Yvette C. Wong

6.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
32 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Yvette C. Wong is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yvette C. Wong has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Neurology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Yvette C. Wong's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (16 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (13 papers). Yvette C. Wong is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (16 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (13 papers). Yvette C. Wong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Yvette C. Wong's co-authors include Dimitri Krainc, Erika L.F. Holzbaur, Daniel Ysselstein, Wesley Peng, Soojin Kim, Pingping Song, D. James Surmeier, Alex Severino, Maria Nguyen and Joseph R. Mazzulli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yvette C. Wong

32 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Optineurin is an autophagy receptor for damaged mitochondria in parkin-mediated mitophagy that is disrupted by an ALS-linked mutation

2014 654 citations Yvette C. Wong, Erika L.F. Holzbaur Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
α-synuclein toxicity in neurodegeneration: mechanism and therapeutic strategies

2017 651 citations Yvette C. Wong, Dimitri Krainc Nature Medicine profile →
Mitochondria–lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial fission via RAB7 GTP hydrolysis

2018 641 citations Yvette C. Wong, Daniel Ysselstein et al. Nature profile →
Dopamine oxidation mediates mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease

2017 625 citations Lena F. Burbulla, Pingping Song et al. Science profile →
Mitochondria-lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial Ca²⁺dynamics via lysosomal TRPML1

2020 221 citations Wesley Peng, Yvette C. Wong et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yvette C. Wong United States	23	2.3k	1.7k	1.5k	1.2k	1.0k	32	4.9k
Miratul M. K. Muqit United Kingdom	34	3.4k 1.5×	2.5k 1.4×	2.6k 1.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	63	6.2k
Qian Cai United States	35	2.5k 1.1×	592 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	55	4.5k
Benjamin Dehay France	36	1.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	90	5.2k
Emma Deas United Kingdom	23	2.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	941 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	942 0.9×	27	4.5k
Matthew J. LaVoie United States	37	3.5k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.9×	1.6k 1.6×	51	6.7k
Sara Imarisio United Kingdom	24	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	2.7k 1.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	32	5.7k
Joseph R. Mazzulli United States	28	1.8k 0.8×	3.0k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	2.5k 2.1×	1.5k 1.4×	46	5.7k
Panaiyur S. Mohan United States	31	1.9k 0.8×	688 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	2.3k 2.0×	838 0.8×	44	5.1k
Han Seok Ko United States	33	4.0k 1.8×	4.2k 2.4×	2.1k 1.5×	2.0k 1.7×	2.2k 2.2×	58	8.5k
Antony A. Cooper Australia	26	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	815 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	782 0.8×	43	4.9k

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Moore, Andrew S., et al.. (2024). Mitochondrially-associated actin waves maintain organelle homeostasis and equitable inheritance. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 88. 102364–102364. 1 indexed citations

Peng, Wesley, et al.. (2024). VPS13C regulates phospho-Rab10-mediated lysosomal function in human dopaminergic neurons. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(5). 10 indexed citations

Peng, Wesley, et al.. (2023). Parkin regulates amino acid homeostasis at mitochondria-lysosome (M/L) contact sites in Parkinson’s disease. Science Advances. 9(29). eadh3347–eadh3347. 47 indexed citations

Song, Pingping, Wesley Peng, Véronique Sauvé, et al.. (2023). Parkinson’s disease-linked parkin mutation disrupts recycling of synaptic vesicles in human dopaminergic neurons. Neuron. 111(23). 3775–3788.e7. 29 indexed citations

Chen, Yanan, Rejani B. Kunjamma, Eric D. Leisten, et al.. (2023). Insights into the mechanism of oligodendrocyte protection and remyelination enhancement by the integrated stress response. Glia. 71(9). 2180–2195. 10 indexed citations

Wong, Yvette C., et al.. (2022). Mitochondria-lysosome contact site dynamics and misregulation in neurodegenerative diseases. Trends in Neurosciences. 45(4). 312–322. 72 indexed citations

Kim, Soojin, Yvette C. Wong, Fanding Gao, & Dimitri Krainc. (2021). Dysregulation of mitochondria-lysosome contacts by GBA1 dysfunction in dopaminergic neuronal models of Parkinson’s disease. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1807–1807. 128 indexed citations

Charif, Majida, Yvette C. Wong, Soojin Kim, et al.. (2021). Dominant mutations in MIEF1 affect mitochondrial dynamics and cause a singular late onset optic neuropathy. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 16(1). 12–12. 13 indexed citations

Peng, Wesley, Yvette C. Wong, & Dimitri Krainc. (2020). Mitochondria-lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial Ca²⁺dynamics via lysosomal TRPML1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(32). 19266–19275. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wong, Yvette C., Wesley Peng, & Dimitri Krainc. (2019). Lysosomal Regulation of Inter-mitochondrial Contact Fate and Motility in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 2. Developmental Cell. 50(3). 339–354.e4. 73 indexed citations

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Tsunemi, Taiji, Tamara Perez‐Rosello, Yuta Ishiguro, et al.. (2019). Increased Lysosomal Exocytosis Induced by Lysosomal Ca²⁺ Channel Agonists Protects Human Dopaminergic Neurons from α-Synuclein Toxicity. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(29). 5760–5772. 115 indexed citations

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Wong, Yvette C., Soojin Kim, Wesley Peng, & Dimitri Krainc. (2019). Regulation and Function of Mitochondria–Lysosome Membrane Contact Sites in Cellular Homeostasis. Trends in Cell Biology. 29(6). 500–513. 232 indexed citations

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Wong, Yvette C., Daniel Ysselstein, & Dimitri Krainc. (2018). Mitochondria–lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial fission via RAB7 GTP hydrolysis. Nature. 554(7692). 382–386. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nguyen, Maria, Yvette C. Wong, Daniel Ysselstein, Alex Severino, & Dimitri Krainc. (2018). Synaptic, Mitochondrial, and Lysosomal Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease. Trends in Neurosciences. 42(2). 140–149. 245 indexed citations

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Burbulla, Lena F., Pingping Song, Joseph R. Mazzulli, et al.. (2017). Dopamine oxidation mediates mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. Science. 357(6357). 1255–1261. 625 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burbulla, Lena F., Pingping Song, Joseph R. Mazzulli, et al.. (2017). Dopamine oxidation mediates a human-specific cascade of mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.. 1 indexed citations

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Wong, Yvette C. & Dimitri Krainc. (2017). α-synuclein toxicity in neurodegeneration: mechanism and therapeutic strategies. Nature Medicine. 23(2). 1–13. 651 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moore, Andrew S., Yvette C. Wong, Cory L. Simpson, & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2016). Dynamic actin cycling through mitochondrial subpopulations locally regulates the fission–fusion balance within mitochondrial networks. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12886–12886. 184 indexed citations

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Wong, Yvette C. & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2015). Temporal dynamics of PARK2/parkin and OPTN/optineurin recruitment during the mitophagy of damaged mitochondria. Autophagy. 11(2). 422–424. 90 indexed citations

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Wong, Yvette C. & Erika L.F. Holzbaur. (2014). The Regulation of Autophagosome Dynamics by Huntingtin and HAP1 Is Disrupted by Expression of Mutant Huntingtin, Leading to Defective Cargo Degradation. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(4). 1293–1305. 294 indexed citations

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