Yijun Ruan

48.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
106 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Yijun Ruan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yijun Ruan has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Plant Science and 17 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yijun Ruan's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (59 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (26 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (21 papers). Yijun Ruan is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (59 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (26 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (21 papers). Yijun Ruan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and China. Yijun Ruan's co-authors include Chia‐Lin Wei, Edison T. Liu, Melissa J. Fullwood, Wing‐Kin Sung, Mya Breitbart, Kuo Ping Chiu, Guoliang Li, Chia Lin Wei, Vinsensius B. Vega and Atif Shahab and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yijun Ruan

105 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses

2005 592 citations Edison T. Liu, Yijun Ruan et al. profile →
Preferential associations between co-regulated genes reveal a transcriptional interactome in erythroid cells

2009 536 citations Chia‐Lin Wei, Yijun Ruan et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Evolutionarily Conserved Principles Predict 3D Chromatin Organization

2017 360 citations Yijun Ruan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yijun Ruan United States	43	6.4k	1.7k	1.3k	1.1k	955	106	9.0k
Robert E. Rhoads United States	64	9.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	481 0.5×	729 0.8×	168	12.2k
Helmut Blum Germany	43	5.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	617 0.6×	487 0.5×	149	9.9k
Pablo Cingolani United States	12	3.8k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	3.1k 2.4×	999 0.9×	603 0.6×	23	8.6k
Luan Wang China	20	3.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	2.8k 2.2×	918 0.9×	566 0.6×	63	8.5k
Adam Roberts United States	14	8.7k 1.4×	3.3k 2.0×	1.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.9×	423 0.4×	20	13.6k
Robert M. Davies United Kingdom	8	3.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.5×	569 0.5×	522 0.5×	11	6.9k
Andrew Whitwham United Kingdom	4	3.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	553 0.5×	535 0.6×	4	6.8k
Gary C. Hon United States	14	9.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	534 0.5×	555 0.6×	24	12.5k
Martin Pollard United States	8	3.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.9k 1.5×	563 0.5×	505 0.5×	12	6.7k
John Marshall United Kingdom	6	3.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	562 0.5×	515 0.5×	11	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yijun Ruan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yijun Ruan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gao, Bo, et al.. (2025). Molecular dynamics simulations reveal key roles of the LIF receptor in the assembly of human LIF signaling complex. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 27. 585–594. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Jianhua, et al.. (2024). Virus Infection Induces Immune Gene Activation with CTCF-anchored Enhancers and Chromatin Interactions in Pig Genome. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 22(5). 1 indexed citations

Hawley, Kelly L., Paola Vera‐Licona, Carson J. La Vake, et al.. (2021). Macrophage mediated recognition and clearance of Borrelia burgdorferi elicits MyD88-dependent and -independent phagosomal signals that contribute to phagocytosis and inflammation. BMC Immunology. 22(1). 32–32. 10 indexed citations

Xiao, Ke, Dan Xiong, Yue Li, et al.. (2021). RUNX1-mediated alphaherpesvirus-host trans-species chromatin interaction promotes viral transcription. Science Advances. 7(26). 11 indexed citations

Kim, Minji, et al.. (2020). pyBedGraph: a python package for fast operations on 1D genomic signal tracks. Bioinformatics. 36(10). 3234–3235. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Byoungkoo, Jiahui Wang, Liuyang Cai, et al.. (2020). ChIA-PIPE: A fully automated pipeline for comprehensive ChIA-PET data analysis and visualization. Science Advances. 6(28). eaay2078–eaay2078. 26 indexed citations

Trzaskoma, Paweł, Błażej Ruszczycki, Byoungkoo Lee, et al.. (2020). Ultrastructural visualization of 3D chromatin folding using volume electron microscopy and DNA in situ hybridization. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2120–2120. 28 indexed citations

Luo, Huacheng, Qin Yu, Ming Tang, et al.. (2020). LATS kinase–mediated CTCF phosphorylation and selective loss of genomic binding. Science Advances. 6(8). eaaw4651–eaaw4651. 29 indexed citations

Wang, Ping, Zhonghui Tang, Byoungkoo Lee, et al.. (2020). Chromatin topology reorganization and transcription repression by PML-RARα in acute promyeloid leukemia. Genome biology. 21(1). 110–110. 16 indexed citations

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Szałaj, Przemysław, et al.. (2019). Spatial chromatin architecture alteration by structural variations in human genomes at the population scale. Genome biology. 20(1). 148–148. 26 indexed citations

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Lin, Da, Ping Hong, Weize Xu, et al.. (2018). Digestion-ligation-only Hi-C is an efficient and cost-effective method for chromosome conformation capture. Nature Genetics. 50(5). 754–763. 54 indexed citations

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Thibodeau, Asa, Eladio J. Márquez, Oscar Junhong Luo, et al.. (2016). QuIN: A Web Server for Querying and Visualizing Chromatin Interaction Networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(6). e1004809–e1004809. 8 indexed citations

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Szałaj, Przemysław, et al.. (2016). 3D-GNOME: an integrated web service for structural modeling of the 3D genome. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(W1). W288–W293. 30 indexed citations

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Sandhu, Kuljeet Singh, Guoliang Li, Wing‐Kin Sung, & Yijun Ruan. (2011). Chromatin interaction networks and higher order architectures of eukaryotic genomes. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 112(9). 2218–2221. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Guoliang, Melissa J. Fullwood, Xu Han, et al.. (2010). ChIA-PET tool for comprehensive chromatin interaction analysis with paired-end tag sequencing. Genome biology. 11(2). R22–R22. 204 indexed citations

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Fullwood, Melissa J. & Yijun Ruan. (2009). ChIP‐based methods for the identification of long‐range chromatin interactions. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 107(1). 30–39. 177 indexed citations

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Bourque, Guillaume, Vinsensius B. Vega, Xi Chen, et al.. (2008). Evolution of the mammalian transcription factor binding repertoire via transposable elements. Genome Research. 18(11). 1752–1762. 421 indexed citations

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Ng, Patrick, Chia‐Lin Wei, & Yijun Ruan. (2006). Paired‐End diTagging for Transcriptome and Genome Analysis. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology. 75(1). 3 indexed citations

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Mathavan, Sinnakaruppan, Lance D. Miller, K. R. K. Murthy, et al.. (2005). Transcriptome Analysis of Zebrafish Embryogenesis Using Microarrays. PLoS Genetics. 1(2). e29–e29. 263 indexed citations

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Straney, David C., Yijun Ruan, & Jie He. (1994). In vitro transcription and binding analysis of promoter regulation by a host-specific signal in a phytopathogenic fungus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 65(3). 183–189. 3 indexed citations

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