Yong Duan

17.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
197 papers, 14.8k citations indexed

About

Yong Duan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Yong Duan has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 14.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Materials Chemistry and 22 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Yong Duan's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (64 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (40 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (15 papers). Yong Duan is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (64 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (40 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (15 papers). Yong Duan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Yong Duan's co-authors include Peter A. Kollman, Piotr Cieplak, Chun Wu, Tai‐Sung Lee, Junmei Wang, Hongxing Lei, Ray Luo, Shibasish Chowdhury, Guoming Xiong and Wei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yong Duan

188 papers receiving 14.6k 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.

Calculating Structures and Free Energies of Complex Molecules: Combining Molecular Mechanics and Continuum Models

2000 4.0k citations Yong Duan, Piotr Cieplak et al. profile →
A point‐charge force field for molecular mechanics simulations of proteins based on condensed‐phase quantum mechanical calculations

2003 3.9k citations Yong Duan, Chun Wu et al. profile →
Pathways to a Protein Folding Intermediate Observed in a 1-Microsecond Simulation in Aqueous Solution

1998 1.1k citations Yong Duan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yong Duan United States	41	10.5k	3.1k	1.8k	1.8k	1.5k	197	14.8k
Ray Luo United States	43	12.6k 1.2×	3.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	180	17.5k
Alexey V. Onufriev United States	37	13.7k 1.3×	3.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	2.4k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	100	19.0k
M Abraham Australia	6	9.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	6	18.2k
Ross C. Walker United States	39	9.7k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	77	13.6k
Michael Feig United States	54	16.6k 1.6×	4.4k 1.4×	1.6k 0.9×	2.9k 1.7×	2.0k 1.4×	176	21.3k
Stefano Piana Italy	43	11.6k 1.1×	4.8k 1.5×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	87	15.7k
Laxmikant V. Kalé United States	41	11.3k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	293	22.6k
Teemu J. Murtola Finland	27	10.2k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	139	20.5k
Sunhwan Jo United States	34	12.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	69	17.0k
Bert L. de Groot Germany	66	15.7k 1.5×	3.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.4×	229	21.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yong Duan

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Duan, Yong, Junmei Wang, Piotr Cieplak, & Ray Luo. (2025). Refinement of Atomic Polarizabilities for a Polarizable Gaussian Multipole Force Field with Simultaneous Considerations of Both Molecular Polarizability Tensors and In-Solution Electrostatic Potentials. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(3). 1428–1440. 3 indexed citations

Duan, Yong, et al.. (2025). From tumor immunotherapy to myocardial injury: A mechanistic discussion of immune checkpoint inhibitor‑related myocarditis (Review). Molecular Medicine Reports. 32(6). 1–15. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ping, Nan Zhang, Zhuo Wang, et al.. (2025). Association between fat-soluble vitamin co-exposure patterns and blood pressure in people with hypertension: a cross-sectional study. Frontiers in Nutrition. 11. 1502139–1502139. 1 indexed citations

Duan, Yong, et al.. (2025). Kernel adaptive filter-based channel prediction for adaptive underwater acoustic OFDMA system. Applied Ocean Research. 158. 104586–104586.

Wang, Xiao, et al.. (2024). Complement Factor B (CFB) inhibits the malignant progression of lung adenocarcinoma by downregulating the Ras/MAPK signaling pathway. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 760. 110130–110130. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Shiji, Piotr Cieplak, Yong Duan, & Ray Luo. (2023). Transferability of the Electrostatic Parameters of the Polarizable Gaussian Multipole Model. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(3). 924–941. 9 indexed citations

Chen, Ping, Linlin Tang, Yun Song, et al.. (2023). Association of folic acid dosage with circulating unmetabolized folic acid in Chinese adults with H-type hypertension: a multicenter, double-blind, randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Nutrition. 10. 1191610–1191610. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Ziyi, Nan Zhang, Yun Song, et al.. (2022). Serum L-Carnitine Levels Are Associated With First Stroke in Chinese Adults With Hypertension. Stroke. 53(10). 3091–3098. 4 indexed citations

Li, Ya, et al.. (2020). Transcriptome analysis reveals gender-specific differences in overall metabolic response of male and female patients in lung adenocarcinoma. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0230796–e0230796. 10 indexed citations

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Qi, Yanping, et al.. (2020). C1188D mutation abolishes specific recognition between MLL1‐CXXC domain and CpG site by inducing conformational switch of flexible N‐terminal. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 88(11). 1401–1412. 1 indexed citations

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Shih, Tsung‐Chieh, Ruiwu Liu, Chun‐Te Wu, et al.. (2018). Targeting Galectin-1 Impairs Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Progression and Invasion. Clinical Cancer Research. 24(17). 4319–4331. 43 indexed citations

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Chang, Xiujun, et al.. (2016). The clinical significance of loss of FHIT and PTEN expression in 289 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. Translational Cancer Research. 5(3). 294–301. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuming, et al.. (2010). An association study between IL-6 gene polymorphism and schizophrenia.. 25(3). 37–41. 1 indexed citations

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Lei, Hongxing, Su Yao, Lian Jin, & Yong Duan. (2010). Folding Network of Villin Headpiece Subdomain. Biophysical Journal. 99(10). 3374–3384. 14 indexed citations

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Cieplak, Piotr, et al.. (2009). Polarization effects in molecular mechanical force fields. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21(33). 333102–333102. 265 indexed citations

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Yuan, Chunwang, et al.. (2008). Clinical characteristics and radiological manifestations of immune reconstitution inflamnmtory syndrome in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients with tuberculosis during Mghly active antiretrovirai therapy. Zhonghua fangshexian yixue zazhi. 42(2). 149–151.

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Lei, Hongxing, Chun Wu, Haiguang Liu, & Yong Duan. (2007). Folding free-energy landscape of villin headpiece subdomain from molecular dynamics simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(12). 4925–4930. 207 indexed citations

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Duan, Yong & Su Li. (2006). Karyotype Analysis of Four Species in Caragana Fabr.. JOURNAL OF WUHAN BOTANICAL RESEARCH. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Chun, Hongxing Lei, & Yong Duan. (2005). The Role of Phe in the Formation of Well-Ordered Oligomers of Amyloidogenic Hexapeptide (NFGAIL) Observed in Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Explicit Solvent. Biophysical Journal. 88(4). 2897–2906. 56 indexed citations

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Duan, Yong, Patricia A. Wilkosz, & John M. Rosenberg. (1996). Dynamic Contributions to the DNA Binding Entropy of theEcoRI andEcoRV Restriction Endonucleases. Journal of Molecular Biology. 264(3). 546–555. 22 indexed citations

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