Yuling Sun

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Yuling Sun is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuling Sun has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Oncology, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Yuling Sun's work include Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (10 papers), Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (6 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (6 papers). Yuling Sun is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (10 papers), Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (6 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (6 papers). Yuling Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yuling Sun's co-authors include Tao Bai, David M. Holtzman, Anne M. Fagan, Rongtao Zhu, Guojun Bu, Shuai Wang, Shan Wu, Ruopeng Liang, Weijie Wang and Alan Daugherty and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Yuling Sun

46 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Mechanisms of Ferroptosis and Relations With Regulated Cell Death: A Review

2019 425 citations Tao Bai, Yuling Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuling Sun China	20	1.2k	746	705	662	470	51	2.6k
Manuel D. Gahete Spain	36	1.4k 1.2×	247 0.3×	473 0.7×	713 1.1×	432 0.9×	155	3.8k
Lei Guo China	23	958 0.8×	187 0.3×	241 0.3×	203 0.3×	271 0.6×	82	2.1k
Richard S. Haber United States	28	978 0.8×	208 0.3×	335 0.5×	413 0.6×	271 0.6×	41	2.4k
Avelina Tortosa Spain	27	1.3k 1.0×	263 0.4×	427 0.6×	243 0.4×	475 1.0×	50	2.4k
Christoph Korbmacher Germany	41	3.5k 2.9×	1.1k 1.4×	159 0.2×	484 0.7×	276 0.6×	129	4.8k
John J Gildea United States	30	1.6k 1.3×	253 0.3×	296 0.4×	212 0.3×	232 0.5×	80	2.5k
Youxi Ai United States	23	1.9k 1.6×	607 0.8×	524 0.7×	304 0.5×	266 0.6×	27	3.3k
Nicola Perrotti Italy	30	1.4k 1.1×	184 0.2×	304 0.4×	181 0.3×	228 0.5×	92	2.4k
Paolo Gelosa Italy	30	930 0.8×	171 0.2×	224 0.3×	460 0.7×	156 0.3×	51	2.9k
Mar Hernández‐Guillamón Spain	32	1.1k 0.9×	194 0.3×	380 0.5×	899 1.4×	212 0.5×	71	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuling Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuling Sun

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

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Liu, Liang, Yun Zheng, Li Cao, et al.. (2025). Tumor‐Adhesive Chitosan‐Derived Multi‐Immune Agonist Unleashes Strong and Durable Anti‐Cancer Immunity. Advanced Science. 12(16). e2414110–e2414110. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yanmin, Hanyue Zhang, Senfeng Zhao, et al.. (2025). High metastatic tumor-derived CXCL16 mediates liver colonization metastasis by inducing Kupffer cell polarization via the PI3K/AKT/FOXO3a pathway. Neoplasia. 65. 101174–101174. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Xue, Yanfang Wang, Siyu Li, et al.. (2025). Engineering a spatiotemporal macrophage circuit via STING phase separation to override immune suppression in pancreatic cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(47). e2504718122–e2504718122. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Rongtao, Ruopeng Liang, Weijie Wang, et al.. (2025). Molecular simulation-aided self-adjuvanting nanoamplifier for cancer photoimmunotherapy. Theranostics. 15(6). 2451–2469.

Zhao, Senfeng, Ruopeng Liang, Tingting Peng, et al.. (2024). METTL16 suppresses ferroptosis in cholangiocarcinoma by promoting ATF4 via m⁶A modification. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 21(1). 189–203. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Libo, et al.. (2024). Enhanced interactions within microenvironment accelerates dismal prognosis in HBV-related HCC after TACE. Hepatology Communications. 8(10). 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Senfeng, Libo Wang, Rongtao Zhu, et al.. (2024). USP24 promotes autophagy-dependent ferroptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma by reducing the K48-linked ubiquitination of Beclin1. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1279–1279. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Libo, Zaoqu Liu, Ruopeng Liang, et al.. (2022). Comprehensive machine-learning survival framework develops a consensus model in large-scale multicenter cohorts for pancreatic cancer. eLife. 11. 61 indexed citations

Zhao, Ping, et al.. (2022). Clinical characteristic and pathogenesis of tumor-induced acute pancreatitis: a predictive model. BMC Gastroenterology. 22(1). 422–422. 3 indexed citations

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Liang, Ruopeng, Xiaoxue Zhang, Jie Zhao, et al.. (2022). Ubiquitin-specific protease 3 facilitates cell proliferation by deubiquitinating pyruvate kinase L/R in gallbladder cancer. Laboratory Investigation. 102(12). 1367–1376. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Libo, Zaoqu Liu, Long Liu, et al.. (2021). CELF2 is a candidate prognostic and immunotherapy biomarker in triple‐negative breast cancer and lung squamous cell carcinoma: A pan‐cancer analysis. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 25(15). 7559–7574. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Beibei, Wei‐Min Chen, Zhifei Zhao, Yuling Sun, & Yi Huang. (2019). LncRNA-DANCR promotes growth and metastasis of colorectal cancer via activating epithelial-mesenchymal transition process. Translational Cancer Research. 8(7). 2517–2525. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhenjun, Wenjie Qin, & Yuling Sun. (2018). Contribution of biomarkers for pancreatic cancer-associated new-onset diabetes to pancreatic cancer screening. Pathology - Research and Practice. 214(12). 1923–1928. 5 indexed citations

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Bai, Tao, Shuai Wang, Yipu Zhao, et al.. (2017). Haloperidol, a sigma receptor 1 antagonist, promotes ferroptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 491(4). 919–925. 119 indexed citations

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De, Pradip, Yuling Sun, Jennifer Carlson, et al.. (2014). Doubling Down on the PI3K-AKT-mTOR Pathway Enhances the Antitumor Efficacy of PARP Inhibitor in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Model beyond BRCA-ness. Neoplasia. 16(1). 43–W19. 87 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lin, Ruifeng Zhang, Lianfeng Zhang, et al.. (2013). Upregulation of transgelin is an independent factor predictive of poor prognosis in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Cancer Science. 104(4). 423–430. 27 indexed citations

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Sun, Yuling, Shengyong Yin, Lin Zhou, et al.. (2011). Hepatocyte differentiation of human fibroblasts from cirrhotic liver in vitro and in vivo. Hepatobiliary & pancreatic diseases international. 10(1). 55–63. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Yuling, Shengyong Yin, Haiyang Xie, et al.. (2009). Immunophenotypic shift of memory CD8 T cells identifies the changes of immune status in the patients after liver transplantation. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 69(7). 789–796. 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Yuling, Shengyong Yin, Haiyang Xie, et al.. (2008). Stem‐like cells in hepatitis B virus–associated cirrhotic livers and adjacent tissue to hepatocellular carcinomas possess the capacity of tumorigenicity. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 23(8pt1). 1280–1286. 9 indexed citations

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Fagan, Anne M., Guojun Bu, Yuling Sun, Alan Daugherty, & David M. Holtzman. (1996). Apolipoprotein E-containing High Density Lipoprotein Promotes Neurite Outgrowth and Is a Ligand for the Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-related Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(47). 30121–30125. 205 indexed citations

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