Yanran Li

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Yanran Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanran Li has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Neurology and 9 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Yanran Li's work include Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (15 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (9 papers). Yanran Li is often cited by papers focused on Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (15 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (9 papers). Yanran Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yanran Li's co-authors include Christina D. Smolke, Yi Tang, Sijin Li, Aaron Cravens, Kate Thodey, Haodong Liu, Yan Chen, Minghao Zhang, Ping Liu and Linda Gaines and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yanran Li

62 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Efficient Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400 500
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. Efficient Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes by Targeted Healing
    2020 538 citations Panpan Xu, Qiang Dai et al. Joule profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanran Li China 20 983 586 496 473 321 66 2.1k
Bong Hyun Sung South Korea 34 2.2k 2.2× 146 0.2× 121 0.2× 60 0.1× 78 0.2× 127 3.4k
Xiaofei Tian China 25 433 0.4× 363 0.6× 183 0.4× 282 0.6× 10 0.0× 87 2.0k
Dong Sun Lee South Korea 28 422 0.4× 64 0.1× 51 0.1× 83 0.2× 58 0.2× 152 2.8k
Adinarayana Kunamneni India 22 1.3k 1.3× 171 0.3× 32 0.1× 220 0.5× 33 0.1× 54 2.7k
Puneet Kumar Singh India 25 620 0.6× 32 0.1× 51 0.1× 88 0.2× 55 0.2× 105 1.9k
Yang Gu China 33 1.8k 1.9× 63 0.1× 59 0.1× 107 0.2× 10 0.0× 80 2.9k
SeonJu Park South Korea 22 598 0.6× 139 0.2× 41 0.1× 100 0.2× 6 0.0× 130 1.6k
Jiazhang Lian China 33 2.9k 2.9× 317 0.5× 14 0.0× 51 0.1× 42 0.1× 102 3.4k
İsmail Eş Brazil 24 748 0.8× 16 0.0× 84 0.2× 161 0.3× 30 0.1× 42 2.0k
Tiit Lukk Estonia 16 505 0.5× 113 0.2× 34 0.1× 27 0.1× 23 0.1× 32 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanran Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanran Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanran Li

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wei, Songbo, et al.. (2025). Enhancing cross-organelle coordination to advance plant cytochrome P450 functionality in yeast. Science Advances. 11(43). eady7184–eady7184.
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Li, Yanran, Jing Sun, Qiqing Zhang, et al.. (2025). Design of PROTACs utilizing the E3 ligase GID4 for targeted protein degradation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(9). 1825–1837. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Sheng, Kaori Yoneyama, Nitzan Shabek, et al.. (2025). Evolution of interorganismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants. Science. 387(6731). eadp0779–eadp0779. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuanyuan, Yanran Li, Zhengyan Li, et al.. (2024). The global magnitude and temporal trend of hypertensive heart disease burden attributable to high sodium intake from 1990 to 2021. Current Problems in Cardiology. 50(2). 102931–102931. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Rongbin, et al.. (2024). Unleashing plant synthetic capacity: navigating regulatory mechanisms for enhanced bioproduction and secondary metabolite discovery. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 88. 103148–103148. 3 indexed citations
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Yan, Xiaojie, Xinxin Yuan, Bing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Molecular basis of SAP05-mediated ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation of transcription factors. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1170–1170. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Li, et al.. (2024). NarrativePlay: An Automated System for Crafting Visual Worlds in Novels for Role-Playing. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(21). 23859–23861. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Yanran, et al.. (2024). Exploring Structural Sparsity of Coil Images from 3-Dimensional Directional Tight Framelets for SENSE Reconstruction. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 17(2). 888–916. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yanran, et al.. (2024). Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins as an exogenously applied natural solution for prevention of postharvest fungal infections. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 9(3). 481–493. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yanran, Jing Fang, Hongrui Guo, et al.. (2023). RAGE–TLR4 Crosstalk Is the Key Mechanism by Which High Glucose Enhances the Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammatory Response in Primary Bovine Alveolar Macrophages. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(8). 7007–7007. 10 indexed citations
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Wu, Sheng, Akiyoshi Yoda, Xiaonan Xie, et al.. (2023). Identification of a Prunus MAX1 homolog as a unique strigol synthase. New Phytologist. 239(5). 1819–1833. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Yanran, et al.. (2023). A latent class analysis of resilience and its association with patient-reported symptoms in patients with esophageal cancer after esophagectomy. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1241129–1241129. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Zeling, Yanran Li, Huiluo Cao, et al.. (2021). A transferrable and integrative type I-F Cascade for heterologous genome editing and transcription modulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(16). e94–e94. 21 indexed citations
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Wu, Sheng, et al.. (2021). Establishment of strigolactone-producing bacterium-yeast consortium. Science Advances. 7(38). eabh4048–eabh4048. 40 indexed citations
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Li, Yanran, Qiyuan Yang, Dongjie Cai, et al.. (2021). Resistin, a Novel Host Defense Peptide of Innate Immunity. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 699807–699807. 65 indexed citations
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Xu, Panpan, Qiang Dai, Hongpeng Gao, et al.. (2020). Efficient Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes by Targeted Healing. Joule. 4(12). 2609–2626. 538 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Qian, Fen Yao, Yit‐Heng Chooi, et al.. (2012). Elucidation of Piericidin A1 Biosynthetic Locus Revealed a Thioesterase-Dependent Mechanism of α-Pyridone Ring Formation. Chemistry & Biology. 19(2). 243–253. 35 indexed citations
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Chooi, Yit‐Heng, Peng Wang, Jinxu Fang, et al.. (2012). Discovery and Characterization of a Group of Fungal Polycyclic Polyketide Prenyltransferases. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(22). 9428–9437. 52 indexed citations

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