Yi Ren

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Yi Ren is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Ren has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Infectious Diseases and 12 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Yi Ren's work include RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (6 papers). Yi Ren is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (6 papers). Yi Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yi Ren's co-authors include Yihu Xie, Frederick M. Hughson, Günter Blobel, Arati Tripathi, Philip D. Jeffrey, Hyuk‐Soo Seo, Mingxiang Ye, Faxiang Wang, Xinyi Xia and Fang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Yi Ren

55 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Omicron diverse spike gene mutations ... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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. Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Omicron diverse spike gene mutations identifies multiple inter-variant recombination events
    2022 137 citations Junxian Ou, Wendong Lan et al. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yi Ren China 21 821 727 263 254 202 59 1.8k
Robert H. Carnahan United States 23 1.2k 1.5× 1.3k 1.7× 300 1.1× 460 1.8× 241 1.2× 54 2.6k
Shirit Einav United States 28 749 0.9× 696 1.0× 389 1.5× 220 0.9× 581 2.9× 59 2.3k
Joel Sevinsky United States 14 963 1.2× 534 0.7× 112 0.4× 102 0.4× 106 0.5× 24 1.9k
Craig Fenwick Switzerland 20 404 0.5× 552 0.8× 446 1.7× 70 0.3× 190 0.9× 52 1.5k
Brian D. Adair United States 14 1.1k 1.4× 343 0.5× 250 1.0× 301 1.2× 112 0.6× 23 2.2k
Deli Huang United States 19 1.8k 2.2× 876 1.2× 854 3.2× 136 0.5× 409 2.0× 28 2.9k
Kornelia Hardes Germany 15 401 0.5× 707 1.0× 205 0.8× 127 0.5× 207 1.0× 39 1.3k
Shaw M. Akula United States 28 819 1.0× 402 0.6× 437 1.7× 110 0.4× 1.2k 5.8× 77 2.9k
Hans-Heinrich Hoffmann United States 22 1.2k 1.4× 1.0k 1.4× 1.1k 4.3× 132 0.5× 651 3.2× 36 3.0k
Susanne Rauch Germany 17 693 0.8× 696 1.0× 453 1.7× 70 0.3× 185 0.9× 27 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Ren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Ren

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yi Ren. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yi Ren 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 Yi Ren. Yi Ren 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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Chen, Jun, Shiwei Gong, Jianjian Guo, et al.. (2025). Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Rapid Evaluation of Drug Susceptibility with Nanopore Targeted Sequencing. Clinical Chemistry. 71(8). 908–919.
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Wu, Guihui, Yuanyuan Shang, Yufeng Wang, et al.. (2024). Early bactericidal activity of sitafloxacin against pulmonary tuberculosis. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(1). e0164524–e0164524. 1 indexed citations
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Mei, Menghan, et al.. (2024). Cryo-EM structure of the CBC-ALYREF complex. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ke, Tolga Çağatay, Dongqi Xie, et al.. (2024). Cellular NS1-BP protein interacts with the mRNA export receptor NXF1 to mediate nuclear export of influenza virus M mRNAs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(11). 107871–107871. 6 indexed citations
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Mei, Menghan, et al.. (2023). Cryo-EM structure of the CBC-ALYREF complex. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations
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Xie, Yihu, Shengyan Gao, Ke Zhang, et al.. (2023). Structural basis for high-order complex of SARNP and DDX39B to facilitate mRNP assembly. Cell Reports. 42(8). 112988–112988. 13 indexed citations
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Ou, Junxian, Wendong Lan, Xiaowei Wu, et al.. (2022). Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Omicron diverse spike gene mutations identifies multiple inter-variant recombination events. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 7(1). 138–138. 137 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ou, Junxian, Zhonghua Zhou, Ruixue Dai, et al.. (2021). V367F Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBD Emerging during the Early Transmission Phase Enhances Viral Infectivity through Increased Human ACE2 Receptor Binding Affinity. Journal of Virology. 95(16). e0061721–e0061721. 75 indexed citations
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Gao, Tong, et al.. (2021). Immune response induced by oral administration with a Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in mice. Microbial Cell Factories. 20(1). 95–95. 31 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhen, et al.. (2020). Cellular mRNA export factor UAP56 recognizes nucleic acid binding site of influenza virus NP protein. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 525(2). 259–264. 12 indexed citations
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Han, Lei, et al.. (2020). Yeast display platform technology to prepare oral vaccine against lethal H7N9 virus challenge in mice. Microbial Cell Factories. 19(1). 53–53. 37 indexed citations
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Dollins, D.E., Jian-Ping Xiong, David E. Anderson, et al.. (2020). A structural basis for lithium and substrate binding of an inositide phosphatase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100059–100059. 10 indexed citations
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Xie, Yihu & Yi Ren. (2019). Mechanisms of nuclear mRNA export: A structural perspective. Traffic. 20(11). 829–840. 67 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ke, Yihu Xie, Raquel Muñoz-Moreno, et al.. (2019). Structural basis for influenza virus NS1 protein block of mRNA nuclear export. Nature Microbiology. 4(10). 1671–1679. 54 indexed citations
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Sun, Ping & Yi Ren. (2017). ke yan cheng xin jian she zhi du cuo shi de ke cao zuo xing wen ti tan xi. Ke-ji guanli yanjiu. 2017(1). 262–266.
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Chen, Jun, et al.. (2017). Early detection of multidrug- and pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis from smear-positive sputum by direct sequencing. BMC Infectious Diseases. 17(1). 300–300. 20 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhizhou, Hongmei Liu, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2015). [A Meta analysis on the associations between air pollution and respiratory mortality in China].. PubMed. 36(8). 889–95. 6 indexed citations
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Ren, Qiansheng, Christian Wimmer, Michael C. Chicka, et al.. (2010). Munc13-4 is a limiting factor in the pathway required for platelet granule release and hemostasis. Blood. 116(6). 869–877. 91 indexed citations
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Ren, Yi. (2006). Motivation of chinese investment in vietnam. Chinese Geographical Science. 16(1). 41–47. 3 indexed citations

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