Ran Yang

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Ran Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Yang has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 6 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ran Yang's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Ran Yang is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Ran Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Ran Yang's co-authors include Alexander Goedel, Kenneth R. Chien, Kylie S. Foo, Yuan Liu, Jing Zou, Rui Dong, Jing‐Wei Xiong, Xiaojun Zhu, Kuo Gao and Huihui Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Ran Yang

34 papers receiving 994 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.

Unlocking the promise of mRNA therapeutics

2022 350 citations Ran Yang, Kylie S. Foo et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran Yang China	14	676	108	98	91	85	37	1.0k
Xiangyi He China	15	417 0.6×	162 1.5×	78 0.8×	88 1.0×	150 1.8×	50	851
Giuseppe Gattuso Italy	18	551 0.8×	144 1.3×	71 0.7×	98 1.1×	323 3.8×	35	1.2k
Chi‐Chen Fan Taiwan	19	423 0.6×	158 1.5×	27 0.3×	115 1.3×	161 1.9×	26	842
Deepak Venkatesh India	13	403 0.6×	58 0.5×	20 0.2×	184 2.0×	71 0.8×	18	852
Carlos Alberto de Carvalho Fraga Brazil	18	323 0.5×	176 1.6×	69 0.7×	84 0.9×	209 2.5×	58	796
Tetsuro Okamoto Japan	17	379 0.6×	144 1.3×	35 0.4×	241 2.6×	53 0.6×	42	892
Carlos Lopes Portugal	20	351 0.5×	224 2.1×	29 0.3×	71 0.8×	208 2.4×	55	1.0k
Mee‐Young Ahn South Korea	18	565 0.8×	116 1.1×	32 0.3×	110 1.2×	95 1.1×	28	844
Kunning Wang China	6	718 1.1×	264 2.4×	24 0.2×	33 0.4×	249 2.9×	8	891

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Yang

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Lian, Hao, et al.. (2025). Lithospermic acid etched ZIF-8 nanoparticles delays osteoarthritis progression by inhibiting inflammatory signaling pathways and rescuing mitochondrial damage. Materials Today Bio. 31. 101589–101589.

Yang, Ran, Lulu Xie, Rui Wang, et al.. (2025). Integration of single-nuclei and spatial transcriptomics to decipher tumor phenotype predictive of relapse-free survival in Wilms tumor. Frontiers in Immunology. 16. 1539897–1539897.

Dai, Shuyang, Yong Zhan, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2024). The potential mechanism of Aidi injection against neuroblastoma—an investigation based on network pharmacology analysis. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 15. 1310009–1310009. 1 indexed citations

Ruan, Yan, Meng Yu, Fengsheng Wang, et al.. (2023). A multi-omics integrative analysis based on CRISPR screens re-defines the pluripotency regulatory network in ESCs. Communications Biology. 6(1). 410–410. 6 indexed citations

Zhan, Yong, Ran Yang, Junfeng Wang, et al.. (2023). Single‐cell RNA sequencing of solid pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas in children. Cancer Science. 114(5). 1986–2000. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Junfeng, Yanlei Huang, Fanyang Kong, et al.. (2023). Intestinal fibrosis in aganglionic segment of Hirschsprung's disease revealed by single‐cell RNA sequencing. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 13(2). e1193–e1193. 7 indexed citations

Ma, Lin, Mingyan Shao, Jinchi Jiang, et al.. (2023). Neocryptotanshinone ameliorates insufficient energy production in heart failure by targeting retinoid X receptor alpha. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 163. 114868–114868. 9 indexed citations

Yang, Ran, et al.. (2022). SATINN: an automated neural network-based classification of testicular sections allows for high-throughput histopathology of mouse mutants. Bioinformatics. 38(23). 5288–5298. 2 indexed citations

Zheng, Yi, Mutsumi Kobayashi, Lifeng Xiang, et al.. (2022). Single-cell analysis of embryoids reveals lineage diversification roadmaps of early human development. Cell stem cell. 29(9). 1402–1419.e8. 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yue, Yan Ruan, Yi Yang, et al.. (2022). Genome-Wide CRISPR Screen Identifies Puf60 as a Novel Stemness Gene of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem Cells and Development. 31(5-6). 132–142. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Ran, Yong Zhan, Yi Li, et al.. (2022). The Cellular and Molecular Landscape of Synchronous Pediatric Sialoblastoma and Hepatoblastoma. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 893206–893206. 7 indexed citations

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Hong, Bo, Yi Li, Ran Yang, et al.. (2022). Single-cell transcriptional profiling reveals heterogeneity and developmental trajectories of Ewing sarcoma. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 148(12). 3267–3280. 13 indexed citations

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Yang, Ran, et al.. (2022). Unlocking the promise of mRNA therapeutics. Nature Biotechnology. 40(11). 1586–1600. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Ran, Alexander Goedel, Yu Kang, et al.. (2021). Amnion signals are essential for mesoderm formation in primates. Nature Communications. 12(1). 73 indexed citations

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Jiang, Qingsong, Liang Wang, Yongwang Lin, et al.. (2021). Inhibitory effects of sodium new houttuyfonate on growth and biofilm formation of Streptococcus mutans. Microbial Pathogenesis. 157. 104957–104957. 15 indexed citations

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Ye, Chunjing, Yong Zhan, Ran Yang, Yi Li, & Rui Dong. (2020). Single-cell transcriptional profiling identifies a cluster of potential metastasis-associated UBE2C+ cells in immature ovarian teratoma. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 528(3). 567–573. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingting, Hui Liu, Penglei Wang, et al.. (2020). Honokiol Inhibits Melanoma Growth by Targeting Keratin 18 in vitro and in vivo. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 603472–603472. 8 indexed citations

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Yeung, Yiu To, Shuying Yin, Bingbing Lu, et al.. (2018). Losmapimod Overcomes Gefitinib Resistance in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer by Preventing Tetraploidization. EBioMedicine. 28. 51–61. 31 indexed citations

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Lei, Lei, Ran Yang, Jiayu Chen, et al.. (2016). Spliceosomal protein eftud2 mutation leads to p53-dependent apoptosis in zebrafish neural progenitors. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(6). 3422–3436. 60 indexed citations

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Wang, Changli, Ran Yang, Dongsheng Yue, & Zhenfa Zhang. (2009). Expression of FAK and PTEN in Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma and Lung Adenocarcinoma. Lung. 187(2). 104–109. 20 indexed citations

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