Timothy C. Yu

482 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 186 citations indexed

About

Timothy C. Yu is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy C. Yu has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 186 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Infectious Diseases, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Timothy C. Yu's work include vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches (2 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (2 papers). Timothy C. Yu is often cited by papers focused on vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches (2 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (2 papers). Timothy C. Yu collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Belgium. Timothy C. Yu's co-authors include Jesse D. Bloom, Caelan E. Radford, William W. Hannon, Katharine H. D. Crawford, Bernadeta Dadonaite, Helen Y. Chu, Ariana Ghez Farrell, Raiees Andrabi, Dennis R. Burton and Richard A. Neher and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Timothy C. Yu

8 papers receiving 186 citations

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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.

A pseudovirus system enables deep mutational scanning of the full SARS-CoV-2 spike

2023 85 citations Bernadeta Dadonaite, Katharine H. D. Crawford et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy C. Yu United States	6	91	89	38	29	21	8	186
Caelan E. Radford United States	6	113 1.2×	81 0.9×	32 0.8×	24 0.8×	26 1.2×	10	201
Elias Harkins United States	5	77 0.8×	102 1.1×	41 1.1×	23 0.8×	14 0.7×	6	217
Gilles Augusto United Kingdom	7	71 0.8×	133 1.5×	29 0.8×	15 0.5×	11 0.5×	12	224
Carolin Zitzmann United States	8	43 0.5×	146 1.6×	50 1.3×	15 0.5×	24 1.1×	12	254
Fabrice Gallais France	8	74 0.8×	233 2.6×	37 1.0×	24 0.8×	15 0.7×	10	289
Wilhelm Furnon United Kingdom	6	59 0.6×	162 1.8×	23 0.6×	10 0.3×	12 0.6×	9	200
Kevin M. Tuffy United States	7	73 0.8×	52 0.6×	89 2.3×	11 0.4×	14 0.7×	12	181
Hasan Ahmed United States	7	41 0.5×	97 1.1×	50 1.3×	13 0.4×	15 0.7×	17	185
Wenxu Jia China	5	84 0.9×	207 2.3×	23 0.6×	42 1.4×	31 1.5×	6	281
Zikun Yang United States	4	168 1.8×	73 0.8×	29 0.8×	53 1.8×	28 1.3×	9	222

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timothy C. Yu

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Simonich, Cassandra A., Xiaohui Ju, Timothy C. Yu, et al.. (2025). RSV F evolution escapes some monoclonal antibodies but does not strongly erode neutralization by human polyclonal sera. Journal of Virology. 99(7). e0053125–e0053125. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Timothy C., et al.. (2025). Pleiotropic mutational effects on function and stability constrain the antigenic evolution of influenza haemagglutinin. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 10(3). 452–466. 1 indexed citations

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Eguia, Rachel, Juhye Lee, Hugh K. Haddox, et al.. (2024). Age-dependent heterogeneity in the antigenic effects of mutations to influenza hemagglutinin. Cell Host & Microbe. 32(8). 1397–1411.e11. 15 indexed citations

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Radford, Caelan E., Philipp Schommers, Lutz Gieselmann, et al.. (2023). Mapping the neutralizing specificity of human anti-HIV serum by deep mutational scanning. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(7). 1200–1215.e9. 17 indexed citations

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Dadonaite, Bernadeta, Katharine H. D. Crawford, Caelan E. Radford, et al.. (2023). A pseudovirus system enables deep mutational scanning of the full SARS-CoV-2 spike. Cell. 186(6). 1263–1278.e20. 85 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yu, Timothy C., William W. Hannon, William S. DeWitt, et al.. (2022). A biophysical model of viral escape from polyclonal antibodies. Virus Evolution. 8(2). veac110–veac110. 19 indexed citations

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Das, Jishnu, Jonathan K. Fallon, Timothy C. Yu, et al.. (2021). Delayed fractional dosing with RTS,S/AS01 improves humoral immunity to malaria via a balance of polyfunctional NANP6- and Pf16-specific antibodies. Med. 2(11). 1269–1286.e9. 19 indexed citations

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Yu, Timothy C., Jessica E. Davis, Tal Einav, et al.. (2021). Multiplexed characterization of rationally designed promoter architectures deconstructs combinatorial logic for IPTG-inducible systems. Nature Communications. 12(1). 325–325. 29 indexed citations

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