Yifan Wang

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Yifan Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Wang has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Materials Chemistry and 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yifan Wang's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (7 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (6 papers). Yifan Wang is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (7 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (6 papers). Yifan Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Yifan Wang's co-authors include Xiaowei Zhan, Huitao Bai, Pei Cheng, Yao Wu, Yao Cong, Wei Ma, Yanxing Wang, Cong Xu, Zhong Huang and Chao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yifan Wang

98 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Programmable RNA editing ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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. Programmable RNA editing with compact CRISPR–Cas13 systems from uncultivated microbes
    2021 232 citations Yifan Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yifan Wang China 25 1.1k 847 670 597 256 111 2.9k
Liang Sun China 22 644 0.6× 287 0.3× 117 0.2× 264 0.4× 326 1.3× 78 1.8k
Botong Li China 23 704 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 122 0.2× 117 0.2× 218 0.9× 119 2.3k
Dongming Zhao China 31 840 0.7× 536 0.6× 931 1.4× 242 0.4× 124 0.5× 138 4.1k
Xiaojun Li China 20 335 0.3× 1.1k 1.3× 115 0.2× 382 0.6× 203 0.8× 127 2.2k
Bo Yao China 32 1.8k 1.6× 674 0.8× 301 0.4× 81 0.1× 208 0.8× 166 4.0k
Lisheng Li China 20 772 0.7× 987 1.2× 53 0.1× 697 1.2× 503 2.0× 98 2.2k
Younghoon Lee South Korea 38 3.3k 2.9× 280 0.3× 156 0.2× 148 0.2× 447 1.7× 207 5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yifan Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifan Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yifan Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yifan Wang 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 Yifan Wang. Yifan Wang 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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Wang, Yifan, Yifan Wang, Jun Zhao, et al.. (2025). Reviewing the IDH1 Mutation‐Mediated Mechanism of Drug Resistance and Revisiting Its Overcoming Strategies. Chemical Biology & Drug Design. 105(4). e70102–e70102.
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Li, Hongxiang, Yufei Gong, Yetai Cheng, et al.. (2025). Stress-dissipative strong bimodal molecular packing towards efficient and highly stretchable organic photovoltaics. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(17). 8171–8181. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Zhengwei, et al.. (2025). FOCERS: An Ultrasensitive and Robust Soft Optical 3D Tactile Sensor. Soft Robotics. 12(4). 445–454. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jing, Yifan Wang, Shengli Zhu, et al.. (2024). Improvement of mechanical strength of calcium sulfate bone cement using carboxymethyl cellulose and silicon dioxide. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 171. 113631–113631.
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Zhang, Chunjing, et al.. (2024). 3D printing of molecularly-imprinted Ti3C2 MXene-derived hierarchically porous sensing platform toward ultrasensitive photoelectrochemical monitoring. Microchemical Journal. 200. 110246–110246. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing emerging technology discovery in nanomedicine by integrating innovative sentences using BERT and NLDA. Journal of Data and Information Science. 9(4). 155–195. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, Junjie Yan, Lu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Effect of Oyster Mushroom Spherical Virus Infection in Pleurotus ostreatus. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(17). 9749–9749. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, Yuan Xue, Bo Li, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Hemostatic and Procoagulant Efficacy of PEG/ZnO Hydrogels: A Novel Approach in Traumatic Hemorrhage Management. Gels. 10(2). 88–88. 2 indexed citations
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Tsang, Tim K., Sheena G. Sullivan, Can Wang, et al.. (2024). Prior infections and effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in test-negative studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(12). 1868–1881. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, Carlos Fernandez‐Granda, & Peter A. Crozier. (2024). Unsupervised Deep Video Denoiser: A Potential Key to Extracting Information from Monochromated EELS. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Siyu, Yujie Sun, Yifan Wang, et al.. (2023). Gardenin B, A Natural Inhibitor for USP7: In vitro Evaluation and In silico Identification. Letters in Drug Design & Discovery. 21(12). 2352–2358. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Caixuan, Mingliang Jin, Shutian Wang, et al.. (2023). Pathway and mechanism of tubulin folding mediated by TRiC/CCT along its ATPase cycle revealed using cryo-EM. Communications Biology. 6(1). 531–531. 13 indexed citations
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Koh, Eileen Y., et al.. (2023). Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 from Singapore 2020 outbreak revealed an Australian recombinant variant. Virus Evolution. 9(1). vead029–vead029. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Jingyu, Yifan Wang, Yanqin Liang, et al.. (2023). Effect of Platelet-Rich Plasma Addition on the Chemical Properties and Biological Activity of Calcium Sulfate Hemihydrate Bone Cement. Biomimetics. 8(2). 262–262. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan & Hongfei Wang. (2023). Sky survey mission planning based on particle swarm optimization. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2569(1). 12015–12015. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaohan, et al.. (2022). Preparation of 2-Arachidonoylglycerol by Enzymatic Alcoholysis: Effects of Solvent and Water Activity on Acyl Migration. Foods. 11(20). 3213–3213. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, Fu‐Gang Duan, Zhu Zhu, et al.. (2021). Analysis of TCR Repertoire by High-Throughput Sequencing Indicates the Feature of T Cell Immune Response after SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Cells. 11(1). 68–68. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Ning, Yifan Wang, Qian Zhao, et al.. (2021). The cryo-EM structure of the chloroplast ClpP complex. Nature Plants. 7(11). 1505–1515. 6 indexed citations
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Xia, Jing, Xuanze Li, Yifan Wang, et al.. (2021). Al2O3 buffer-facilitated epitaxial growth of high-quality ZnO/ZnS core/shell nanorod arrays. Nanoscale. 13(26). 11525–11533. 6 indexed citations

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