Zi Yao

762 total citations
15 papers, 343 citations indexed

About

Zi Yao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Zi Yao has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 343 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Zi Yao's work include bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research (8 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (4 papers). Zi Yao is often cited by papers focused on bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research (8 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (4 papers). Zi Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States. Zi Yao's co-authors include Jennifer A. Prescher, Jeremy H. Mills, Rachel C. Steinhardt, Zhi Lin, Kaitlin Schaefer, James A. Wells, Andrea Fossati, Danielle L. Swaney, Ting Guo and Andrej Săli and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Zi Yao

14 papers receiving 340 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zi Yao United States	9	222	146	67	58	55	15	343
Joaquim Torra Spain	11	294 1.3×	124 0.8×	68 1.0×	57 1.0×	77 1.4×	17	480
Karen S. Sarkisyan Russia	13	393 1.8×	101 0.7×	179 2.7×	48 0.8×	102 1.9×	28	565
Yasser Gidi Canada	10	180 0.8×	107 0.7×	80 1.2×	68 1.2×	14 0.3×	15	323
Nina G. Bozhanova Russia	11	264 1.2×	49 0.3×	210 3.1×	55 0.9×	66 1.2×	23	447
Dominic A. Helmerich Germany	9	200 0.9×	145 1.0×	205 3.1×	106 1.8×	16 0.3×	20	435
Yehuda Creeger United States	7	421 1.9×	89 0.6×	134 2.0×	82 1.4×	36 0.7×	7	587
D.A. Gorbachev Russia	11	155 0.7×	68 0.5×	102 1.5×	33 0.6×	47 0.9×	23	327
Lauren Gagnon United States	5	277 1.2×	54 0.4×	118 1.8×	104 1.8×	34 0.6×	6	396
Mara Meub Germany	6	139 0.6×	85 0.6×	111 1.7×	51 0.9×	12 0.2×	10	298
Frederico M. Pimenta Denmark	10	312 1.4×	150 1.0×	163 2.4×	96 1.7×	78 1.4×	12	545

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zi Yao

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

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

Leung, Kevin, Kaitlin Schaefer, Zhi Lin, Zi Yao, & James A. Wells. (2025). Engineered Proteins and Chemical Tools to Probe the Cell Surface Proteome. Chemical Reviews. 125(8). 4069–4110. 5 indexed citations

Zhao, Fangzhu, Kaitlin Schaefer, Yun Zhang, et al.. (2025). Hijacking Extracellular Targeted Protein Degrader–Drug Conjugates for Enhanced Drug Delivery. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(43). 39912–39925.

Lin, Zhi, Kaitlin Schaefer, Irene Lui, et al.. (2024). Multiscale photocatalytic proximity labeling reveals cell surface neighbors on and between cells. Science. 385(6706). eadl5763–eadl5763. 43 indexed citations

Caldwell, Donald R., Zi Yao, Joseph Ivanic, et al.. (2023). Red-Shifted Coumarin Luciferins for Improved Bioluminescence Imaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(6). 3335–3345. 30 indexed citations

Yao, Zi, Lorenzo Scipioni, Hongtao Chen, et al.. (2022). Multiplexed bioluminescence microscopy via phasor analysis. Nature Methods. 19(7). 893–898. 39 indexed citations

Yao, Zi, et al.. (2022). Multiplexed bioluminescence imaging with a substrate unmixing platform. Cell chemical biology. 29(11). 1649–1660.e4. 8 indexed citations

Rathbun, Colin M., et al.. (2021). Rapid Multicomponent Bioluminescence Imaging via Substrate Unmixing. ACS Chemical Biology. 16(4). 682–690. 13 indexed citations

Yao, Zi, et al.. (2021). Multicomponent Bioluminescence Imaging with Naphthylamino Luciferins. ChemBioChem. 22(16). 2650–2654. 5 indexed citations

Yao, Zi, et al.. (2021). Coumarin luciferins and mutant luciferases for robust multi-component bioluminescence imaging. Chemical Science. 12(35). 11684–11691. 15 indexed citations

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Yao, Zi, et al.. (2020). Multicomponent Bioluminescence Imaging with a π-Extended Luciferin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(33). 14080–14089. 42 indexed citations

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Yao, Zi, et al.. (2018). Advances in bioluminescence imaging: new probes from old recipes. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 45. 148–156. 87 indexed citations

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Hurley, Katherine A., Thiago M. A. Santos, Madhusudan Rajendran, et al.. (2017). Targeting quinolone- and aminocoumarin-resistant bacteria with new gyramide analogs that inhibit DNA gyrase. MedChemComm. 8(5). 942–951. 5 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Shayantani, et al.. (2016). Concentration-Dependent Association between Weakly Attractive Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(35). 19830–19836. 2 indexed citations

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Yao, Zi, et al.. (2016). X-ray-Induced Energy Transfer between Nanomaterials under X-ray Irradiation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(5). 3054–3060. 17 indexed citations

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Martin, Kévin, Jared T. Moore, Terrence E. O’Brien, et al.. (2015). Synthesis and Evaluation of Quinazolines as Inhibitors of the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 6(3). 308–312. 32 indexed citations

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