Rui Yan

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Rui Yan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rui Yan has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Biophysics and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rui Yan's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (13 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (4 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers). Rui Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (13 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (4 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers). Rui Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Rui Yan's co-authors include Ke Xu, Kun Chen, Limin Xiang, Wan Li, Seonah Moon, Samuel J. Kenny, Leiting Pan, Li Wan, Sayed Hadi Hashemi and Martin Kampmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rui Yan

45 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Genome-wide CRISPRi/a screens in human neurons link lysosomal failure to ferroptosis

2021 229 citations Ruilin Tian, Jason Hong et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rui Yan China	18	772	351	247	174	161	49	1.4k
Alessandro Ustione United States	22	771 1.0×	311 0.9×	165 0.7×	108 0.6×	103 0.6×	45	1.5k
Katrin G. Heinze Germany	23	1.0k 1.3×	717 2.0×	267 1.1×	165 0.9×	72 0.4×	81	2.0k
Leonel Malacrida Uruguay	21	725 0.9×	481 1.4×	241 1.0×	117 0.7×	94 0.6×	57	1.4k
Horst Wallrabe United States	18	1.1k 1.4×	734 2.1×	229 0.9×	313 1.8×	152 0.9×	35	1.7k
Chenglong Xia United States	10	956 1.2×	477 1.4×	183 0.7×	154 0.9×	73 0.5×	14	1.4k
Gary Mo United States	17	730 0.9×	353 1.0×	180 0.7×	84 0.5×	167 1.0×	32	1.3k
Per Niklas Hedde United States	19	584 0.8×	409 1.2×	213 0.9×	122 0.7×	76 0.5×	45	1.3k
Pierre Mahou France	22	510 0.7×	549 1.6×	383 1.6×	192 1.1×	186 1.2×	47	1.7k
Suman Ranjit United States	21	728 0.9×	551 1.6×	330 1.3×	53 0.3×	84 0.5×	43	1.5k
Rupsa Datta United States	13	554 0.7×	423 1.2×	550 2.2×	74 0.4×	79 0.5×	23	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rui Yan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rui Yan

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Rui, ChangHee Lee, Hasreet K. Gill, et al.. (2025). Convergent flow-mediated mesenchymal force drives embryonic foregut constriction and splitting. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10643–10643.

Zhou, Hongyu, et al.. (2023). Suppression of stimulated Raman scattering in plasma by an ultra-wideband stochastic phase low-coherence laser. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 65(6). 65005–65005. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Kun, et al.. (2022). Displacement Statistics of Unhindered Single Molecules Show no Enhanced Diffusion in Enzymatic Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(11). 4839–4844. 15 indexed citations

Yan, Rui, et al.. (2022). Efficient synthesis of bisulfide-bridged bicyclopeptides by intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer cycloreaction. New Journal of Chemistry. 46(13). 6366–6370.

Xiong, Michael, et al.. (2022). The endoplasmic reticulum adopts two distinct tubule forms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(18). e2117559119–e2117559119. 14 indexed citations

Chen, Kun, Rui Yan, Limin Xiang, & Ke Xu. (2021). Excitation spectral microscopy for highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging and quantitative biosensing. Light Science & Applications. 10(1). 43 indexed citations

Li, Shulin, Rui Yan, Jialu Xu, et al.. (2021). A new type of ERGIC–ERES membrane contact mediated by TMED9 and SEC12 is required for autophagosome biogenesis. Cell Research. 32(2). 119–138. 59 indexed citations

Yan, Rui, et al.. (2021). Study on HfO 2 /SiO 2 high reflective film damage induced by 248nm UV excimer laser. 11912.

Liu, Yang, Xin Xu, Yue Yuan, et al.. (2021). The intra-S phase checkpoint directly regulates replication elongation to preserve the integrity of stalled replisomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(24). 19 indexed citations

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Tian, Ruilin, Jason Hong, Sayed Hadi Hashemi, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide CRISPRi/a screens in human neurons link lysosomal failure to ferroptosis. Nature Neuroscience. 24(7). 1020–1034. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guo, Yanting, et al.. (2021). Study on damage of MgF 2 window irradiated by 193nm ultraviolet excimer laser. 11912. 1191203. 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Rui, Kun Chen, & Ke Xu. (2020). Probing Nanoscale Diffusional Heterogeneities in Cellular Membranes through Multidimensional Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Microscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(44). 18866–18873. 44 indexed citations

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Xiang, Limin, Kun Chen, Rui Yan, Wan Li, & Ke Xu. (2020). Single-molecule displacement mapping unveils nanoscale heterogeneities in intracellular diffusivity. Nature Methods. 17(5). 524–530. 89 indexed citations

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Guo, Chucai, Yanting Guo, Rui Yan, et al.. (2020). A suspended metasurface achieves complete light absorption: a 50 nm-thick optical nanomicrophone. Nanoscale. 12(35). 18049–18055. 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Rui, Bowen Wang, & Ke Xu. (2019). Functional super-resolution microscopy of the cell. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 51. 92–97. 15 indexed citations

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Pan, Leiting, Ping Zhang, Fen Hu, et al.. (2019). Hypotonic Stress Induces Fast, Reversible Degradation of the Vimentin Cytoskeleton via Intracellular Calcium Release. Advanced Science. 6(18). 1900865–1900865. 27 indexed citations

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Xiang, Limin, Michal Wojcik, Samuel J. Kenny, et al.. (2018). Optical characterization of surface adlayers and their compositional demixing at the nanoscale. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1435–1435. 16 indexed citations

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Yan, Rui, et al.. (2018). The Spectrin-Actin-Based Periodic Cytoskeleton as a Conserved Nanoscale Scaffold and Ruler of the Neural Stem Cell Lineage. Cell Reports. 24(6). 1512–1522. 29 indexed citations

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Yan, Rui, Seonah Moon, Samuel J. Kenny, & Ke Xu. (2018). Spectrally Resolved and Functional Super-resolution Microscopy via Ultrahigh-Throughput Single-Molecule Spectroscopy. Accounts of Chemical Research. 51(3). 697–705. 61 indexed citations

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Moon, Seonah, Rui Yan, Samuel J. Kenny, et al.. (2017). Spectrally Resolved, Functional Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Nanoscale Compositional Heterogeneity in Live-Cell Membranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(32). 10944–10947. 143 indexed citations

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