Yu Yan

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yu Yan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Yan has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yu Yan's work include Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Advanced Glycation End Products research (5 papers). Yu Yan is often cited by papers focused on Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Advanced Glycation End Products research (5 papers). Yu Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yu Yan's co-authors include Minghua Yang, Liangchun Yang, Daolin Tang, Lizhi Cao, Yangchun Xie, Herbert J. Zeh, Rui Kang, Michael T. Lotze, Min Xie and Fanghua Ye and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Yu Yan

42 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

The ferroptosis inducer erastin enhances sensitivity of a... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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. The ferroptosis inducer erastin enhances sensitivity of acute myeloid leukemia cells to chemotherapeutic agents
    2015 390 citations Yu Yan, Yangchun Xie et al. Molecular & Cellular Oncology 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 Yan China 17 814 521 452 183 133 48 1.3k
Sushant K. Kachhap United States 21 1.4k 1.8× 305 0.6× 442 1.0× 405 2.2× 98 0.7× 48 1.9k
S.M. Jamshedur Rahman United States 21 902 1.1× 329 0.6× 375 0.8× 226 1.2× 356 2.7× 32 1.6k
Karthik Vasan United States 11 892 1.1× 163 0.3× 484 1.1× 143 0.8× 191 1.4× 15 1.3k
Sabarish Ramachandran United States 18 1.3k 1.6× 168 0.3× 590 1.3× 398 2.2× 189 1.4× 37 1.9k
Mohamad Elbaz United States 13 558 0.7× 167 0.3× 332 0.7× 264 1.4× 201 1.5× 15 1.2k
Aya Yamaguchi Japan 9 948 1.2× 129 0.2× 461 1.0× 147 0.8× 78 0.6× 20 1.4k
Javier García‐Bermúdez United States 12 1.3k 1.6× 613 1.2× 967 2.1× 156 0.9× 108 0.8× 15 1.8k
Clotilde Wiel Sweden 18 1.2k 1.5× 172 0.3× 442 1.0× 281 1.5× 239 1.8× 35 1.9k
Feng Ji China 20 1.0k 1.2× 311 0.6× 547 1.2× 136 0.7× 90 0.7× 45 1.5k
Yan Ding China 20 963 1.2× 437 0.8× 340 0.8× 319 1.7× 206 1.5× 51 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Yan

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

All Works

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Liu, Jiajing, Yu Yan, Gang Wang, et al.. (2025). 13-Methylpalmatine alleviates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis by suppressing the ITGA5/TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway. Phytomedicine. 140. 156545–156545.
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Gan, Cailing, Wei Wei, Taixiong Xue, et al.. (2025). Focal adhesion kinase inhibitors in fibrotic diseases therapy: Development and therapeutic potential. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 296. 117882–117882.
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Khan, Khadija Shahed, Zhihao Guo, Yunpeng Huang, et al.. (2024). Targeted Protein O-GlcNAcylation Using Bifunctional Small Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(14). 9779–9789. 20 indexed citations
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Filipović, Dragana, et al.. (2023). Chronic fluoxetine treatment in socially-isolated rats modulates the prefrontal cortex synaptoproteome. Journal of Proteomics. 282. 104925–104925. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li, et al.. (2023). Quinone Pool, a Key Target of Plant Flavonoids Inhibiting Gram-Positive Bacteria. Molecules. 28(13). 4972–4972. 8 indexed citations
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Yan, Yu, et al.. (2022). Polarity-Sensitive and Membrane-Specific Probe Quantitatively Monitoring Ferroptosis through Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging. Analytical Chemistry. 94(32). 11238–11247. 52 indexed citations
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Yan, Yu, Dong Ik Park, Anja K. E. Horn, Mari S. Golub, & Christoph W. Turck. (2022). Delineation of biomarkers and molecular pathways of residual effects of fluoxetine treatment in juvenile rhesus monkeys by proteomic profiling. 动物学研究. 44(1). 30–42.
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Filipović, Dragana, et al.. (2022). Chronic Fluoxetine Treatment of Socially Isolated Rats Modulates Prefrontal Cortex Proteome. Neuroscience. 501. 52–71. 14 indexed citations
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Ji, Fei, Shaoyun Chen, Xiaoling Lin, et al.. (2021). m6A methyltransferase METTL3-mediated lncRNA FOXD2-AS1 promotes the tumorigenesis of cervical cancer. Molecular Therapy — Oncolytics. 22. 574–581. 40 indexed citations
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Park, Dong Ik, et al.. (2020). Paroxetine binding and activation of phosphofructokinase implicates energy metabolism in antidepressant mode of action. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 129. 8–14. 11 indexed citations
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Zhu, Weiwei, Hongqiang Li, Yu Yan, et al.. (2018). Enolase-1 serves as a biomarker of diagnosis and prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma patients. Cancer Management and Research. Volume 10. 5735–5745. 36 indexed citations
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Yan, Yu, Yangchun Xie, Lizhi Cao, et al.. (2015). The ferroptosis inducer erastin enhances sensitivity of acute myeloid leukemia cells to chemotherapeutic agents. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. 2(4). e1054549–e1054549. 390 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Lu, et al.. (2011). Effect of Different Iodine Nutrition on Cerebellum Pcp-2 in Rat Offspring During Lactation. Biological Trace Element Research. 143(3). 1629–1639. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ying, Yong-ming Yao, Lifeng Huang, et al.. (2010). The Potential Effect and Mechanism of High-Mobility Group Box 1 Protein on Regulatory T Cell-Mediated Immunosuppression. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 31(2). 249–257. 45 indexed citations
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Han, Wei, Yu Yan, & Xin‐Yuan Liu. (2006). Local signals in stem cell-based bone marrow regeneration. Cell Research. 16(2). 189–195. 52 indexed citations

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