Yuqing Li

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
209 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Yuqing Li is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuqing Li has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 59 papers in Neurology and 52 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yuqing Li's work include Neurological disorders and treatments (39 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (37 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (29 papers). Yuqing Li is often cited by papers focused on Neurological disorders and treatments (39 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (37 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (29 papers). Yuqing Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yuqing Li's co-authors include Fumiaki Yokoi, Mai T. Dang, C. Shun Wong, Susumu Tonegawa, David G. Standaert, Xandra O. Breakefield, Masahiro Sugiura, Elizabeth M. Quinlan, Zhi‐Hong Jiang and Yu Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yuqing Li

198 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

The complete sequence of the rice (Oryza sativa) chloropl... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 2009 250 500 750
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 complete sequence of the rice (Oryza sativa) chloroplast genome: Intermolecular recombination between distinct tRNA genes accounts for a major plastid DNA inversion during the evolution of the cereals
    1989 970 citations Yuqing Li et al. profile →
  2. Postnatal NMDA receptor ablation in corticolimbic interneurons confers schizophrenia-like phenotypes
    2009 608 citations Yuqing Li et al. profile →

Peers

Yuqing Li
Gudrun Ahnert‐Hilger Germany
Hiroshi Ichinose Japan
Gerry Shaw United States
Richard J. Smeyne United States
Dragan Maric United States
Lin Mei United States
Éva Mezey United States
Michela Matteoli Italy
Kun Xia China
Alan Mackay‐Sim Australia
Gudrun Ahnert‐Hilger Germany
Yuqing Li
Citations per year, relative to Yuqing Li Yuqing Li (= 1×) peers Gudrun Ahnert‐Hilger

Countries citing papers authored by Yuqing Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuqing Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuqing Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuqing Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuqing Li 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 Yuqing Li. Yuqing Li 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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Marino, Francesca, et al.. (2025). Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia in the Framingham Heart Study. JAMA Network Open. 8(11). e2544439–e2544439.
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Wilkes, Bradley J., et al.. (2025). Altered functional brain connectivity in Dyt1 knock-in mouse models. PubMed. 4.
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Li, Yuqing, Ping Li, Ran Chu, et al.. (2025). Association between the oxidative balance score and mortality in patients with metabolic syndrome. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 9258–9258.
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Gao, Yi, et al.. (2024). Prognosis impact of multiple novel lymphocyte‐based inflammatory indices in patients with initially diagnosed coronary artery disease. Immunity Inflammation and Disease. 12(9). e1340–e1340. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Yuqing, et al.. (2024). Sex differences in functional connectivity and the predictive role of the connectome‐based predictive model in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 102(3). e25307–e25307. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Yuqing, Jiaofeng Gui, Haiyang Liu, et al.. (2023). Predicting metabolic syndrome by obesity- and lipid-related indices in mid-aged and elderly Chinese: a population-based cross-sectional study. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1201132–1201132. 49 indexed citations
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Wang, Dongmei, Yang Tian, Jiajing Chen, et al.. (2023). Association between drug craving and aggression in Chinese male methamphetamine-dependent patients with and without depressive symptoms. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 274(2). 461–469. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaoyun, Yuqing Li, Jiaofeng Gui, et al.. (2023). Predicting depressive symptom by cardiometabolic indicators in mid-aged and older adults in China: a population-based cross-sectional study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1153316–1153316. 22 indexed citations
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Ramírez-Jarquín, Uri Nimrod, Manish Sharma, Neelam Shahani, et al.. (2022). Rhes protein transits from neuron to neuron and facilitates mutant huntingtin spreading in the brain. Science Advances. 8(12). eabm3877–eabm3877. 20 indexed citations
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Silvani, Alessandro, Imad Ghorayeb, Mauro Manconi, Yuqing Li, & Stefan Clemens. (2022). Putative Animal Models of Restless Legs Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Evaluation of Their Face and Construct Validity. Neurotherapeutics. 20(1). 154–178. 6 indexed citations
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Fu, Qiang, Jie Hu, Pei Zhang, et al.. (2022). CC and CXC chemokines in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.): Identification, evolutionary analyses, and expression profiling after Aeromonas salmonicida infection. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 127. 82–98. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Yuqing, et al.. (2021). The Importance of Glycans of Viral and Host Proteins in Enveloped Virus Infection. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 638573–638573. 78 indexed citations
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McMeekin, Laura J., Ye Li, Glenn C. Rowe, et al.. (2018). Cell-Specific Deletion of PGC-1α from Medium Spiny Neurons Causes Transcriptional Alterations and Age-Related Motor Impairment. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(13). 3273–3286. 15 indexed citations
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Guo, Ming, John Garza, Yuqing Li, et al.. (2012). Forebrain glutamatergic neurons mediate leptin action on depression-like behaviors and synaptic depression. Translational Psychiatry. 2(2). e83–e83. 66 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lin, Fumiaki Yokoi, Mark P. DeAndrade, et al.. (2011). Altered Dendritic Morphology of Purkinje cells in Dyt1 ΔGAG Knock-In and Purkinje Cell-Specific Dyt1 Conditional Knockout Mice. PLoS ONE. 6(3). e18357–e18357. 65 indexed citations
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Blaess, Sandra, Diana Graus-Porta, Richard Belvindrah, et al.. (2004). β1-Integrins Are Critical for Cerebellar Granule Cell Precursor Proliferation. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(13). 3402–3412. 110 indexed citations
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Li, Yuqing, James R. Ballinger, Robert Nordal, Zi-Fen Su, & C. Shun Wong. (2001). Hypoxia in radiation-induced blood-spinal cord barrier breakdown.. PubMed. 61(8). 3348–54. 112 indexed citations
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Ye, Lizhen, Yuqing Li, Kaoru Fukami-Kobayashi, et al.. (1991). Diversity of a ribonucleoprotein family in tobacco chlorplasts: two new chloroplast ribonucleoproteins and a phylogenetic tree of ten chloroplast RNA-binding domains. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(23). 6485–6490. 57 indexed citations

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