Ping Yan

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
126 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Ping Yan is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ping Yan has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 24 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ping Yan's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (19 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (18 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (18 papers). Ping Yan is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (19 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (18 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (18 papers). Ping Yan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Italy. Ping Yan's co-authors include Jin‐Moo Lee, John R. Cirrito, David M. Holtzman, Qingli Xiao, Leslie M. Loew, Chung Y. Hsu, Adam W. Bero, Yi Xie, Yitai Qian and Marcus E. Raichle and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ping Yan

122 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Neuronal activity regulates the regional vulnerability to amyloid-β deposition

2011 690 citations Ping Yan, John R. Cirrito et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ping Yan	1.9k	1.5k	1.4k	1.0k	847	126	6.5k
Laura L. Dugan	1.0k 0.6×	2.7k 1.8×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	860 1.0×	80	7.6k
Robert H. Mach	2.5k 1.3×	6.6k 4.3×	3.8k 2.7×	781 0.8×	695 0.8×	380	14.0k
Ming‐Rong Zhang	958 0.5×	2.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.1×	536 0.5×	677 0.8×	400	7.0k
Yan Qiao	2.9k 1.6×	3.7k 2.4×	6.3k 4.5×	454 0.4×	926 1.1×	220	13.2k
Timothy M. Miller	3.3k 1.8×	5.5k 3.6×	2.5k 1.8×	314 0.3×	2.1k 2.5×	185	12.3k
Katrin I. Andreasson	1.4k 0.8×	2.7k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	507 0.5×	1.8k 2.1×	73	7.7k
Ferenc Joó	1.1k 0.6×	3.2k 2.1×	2.1k 1.5×	939 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	335	11.5k
Yutaka Kirino	1.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.8×	2.5k 1.8×	242 0.2×	632 0.7×	194	6.7k
Toshiro Inubushi	713 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	567 0.4×	760 0.7×	187 0.2×	197	6.0k
Kah‐Leong Lim	1.5k 0.8×	4.5k 3.0×	2.1k 1.5×	483 0.5×	969 1.1×	145	8.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ping Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ping Yan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ping Yan

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

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Wang, Bin, Xiudong Chen, Yan‐Jiang Wang, et al.. (2025). High-performance MnO2-based cathodes for aqueous zinc-ion batteries: Challenges, strategies, and perspectives. 1(1). 100008–100008.

Nordvall, Gunnar, Ping Yan, Lotta Agholme, et al.. (2025). γ-Secretase modulation inhibits amyloid plaque formation and growth and stimulates plaque regression in amyloid precursor protein/presenilin-1 mice. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 392(4). 103400–103400. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Jingyi, et al.. (2025). Cladding light stripper based on CO₂ laser ablation and its system applications. Applied Optics. 64(29). 8551–8551.

Xiao, Qingli, Ping Yan, Gaurav Pandey, et al.. (2024). Chimeric antigen receptor macrophages target and resorb amyloid plaques. JCI Insight. 9(6). 18 indexed citations

Yan, Ping, et al.. (2023). Near-infrared voltage-sensitive dyes based on chromene donor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(34). e2305093120–e2305093120. 6 indexed citations

Albertson, Asher J., Eric C. Landsness, Michelle Tang, et al.. (2022). Normal aging in mice is associated with a global reduction in cortical spectral power and network-specific declines in functional connectivity. NeuroImage. 257. 119287–119287. 11 indexed citations

Huang, Huanan, Lingxiu Liu, Jianguo Wang, et al.. (2022). Aggregation caused quenching to aggregation induced emission transformation: a precise tuning based on BN-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons toward subcellular organelle specific imaging. Chemical Science. 13(11). 3129–3139. 97 indexed citations

Scardigli, Marina, Raffaele Coppini, Claudia Crocini, et al.. (2020). Arrhythmia susceptibility in a rat model of acute atrial dilation. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 154. 21–29. 4 indexed citations

Kang, Jeeun, Haichong K. Zhang, Shilpa D. Kadam, et al.. (2019). Transcranial Recording of Electrophysiological Neural Activity in the Rodent Brain in vivo Using Functional Photoacoustic Imaging of Near-Infrared Voltage-Sensitive Dye. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13. 579–579. 35 indexed citations

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Yan, Ping, Corey D. Acker, & Leslie M. Loew. (2018). Tethered Bichromophoric Fluorophore Quencher Voltage Sensitive Dyes. ACS Sensors. 3(12). 2621–2628. 18 indexed citations

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Crocini, Claudia, Cecilia Ferrantini, Raffaele Coppini, et al.. (2018). Real-Time Optical Manipulation of Cardiac Conduction in Intact Hearts. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 166a–166a.

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Dhavale, Dhruva D., Julie L. Prior, Ping Yan, et al.. (2016). Fluselenamyl: A Novel Benzoselenazole Derivative for PET Detection of Amyloid Plaques (Aβ) in Alzheimer’s Disease. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35636–35636. 34 indexed citations

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Crocini, Claudia, Cecilia Ferrantini, Marina Scardigli, et al.. (2015). Novel insights on the relationship between T-tubular defects and contractile dysfunction in a mouse model of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 91. 42–51. 41 indexed citations

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Kwiatek, Joanna M., Dylan M. Owen, Ahmed Abu‐Siniyeh, et al.. (2013). Characterization of a New Series of Fluorescent Probes for Imaging Membrane Order. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e52960–e52960. 62 indexed citations

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Tsuda, Sachiko, Michelle Z. L. Kee, Catarina Cunha, et al.. (2012). Probing the function of neuronal populations: Combining micromirror-based optogenetic photostimulation with voltage-sensitive dye imaging. Neuroscience Research. 75(1). 76–81. 25 indexed citations

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Hu, Song, Ping Yan, Konstantin Maslov, Jin‐Moo Lee, & Lihong V. Wang. (2009). Intravital imaging of amyloid plaques in a transgenic mouse model using optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy. Optics Letters. 34(24). 3899–3899. 73 indexed citations

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Lee, Jin‐Moo, Ping Yan, Qingli Xiao, et al.. (2008). Methylprednisolone Protects Oligodendrocytes But Not Neurons after Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(12). 3141–3149. 61 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wen‐Liang, Ping Yan, Joseph P. Wuskell, Leslie M. Loew, & Srdjan D. Antic. (2008). Dynamics of action potential backpropagation in basal dendrites of prefrontal cortical pyramidal neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 27(4). 923–936. 38 indexed citations

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Yin, Ke‐Jie, John R. Cirrito, Ping Yan, et al.. (2006). Matrix Metalloproteinases Expressed by Astrocytes Mediate Extracellular Amyloid-β Peptide Catabolism. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(43). 10939–10948. 307 indexed citations

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Khoo, I. C., et al.. (1986). Phase conjugation and pulse compression via stimulated scattering in the isotropic and mesophases of liquid crystals. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. WG22–WG22. 1 indexed citations

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