Yu Sun

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Yu Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Soil Science and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Sun has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Soil Science and 11 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Yu Sun's work include Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques (10 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Yu Sun is often cited by papers focused on Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques (10 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Yu Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yu Sun's co-authors include Jinhua Li, Xinli Qu, Georgina Caruana, Xiuhong Xu, Ayodeji Bello, Ming Zhan, Qingxin Meng, Liting Deng, Huai Li and Yue Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yu Sun

72 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

The origin of renal fibroblasts/myofibroblasts and the signals that trigger fibrosis

2016 286 citations Yu Sun, Xinli Qu et al. Differentiation profile →
Modelling human blastocysts by reprogramming fibroblasts into iBlastoids

2021 240 citations Xiaodong Liu, Jia Ping Tan et al. Nature profile →
Microbial community composition, co-occurrence network pattern and nitrogen transformation genera response to biochar addition in cattle manure-maize straw composting

2020 194 citations Ayodeji Bello, Yue Han et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Sun China	27	1.1k	383	235	233	229	77	2.3k
Xiaofei Lv China	31	1.0k 1.0×	113 0.3×	67 0.3×	161 0.7×	277 1.2×	85	2.4k
Tamás Németh Hungary	24	625 0.6×	326 0.9×	48 0.2×	124 0.5×	106 0.5×	136	2.9k
Xiao Xiao China	32	1.7k 1.6×	69 0.2×	53 0.2×	94 0.4×	479 2.1×	140	3.7k
Ming He China	28	1.4k 1.3×	45 0.1×	69 0.3×	254 1.1×	844 3.7×	88	2.8k
Xiaoyan Jiao China	20	357 0.3×	77 0.2×	105 0.4×	68 0.3×	169 0.7×	62	1.1k
Ke Tan China	30	1.1k 1.0×	85 0.2×	28 0.1×	326 1.4×	284 1.2×	69	2.3k
Ruoyu Wang China	31	1.1k 1.0×	74 0.2×	54 0.2×	89 0.4×	302 1.3×	183	3.1k
Lili Gao China	32	975 0.9×	490 1.3×	16 0.1×	131 0.6×	357 1.6×	104	3.1k
Zhirong Zhang China	20	1.6k 1.5×	28 0.1×	195 0.8×	67 0.3×	152 0.7×	37	2.5k
Yuming Li China	24	545 0.5×	64 0.2×	38 0.2×	48 0.2×	134 0.6×	77	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu 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 Yu Sun. Yu 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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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Hao, Zhenhao Liu, Yanqing Gong, et al.. (2025). Low physical activity-related disease burden, 1990–2021: assessment of global trends and social determinants based on GBD 2021 data. Journal of Global Health. 15. 4314–4314.

Zhang, Jie, Yu Sun, Zeyi Zhou, et al.. (2025). Bilayer vascular grafts incorporated with S-nitrosated keratin nanoparticles and resveratrol to enhance long-term nitric oxide release and endothelialization. Acta Biomaterialia. 203. 291–305. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Manli, Weina Chen, Xiaofeng Yue, et al.. (2025). Interactive effects of Bisphenol F exposure and TLR4 rs4986790 on unexplained miscarriage. EBioMedicine. 121. 105968–105968.

Shi, Shuai, Jiaxin Bao, Yue Han, et al.. (2024). Improving prediction of N2O emissions during composting using model-agnostic meta-learning. The Science of The Total Environment. 922. 171357–171357. 9 indexed citations

Sun, Yu, Min Kyung Sung, B. Toussaint, et al.. (2024). Exploring single-cell RNA sequencing as a decision-making tool in the clinical management of Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 102. 101286–101286. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Saisai, et al.. (2024). Physiological, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analyses reveal that Pantoea sp. YSD J2 inoculation improves the accumulation of flavonoids in Cyperus esculentus L. var. sativus. Heliyon. 10(16). e35966–e35966. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Jie, et al.. (2024). Atmospheric PM2.5 Prediction Model Based on Principal Component Analysis and SSA–SVM. Sustainability. 16(2). 832–832. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Joseph, Jessica A. Neil, Jianping Tan, et al.. (2023). A placental model of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals ACE2-dependent susceptibility and differentiation impairment in syncytiotrophoblasts. Nature Cell Biology. 25(8). 1223–1234. 20 indexed citations

Bello, Ayodeji, Wanying Liu, Kehinde O. Erinle, et al.. (2022). Deciphering biochar compost co-application impact on microbial communities mediating carbon and nitrogen transformation across different stages of corn development. Environmental Research. 219. 115123–115123. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaodong, Jia Ping Tan, Jan Schröder, et al.. (2021). Modelling human blastocysts by reprogramming fibroblasts into iBlastoids. Nature. 591(7851). 627–632. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Deng, Liting, Mingming Zhao, Ayodeji Bello, et al.. (2021). Insight into the influence of biochar on nitrification based on multi-level and multi-aspect analyses of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms during cattle manure composting. Bioresource Technology. 339. 125515–125515. 31 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaotong, Yu Sun, Liting Deng, et al.. (2020). Insight to key diazotrophic community during composting of dairy manure with biochar and its role in nitrogen transformation. Waste Management. 105. 190–197. 60 indexed citations

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Wang, Yaqi, Xiaomin Zhang, Song Qiao, et al.. (2020). Characterization of the chromatin accessibility in an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) mouse model. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 12(1). 29–29. 31 indexed citations

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Sun, Yu, Siyuan Sheng, Xin Jiang, et al.. (2019). Genetic associations as indices for assessing nitrogen transformation processes in co-composting of cattle manure and rice straw. Bioresource Technology. 291. 121815–121815. 28 indexed citations

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Sun, Yu, Mengqi Men, Benshu Xu, et al.. (2019). Assessing key microbial communities determining nitrogen transformation in composting of cow manure using illumina high-throughput sequencing. Waste Management. 92. 59–67. 66 indexed citations

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Abdul‐Aziz, Amina, Manar Shafat, Yu Sun, et al.. (2018). HIF1α drives chemokine factor pro-tumoral signaling pathways in acute myeloid leukemia. Oncogene. 37(20). 2676–2686. 27 indexed citations

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Sun, Yu, et al.. (2016). Identification of surface-associated proteins of Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis KLDS 2.0603 by enzymatic shaving. Journal of Dairy Science. 99(7). 5155–5172. 19 indexed citations

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Sun, Yu, Xinli Qu, Georgina Caruana, & Jinhua Li. (2016). The origin of renal fibroblasts/myofibroblasts and the signals that trigger fibrosis. Differentiation. 92(3). 102–107. 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Yu, Xinli Qu, Victor Howard, et al.. (2015). Smad3 deficiency protects mice from obesity-induced podocyte injury that precedes insulin resistance. Kidney International. 88(2). 286–298. 44 indexed citations

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Qu, Xinli, Mengjie Jiang, Yu Sun, et al.. (2015). The Smad3/Smad4/CDK9 complex promotes renal fibrosis in mice with unilateral ureteral obstruction. Kidney International. 88(6). 1323–1335. 17 indexed citations

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