Ying Li

18.3k total citations · 10 hit papers
320 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Ying Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ying Li has authored 320 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Molecular Biology, 70 papers in Immunology and 46 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ying Li's work include interferon and immune responses (20 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (20 papers) and Cell death mechanisms and regulation (19 papers). Ying Li is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (20 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (20 papers) and Cell death mechanisms and regulation (19 papers). Ying Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Ying Li's co-authors include Junying Yuan, Yifan Cheng, Melanie D. Ohi, Thomas Walz, Laurence A. Lasky, Donald Dowbenko, Weiqin Jiang, Linfu Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhou and Dana E. Christofferson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ying Li

306 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Beclin1 Controls the Levels of p53 by Regulating the Deubiquitination Activity of USP10 and USP13

2011 659 citations Ying Li, Junying Yuan et al. profile →
Negative staining and image classification — powerful tools in modern electron microscopy

2004 557 citations Ying Li et al. profile →
DNA helicase Srs2 disrupts the Rad51 presynaptic filament

2003 506 citations Ying Li et al. profile →
Degeneration and impaired regeneration of gray matter oligodendrocytes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

2013 449 citations Ying Li et al. profile →
MAPK/JNK signalling: a potential autophagy regulation pathway

2015 353 citations Ying Li et al. profile →
A Chemoproteomic Approach to Query the Degradable Kinome Using a Multi-kinase Degrader

2017 330 citations Ying Li, Li Tan et al. profile →
One-Year Trajectory of Cognitive Changes in Older Survivors of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

2022 149 citations Ying Li et al. profile →
CCT2 is an aggrephagy receptor for clearance of solid protein aggregates

2022 120 citations Xinyu Ma, Shulin Li et al. profile →
An Immunoregulation Hydrogel with Controlled Hyperthermia‐Augmented Oxygenation and ROS Scavenging for Treating Diabetic Foot Ulcers

2024 100 citations Xiaoliang Qi, XinXin Ge et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
An Immunomodulatory Hydrogel Featuring Antibacterial and Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging Properties for Treating Periodontitis in Diabetes

2024 56 citations XinXin Ge, Xiaoliang Qi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ying Li China	53	6.7k	2.1k	1.7k	1.5k	1.1k	320	12.5k
Walter Malorni Italy	66	6.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.6×	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	370	14.9k
Takashi Yamamoto Japan	72	10.9k 1.6×	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	689	21.2k
Susan A. Elmore United States	28	6.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	89	13.0k
Hong Wang China	53	4.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	765 0.5×	995 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	344	10.4k
Yasushi Ishihama Japan	61	13.7k 2.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	253	21.5k
Stephen W. G. Tait United Kingdom	49	10.0k 1.5×	3.5k 1.7×	3.4k 2.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	87	15.5k
Gregory J. Anderson Australia	74	6.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	276	21.3k
István Boldogh United States	78	10.4k 1.6×	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	304	17.7k
Kym F. Faull United States	65	8.7k 1.3×	1.5k 0.7×	741 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	759 0.7×	309	17.2k
Philippe Marchetti France	62	9.9k 1.5×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	2.4k 1.6×	1.6k 1.5×	177	16.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ying Li

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Li, Ying, et al.. (2025). An Intranasal Nanomedicine Functions as Both Potent Broad‐spectrum Viral Inhibitor and Quasi‐Vaccine. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(28). 1 indexed citations

Jia, Yan, Ling Li, Ying Li, et al.. (2025). Iron overload mediates cytarabine resistance in AML by inhibiting the TP53 signaling pathway. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. 57(4). 646–655.

Zhou, Yuzheng, Taijie Guo, Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro inhibitors and RIPK1 inhibitors with synergistic antiviral efficacy in a mouse COVID-19 model. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 16(1). 387–405.

