Luhan Yang

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Luhan Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Luhan Yang has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Luhan Yang's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers) and Animal Genetics and Reproduction (3 papers). Luhan Yang is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers) and Animal Genetics and Reproduction (3 papers). Luhan Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Luhan Yang's co-authors include George M. Church, John Aach, Prashant Mali, Sriram Kosuri, Mark Moosburner, P. Benjamin Stranges, Kevin M. Esvelt, Dennis Grishin, Marc Güell and Emal Lesha and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Luhan Yang

12 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

CAS9 transcriptional activators for target specificity screening and paired nickases for cooperative genome engineering

2013 1.4k citations Prashant Mali, John Aach et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Genome-wide inactivation of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs)

2015 410 citations Luhan Yang, Marc Güell et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luhan Yang United States	9	2.0k	605	235	225	217	12	2.3k
Jiankui Zhou China	15	1.8k 0.9×	654 1.1×	60 0.3×	133 0.6×	176 0.8×	29	2.1k
Andrea J. Kriz United States	12	2.9k 1.5×	709 1.2×	43 0.2×	291 1.3×	283 1.3×	13	3.1k
Danny F. Xia United States	6	2.0k 1.0×	611 1.0×	38 0.2×	311 1.4×	143 0.7×	8	2.1k
Zairan Liu United States	5	2.6k 1.3×	438 0.7×	33 0.1×	242 1.1×	207 1.0×	5	2.8k
Elo Leung United States	4	1.9k 1.0×	569 0.9×	35 0.1×	328 1.5×	134 0.6×	5	2.1k
Siyuan Tan United States	10	1.7k 0.9×	510 0.8×	41 0.2×	263 1.2×	115 0.5×	22	2.0k
Vincent Cascio United States	6	2.8k 1.4×	563 0.9×	31 0.1×	307 1.4×	288 1.3×	7	2.9k
Nicolas Wyvekens United States	9	2.5k 1.2×	519 0.9×	30 0.1×	288 1.3×	355 1.6×	11	2.6k
Kevin Hua United States	5	1.7k 0.8×	512 0.8×	33 0.1×	260 1.2×	122 0.6×	6	1.8k
Joseph J. Belanto United States	12	2.2k 1.1×	268 0.4×	34 0.1×	515 2.3×	160 0.7×	14	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Luhan Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luhan Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luhan Yang

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Yang, Luhan, Yaohui Wang, Yucheng Zheng, et al.. (2024). Research progress of mitochondrial dysfunction induced pyroptosis in acute lung injury. Respiratory Research. 25(1). 398–398. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Fang, Yaohui Wang, Ji Chen, et al.. (2024). Circular RNA ACVR2A promotes the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma through mir-511-5p targeting PI3K-Akt signaling pathway. Molecular Cancer. 23(1). 159–159. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Ailing, Luhan Yang, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2024). In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Lactoferrin-Modified Liposomal Etomidate with Enhanced Brain-Targeting Effect for General Anesthesia. Pharmaceutics. 16(6). 805–805. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hao, Ailing Wu, Luhan Yang, et al.. (2024). The Application and Pharmaceutical Development of Etomidate: Challenges and Strategies. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 21(12). 5989–6006. 6 indexed citations

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Møller, Henrik Devitt, Lin Lin, Xi Xiang, et al.. (2018). CRISPR-C: circularization of genes and chromosome by CRISPR in human cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(22). e131–e131. 87 indexed citations

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Wang, Gang, Luhan Yang, Dennis Grishin, et al.. (2016). Efficient, footprint-free human iPSC genome editing by consolidation of Cas9/CRISPR and piggyBac technologies. Nature Protocols. 12(1). 88–103. 79 indexed citations

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Yang, Luhan, Adrian W. Briggs, Wei Leong Chew, et al.. (2016). Engineering and optimising deaminase fusions for genome editing. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13330–13330. 61 indexed citations

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Yang, Luhan, Marc Güell, Dong Niu, et al.. (2015). Genome-wide inactivation of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs). Science. 350(6264). 1101–1104. 410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Luhan, Prashant Mali, Caroline Kim-Kiselak, & George M. Church. (2014). CRISPR-Cas-Mediated Targeted Genome Editing in Human Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 1114. 245–267. 43 indexed citations

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Yang, Luhan, Dennis Grishin, Gang Wang, et al.. (2014). Targeted and genome-wide sequencing reveal single nucleotide variations impacting specificity of Cas9 in human stem cells. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5507–5507. 106 indexed citations

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Yang, Luhan, Joyce Yang, Susan Byrne, Joshua Pan, & George M. Church. (2014). CRISPR/Cas9‐Directed Genome Editing of Cultured Cells. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology. 107(1). 31.1.1–31.1.17. 65 indexed citations

12.

Mali, Prashant, John Aach, P. Benjamin Stranges, et al.. (2013). CAS9 transcriptional activators for target specificity screening and paired nickases for cooperative genome engineering. Nature Biotechnology. 31(9). 833–838. 1379 indexed citations breakdown →

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