Yong Zhao

14.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
198 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Yong Zhao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yong Zhao has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Physiology and 23 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Yong Zhao's work include Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (36 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (27 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (18 papers). Yong Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (36 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (27 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (18 papers). Yong Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Yong Zhao's co-authors include Eva Samal, Deepak P. Srivastava, Jian Ren, Vasanth Vedantham, Deepak Srivastava, Haiying Liu, Ankang Li, J. Ransom, Takatoshi Tsuchihashi and Michael T. McManus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yong Zhao

194 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Serum response factor regulates a muscle-specific microRNA that targets Hand2 during cardiogenesis

2005 1.2k citations Yong Zhao, Eva Samal et al. Nature profile →
Dysregulation of Cardiogenesis, Cardiac Conduction, and Cell Cycle in Mice Lacking miRNA-1-2

2007 1.1k citations Yong Zhao et al. profile →
IBS: an illustrator for the presentation and visualization of biological sequences

2015 733 citations Yubin Xie, Xiaotong Luo 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 Zhao China	47	7.2k	2.7k	1.2k	863	640	198	9.7k
Yong Chen China	54	7.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	555 0.9×	350	11.5k
Bin Tian United States	64	11.3k 1.6×	2.3k 0.9×	837 0.7×	749 0.9×	957 1.5×	287	14.6k
Xiaowo Wang China	28	5.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	796 0.7×	1.6k 1.9×	825 1.3×	110	8.4k
Sheng Zhang China	41	3.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	625 0.5×	858 1.0×	771 1.2×	236	7.2k
Anne E. Willis United Kingdom	60	8.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	604 0.5×	371 0.4×	870 1.4×	158	11.3k
Yunlong Liu United States	49	6.1k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	805 0.7×	253 0.3×	829 1.3×	366	9.6k
Lihua Julie Zhu United States	54	6.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	593 0.5×	588 0.7×	656 1.0×	165	9.3k
Timo Lassmann Australia	38	4.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	890 0.8×	468 0.5×	858 1.3×	93	6.0k
Li Zhan China	22	5.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	475 0.4×	914 1.1×	1.5k 2.4×	68	9.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yong Zhao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yong Zhao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yong Zhao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Yong, et al.. (2025). Impact of water transfer on socioeconomic drought in China: A new approach based on production and consumption. Agricultural Water Management. 308. 109291–109291. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yaling, Lianjuan Yang, Yong Zhao, et al.. (2025). Adaptive evolution of Candida albicans through modulating TOR signaling. mBio. 16(4). e0394724–e0394724.

Li, Ao‐Mei, Zhong‐Liang Chen, Fen Liao, et al.. (2024). Sugarcane borers: species, distribution, damage and management options. Journal of Pest Science. 97(3). 1171–1201. 9 indexed citations

Wu, Shu‐Biao, Yuanlong Ge, Kaixuan Lin, et al.. (2022). Telomerase RNA TERC and the PI3K-AKT pathway form a positive feedback loop to regulate cell proliferation independent of telomerase activity. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(7). 3764–3776. 23 indexed citations

Hou, Peili, Xuefeng Wang, Hongmei Wang, et al.. (2022). The ORF7a protein of SARS-CoV-2 initiates autophagy and limits autophagosome-lysosome fusion via degradation of SNAP29 to promote virus replication. Autophagy. 19(2). 551–569. 83 indexed citations

Peng, Qianqian, Yu Liu, Canfeng Zhang, et al.. (2022). Genetic Variants in Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Contribute to Solar Lentigines. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 143(6). 1062–1072.e25. 3 indexed citations

Cheng, Xiaolei, Xiaoping Gu, Tianjiao Xia, et al.. (2021). HuB and HuD repress telomerase activity by dissociating HuR from TERC. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(5). 2848–2858. 14 indexed citations

Zheng, Ke‐wei, Jiayu Zhang, Yi-de He, et al.. (2020). Detection of genomic G-quadruplexes in living cells using a small artificial protein. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(20). 11706–11720. 119 indexed citations

Zhang, Canfeng, Liping Chen, Di Peng, et al.. (2020). METTL3 and N6-Methyladenosine Promote Homologous Recombination-Mediated Repair of DSBs by Modulating DNA-RNA Hybrid Accumulation. Molecular Cell. 79(3). 425–442.e7. 227 indexed citations

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Chen, Yanlian, Chen Xie, Xiaohui Zheng, et al.. (2019). LIN28/ let-7 /PD-L1 Pathway as a Target for Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancer Immunology Research. 7(3). 487–497. 69 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zepeng, Tianpeng Zhang, Yuanlong Ge, et al.. (2019). 2D gel electrophoresis reveals dynamics of t-loop formation during the cell cycle and t-loop in maintenance regulated by heterochromatin state. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(16). 6645–6656. 5 indexed citations

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Xie, Yubin, Xiaotong Luo, Wenbin Ma, et al.. (2018). DeepNitro: Prediction of Protein Nitration and Nitrosylation Sites by Deep Learning. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 16(4). 294–306. 78 indexed citations

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Shao, Changwei, Chang Li, Na Wang, et al.. (2018). Chromosome-level genome assembly of the spotted sea bass, Lateolabrax maculatus. GigaScience. 7(11). 49 indexed citations

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Wu, Yingying, Yong Zhao, Yanying Wang, et al.. (2017). Sensitive immunosensing of squamous cell carcinoma antigen based on a nanocomposite of poly{3-amine-N-[3-(N-pyrrole)propyl]imidazole bromide} ionic liquid and gold nanoroots. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 96. 140–145. 21 indexed citations

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Pandita, Raj K., Tracy T. Chow, Durga Udayakumar, et al.. (2015). Single-Strand DNA-Binding Protein SSB1 Facilitates TERT Recruitment to Telomeres and Maintains Telomere G-Overhangs. Cancer Research. 75(5). 858–869. 14 indexed citations

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Fulga, Tudor A., Elizabeth M. McNeill, Richard Binari, et al.. (2015). A transgenic resource for conditional competitive inhibition of conserved Drosophila microRNAs. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7279–7279. 58 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qiang, et al.. (2012). Application of Metabolic Profiling for Distinguishing Different Pathogenic Vibrio Parahaemolyticus. Gaodeng xuexiao huaxue xuebao. 33(8). 1686. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Yuting, Yejing Ge, Jenny Drnevich, et al.. (2010). Mammalian target of rapamycin regulates miRNA-1 and follistatin in skeletal myogenesis. The Journal of Cell Biology. 189(7). 1157–1169. 164 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yong, Olivier Haccard, Ruoning Wang, et al.. (2008). Roles of Greatwall Kinase in the Regulation of Cdc25 Phosphatase. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19(4). 1317–1327. 60 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yong, Eva Samal, & Deepak P. Srivastava. (2005). Serum response factor regulates a muscle-specific microRNA that targets Hand2 during cardiogenesis. Nature. 436(7048). 214–220. 1206 indexed citations breakdown →

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