Yifu Qiu

5.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
33 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Yifu Qiu is a scholar working on Physiology, Epidemiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifu Qiu has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Physiology, 13 papers in Epidemiology and 10 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Yifu Qiu's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (16 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (11 papers) and Topic Modeling (5 papers). Yifu Qiu is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (16 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (11 papers) and Topic Modeling (5 papers). Yifu Qiu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yifu Qiu's co-authors include Ajay Chawla, Khoa D. Nguyen, Richard M. Locksley, Justin I. Odegaard, Lata Mukundan, Karen Yun, Xiao Yu Tian, Frank Brombacher, Y. P. Sharon Goh and Tovo David and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Yifu Qiu

32 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Alternatively activated macrophages produce catecholamine... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2014 2014 2013 2024 250 500 750
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. Alternatively activated macrophages produce catecholamines to sustain adaptive thermogenesis
    2011 846 citations Khoa D. Nguyen, Yifu Qiu et al. Nature profile →
  2. Eosinophils and Type 2 Cytokine Signaling in Macrophages Orchestrate Development of Functional Beige Fat
    2014 682 citations Yifu Qiu, Khoa D. Nguyen et al. profile →
  3. Activated Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Regulate Beige Fat Biogenesis
    2014 543 citations Lata Mukundan, Yifu Qiu et al. profile →
  4. Circadian Gene Bmal1 Regulates Diurnal Oscillations of Ly6C hi Inflammatory Monocytes
    2013 505 citations Khoa D. Nguyen, Sarah J. Fentress et al. Science profile →
  5. Activation of GPR81 by lactate drives tumour-induced cachexia
    2024 54 citations Qionghua Cui, Wanqiu Ding et al. Nature Metabolism profile →
  6. Type 2 cytokine signaling in macrophages protects from cellular senescence and organismal aging
    2024 53 citations Zhou Zhao, Jingfei Yao et al. Immunity profile →

Peers

Yifu Qiu
Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm Sweden
Huali Yin United States
Olivia Osborn United States
Xingxing Kong China
Kevin Y. Lee United States
Stefania Carobbio United Kingdom
Kexin Huang China
Bhagirath Chaurasia United States
James C. Lo United States
Hee‐Woong Lim United States
Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm Sweden
Yifu Qiu
Citations per year, relative to Yifu Qiu Yifu Qiu (= 1×) peers Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm

Countries citing papers authored by Yifu Qiu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifu Qiu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifu Qiu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yifu Qiu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yifu Qiu 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 Yifu Qiu. Yifu Qiu 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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Peng, Ying, Liangjie Jia, Hu Xiao, et al.. (2025). Cellular Feimin enhances exercise performance by suppressing muscle thermogenesis. Nature Metabolism. 7(1). 84–101. 4 indexed citations
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Cui, Qionghua, Wanqiu Ding, Jie Liu, et al.. (2024). Activation of GPR81 by lactate drives tumour-induced cachexia. Nature Metabolism. 6(4). 708–723. 54 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Jiaxin, Qi Yang, Xinmeng Li, et al.. (2024). Therapeutic siRNA targeting PLIN2 ameliorates steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis in steatotic liver disease models. Journal of Lipid Research. 65(10). 100635–100635. 8 indexed citations
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Qiu, Yifu, Zheng Zhao, Yftah Ziser, et al.. (2024). Are Large Language Model Temporally Grounded?. 7064–7083. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Zhou, Jingfei Yao, Dongmei Wu, et al.. (2024). Type 2 cytokine signaling in macrophages protects from cellular senescence and organismal aging. Immunity. 57(3). 513–527.e6. 53 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qiu, Yifu, Yftah Ziser, Anna Korhonen, Edoardo Maria Ponti, & Shay B. Cohen. (2023). Detecting and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multilingual Summarisation. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 8914–8932. 4 indexed citations
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Qiu, Yifu & Shay B. Cohen. (2022). Abstractive Summarization Guided by Latent Hierarchical Document Structure. 5303–5317. 5 indexed citations
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Yao, Jingfei, Dongmei Wu, & Yifu Qiu. (2022). Adipose tissue macrophage in obesity-associated metabolic diseases. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 977485–977485. 84 indexed citations
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Wu, Dongmei, et al.. (2022). Thermoporter: a new regulatory mechanism for mitochondrial calcium uniporter activity. Trends in Cell Biology. 33(3). 182–184. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Dongmei, Hongyu Shen, Jingfei Yao, et al.. (2022). The mitochondrial calcium uniporter engages UCP1 to form a thermoporter that promotes thermogenesis. Cell Metabolism. 34(9). 1325–1341.e6. 52 indexed citations
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Yao, Jingfei, Dongmei Wu, & Yifu Qiu. (2022). In vitro analyses of paracrine effects of murine classically activated macrophage on beige adipocyte metabolism. STAR Protocols. 3(3). 101480–101480. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Wenxin, Yingting Jia, Qiyue Kang, et al.. (2019). Screening of House Dust from Chinese Homes for Chemicals with Liver X Receptors Binding Activities and Characterization of Atherosclerotic Activity Using an in Vitro Macrophage Cell Line and ApoE−/− Mice. Environmental Health Perspectives. 127(11). 117003–117003. 68 indexed citations
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Qiu, Yifu, Bo Shan, Liu Yang, & Yong Liu. (2016). Adipose tissue macrophage in immune regulation of metabolism. Science China Life Sciences. 59(12). 1232–1240. 11 indexed citations
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Tian, Xiao Yu, Kirthana Ganeshan, Cynthia Hong, et al.. (2016). Thermoneutral Housing Accelerates Metabolic Inflammation to Potentiate Atherosclerosis but Not Insulin Resistance. Cell Metabolism. 23(2). 386–386. 3 indexed citations
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Tian, Xiao Yu, Kirthana Ganeshan, Cynthia Hong, et al.. (2015). Thermoneutral Housing Accelerates Metabolic Inflammation to Potentiate Atherosclerosis but Not Insulin Resistance. Cell Metabolism. 23(1). 165–178. 114 indexed citations
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Shao, Mengle, Bo Shan, Yang Liu, et al.. (2014). Hepatic IRE1α regulates fasting-induced metabolic adaptive programs through the XBP1s–PPARα axis signalling. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3528–3528. 120 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Khoa D., Sarah J. Fentress, Yifu Qiu, et al.. (2013). Circadian Gene Bmal1 Regulates Diurnal Oscillations of Ly6C hi Inflammatory Monocytes. Science. 341(6153). 1483–1488. 505 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mao, Ting, Mengle Shao, Yifu Qiu, et al.. (2011). PKA phosphorylation couples hepatic inositol-requiring enzyme 1α to glucagon signaling in glucose metabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). 15852–15857. 78 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Khoa D., Yifu Qiu, Y. P. Sharon Goh, et al.. (2011). Alternatively activated macrophages produce catecholamines to sustain adaptive thermogenesis. Nature. 480(7375). 104–108. 846 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Dongmei, Yifu Qiu, Xiang Gao, Xiao‐bing Yuan, & Qiwei Zhai. (2011). Overexpression of SIRT1 in Mouse Forebrain Impairs Lipid/Glucose Metabolism and Motor Function. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21759–e21759. 36 indexed citations

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