Yangqi Gu

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 902 citations indexed

About

Yangqi Gu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yangqi Gu has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 902 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Environmental Engineering and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yangqi Gu's work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Yangqi Gu is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Yangqi Gu collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Yangqi Gu's co-authors include Nikhil S. Malvankar, Vishok Srikanth, Sibel Ebru Yalcin, J. Patrick O’Brien, Sophia M. Yi, Dennis Vu, Cong Shen, Fengbin Wang, Edward H. Egelman and Nicole L. Ing and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Yangqi Gu

10 papers receiving 898 citations

Hit Papers

Structure of Microbial Nanowires Reveals Stacked Hemes th... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2024 100 200 300 400
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. Structure of Microbial Nanowires Reveals Stacked Hemes that Transport Electrons over Micrometers
    2019 400 citations Fengbin Wang, Yangqi Gu et al. Cell profile →
  2. Establishing a synthetic orthogonal replication system enables accelerated evolution in E. coli
    2024 48 citations Rongzhen Tian, Fabian B. H. Rehm et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yangqi Gu United States 7 603 337 263 162 136 10 902
Vishok Srikanth United States 8 624 1.0× 334 1.0× 240 0.9× 160 1.0× 129 0.9× 10 902
J. Patrick O’Brien United States 6 564 0.9× 316 0.9× 210 0.8× 141 0.9× 128 0.9× 7 793
Dennis Vu United States 8 461 0.8× 287 0.9× 210 0.8× 140 0.9× 118 0.9× 10 748
Nicole L. Ing United States 7 386 0.6× 315 0.9× 287 1.1× 146 0.9× 116 0.9× 8 930
Yamini Jangir United States 5 595 1.0× 376 1.1× 128 0.5× 96 0.6× 138 1.0× 6 740
Leonor Morgado Portugal 20 1.1k 1.8× 516 1.5× 350 1.3× 222 1.4× 338 2.5× 48 1.4k
Ramesh Adhikari United States 13 487 0.8× 765 2.3× 186 0.7× 230 1.4× 103 0.8× 25 1.3k
Yuri Y. Londer United States 22 1.1k 1.8× 512 1.5× 444 1.7× 211 1.3× 340 2.5× 32 1.4k
Hengjing Yan United States 14 411 0.7× 343 1.0× 116 0.4× 216 1.3× 53 0.4× 15 816
Catarina M. Paquete Portugal 25 1.0k 1.7× 609 1.8× 493 1.9× 238 1.5× 325 2.4× 58 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yangqi Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yangqi Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yangqi Gu. 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 Yangqi Gu. The network helps show where Yangqi Gu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yangqi Gu

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Shen, Cong, Wonhyeuk Jung, Joseph A. Erwin, et al.. (2025). A widespread and ancient bacterial machinery assembles cytochrome OmcS nanowires essential for extracellular electron transfer. Cell chemical biology. 32(2). 239–254.e7. 2 indexed citations
2.
Robertson, Wesley E., Fabian B. H. Rehm, Martin Spinck, et al.. (2025). Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code. Science. 390(6771). eady4368–eady4368. 2 indexed citations
3.
Tian, Rongzhen, et al.. (2024). Establishing a synthetic orthogonal replication system enables accelerated evolution in E. coli. Science. 383(6681). 421–426. 48 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Gu, Yangqi, Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer, Vishok Srikanth, et al.. (2023). Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity. Nature Microbiology. 8(2). 284–298. 73 indexed citations
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Dahl, Peter, Sophia M. Yi, Yangqi Gu, et al.. (2022). A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks. Science Advances. 8(19). eabm7193–eabm7193. 49 indexed citations
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Yalcin, Sibel Ebru, Pol Arranz‐Gibert, Peter Dahl, et al.. (2022). Protein nanowires with tunable functionality and programmable self-assembly using sequence-controlled synthesis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 829–829. 54 indexed citations
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Gu, Yangqi, Vishok Srikanth, Ruchi Jain, et al.. (2021). Structure of Geobacter pili reveals secretory rather than nanowire behaviour. Nature. 597(7876). 430–434. 130 indexed citations
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Yalcin, Sibel Ebru, J. Patrick O’Brien, Yangqi Gu, et al.. (2020). Electric field stimulates production of highly conductive microbial OmcZ nanowires. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(10). 1136–1142. 143 indexed citations
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Wang, Fengbin, Yangqi Gu, J. Patrick O’Brien, et al.. (2019). Structure of Microbial Nanowires Reveals Stacked Hemes that Transport Electrons over Micrometers. Cell. 177(2). 361–369.e10. 400 indexed citations breakdown →
10.
Neu, Jens, Sophia M. Yi, Yangqi Gu, et al.. (2019). Terahertz-Conductivity in Biological Nanowire-Networks. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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