Wei Yu

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
104 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Wei Yu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Yu has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Surgery and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Wei Yu's work include Congenital heart defects research (25 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers). Wei Yu is often cited by papers focused on Congenital heart defects research (25 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers). Wei Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Wei Yu's co-authors include Yongjin J. Zhou, Robert J. Schwartz, Jiaoqi Gao, Bin Zhou, Lingjuan He, Xueliang Zhu, Xiaoxin Zhai, Hui Yang, Yan Li and Changyang Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wei Yu

96 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Off-target RNA mutation induced by DNA base editing and its elimination by mutagenesis

2019 343 citations Changyang Zhou, Yidi Sun et al. profile →
Engineering cofactor supply and recycling to drive phenolic acid biosynthesis in yeast

2022 163 citations Jiaoqi Gao, Wei Yu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Yu China	36	3.2k	713	440	375	352	104	4.0k
Feng Gu China	28	2.6k 0.8×	446 0.6×	430 1.0×	565 1.5×	198 0.6×	123	4.0k
He Huang China	33	3.6k 1.1×	469 0.7×	409 0.9×	323 0.9×	670 1.9×	148	4.8k
Yuwen Chen China	19	3.8k 1.2×	506 0.7×	239 0.5×	124 0.3×	370 1.1×	78	4.6k
Jinyong Luo China	26	2.2k 0.7×	312 0.4×	190 0.4×	322 0.9×	420 1.2×	71	3.4k
Stephen Baird Canada	25	3.2k 1.0×	287 0.4×	266 0.6×	169 0.5×	621 1.8×	48	4.1k
Asha Acharya United States	24	2.6k 0.8×	259 0.4×	165 0.4×	665 1.8×	267 0.8×	33	3.4k
Atsushi Irie Japan	33	1.9k 0.6×	352 0.5×	424 1.0×	262 0.7×	515 1.5×	89	3.7k
Jianping Zhang China	28	3.0k 0.9×	459 0.6×	312 0.7×	245 0.7×	398 1.1×	63	3.7k
Lily Huang United States	27	2.2k 0.7×	377 0.5×	279 0.6×	196 0.5×	533 1.5×	62	3.7k
Charles C. King United States	28	2.2k 0.7×	269 0.4×	493 1.1×	364 1.0×	410 1.2×	61	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Yu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Yu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Yu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Yu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei 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 Wei Yu. Wei Yu 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

Yu, Wei, Yunxia Li, Qing‐An Chen, et al.. (2025). Methanol biotransformation for the production of biodegradable plastic monomer L-lactate in yeast. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10756–10756.

Zhang, Yaowen, Wei Yu, Yufen Qin, et al.. (2023). Immunomodulatory role of spleen tyrosine kinase in chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Immunity Inflammation and Disease. 11(7). e934–e934. 10 indexed citations

Song, Chunyue, et al.. (2023). Hybrid-Order Graph Embedded Distributed Encoder-Decoder for Multiunit Industrial Plant-Wide Process Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 21(4). 7298–7311. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Wei, Nan Zhong, Xin Li, et al.. (2022). Structure Based Affinity Maturation and Characterizing of SARS-CoV Antibody CR3022 against SARS-CoV-2 by Computational and Experimental Approaches. Viruses. 14(2). 186–186. 9 indexed citations

Gao, Ni, Jing Hu, Bingbing He, et al.. (2021). Endogenous promoter-driven sgRNA for monitoring the expression of low-abundance transcripts and lncRNAs. Nature Cell Biology. 23(1). 99–108. 13 indexed citations

Yan, Chunxiao, Wei Yu, Xiaoxin Zhai, et al.. (2021). Characterizing and engineering promoters for metabolic engineering of Ogataea polymorpha. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 7(1). 498–505. 30 indexed citations

Fang, Kailun, Wei Yu, Changyang Zhou, et al.. (2020). Prediction and Validation of Mouse Meiosis-Essential Genes Based on Spermatogenesis Proteome Dynamics. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 20. 100014–100014. 16 indexed citations

Liu, Yajing, Changyang Zhou, Shisheng Huang, et al.. (2020). A Cas-embedding strategy for minimizing off-target effects of DNA base editors. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6073–6073. 53 indexed citations

Liu, Lizhi, Sheng Chen, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2020). Mechanical penetration of β-lactam–resistant Gram-negative bacteria by programmable nanowires. Science Advances. 6(27). 30 indexed citations

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Yu, Wei, Xueyan Ma, Jinjin Xu, et al.. (2019). VGLL4 plays a critical role in heart valve development and homeostasis. PLoS Genetics. 15(2). e1007977–e1007977. 45 indexed citations

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Kim, Bum‐Joon, Hitisha P. Zaveri, Valerie K. Jordan, et al.. (2018). RERE deficiency leads to decreased expression of GATA4 and the development of ventricular septal defects. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 11(9). 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Wei, Changyang Zhou, & Yanli Li. (2017). A Novel Approach to Establish Bio-barcode in Cells by CRISPR/Cas9. 33(8). 40. 1 indexed citations

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Zuo, Erwei, Xuan Yao, Xinde Hu, et al.. (2017). CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted chromosome elimination. Genome biology. 18(1). 224–224. 139 indexed citations

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Soibam, Benjamin, Ashley Benham, Xueping Xu, et al.. (2016). miR-322/-503 cluster is expressed in the earliest cardiac progenitor cells and drives cardiomyocyte specification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(34). 9551–9556. 63 indexed citations

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Yu, Wei, Xiuzhen Huang, Xueying Tian, et al.. (2016). GATA4 regulates Fgf16 to promote heart repair after injury. Development. 143(6). 936–49. 85 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, Siyeon Rhee, Wei Yu, et al.. (2015). cis‐regulatory control of Mesp1 expression by YY1 and SP1 during mouse embryogenesis. Developmental Dynamics. 245(3). 379–387. 7 indexed citations

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Kim, Eun Young, Yi Zhang, Bo Ye, et al.. (2015). Involvement of activated SUMO-2 conjugation in cardiomyopathy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1852(7). 1388–1399. 29 indexed citations

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Tian, Xueying, Tianyuan Hu, Hui Zhang, et al.. (2014). De novo formation of a distinct coronary vascular population in neonatal heart. Science. 345(6192). 90–94. 147 indexed citations

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Li, Yongqing, Wei Yu, Austin J. Cooney, Robert J. Schwartz, & Yu Liu. (2013). Brief Report: Oct4 and Canonical Wnt Signaling Regulate the Cardiac Lineage Factor Mesp1 Through a Tcf/Lef-Oct4 Composite Element. Stem Cells. 31(6). 1213–1217. 28 indexed citations

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Yu, Wei, John P. Hegarty, Arthur Berg, et al.. (2011). NKX2-3 Transcriptional Regulation of Endothelin-1 and VEGF Signaling in Human Intestinal Microvascular Endothelial Cells. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e20454–e20454. 22 indexed citations

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