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Zhiping Weng 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 Zhiping Weng sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 402 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zhiping Weng 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 Zhiping Weng sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 126 D-Index — 93rd percentile

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

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

Overview

Zhiping Weng is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Genetics as key subfields.

Their work spans several main topics in the life sciences, including:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Weng's recent publications reflect these research interests. Notable papers include:

  • "Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals," 2023, Science
  • "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes," 2022, Science
  • "Deletion and replacement of long genomic sequences using prime editing," 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • "The evolutionarily conserved piRNA-producing locus pi6 is required for male mouse fertility," 2020, Nature Genetics

Weng frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acids Research, Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Nature Genetics. The number of publications in each venue includes 28 in bioRxiv, 7 in Nucleic Acids Research, 6 in Science, 5 in SSRN Electronic Journal, and 4 in Nature Genetics.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Henry Pratt, Jill E. Moore, Tianxiong Yu, Kaili Fan, and Gregory Andrews, with coauthorship counts ranging from 15 to 30 papers per collaborator.

Best Publications

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • Distinct and predictive chromatin signatures of transcriptional promoters and enhancers in the human genome.

    Nathaniel D Heintzman;Rhona K Stuart;Gary Hon;Yutao Fu

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • The TREM2-APOE Pathway Drives the Transcriptional Phenotype of Dysfunctional Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    Susanne Krasemann;Susanne Krasemann;Charlotte Madore;Ron Cialic;Caroline Baufeld

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

    Jill E. Moore;Michael J. Purcaro;Henry E. Pratt;Charles B. Epstein

  • ZDOCK server: interactive docking prediction of protein-protein complexes and symmetric multimers.

    Brian G. Pierce;Kevin Wiehe;Howook Hwang;Bong-Hyun Kim

  • High-Resolution Mapping and Characterization of Open Chromatin across the Genome

    Alan P. Boyle;Sean Davis;Hennady P. Shulha;Paul Meltzer

  • ZDOCK: An initial-stage protein-docking algorithm

    Rong Chen;Li Li;Zhiping Weng

  • Assessing computational tools for the discovery of transcription factor binding sites.

    Martin Tompa;Nan Li;Timothy L. Bailey;George M. Church

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • A global map of p53 transcription-factor binding sites in the human genome.

    Chia-Lin Wei;Qiang Wu;Vinsensius B. Vega;Kuo Ping Chiu

  • Paternally Induced Transgenerational Environmental Reprogramming of Metabolic Gene Expression in Mammals

    Benjamin R. Carone;Lucas Fauquier;Naomi Habib;Jeremy M. Shea

  • Sequence features and chromatin structure around the genomic regions bound by 119 human transcription factors.

    Jie Wang;Jiali Zhuang;Sowmya Iyer;Sowmya Iyer;XinYing Lin

  • Comprehensive functional genomic resource and integrative model for the human brain

    Daifeng Wang;Daifeng Wang;Shuang Liu;Jonathan Warrell;Hyejung Won

  • Therapeutic genome editing by combined viral and non-viral delivery of CRISPR system components in vivo

    Hao Yin;Chun-Qing Song;Joseph R. Dorkin;Lihua Julie Zhu

  • Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome

    Manolis Kellis;Barbara Wold;Michael P. Snyder;Bradley E. Bernstein

  • Endogenous siRNAs Derived from Transposons and mRNAs in Drosophila Somatic Cells

    Megha Ghildiyal;Hervé Seitz;Michael D. Horwich;Chengjian Li

  • Unsupervised pattern discovery in human chromatin structure through genomic segmentation

    Michael M. Hoffman;Orion J. Buske;Jie Wang;Zhiping Weng

  • Target RNA-directed trimming and tailing of small silencing RNAs

    Stefan L. Ameres;Michael D. Horwich;Jui-Hung Hung;Jia Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian G. Pierce
Brian G. Pierce University of Maryland, College Park
Phillip D. Zamore
Phillip D. Zamore University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Thom Vreven
Thom Vreven Visterra (United States)
Schahram Akbarian
Schahram Akbarian Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
William E. Theurkauf
William E. Theurkauf University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Wen Xue
Wen Xue University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Mohammad Athar
Mohammad Athar University of Alabama at Birmingham
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

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