Yair Romero

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 919 citations indexed

About

Yair Romero is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yair Romero has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 919 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Yair Romero's work include Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (17 papers), Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies (6 papers) and Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments (5 papers). Yair Romero is often cited by papers focused on Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (17 papers), Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies (6 papers) and Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments (5 papers). Yair Romero collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Italy. Yair Romero's co-authors include Ana L. Mora, John Sembrat, Marta Bueno, Mauricio Rojas, Alfonso Dueñas‐González, Judith Brands, Claudette M. St. Croix, Catherine Corey, Jose D. Herazo‐Maya and Steve Duncan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Scientific Reports and The FASEB Journal.

In The Last Decade

Yair Romero

20 papers receiving 913 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.

  1. PINK1 deficiency impairs mitochondrial homeostasis and promotes lung fibrosis
    2014 447 citations Marta Bueno, Yair Romero et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yair Romero Mexico 11 510 337 220 131 105 23 919
Sotirios Zervopoulos Canada 8 407 0.8× 444 1.3× 89 0.4× 208 1.6× 79 0.8× 10 866
Hai Ding China 8 476 0.9× 533 1.6× 251 1.1× 402 3.1× 42 0.4× 9 980
Mei Guo China 12 400 0.8× 552 1.6× 235 1.1× 347 2.6× 28 0.3× 34 986
Yaara Ber Israel 14 301 0.6× 380 1.1× 309 1.4× 114 0.9× 27 0.3× 34 883
Medha S. Darshan United States 8 292 0.6× 277 0.8× 81 0.4× 241 1.8× 95 0.9× 13 731
Wujian Xu China 17 230 0.5× 494 1.5× 78 0.4× 143 1.1× 65 0.6× 33 790
Jinfei Xu United States 12 225 0.4× 342 1.0× 64 0.3× 133 1.0× 78 0.7× 16 680
Xiufeng Yu China 20 368 0.7× 559 1.7× 61 0.3× 353 2.7× 50 0.5× 35 873
Don Wolfgeher United States 11 126 0.2× 464 1.4× 132 0.6× 88 0.7× 196 1.9× 13 897
Yadong Sun China 13 221 0.4× 412 1.2× 119 0.5× 261 2.0× 25 0.2× 27 668

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yair Romero

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All Works

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Castillejos‐López, Manuel, Yair Romero, Edgar Flores‐Soto, et al.. (2025). The Hypoxia–Retinoid Axis in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Multifaceted Etiology and Therapeutic Potential. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(11). 5302–5302.
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Balderas-Martínez, Yalbi Itzel, Iliana Herrera, Mariel Maldonado, et al.. (2024). Mir-155-5p targets TP53INP1 to promote proliferative phenotype in hypersensitivity pneumonitis lung fibroblasts. Non-coding RNA Research. 9(3). 865–875. 3 indexed citations
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Castillejos‐López, Manuel, Yair Romero, Edgar Flores‐Soto, et al.. (2023). Hypoxia Induces Alterations in the Circadian Rhythm in Patients with Chronic Respiratory Diseases. Cells. 12(23). 2724–2724. 5 indexed citations
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Romero, Yair, Yalbi Itzel Balderas-Martínez, Rafael Velázquez‐Cruz, et al.. (2022). Functional Repercussions of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-2α in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Cells. 11(19). 2938–2938. 3 indexed citations
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Maldonado, Mariel, Remedios Ramı́rez, Yalbi Itzel Balderas-Martínez, et al.. (2022). Lack of ZNF365 Drives Senescence and Exacerbates Experimental Lung Fibrosis. Cells. 11(18). 2848–2848. 5 indexed citations
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Romero, Yair, Yalbi Itzel Balderas-Martínez, Manuel Castillejos‐López, et al.. (2022). Effect of Hypoxia in the Transcriptomic Profile of Lung Fibroblasts from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Cells. 11(19). 3014–3014. 3 indexed citations
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Romero, Yair & Arnoldo Aquino‐Gálvez. (2021). Hypoxia in Cancer and Fibrosis: Part of the Problem and Part of the Solution. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(15). 8335–8335. 23 indexed citations
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Aquino‐Gálvez, Arnoldo, Rafael Velázquez‐Cruz, Rafael de Jesús Hernández-Zenteno, et al.. (2021). Evaluating of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width, Comorbidities and Electrocardiographic Ratios as Predictors of Prognosis in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension. Diagnostics. 11(7). 1297–1297. 4 indexed citations
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Romero, Yair, Mariel Maldonado, Remedios Ramı́rez, et al.. (2021). Loss of MT1-MMP in Alveolar Epithelial Cells Exacerbates Pulmonary Fibrosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(6). 2923–2923. 16 indexed citations
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Becerril, Carina, Alfonso Salgado-Aguayo, Omar Emiliano Aparicio‐Trejo, et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Alterations in Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore (mPTP) Contribute to Apoptosis Resistance in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Fibroblasts. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(15). 7870–7870. 25 indexed citations
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Romero, Yair, Manuel Castillejos‐López, Susana Romero‐Garcia, et al.. (2020). Antitumor Therapy under Hypoxic Microenvironment by the Combination of 2-Methoxyestradiol and Sodium Dichloroacetate on Human Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2020. 1–12. 8 indexed citations
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Moretto, Marco, Mariel Maldonado, Yair Romero, et al.. (2020). PulmonDB: a curated lung disease gene expression database. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 514–514. 11 indexed citations
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Aquino‐Gálvez, Arnoldo, Georgina González-Ávila, Laura Jiménez-Sánchez, et al.. (2019). Dysregulated expression of hypoxia-inducible factors augments myofibroblasts differentiation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respiratory Research. 20(1). 130–130. 46 indexed citations
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Romero, Yair, Mario García‐Carrasco, José Cisneros, et al.. (2018). Phosphatidylethanolamine Induces an Antifibrotic Phenotype in Normal Human Lung Fibroblasts and Ameliorates Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis in Mice. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(9). 2758–2758. 26 indexed citations
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Romero, Yair, Marta Bueno, Remedios Ramı́rez, et al.. (2016). mTORC 1 activation decreases autophagy in aging and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and contributes to apoptosis resistance in IPF fibroblasts. Aging Cell. 15(6). 1103–1112. 150 indexed citations
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Calyeca, Jazmín, Yair Romero, Guoying Yu, et al.. (2015). Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-19-deficient fibroblasts display a profibrotic phenotype. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 308(6). L511–L522. 34 indexed citations
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Bueno, Marta, Yair Romero, Judith Brands, et al.. (2015). Mitochondria Homeostasis Plays a Key Role in the Age‐related Susceptibility to Lung Epithelial Injury and Fibrosis. The FASEB Journal. 29(S1). 2 indexed citations

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