Yejun Han

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Yejun Han is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yejun Han has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Yejun Han's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (35 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (22 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (15 papers). Yejun Han is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (35 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (22 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (15 papers). Yejun Han collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Malaysia. Yejun Han's co-authors include Xiaowei Peng, Caihong Weng, Hongzhang Chen, Xiaojing Jia, Isaac Cann, Roderick I. Mackie, Dylan Dodd, Shuofu Mi, Carl J. Yeoman and Charles M. Schroeder and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Yejun Han

55 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Depolymerization and conversion of lignin to value-added bioproducts by microbial and enzymatic catalysis

2021 209 citations Caihong Weng, Xiaowei Peng et al. Biotechnology for Biofuels profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yejun Han China	23	1.1k	853	533	327	153	58	1.7k
Sujit Sadashiv Jagtap United States	22	988 0.9×	836 1.0×	410 0.8×	313 1.0×	132 0.9×	34	1.8k
Venkatesh Chaturvedi India	17	864 0.8×	610 0.7×	431 0.8×	407 1.2×	144 0.9×	41	1.8k
Gashaw Mamo Sweden	23	863 0.8×	947 1.1×	769 1.4×	361 1.1×	98 0.6×	41	1.7k
Felipe Antônio Fernandes Antunes Brazil	21	1.3k 1.2×	804 0.9×	327 0.6×	225 0.7×	213 1.4×	43	1.7k
Dimitris G. Hatzinikolaou Greece	25	673 0.6×	869 1.0×	365 0.7×	386 1.2×	96 0.6×	72	1.7k
Rishi Gupta India	23	1.7k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	789 1.5×	351 1.1×	181 1.2×	52	2.4k
Sheldon J.B. Duff Canada	26	1.6k 1.5×	936 1.1×	381 0.7×	252 0.8×	230 1.5×	73	2.6k
Božidar Šantek Croatia	18	994 0.9×	717 0.8×	276 0.5×	414 1.3×	118 0.8×	83	1.8k
Fubao Sun China	32	2.4k 2.2×	1.0k 1.2×	402 0.8×	300 0.9×	451 2.9×	125	2.9k
Jorge A. Ferreira Sweden	29	891 0.8×	708 0.8×	332 0.6×	284 0.9×	363 2.4×	67	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yejun Han

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yejun Han

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

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Weng, Caihong, et al.. (2025). Biosynthesis of melanin from lignin hydrolysates by metabolically engineered Cupriavidus necator. Science China Life Sciences. 69(1). 285–292.

Ding, Jian, Caihong Weng, Ling Zhao, Xiaowei Peng, & Yejun Han. (2025). A clean biorefinery process for converting corn stover into hydrogen, electricity, and aromatic flavor compounds. Renewable Energy. 256. 124006–124006. 1 indexed citations

Han, Yejun, et al.. (2024). Efficient production of sophorose from glucose and its potentially industrial application in cellulase production. Bioresource Technology. 412. 131402–131402. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Haiqian, et al.. (2024). Application of synthetic biology strategies to promote biosynthesis of fatty acids and their derivatives. Advances in applied microbiology. 128. 83–104.

Weng, Caihong, Xiaowei Peng, & Yejun Han. (2023). From methane to value-added bioproducts: microbial metabolism, enzymes, and metabolic engineering. Advances in applied microbiology. 124. 119–146. 4 indexed citations

Geng, Biao, Xiaojing Jia, Xiaowei Peng, & Yejun Han. (2022). Biosynthesis of value-added bioproducts from hemicellulose of biomass through microbial metabolic engineering. Metabolic Engineering Communications. 15. e00211–e00211. 12 indexed citations

Weng, Caihong, Xiaowei Peng, & Yejun Han. (2021). Depolymerization and conversion of lignin to value-added bioproducts by microbial and enzymatic catalysis. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 14(1). 84–84. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

Han, Hongjing, Haiying Wang, Yejun Han, et al.. (2019). One-Step Valorization of Calcium Lignosulfonate To Produce Phenolics with the Addition of Solid Base Oxides in the Hydrothermal Reaction System. Energy & Fuels. 33(5). 4302–4309. 12 indexed citations

Han, Yejun, et al.. (2019). Electroautotrophic Microorganisms:Uptaking Extracellular Electron and Catalyzing CO2 Fixation and Synthesis. Huaxue jinzhan. 31. 433–441. 2 indexed citations

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Su, Hong, et al.. (2019). Corrosion behavior and mechanism of carbon steel influenced by interior deposit microflora of an in-service pipeline. Bioelectrochemistry. 132. 107406–107406. 20 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaojing, Xiaowei Peng, Ying Liu, & Yejun Han. (2017). Conversion of cellulose and hemicellulose of biomass simultaneously to acetoin by thermophilic simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 10(1). 232–232. 36 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaojing, Ying Liu, & Yejun Han. (2017). A thermophilic cell-free cascade enzymatic reaction for acetoin synthesis from pyruvate. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4333–4333. 30 indexed citations

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Peng, Xiaowei, Chao Li, Jing Liu, Zili Yi, & Yejun Han. (2017). Changes in composition, cellulose degradability and biochemical methane potential of Miscanthus species during the growing season. Bioresource Technology. 235. 389–395. 19 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaojing, Wenli Tian, Xiaowei Peng, et al.. (2016). Biochemical characterization of extra- and intracellular endoxylanse from thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskyensis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 21672–21672. 21 indexed citations

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Peng, Xiaowei, Hong Su, Shuofu Mi, & Yejun Han. (2016). A multifunctional thermophilic glycoside hydrolase from Caldicellulosiruptor owensensis with potential applications in production of biofuels and biochemicals. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9(1). 98–98. 35 indexed citations

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Loder, Andrew J., Yejun Han, Hong Lian, et al.. (2016). Reaction kinetic analysis of the 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate CO2 fixation cycle in extremely thermoacidophilic archaea. Metabolic Engineering. 38. 446–463. 32 indexed citations

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Peng, Xiaowei, et al.. (2015). Characterization of hemicellulase and cellulase from the extremely thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor owensensis and their potential application for bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass without pretreatment. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 8(1). 131–131. 62 indexed citations

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Oyama, Takuji, Dylan Dodd, Yejun Han, et al.. (2013). Mutational and Structural Analyses of Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus Man5B Reveal Novel Active Site Residues for Family 5 Glycoside Hydrolases. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80448–e80448. 10 indexed citations

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Han, Yejun, Vinayak Agarwal, Dylan Dodd, et al.. (2012). Biochemical and Structural Insights into Xylan Utilization by the Thermophilic Bacterium Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(42). 34946–34960. 50 indexed citations

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Han, Yejun & Hongzhang Chen. (2011). Improvement of corn stover bioconversion efficiency by using plant glycoside hydrolase. Bioresource Technology. 102(7). 4787–4792. 10 indexed citations

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