Yang Yu

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Yang Yu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Yu has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Epidemiology and 16 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Yang Yu's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (8 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers). Yang Yu is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (8 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers). Yang Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Macao. Yang Yu's co-authors include Richard D. Ye, Yijun Chen, Cheng‐Xin Gong, Khalid Iqbal, Fei Liu, Yi Li, Xiaoqin Run, Inge Grundke‐Iqbal, Zhihou Liang and Guang‐Bo Ge and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yang Yu

90 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Tau and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease: interplay mechanisms and clinical translation

2023 223 citations Yijun Chen, Yang Yu Journal of Neuroinflammation profile →
Demystifying the cGAS-STING pathway: precision regulation in the tumor immune microenvironment

2025 18 citations Qingyang Wang, Yang Yu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Yu China	26	1.1k	616	400	339	274	94	2.5k
Shijie Zhang China	31	997 0.9×	470 0.8×	308 0.8×	190 0.6×	285 1.0×	150	2.7k
Hui Ji China	33	1.2k 1.2×	399 0.6×	452 1.1×	177 0.5×	245 0.9×	101	2.7k
Weijun Peng China	35	1.6k 1.5×	513 0.8×	258 0.6×	191 0.6×	280 1.0×	105	3.2k
Hui Wu China	33	1.5k 1.5×	322 0.5×	377 0.9×	413 1.2×	282 1.0×	109	3.3k
Tianhua Yan China	32	1.7k 1.6×	349 0.6×	266 0.7×	463 1.4×	511 1.9×	71	3.2k
Xin Jin China	25	754 0.7×	319 0.5×	351 0.9×	250 0.7×	229 0.8×	69	2.0k
Anguo Wu China	37	2.1k 2.0×	514 0.8×	323 0.8×	342 1.0×	432 1.6×	147	4.1k
Hanan S. El‐Abhar Egypt	31	901 0.9×	380 0.6×	268 0.7×	142 0.4×	237 0.9×	104	2.8k
Lingpeng Zhu China	27	1.4k 1.3×	276 0.4×	225 0.6×	327 1.0×	334 1.2×	46	2.5k
Youhua Xu China	30	1.5k 1.4×	525 0.9×	221 0.6×	282 0.8×	148 0.5×	131	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Yu

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Yang Yu's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Yang Yu with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yang Yu more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Yu

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yang Yu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yang Yu. The network helps show where Yang Yu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Yu

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Yu, Yang, et al.. (2025). Immunoregulatory mechanisms in the aging microenvironment: Targeting the senescence-associated secretory phenotype for cancer immunotherapy. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 15(9). 4476–4496. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Jia‐Yi, Hanqi Wang, Linlin Wang, et al.. (2025). Role of FPR2 antagonism in alleviating social isolation-induced depression and protecting blood-brain barrier integrity. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 22(1). 79–79. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Guohua, et al.. (2024). Exploration of crucial stromal risk genes associated with prognostic significance and chemotherapeutic opportunities in invasive ductal breast carcinoma. Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. 23(1). 100448–100448.

Liu, Zhen, Yijun Chen, Yanqing Chen, et al.. (2024). Effect of Regulation of Chemerin/Chemokine-like Receptor 1/Stimulator of Interferon Genes Pathway on Astrocyte Recruitment to Aβ Plaques. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(8). 4324–4324. 2 indexed citations

Hu, Minhui, Rui Luo, Keli Yang, et al.. (2024). Genomic landscape defines peritoneal metastatic pattern and related target of peritoneal metastasis in colorectal cancer. International Journal of Cancer. 155(7). 1327–1339. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Ruijuan, et al.. (2024). Interactions between hedgehog signaling pathway and the complex tumor microenvironment in breast cancer: current knowledge and therapeutic promises. Cell Communication and Signaling. 22(1). 432–432. 10 indexed citations

Zhao, J., Yang Yu, Cun Liu, et al.. (2024). Elucidating the Role of Estrogen Effects in Leukemia: Insights from Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and Mendelian Randomization. Journal of Cancer. 16(3). 888–897.

Zhang, Kailiang, et al.. (2024). Research on the visual location method for strawberry picking points under complex conditions based on composite models. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 104(14). 8566–8579. 11 indexed citations

Liao, Qiwen, Yang Yu, Guo‐Yuan Zhu, et al.. (2023). Enhancement of efferocytosis through biased FPR2 signaling attenuates intestinal inflammation. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(12). e17815–e17815. 23 indexed citations

10.

Zhang, He, Yang Yu, Shiyu Wang, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide characterization of phospholipase D family genes in allotetraploid peanut and its diploid progenitors revealed their crucial roles in growth and abiotic stress responses. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1102200–1102200. 8 indexed citations

11.

Yu, Yang, Yanling Zhao, Zhongcheng Shi, et al.. (2022). ERK Inhibitor Ulixertinib Inhibits High-Risk Neuroblastoma Growth In Vitro and In Vivo. Cancers. 14(22). 5534–5534. 9 indexed citations

12.

Yu, Yang, et al.. (2022). Circ_0026579 alleviates LPS-induced WI-38 cells inflammation injury in infantile pneumonia. Innate Immunity. 28(1). 37–48. 16 indexed citations

13.

Shi, Danfeng, Haibo Li, Dabo Pan, et al.. (2021). Identifying the molecular basis of Jinhong tablets against chronic superficial gastritis via chemical profile identification and symptom-guided network pharmacology analysis. Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis. 12(1). 65–76. 20 indexed citations

14.

Yu, Yang, et al.. (2021). Molecular mechanism of zoledronic acid inhibiting angiogenesis by semi flexible binding with vascular endothelial growth factor conformation. 56(7). 679–686. 1 indexed citations

15.

Jiang, Zhongyi, Xu Fang, Weitao Que, et al.. (2021). Recipient C7 rs9292795 genotype and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after orthotopic liver transplantation in a Han Chinese population. BMC Cancer. 21(1). 521–521. 2 indexed citations

16.

Gao, Bingsi, Yu‐Ligh Liou, Yang Yu, et al.. (2021). The characteristics and risk factors of human papillomavirus infection: an outpatient population-based study in Changsha, Hunan. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 15128–15128. 11 indexed citations

17.

Chen, Tianran, Qiang Jin, Jie Hou, et al.. (2019). Natural constituents of St. John's Wort inhibit the proteolytic activity of human thrombin. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 134. 622–630. 29 indexed citations

18.

Yu, Yang, et al.. (2017). [Association between glycosylated hemoglobin and  non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in  health examination population].. PubMed. 42(5). 529–535.

19.

Li, Cuixian, Shaorui Chen, Yang Yu, et al.. (2013). BIG1, a Brefeldin A-Inhibited Guanine Nucleotide-Exchange Factor, Is Required for GABA-Gated Cl– Influx Through Regulation of GABAA Receptor Trafficking. Molecular Neurobiology. 49(2). 808–819. 8 indexed citations

20.

Jiang, Meei Jyh, et al.. (2000). Cyclic strain stimulates monocyte chemotactic protein‐1 mRNA expression in smooth muscle cells. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 76(2). 303–310. 2 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact