Chaoran Yin

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Chaoran Yin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chaoran Yin has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Immunology and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Chaoran Yin's work include interferon and immune responses (5 papers), RNA regulation and disease (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Chaoran Yin is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (5 papers), RNA regulation and disease (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Chaoran Yin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Chaoran Yin's co-authors include Ting Zhang, Kamel Khalili, Siddharth Balachandran, Paul G. Thomas, Yonggang Zhang, Wenhui Hu, Raj Putatunda, Yan Xu, Jeremy Chase Crawford and Suraj Peri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Chaoran Yin

17 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Influenza Virus Z-RNAs Induce ZBP1-Mediated Necroptosis

2020 370 citations Ting Zhang, Chaoran Yin et al. Cell profile →
ADAR1 masks the cancer immunotherapeutic promise of ZBP1-driven necroptosis

2022 262 citations Ting Zhang, Chaoran Yin et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chaoran Yin United States	11	1.1k	426	215	209	159	17	1.4k
Wei Hou China	10	558 0.5×	235 0.6×	116 0.5×	346 1.7×	109 0.7×	17	905
Anna Kajaste‐Rudnitski Italy	22	768 0.7×	610 1.4×	292 1.4×	211 1.0×	145 0.9×	36	1.6k
Sojan Abraham United States	13	302 0.3×	213 0.5×	83 0.4×	88 0.4×	172 1.1×	20	619
Elena Herrera-Carrillo Netherlands	18	754 0.7×	47 0.1×	84 0.4×	186 0.9×	80 0.5×	48	936
Qiang Ding China	18	308 0.3×	346 0.8×	269 1.3×	45 0.2×	166 1.0×	38	981
Anetta Nowosielska United States	15	932 0.8×	173 0.4×	121 0.6×	302 1.4×	67 0.4×	21	1.4k
Frank Michel United States	19	449 0.4×	233 0.5×	177 0.8×	26 0.1×	82 0.5×	43	959
Zhiru Guo United States	9	275 0.2×	157 0.4×	124 0.6×	40 0.2×	284 1.8×	18	765
Sucheol Gil United States	19	553 0.5×	71 0.2×	105 0.5×	23 0.1×	177 1.1×	30	854
Helen Cumming Australia	10	403 0.4×	667 1.6×	194 0.9×	116 0.6×	114 0.7×	13	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chaoran Yin

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17 of 17 papers shown

Wang, Shuqi, Chaoran Yin, Heather Koehler, et al.. (2025). RIPK1 is required for ZBP1-driven necroptosis in human cells. PLoS Biology. 23(2). e3002845–e3002845. 7 indexed citations

Yin, Chaoran, Ting Zhang, & Siddharth Balachandran. (2023). Detecting Z-RNA and Z-DNA in Mammalian Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 2651. 277–284. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Ting, Chaoran Yin, А. И. Федоров, et al.. (2022). ADAR1 masks the cancer immunotherapeutic promise of ZBP1-driven necroptosis. Nature. 606(7914). 594–602. 262 indexed citations breakdown →

Shubina, Maria, Bart Tummers, David F. Boyd, et al.. (2020). Necroptosis restricts influenza A virus as a stand-alone cell death mechanism. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(11). 71 indexed citations

Zhang, Ting, Chaoran Yin, David F. Boyd, et al.. (2020). Influenza Virus Z-RNAs Induce ZBP1-Mediated Necroptosis. Cell. 180(6). 1115–1129.e13. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

Ingram, Justin P., Roshan J. Thapa, Amanda Fisher, et al.. (2019). ZBP1/DAI Drives RIPK3-Mediated Cell Death Induced by IFNs in the Absence of RIPK1. The Journal of Immunology. 203(5). 1348–1355. 81 indexed citations

Ingram, Justin P., Sarah A. Tursi, Ting Zhang, et al.. (2018). A Nonpyroptotic IFN-γ–Triggered Cell Death Mechanism in Nonphagocytic Cells Promotes Salmonella Clearance In Vivo. The Journal of Immunology. 200(10). 3626–3634. 13 indexed citations

Yin, Chaoran, Ting Zhang, Xiying Qu, et al.. (2017). In Vivo Excision of HIV-1 Provirus by saCas9 and Multiplex Single-Guide RNAs in Animal Models. Molecular Therapy. 25(5). 1168–1186. 207 indexed citations

Zhang, Yonggang, Fang Li, Xiao Xiao, et al.. (2016). Regulator of G protein signaling 4 is a novel target of GATA-6 transcription factor. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 483(3). 923–929. 7 indexed citations

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Yin, Chaoran, Ting Zhang, Fang Li, et al.. (2016). Functional screening of guide RNAs targeting the regulatory and structural HIV-1 viral genome for a cure of AIDS. AIDS. 30(8). 1163–1173. 55 indexed citations

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Kaminski, Rafal, Chaoran Yin, Jessica Otte, et al.. (2016). Excision of HIV-1 DNA by gene editing: a proof-of-concept in vivo study. Gene Therapy. 23(8-9). 690–695. 156 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yonggang, Fang Li, Hong Wang, et al.. (2016). Immune/Inflammatory Response and Hypocontractility of Rabbit Colonic Smooth Muscle After TNBS-Induced Colitis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 61(7). 1925–1940. 9 indexed citations

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Xiao, Chun, et al.. (2016). A zebrafish mosaic assay to study mammalian stem cells in real time in vivo. Journal of Molecular Histology. 47(5). 437–444. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yonggang, Chaoran Yin, Ting Zhang, et al.. (2015). CRISPR/gRNA-directed synergistic activation mediator (SAM) induces specific, persistent and robust reactivation of the HIV-1 latent reservoirs. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16277–16277. 129 indexed citations

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Yin, Chaoran, Ting Zhang, Liangjun Qiao, et al.. (2014). TLR7-expressing cells comprise an interfollicular epidermal stem cell population in murine epidermis. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5831–5831. 12 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ting, Chaoran Yin, Liangjun Qiao, et al.. (2014). Stat3-Efemp2a modulates the fibrillar matrix for cohesive movement of prechordal plate progenitors. Development. 141(22). 4332–4342. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ting, Shaohua Yao, Ping Wang, et al.. (2011). ApoA-II Directs Morphogenetic Movements of Zebrafish Embryo by Preventing Chromosome Fusion during Nuclear Division in Yolk Syncytial Layer. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(11). 9514–9525. 19 indexed citations

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