Youngjae You

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Youngjae You is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Youngjae You has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 37 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Youngjae You's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (38 papers), Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (37 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (22 papers). Youngjae You is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (38 papers), Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (37 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (22 papers). Youngjae You collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Youngjae You's co-authors include Samuel G. Awuah, Moses Bio, Gregory Nkepang, Byung-Zun Ahn, Nguyen‐Hai Nam, Pallavi Rajaputra, Michael R. Detty, Yong Kim, Yong Kim and Francis D’Souza and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Youngjae You

98 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-based photosensitizers for ... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-based photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy
    2012 570 citations Samuel G. Awuah, Youngjae You profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Youngjae You United States 31 1.8k 1.3k 1.0k 905 805 104 3.7k
Chunyan Tan China 37 1.5k 0.8× 523 0.4× 1.2k 1.2× 2.0k 2.2× 117 0.1× 138 4.5k
Hong Liang China 38 1.3k 0.7× 652 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 1.7k 1.9× 149 0.2× 158 4.3k
Feng Gao China 38 984 0.6× 829 0.6× 1.2k 1.2× 1.9k 2.1× 220 0.3× 187 4.8k
Ori Green Israel 26 897 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 759 0.8× 1.2k 1.4× 165 0.2× 45 2.8k
Paramesh Jangili South Korea 16 1.1k 0.6× 999 0.8× 557 0.6× 690 0.8× 288 0.4× 38 2.7k
Cristina Marzano Italy 40 839 0.5× 344 0.3× 3.9k 3.9× 1.5k 1.7× 157 0.2× 135 7.2k
Yu‐Shun Yang China 29 691 0.4× 570 0.4× 839 0.8× 849 0.9× 120 0.1× 121 2.8k
Wei Lü China 37 462 0.3× 571 0.4× 1.3k 1.3× 2.2k 2.4× 100 0.1× 239 4.6k
Gyoungmi Kim South Korea 34 2.6k 1.5× 1.9k 1.5× 409 0.4× 998 1.1× 862 1.1× 61 4.9k
Yangzhong Liu China 40 1.7k 1.0× 1.6k 1.2× 724 0.7× 2.1k 2.3× 231 0.3× 165 5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Youngjae You

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Foster, Barbara A., et al.. (2025). A Comprehensive Review of Current Approaches in Bladder Cancer Treatment. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science. 8(2). 286–307. 6 indexed citations
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Giram, Prabhanjan, et al.. (2025). In Situ Cancer Vaccines: Redefining Immune Activation in the Tumor Microenvironment. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 11(5). 2550–2583. 1 indexed citations
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Bist, Ganesh, et al.. (2024). Comparison of red and green light for treating non‐muscle invasive bladder cancer in rats using singlet oxygen‐cleavable prodrugs with PPIX‐PDT. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 100(6). 1659–1675. 3 indexed citations
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Bist, Ganesh, et al.. (2024). Enhancing PDT efficacy in NMIBC: Efflux inhibitor mediated improvement of PpIX levels and efficacy of the combination of PpIX‐PDT and SO‐cleavable prodrugs. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 100(6). 1636–1646. 2 indexed citations
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Bist, Ganesh, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial targeting improves the selectivity of singlet‐oxygen cleavable prodrugs in NMIBC treatment. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 100(6). 1622–1635. 3 indexed citations
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Bist, Ganesh, et al.. (2023). SAR of L-ABBA analogs for GGT1 inhibitory activity and L-ABBA's effect on plasma cysteine and GSH species. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 92. 129406–129406.
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Terzyan, S., et al.. (2022). Design and evaluation of novel analogs of 2-amino-4-boronobutanoic acid (ABBA) as inhibitors of human gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 73. 116986–116986. 3 indexed citations
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Giram, Prabhanjan, et al.. (2022). Photodynamic Therapy for Bladder Cancers, A Focused Review†. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 99(2). 420–436. 31 indexed citations
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Thapa, Pritam, et al.. (2021). Singlet Oxygen Activatable Prodrugs of Paclitaxel, SN‐38, MMC and CA4: Nonmitochondria‐Targeted Prodrugs†. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 98(2). 389–399. 6 indexed citations
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Terzyan, S., Anthony W. G. Burgett, A. Héroux, et al.. (2020). Crystal structures of glutathione- and inhibitor-bound human GGT1: critical interactions within the cysteinylglycine binding site. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100066–100066. 10 indexed citations
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Bio, Moses, et al.. (2019). Singlet oxygen-activatable Paclitaxel prodrugs via intermolecular activation for combined PDT and chemotherapy. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 29(12). 1537–1540. 18 indexed citations
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Bharathiraja, Subramaniyan, Pallavi Rajaputra, Mengjie Li, et al.. (2019). Local and Systemic Antitumor Effects of Photo‐activatable Paclitaxel Prodrug on Rat Breast Tumor Models. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 96(3). 668–679. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Mengjie, Radha Karki, Moses Bio, et al.. (2017). Folate-PEG Conjugates of a Far-Red Light-Activatable Paclitaxel Prodrug to Improve Selectivity toward Folate Receptor-Positive Cancer Cells. ACS Omega. 2(10). 6349–6360. 38 indexed citations
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Bio, Moses, et al.. (2017). Efficient activation of a visible light-activatable CA4 prodrug through intermolecular photo-unclick chemistry in mitochondria. Chemical Communications. 53(11). 1884–1887. 22 indexed citations
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Awuah, Samuel G., Moses Bio, Habtom B. Gobeze, et al.. (2015). Dual Functioning Thieno‐Pyrrole Fused BODIPY Dyes for NIR Optical Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy: Singlet Oxygen Generation without Heavy Halogen Atom Assistance. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 10(6). 1335–1343. 87 indexed citations
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Hurst, Robert E., Paul Hauser, Youngjae You, et al.. (2015). Identification of novel drugs to target dormant micrometastases. BMC Cancer. 15(1). 404–404. 11 indexed citations
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Nam, Nguyen‐Hai, et al.. (2004). New constituents fromCrinum latifoliumwith inhibitory effects against tube-like formation of human umbilical venous endothelial cells. Natural Product Research. 18(6). 485–491. 15 indexed citations
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Cường, Nguyễn Mạnh, Nguyen‐Hai Nam, Yong Kim, et al.. (2002). Cytotoxic activity of Vietnamese herbal medicines against A549 cells. Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy. 33(1). 64–68. 1 indexed citations
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Bae, KiHwan, et al.. (2000). Screening of angiogenesis inhibitors from Korean plants (I). Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy. 31(3). 320–324. 3 indexed citations

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