Ya Chun Yu

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 782 citations indexed

About

Ya Chun Yu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Ya Chun Yu has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 782 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Ya Chun Yu's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers). Ya Chun Yu is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers). Ya Chun Yu collaborates with scholars based in South Korea and United States. Ya Chun Yu's co-authors include Jung Min Han, Yulseung Sung, Hee Chan Yoo, Sung‐Hoon Kim, Seung Joon Park, Junjeong Choi, Hee Seung Lee, Byung‐Gyu Kim, Kwang Yeon Hwang and Do Sik Min and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Cancer Research and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research.

In The Last Decade

Ya Chun Yu

5 papers receiving 772 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.

Glutamine reliance in cell metabolism

2020 655 citations Hee Chan Yoo, Ya Chun Yu et al. Experimental & Molecular Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ya Chun Yu South Korea	5	448	354	99	82	79	6	782
Yulseung Sung South Korea	5	448 1.0×	347 1.0×	98 1.0×	82 1.0×	78 1.0×	7	769
Jun‐Kyu Byun South Korea	13	568 1.3×	443 1.3×	164 1.7×	143 1.7×	65 0.8×	25	965
Hee Chan Yoo South Korea	7	635 1.4×	545 1.5×	125 1.3×	140 1.7×	96 1.2×	10	1.1k
Bookyung Ko United States	8	503 1.1×	347 1.0×	63 0.6×	51 0.6×	105 1.3×	9	738
Geng Li China	20	707 1.6×	424 1.2×	53 0.5×	111 1.4×	27 0.3×	44	1.0k
А. Антонов Russia	11	838 1.9×	500 1.4×	66 0.7×	230 2.8×	69 0.9×	54	1.2k
Muralidharan Jayaraman United States	18	756 1.7×	283 0.8×	107 1.1×	97 1.2×	39 0.5×	39	1.1k
Lisa A. Vettore United Kingdom	6	342 0.8×	246 0.7×	42 0.4×	66 0.8×	32 0.4×	9	548
Vinay Bulusu United Kingdom	10	691 1.5×	434 1.2×	207 2.1×	116 1.4×	115 1.5×	14	1.1k
Yuanyuan Chen China	16	607 1.4×	451 1.3×	96 1.0×	108 1.3×	50 0.6×	43	958

Countries citing papers authored by Ya Chun Yu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ya Chun Yu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ya Chun Yu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ya Chun Yu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ya Chun 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 Ya Chun Yu. Ya Chun 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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6 of 6 papers shown

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Sung, Yulseung, Ya Chun Yu, Mirim Lee, et al.. (2025). Targeting cancer glutamine dependency with a first-in-class inhibitor of the mitochondrial glutamine transporter SLC1A5_var. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9690–9690.

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Sung, Yulseung, Ya Chun Yu, & Jung Min Han. (2023). Nutrient sensors and their crosstalk. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 55(6). 1076–1089. 26 indexed citations

3.

Park, Seung Joon, Hee Chan Yoo, Yulseung Sung, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Glutaminolysis Drives Hypoxia-Induced Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Research. 83(5). 735–752. 34 indexed citations

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Yoo, Hee Chan, Byung‐Gyu Kim, Yulseung Sung, et al.. (2022). O-GlcNAc modification of leucyl-tRNA synthetase 1 integrates leucine and glucose availability to regulate mTORC1 and the metabolic fate of leucine. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2904–2904. 20 indexed citations

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Yu, Ya Chun, Jung Min Han, & Sung‐Hoon Kim. (2020). Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and amino acid signaling. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1868(1). 118889–118889. 47 indexed citations

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Yoo, Hee Chan, Ya Chun Yu, Yulseung Sung, & Jung Min Han. (2020). Glutamine reliance in cell metabolism. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 52(9). 1496–1516. 655 indexed citations breakdown →

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