Yan Zou

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
164 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Yan Zou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Zou has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Biomaterials and 39 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yan Zou's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (40 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (33 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (27 papers). Yan Zou is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (40 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (33 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (27 papers). Yan Zou collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Yan Zou's co-authors include Zhiyuan Zhong, Meng Zheng, Fenghua Meng, Bingyang Shi, Zhi Xiao, Chao Deng, Dongya Zhang, Wei Tao, Yibin Wang and Weijing Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yan Zou

149 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Exosomes‐Loaded Electroconductive Hydrogel Synergistically Promotes Tissue Repair after Spinal Cord Injury via Immunoregulation and Enhancement of Myelinated Axon Growth

2022 286 citations Lei Fan, Can Liu et al. Advanced Science profile →
Blood-brain barrier–penetrating single CRISPR-Cas9 nanocapsules for effective and safe glioblastoma gene therapy

2022 156 citations Yan Zou, Meng Zheng et al. profile →
Brain Co‐Delivery of Temozolomide and Cisplatin for Combinatorial Glioblastoma Chemotherapy

2022 146 citations Yan Zou, Jinlong Yin et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Cancer cell-mitochondria hybrid membrane coated Gboxin loaded nanomedicines for glioblastoma treatment

2023 116 citations Yan Zou, Meng Zheng et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yan Zou	2.3k	2.1k	2.1k	594	584	164	6.2k
Xiaojin Zhang	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	563 0.9×	975 1.7×	225	4.9k
Lanlan Liu	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	3.1k 1.5×	171 0.3×	838 1.4×	280	7.5k
Jiancheng Wang	3.9k 1.7×	3.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.0×	339 0.6×	614 1.1×	212	8.2k
Jianqing Gao	6.2k 2.7×	3.8k 1.8×	4.3k 2.1×	348 0.6×	1.7k 2.9×	343	14.6k
Yumei Wang	1.6k 0.7×	298 0.1×	250 0.1×	128 0.2×	579 1.0×	123	4.0k
Zongxi Li	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	387 0.7×	2.2k 3.8×	62	5.7k
Jinjian Liu	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	299 0.5×	1.0k 1.7×	133	5.0k
Liwei Liu	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	3.3k 1.6×	244 0.4×	3.6k 6.2×	333	7.9k
Lang Rao	4.2k 1.8×	2.7k 1.3×	5.7k 2.8×	84 0.1×	1.5k 2.6×	137	10.4k

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Li, Wanqian, Yan Zou, Jiaojiao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Transcription factor EGR2 drives cataract formation through IGFBP3-mediated oxidative injury in lens epithelial cells. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 241. 773–788.

Zou, Yan, et al.. (2025). A novel montmorillonite-based room temperature phosphorescence material by host-guest system. Applied Clay Science. 271. 107799–107799.

Hu, Xiuli, et al.. (2025). Ligand conformational adaptability modulated self-assembly of Solomon links ( 4 1 2 ) and trefoil knots (31). Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry. 44(10). 100712–100712.

Pei, Hongchang, Yan Zou, Huiying Ding, et al.. (2024). Dissecting the impacts of nanobubbles and heat generated in polymerization on polyamide nanofiltration membranes. Journal of Membrane Science. 699. 122646–122646. 16 indexed citations

Xia, Xue, et al.. (2024). Small Scale, Big Impact: Nanotechnology-Enhanced Drug Delivery for Brain Diseases. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 21(8). 3777–3799. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Yang, Jiawei Dong, Xue Xia, et al.. (2024). Targeted protein degradation via cellular trafficking of nanoparticles. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(2). 296–302. 23 indexed citations

Wang, Shiyu, et al.. (2024). Cell Membrane Camouflaged Biomimetic Nanoparticles as a Versatile Platform for Brain Diseases Treatment. Small Methods. 9(1). e2400096–e2400096. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Ke, Bing Zhao, Jinyu Zhu, et al.. (2023). Super-small zwitterionic micelles enable the improvement of blood-brain barrier crossing for efficient orthotopic glioblastoma combinational therapy. Journal of Controlled Release. 364. 261–271. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Yu, Xiangning Li, Hongyuan Liu, et al.. (2023). Effects of family function, depression, and self-perceived burden on loneliness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a serial multiple mediation model. BMC Psychiatry. 23(1). 636–636. 6 indexed citations

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Fan, Lei, Can Liu, Xiuxing Chen, et al.. (2022). Exosomes‐Loaded Electroconductive Hydrogel Synergistically Promotes Tissue Repair after Spinal Cord Injury via Immunoregulation and Enhancement of Myelinated Axon Growth. Advanced Science. 9(13). e2105586–e2105586. 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fan, Lei, Cairong Xiao, Pengfei Guan, et al.. (2021). Extracellular Matrix‐Based Conductive Interpenetrating Network Hydrogels with Enhanced Neurovascular Regeneration Properties for Diabetic Wounds Repair. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 11(1). e2101556–e2101556. 102 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanjie, Yan Zou, Chan Feng, et al.. (2020). Charge Conversional Biomimetic Nanocomplexes as a Multifunctional Platform for Boosting Orthotopic Glioblastoma RNAi Therapy. Nano Letters. 20(3). 1637–1646. 145 indexed citations

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Chen, Jian, Dongya Zhang, Yan Zou, et al.. (2018). Developing a pH-sensitive Al(OH)₃layer-mediated UCNP@Al(OH)₃/Au nanohybrid for photothermal therapy and fluorescence imagingin vivo. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 6(47). 7862–7870. 16 indexed citations

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Ruan, Weimin, Meng Zheng, Yuanyuan Liu, et al.. (2018). DNA nanoclew templated spherical nucleic acids for siRNA delivery. Chemical Communications. 54(29). 3609–3612. 52 indexed citations

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Zou, Yan, Yanjie Liu, Zhipeng Yang, et al.. (2018). Effective and Targeted Human Orthotopic Glioblastoma Xenograft Therapy via a Multifunctional Biomimetic Nanomedicine. Advanced Materials. 30(51). e1803717–e1803717. 178 indexed citations

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Wu, Yue, Yan Zou, Hang Yang, et al.. (2017). Achieving over 9.8% Efficiency in Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells by Environmentally Friendly Solvent Processing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(42). 37078–37086. 34 indexed citations

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Zou, Yan, et al.. (2015). Chlamydial plasmid-encoded protein pORF5 induces production of IL-1β and IL-18 via NALP3 inflammasome activation and p38 MAPK pathway.. PubMed Central. 8(11). 20368–79. 13 indexed citations

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Zou, Yan. (2012). Anodic Adsorptive Voltammetric Determination of Moxifloxacin Hydrochloride. Physical Testing and Chemical Analysis. 2 indexed citations

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Zou, Yan & Yirong Su. (2006). Contents of Paddy Soil Organic Carbon,Nitrogen and Phosphorus under Different Cultivation Ways in Dongting Lake Region. T'u Jang T'ung Pao. 3 indexed citations

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Zou, Yan. (2002). A Summary of Adaptive Filtering Algorithms. Journal of Guangzhou University. 3 indexed citations

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