Wei‐Yu Lu

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Wei‐Yu Lu is a scholar working on Hepatology, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei‐Yu Lu has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Hepatology, 14 papers in Surgery and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wei‐Yu Lu's work include Liver physiology and pathology (17 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (7 papers) and Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (6 papers). Wei‐Yu Lu is often cited by papers focused on Liver physiology and pathology (17 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (7 papers) and Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (6 papers). Wei‐Yu Lu collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and China. Wei‐Yu Lu's co-authors include Stuart J. Forbes, Luke Boulter, Alexander Raven, Tak Yung Man, Sofía Ferreira-González, Benjamin J. Dwyer, Thomas G. Bird, Atsunori Tsuchiya, Davina Wojtacha and Eoghan O’Duibhir and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Wei‐Yu Lu

31 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Cholangiocytes act as facultative liver stem cells during impaired hepatocyte regeneration

2017 381 citations Alexander Raven, Wei‐Yu Lu et al. Nature profile →
Hepatic progenitor cells of biliary origin with liver repopulation capacity

2015 345 citations Wei‐Yu Lu, Thomas G. Bird et al. 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
Wei‐Yu Lu United Kingdom	15	1000	877	476	476	202	32	1.7k
Davina Wojtacha United Kingdom	14	766 0.8×	768 0.9×	669 1.4×	327 0.7×	231 1.1×	20	1.6k
Katsuhiko Nawa Japan	10	1.2k 1.2×	877 1.0×	560 1.2×	391 0.8×	155 0.8×	16	1.8k
Atsushi Sugimura Japan	8	1.6k 1.6×	988 1.1×	871 1.8×	387 0.8×	188 0.9×	13	2.3k
Tsuyoshi Ishikawa Japan	19	1.2k 1.2×	880 1.0×	573 1.2×	544 1.1×	63 0.3×	71	2.0k
Sofía Ferreira-González United Kingdom	12	431 0.4×	433 0.5×	330 0.7×	274 0.6×	184 0.9×	22	1.1k
L. Valfrè di Bonzo Italy	11	606 0.6×	312 0.4×	426 0.9×	458 1.0×	80 0.4×	15	1.4k
Aurélie Hérault France	12	433 0.4×	259 0.3×	808 1.7×	253 0.5×	339 1.7×	15	1.7k
Leslie Wakefield United States	8	380 0.4×	351 0.4×	655 1.4×	183 0.4×	56 0.3×	12	1.2k
Ningling Ge China	20	708 0.7×	270 0.3×	323 0.7×	328 0.7×	220 1.1×	44	1.4k
Toshiyuki Otsuka Japan	19	647 0.6×	249 0.3×	802 1.7×	207 0.4×	161 0.8×	40	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei‐Yu Lu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei‐Yu Lu

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

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Gadd, Victoria L., Sofía Ferreira-González, Tak Yung Man, et al.. (2025). Host hepatocyte senescence determines the success of hepatocyte transplantation in a mouse model of liver injury. Journal of Hepatology. 83(1). 161–176. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Lu, et al.. (2025). Xenobiotic-induced liver injury: Molecular mechanisms and disease progression. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 303. 118854–118854. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Xin, Wei‐Yu Lu, Fangfang Li, et al.. (2024). Identification and Validation of Tumor Microenvironment-Associated Signature in Clear-Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma through Integration of DNA Methylation and Gene Expression. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(12). 6792–6792. 1 indexed citations

Aird, Rhona, Tak Yung Man, Wei‐Yu Lu, et al.. (2024). Utilising an in silico model to predict outcomes in senescence-driven acute liver injury. npj Regenerative Medicine. 9(1). 26–26.

Davies, Scott, Peter W. Hewett, Ye Htun Oo, et al.. (2024). Organ-on-a-chip for studying immune cell adhesion to liver sinusoidal endothelial cells: the potential for testing immunotherapies and cell therapy trafficking. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 12. 1359451–1359451. 6 indexed citations

Lu, Wei‐Yu, Biao Xie, Jingyi Ren, et al.. (2023). Elafin is related to immune infiltration and could predict the poor prognosis in ovarian cancer. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1088944–1088944. 3 indexed citations

Horn, Paul, Emma L. Shepherd, Kelvin Yin, et al.. (2023). The senescent secretome drives PLVAP expression in cultured human hepatic endothelial cells to promote monocyte transmigration. iScience. 26(10). 107966–107966. 3 indexed citations

Lucas, Beth, Andrea J. White, Adam E. Handel, et al.. (2023). Embryonic keratin19+ progenitors generate multiple functionally distinct progeny to maintain epithelial diversity in the adult thymus medulla. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2066–2066. 13 indexed citations

Li, Kun, Xin Zhang, Wei‐Yu Lu, et al.. (2022). EIF4G1 Is a Potential Prognostic Biomarker of Breast Cancer. Biomolecules. 12(12). 1756–1756. 12 indexed citations

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Xie, Biao, Jingyi Ren, Wei‐Yu Lu, et al.. (2022). RB1 Is an Immune-Related Prognostic Biomarker for Ovarian Cancer. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 830908–830908. 13 indexed citations

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Ren, Jingyi, Xinyi Ren, Wei‐Yu Lu, et al.. (2022). The PNA mouse may be the best animal model of polycystic ovary syndrome. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 13. 950105–950105. 9 indexed citations

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Ferreira-González, Sofía, Niya Aleksieva, Tak Yung Man, et al.. (2021). Notch-IGF1 signaling during liver regeneration drives biliary epithelial cell expansion and inhibits hepatocyte differentiation. Science Signaling. 14(688). 26 indexed citations

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Bellanti, Francesco, Giuseppina Iannelli, Giuseppe Pannone, et al.. (2021). Inhibition of nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 promotes hepatic progenitor cell activation and differentiation. npj Regenerative Medicine. 6(1). 28–28. 15 indexed citations

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Tsuchiya, Atsunori & Wei‐Yu Lu. (2019). Liver stem cells: Plasticity of the liver epithelium. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 25(9). 1037–1049. 17 indexed citations

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Ferreira-González, Sofía, Wei‐Yu Lu, Alexander Raven, et al.. (2018). Paracrine cellular senescence exacerbates biliary injury and impairs regeneration. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1020–1020. 114 indexed citations

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Raven, Alexander, Wei‐Yu Lu, Tak Yung Man, et al.. (2017). Cholangiocytes act as facultative liver stem cells during impaired hepatocyte regeneration. Nature. 547(7663). 350–354. 381 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gieseck, Richard L., Thirumalai R. Ramalingam, Kevin M. Hart, et al.. (2016). Interleukin-13 Activates Distinct Cellular Pathways Leading to Ductular Reaction, Steatosis, and Fibrosis. Immunity. 45(1). 145–158. 97 indexed citations

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Lu, Wei‐Yu, Thomas G. Bird, Luke Boulter, et al.. (2015). Hepatic progenitor cells of biliary origin with liver repopulation capacity. Nature Cell Biology. 17(8). 971–983. 345 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tsuchiya, Atsunori, Wei‐Yu Lu, Birgit Weinhold, et al.. (2014). Polysialic acid/neural cell adhesion molecule modulates the formation of ductular reactions in liver injury. Hepatology. 60(5). 1727–1740. 34 indexed citations

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Bird, Thomas G., Wei‐Yu Lu, Luke Boulter, et al.. (2013). Bone marrow injection stimulates hepatic ductular reactions in the absence of injury via macrophage-mediated TWEAK signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(16). 6542–6547. 132 indexed citations

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