Yiwei Sun

486 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 287 citations indexed

About

Yiwei Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Gastroenterology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiwei Sun has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 287 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Physiology and 2 papers in Gastroenterology. Recurrent topics in Yiwei Sun's work include RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Yiwei Sun is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Yiwei Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Serbia. Yiwei Sun's co-authors include Harris H. Wang, Florencia Velez‐Cortes, Lucas Cohen, Yiming Huang, Miles Richardson, Ravi U. Sheth, Andrew Kaufman, Carlotta Ronda, Thomas Moody and Tomasz Blazejewski and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Yiwei Sun

11 papers receiving 284 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.

High-throughput microbial culturomics using automation and machine learning

2023 138 citations Yiming Huang, Ravi U. Sheth et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yiwei Sun United States	6	211	30	29	26	22	11	287
Maulik D. Badmalia Canada	10	191 0.9×	52 1.7×	16 0.6×	6 0.2×	14 0.6×	19	313
Donghui Yang China	11	155 0.7×	30 1.0×	19 0.7×	7 0.3×	37 1.7×	24	361
Xingyu Wang China	12	174 0.8×	27 0.9×	13 0.4×	15 0.6×	7 0.3×	34	351
Qinglan Yang China	10	122 0.6×	33 1.1×	12 0.4×	25 1.0×	5 0.2×	37	261
Suman Kundu India	6	64 0.3×	14 0.5×	34 1.2×	11 0.4×	10 0.5×	10	351
Miho Kikuchi Japan	9	157 0.7×	13 0.4×	12 0.4×	8 0.3×	5 0.2×	30	287
Chengcheng Xu China	14	148 0.7×	49 1.6×	12 0.4×	16 0.6×	14 0.6×	29	376
Karen Culotta France	7	137 0.6×	13 0.4×	38 1.3×	5 0.2×	51 2.3×	8	287

Countries citing papers authored by Yiwei Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yiwei Sun

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yiwei Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yiwei Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yiwei Sun 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 Yiwei Sun. Yiwei Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Gelsinger, Diego R., Carlotta Ronda, Madeline Edwards, et al.. (2025). Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases. Science. 390(6774). eadx7604–eadx7604. 2 indexed citations

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Bongers, Mareike, Yiwei Sun, Andrew Kaufman, et al.. (2024). Bacteria Engineered to Produce Serotonin Modulate Host Intestinal Physiology. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(12). 4002–4014. 1 indexed citations

3.

Huang, Yiming, Ravi U. Sheth, Shijie Zhao, et al.. (2023). High-throughput microbial culturomics using automation and machine learning. Nature Biotechnology. 41(10). 1424–1433. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Wang, Shuyu, et al.. (2022). Heterogeneity Analysis of Bladder Cancer Based on DNA Methylation Molecular Profiling. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 915542–915542. 2 indexed citations

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Blackett, John W., Yiwei Sun, Lawrence J. Purpura, et al.. (2022). Decreased Gut Microbiome Tryptophan Metabolism and Serotonergic Signaling in Patients With Persistent Mental Health and Gastrointestinal Symptoms After COVID-19. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. 13(10). e00524–e00524. 25 indexed citations

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Hsiao, Yun-Hua Esther, Jae Hoon Bahn, Yiwei Sun, et al.. (2021). Allele-specific alternative splicing and its functional genetic variants in human tissues. Genome Research. 31(3). 359–371. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Bo, Zhaoqi Liu, Sisi Chen, et al.. (2020). Mutant SF3B1 promotes AKT- and NF-κB–driven mammary tumorigenesis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(1). 28 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhaoqi, et al.. (2020). Pan-cancer analysis identifies mutations in SUGP1 that recapitulate mutant SF3B1 splicing dysregulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(19). 10305–10312. 32 indexed citations

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Yang, Ei-Wen, Jae Hoon Bahn, Yiwei Sun, et al.. (2019). Allele-specific binding of RNA-binding proteins reveals functional genetic variants in the RNA. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1338–1338. 35 indexed citations

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Gao, Xiaoxiao, et al.. (2019). The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Seguin chestnut (Castanea seguinii). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 342–343. 2 indexed citations

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Hu, Yiheng, Zhenhua Ma, Meng Dang, et al.. (2017). The complete plastid genome of the endangered species midget crabapple (Malus micromalus). Conservation Genetics Resources. 10(3). 531–533. 5 indexed citations

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