Dingyuan Yan

3.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
74 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Dingyuan Yan is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dingyuan Yan has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 50 papers in Materials Chemistry and 14 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dingyuan Yan's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (57 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (45 papers) and Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (9 papers). Dingyuan Yan is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (57 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (45 papers) and Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (9 papers). Dingyuan Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Dingyuan Yan's co-authors include Dong Wang, Ben Zhong Tang, Qian Wu, Miaomiao Kang, Zhijun Zhang, Lei Wang, Nan Song, Jianyu Zhang, Meng Li and Peihong Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Dingyuan Yan

66 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

  1. The fast-growing field of photo-driven theranostics based on aggregation-induced emission
    2022 280 citations Zhijun Zhang, Miaomiao Kang et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
  2. Multimodal Imaging‐Guided Photothermal Immunotherapy Based on a Versatile NIR‐II Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen
    2022 159 citations Dingyuan Yan, Niu Niu et al. profile →
  3. Photothermal therapy of tuberculosis using targeting pre-activated macrophage membrane-coated nanoparticles
    2024 158 citations Bin Li, Wei Wang et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  4. A new era of cancer phototherapy: mechanisms and applications
    2024 58 citations Yuanwei Wang, Ke Ma et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dingyuan Yan China 25 1.5k 1.4k 491 452 366 74 2.4k
Hanlin Ou China 26 2.1k 1.4× 1.7k 1.2× 273 0.6× 610 1.3× 451 1.2× 49 2.9k
Wenhan Xu China 22 2.4k 1.6× 2.4k 1.6× 304 0.6× 625 1.4× 684 1.9× 28 3.2k
Zhengqing Guo China 23 1.5k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 374 0.8× 391 0.9× 440 1.2× 34 2.4k
Purnima Naresh Manghnani Singapore 17 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 170 0.3× 297 0.7× 284 0.8× 24 1.7k
Colin G. Cameron United States 29 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 925 1.9× 464 1.0× 755 2.1× 74 3.1k
Arno Wiehe Germany 28 758 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 381 0.8× 407 0.9× 622 1.7× 65 1.8k
Thanh Chung Pham South Korea 11 1.2k 0.8× 984 0.7× 181 0.4× 258 0.6× 686 1.9× 37 1.6k
Xiuli Zheng China 25 1.7k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 118 0.2× 339 0.8× 428 1.2× 48 2.4k
Peihong Xiao China 15 806 0.5× 685 0.5× 256 0.5× 253 0.6× 273 0.7× 30 1.3k
Xi‐Le Hu China 22 726 0.5× 738 0.5× 242 0.5× 534 1.2× 126 0.3× 47 1.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dingyuan Yan

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All Works

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Yang, Xinyue, Mingqian Wang, Jun Zhu, et al.. (2025). Burning windjammer: Multi-rotor engineered photothermal agent with 87% photothermal conversion for antimicrobial treatment. Biomaterials. 328. 123799–123799.
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Ding, Yuxun, Yong‐Guan Zhu, Caifa You, et al.. (2025). Heavy Atom Engineering‐Mediated Conformational Diversification to Construct Aggregation‐Induced NIR‐II Emission Luminogens for Cancer Phototheranostics. Small. 21(27). e2502354–e2502354. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Xinyue, Deliang Wang, Jun Zhu, et al.. (2025). Engineering Simple Type I AIE Photosensitizer via Donor and π ‐Bridge Modulations for NIR‐II Imaging‐Guided Photodynamic and Photothermal Therapy. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(49). 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Dingyuan, Xue Li, Huanhuan Wang, et al.. (2025). NIR-II aggregation-induced emission nanoparticles camouflaged with preactivated macrophage membranes for phototheranostics of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nature Protocols. 20(9). 2560–2585. 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Yan, Dong Wang, Jun Zhu, et al.. (2025). Self-Assembly versus Coassembly: An Amphiphilic NIR-II Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogen for Phototheranostics of Orthotopic Glioblastoma. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(10). 10399–10409. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Yan, Dingyuan Yan, Qingwei Luo, et al.. (2024). A water-soluble aggregation-induced emission luminogen for NIR-I/NIR-II fluorescence imaging of breast cancer bone metastases. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 268. 116903–116903. 6 indexed citations
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Qian, Yuxin, Dong Wang, Qingwei Luo, et al.. (2024). A tactfully designed photothermal agent collaborating with ascorbic acid for boosting maxillofacial wound healing. National Science Review. 12(2). nwae426–nwae426. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenguang, Xue Li, Miaomiao Kang, et al.. (2024). Anthraquinone-Centered Type I Photosensitizer with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics for Tumor-Targeted Two-Photon Photodynamic Therapy. ACS Materials Letters. 6(6). 2174–2185. 17 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jun, et al.. (2024). Mechanistic Insights Into NIR‐II AIEgens Boosted Multimodal Phototheranostics. Small. 21(6). e2410441–e2410441. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuanwei, Ke Ma, Miaomiao Kang, et al.. (2024). A new era of cancer phototherapy: mechanisms and applications. Chemical Society Reviews. 53(24). 12014–12042. 58 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Bin, Wei Wang, Lu Zhao, et al.. (2024). Photothermal therapy of tuberculosis using targeting pre-activated macrophage membrane-coated nanoparticles. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(6). 834–845. 158 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Fei, Jie Cui, Yao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Regulating Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen for Multimodal Imaging‐Navigated Synergistic Therapy Involving Anti‐Angiogenesis. Advanced Science. 11(40). e2302713–e2302713. 7 indexed citations
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Yan, Dingyuan, Yue Huang, Jianyu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Adding Flying Wings: Butterfly-Shaped NIR-II AIEgens with Multiple Molecular Rotors for Photothermal Combating of Bacterial Biofilms. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(47). 25705–25715. 77 indexed citations
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Chen, Xiaohong, Niu Niu, Dan Li, et al.. (2022). The Golden Touch by Light: A Finely Engineered Luminogen Empowering High Photoactivatable and Photodynamic Efficiency for Cancer Phototheranostics. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(8). 30 indexed citations
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Fu, Shuang, Niu Niu, Shanliang Song, et al.. (2022). Facile Construction of Dendritic Amphiphiles with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics for Supramolecular Self-Assembly. Macromolecules. 55(11). 4742–4751. 7 indexed citations
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Yan, Dingyuan, Guoqiang Wang, Feng Xiong, et al.. (2018). A selenium-catalysed para-amination of phenols. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4293–4293. 46 indexed citations

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