Yao Wu

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Yao Wu is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Wu has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 23 papers in General Health Professions and 10 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Yao Wu's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (39 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (37 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (21 papers). Yao Wu is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (39 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (37 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (21 papers). Yao Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United Kingdom. Yao Wu's co-authors include Yuming Guo, Shanshan Li, Yonghua Hu, Xiaowen Wang, Bo Wen, Yaohua Tian, Jing Song, Yaying Cao, Yiqun Wu and Pei Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yao Wu

99 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global population exposure to landscape fire air pollution from 2000 to 2019

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yao Wu China	24	951	280	212	196	175	107	1.8k
Shiyu Zhang China	28	866 0.9×	205 0.7×	177 0.8×	135 0.7×	91 0.5×	183	2.5k
Cole Brokamp United States	30	1.1k 1.2×	311 1.1×	475 2.2×	131 0.7×	98 0.6×	104	2.5k
Yu-Chun Wang Taiwan	27	987 1.0×	301 1.1×	140 0.7×	124 0.6×	315 1.8×	100	2.0k
Jonathan Pollak United States	23	649 0.7×	163 0.6×	127 0.6×	440 2.2×	126 0.7×	53	2.2k
Roberto Bertollini Qatar	27	748 0.8×	258 0.9×	75 0.4×	98 0.5×	126 0.7×	78	2.4k
Carla Ancona Italy	25	943 1.0×	220 0.8×	243 1.1×	87 0.4×	60 0.3×	89	1.7k
Melissa Eliot United States	36	1.7k 1.8×	184 0.7×	181 0.9×	86 0.4×	123 0.7×	93	2.9k
Ariana Zeka United Kingdom	20	1.6k 1.6×	254 0.9×	439 2.1×	105 0.5×	102 0.6×	34	2.2k
Kayo Ueda Japan	30	1.7k 1.8×	236 0.8×	409 1.9×	259 1.3×	69 0.4×	139	2.4k
erik svendsen United States	27	909 1.0×	227 0.8×	152 0.7×	154 0.8×	37 0.2×	98	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Yao Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yao Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yao Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yao Wu 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 Yao Wu. Yao Wu 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

Wu, Yao, Huaying Liang, Fengyu Lin, et al.. (2025). Residential greenness, air pollution, genetic predisposition and the risk of lung cancer. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 294. 118027–118027. 2 indexed citations

Timonin, Sergey, Natalia Shartova, Bo Wen, et al.. (2025). The differential effect of ambient temperature on age-specific and sex-specific mortality in the 300 largest cities of Russia, 2000–19: a first national time-series study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 9(5). e410–e420. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Li, Yuchen Guo, Yao Wu, et al.. (2025). Impact of climate change and extreme temperature on the incidence of infectious disease among children and adolescents in China: A nationwide case-crossover study with over 8.7 million cases between 2008 and 2019. Journal of Infection. 91(2). 106547–106547. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Yao, et al.. (2025). Impact of Routine Postoperative Care Versus Nurse-Led Lifestyle Interventions on Patient Outcomes After Radiofrequency Ablation. The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Wenzhong, Yao Wu, Rongbin Xu, et al.. (2025). Identifying the healthy places to live in Australia with a new environmental quality health index. Environment International. 195. 109268–109268. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ning, et al.. (2025). A study on the impact of chronic diseases and depressive symptoms comorbidity on the risk of cognitive impairment in middle-aged and older adults people based on the CHARLS database. Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1558430–1558430. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Yao, Danijela Gašević, Rongbin Xu, et al.. (2024). Flooding exposure accelerated biological aging: a population-based study in the UK. Environmental Research Letters. 19(7). 74051–74051. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Donghu, Qihang Ding, Yao Wu, et al.. (2024). Molecular imaging-guided diagnosis and treatment integration for brain diseases. Biomaterials. 316. 123021–123021. 3 indexed citations

Yu, Pei, Rongbin Xu, Wenzhong Huang, et al.. (2024). Short‐term ozone exposure and cancer mortality in Brazil: A nationwide case‐crossover study. International Journal of Cancer. 155(10). 1731–1740. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Rongbin, Yao Wu, Wenzhong Huang, et al.. (2024). Cancer mortality risk from short-term PM2.5 exposure and temporal variations in Brazil. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 473. 134606–134606. 6 indexed citations

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Wen, Bo, Zanfina Ademi, Yao Wu, et al.. (2023). Productivity-adjusted life years lost due to non-optimum temperatures in Brazil: A nationwide time-series study. The Science of The Total Environment. 873. 162368–162368. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qi, Pei Yu, Rahini Mahendran, et al.. (2022). Global climate change and human health: Pathways and possible solutions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 53–62. 121 indexed citations

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Wang, Mengying, Xiaowen Wang, Junhui Wu, et al.. (2020). Carotid Intima-Media Thickness, Genetic Risk, and Ischemic Stroke: A Family-Based Study in Rural China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(1). 119–119. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Yao & Blayne Welk. (2019). Revisiting current treatment options for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse: a contemporary literature review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13 indexed citations

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Wu, Yao, et al.. (2019). 一种含青刺果油等提取物的润肤剂改善儿童特应性皮炎缓解期临床症状的多中心、随机、平行对照临床研究. Chinese Journal of Dermatology. 52(8). 537–541.

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Xiang, Xiao, Jinlin Song, Yaohua Tian, et al.. (2019). Distinct effects of antihypertensives on depression in the real-world setting: A retrospective cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 259. 386–391. 21 indexed citations

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Liu, Hui, Yiqun Wu, Yaqin Si, et al.. (2019). Ambient particulate matter pollution and adult hospital admissions for pneumonia in urban China: A national time series analysis for 2014 through 2017. PLoS Medicine. 16(12). e1003010–e1003010. 78 indexed citations

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Wu, Dan, et al.. (2014). Prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome using cell-free fetal DNA in amniotic fluid by quantitative fluorescent polymersase chain reaction. Chinese Medical Journal. 127(10). 1897–1901. 7 indexed citations

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Wu, Yao, et al.. (2007). 血必净注射液对脓毒症大鼠高迁移率族蛋白B1的影响. 19(4). 239–241. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Yao. (2003). The Influence of Acupuncture over the Ultrastructure of Injured Lumbar Nerve Roots and Inflammatory Mediators of Rat Models of Lumbar Nerve Root Compression. Shanghai zhenjiu zazhi. 1 indexed citations

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