Yanan Du

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
226 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Yanan Du is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanan Du has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 44 papers in Molecular Biology and 38 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Yanan Du's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (68 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (30 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (19 papers). Yanan Du is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (68 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (30 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (19 papers). Yanan Du collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yanan Du's co-authors include Ali Khademhosseini, Edward Chin Man Lo, Xiaojun Yan, Shamsher Ali, Chenyu Huang, Hao Qi, Jiankang He, Kaini Liang, Hojae Bae and Wenqian Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yanan Du

212 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

Directed assembly of cell-laden microgels for fabrication of 3D tissue constructs

2008 497 citations Yanan Du et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Discovery of the migrasome, an organelle mediating release of cytoplasmic contents during cell migration

2014 453 citations Xiaojun Yan, Yanan Du et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yanan Du	3.3k	1.6k	1.4k	1.2k	786	226	6.8k
Junji Fukuda	2.9k 0.9×	966 0.6×	872 0.6×	816 0.7×	544 0.7×	161	4.6k
Jeffrey T. Borenstein	6.3k 1.9×	1.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.8×	1.7k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	146	9.1k
Xuejun Wen	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	244 0.3×	159	6.2k
Mark W. Tibbitt	4.5k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	2.9k 2.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.7×	112	9.2k
Jan T. Czernuszka	2.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	94	8.5k
Samad Ahadian	6.0k 1.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	330 0.4×	154	9.0k
Michael V. Sefton	3.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	2.8k 2.0×	3.0k 2.6×	355 0.5×	276	8.9k
Jan de Boer	4.7k 1.4×	3.7k 2.4×	2.0k 1.4×	2.6k 2.3×	916 1.2×	266	11.7k
Lay Poh Tan	3.7k 1.1×	681 0.4×	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	640 0.8×	116	6.3k
Peter I. Lelkes	3.7k 1.1×	2.6k 1.7×	3.2k 2.2×	2.0k 1.8×	799 1.0×	229	10.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanan Du

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanan Du

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanan Du

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

All Works

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Zhang, Hong, Xi Liu, Zichen Wang, et al.. (2025). Centimeter‐Scale Self‐Assembling Tendon Organoids Drive Tissue Regeneration. Advanced Science. 12(43). e09453–e09453.

Liu, Ye, Tiantian Wang, Yongqian Zhang, et al.. (2025). Growing meat on autoclaved vegetables with biomimetic stiffness and micro-patterns. Nature Communications. 16(1). 161–161. 11 indexed citations

Li, Yuan, et al.. (2025). How to classify microclimates more validly and finely? A novel method for mapping local climate zone (LCZ) on micro-scales. Sustainable Cities and Society. 120. 106165–106165. 5 indexed citations

Du, Yanan, et al.. (2025). Fiber recruitment drives a phase transition of cell polarization at a critical cell spacing in matrix-mediated tissue remodeling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(40). e2514995122–e2514995122. 1 indexed citations

Liang, Kaini, Ruiquan Liu, Yan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Hepatic hypertension on-a-chip identifies GPR116 as a hydrostatic pressure mechanosensor to regulate vascular injury in cirrhosis. Science Advances. 11(46). eadu7596–eadu7596.

Yan, Lei, Songyan Li, Jiao Jiao Li, et al.. (2024). Exosomes derived from 3D-cultured MSCs alleviate knee osteoarthritis by promoting M2 macrophage polarization through miR-365a-5p and inhibiting TLR2/Myd88/NF-κB pathway. Chemical Engineering Journal. 497. 154432–154432. 11 indexed citations

Li, Yuan, et al.. (2024). What is the outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) threshold in Gulangyu, China: An empirical study. Urban Climate. 56. 102086–102086. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Xiangjian, Yuhong Jin, Yuyang Chen, et al.. (2024). Water Transport‐Induced Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation Facilitates Gelation for Controllable and Facile Fabrication of Physically Crosslinked Microgels. Advanced Materials. 36(35). e2405109–e2405109. 5 indexed citations

Fang, Shiping, Xilei Xie, Wenwu Liu, et al.. (2024). Deuterium Editing of Small Molecules: A Case Study on Antitumor Activity of 1,4-Benzodiazepine-2,5-dione Derivatives. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(15). 12835–12854. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Yanan, Wei Wang, Jun Mei, & Long Zhang. (2024). Silica-bridged inorganic-organic hybrid membrane for efficient daytime radiative cooling. Chemical Engineering Journal. 485. 149976–149976. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, et al.. (2023). A novel outdoor thermal comfort simulation model for heritage environments (OTC-SM-HE): Verify the effectiveness in Gulangyu, China. Building and Environment. 242. 110568–110568. 8 indexed citations

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Gao, Pengfei, et al.. (2023). Novel Intronic Mutations of the SLC12A3 Gene in Patients with Gitelman Syndrome. International Journal of General Medicine. Volume 16. 1797–1806. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Longfei, Rui Wang, Qiong He, et al.. (2022). Artificial intelligence-based ultrasound imaging technologies for hepatic diseases. PubMed. 1(4). 252–264. 5 indexed citations

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Cen, Juan, et al.. (2022). Research progress of stem cell therapy for endometrial injury. Materials Today Bio. 16. 100389–100389. 41 indexed citations

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Lyu, Cheng, et al.. (2021). Collagen crosslinking: effect on structure, mechanics and fibrosis progression. Biomedical Materials. 16(6). 62005–62005. 50 indexed citations

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Liu, Longwei, Hongsheng Yu, Long Yi, et al.. (2021). Asporin inhibits collagen matrix‐mediated intercellular mechanocommunications between fibroblasts during keloid progression. The FASEB Journal. 35(7). e21705–e21705. 28 indexed citations

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Guo, Anqi, Bingjie Wang, Cheng Lyu, et al.. (2020). Consistent apparent Young’s modulus of human embryonic stem cells and derived cell types stabilized by substrate stiffness regulation promotes lineage specificity maintenance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 15–15. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Longwei, Hongsheng Yu, Hui Zhao, et al.. (2020). Matrix-transmitted paratensile signaling enables myofibroblast – fibroblast cross talk in fibrosis expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(20). 10832–10838. 62 indexed citations

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Huang, Chenyu, Longwei Liu, Zhifeng You, Yanan Du, & Rei Ogawa. (2019). Managing keloid scars: From radiation therapy to actual and potential drug deliveries. International Wound Journal. 16(3). 852–859. 37 indexed citations

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Hou, Wei, et al.. (2019). Characteristics of amino acid substitutions within the “a” determinant region of hepatitis B virus in chronically infected patients with coexisting HBsAg and anti-HBs. Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. 44(6). 923–931. 6 indexed citations

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