Seong-Woon Yu

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Seong-Woon Yu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Seong-Woon Yu has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Oncology and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Seong-Woon Yu's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers), PARP inhibition in cancer therapy (3 papers) and Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis (2 papers). Seong-Woon Yu is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers), PARP inhibition in cancer therapy (3 papers) and Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis (2 papers). Seong-Woon Yu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Seong-Woon Yu's co-authors include Valina L. Dawson, Ted M. Dawson, Hongmin Wang, Guy G. Poirier, Shaida A. Andrabi, Takashi Otsuka, David W. Koh, Masayuki Sasaki, Patricia D. Hurn and Zhizheng Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology.

In The Last Decade

Seong-Woon Yu

6 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Apoptosis-inducing factor mediates poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR)... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2006 200 400 600
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.

  1. Apoptosis-inducing factor mediates poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer-induced cell death
    2006 612 citations Seong-Woon Yu, Shaida A. Andrabi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer is a death signal
    2006 527 citations Shaida A. Andrabi, Seong-Woon Yu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Seong-Woon Yu United States 6 841 678 247 179 148 6 1.4k
David W. Koh United States 16 1.2k 1.4× 1.2k 1.8× 456 1.8× 248 1.4× 137 0.9× 18 1.9k
Nancy A. Burke United States 10 829 1.0× 462 0.7× 217 0.9× 68 0.4× 83 0.6× 13 1.5k
Aline Huber France 9 639 0.8× 675 1.0× 123 0.5× 243 1.4× 204 1.4× 12 1.3k
Keun Woo Ryu United States 13 678 0.8× 372 0.5× 144 0.6× 140 0.8× 98 0.7× 13 1.2k
Ayaka Yamamoto Japan 15 487 0.6× 168 0.2× 139 0.6× 114 0.6× 440 3.0× 37 1.4k
Zhiyong Gao United States 27 985 1.2× 248 0.4× 147 0.6× 82 0.5× 97 0.7× 49 1.9k
Simone Di Paola Italy 10 577 0.7× 148 0.2× 170 0.7× 649 3.6× 693 4.7× 15 1.5k
Cristina Travelli Italy 22 628 0.7× 463 0.7× 249 1.0× 240 1.3× 325 2.2× 43 1.7k
N. Scott Blair United States 6 1.6k 1.9× 114 0.2× 126 0.5× 50 0.3× 310 2.1× 8 2.1k
Sara Martire United States 12 541 0.6× 220 0.3× 77 0.3× 44 0.2× 47 0.3× 19 894

Countries citing papers authored by Seong-Woon Yu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Seong-Woon Yu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Seong-Woon Yu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Seong-Woon Yu. The network helps show where Seong-Woon Yu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seong-Woon Yu

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

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Chung, Kyung Min & Seong-Woon Yu. (2013). Interplay between autophagy and programmed cell death in mammalian neural stem cells. BMB Reports. 46(8). 383–390. 26 indexed citations
2.
Cheon, Hwanju, Jae Min Cho, Sunshin Kim, et al.. (2010). Role of JNK activation in pancreatic β-cell death by streptozotocin. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 321(2). 131–137. 23 indexed citations
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Yu, Seong-Woon, et al.. (2009). Outer Mitochondrial Membrane Localization of Apoptosis-Inducing Factor: Mechanistic Implications for Release. ASN NEURO. 1(5). 77 indexed citations
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Yu, Seong-Woon, Shaida A. Andrabi, Hongmin Wang, et al.. (2006). Apoptosis-inducing factor mediates poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer-induced cell death. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(48). 18314–18319. 612 indexed citations breakdown →
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Andrabi, Shaida A., Seong-Woon Yu, Hongmin Wang, et al.. (2006). Poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer is a death signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(48). 18308–18313. 527 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Hongmin, Mika Shimoji, Seong-Woon Yu, Ted M. Dawson, & Valina L. Dawson. (2003). Apoptosis Inducing Factor and PARP‐Mediated Injury in the MPTP Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 991(1). 132–139. 107 indexed citations

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