Yiwei Yang

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yiwei Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiwei Yang has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 11 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Yiwei Yang's work include Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (8 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (7 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (7 papers). Yiwei Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (8 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (7 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (7 papers). Yiwei Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yiwei Yang's co-authors include Hassan Lemjabbar‐Alaoui, Petra C. Buchanan, Jiuhong Kang, Joanna J. Phillips, Bo Lü, Vy M. Tran, Zhenghua Chen, Han Wang, Zhoupeng Chen and Xin Nie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Yiwei Yang

46 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Lung cancer: Biology and treatment options 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 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. Lung cancer: Biology and treatment options
    2015 750 citations Hassan Lemjabbar‐Alaoui, Yiwei Yang et al. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yiwei Yang China 14 597 309 295 275 150 51 1.3k
Peng Xie China 25 577 1.0× 435 1.4× 400 1.4× 257 0.9× 326 2.2× 133 1.8k
Georgia I. Terzoudi Greece 21 874 1.5× 299 1.0× 212 0.7× 486 1.8× 357 2.4× 53 1.3k
Tsutomu Shimura Japan 31 1.3k 2.2× 281 0.9× 439 1.5× 547 2.0× 415 2.8× 72 2.1k
Ki Moon Seong South Korea 21 842 1.4× 184 0.6× 267 0.9× 415 1.5× 244 1.6× 62 1.5k
Munira Kadhim United Kingdom 20 764 1.3× 468 1.5× 120 0.4× 394 1.4× 778 5.2× 44 1.6k
Omid Azimzadeh Germany 27 1.1k 1.9× 391 1.3× 208 0.7× 485 1.8× 851 5.7× 74 2.2k
Benjamin J. Blyth Australia 18 268 0.4× 363 1.2× 181 0.6× 151 0.5× 529 3.5× 59 921
Olivier Guipaud France 18 438 0.7× 224 0.7× 178 0.6× 120 0.4× 390 2.6× 41 933
Deguan Li China 23 803 1.3× 277 0.9× 229 0.8× 336 1.2× 448 3.0× 65 1.8k
Jin Kyung Lee South Korea 23 687 1.2× 347 1.1× 515 1.7× 279 1.0× 82 0.5× 106 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yiwei Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yiwei Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yiwei Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yiwei Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yiwei Yang 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 Yang. Yiwei Yang 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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Lu, Yuning, Hongjin Wang, Xiaofeng Zhao, et al.. (2025). ITCH regulates Golgi integrity and proteotoxicity in neurodegeneration. Science Advances. 11(43). eado4330–eado4330.
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Yang, Yiwei, et al.. (2025). Hematological Biomarkers for Early Detection of Lung Cancer: Evaluating the Diagnostic Potential of Circulating Interleukin Levels. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(22). 11014–11014.
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Zhang, Qi, et al.. (2025). Effect of rainy-day harvesting on the aroma profile of Wuyi rock tea based on GC–MS and chemical analysis. Food Chemistry X. 29. 102753–102753. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Yukang, Jianguo Li, Kai Chen, et al.. (2023). Cooperative regulation of Zhx1 and hnRNPA1 drives the cardiac progenitor-specific transcriptional activation during cardiomyocyte differentiation. Cell Death Discovery. 9(1). 244–244. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jie, Yiwei Yang, Min Fang, et al.. (2023). A research on the improved rotational robustness for thoracic organ delineation by using joint learning of segmenting spatially‐correlated organs: A U‐net based comparison. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 24(11). e14096–e14096. 1 indexed citations
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Chang, Qing, Yiwei Yang, Bo Hong, et al.. (2023). A variant of the venom allergen-like protein, DdVAP2, is required for the migratory endoparasitic plant nematode Ditylenchus destructor parasitism of plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1322902–1322902. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Yukang, Xudong Guo, Tong Han, et al.. (2022). Cmarr/miR-540-3p axis promotes cardiomyocyte maturation transition by orchestrating Dtna expression. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 29. 481–497. 4 indexed citations
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Bai, Xue, et al.. (2020). A study of prediction model of lung dose in early stage non-small cell lung cancer with stereotactic body radiotherapy. Zhonghua fangshe zhongliuxue zazhi. 29(2). 106–110. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Yunhe, Rui Huang, Yiwei Yang, et al.. (2020). FocusNetv2: Imbalanced large and small organ segmentation with adversarial shape constraint for head and neck CT images. Medical Image Analysis. 67. 101831–101831. 65 indexed citations
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Yang, Yiwei, Joanna J. Phillips, David M. Jablons, & Hassan Lemjabbar‐Alaoui. (2020). Development of novel monoclonal antibodies and immunoassays for sensitive and specific detection of SULF1 endosulfatase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1865(2). 129802–129802. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Yiwei, et al.. (2018). Voxel-based automatic multi-criteria optimization for intensity modulated radiation therapy. Radiation Oncology. 13(1). 241–241. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Haibin, Zichun Zhong, Yiwei Yang, et al.. (2018). Internal Motion Estimation by Internal-external Motion Modeling for Lung Cancer Radiotherapy. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 3677–3677. 14 indexed citations
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Lui, Natalie S., Yiwei Yang, Annemieke van Zante, et al.. (2016). SULF2 Expression Is a Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker in Lung Cancer. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0148911–e0148911. 13 indexed citations
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Shan, Guoping, et al.. (2016). Numb Gene Enhances Radiation Sensitivity of Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Stem Cells. Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals. 31(5). 180–188. 5 indexed citations
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Lemjabbar‐Alaoui, Hassan, Andrew McKinney, Yiwei Yang, Vy M. Tran, & Joanna J. Phillips. (2015). Glycosylation Alterations in Lung and Brain Cancer. Advances in cancer research. 126. 305–344. 64 indexed citations
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Lemjabbar‐Alaoui, Hassan, et al.. (2015). Lung cancer: Biology and treatment options. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1856(2). 189–210. 750 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Songcheng, Yiwei Yang, Yitong Huang, et al.. (2015). A Motif from Lys216 to Lys222 in Human BUB3 Protein Is a Nuclear Localization Signal and Critical for BUB3 Function in Mitotic Checkpoint. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(18). 11282–11292. 6 indexed citations

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