Jun Yao

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
103 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Jun Yao is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun Yao has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jun Yao's work include Muscle activation and electromyography studies (20 papers), Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (18 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (16 papers). Jun Yao is often cited by papers focused on Muscle activation and electromyography studies (20 papers), Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (18 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (16 papers). Jun Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Jun Yao's co-authors include Julius P. A. Dewald, Edwin R. Chapman, F. Mark Dunning, Jon D. Gaffaney, Sung Eun Kwon, Fred H. Gage, Michael D. Ellis, Yuan‐Ting Zhang, Albert Chen and Colin P. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jun Yao

93 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Directly Reprogrammed Human Neurons Retain Aging-Associated Transcriptomic Signatures and Reveal Age-Related Nucleocytoplasmic Defects

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jun Yao United States	33	1.5k	886	697	529	485	103	3.6k
Matteo Caleo Italy	42	1.8k 1.1×	2.4k 2.7×	1.1k 1.5×	443 0.8×	220 0.5×	141	6.3k
Zhuhao Wu United States	24	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	280 0.4×	571 1.1×	326 0.7×	44	3.8k
Stefan Heller United States	47	3.5k 2.3×	1.1k 1.3×	930 1.3×	572 1.1×	561 1.2×	163	8.1k
Wesley J. Thompson United States	37	3.4k 2.2×	3.2k 3.6×	296 0.4×	602 1.1×	410 0.8×	57	7.3k
Gioele La Manno Switzerland	19	5.1k 3.3×	1.2k 1.4×	422 0.6×	435 0.8×	257 0.5×	29	7.5k
Brigitte Lavoie Canada	31	965 0.6×	1.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.8×	171 0.3×	772 1.6×	57	4.3k
YS Chan Hong Kong	35	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 2.0×	893 1.3×	234 0.4×	170 0.4×	225	4.6k
Peter Lönnerberg Sweden	27	6.3k 4.1×	1.9k 2.2×	558 0.8×	505 1.0×	308 0.6×	36	9.7k
Woong Sun South Korea	45	3.8k 2.4×	2.1k 2.4×	621 0.9×	656 1.2×	613 1.3×	340	8.0k
Amit Zeisel Israel	23	5.1k 3.3×	1.2k 1.4×	548 0.8×	411 0.8×	230 0.5×	38	7.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jun Yao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhong, Bao‐Liang, Jun Yao, Jing Chen, et al.. (2025). Natural lithium isotope variations in serum after lithium administration as a novel biomarker for differentiating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Translational Psychiatry. 15(1). 386–386.

Chen, Linbo, Chuyi Zhang, Jiangshan Chen, et al.. (2025). Microglia contribute to bipolar depression through Serinc2-dependent phospholipid synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(37). e2500116122–e2500116122.

Cheppali, Sudheer Kumar, Chang Li, Wenjing Xing, et al.. (2025). Single-molecule two- and three-colour FRET studies reveal a transition state in SNARE disassembly by NSF. Nature Communications. 16(1). 250–250. 2 indexed citations

Dewald, Julius P. A., et al.. (2025). Effects of asymmetrical postural demands on sternocleidomastoid reflex in the startReact paradigm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 19. 1592691–1592691.

Huang, Shuang, et al.. (2025). Traditional Chinese medicine treatment for epilepsy: Focusing on voltage-gated ion channels. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 351. 120129–120129.

Wang, Qiu-Wen, Lijun Li, Bing Wang, et al.. (2025). A pancreas–hippocampus feedback mechanism regulates circadian changes in depression-related behaviors. Nature Neuroscience. 28(10). 2078–2091.

Xia, Yu, Friederike Dündar, Paul Zumbo, et al.. (2022). Activation of a transient progenitor state in the epicardium is required for zebrafish heart regeneration. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7704–7704. 29 indexed citations

Gao, Li, et al.. (2021). Clinical efficacy of Danzhi Xiaoyao Powder in the treatment of post-stroke depression. Medicine. 100(42). e27318–e27318. 9 indexed citations

Wilkins, Kevin B., et al.. (2020). Limited capacity for ipsilateral secondary motor areas to support hand function post‐stroke. The Journal of Physiology. 598(11). 2153–2167. 15 indexed citations

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Wu, Chunrong, Jia Lee, Teijiro Isokawa, Jun Yao, & Yunni Xia. (2019). Efficient Clustering Method Based on Density Peaks With Symmetric Neighborhood Relationship. IEEE Access. 7. 60684–60696. 21 indexed citations

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Huang, Xuan, Shan Sun, Xiaojing Wang, et al.. (2019). Mechanistic insights into the SNARE complex disassembly. Science Advances. 5(4). 26 indexed citations

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Flint, Robert D., Po T. Wang, Alexander J. Barry, et al.. (2019). Hemicraniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Noninvasive Platform to Investigate High Gamma Activity for Brain Machine Interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 27(7). 1467–1472. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Hewei, et al.. (2019). Effectiveness of interventions to improve hand motor function in individuals with moderate to severe stroke: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open. 9(9). e032413–e032413. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Tao, Shikai Liu, Xin Geng, et al.. (2016). GWAS analysis of QTL for enteric septicemia of catfish and their involved genes suggest evolutionary conservation of a molecular mechanism of disease resistance. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 292(1). 231–242. 58 indexed citations

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Geng, Xin, Jin Sha, Shikai Liu, et al.. (2015). A genome-wide association study in catfish reveals the presence of functional hubs of related genes within QTLs for columnaris disease resistance. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 196–196. 119 indexed citations

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Xu, Hua, Limei Zhang, Limin Gu, et al.. (2014). Subretinal Delivery of AAV2-Mediated Human Erythropoietin Gene Is Protective and Safe in Experimental Diabetic Retinopathy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 55(3). 1519–1519. 33 indexed citations

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Chen, Albert, Jun Yao, Todd Kuiken, & Julius P. A. Dewald. (2013). Cortical motor activity and reorganization following upper-limb amputation and subsequent targeted reinnervation. NeuroImage Clinical. 3. 498–506. 48 indexed citations

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Hui, Enfu, Colin P. Johnson, Jun Yao, F. Mark Dunning, & Edwin R. Chapman. (2009). Synaptotagmin-Mediated Bending of the Target Membrane Is a Critical Step in Ca2+-Regulated Fusion. Cell. 138(4). 709–721. 238 indexed citations

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Deng, Lunbin, Jun Yao, Cheng Fang, et al.. (2007). Sequential Postsynaptic Maturation Governs the Temporal Order of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Synaptogenesis in Rat Embryonic Cultures. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(40). 10860–10869. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuan‐Ting, et al.. (2002). Neuroengineering Modeling of Single Neuron and Neural Interface. Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. 30(4-6). 219–248. 1 indexed citations

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