing Wang;Huang Tang;Chenhong Zhang;Yufeng Zhao

  • Structural changes of gut microbiota during berberine-mediated prevention of obesity and insulin resistance in high-fat diet-fed rats.

    Xu Zhang;Yufeng Zhao;Menghui Zhang;Xiaoyan Pang

  • Modulation of gut microbiota by berberine and metformin during the treatment of high-fat diet-induced obesity in rats

    Xu Zhang;Yufeng Zhao;Jia Xu;Zhengsheng Xue

  • Fiber-utilizing capacity varies in Prevotella- versus Bacteroides-dominated gut microbiota.

    Tingting Chen;Wenmin Long;Chenhong Zhang;Shuang Liu

  • Nutrient starvation elicits an acute autophagic response mediated by Ulk1 dephosphorylation and its subsequent dissociation from AMPK

    Libin Shang;She Chen;Fenghe Du;Shen Li

  • Gut microbiota: a potential new territory for drug targeting.

    Wei Jia;Houkai Li;Liping Zhao;Jeremy K. Nicholson

  • Structural resilience of the gut microbiota in adult mice under high-fat dietary perturbations.

    Chenhong Zhang;Menghui Zhang;Xiaoyan Pang;Yufeng Zhao

  • Structural modulation of gut microbiota in life-long calorie-restricted mice.

    Chenhong Zhang;Shoufeng Li;Liu(杨柳) Yang;Ping Huang

  • Long-Lived Plasma Cells Are Contained within the CD19(-)CD38(hi)CD138(+) Subset in Human Bone Marrow.

    Jessica L. Halliley;Jessica L. Halliley;Christopher M. Tipton;Jane Liesveld;Alexander F. Rosenberg

  • The LIM homeobox gene Lhx9 is essential for mouse gonad formation.

    Ohad S. Birk;Delane E. Casiano;Christopher A. Wassif;Tiziana Cogliati

  • Structural Modulation of Gut Microbiota During Alleviation of Type 2 Diabetes With a Chinese Herbal Formula

    Jia Xu;Fengmei Lian;Linhua Zhao;Yufeng Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Chenhong Zhang
Chenhong Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Wei Jia
Wei Jia University of Hong Kong
Muriel Derrien
Muriel Derrien Wageningen University & Research
Jian Shen
Jian Shen Nanjing Normal University
Martin S. Obin
Martin S. Obin Tufts University
Willem M. de Vos
Willem M. de Vos Wageningen University & Research
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
S. Dusko Ehrlich
S. Dusko Ehrlich University College London
Guoping Zhao
Guoping Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shengyue Wang
Shengyue Wang Chinese National Human Genome Center

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