Weizhu Yan

467 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 246 citations indexed

About

Weizhu Yan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Weizhu Yan has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 246 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Infectious Diseases and 2 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Weizhu Yan's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (4 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (3 papers). Weizhu Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (4 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (3 papers). Weizhu Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Weizhu Yan's co-authors include Wei Cheng, Xiao‐Tao Zeng, Yanhui Zheng, Bin He, Chong Zhang, Chao Dou, Zhen Huang, Guixiang Zhang, Yitao Wang and Igor A. Mikhailopulo and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Weizhu Yan

8 papers receiving 241 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.

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2: open the door for novel therapies

2022 184 citations Weizhu Yan, Yanhui Zheng et al. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weizhu Yan China	5	145	125	49	31	20	10	246
Zheng Yao Low Malaysia	8	159 1.1×	80 0.6×	56 1.1×	39 1.3×	16 0.8×	12	289
Kavyashree Manjunath India	10	149 1.0×	176 1.4×	44 0.9×	19 0.6×	15 0.8×	18	427
O. Kiryukhina United States	9	96 0.7×	201 1.6×	52 1.1×	34 1.1×	14 0.7×	15	336
Berta Canal United Kingdom	9	144 1.0×	172 1.4×	68 1.4×	18 0.6×	8 0.4×	12	307
Rimanshee Arya India	3	184 1.3×	97 0.8×	60 1.2×	30 1.0×	18 0.9×	5	254
Christophe Buyck Belgium	8	136 0.9×	157 1.3×	81 1.7×	29 0.9×	32 1.6×	15	356
Ian A. Durie United States	6	155 1.1×	151 1.2×	102 2.1×	68 2.2×	29 1.4×	9	326
Mohamed Mahdi Hungary	7	124 0.9×	96 0.8×	76 1.6×	23 0.7×	28 1.4×	26	264
Serap Beldar Canada	5	93 0.6×	74 0.6×	31 0.6×	25 0.8×	10 0.5×	7	192
Tesia Bobrowski United States	7	129 0.9×	96 0.8×	125 2.6×	19 0.6×	25 1.3×	13	243

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weizhu Yan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weizhu Yan

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Dou, Chao, Weizhu Yan, Pengpeng Chen, et al.. (2025). The mechanism of thioamide formation by the YcfA-YcfC system in 6-thioguanine biosynthesis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8840–8840.

2.

Yan, Weizhu & Xiaocheng Weng. (2025). Targeted RNA base editing for therapeutic: mechanisms and advances. PubMed. 3. 100089–100089.

3.

Xu, Xiaoqing, Xue‐Rong Zhou, Chao Dou, et al.. (2023). Structures of the holoenzyme TglHI required for 3-thiaglutamate biosynthesis. Structure. 31(10). 1220–1232.e5. 13 indexed citations

4.

Yan, Weizhu, et al.. (2022). The pathogenic mechanism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: implication for new drug development. Molecular Biomedicine. 3(1). 48–48. 15 indexed citations

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Yan, Weizhu, Yanhui Zheng, Xiao‐Tao Zeng, Bin He, & Wei Cheng. (2022). Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2: open the door for novel therapies. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 7(1). 26–26. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Yanhui, Weizhu Yan, Chao Dou, et al.. (2022). Structural insights into the catalytic and inhibitory mechanisms of the flavin transferase FmnB in Listeria monocytogenes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). e99–e99. 2 indexed citations

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Hu, Bei, Yitao Wang, Shichao Sun, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of Selenium‐Triphosphates (dNTPαSe) for More Specific DNA Polymerization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(23). 7835–7839. 17 indexed citations

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Hu, Bei, Yitao Wang, Shichao Sun, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of Selenium‐Triphosphates (dNTPαSe) for More Specific DNA Polymerization. Angewandte Chemie. 131(23). 7917–7921. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chong, Shanshan Qin, Bei Hu, et al.. (2019). Disruption of nucleobase stacking to restore reactivity. Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids. 38(8). 567–577. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinrui, Weizhu Yan, Chong Zhang, et al.. (2018). Biocatalytic synthesis of seleno-, thio- and chloro-nucleobase modified nucleosides by thermostable nucleoside phosphorylases. Catalysis Communications. 121. 32–37. 12 indexed citations

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