Celestial T. Yap

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Celestial T. Yap is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Celestial T. Yap has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Oncology and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Celestial T. Yap's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (6 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (6 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Celestial T. Yap is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (6 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (6 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Celestial T. Yap collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, Australia and United States. Celestial T. Yap's co-authors include Shuo Deng, Alan Prem Kumar, Gautam Sethi, Tuan Zea Tan, Mei Shan Ong, Ruby Yun‐Ju Huang, Boon Cher Goh, Muthu K. Shanmugam, Anupam Bishayee and Shazib Pervaiz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Celestial T. Yap

37 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Dual role of autophagy in hallmarks of cancer

2017 444 citations Shikha Satendra Singh, Somya Vats et al. Oncogene profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Celestial T. Yap Singapore	24	1.4k	533	493	332	311	38	2.1k
Phuongmai Nguyen United States	23	2.0k 1.5×	409 0.8×	422 0.9×	430 1.3×	274 0.9×	31	2.9k
Olivier Geneste France	22	1.7k 1.2×	435 0.8×	894 1.8×	353 1.1×	372 1.2×	35	2.7k
Paola Maycotte Mexico	20	1.3k 0.9×	472 0.9×	1.2k 2.4×	240 0.7×	189 0.6×	42	2.1k
Anja Jaeschke United States	21	1.6k 1.2×	244 0.5×	414 0.8×	325 1.0×	351 1.1×	30	2.5k
Changliang Shan China	28	1.4k 1.0×	887 1.7×	351 0.7×	262 0.8×	197 0.6×	70	2.1k
Chun Hei Antonio Cheung Taiwan	25	1.2k 0.9×	249 0.5×	234 0.5×	497 1.5×	298 1.0×	60	1.8k
Shengbing Huang United States	23	1.9k 1.4×	447 0.8×	1.2k 2.5×	567 1.7×	271 0.9×	39	2.9k
Qihan Dong Australia	29	1.4k 1.0×	405 0.8×	377 0.8×	631 1.9×	168 0.5×	83	2.5k
Prakash Priyadarshi Praharaj India	26	1.2k 0.9×	534 1.0×	588 1.2×	340 1.0×	120 0.4×	50	2.0k
Farhat L. Khanim United Kingdom	29	1.4k 1.0×	349 0.7×	348 0.7×	621 1.9×	399 1.3×	65	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Celestial T. Yap

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Halim, Clarissa Esmeralda, Shuo Deng, Karen Crasta, & Celestial T. Yap. (2025). Interplay Between the Cytoskeleton and DNA Damage Response in Cancer Progression. Cancers. 17(8). 1378–1378.

Ban, Kenneth, et al.. (2024). Is ChatGPT ‘ready’ to be a learning tool for medical undergraduates and will it perform equally in different subjects? Comparative study of ChatGPT performance in tutorial and case-based learning questions in physiology and biochemistry. Medical Teacher. 46(11). 1441–1447. 6 indexed citations

Taneja, Reshma, et al.. (2023). Large language models (ChatGPT) in medical education: Embrace or abjure?. The Asia Pacific Scholar. 8(4). 50–52. 1 indexed citations

Ren, Yi, Jiaqing Chen, Mingzhu Tang, et al.. (2021). Oxidative stress-mediated AMPK inactivation determines the high susceptibility of LKB1-mutant NSCLC cells to glucose starvation. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 166. 128–139. 26 indexed citations

Ang, Hui Li, Yi Yuan, Xianning Lai, et al.. (2020). Putting the BRK on breast cancer: From molecular target to therapeutics. Theranostics. 11(3). 1115–1128. 19 indexed citations

Deng, Shuo, Muthu K. Shanmugam, Alan Prem Kumar, et al.. (2019). Targeting autophagy using natural compounds for cancer prevention and therapy. Cancer. 125(8). 1228–1246. 259 indexed citations

Tavakol, Shima, Milad Ashrafizadeh, Shuo Deng, et al.. (2019). Autophagy Modulators: Mechanistic Aspects and Drug Delivery Systems. Biomolecules. 9(10). 530–530. 69 indexed citations

Ong, Mei Shan, Wanpei Cai, Tuan Zea Tan, et al.. (2018). Long Non-coding RNA Landscape in Colorectal Cancer. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

Singh, Shikha Satendra, Somya Vats, Tuan Zea Tan, et al.. (2017). Dual role of autophagy in hallmarks of cancer. Oncogene. 37(9). 1142–1158. 444 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xie, Chen, Vinod Vijay Subhash, Arpita Datta, et al.. (2016). Melanoma associated antigen (MAGE)-A3 promotes cell proliferation and chemotherapeutic drug resistance in gastric cancer. Cellular Oncology. 39(2). 175–186. 28 indexed citations

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Cai, Wanpei, Zhi Xiong Chen, Grishma Rane, et al.. (2016). Wanted DEAD/H or Alive: Helicases Winding Up in Cancers. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 109(6). djw278–djw278. 78 indexed citations

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Loo, Ser Yue, Jayshree L. Hirpara, Vijay Pandey, et al.. (2016). Manganese Superoxide Dismutase Expression Regulates the Switch Between an Epithelial and a Mesenchymal-Like Phenotype in Breast Carcinoma. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 25(6). 283–299. 45 indexed citations

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Khin, Lay Wai, Guo‐Dong Lu, Manuel Salto‐Tellez, et al.. (2015). HDAC1 and HDAC2 independently predict mortality in hepatocellular carcinoma by a competing risk regression model in a Southeast Asian population. Oncology Reports. 34(5). 2238–2250. 69 indexed citations

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Khin, Lay Wai, Benedict Yan, Chee Wee Ong, et al.. (2014). Sphingosine Kinase 1 Promotes Malignant Progression in Colon Cancer and Independently Predicts Survival of Patients With Colon Cancer by Competing Risk Approach in South Asian Population. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. 5(2). e51–e51. 34 indexed citations

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Low, Sharon Y. Y., Yoon Khei Ho, Heng‐Phon Too, Celestial T. Yap, & Wai Hoe Ng. (2013). MicroRNA as potential modulators in chemoresistant high-grade gliomas. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 21(3). 395–400. 37 indexed citations

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Deng, Shuo, et al.. (2012). Redox regulation of cancer cell migration and invasion. Mitochondrion. 13(3). 246–253. 143 indexed citations

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Huang, Baohua, et al.. (2012). PRAP1 is a novel executor of p53-dependent mechanisms in cell survival after DNA damage. Cell Death and Disease. 3(12). e442–e442. 24 indexed citations

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Tan, Ee Hong, Benedict Yan, J. Manikandan, et al.. (2012). Gelsolin Induces Colorectal Tumor Cell Invasion via Modulation of the Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Cascade. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e43594–e43594. 65 indexed citations

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Yan, Benedict, Kakoli Das, Wai Hoe Ng, et al.. (2008). Characterization of Numb expression in astrocytomas. Neuropathology. 28(5). 479–484. 32 indexed citations

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Yan, Benedict, Celestial T. Yap, Shi Wang, et al.. (2008). Cofilin immunolabelling correlates with depth of invasion in gastrointestinal endocrine cell tumors. Acta Histochemica. 112(1). 101–106. 13 indexed citations

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