2026 Xiuqing Zhang: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	85	1271	1202	26	25	244	73641

Overview

Xiuqing Zhang is affiliated with China Agricultural University in China. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 57 publications, and Medicine, with 32 publications. The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, notably Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cancer Research, Plant Science, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The research topics covered by Xiuqing Zhang include:

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
RNA modifications and cancer
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Immune Cell Function and Interaction

Some of the recent papers published by Xiuqing Zhang are:

"Distinct biological ages of organs and systems identified from a multi-omics study" (2022), published in Cell Reports
"Enhancing CRISPR-Cas9 gRNA efficiency prediction by data integration and deep learning" (2021), published in Nature Communications
"Endothelial cell heterogeneity and microglia regulons revealed by a pig cell landscape at single-cell level" (2022), published in Nature Communications
"Circle-Seq reveals genomic and disease-specific hallmarks in urinary cell-free extrachromosomal circular DNAs" (2022), published in Clinical and Translational Medicine
"Single-cell brain atlas of Parkinson's disease mouse model" (2021), published in Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Xiuqing Zhang has frequently published in several venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Clinical and Translational Medicine
SSRN Electronic Journal
Cell Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Xiuqing Zhang include:

Huanming Yang
Yonglun Luo
Xin Jin
Chunbo Guan
Xinwen Cui

Best Publications

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

Junjie Qin;Ruiqiang Li;Jeroen Raes;Manimozhiyan Arumugam

13472
Citations
Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

10086
Citations
A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica)

Stephen A. Goff;Darrell Ricke;Tien-Hung Lan;Gernot Presting

4435
Citations
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

3090
Citations
International network of cancer genome projects

Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

2242
Citations
The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.

Sanwen Huang;Ruiqiang Li;Zhonghua Zhang;Li Li

1729
Citations
Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

Xin Yi;Yu Liang;Emilia Huerta-Sanchez;Xin Jin

1717
Citations
SOAPnuke: a MapReduce acceleration-supported software for integrated quality control and preprocessing of high-throughput sequencing data.

Yuxin Chen;Yongsheng Chen;Chunmei Shi;Zhibo Huang

1686
Citations
The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

Ruiqiang Li;Wei Fan;Geng Tian;Hongmei Zhu

1413
Citations
Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

1331
Citations
Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

Emilia Huerta-Sánchez;Xin Jin;Asan;Zhuoma Bianba

1161
Citations
The diploid genome sequence of an Asian individual.

Jun Wang;Wei Wang;Ruiqiang Li;Ruiqiang Li;Yingrui Li;Yingrui Li;Yingrui Li

1157
Citations
Identification of genomic alterations in oesophageal squamous cell cancer

Yongmei Song;Lin Li;Yunwei Ou;Zhibo Gao

1099
Citations
Non-invasive prenatal assessment of trisomy 21 by multiplexed maternal plasma DNA sequencing: Large scale validity study

Rossa W K Chiu;Ranjit Akolekar;Yama W L Zheng;Tak Y Leung

1064
Citations
Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

Morten Rasmussen;Yingrui Li;Stinus Lindgreen;Jakob Skou Pedersen

995
Citations
Resequencing 50 accessions of cultivated and wild rice yields markers for identifying agronomically important genes

Xun Xu;Xin Liu;Song Ge;Jeffrey D Jensen

965
Citations
Frequent mutations of chromatin remodeling genes in transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

Yaoting Gui;Guangwu Guo;Yi Huang;Xueda Hu

821
Citations
Single-cell exome sequencing reveals single-nucleotide mutation characteristics of a kidney tumor

Xun Xu;Yong Hou;Xuyang Yin;Li Bao

803
Citations
Sparse whole-genome sequencing identifies two loci for major depressive disorder

Na Cai;Tim B. Bigdeli;Warren Kretzschmar;Yihan Li

773
Citations
Single-Cell Exome Sequencing and Monoclonal Evolution of a JAK2-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasm

Yong Hou;Luting Song;Ping Zhu;Bo Zhang

686
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute

Lars Bolund Aarhus University

Xun Xu Beijing Genomics Institute

Jun Wang University of Central Florida

Karsten Kristiansen University of Copenhagen

Ruiqiang Li Novogene (China)

Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley

Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta

Guojie Zhang Zhejiang University

Xiaodong Fang Beijing Genomics Institute

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