Yang Lyu

594 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 381 citations indexed

About

Yang Lyu is a scholar working on Aging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Lyu has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 381 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Aging, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Yang Lyu's work include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (9 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (8 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Yang Lyu is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (9 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (8 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Yang Lyu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Yang Lyu's co-authors include Scott D. Pletcher, Daniel Promislow, Jessica M. Hoffman, Christi M. Gendron, Tian Tang, Yixin Zhao, Tuhin S. Chakraborty, Chung‐I Wu, Suhua Shi and Zachary M. Harvanek and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

Yang Lyu

18 papers receiving 380 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.

  1. The arginine metabolism and its deprivation in cancer therapy
    2025 17 citations Fuda Xie, Yang Lyu et al. Cancer Letters profile →

Peers

Yang Lyu
Sany Hoxha United States
Wenxia Zhang China
Abdul-Raouf Issa France
Carina Gandy United Kingdom
Tugba Guven-Ozkan United States
Balázs Érdi Hungary
Eugenia Villa-Cuesta United States
Pushpa Verma Singapore
Dmitriy Skvortsov United Kingdom
Neha Agrawal India
Sany Hoxha United States
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Countries citing papers authored by Yang Lyu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Lyu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Lyu

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Hoffman, Jessica M., et al.. (2025). Stochasticity in dietary restriction-mediated lifespan outcomes in Drosophila. GeroScience. 47(3). 4697–4709. 1 indexed citations
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Lyu, Yang, et al.. (2025). Perception and Longevity Control in Invertebrate Model Organisms—A Mini-Review of Recent Advances. Biomolecules. 15(2). 187–187. 1 indexed citations
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Xie, Fuda, Yang Lyu, Bonan Chen, et al.. (2025). The arginine metabolism and its deprivation in cancer therapy. Cancer Letters. 620. 217680–217680. 17 indexed citations breakdown →
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Feng, Rui, Lili Ma, Yingying Wang, et al.. (2024). Mechanisms of efficient polyacrylamide degradation: From multi-omics analysis to structural characterization of two amidohydrolases. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 281(Pt 3). 136329–136329. 1 indexed citations
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Holt, Robert A., et al.. (2023). Effects of hunger on neuronal histone modifications slow aging in Drosophila. Science. 380(6645). 625–632. 29 indexed citations
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Lyu, Yang, et al.. (2021). A Rapid Evolving microRNA Cluster Rewires Its Target Regulatory Networks in Drosophila. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 760530–760530. 3 indexed citations
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Lyu, Yang, Daniel Promislow, & Scott D. Pletcher. (2021). Serotonin signaling modulates aging-associated metabolic network integrity in response to nutrient choice in Drosophila melanogaster. Communications Biology. 4(1). 740–740. 5 indexed citations
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Lombard, David B., William Köhler, Angela H. Guo, et al.. (2020). High-throughput small molecule screening reveals Nrf2-dependent and -independent pathways of cellular stress resistance. Science Advances. 6(40). 18 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Tuhin S., et al.. (2019). Sensory perception of dead conspecifics induces aversive cues and modulates lifespan through serotonin in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2365–2365. 41 indexed citations
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Gendron, Christi M., Tuhin S. Chakraborty, Brian Y. Chung, et al.. (2019). Neuronal Mechanisms that Drive Organismal Aging Through the Lens of Perception. Annual Review of Physiology. 82(1). 227–249. 10 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yixin, Pei Lin, Hao Yang, et al.. (2018). Regulation of Large Number of Weak Targets—New Insights from Twin-microRNAs. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(5). 1255–1264. 9 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yixin, Li Guo, Juan Xiao, et al.. (2017). Redundant and incoherent regulations of multiple phenotypes suggest microRNAs’ role in stability control. Genome Research. 27(10). 1665–1673. 29 indexed citations
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Harvanek, Zachary M., Yang Lyu, Christi M. Gendron, et al.. (2017). Perceptive costs of reproduction drive ageing and physiology in male Drosophila. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(6). 152–152. 38 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Jessica M., Yang Lyu, Scott D. Pletcher, & Daniel Promislow. (2017). Proteomics and metabolomics in ageing research: from biomarkers to systems biology. Essays in Biochemistry. 61(3). 379–388. 62 indexed citations
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Ro, Jennifer, Paige A. Malec, Yang Lyu, et al.. (2016). Serotonin signaling mediates protein valuation and aging. eLife. 5. 40 indexed citations
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Lyu, Yang, Heng Li, Li Guo, et al.. (2014). New MicroRNAs in Drosophila—Birth, Death and Cycles of Adaptive Evolution. PLoS Genetics. 10(1). e1004096–e1004096. 43 indexed citations

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