Yi Xu

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Yi Xu is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Immunology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Xu has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Epidemiology, 48 papers in Immunology and 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Yi Xu's work include Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis (60 papers), Reproductive System and Pregnancy (42 papers) and Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (22 papers). Yi Xu is often cited by papers focused on Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis (60 papers), Reproductive System and Pregnancy (42 papers) and Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (22 papers). Yi Xu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and China. Yi Xu's co-authors include Roberto Romero, Nardhy Gomez‐Lopez, Sonia S. Hassan, Adi L. Tarca, Yaozhu Leng, Valeria Garcia‐Flores, Derek Miller, Bogdan Panaitescu, Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa and Olesya Plazyo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Immunology, PLoS ONE and The FASEB Journal.

In The Last Decade

Yi Xu

85 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Single cell transcriptional signatures of the human placenta in term and preterm parturition

2019 228 citations Roger Piqué-Regi, Roberto Romero et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Xu United States	37	1.9k	1.8k	1.6k	1.3k	612	92	3.6k
Emmet Hirsch United States	27	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	502 0.3×	654 0.5×	509 0.8×	79	2.5k
Eunjung Jung South Korea	28	571 0.3×	857 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	544 0.4×	555 0.9×	141	3.0k
Rigmor Austgulen Norway	39	1.5k 0.8×	818 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	900 0.7×	354 0.6×	101	4.0k
Gaurav Bhatti United States	29	624 0.3×	782 0.4×	969 0.6×	469 0.4×	383 0.6×	60	2.1k
M.G. Elder United Kingdom	30	626 0.3×	527 0.3×	938 0.6×	703 0.5×	289 0.5×	144	2.9k
Akihide Ohkuchi Japan	27	901 0.5×	231 0.1×	2.2k 1.3×	592 0.4×	198 0.3×	175	3.2k
José Carlos Peraçoli Brazil	23	696 0.4×	230 0.1×	1.2k 0.7×	382 0.3×	192 0.3×	117	1.8k
Dianne B. McKay United States	26	919 0.5×	320 0.2×	520 0.3×	910 0.7×	209 0.3×	64	3.1k
Mark Cunningham United States	25	1.0k 0.5×	193 0.1×	1.3k 0.8×	302 0.2×	132 0.2×	73	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Xu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Farías, Marcelo, Roberto Romero, Yi Xu, et al.. (2023). Differential immunophenotype of circulating monocytes from pregnant women in response to viral ligands. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 23(1). 3 indexed citations

Romero, Roberto, Yi Xu, Marcia Arenas‐Hernandez, et al.. (2022). Pregnancy imparts distinct systemic adaptive immune function. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 88(5). e13606–e13606. 5 indexed citations

Gershater, Meyer, Roberto Romero, Marcia Arenas‐Hernandez, et al.. (2022). IL-22 Plays a Dual Role in the Amniotic Cavity: Tissue Injury and Host Defense against Microbes in Preterm Labor. The Journal of Immunology. 208(7). 1595–1615. 11 indexed citations

Balogh, Andrea, Roberto Romero, Yi Xu, et al.. (2022). Proteoglycans: Systems-Level Insight into Their Expression in Healthy and Diseased Placentas. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(10). 5798–5798. 14 indexed citations

Gomez‐Lopez, Nardhy, Roberto Romero, Tao Li, et al.. (2022). Distinct Cellular Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 in Pregnant Women. The Journal of Immunology. 208(8). 1857–1872. 15 indexed citations

Li, Zhifang, Yi Xu, Jiefang Chen, et al.. (2021). Morinda officinalis oligosaccharides alleviate depressive‐like behaviors in post‐stroke rats via suppressing NLRP3 inflammasome to inhibit hippocampal inflammation. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 27(12). 1570–1586. 56 indexed citations

Wei, Qiang, Yi Xu, & Li Zhang. (2020). Towards a universal definition of postpartum hemorrhage: retrospective analysis of Chinese women after vaginal delivery or cesarean section. Medicine. 99(33). e21714–e21714. 14 indexed citations

Piqué-Regi, Roger, Roberto Romero, Adi L. Tarca, et al.. (2020). Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2?. eLife. 9. 197 indexed citations

Szilágyi, András, Roberto Romero, Yi Xu, et al.. (2020). Placenta-Specific Genes, Their Regulation During Villous Trophoblast Differentiation and Dysregulation in Preterm Preeclampsia. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(2). 628–628. 27 indexed citations

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Galaz, José, Roberto Romero, Rebecca Slutsky, et al.. (2020). Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 48(3). 222–233. 35 indexed citations

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Piqué-Regi, Roger, Roberto Romero, Adi L. Tarca, et al.. (2019). Single cell transcriptional signatures of the human placenta in term and preterm parturition. eLife. 8. 228 indexed citations breakdown →

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Arenas‐Hernandez, Marcia, Roberto Romero, Yi Xu, et al.. (2019). Effector and Activated T Cells Induce Preterm Labor and Birth That Is Prevented by Treatment with Progesterone. The Journal of Immunology. 202(9). 2585–2608. 106 indexed citations

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Gomez‐Lopez, Nardhy, Roberto Romero, Yi Xu, et al.. (2019). Fetal T Cell Activation in the Amniotic Cavity during Preterm Labor: A Potential Mechanism for a Subset of Idiopathic Preterm Birth. The Journal of Immunology. 203(7). 1793–1807. 42 indexed citations

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Gomez‐Lopez, Nardhy, Roberto Romero, Bogdan Panaitescu, et al.. (2018). Inflammasome activation during spontaneous preterm labor with intra‐amniotic infection or sterile intra‐amniotic inflammation. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 80(5). e13049–e13049. 73 indexed citations

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Gomez‐Lopez, Nardhy, Roberto Romero, Yi Xu, et al.. (2017). A Role for the Inflammasome in Spontaneous Preterm Labor With Acute Histologic Chorioamnionitis. Reproductive Sciences. 24(10). 1382–1401. 91 indexed citations

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Elazzamy, Haidy, Andrea Balogh, Roberto Romero, et al.. (2017). Characteristic Changes in Decidual Gene Expression Signature in Spontaneous Term Parturition. Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine. 51(3). 264–283. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, Roberto Romero, Derek Miller, et al.. (2016). An M1-like Macrophage Polarization in Decidual Tissue during Spontaneous Preterm Labor That Is Attenuated by Rosiglitazone Treatment. The Journal of Immunology. 196(6). 2476–2491. 161 indexed citations

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Romero, Roberto, Olesya Plazyo, Marcia Arenas‐Hernandez, et al.. (2016). Invariant NKT Cell Activation Induces Late Preterm Birth That Is Attenuated by Rosiglitazone. The Journal of Immunology. 196(3). 1044–1059. 65 indexed citations

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Lai, Jianbo, Dongrong Xu, Bradley S. Peterson, et al.. (2015). Reversible Fluoxetine-Induced Hyperthyroidism. Clinical Neuropharmacology. 39(1). 60–61. 4 indexed citations

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Huang, Manli, Yi Xu, Jianbo Hu, et al.. (2011). [Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with antidepressant medication in treatment of first-episode patients with major depression].. PubMed. 40(3). 286–90. 4 indexed citations

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