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Biology and Biochemistry
China
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
101
Citations
39014
World Ranking
1435
National Ranking
31

Peng 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 Peng Xu sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 939 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peng 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 Peng Xu sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in China Leader Award

Overview

Peng Xu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, and Plant Science.

The scientist has focused research efforts on several main topics, including:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Peng Xu has authored papers in a range of scientific journals, contributing to venues frequently publishing their work such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Metabolic Engineering

Some of the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Peng Xu include:

  • Microbial Coculture for Flavonoid Synthesis, 2020, Trends in Biotechnology
  • Coupling metabolic addiction with negative autoregulation to improve strain stability and pathway yield, 2020, Metabolic Engineering
  • Debottlenecking mevalonate pathway for antimalarial drug precursor amorphadiene biosynthesis in Yarrowia lipolytica, 2020, Metabolic Engineering Communications
  • Genetic and bioprocess engineering to improve squalene production in Yarrowia lipolytica, 2020, Bioresource Technology
  • Refactoring Ehrlich Pathway for High-Yield 2-Phenylethanol Production in Yarrowia lipolytica, 2020, ACS Synthetic Biology

Collaborations are an important part of Peng Xu's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yang Gu
  • Jingbo Ma
  • Monireh Marsafari
  • Yongkun Lv
  • Fidelis Azi

Best Publications

  • Developing a new form of permeability and Kozeny-Carman constant for homogeneous porous media by means of fractal geometry

    Peng Xu;Boming Yu

  • Genome sequence and genetic diversity of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

    Peng Xu;Xiaofeng Zhang;Xumin Wang;Jiongtang Li

  • Improving fatty acids production by engineering dynamic pathway regulation and metabolic control

    Peng Xu;Lingyun Li;Fuming Zhang;Gregory Stephanopoulos

  • Transient rest restores functionality in exhausted CAR-T cells through epigenetic remodeling.

    Evan W. Weber;Kevin R. Parker;Elena Sotillo;Rachel C. Lynn

  • Penaeid shrimp genome provides insights into benthic adaptation and frequent molting

    Xiaojun Zhang;Jianbo Yuan;Yamin Sun;Shihao Li

  • Modular optimization of multi-gene pathways for fatty acids production in E. coli

    Peng Xu;Qin Gu;Wenya Wang;Wenya Wang;Lynn Wong

  • Lipid production in Yarrowia lipolytica is maximized by engineering cytosolic redox metabolism.

    Kangjian Qiao;Thomas M Wasylenko;Kang Zhou;Peng Xu

  • Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica as a platform for synthesis of drop-in transportation fuels and oleochemicals

    Peng Xu;Kangjian Qiao;Woo Suk Ahn;Gregory Stephanopoulos

  • Immunoblotting and immunodetection.

    Duojiao Ni;Peng Xu;Sean Gallagher

  • Selenium-Enriched Nickel Selenide Nanosheets as a Robust Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Generation

    Fengmei Wang;Yuanchang Li;Tofik Ahmed Shifa;Kaili Liu

  • Genome-scale metabolic network modeling results in minimal interventions that cooperatively force carbon flux towards malonyl-CoA.

    Peng Xu;Sridhar Ranganathan;Zachary L. Fowler;Costas D. Maranas

  • Public-Key Encryption with Fuzzy Keyword Search: A Provably Secure Scheme under Keyword Guessing Attack

    Peng Xu;Hai Jin;Qianhong Wu;Wei Wang

  • Silver Single-Atom Catalyst for Efficient Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Synthesized from Thermal Transformation and Surface Reconstruction

    Ningqiang Zhang;Xinxin Zhang;Lei Tao;Peng Jiang

  • Role of flippases, scramblases and transfer proteins in phosphatidylserine subcellular distribution.

    Hannah M. Hankins;Ryan D. Baldridge;Peng Xu;Todd R. Graham

  • The channel catfish genome sequence provides insights into the evolution of scale formation in teleosts.

    Zhanjiang Liu;Shikai Liu;Jun Yao;Lisui Bao

  • ePathBrick: A Synthetic Biology Platform for Engineering Metabolic Pathways in E. coli

    Peng Xu;Amerin Vansiri;Namita Bhan;Mattheos A. G. Koffas

  • Multivariate synchronization index for frequency recognition of SSVEP-based brain-computer interface.

    Yangsong Zhang;Peng Xu;Kaiwen Cheng;Dezhong Yao

  • Variations of MicroRNAs in Human Placentas and Plasma From Preeclamptic Pregnancy

    Peng Xu;Yangyu Zhao;Ming Liu;Yongqing Wang

  • Convergent evolution of perenniality in rice and sorghum.

    F. Y. Hu;D. Y. Tao;E. Sacks;B. Y. Fu

  • Phospholipid flippases: building asymmetric membranes and transport vesicles.

    Tessy T. Sebastian;Ryan D. Baldridge;Peng Xu;Todd R. Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Dezhong Yao
Dezhong Yao University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Boming Yu
Boming Yu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Robin A. Felder
Robin A. Felder University of Virginia
Zhanjiang Liu
Zhanjiang Liu Syracuse University
Mattheos A. G. Koffas
Mattheos A. G. Koffas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Zhiguo Ding
Zhiguo Ding Nanyang Technological University
Arun S. Mujumdar
Arun S. Mujumdar McGill University
Xiao Hu
Xiao Hu University of Hong Kong
Hai Jin
Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Pedro A. Jose
Pedro A. Jose George Washington University

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