Peiyuan Chai

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 735 citations indexed

About

Peiyuan Chai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peiyuan Chai has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 735 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peiyuan Chai's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers). Peiyuan Chai is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers). Peiyuan Chai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Peiyuan Chai's co-authors include Junlin Teng, Jianguo Chen, Qingzhou Chen, Pengli Zheng, Donghui Zhang, Charlotta G. Lebedenko, Ryan A. Flynn, Desheng Zhu, Bing Liu and Xiaoyu Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Peiyuan Chai

11 papers receiving 730 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.

RNA-binding proteins and glycoRNAs form domains on the cell surface for cell-penetrating peptide entry

2025 29 citations Peiyuan Chai, Charlotta G. Lebedenko 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
Peiyuan Chai China	9	374	235	231	78	69	12	735
Paulina Strzyz Germany	13	503 1.3×	237 1.0×	67 0.3×	41 0.5×	46 0.7×	129	758
Po Hien Ear United States	14	453 1.2×	111 0.5×	156 0.7×	65 0.8×	24 0.3×	35	737
Heeseon An United States	16	731 2.0×	288 1.2×	456 2.0×	44 0.6×	39 0.6×	19	1.1k
Lawrence D. Schweitzer United States	9	920 2.5×	309 1.3×	200 0.9×	54 0.7×	40 0.6×	10	1.3k
Wesley Skillern United States	9	603 1.6×	282 1.2×	72 0.3×	22 0.3×	26 0.4×	9	801
Miklós Bagdány Canada	12	707 1.9×	212 0.9×	87 0.4×	148 1.9×	25 0.4×	18	1.6k
Anna Pepe France	16	754 2.0×	207 0.9×	99 0.4×	34 0.4×	79 1.1×	21	1.2k
Kateryna Morozova United States	12	418 1.1×	109 0.5×	116 0.5×	37 0.5×	32 0.5×	12	704
Hanspeter Niederstrasser United States	12	607 1.6×	519 2.2×	102 0.4×	41 0.5×	15 0.2×	19	928
Mitra S. Rana United States	10	419 1.1×	153 0.7×	116 0.5×	36 0.5×	16 0.2×	15	672

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peiyuan Chai

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12 of 12 papers shown

Chai, Peiyuan, Sina Kheiri, Andrew Kuo, et al.. (2026). GlycoRNA complexed with heparan sulfate regulates VEGF-A signalling. Nature. 651(8106). 808–818.

Chai, Peiyuan, Charlotta G. Lebedenko, Regan Volk, et al.. (2025). RNA-binding proteins and glycoRNAs form domains on the cell surface for cell-penetrating peptide entry. Cell. 188(7). 1878–1895.e25. 29 indexed citations breakdown →

Xie, Yixuan, Peiyuan Chai, Nicholas A. Till, et al.. (2024). The modified RNA base acp3U is an attachment site for N-glycans in glycoRNA. Cell. 187(19). 5228–5237.e12. 46 indexed citations

Chai, Peiyuan, et al.. (2023). An Integrated Structure Analysis Method of Active Surface Antenna by Using the Simplified Actuator. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 23(7). 75014–75014. 2 indexed citations

Chai, Peiyuan, Charlotta G. Lebedenko, & Ryan A. Flynn. (2023). RNA Crossing Membranes: Systems and Mechanisms Contextualizing Extracellular RNA and Cell Surface GlycoRNAs. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 24(1). 85–107. 18 indexed citations

Chai, Peiyuan, et al.. (2022). Simulation Method of Active Adjustment of Large Reflector Antenna Based on Simplified Actuators. 5495. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

Chai, Peiyuan, Lei Yin, Donghui Zhang, et al.. (2021). USP19 promotes hypoxia-induced mitochondrial division via FUNDC1 at ER-mitochondria contact sites. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(7). 47 indexed citations

Xiong, Liang, Yulin Lyu, Xiannian Zhang, et al.. (2021). Establishment of intestinal organoid cultures modeling injury-associated epithelial regeneration. Cell Research. 31(3). 259–271. 94 indexed citations

Yang, Xusan, Zhigang Yang, Ying He, et al.. (2020). Mitochondrial dynamics quantitatively revealed by STED nanoscopy with an enhanced squaraine variant probe. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3699–3699. 104 indexed citations

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Chen, Qingzhou, et al.. (2019). ATL3 Is a Tubular ER-Phagy Receptor for GABARAP-Mediated Selective Autophagy. Current Biology. 29(5). 846–855.e6. 234 indexed citations

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Zheng, Pengli, Qingzhou Chen, Xiaoyu Tian, et al.. (2018). DNA damage triggers tubular endoplasmic reticulum extension to promote apoptosis by facilitating ER-mitochondria signaling. Cell Research. 28(8). 833–854. 104 indexed citations

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Huang, Ning, Donghui Zhang, Fangyuan Li, et al.. (2018). M-Phase Phosphoprotein 9 regulates ciliogenesis by modulating CP110-CEP97 complex localization at the mother centriole. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4511–4511. 56 indexed citations

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