Richard G. Yau

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Richard G. Yau is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard G. Yau has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Richard G. Yau's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (2 papers). Richard G. Yau is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (2 papers). Richard G. Yau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and Israel. Richard G. Yau's co-authors include Michael Rapé, Lois S. Weisman, Vishva M. Dixit, X. William Yang, Diane L. Haakonsen, Nadia Martinez-Martín, M Matsumoto, Achim Werner, Nan Wang and Mingkun Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Richard G. Yau

7 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

The increasing complexity of the ubiquitin code

2016 784 citations Richard G. Yau, Michael Rapé Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard G. Yau United States	7	1.1k	268	264	263	155	8	1.3k
Manuel Kaulich Germany	22	1.6k 1.5×	298 1.1×	455 1.7×	382 1.5×	164 1.1×	45	2.1k
Eberhard Krausz Germany	14	930 0.9×	107 0.4×	276 1.0×	250 1.0×	100 0.6×	20	1.3k
Martin A. Michel United Kingdom	7	770 0.7×	422 1.6×	128 0.5×	219 0.8×	87 0.6×	8	944
María-Isabel Yuseff Chile	19	542 0.5×	179 0.7×	445 1.7×	114 0.4×	708 4.6×	36	1.5k
Kenneth Robzyk Israel	11	1.4k 1.4×	225 0.8×	199 0.8×	286 1.1×	45 0.3×	12	1.7k
Deirdre C. Lawe United States	12	1.1k 1.1×	107 0.4×	660 2.5×	187 0.7×	129 0.8×	13	1.5k
Alexander Y. Amerik United States	15	1.8k 1.7×	438 1.6×	676 2.6×	479 1.8×	110 0.7×	22	2.1k
Rebecca Konietzny United Kingdom	19	1.0k 1.0×	118 0.4×	115 0.4×	344 1.3×	126 0.8×	28	1.3k
Yonathan Lissanu Deribe United States	8	1.2k 1.1×	134 0.5×	158 0.6×	346 1.3×	390 2.5×	12	1.5k
J.M. Peters Germany	9	873 0.8×	171 0.6×	369 1.4×	209 0.8×	96 0.6×	9	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard G. Yau

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All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Hepowit, Nathaniel L., Sarah A. Port, Richard G. Yau, et al.. (2020). Cargo Release from Myosin V Requires the Convergence of Parallel Pathways that Phosphorylate and Ubiquitylate the Cargo Adaptor. Current Biology. 30(22). 4399–4412.e7. 9 indexed citations

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Yau, Richard G., et al.. (2017). Spatial regulation of organelle release from myosin V transport by p21-activated kinases. The Journal of Cell Biology. 216(6). 1557–1566. 12 indexed citations

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Yau, Richard G., Diane L. Haakonsen, Achim Werner, et al.. (2017). Assembly and Function of Heterotypic Ubiquitin Chains in Cell-Cycle and Protein Quality Control. Cell. 171(4). 918–933.e20. 232 indexed citations

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Yau, Richard G. & Michael Rapé. (2016). The increasing complexity of the ubiquitin code. Nature Cell Biology. 18(6). 579–586. 784 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yau, Richard G., Yutian Peng, Rajeshwari R. Valiathan, et al.. (2014). Release from Myosin V via Regulated Recruitment of an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Controls Organelle Localization. Developmental Cell. 28(5). 520–533. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Xinran, Xiang Wang, Xiaoli Zhang, et al.. (2013). Genetically encoded fluorescent probe to visualize intracellular phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate localization and dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(52). 21165–21170. 116 indexed citations

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Bershteyn, Anna, Richard G. Yau, Mikyung Kim, et al.. (2008). Polymer-supported lipid shells, onions, and flowers. Soft Matter. 4(9). 1787–1787. 75 indexed citations

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Yau, Richard G.. (1998). Securities investment practice in Hong Kong. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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