Yichen Shi

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Yichen Shi is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichen Shi has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yichen Shi's work include Rock Mechanics and Modeling (4 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (3 papers). Yichen Shi is often cited by papers focused on Rock Mechanics and Modeling (4 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (3 papers). Yichen Shi collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Japan. Yichen Shi's co-authors include Peter Kirwan, Frederick J. Livesey, James Smith, Hugh P. C. Robinson, Glenn MacLean, Stuart H. Orkin, Tao Li, Zhang Yan, Zhiwei Zhao and Andrea Deiwick and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Neuroscience and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yichen Shi

19 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to cerebral cortex neurons and neural networks

2012 625 citations Yichen Shi, Peter Kirwan et al. Nature Protocols profile →
Human cerebral cortex development from pluripotent stem cells to functional excitatory synapses

2012 606 citations Yichen Shi, Peter Kirwan et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yichen Shi China	8	1.2k	561	329	308	245	20	1.7k
Peter Kirwan United Kingdom	11	1.4k 1.2×	644 1.1×	391 1.2×	317 1.0×	372 1.5×	11	1.9k
Julia Ladewig Germany	20	1.9k 1.6×	772 1.4×	668 2.0×	383 1.2×	216 0.9×	32	2.4k
Isabel Liste Spain	26	1.0k 0.9×	839 1.5×	328 1.0×	124 0.4×	254 1.0×	65	2.1k
Mirella Dottori Australia	31	2.2k 1.8×	1.4k 2.4×	663 2.0×	312 1.0×	229 0.9×	96	3.3k
Julius A. Steinbeck United States	13	1.1k 0.9×	726 1.3×	392 1.2×	188 0.6×	169 0.7×	15	1.8k
Satoshi Kaneko Japan	12	1.3k 1.1×	868 1.5×	374 1.1×	137 0.4×	152 0.6×	19	2.0k
Tak Ko United States	9	652 0.6×	207 0.4×	189 0.6×	220 0.7×	242 1.0×	12	1.0k
Laura N. Borodinsky United States	23	919 0.8×	817 1.5×	275 0.8×	59 0.2×	130 0.5×	42	1.7k
Tong Zang China	17	1.3k 1.1×	605 1.1×	621 1.9×	124 0.4×	140 0.6×	30	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yichen Shi

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Kang, et al.. (2025). Acoustic emission response precursor characterization of cemented tailings backfill at different loading rates. Construction and Building Materials. 473. 141027–141027. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Kang, et al.. (2025). Damage evaluation indexes for cemented tailings backfill based on RA and AF values. Nondestructive Testing And Evaluation. 41(1). 487–502. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Jun, Yichen Shi, Liping Chen, et al.. (2025). Phytomanagement with forage grasses for sustainable remediation of contaminated tailings soil: Enhancing soil functionality and addressing forage safety risks. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 40. 104443–104443. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Qing, Hang Wang, Yinhui Yang, et al.. (2025). Electrospun Nanofibers Loaded with Concentrated Growth Factors and Nanohydroxyapatite for the Healing of Alveolar Bone in Tooth Extraction Wounds. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 11(10). 5975–5990. 1 indexed citations

Luan, Hengjie, et al.. (2025). Simulating stepwise depressurization production of natural gas hydrate using a three-dimensional test system. Physics of Fluids. 37(7).

Shi, Yichen, Jun Feng, Lei He, et al.. (2025). SHIELD: an evaluation benchmark for face spoofing and forgery detection with multimodal large language models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 5 indexed citations

Shi, Yichen, Feifei Zhang, Wenming Yang, Guijin Wang, & Nan Su. (2024). Agent-Guided Gaze Estimation Network by Two-Eye Asymmetry Exploration. 2320–2326. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Yujing, Xiaoyu Du, Peng Yan, et al.. (2023). Influence of Natural Gas Hydrate Distribution Patterns on the Macroscale–Mesoscale Mechanical Properties of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 12(1). 20–20. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Yichen. (2023). The Impact and Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulation on GTFP. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 154. 3023–3023. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Kang, et al.. (2023). Damage evolution process and damage precursor law under cyclic splitting action of different types of rocks. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 56(4). 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Kang, Yun Zhou, Yajing Yan, et al.. (2023). Fractal characteristics and acoustic emission b -value of cement superfine tailings backfill with initial defect consideration. Nondestructive Testing And Evaluation. 39(2). 384–407. 7 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yujing, et al.. (2022). Discrete Element Simulation of the Macro-Meso Mechanical Behaviors of Gas-Hydrate-Bearing Sediments under Dynamic Loading. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10(8). 1042–1042. 11 indexed citations

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Yan, Zhang, et al.. (2021). Differential responses of 23 maize cultivar seedlings to an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus when grown in a metal-polluted soil. The Science of The Total Environment. 789. 148015–148015. 36 indexed citations

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Chen, Kai, Yichen Shi, Liufan Yin, et al.. (2021). H3K36 methyltransferase SDG708 enhances drought tolerance by promoting abscisic acid biosynthesis in rice. New Phytologist. 230(5). 1967–1984. 38 indexed citations

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Koroleva, Anastasia, Andrea Deiwick, Ayman El-Tamer, et al.. (2021). In Vitro Development of Human iPSC-Derived Functional Neuronal Networks on Laser-Fabricated 3D Scaffolds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(7). 7839–7853. 52 indexed citations

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Shi, Yichen, Shan Gao, & Xin Zhao. (2021). Extraction of typical scenarios of power grid operation based on improved K-means clustering algorithm. 2021 IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference (iSPEC). 2628–2633. 1 indexed citations

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Allen, Zoe, Helle Foverskov Rasmussen, Filomena Iannuzzi, et al.. (2017). Sortilin-Related Receptor Expression in Human Neural Stem Cells Derived from Alzheimer’s Disease Patients Carrying the APOE Epsilon 4 Allele. Neural Plasticity. 2017. 1–10. 23 indexed citations

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Shi, Yichen, Peter Kirwan, James Smith, Hugh P. C. Robinson, & Frederick J. Livesey. (2012). Human cerebral cortex development from pluripotent stem cells to functional excitatory synapses. Nature Neuroscience. 15(3). 477–486. 606 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shi, Yichen, Peter Kirwan, & Frederick J. Livesey. (2012). Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to cerebral cortex neurons and neural networks. Nature Protocols. 7(10). 1836–1846. 625 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shi, Yichen, Peter Kirwan, James Smith, et al.. (2012). A Human Stem Cell Model of Early Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Down Syndrome. Science Translational Medicine. 4(124). 124ra29–124ra29. 242 indexed citations

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