Yup Kang

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Yup Kang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yup Kang has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Surgery and 26 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Yup Kang's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (27 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (13 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (13 papers). Yup Kang is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (27 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (13 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (13 papers). Yup Kang collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Canada and United States. Yup Kang's co-authors include Kwan Woo Lee, Sung‐E Choi, Hee‐Sook Jun, Seung Jin Han, Hae Jin Kim, Dae Jung Kim, Sung-E Choi, Jongsook Kim Kemper, Ji‐Won Yoon and Byron Kemper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Yup Kang

98 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transcriptional regulation of autophagy by an FXR–CREB axis

2014 344 citations Sunmi Seok, Ting Fu et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yup Kang	1.3k	962	827	542	537	99	3.5k
Jennifer Altomonte	1.8k 1.4×	693 0.7×	876 1.1×	697 1.3×	845 1.6×	52	3.6k
Geoff H. Werstuck	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	690 0.8×	424 0.8×	500 0.9×	81	3.9k
Yasushi Fukushima	2.6k 2.0×	746 0.8×	822 1.0×	636 1.2×	1.0k 1.9×	106	4.8k
Terri Pietka	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	603 0.7×	572 1.1×	1.2k 2.2×	51	3.7k
Jun Eguchi	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	504 0.6×	587 1.1×	1.0k 1.9×	68	3.5k
Hueng-Sik Choi	1.5k 1.1×	397 0.4×	500 0.6×	454 0.8×	296 0.6×	56	2.8k
Sungsoon Fang	1.3k 1.0×	587 0.6×	587 0.7×	400 0.7×	568 1.1×	69	2.9k
Jinny S. Wong	2.0k 1.5×	676 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	789 1.5×	671 1.2×	31	4.1k
Kristiaan Wouters	1.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	471 0.6×	704 1.3×	636 1.2×	69	3.2k
Toshiya Tanaka	2.4k 1.8×	523 0.5×	615 0.7×	288 0.5×	677 1.3×	84	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yup Kang

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Ji Yeon, Yup Kang, Ja Young Jeon, et al.. (2024). Imeglimin attenuates NLRP3 inflammasome activation by restoring mitochondrial functions in macrophages. Journal of Pharmacological Sciences. 155(2). 35–43. 5 indexed citations

Choi, Sung‐E, et al.. (2023). CD38 Inhibition Protects Fructose-Induced Toxicity in Primary Hepatocytes. Molecules and Cells. 46(8). 496–512. 2 indexed citations

Song, Minwoo, Wenhao Cui, Chang-Gun Lee, et al.. (2023). Protective effect of empagliflozin against palmitate-induced lipotoxicity through AMPK in H9c2 cells. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 1228646–1228646. 7 indexed citations

Choo, Oak‐Sung, et al.. (2020). Atorvastatin prevents hearing impairment in the presence of hyperlipidemia. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1867(12). 118850–118850. 23 indexed citations

Lee, Soojin, Sung‐E Choi, Minwoo Song, et al.. (2020). A Class I Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Attenuates Insulin Resistance and Inflammation in Palmitate-Treated C2C12 Myotubes and Muscle of HF/HFr Diet Mice. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 11. 601448–601448. 16 indexed citations

Cho, Eunjoo, et al.. (2019). AMP-activated protein kinase regulates circadian rhythm by affecting CLOCK in Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(18). 2344–18. 5 indexed citations

Choi, Sung‐E, Soojin Lee, Yu Jung Heo, et al.. (2019). Sodium fluorocitrate having inhibitory effect on fatty acid uptake ameliorates high fat diet-induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in C57BL/6J mice. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17839–17839. 3 indexed citations

Han, Seung Jin, Sung‐E Choi, Seok Yun Kang, et al.. (2016). Glutamate dehydrogenase activator BCH stimulating reductive amination prevents high fat/high fructose diet-induced steatohepatitis and hyperglycemia in C57BL/6J mice. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37468–37468. 16 indexed citations

Choi, Sung‐E, Yup Kang, Tae Ho Kim, et al.. (2015). TM-25659-Induced Activation of FGF21 Level Decreases Insulin Resistance and Inflammation in Skeletal Muscle via GCN2 Pathways. Molecules and Cells. 38(12). 1037–1043. 21 indexed citations

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Seok, Sunmi, Ting Fu, Sung-E Choi, et al.. (2014). Transcriptional regulation of autophagy by an FXR–CREB axis. Nature. 516(7529). 108–111. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

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Choi, Sung‐E, Ting Fu, Sunmi Seok, et al.. (2013). Elevated microRNA‐34a in obesity reduces NAD⁺ levels and SIRT1 activity by directly targeting NAMPT. Aging Cell. 12(6). 1062–1072. 212 indexed citations

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Lee, Yeonmi, et al.. (2012). Glucagon-like peptide-1 inhibits adipose tissue macrophage infiltration and inflammation in an obese mouse model of diabetes. Diabetologia. 55(9). 2456–2468. 254 indexed citations

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Kim, Tae Ho, Sung‐Eun Choi, Eun Suk Ha, et al.. (2011). IL-6 induction of TLR-4 gene expression via STAT3 has an effect on insulin resistance in human skeletal muscle. Acta Diabetologica. 50(2). 189–200. 64 indexed citations

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Park, Jungeun, Dohyun Han, Kyunggon Kim, Yup Kang, & Youngsoo Kim. (2008). O-GlcNAcylation disrupts glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase homo-tetramer formation and mediates its nuclear translocation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1794(2). 254–262. 54 indexed citations

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Han, Dohyun, Kyunggon Kim, Yeonjung Kim, et al.. (2008). Crystal Structure of the N-terminal Domain of Anaphase-promoting Complex Subunit 7. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(22). 15137–15146. 20 indexed citations

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Choi, Sung-E, Yup Kang, Hyo‐Soo Kim, et al.. (2007). Involvement of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β in Palmitate-Induced Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell Apoptosis. Journal of Vascular Research. 44(5). 365–374. 15 indexed citations

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Kim, JW, Victor J. Seghers, Jang-Hyeon Cho, et al.. (2002). Transactivation of the Mouse Sulfonylurea Receptor I Gene by BETA2/NeuroD. Molecular Endocrinology. 16(5). 1097–1107. 47 indexed citations

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Nahm, Dong‐Ho, et al.. (2002). Identification of Cytokeratin 18 as a Bronchial Epithelial Autoantigen Associated with Nonallergic Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 165(11). 1536–1539. 47 indexed citations

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Chung, Young–Hwa, Hee‐Sook Jun, Mike S. Son, et al.. (2000). Cellular and Molecular Mechanism for Kilham Rat Virus-Induced Autoimmune Diabetes in DR-BB Rats. The Journal of Immunology. 165(5). 2866–2876. 38 indexed citations

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Kang, Yup, et al.. (1994). Complete nucleotide sequence of a strain of coxsackie B4 virus of human origin that induces diabetes in mice and its comparison with nondiabetogenic coxsackie B4 JBV strain. Journal of Medical Virology. 44(4). 353–361. 60 indexed citations

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