Changfu Yao

4.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
47 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Changfu Yao is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Changfu Yao has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Changfu Yao's work include Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (23 papers), Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (15 papers) and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies (11 papers). Changfu Yao is often cited by papers focused on Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (23 papers), Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (15 papers) and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies (11 papers). Changfu Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and China. Changfu Yao's co-authors include Barry R. Stripp, Paul W. Noble, Peter Chen, Tanyalak Parimon, Dianhua Jiang, Guanling Huang, Yizhou Wang, Jiurong Liang, Apoorva Mulay and Nan Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Changfu Yao

45 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Single-Cell Deconvolution of Fibroblast Heterogeneity in Mouse Pulmonary Fibrosis

2018 364 citations Ting Xie, Yizhou Wang et al. Cell Reports profile →
Senescence of Alveolar Type 2 Cells Drives Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis

2020 306 citations Changfu Yao, Xiangrong Guan et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
Alveolar Epithelial Type II Cells as Drivers of Lung Fibrosis in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

2020 248 citations Tanyalak Parimon, Changfu Yao et al. profile →
SARS-CoV-2 infection of primary human lung epithelium for COVID-19 modeling and drug discovery

2021 164 citations Apoorva Mulay, Bindu Konda et al. Cell Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Changfu Yao United States	22	1.3k	803	350	234	193	47	2.2k
William J. Zacharias United States	18	1.0k 0.8×	974 1.2×	649 1.9×	251 1.1×	85 0.4×	37	2.1k
Hiroshi Takano Japan	27	590 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	556 1.6×	218 0.9×	167 0.9×	127	2.8k
Chrystelle Garat United States	19	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	297 0.8×	385 1.6×	208 1.1×	27	2.9k
Dmitri V. Pechkovsky Canada	24	1.2k 1.0×	575 0.7×	196 0.6×	590 2.5×	76 0.4×	32	2.3k
Thomas E. Hudson United States	11	367 0.3×	968 1.2×	363 1.0×	430 1.8×	77 0.4×	13	2.0k
Takumi Akashi Japan	28	784 0.6×	696 0.9×	455 1.3×	203 0.9×	189 1.0×	122	2.6k
Amanda L. Tatler United Kingdom	19	802 0.6×	418 0.5×	110 0.3×	246 1.1×	63 0.3×	33	1.5k
Marguerite Neerman‐Arbez Switzerland	32	1.7k 1.3×	451 0.6×	328 0.9×	120 0.5×	172 0.9×	109	3.0k
Tamihiro Kawakami Japan	26	577 0.5×	484 0.6×	156 0.4×	359 1.5×	287 1.5×	126	2.4k
Christina Morse United States	15	614 0.5×	610 0.8×	186 0.5×	798 3.4×	87 0.5×	24	2.0k

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Parimon, Tanyalak, Changfu Yao, Barry R. Stripp, et al.. (2024). Interstitial Macrophages Mediate Efferocytosis of Alveolar Epithelium during Influenza Infection. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 70(3). 159–164. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Xue, Xuexi Zhang, Changfu Yao, et al.. (2024). Transcriptomics Analysis Identifies the Decline in the Alveolar Type II Stem Cell Niche in Aged Human Lungs. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 71(2). 229–241. 5 indexed citations

Beppu, Andrew, Juanjuan Zhao, Changfu Yao, et al.. (2023). Epithelial plasticity and innate immune activation promote lung tissue remodeling following respiratory viral infection. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5814–5814. 23 indexed citations

Alysandratos, Konstantinos–Dionysios, Carolina García de Alba, Changfu Yao, et al.. (2022). Culture impact on the transcriptomic programs of primary and iPSC-derived human alveolar type 2 cells. JCI Insight. 8(1). 31 indexed citations

Liu, Xue, Yan Geng, Jiurong Liang, et al.. (2022). HER2 drives lung fibrosis by activating a metastatic cancer signature in invasive lung fibroblasts. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 219(10). 24 indexed citations

Konda, Bindu, Apoorva Mulay, Changfu Yao, et al.. (2022). Cryobanking of Human Distal Lung Epithelial Cells for Preservation of Their Phenotypic and Functional Characteristics. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 67(6). 623–631. 3 indexed citations

Huang, Guanling, Jiurong Liang, Kevin Huang, et al.. (2022). Basal Cell–derived WNT7A Promotes Fibrogenesis at the Fibrotic Niche in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 68(3). 302–313. 16 indexed citations

Kachaner, David, Peng Wang, Damien Garrido, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal coordination of Greatwall-Endos-PP2A promotes mitotic progression. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(6). 5 indexed citations

Liu, Xue, Simon C. Rowan, Jiurong Liang, et al.. (2021). Categorization of lung mesenchymal cells in development and fibrosis. iScience. 24(6). 102551–102551. 54 indexed citations

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Yao, Changfu, Xiangrong Guan, Gianni Carraro, et al.. (2020). Senescence of Alveolar Type 2 Cells Drives Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 203(6). 707–717. 306 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carraro, Gianni, Apoorva Mulay, Changfu Yao, et al.. (2020). Single-Cell Reconstruction of Human Basal Cell Diversity in Normal and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Lungs. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 202(11). 1540–1550. 98 indexed citations

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Parimon, Tanyalak, Changfu Yao, David M. Habiel, et al.. (2019). Syndecan-1 promotes lung fibrosis by regulating epithelial reprogramming through extracellular vesicles. JCI Insight. 4(17). 69 indexed citations

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Yao, Changfu, Gianni Carraro, & Barry R. Stripp. (2018). In vitro Explant Cultures to Interrogate Signaling Pathways that Regulate Mouse Lung Development. BIO-PROTOCOL. 8(10). e2852–e2852.

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Yao, Changfu, Gianni Carraro, Bindu Konda, et al.. (2017). Sin3a regulates epithelial progenitor cell fate during lung development. Development. 144(14). 2618–2628. 30 indexed citations

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McConnell, Alicia M., Changfu Yao, Alyson Yeckes, et al.. (2016). p53 Regulates Progenitor Cell Quiescence and Differentiation in the Airway. Cell Reports. 17(9). 2173–2182. 57 indexed citations

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Cai, Weili, Yeran Li, Changfu Yao, et al.. (2014). Genome-wide analysis of regulation of gene expression and H3K9me2 distribution by JIL-1 kinase mediated histone H3S10 phosphorylation in Drosophila. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(9). 5456–5467. 16 indexed citations

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Yao, Changfu, Chao Wang, Yeran Li, et al.. (2014). The Spindle Matrix Protein, Chromator, Is a Novel Tubulin Binding Protein That Can Interact with Both Microtubules and Free Tubulin. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e103855–e103855. 3 indexed citations

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Yao, Changfu, Uttama Rath, Hélder Maiato, et al.. (2012). A nuclear-derived proteinaceous matrix embeds the microtubule spindle apparatus during mitosis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 23(18). 3532–3541. 26 indexed citations

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Yao, Changfu, Yun Ding, Weili Cai, et al.. (2011). The chromodomain-containing NH2-terminus of Chromator interacts with histone H1 and is required for correct targeting to chromatin. Chromosoma. 121(2). 209–220. 8 indexed citations

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Johansen, Kristen M., Arthur Forer, Changfu Yao, Jack Girton, & Jørgen Johansen. (2011). Do nuclear envelope and intranuclear proteins reorganize during mitosis to form an elastic, hydrogel-like spindle matrix?. Chromosome Research. 19(3). 345–365. 46 indexed citations

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