Kevin Yehl

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Kevin Yehl is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Yehl has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kevin Yehl's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (9 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (6 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Kevin Yehl is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (9 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (6 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Kevin Yehl collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Kevin Yehl's co-authors include Khalid Salaita, Yang Liu, Timothy K. Lu, Sébastien Lemire, César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Kornelia Galior, Skanda Vivek, Andrew C. Yang, Hiroki Ando and Marcelo D. T. Torres and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Yehl

24 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Engineering Phage Host-Range and Suppressing Bacterial Resistance through Phage Tail Fiber Mutagenesis

2019 289 citations Kevin Yehl, Sébastien Lemire et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Yehl United States	17	799	493	383	305	230	26	1.6k
Ferenc Vonderviszt Hungary	26	1.3k 1.6×	344 0.7×	443 1.2×	370 1.2×	124 0.5×	80	2.3k
Stefano Pagliara United Kingdom	31	813 1.0×	1.3k 2.7×	281 0.7×	413 1.4×	266 1.2×	76	2.9k
Judith Mantell United Kingdom	22	1.4k 1.8×	308 0.6×	298 0.8×	433 1.4×	66 0.3×	61	2.5k
Timothy J. Knowles United Kingdom	23	2.0k 2.5×	238 0.5×	170 0.4×	102 0.3×	132 0.6×	46	2.6k
Nicola Ilk Austria	21	758 0.9×	227 0.5×	517 1.3×	54 0.2×	230 1.0×	29	1.3k
Pascal D. Odermatt United States	13	486 0.6×	152 0.3×	135 0.4×	93 0.3×	118 0.5×	15	1.0k
Craig Blanchette United States	28	1.6k 2.0×	355 0.7×	70 0.2×	96 0.3×	339 1.5×	56	2.3k
Eva M. Egelseer Austria	22	1.1k 1.4×	262 0.5×	769 2.0×	64 0.2×	211 0.9×	35	1.6k
Bijan Zakeri United States	10	1.6k 1.9×	252 0.5×	166 0.4×	89 0.3×	99 0.4×	14	2.0k
Seta Küpcü Austria	26	729 0.9×	472 1.0×	403 1.1×	60 0.2×	93 0.4×	46	1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Yehl

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Yehl

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kevin Yehl. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kevin Yehl 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 Kevin Yehl. Kevin Yehl 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

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Bender, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Profiling crRNA architectures for enhanced Cas12 biosensing. Communications Biology. 8(1). 947–947. 1 indexed citations

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Yehl, Kevin, et al.. (2025). Engineering Colorimetric Aptazyme Sensors for Detecting High Levels of PFAS. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 8(8). 6991–6998.

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Needham, Patrick G., Richard C. Page, & Kevin Yehl. (2024). Phage-layer interferometry: a companion diagnostic for phage therapy and a bacterial testing platform. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6026–6026. 2 indexed citations

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Wright, Bradley W., et al.. (2024). IbpAB small heat shock proteins are not host factors for bacteriophage ϕX174 replication. Virology. 597. 110169–110169. 1 indexed citations

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Yehl, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Fingerprinting DNAzyme Cross-Reactivity for Pattern-Based Detection of Heavy Metals. Analytical Chemistry. 96(29). 11780–11789. 8 indexed citations

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Yehl, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Controlling photodegradation in vinyl ketone polymers. Chemical Engineering Journal. 483. 149307–149307. 9 indexed citations

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Bradford, Kate G. E., et al.. (2022). Photons and photocatalysts as limiting reagents for PET-RAFT photopolymerization. Chemical Engineering Journal. 456. 141007–141007. 22 indexed citations

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Tang, Tzu‐Chieh, Eléonore Tham, Xinyue Liu, et al.. (2021). Hydrogel-based biocontainment of bacteria for continuous sensing and computation. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(6). 724–731. 179 indexed citations

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Yehl, Kevin, Sébastien Lemire, Andrew C. Yang, et al.. (2019). Engineering Phage Host-Range and Suppressing Bacterial Resistance through Phage Tail Fiber Mutagenesis. Cell. 179(2). 459–469.e9. 289 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blanchard, Aaron T., et al.. (2019). Highly Polyvalent DNA Motors Generate 100+ pN of Force via Autochemophoresis. Nano Letters. 19(10). 6977–6986. 43 indexed citations

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Lemire, Sébastien, Kevin Yehl, & Timothy K. Lu. (2018). Phage-Based Applications in Synthetic Biology. Annual Review of Virology. 5(1). 453–476. 90 indexed citations

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Yehl, Kevin & Timothy K. Lu. (2017). Scaling computation and memory in living cells. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 4. 143–151. 14 indexed citations

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Pui‐Yan, Victor, Yang Liu, Kevin Yehl, et al.. (2016). Mechanically Induced Catalytic Amplification Reaction for Readout of Receptor‐Mediated Cellular Forces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(18). 5488–5492. 36 indexed citations

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Pui‐Yan, Victor, Yang Liu, Kevin Yehl, et al.. (2016). Mechanically Induced Catalytic Amplification Reaction for Readout of Receptor‐Mediated Cellular Forces. Angewandte Chemie. 128(18). 5578–5582. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Zheng, Yang Liu, Yuan Chang, et al.. (2015). Nanoscale optomechanical actuators for controlling mechanotransduction in living cells. Nature Methods. 13(2). 143–146. 113 indexed citations

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Yehl, Kevin, Andrew Mugler, Skanda Vivek, et al.. (2015). High-speed DNA-based rolling motors powered by RNase H. Nature Nanotechnology. 11(2). 184–190. 189 indexed citations

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Somasuntharam, Inthirai, Kevin Yehl, Joshua T. Maxwell, et al.. (2015). Knockdown of TNF-α by DNAzyme gold nanoparticles as an anti-inflammatory therapy for myocardial infarction. Biomaterials. 83. 12–22. 110 indexed citations

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Zheng, Weiwei, Yang Liu, Kevin Yehl, et al.. (2014). Quantum Dots Encapsulated within Phospholipid Membranes: Phase-Dependent Structure, Photostability, and Site-Selective Functionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(5). 1992–1999. 54 indexed citations

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Liu, Yang, Rebecca Medda, Zheng Liu, et al.. (2014). Nanoparticle Tension Probes Patterned at the Nanoscale: Impact of Integrin Clustering on Force Transmission. Nano Letters. 14(10). 5539–5546. 119 indexed citations

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Liu, Yang, Kevin Yehl, Yoshie Narui, & Khalid Salaita. (2013). Tension Sensing Nanoparticles for Mechano-Imaging at the Living/Nonliving Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(14). 5320–5323. 116 indexed citations

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