Cong Yi

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Cong Yi is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cong Yi has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Epidemiology, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Cong Yi's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (22 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (6 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (5 papers). Cong Yi is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (22 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (6 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (5 papers). Cong Yi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Cong Yi's co-authors include Qiming Sun, Ayaz Najafov, Xufeng Cen, Hongguang Xia, Qingwei Zhao, Haiteng Deng, Yigang Wang, Yuting Cao, Fang Huang and Huihui Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Cong Yi

25 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

CCT2 is an aggrephagy receptor for clearance of solid protein aggregates

2022 120 citations Xinyu Ma, Yuting Chen et al. Cell profile →
Interplay of energy metabolism and autophagy

2023 92 citations Yuyao Feng, Ying Chen et al. Autophagy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cong Yi China	14	698	606	200	160	97	28	1.2k
Kostoula Troulinaki Greece	9	756 1.1×	757 1.2×	213 1.1×	136 0.8×	86 0.9×	10	1.4k
Wei‐Chung Chiang United States	11	940 1.3×	810 1.3×	207 1.0×	259 1.6×	144 1.5×	13	1.7k
Lidia Wróbel United Kingdom	15	988 1.4×	517 0.9×	330 1.6×	205 1.3×	68 0.7×	20	1.5k
Sarah F. Funderburk United States	6	441 0.6×	645 1.1×	241 1.2×	143 0.9×	51 0.5×	6	951
Jaganmohan R. Jangamreddy Sweden	13	698 1.0×	412 0.7×	155 0.8×	234 1.5×	150 1.5×	20	1.4k
Séverine Lorin France	12	624 0.9×	528 0.9×	168 0.8×	92 0.6×	118 1.2×	16	1.0k
Allyson L. Anding United States	8	437 0.6×	451 0.7×	212 1.1×	91 0.6×	52 0.5×	11	824
Ha‐Na Woo South Korea	18	830 1.2×	428 0.7×	180 0.9×	378 2.4×	130 1.3×	38	1.5k
Ian Semple United States	13	637 0.9×	386 0.6×	233 1.2×	157 1.0×	50 0.5×	13	1.0k
Orane Visvikis France	14	962 1.4×	826 1.4×	365 1.8×	278 1.7×	102 1.1×	20	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Cong Yi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cong Yi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cong Yi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cong Yi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cong Yi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cong Yi. Cong Yi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Pengwei, Rui Tian, Xianming Ding, et al.. (2025). Rab GTPases are evolutionarily conserved signals mediating selective autophagy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 224(5).

Zhang, Yi, et al.. (2025). Mec1-mediated Atg9 phosphorylation regulates the PAS recruitment of Atg9 vesicles upon energy stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(6). e2422582122–e2422582122. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yi, Choufei Wu, Zhengyi Cai, et al.. (2025). Establishment of a yeast essential protein conditional-degradation library and screening for autophagy-regulating genes. Autophagy. 21(7). 1578–1590. 1 indexed citations

Yi, Cong, et al.. (2025). Co-development of career adaptability and academic self-efficacy in college: A four-wave investigation. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 98. 101792–101792. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yuting, Juan Song, Huan Yang, et al.. (2024). Two distinct regulatory pathways govern Cct2-Atg8 binding in the process of solid aggrephagy. EMBO Reports. 25(11). 4749–4776.

Feng, Yuyao, et al.. (2024). The molecular mechanisms regulating the assembly of the autophagy initiation complex. BioEssays. 46(6). e2300243–e2300243. 3 indexed citations

Yi, Cong, et al.. (2024). Energy deprivation-induced autophagy and aggrephagy: insights from yeast and mammals. Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE B. 25(12). 1066–1070.

Feng, Yuyao, Ying Chen, Junye Chen, et al.. (2023). Interplay of energy metabolism and autophagy. Autophagy. 20(1). 4–14. 92 indexed citations breakdown →

Ma, Xinyu, Yuting Chen, Shulin Li, et al.. (2022). CCT2 is an aggrephagy receptor for clearance of solid protein aggregates. Cell. 185(8). 1325–1345.e22. 120 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Xiaoyan, Yaqin Sun, Xufeng Cen, et al.. (2021). Metformin activates chaperone-mediated autophagy and improves disease pathologies in an Alzheimer disease mouse model. Protein & Cell. 12(10). 769–787. 121 indexed citations

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Rao, Xi, Yin Shi, Lin Shi, et al.. (2021). AMPK-mediated phosphorylation enhances the auto-inhibition of TBC1D17 to promote Rab5-dependent glucose uptake. Cell Death and Differentiation. 28(12). 3214–3234. 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Choufei, Shuzhen Li, Liefeng Wang, et al.. (2020). Mitochondrial Fusion Machinery Specifically Involved in Energy Deprivation-Induced Autophagy. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 221–221. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Yigang, Huihui Liu, Yuting Cao, et al.. (2020). The Role of Mitochondrial Dynamics and Mitophagy in Carcinogenesis, Metastasis and Therapy. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 413–413. 108 indexed citations

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Cen, Xufeng, Yanying Chen, Xiaoyan Xu, et al.. (2020). Pharmacological targeting of MCL-1 promotes mitophagy and improves disease pathologies in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5731–5731. 153 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ying, Yubin Xie, Wenzhong Liu, et al.. (2019). DeepPhagy: a deep learning framework for quantitatively measuring autophagy activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Autophagy. 16(4). 626–640. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Terytty Yang, Lintao Song, Yu Sun, et al.. (2018). Tip60-mediated lipin 1 acetylation and ER translocation determine triacylglycerol synthesis rate. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1916–1916. 53 indexed citations

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Wan, Wei, Zhiyuan You, Li Zhou, et al.. (2018). mTORC1-Regulated and HUWE1-Mediated WIPI2 Degradation Controls Autophagy Flux. Molecular Cell. 72(2). 303–315.e6. 91 indexed citations

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Yi, Cong, Jingjing Tong, Yizheng Wang, et al.. (2017). Formation of a Snf1-Mec1-Atg1 Module on Mitochondria Governs Energy Deprivation-Induced Autophagy by Regulating Mitochondrial Respiration. Developmental Cell. 41(1). 59–71.e4. 61 indexed citations

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Yi, Cong, Meisheng Ma, Leili Ran, et al.. (2012). Function and Molecular Mechanism of Acetylation in Autophagy Regulation. Science. 336(6080). 474–477. 203 indexed citations

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Yi, Cong & Li Yu. (2012). How does acetylation regulate autophagy?. Autophagy. 8(10). 1529–1530. 18 indexed citations

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