Yi Lai

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 906 citations indexed

About

Yi Lai is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Lai has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 906 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yi Lai's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (14 papers), Video Coding and Compression Technologies (5 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (5 papers). Yi Lai is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (14 papers), Video Coding and Compression Technologies (5 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (5 papers). Yi Lai collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and New Zealand. Yi Lai's co-authors include Zhiai Xu, Haijun Yu, Wen Zhang, Madiha Saeed, Yijing Dang, Chunyong Ding, Xianli Hu, Jiaxing Pan, Fangmin Chen and Lujia Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yi Lai

50 papers receiving 894 citations

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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.

PROTAC Prodrug‐Integrated Nanosensitizer for Potentiating Radiation Therapy of Cancer

2024 58 citations Shunan Zhang, Yi Lai et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Lai China	18	424	264	185	168	167	54	906
Hongxia Xu China	21	339 0.8×	277 1.0×	173 0.9×	99 0.6×	204 1.2×	56	1.1k
Yu Shi China	16	319 0.8×	248 0.9×	268 1.4×	84 0.5×	46 0.3×	45	982
Sang Kyoon Kim South Korea	26	393 0.9×	644 2.4×	129 0.7×	110 0.7×	473 2.8×	55	1.7k
Yajing Sun China	17	416 1.0×	465 1.8×	128 0.7×	100 0.6×	192 1.1×	48	1.0k
Kaiwen Zhang China	20	245 0.6×	339 1.3×	102 0.6×	54 0.3×	201 1.2×	83	1.3k
Dian Li China	22	178 0.4×	330 1.3×	90 0.5×	64 0.4×	107 0.6×	92	1.2k
Yan Dai China	11	262 0.6×	209 0.8×	120 0.6×	61 0.4×	232 1.4×	23	709
Chenghao Lu China	19	195 0.5×	273 1.0×	199 1.1×	82 0.5×	131 0.8×	62	1.1k
Xiaojuan Huang China	25	940 2.2×	554 2.1×	787 4.3×	96 0.6×	276 1.7×	68	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Lai

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lai, Yi, et al.. (2026). Chiral and Dual Drugs Combination Reduces Tumor-Associated Neutrophils-Induced T-Cell Immunoparalysis to Treat Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 23(2). 694–710.

Li, Min, Jing Gao, Yaxiong Xie, et al.. (2025). Molecular Rotor‐Based NIR‐II TICTgens for Mitochondria‐Targeted Pyroptosis Induction and Multi‐Model Monitoring of Cancer Immunotherapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(38). e202508646–e202508646. 1 indexed citations

Li, Shengpeng, An Zhou, Dianji Tu, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiome alterations and hepatic encephalopathy post-TIPS in liver cirrhosis patients. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 745–745. 1 indexed citations

Weygant, Nathaniel, et al.. (2025). Triptolide targets PPP2CA/ITGA5 axis to suppress lactate-driven ovarian cancer progression. Chinese Medicine. 20(1). 122–122.

Jiang, Xingyu, Yi Lai, Wenzheng Xia, et al.. (2025). Self‐Oxygenating PROTAC Microneedle for Spatiotemporally‐Confined Protein Degradation and Enhanced Glioblastoma Therapy. Advanced Materials. 37(13). e2411869–e2411869. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Huijuan, Fangmin Chen, Wenhao Cheng, et al.. (2024). Dynamic polyphenol nanoparticles boost cuproptosis-driven metalloimmunotherapy of breast cancer. Nano Today. 58. 102442–102442. 9 indexed citations

Zhu, Z. A., Sanjun Zhang, Yijing Dang, et al.. (2024). A Self-Immobilizing Photosensitizer with Long-Term Retention for Hypoxia Imaging and Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(10). 4032–4042. 7 indexed citations

Zou, Zhifeng, Lei Yang, Jing Gao, et al.. (2024). Tumor-targeted PROTAC prodrug nanoplatform enables precise protein degradation and combination cancer therapy. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica. 45(8). 1740–1751. 24 indexed citations

Zhou, Mengxue, Jiaxing Pan, Hui Wang, et al.. (2023). Nanovesicles loaded with a TGF-β receptor 1 inhibitor overcome immune resistance to potentiate cancer immunotherapy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3593–3593. 53 indexed citations

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Xu, Jie, Yi Lai, Fengyang Wang, et al.. (2023). Dual stimuli-activatable versatile nanoplatform for photodynamic therapy and chemotherapy of triple-negative breast cancer. Chinese Chemical Letters. 34(12). 108332–108332. 15 indexed citations

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Weygant, Nathaniel, et al.. (2023). DCLK1 and tuft cells: Immune-related functions and implications for cancer immunotherapy. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 191. 104118–104118. 3 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xingyu, Wenzheng Xia, Wenfang Yang, et al.. (2023). Engineered microneedle systems for topical cancer therapy. Applied Materials Today. 31. 101774–101774. 13 indexed citations

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Pan, Jiaxing, Yi Lai, Shunan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Self‐Adaptive Nanoregulator to Mitigate Dynamic Immune Evasion of Pancreatic Cancer. Advanced Materials. 35(47). e2305798–e2305798. 21 indexed citations

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Lai, Yi, Jiayi Ye, Madiha Saeed, et al.. (2022). Dual-targeting prodrug nanotheranostics for NIR-Ⅱ fluorescence imaging-guided photo-immunotherapy of glioblastoma. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 12(9). 3486–3497. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Yujie, Pengfei Zhang, Xing Xu, et al.. (2021). Few-shot prototype alignment regularization network for document image layout segementation. Pattern Recognition. 115. 107882–107882. 18 indexed citations

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Dang, Yijing, Fengyang Wang, Lingling Li, et al.. (2019). An activatable near-infrared fluorescent probe for methylglyoxal imaging in Alzheimer's disease mice. Chemical Communications. 56(5). 707–710. 30 indexed citations

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Zheng, Jiangbin, et al.. (2019). Image blind detection based on LBP residue classes and color regions. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0221627–e0221627. 3 indexed citations

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Lai, Yi, et al.. (2019). Single Image Dehazing using Positive Correlation under Gradient Constraint. 1. 1–5.

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Lai, Yi, et al.. (2017). Content-Based Scalable Multi-View Video Coding Using 4D Wavelet. International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology. 10(8). 91–100.

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Wang, Fuping, et al.. (2017). Texture feature extraction based on histogram of oriented gradient domain texture tendency for tyre pattern retrieval. 24. 1–7. 3 indexed citations

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