Yuan Li

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
174 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Yuan Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuan Li has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Oncology and 47 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Yuan Li's work include Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (29 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (23 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (16 papers). Yuan Li is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (29 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (23 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (16 papers). Yuan Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yuan Li's co-authors include Hye Jin Lee, Robert M. Corn, Jie He, Zhiliang Lu, Jianbing Huang, Zhaoli Chen, Shouguo Sun, Zhenning Wang, Jaffer A. Ajani and Shumei Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yuan Li

160 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuan Li China	32	2.4k	1.2k	649	444	427	174	3.7k
Qing Wei China	28	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	659 1.0×	574 1.3×	313 0.7×	92	4.1k
Silvia Zappavigna Italy	35	1.7k 0.7×	856 0.7×	805 1.2×	259 0.6×	366 0.9×	100	3.6k
Emilia Wiecheć Sweden	29	2.1k 0.9×	815 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	383 0.9×	344 0.8×	46	3.7k
Zhiyong Wang China	39	3.1k 1.3×	645 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	443 1.0×	418 1.0×	145	5.2k
Ji Wang China	32	2.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	556 0.9×	211 0.5×	529 1.2×	142	3.9k
Hao Yang China	29	1.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	437 0.7×	208 0.5×	410 1.0×	124	3.0k
Hongmei Zhou China	32	1.3k 0.5×	713 0.6×	886 1.4×	272 0.6×	417 1.0×	175	3.6k
Shiyong Wu United States	30	2.2k 0.9×	989 0.8×	434 0.7×	215 0.5×	234 0.5×	106	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuan Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuan Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuan Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Ping, Xinxin Yan, Jingyi Xu, et al.. (2025). Novel therapeutic insights into pathological cardiac hypertrophy: tRF-16-R29P4PE regulates PACE4 and metabolic pathways. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1872(3). 119920–119920. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Teng, Yuan Li, Xinyu Chen, et al.. (2025). Immunoproteasome subunits are novel signatures for predicting efficacy of immunotherapy in muscle invasive bladder cancer. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 228–228. 3 indexed citations

Li, Xia, Jiahe Liu, Xi Huang, et al.. (2025). The association of family functioning and suicide in children and adolescents: positive behavior recognition and non-suicidal self-injury as sequential mediators. Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1505960–1505960. 1 indexed citations

Xing, Zhuo, Xurui Li, Haozhe Xu, et al.. (2025). High-glucose-associated YTHDC1 lactylation reduces the sensitivity of bladder cancer to enfortumab vedotin therapy. Cell Reports. 44(4). 115545–115545. 10 indexed citations

Li, Zhuoyu, Daoyang Fan, Yongkun Yang, et al.. (2025). What Are the Long-term Outcomes of Wrist Arthrodesis Using Structural Iliac Bone Graft After Resection of the Distal Radius for Giant Cell Tumor of Bone? A Minimum 10-year Follow-up. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 484(3). 547–557.

Sun, Yong, Shanshan Shi, Yuan Li, et al.. (2025). Triclabendazole inhibits PKM2 nuclear localization and glycolysis by enhancing HDAC6-mediated deacetylation in lung cancer. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 1001–1001. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Yong, Hua Jiang, Yuan Li, et al.. (2025). Pre-treatment peripheral blood TCR repertoire as a predictor of response in patients with NSCLC treated with immunochemotherapy. BMC Cancer. 25(1). 1105–1105.

Xu, Qi, Xiaoyu Feng, Siyuan Qin, et al.. (2024). Research on therapeutic clinical trials including immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer: a bibliometric analysis. Frontiers in Oncology. 14. 1423924–1423924. 1 indexed citations

Tao, Ye, et al.. (2023). Global research hot spot and trends in tinnitus treatment between 2000 and 2021: A bibliometric and visualized study. Frontiers in Neurology. 13. 1085684–1085684. 4 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hao, Yuan Li, Xuefei Lv, Yulin Deng, & Xiaoqiong Li. (2023). Recent advances in cascade isothermal amplification techniques for ultra-sensitive nucleic acid detection. Talanta. 260. 124645–124645. 49 indexed citations

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Xie, Lu, Zhenyu Cai, Hezhe Lu, et al.. (2023). Distinct genomic features between osteosarcomas firstly metastasing to bone and to lung. Heliyon. 9(5). e15527–e15527. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, et al.. (2022). Alterations in degree centrality and cognitive function in breast cancer patients after chemotherapy. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 16(5). 2248–2257. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Lijuan, et al.. (2022). CTHRC1 Is Associated With Immune Escape and Poor Prognosis in Gastric Cancer. Anticancer Research. 43(1). 115–126. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, et al.. (2022). Shikonin attenuates kidney tubular epithelial cells apoptosis, oxidative stress, and inflammatory response through nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase 4/PTEN pathway in acute kidney injury of sepsis model. Drug Development Research. 83(5). 1111–1124. 12 indexed citations

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Li, Yi, Wei Mu, Yuan Li, et al.. (2021). Predicting the nature of pleural effusion in patients with lung adenocarcinoma based on 18F-FDG PET/CT. EJNMMI Research. 11(1). 108–108. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Sai‐Lan, Lijuan Bian, Zexian Liu, et al.. (2020). Development and validation of the immune signature to predict distant metastasis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 8(1). e000205–e000205. 27 indexed citations

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Ding, Hui, et al.. (2020). Identification of key biomarkers and potential signaling pathway associated with poor progression of gastric cancer. Translational Cancer Research. 9(9). 5459–5472. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, et al.. (2020). Bone defect reconstruction with autologous bone inactivated with liquid nitrogen after resection of primary limb malignant tumors. Medicine. 99(24). e20442–e20442. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, et al.. (2020). Cellular heterogeneity map of diverse immune and stromal phenotypes within breast tumor microenvironment. PeerJ. 8. e9478–e9478. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Xinming, et al.. (2002). [Proliferating activity and differentiation between peripheral cells and central cells in ameloblastoma].. PubMed. 37(1). 62–4. 3 indexed citations

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