Hongyu Gao

18.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Hongyu Gao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongyu Gao has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cancer Research and 13 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Hongyu Gao's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (8 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Hongyu Gao is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (8 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Hongyu Gao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Hongyu Gao's co-authors include Yunlong Liu, Madan K. Bhattacharyya, George M. Weinstock, Erica Sodergren, Kristine M. Wylie, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, Yanjiao Zhou, Taha Z. Shipchandler, Karl R. Koehler and Alexander Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hongyu Gao

80 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

  1. Hair-bearing human skin generated entirely from pluripotent stem cells
    2020 315 citations Jiyoon Lee, Cyrus C. Rabbani et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hongyu Gao United States 28 1.3k 386 283 251 221 85 2.6k
Nan Tang China 31 2.0k 1.6× 298 0.8× 297 1.0× 524 2.1× 164 0.7× 113 4.6k
Albert Tai United States 32 1.7k 1.3× 132 0.3× 691 2.4× 242 1.0× 411 1.9× 74 3.4k
Bin Chen China 32 2.1k 1.6× 112 0.3× 494 1.7× 550 2.2× 330 1.5× 170 4.2k
Na Wang China 27 1.0k 0.8× 116 0.3× 269 1.0× 305 1.2× 80 0.4× 191 2.7k
Wei-Sheng Wu Taiwan 26 1.7k 1.3× 222 0.6× 158 0.6× 347 1.4× 100 0.5× 108 2.6k
Ching‐Yu Lin Taiwan 29 1.2k 1.0× 432 1.1× 168 0.6× 191 0.8× 82 0.4× 100 2.6k
Mythily Srinivasan United States 20 1.1k 0.9× 64 0.2× 437 1.5× 557 2.2× 256 1.2× 52 2.5k
Kenji Hirose Japan 31 913 0.7× 110 0.3× 300 1.1× 190 0.8× 142 0.6× 89 2.8k
Jamie Freeman Canada 26 2.3k 1.8× 522 1.4× 1.2k 4.4× 135 0.5× 167 0.8× 41 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Hongyu Gao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongyu Gao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hongyu Gao. 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 Hongyu Gao. The network helps show where Hongyu Gao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongyu Gao

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

All Works

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Bhat‐Nakshatri, Poornima, Hongyu Gao, Patrick McGuire, et al.. (2024). Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic map of breast tissues of women of diverse genetic ancestry. Nature Medicine. 30(12). 3482–3494. 8 indexed citations
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Padua, Maria B., et al.. (2023). Single cell RNA analysis of the left–right organizer transcriptome reveals potential novel heterotaxy genes. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10688–10688. 2 indexed citations
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Lin, Yang, Kimihiko Banno, Jered Myslinski, et al.. (2023). Origin, prospective identification, and function of circulating endothelial colony-forming cells in mice and humans. JCI Insight. 8(5). 16 indexed citations
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Noonan, Megan L., Pu Ni, Rafiou Agoro, et al.. (2023). Osteocyte Egln1/Phd2 links oxygen sensing and biomineralization via FGF23. Bone Research. 11(1). 7–7. 14 indexed citations
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German, Rana, Natascia Marino, Chris Hemmerich, et al.. (2023). Exploring breast tissue microbial composition and the association with breast cancer risk factors. Breast Cancer Research. 25(1). 82–82. 49 indexed citations
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Liang, Dong, Vijay Saxena, Hongyu Gao, et al.. (2022). Human neutrophil peptides 1-3 protect the murine urinary tract from uropathogenic Escherichia coli challenge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(40). e2206515119–e2206515119. 11 indexed citations
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Ulrich, Benjamin J., Michelle Chu, Charanya Muralidharan, et al.. (2022). Allergic airway recall responses require IL-9 from resident memory CD4 + T cells. Science Immunology. 7(69). eabg9296–eabg9296. 39 indexed citations
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Yadav, Shivangi, Ranya Virk, Kirsten B. Burdett, et al.. (2022). Lipid exposure activates gene expression changes associated with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer. npj Breast Cancer. 8(1). 59–59. 5 indexed citations
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Janosevic, Danielle, Jered Myslinski, Thomas McCarthy, et al.. (2021). The orchestrated cellular and molecular responses of the kidney to endotoxin define a precise sepsis timeline. eLife. 10. 93 indexed citations
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Bhat‐Nakshatri, Poornima, Brijesh Kumar, Edward Simpson, et al.. (2020). Breast Cancer Cell Detection and Characterization from Breast Milk–Derived Cells. Cancer Research. 80(21). 4828–4839. 17 indexed citations
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Lee, Jiyoon, Cyrus C. Rabbani, Hongyu Gao, et al.. (2020). Hair-bearing human skin generated entirely from pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 582(7812). 399–404. 315 indexed citations breakdown →
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Firulli, Beth A., Rajani M. George, Hongyu Gao, et al.. (2019). HAND1 loss-of-function within the embryonic myocardium reveals survivable congenital cardiac defects and adult heart failure. Cardiovascular Research. 116(3). 605–618. 27 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Abu, Kunzhe Dong, Jinhua Liu, et al.. (2018). Long noncoding RNA NEAT1 (nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1) is critical for phenotypic switching of vascular smooth muscle cells. PMC. 12 indexed citations
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Gao, Hongyu, Xin Zhang, Yunfei Zheng, et al.. (2015). S100A9-induced release of interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8 through toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in human periodontal ligament cells. Molecular Immunology. 67(2). 223–232. 36 indexed citations
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Turabelidze, George, Steven J. Lawrence, Hongyu Gao, et al.. (2013). Precise Dissection of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak by Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 51(12). 3950–3954. 28 indexed citations
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Gao, Hongyu, Yan Wang, Tomasz Węgierski, et al.. (2009). PRKCSH/80K-H, the protein mutated in polycystic liver disease, protects polycystin-2/TRPP2 against HERP-mediated degradation. Human Molecular Genetics. 19(1). 16–24. 42 indexed citations

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