Yu Xia

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
187 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Yu Xia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Xia has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Molecular Biology, 95 papers in Spectroscopy and 18 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Yu Xia's work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (87 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (57 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (46 papers). Yu Xia is often cited by papers focused on Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (87 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (57 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (46 papers). Yu Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yu Xia's co-authors include Xiaoxiao Ma, Scott A. McLuckey, Zheng Ouyang, Wenpeng Zhang, Xiaorong Liang, R. Graham Cooks, Hongling Han, Qinhua Chen, Ji‐Xin Cheng and Junjie Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yu Xia

181 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Lipid Desaturation Is a Metabolic Marker and Therapeutic ... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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. Lipid Desaturation Is a Metabolic Marker and Therapeutic Target of Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells
    2016 445 citations Xiaoxiao Ma, Yu Xia et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yu Xia China 40 3.3k 3.2k 678 442 349 187 5.6k
Michael Przybylski Germany 43 2.3k 0.7× 3.4k 1.1× 579 0.9× 174 0.4× 532 1.5× 233 6.9k
Sarah Cianférani France 44 1.6k 0.5× 4.9k 1.5× 486 0.7× 256 0.6× 709 2.0× 240 7.2k
Bi‐Feng Yuan China 55 2.1k 0.6× 6.7k 2.1× 1.1k 1.6× 1.2k 2.8× 516 1.5× 268 9.9k
Suming Chen China 29 1.4k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 632 0.9× 129 0.3× 867 2.5× 156 3.3k
Yong Chen China 33 610 0.2× 1.7k 0.5× 752 1.1× 216 0.5× 716 2.1× 201 3.9k
Sichun Zhang China 45 2.8k 0.8× 2.2k 0.7× 2.1k 3.1× 107 0.2× 1.7k 4.8× 160 6.5k
Adam M. Hawkridge United States 27 1.2k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 288 0.4× 333 0.8× 220 0.6× 54 2.8k
Zongxiu Nie China 36 2.0k 0.6× 1.4k 0.4× 779 1.1× 53 0.1× 806 2.3× 159 3.9k
László Drahos Hungary 32 1.3k 0.4× 2.3k 0.7× 429 0.6× 521 1.2× 180 0.5× 204 4.7k
Keqi Tang China 54 6.2k 1.9× 2.8k 0.9× 2.6k 3.8× 119 0.3× 539 1.5× 227 8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Xia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Xia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Xia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu Xia 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 Xia. Yu Xia 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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Liu, Yikun, Yu Xia, & Wenpeng Zhang. (2025). Structural Lipidomics Enabled by Isomer-Resolved Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. 97(8). 4275–4286. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Runze, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired Lanthanide-ortho-Quinone-Catalyzed Aerobic Disulfide Formation. ACS Catalysis. 15(6). 4550–4559. 1 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Nils, Robert Ahrends, Erin Baker, et al.. (2025). Introduction of a lipidomics scoring system for data quality assessment. Journal of Lipid Research. 66(8). 100817–100817.
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Xia, Yu, et al.. (2024). Measurement and improvement of island B&BS customer satisfaction. Acta Psychologica. 248. 104425–104425. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yichun & Yu Xia. (2024). Deep profiling of plasmalogens by coupling the Paternò–Büchi derivatization with tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 416(19). 4397–4407. 1 indexed citations
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Xia, Yu, Lu Ding, Changlin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Inflammatory Factor IL1α Induces Aberrant Astrocyte Proliferation in Spinal Cord Injury Through the Grin2c/Ca2+/CaMK2b Pathway. Neuroscience Bulletin. 40(4). 421–438. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Xinwei, Bin Jiao, Wenbo Cao, et al.. (2022). Development of a Miniature Mass Spectrometry System for Point-of-Care Analysis of Lipid Isomers Based on Ozone-Induced Dissociation. Analytical Chemistry. 94(40). 13944–13950. 15 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jing, et al.. (2021). A liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry workflow for in-depth quantitation of fatty acid double bond location isomers. Journal of Lipid Research. 62. 100110–100110. 27 indexed citations
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Triebl, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Mapping the distribution of double bond location isomers in lipids across mouse tissues. The Analyst. 146(12). 3899–3907. 17 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiaoxiao, Wenpeng Zhang, Zishuai Li, Yu Xia, & Zheng Ouyang. (2021). Enabling High Structural Specificity to Lipidomics by Coupling Photochemical Derivatization with Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Accounts of Chemical Research. 54(20). 3873–3882. 40 indexed citations
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Pan, Yue, Yu Xia, Xiaoxue Yu, et al.. (2021). Comparative Analysis of Lipid Digestion Characteristics in Human, Bovine, and Caprine Milk Based on Simulated In Vitro Infant Gastrointestinal Digestion. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 69(35). 10104–10113. 21 indexed citations
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Xia, Yu, et al.. (2021). Cooperative Catalysis of Adjacent Acid Sites in Zeolite HZSM-5. Gaodeng xuexiao huaxue xuebao. 42(1). 239. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenpeng, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Phospholipid Isomer Analysis by Online Photochemical Derivatization and RPLC-MS. Analytical Chemistry. 92(9). 6719–6726. 36 indexed citations
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Crehuet, Ramón, et al.. (2020). Two-step reaction mechanism reveals new antioxidant capability of cysteine disulfides against hydroxyl radical attack. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(31). 18216–18223. 25 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenpeng, Donghui Zhang, Qinhua Chen, et al.. (2019). Online photochemical derivatization enables comprehensive mass spectrometric analysis of unsaturated phospholipid isomers. Nature Communications. 10(1). 79–79. 161 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenpeng, et al.. (2019). A Polymer Coating Transfer Enrichment Method for Direct Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Lipids in Biofluid Samples. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(18). 6064–6069. 34 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenpeng, et al.. (2019). A Polymer Coating Transfer Enrichment Method for Direct Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Lipids in Biofluid Samples. Angewandte Chemie. 131(18). 6125–6130. 5 indexed citations
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Cao, Wenbo, Leelyn Chong, Wei Hua, et al.. (2018). Point-of-Care Tissue Analysis Using Miniature Mass Spectrometer. Analytical Chemistry. 91(1). 1157–1163. 47 indexed citations
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Anglada, Josep M., et al.. (2018). Reactivity of hydropersulfides toward the hydroxyl radical unraveled: disulfide bond cleavage, hydrogen atom transfer, and proton-coupled electron transfer. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(7). 4793–4804. 12 indexed citations
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Na, Na, Yu Xia, Zhenli Zhu, Xinrong Zhang, & R. Graham Cooks. (2009). Birch Reduction of Benzene in a Low‐Temperature Plasma. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(11). 2017–2019. 80 indexed citations

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