Yan Fan

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Yan Fan is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Fan has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 21 papers in Social Psychology and 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yan Fan's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (25 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (12 papers). Yan Fan is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (25 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (12 papers). Yan Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Yan Fan's co-authors include Shihui Han, Georg Northoff, Moritz de Greck, Niall W. Duncan, Lihua Mao, Malek Bajbouj, Simone Grimm, Meng‐Yang Zhu, V. Wee Yong and Melanie Feeser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yan Fan

107 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Is there a core neural network in empathy? An fMRI based quantitative meta-analysis

2010 694 citations Yan Fan, Niall W. Duncan et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Fan China	33	1.2k	1.1k	638	638	598	107	3.8k
Sherif Karama Canada	34	2.0k 1.6×	448 0.4×	876 1.4×	1.0k 1.6×	578 1.0×	79	4.1k
Rongjun Yu China	39	3.2k 2.6×	839 0.7×	536 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	577 1.0×	171	5.0k
Ian Reid United Kingdom	36	1.2k 1.0×	641 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	821 1.3×	677 1.1×	98	4.4k
Eliza Congdon United States	30	1.5k 1.2×	400 0.4×	520 0.8×	766 1.2×	487 0.8×	60	3.2k
Song Wang China	32	1.1k 0.9×	557 0.5×	344 0.5×	745 1.2×	732 1.2×	238	3.9k
Marc Walter Switzerland	34	568 0.5×	593 0.5×	530 0.8×	458 0.7×	1.4k 2.3×	213	4.5k
Karsten Mueller Germany	40	1.9k 1.5×	547 0.5×	857 1.3×	413 0.6×	240 0.4×	123	4.5k
Mark A. Rogers Japan	30	1.0k 0.8×	369 0.3×	467 0.7×	438 0.7×	400 0.7×	69	2.8k
Dirk Hagemann Germany	33	1.9k 1.5×	580 0.5×	263 0.4×	1.2k 1.9×	545 0.9×	82	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Fan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Fan

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fan, Yan, et al.. (2025). Novel anti-inflammatory properties of mannose oligosaccharides in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease via LGALS3 modulation. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 11(1). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Enhui, et al.. (2025). Effect of hot oscillating pressing on microstructure and mechanical properties of FGH4095 nickel-based superalloy. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 247. 279–288. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yukun & Yan Fan. (2023). Biased-sample empirical likelihood weighting for missing data problems: an alternative to inverse probability weighting. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 85(1). 67–83. 6 indexed citations

Sheng, Xiaoming, et al.. (2023). miR-204-5p Plays a Critical Role in the Pathogenesis of Depressionand Anti-depression Action of Venlafaxine in the Hippocampus ofMice. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 31(22). 3412–3425. 11 indexed citations

Chand, Tara, Sarah Alizadeh, Meng Li, et al.. (2022). Nx4 Modulated Resting-State Functional Connectivity Between Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex in a Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Trial. Brain Connectivity. 12(9). 812–822. 5 indexed citations

Schade, Hannah M., et al.. (2021). Having to Work from Home: Basic Needs, Well-Being, and Motivation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(10). 5149–5149. 49 indexed citations

Böge, Kerem, et al.. (2020). The role of emotion regulation as a mediator between early life stress and posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety in Syrian refugees. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 371–371. 32 indexed citations

Szycik, Gregor R., Dominik Denzel, Yan Fan, et al.. (2020). fMRI Revealed Reduced Amygdala Activation after Nx4 in Mildly to Moderately Stressed Healthy Volunteers in a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Trial. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 3802–3802. 14 indexed citations

Du, Xiangdong, Ming Yin, Guangya Zhang, et al.. (2020). Reduction of depression-like behavior in rat model induced by ShRNA targeting norepinephrine transporter in locus coeruleus. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 130–130. 35 indexed citations

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Wingenfeld, Katja, Antje Riepenhausen, Jens C. Prüssner, et al.. (2019). Healthy women with severe early life trauma show altered neural facilitation of emotion inhibition under acute stress. Psychological Medicine. 50(12). 2075–2084. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Li, et al.. (2018). PTBP1 promotes the growth of breast cancer cells through the PTEN/Akt pathway and autophagy. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 233(11). 8930–8939. 77 indexed citations

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Gärtner, Matti, Milan Scheidegger, Yan Fan, et al.. (2018). Aberrant working memory processing in major depression: evidence from multivoxel pattern classification. Neuropsychopharmacology. 43(9). 1972–1979. 32 indexed citations

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Fan, Yan, Viola Borchardt, Malek Bajbouj, et al.. (2018). Dorsal and Ventral Posterior Cingulate Cortex Switch Network Assignment via Changes in Relative Functional Connectivity Strength to Noncanonical Networks. Brain Connectivity. 9(1). 77–94. 13 indexed citations

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Fan, Yan, et al.. (2014). Effects of desipramine treatment on stress-induced up-regulation of norepinephrine transporter expression in rat brains. Psychopharmacology. 232(2). 379–390. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Ping, Yan Fan, Ying Li, et al.. (2011). Chronic social defeat up-regulates expression of norepinephrine transporter in rat brains. Neurochemistry International. 60(1). 9–20. 34 indexed citations

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Fan, Yan, et al.. (2011). Transcription factor Phox2 upregulates expression of norepinephrine transporter and dopamine β-hydroxylase in adult rat brains. Neuroscience. 192. 37–53. 21 indexed citations

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Fan, Yan, Niall W. Duncan, Moritz de Greck, & Georg Northoff. (2010). Is there a core neural network in empathy? An fMRI based quantitative meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 35(3). 903–911. 694 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fan, Yan, Jingjing Huang, Niamh E. Kieran, & Meng‐Yang Zhu. (2009). Effects of transcription factors Phox2 on expression of norepinephrine transporter and dopamine β‐hydroxylase in SK‐N‐BE(2)C cells. Journal of Neurochemistry. 110(5). 1502–1513. 10 indexed citations

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Mu, Yan, Yan Fan, Lihua Mao, & Shihui Han. (2008). Event-related theta and alpha oscillations mediate empathy for pain. Brain Research. 1234. 128–136. 99 indexed citations

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Fan, Yan. (1990). Consistent nonparametric multiple regression for dependent heterogeneous processes: The fixed design case. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 33(1). 72–88. 66 indexed citations

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