Yang Sun

12.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
299 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Yang Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Sun has authored 299 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Molecular Biology, 94 papers in Immunology and 47 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yang Sun's work include Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (24 papers), Inflammasome and immune disorders (19 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (19 papers). Yang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (24 papers), Inflammasome and immune disorders (19 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (19 papers). Yang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Czechia. Yang Sun's co-authors include Qiang Xu, Wenjie Guo, Yan Shen, Yanhong Gu, Xuefeng Wu, Xudong Wu, Xingxin Wu, Ling‐Dong Kong, Jian Gao and Tuo Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yang Sun

287 papers receiving 9.3k 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.

New opportunities and challenges of natural products research: When target identification meets single-cell multiomics

2022 270 citations Yuyu Zhu, Zijun Ouyang et al. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B profile →
Advances in nanomaterial-based targeted drug delivery systems

2023 193 citations Yang Sun et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yang Sun	4.8k	2.3k	1.5k	952	832	299	9.4k
Qiang Xu	5.9k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	921 1.1×	359	11.4k
Shile Huang	5.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	485 0.6×	177	9.7k
Jong‐Sup Bae	3.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	658 0.4×	691 0.7×	697 0.8×	341	9.1k
Taeg Kyu Kwon	7.3k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	398	13.4k
Angelika M. Vollmar	4.2k 0.9×	886 0.4×	924 0.6×	632 0.7×	442 0.5×	243	9.8k
Madan M. Chaturvedi	3.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	931 0.6×	449 0.5×	563 0.7×	54	8.2k
Takashi Ikejima	5.1k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	622 0.4×	1.8k 1.9×	493 0.6×	264	9.7k
Cheng Lü	4.7k 1.0×	987 0.4×	772 0.5×	572 0.6×	1.4k 1.6×	267	8.6k
Yasunari Takada	5.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	636 0.7×	528 0.6×	58	9.1k
Chao Zhang	7.5k 1.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.8×	542 0.7×	483	12.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhu, Yuyu, Wei Yan, Hongyue Ma, et al.. (2025). Celastrol directly targets LRP1 to inhibit fibroblast-macrophage crosstalk and ameliorates psoriasis progression. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 15(2). 876–891. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Wanjun, Xiaoyan Liu, Johnny Tang, et al.. (2025). Jinkui Shenqi decoction targets PAD4 to restrain NETosis and ameliorates psoriasis progression. Phytomedicine. 139. 156543–156543. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Yang, Zheng Ren, Miaomiao Wang, et al.. (2024). Involvement of FoVEL1 and FoLAE1 in conidiation, virulence and secondary metabolism of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 24(10). 3941–3952. 2 indexed citations

Peng, Jiali, Di Zhao, Liyun Xu, et al.. (2024). Soluble Tim-3 serves as a tumor prognostic marker and therapeutic target for CD8+ T cell exhaustion and anti-PD-1 resistance. Cell Reports Medicine. 5(8). 101686–101686. 26 indexed citations

Liu, Xinyan, et al.. (2024). Antifungal activity and mechanism of mefentrifluconazole against Magnaporthe grisea causing rice blast. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 134. 102436–102436. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Xing, et al.. (2024). Investigation of the antibacterial activity of benziothiazolinone against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 199. 105768–105768. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Ying, Yang Sun, Xiao Liu, et al.. (2023). A bibliometric analysis of the neurotoxicity of anesthesia in the developing brain from 2002 to 2021. Frontiers in Neurology. 14. 60–63. 3 indexed citations

Yan, Ping, Yang Sun, Juan Luo, et al.. (2023). Integrating the serum proteomic and fecal metaproteomic to analyze the impacts of overweight/obesity on IBD: a pilot investigation. Clinical Proteomics. 20(1). 6–6. 10 indexed citations

Sun, Yang, Kun Wang, Bing Liu, et al.. (2023). Anti-fungal activity of a novel succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor pydiflumetofen against Bipolaris maydis. Crop Protection. 178. 106570–106570. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Maojuan, Tao Yan, Yang Sun, et al.. (2023). Constructing a prediction model of inflammatory bowel disease recurrence based on factors affecting the quality of life. Frontiers in Medicine. 10. 1041505–1041505. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Tingting, et al.. (2022). CXCR6-based immunotherapy in autoimmune, cancer and inflammatory infliction. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 12(8). 3255–3262. 25 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chenyang, et al.. (2022). Single-cell transcriptomics reveals the natural product Shi-Bi-Man promotes hair regeneration by activating the FGF pathway in dermal papilla cells. Phytomedicine. 104. 154260–154260. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Shuping, et al.. (2021). miR-20a attenuates acute lung injury in septic rats via targeting TLR4. Signa Vitae. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jian, et al.. (2021). Trim14 promotes osteoclastogenesis and noncanonical NF‐κB activation by targeting p100/p52 in chronic periodontitis. Oral Diseases. 28(7). 1958–1967. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wencheng, et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Implications for the Pathogenesis and Potential Therapeutics. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2021(1). 5188306–5188306. 54 indexed citations

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Wu, Wen‐Yuan, Xiaoqin Ding, Tingting Gu, et al.. (2021). Correction to Pterostilbene Improves Hepatic Lipid Accumulation via the MiR-34a/Sirt1/SREBP-1 Pathway in Fructose-Fed Rats. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 69(35). 10405–10405. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xiaojuan, Li Chen, Yue Zhao, et al.. (2019). Polygonum cuspidatum extract attenuates fructose-induced liver lipid accumulation through inhibiting Keap1 and activating Nrf2 antioxidant pathway. Phytomedicine. 63. 152986–152986. 26 indexed citations

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Deng, Tanggang, Xin Song, Lin Xie, et al.. (2018). Deubiquitylation and stabilization of p21 by USP11 is critical for cell-cycle progression and DNA damage responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(18). 4678–4683. 122 indexed citations

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Feng, Lili, Yi Sun, Pingping Song, et al.. (2018). Seselin ameliorates inflammation via targeting Jak2 to suppress the proinflammatory phenotype of macrophages. British Journal of Pharmacology. 176(2). 317–333. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Lu, Ran Song, Yan Shen, et al.. (2011). Targeting Sarcoplasmic/Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase 2 by Curcumin Induces ER Stress-Associated Apoptosis for Treating Human Liposarcoma. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 10(3). 461–471. 71 indexed citations

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