Sun, Ying, Shujuan Liu, Mengxin Li, et al.. (2024). Dietary additive ferulic acid alleviated oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis induced by chronic exposure to avermectin in the liver of common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Toxicon. 244. 107755–107755. 2 indexed citations

Li, Mengxin, et al.. (2024). Protective effect of feed additive ferulic acid on respiratory depression and oxidation imbalance of carp induced by pesticide difenoconazole via ROS/NF-κB/NLRP3 axis. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 151. 109659–109659. 6 indexed citations

Li, Ying, et al.. (2024). Effectiveness and safety of enzyme replacement therapy in the treatment of Fabry disease: a Chinese monocentric real-world study. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 19(1). 422–422. 2 indexed citations

Qi, Xiaoliang, XinXin Ge, Xiaojing Chen, et al.. (2024). An Immunoregulation Hydrogel with Controlled Hyperthermia‐Augmented Oxygenation and ROS Scavenging for Treating Diabetic Foot Ulcers. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(33). 100 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhou, Xingyu, Jun Zhang, Ying Li, et al.. (2024). Advanced oxidation protein products attenuate the autophagy-lysosome pathway in ovarian granulosa cells by modulating the ROS-dependent mTOR-TFEB pathway. Cell Death and Disease. 15(2). 161–161. 14 indexed citations

Xia, Min, Xingxing Xie, Weimin Sun, et al.. (2024). RIPK1 activation in Mecp2-deficient microglia promotes inflammation and glutamate release in RTT. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(6). e2320383121–e2320383121. 11 indexed citations

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Liu, Chang, et al.. (2023). Unravelling potential biomarkers for acute and chronic brucellosis through proteomic and bioinformatic approaches. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 13. 1216176–1216176. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Lingzhi, Fangyu Li, Meina Quan, et al.. (2023). Upregulation of Wnt2b exerts neuroprotective effect by alleviating mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 29(7). 1805–1816. 10 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yan, Lin Cheng, Ying Qin, et al.. (2023). Selective Covalent Targeting of Pyruvate Kinase M2 Using Arsenous Warheads. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 66(4). 2608–2621. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Yanhua, Shitong Qiao, Rong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Antibody response assessment of immediate breakthrough infections after zero-COVID policy adjustment in China. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 40. 100945–100945. 5 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lin, Kaixuan Shi, Yan Cheng, et al.. (2022). Dual Inhibition of CDK12/CDK13 Targets Both Tumor and Immune Cells in Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Research. 82(19). 3588–3602. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Shulin, Rui Yan, Jialu Xu, et al.. (2021). A new type of ERGIC–ERES membrane contact mediated by TMED9 and SEC12 is required for autophagosome biogenesis. Cell Research. 32(2). 119–138. 59 indexed citations

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Wang, Rui, Ying Li, Ping Gong, et al.. (2018). Arsenic Trioxide and Sorafenib Induce Synthetic Lethality of FLT3-ITD Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 17(9). 1871–1880. 24 indexed citations

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Meng, Huyan, Zhen Liu, Xingyan Li, et al.. (2018). Death-domain dimerization-mediated activation of RIPK1 controls necroptosis and RIPK1-dependent apoptosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(9). E2001–E2009. 109 indexed citations

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Huang, Wenmao, Meng Qin, Ying Li, Yi Cao, & Wei Wang. (2017). Dimerization of Cell-Adhesion Molecules Can Increase Their Binding Strength. Langmuir. 33(6). 1398–1404. 3 indexed citations

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Keller, Ulrich auf dem, Caroline L. Bellac, Ying Li, et al.. (2010). Novel Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitor [18F]Marimastat-Aryltrifluoroborate as a Probe for In vivo Positron Emission Tomography Imaging in Cancer. Cancer Research. 70(19). 7562–7569. 69 indexed citations

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Xu, Dongbin, et al.. (2005). The CARD-carrying caspase Dronc is essential for most, but not all,developmental cell death in Drosophila. Development. 132(9). 2125–2134. 152 indexed citations

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