Wen Y. Wu

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 971 citations indexed

About

Wen Y. Wu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Business and International Management and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wen Y. Wu has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 971 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Business and International Management and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Wen Y. Wu's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers). Wen Y. Wu is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers). Wen Y. Wu collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Wen Y. Wu's co-authors include John van der Oost, Prarthana Mohanraju, David Scott, Sourav Choudhury, Iana Fedorova, Nerges Winblad, Bernd Zetsche, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Matthias Heidenreich and Jonathan S. Gootenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Biotechnology and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Wen Y. Wu

9 papers receiving 959 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Multiplex gene editing by CRISPR–Cpf1 using a single crRNA array

2016 699 citations Bernd Zetsche, Matthias Heidenreich et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wen Y. Wu Netherlands	8	940	154	153	121	109	9	971
Jeroen Kneppers Netherlands	4	815 0.9×	132 0.9×	131 0.9×	86 0.7×	90 0.8×	6	869
Nerges Winblad Sweden	4	768 0.8×	118 0.8×	127 0.8×	84 0.7×	88 0.8×	4	795
Xiaoshu Xu United States	10	1.1k 1.2×	241 1.6×	200 1.3×	96 0.8×	72 0.7×	13	1.3k
Kathleen A. Christie United Kingdom	11	1.1k 1.1×	276 1.8×	142 0.9×	99 0.8×	99 0.9×	15	1.2k
Hisato Hirano Japan	9	1.2k 1.3×	179 1.2×	136 0.9×	183 1.5×	114 1.0×	14	1.3k
Maolu Yin China	6	720 0.8×	118 0.8×	80 0.5×	101 0.8×	119 1.1×	9	734
Iana Fedorova Russia	10	1.4k 1.4×	206 1.3×	194 1.3×	170 1.4×	150 1.4×	11	1.4k
Benjamin J. Rauch United States	9	912 1.0×	134 0.9×	58 0.4×	166 1.4×	138 1.3×	10	974
Satomi Banno Japan	7	1.1k 1.2×	331 2.1×	188 1.2×	92 0.8×	97 0.9×	8	1.2k
Soumya Kannan United States	12	814 0.9×	135 0.9×	80 0.5×	75 0.6×	43 0.4×	19	860

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wen Y. Wu

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Wu, Wen Y., Belén Adiego-Pérez, & John van der Oost. (2024). Biology and applications of CRISPR–Cas12 and transposon-associated homologs. Nature Biotechnology. 42(12). 1807–1821. 14 indexed citations

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Mohanraju, Prarthana & Wen Y. Wu. (2024). TldR: TnpB’s evolutionary shift from transposon nucleases to RNA-guided transcriptional regulators. Trends in Microbiology. 32(11). 1039–1041. 1 indexed citations

3.

Wu, Wen Y., et al.. (2024). Live-cell imaging reveals the trade-off between target search flexibility and efficiency for Cas9 and Cas12a. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(9). 5241–5256. 8 indexed citations

4.

Nakagawa, Ryoya, Christian Südfeld, Wen Y. Wu, et al.. (2023). Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into a type V-M CRISPR–Cas effector enzyme. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(8). 1172–1182. 20 indexed citations

5.

Wu, Wen Y., Prarthana Mohanraju, Chunyu Liao, et al.. (2022). The miniature CRISPR-Cas12m effector binds DNA to block transcription. Molecular Cell. 82(23). 4487–4502.e7. 62 indexed citations

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Wu, Wen Y., Prarthana Mohanraju, Chunyu Liao, et al.. (2021). The Miniature CRISPR-Cas12m Effector Binds DNA To Block Transcription. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

7.

Wu, Wen Y., Prarthana Mohanraju, Ferhat Alkan, et al.. (2020). Good guide, bad guide: spacer sequence-dependent cleavage efficiency of Cas12a. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(6). 3228–3243. 75 indexed citations

8.

Wu, Wen Y., Joyce H.G. Lebbink, Roland Kanaar, Niels Geijsen, & John van der Oost. (2018). Genome editing by natural and engineered CRISPR-associated nucleases. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(7). 642–651. 84 indexed citations

9.

Zetsche, Bernd, Matthias Heidenreich, Prarthana Mohanraju, et al.. (2016). Multiplex gene editing by CRISPR–Cpf1 using a single crRNA array. Nature Biotechnology. 35(1). 31–34. 699 indexed citations breakdown →

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