Liya Zhu

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Liya Zhu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liya Zhu has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Oncology and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Liya Zhu's work include Extracellular vesicles in disease (9 papers), Mesenchymal stem cell research (4 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Liya Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Extracellular vesicles in disease (9 papers), Mesenchymal stem cell research (4 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Liya Zhu collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, China and India. Liya Zhu's co-authors include Ji Min Oh, Byeong‐Cheol Ahn, S Kalimuthu, Prakash Gangadaran, Se Hwan Baek, Jaetae Lee, Shin Young Jeong, Ho‐Won Lee, Ramya Lakshmi Rajendran and Sang‐Woo Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Biomaterials and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Liya Zhu

26 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Exosomes Derived From Natural Killer Cells Exert Therapeutic Effect in Melanoma

2017 385 citations Liya Zhu, S Kalimuthu et al. Theranostics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liya Zhu South Korea	16	1.1k	595	349	298	205	26	1.5k
Se Hwan Baek South Korea	15	1.1k 1.0×	586 1.0×	332 1.0×	294 1.0×	188 0.9×	19	1.5k
Ji Min Oh South Korea	21	1.4k 1.3×	712 1.2×	399 1.1×	360 1.2×	255 1.2×	50	2.1k
Raffaella Giuffrida Italy	14	920 0.8×	737 1.2×	112 0.3×	204 0.7×	181 0.9×	27	1.5k
Songtao Shi China	14	710 0.6×	300 0.5×	226 0.6×	80 0.3×	67 0.3×	21	1.0k
Mayela Carolina Mendt United States	9	949 0.8×	550 0.9×	147 0.4×	112 0.4×	95 0.5×	12	1.2k
Dongdong Ti China	20	937 0.8×	305 0.5×	399 1.1×	293 1.0×	801 3.9×	31	2.1k
Valentina Coccè Italy	20	1.2k 1.1×	724 1.2×	123 0.4×	316 1.1×	393 1.9×	51	2.0k
Majid Mossahebi‐Mohammadi Iran	17	689 0.6×	428 0.7×	73 0.2×	200 0.7×	108 0.5×	38	1.2k
Deepak Bhere United States	15	604 0.5×	290 0.5×	162 0.5×	135 0.5×	355 1.7×	27	1.3k
Jiaqiang Ren United States	26	741 0.7×	342 0.6×	443 1.3×	318 1.1×	635 3.1×	50	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liya Zhu

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

Zhu, Liya, et al.. (2025). Turning tumor microenvironmental foes to friends: A new opportunity for thyroid cancer therapy and redifferentiation. Oral Oncology. 168. 107513–107513. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Liya, et al.. (2024). Role of TIM-1 in the development and treatment of tumours. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 12. 1307806–1307806. 3 indexed citations

Zhu, Liya, et al.. (2023). Identification of an association between coronary heart disease and ITGB2 methylation in peripheral blood by a case-control study. Clinica Chimica Acta. 552. 117627–117627. 3 indexed citations

Zhu, Liya, et al.. (2023). Tumor-associated macrophages as a potential therapeutic target in thyroid cancers. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. 72(12). 3895–3917. 17 indexed citations

Hong, Chae Moon, Prakash Gangadaran, Ji Min Oh, et al.. (2021). Radioiodine labeling and in vivo trafficking of extracellular vesicles. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5041–5041. 15 indexed citations

Baek, Se Hwan, Ho‐Won Lee, Prakash Gangadaran, et al.. (2020). Role of M2-like macrophages in the progression of ovarian cancer. Experimental Cell Research. 395(2). 112211–112211. 14 indexed citations

Oh, Eun Jung, Ho‐Won Lee, S Kalimuthu, et al.. (2018). In vivo migration of mesenchymal stem cells to burn injury sites and their therapeutic effects in a living mouse model. Journal of Controlled Release. 279. 79–88. 80 indexed citations

Kalimuthu, S, Prakash Gangadaran, Ramya Lakshmi Rajendran, et al.. (2018). A New Approach for Loading Anticancer Drugs Into Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosome Mimetics for Cancer Therapy. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 9. 1116–1116. 231 indexed citations

Kalimuthu, S, Liya Zhu, Ji Min Oh, et al.. (2018). Migration of mesenchymal stem cells to tumor xenograft models and in vitro drug delivery by doxorubicin. International Journal of Medical Sciences. 15(10). 1051–1061. 50 indexed citations

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Kalimuthu, S, Liya Zhu, Ji Hyun Oh, et al.. (2018). Regulated Mesenchymal Stem Cells Mediated Colon Cancer Therapy Assessed by Reporter Gene Based Optical Imaging. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(4). 1002–1002. 11 indexed citations

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Gangadaran, Prakash, Chae Moon Hong, Ji Min Oh, et al.. (2018). In vivo Non-invasive Imaging of Radio-Labeled Exosome-Mimetics Derived From Red Blood Cells in Mice. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 9. 817–817. 81 indexed citations

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Zhu, Liya, S Kalimuthu, Ji Min Oh, et al.. (2018). Enhancement of antitumor potency of extracellular vesicles derived from natural killer cells by IL-15 priming. Biomaterials. 190-191. 38–50. 115 indexed citations

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Gangadaran, Prakash, Xiu Juan Li, S Kalimuthu, et al.. (2018). New Optical Imaging Reporter-labeled Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles as a Platform for In Vivo Tumor Targeting in a Mouse Model. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13509–13509. 19 indexed citations

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Kalimuthu, S, Ji Min Oh, Prakash Gangadaran, et al.. (2017). In Vivo Tracking of Chemokine Receptor CXCR4-Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cell Migration by Optical Molecular Imaging. Stem Cells International. 2017. 1–10. 59 indexed citations

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Kalimuthu, S, Ji Min Oh, Prakash Gangadaran, et al.. (2017). Genetically engineered suicide gene in mesenchymal stem cells using a Tet-On system for anaplastic thyroid cancer. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0181318–e0181318. 15 indexed citations

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Zhu, Liya, S Kalimuthu, Prakash Gangadaran, et al.. (2017). Exosomes Derived From Natural Killer Cells Exert Therapeutic Effect in Melanoma. Theranostics. 7(10). 2732–2745. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Liya, Xiu Juan Li, S Kalimuthu, et al.. (2017). Natural Killer Cell (NK-92MI)-Based Therapy for Pulmonary Metastasis of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer in a Nude Mouse Model. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 816–816. 46 indexed citations

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Rajendran, Ramya Lakshmi, Prakash Gangadaran, Ji Min Oh, et al.. (2017). Extracellular vesicles derived from MSCs activates dermal papilla cell in vitro and promotes hair follicle conversion from telogen to anagen in mice. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15560–15560. 144 indexed citations

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Zhu, Liya, S Kalimuthu, Prakash Gangadaran, et al.. (2016). The NK-drived exosomes enhance NK cell-based therapy to melanoma cancer. 57. 1393–1393. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Liya, et al.. (1997). [Dynamic changes in cytokines in wound exudates from superficial II degree burns in rats].. PubMed. 13(1). 25–9. 1 indexed citations

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