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61
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12057
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1912
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155

Xiaodong Zhang publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

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

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 167 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Xiaodong Zhang D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xiaodong Zhang is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research output includes over 100 publications, covering key subfields such as Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Plant Science, and Cell Biology.

The main topics addressed in Zhang's work span several biological and medical areas, including:

  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes

Zhang has published in a variety of scientific venues, with a notable number of contributions to:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Heart Rhythm
  • Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhang include:

  • Residues, bioaccumulation, and trophic transfer of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in highly urbanized rivers affected by water diversion (2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Microplastic pollution in an urbanized river affected by water diversion: Combining with active biomonitoring (2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Downregulation of microRNA-6125 promotes colorectal cancer growth through YTHDF2-dependent recognition of N6-methyladenosine-modified GSK3β (2021, Clinical and Translational Medicine)
  • Efficacy and Safety of Niraparib as Maintenance Treatment in Patients With Extensive-Stage SCLC After First-Line Chemotherapy: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase 3 Study (2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology)
  • Graph LSTM with Context-Gated Mechanism for Spoken Language Understanding (2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Luke A. Yates
  • Luigi Di Biase
  • Fuzhou Ye
  • Martin Buck
  • Andrea Natale

Best Publications

  • The TetR Family of Transcriptional Repressors

    Juan L. Ramos;Manuel Martínez-Bueno;Antonio J. Molina-Henares;Wilson Terán

  • Structure of the AAA ATPase p97.

    Xiaodong Zhang;Anthony Shaw;Paul A. Bates;Richard H. Newman

  • Structure of an XRCC1 BRCT domain: a new protein-protein interaction module.

    Xiaodong Zhang;Solange Moréra;Solange Moréra;Paul A. Bates;Philip C. Whitehead

  • Apollon ubiquitinates SMAC and caspase-9, and has an essential cytoprotection function

    Yanyan Hao;Keiko Sekine;Atsushi Kawabata;Hitoshi Nakamura;Hitoshi Nakamura

  • VCIP135, a novel essential factor for p97/p47-mediated membrane fusion, is required for Golgi and ER assembly in vivo.

    Keiji Uchiyama;Eija Jokitalo;Fumi Kano;Masayuki Murata

  • Structure of the haemagglutinin-esterase-fusion glycoprotein of influenza C virus

    Peter B. Rosenthal;Xiaodong Zhang;Frank Formanowski;Wolfgang Fitz;Wolfgang Fitz

  • Structural basis of the interaction between the AAA ATPase p97/VCP and its adaptor protein p47

    Ingrid Dreveny;Hisao Kondo;Keiji Uchiyama;Anthony Shaw

  • The BRCA1 C-terminal domain: structure and function

    Trevor Huyton;Paul A Bates;Xiaodong Zhang;Michael J.E Sternberg

  • The crystal structure of murine p97/VCP at 3.6A.

    Trevor Huyton;Valerie E Pye;Louise C Briggs;Terence C Flynn

  • Mechanochemical ATPases and transcriptional activation

    X. Zhang;M. Chaney;Siva R. Wigneshweraraj;J. Schumacher

  • Structural insights into the activity of enhancer-binding proteins

    Mathieu Rappas;Jorg Schumacher;Fabienne Beuron;Hajime Niwa

  • Mapping and measuring DNA to protein ratios in mammalian sperm head by XANES imaging.

    Xiaodong Zhang;Rod Balhorn;Joe Mazrimas;Janos Kirz

  • Structure and regulation of the human INO80–nucleosome complex

    Rafael Ayala;Oliver Willhoft;Ricardo J. Aramayo;Martin Wilkinson

  • RNA polymerase and transcription elongation factor Spt4/5 complex structure

    Brianna J. Klein;Daniel Bose;Kevin J. Baker;Zahirah M. Yusoff

  • Structure of the Whole Cytosolic Region of ATP-Dependent Protease FtsH

    Ryoji Suno;Hajime Niwa;Daisuke Tsuchiya;Xiaodong Zhang

  • Modus operandi of the bacterial RNA polymerase containing the σ54 promoter‐specificity factor

    Sivaramesh Wigneshweraraj;Daniel Bose;Patricia C. Burrows;Nicolas Joly

  • Insights into adaptor binding to the AAA protein p97

    Heidi O. Yeung;Patrik Kloppsteck;Hajime Niwa;Rivka L. Isaacson

  • The 'glutamate switch' provides a link between ATPase activity and ligand binding in AAA+ proteins

    Xiaodong Zhang;Dale B Wigley

  • Crystal structures of multidrug binding protein TtgR in complex with antibiotics and plant antimicrobials.

    Yilmaz Alguel;Cuixiang Meng;Wilson Terán;Tino Krell

  • The Role of the N-Domain in the ATPase Activity of the Mammalian AAA ATPase p97/VCP

    Hajime Niwa;Caroline A. Ewens;Chun Tsang;Heidi O. Yeung

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Buck
Martin Buck Imperial College London
Paul S. Freemont
Paul S. Freemont Imperial College London
Harald Ade
Harald Ade North Carolina State University
Stephen Matthews
Stephen Matthews Imperial College London
Tino Krell
Tino Krell Spanish National Research Council
Dale B. Wigley
Dale B. Wigley Imperial College London
Paul A. Bates
Paul A. Bates The Francis Crick Institute
Carol V. Robinson
Carol V. Robinson University of Oxford
Peter G. Stockley
Peter G. Stockley University of Leeds
Peter M. J. Burgers
Peter M. J. Burgers Washington University in St. Louis

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