Hong Wei Yang

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 900 citations indexed

About

Hong Wei Yang is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hong Wei Yang has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 900 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Neurology, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Hong Wei Yang's work include Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments (5 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (2 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (2 papers). Hong Wei Yang is often cited by papers focused on Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments (5 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (2 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (2 papers). Hong Wei Yang collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Hong Wei Yang's co-authors include Junko Takita, Roger Lemon, Terunaga Nakagawa, Sumio Terada, Yasuhide Hayashi, Yosuke Takei, Sén Takeda, Yosuke Tanaka, Takao Nakata and Shoji Tsuji and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Hong Wei Yang

9 papers receiving 889 citations

Hit Papers

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2A Caused by Mutation in... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2A Caused by Mutation in a Microtubule Motor KIF1Bβ
    2001 565 citations Chunjie Zhao, Junko Takita et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hong Wei Yang Japan 8 446 331 329 214 155 9 900
Thomas Van Winkle United States 13 389 0.9× 263 0.8× 172 0.5× 286 1.3× 174 1.1× 16 1.1k
Cornelio G. Caday United States 13 580 1.3× 357 1.1× 121 0.4× 105 0.5× 125 0.8× 16 984
Nicholas A. DiProspero United States 8 856 1.9× 515 1.6× 332 1.0× 269 1.3× 113 0.7× 8 1.5k
Ting Zhao China 14 681 1.5× 309 0.9× 119 0.4× 125 0.6× 75 0.5× 26 922
Andrea M. Gomez United States 8 531 1.2× 298 0.9× 187 0.6× 205 1.0× 33 0.2× 8 863
Deepika Vuppalanchi United States 12 712 1.6× 473 1.4× 219 0.7× 55 0.3× 72 0.5× 12 1.0k
Jochen Kinter Switzerland 12 454 1.0× 171 0.5× 271 0.8× 64 0.3× 78 0.5× 21 895
Laurence Goutebroze France 19 610 1.4× 579 1.7× 520 1.6× 475 2.2× 58 0.4× 36 1.5k
C. Stewart Gillespie United Kingdom 12 489 1.1× 694 2.1× 256 0.8× 143 0.7× 177 1.1× 17 1.0k
S Einheber United States 9 589 1.3× 572 1.7× 277 0.8× 55 0.3× 71 0.5× 9 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Hong Wei Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hong Wei Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hong Wei Yang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hong Wei Yang. The network helps show where Hong Wei Yang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hong Wei Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hong Wei Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hong Wei Yang 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 Hong Wei Yang. Hong Wei Yang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Yang, Hong Wei, et al.. (2004). [Role of phospho-calcium/ calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the induction and maintenance of long-term potentiation of C-fiber-evoked field potentials in spinal dorsal horn of the rat].. PubMed. 56(1). 83–8. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Hong Wei, et al.. (2004). Targeted Expression of Human MYCN Selectively Causes Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors in Transgenic Zebrafish. Cancer Research. 64(20). 7256–7262. 75 indexed citations
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Yang, Hong Wei & Roger Lemon. (2003). An electron microscopic examination of the corticospinal projection to the cervical spinal cord in the rat: lack of evidence for cortico-motoneuronal synapses. Experimental Brain Research. 149(4). 458–469. 86 indexed citations
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Liu, Ting Xi, Yi Zhou, John P. Kanki, et al.. (2002). Evolutionary conservation of zebrafish linkage group 14 with frequently deleted regions of human chromosome 5 in myeloid malignancies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(9). 6136–6141. 38 indexed citations
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Chen, Ying Zhang, Eiichi Soeda, Hong Wei Yang, et al.. (2001). Homozygous deletion in a neuroblastoma cell line defined by a high‐density STS map spanning human chromosome band 1p36. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 31(4). 326–332. 15 indexed citations
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Zhao, Chunjie, Junko Takita, Yosuke Tanaka, et al.. (2001). Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2A Caused by Mutation in a Microtubule Motor KIF1Bβ. Cell. 105(5). 587–597. 565 indexed citations breakdown →
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Takita, Junko, Hong Wei Yang, Yuyan Chen, et al.. (2001). Allelic imbalance on chromosome 2q and alterations of the caspase 8 gene in neuroblastoma. Oncogene. 20(32). 4424–4432. 75 indexed citations

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