Weining Yang

8.1k citations
54 papers · 5.9k · 4 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

  • Cancer Research top 0.2%
    • MicroRNA in disease regulation
    • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Molecular Biology top 1%
    • Circular RNAs in diseases
    • RNA Research and Splicing
    • RNA modifications and cancer
    • Extracellular vesicles in disease

Papers in

  • Molecular Biology 31
    • Circular RNAs in diseases 17
    • RNA Research and Splicing 7
    • RNA modifications and cancer 3
  • Cancer Research 21
    • MicroRNA in disease regulation 16
    • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research 10
Co-authors
Burton B. Yang (26 shared papers)William W. Du (20 shared papers)Faryal Mehwish Awan (9 shared papers)Zhenguo Yang (3 shared papers)Zhenguo Yang (5 shared papers)Elizabeth Liu (1 shared paper)Albert Yee (10 shared papers)Xiangmin Li (8 shared papers)
Journals
Cell Death and Differentiation (4 papers)Molecular Therapy (4 papers)Oncogene (2 papers)Oncotarget (2 papers)Theranostics (2 papers)
Partner nations
CanadaChinaUnited States

In The Last Decade

Weining Yang

54 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Weining Yang's Hit Papers

Identifying and Characterizing circRNA-Protein Interaction 2017 · 498 citations
4980+3+6Years since publication4008001.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2017 Theranostics
  2. 2016 Cell Death and Differentiation
  3. 2016 European Heart Journal
  4. 2016 Nucleic Acids Research

Peers

Weining Yang
Comparison fields: 5 of 117
  • Cancer Research 3.8k
  • Molecular Biology 5.0k
  • Aging 29
  • Immunology and Allergy 68
  • Immunology 205
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Martin Reczko Greece
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Graziano Martello Italy
Roshan Kumar United States
He Huang China
Daniel Young United States
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1
Foxo3 circular RNA retards cell cycle progression via forming ternary complexes with p21 and CDK2
Nucleic Acids Research ·William W. Du, Weining Yang, Elizabeth Liu, Zhenguo Yang, Preet Dhaliwal, Burton B. Yang
Hit paper breakdown →		20161349
2
Foxo3 circular RNA promotes cardiac senescence by modulating multiple factors associated with stress and senescence responses
European Heart Journal ·William W. Du, Weining Yang, Yu Chen, Zhongkai Wu, (unknown), Zhenguo Yang, Xiangmin Li, Burton B. Yang
Hit paper breakdown →		2016621
3
Induction of tumor apoptosis through a circular RNA enhancing Foxo3 activity
Cell Death and Differentiation ·William W. Du, Ling Fang, Weining Yang, Nan Wu, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Zhenguo Yang, Burton B. Yang
Hit paper breakdown →		2016589
4
Identifying and Characterizing circRNA-Protein Interaction
Theranostics ·William W. Du, Chao Zhang, Weining Yang, Tianqiao Yong, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Burton B. Yang
Hit paper breakdown →		2017498
5
A Circular RNA Binds To and Activates AKT Phosphorylation and Nuclear Localization Reducing Apoptosis and Enhancing Cardiac Repair
Theranostics ·Yan Zeng, William W. Du, Yingya Wu, Zhenguo Yang, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Xiangmin Li, Weining Yang, Chao Zhang, Qi Yang, Albert Yee, Yú Chen, Fenghua Yang, Huan Sun, Ren Huang, Ren‐Ke Li, Zhongkai Wu, Peter H. Backx, Burton B. Yang
2017334
6
Foxo3 activity promoted by non-coding effects of circular RNA and Foxo3 pseudogene in the inhibition of tumor growth and angiogenesis
Oncogene ·Weining Yang, William W. Du, Xiaolei Li, Albert Yee, Burton B. Yang
2015287
7
A circular RNA promotes tumorigenesis by inducing c-myc nuclear translocation
Cell Death and Differentiation ·Qi Yang, William W. Du, Nan Wu, Weining Yang, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Ling Fang, Jian Ma, Xiangmin Li, Yan Zeng, Zhenguo Yang, Jun Dong, Azam Khorshidi, Burton B. Yang
2017273
8
The Circular RNA Interacts with STAT3, Increasing Its Nuclear Translocation and Wound Repair by Modulating Dnmt3a and miR-17 Function
Molecular Therapy ·Zhenguo Yang, Faryal Mehwish Awan, William W. Du, Yan Zeng, Juanjuan Lyu, De Wu, Shaan Gupta, Weining Yang, Burton B. Yang
2017216
9
Structural and Functional Aspects of the Multiplicity of Neu Differentiation Factors
Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Duanzhi Wen, Sidney V. Suggs, Devarajan Karunagaran, Naili Liu, Rod Cupples, Yi Luo, Ann M. Janssen, Noa Ben-Baruch, David Trollinger, Victoria L. Jacobsen, Shi‐Yuan Meng, Hsieng S. Lu, Sylvia Hu, David Chang, Weining Yang, Donna Yanigahara, Raymond A. Koski, Yosef Yarden
1994206
10
MiR-93 enhances angiogenesis and metastasis by targeting LATS2
Cell Cycle ·Ling Fang, William W. Du, Weining Yang, Zina Jeyapalan Rutnam, Chun Peng, Haoran Li, Yunxia O’Malley, Ryan W. Askeland, Sonia L. Sugg, Mingyao Liu, Tanvi Mehta, Zhaoqun Deng, Burton B. Yang
2012169
11
MicroRNA miR-98 inhibits tumor angiogenesis and invasion by targeting activin receptor-like kinase-4 and matrix metalloproteinase-11
Oncotarget ·Vinayakumar Siragam, Zina Jeyapalan Rutnam, Weining Yang, Ling Fang, Linlin Luo, Xiangling Yang, M Li, Zhaoqun Deng, Jun Qian, Chun Peng, Burton B. Yang
2012116
12
Enhanced breast cancer progression by mutant p53 is inhibited by the circular RNA circ-Ccnb1
Cell Death and Differentiation ·Ling Fang, William W. Du, Juanjuan Lyu, Jun Dong, Chao Zhang, Weining Yang, Alina T. He, Yat Sze Sheila Kwok, Jian Ma, Nan Wu, Feiya Li, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Chengyan He, Bing Yang, Chun Peng, Helen Mackay, Albert Yee, Burton B. Yang
2018115
13
Versican 3′‐untranslated region (3′‐UTR) functions as a ceRNA in inducing the development of hepatocellular carcinoma by regulating miRNA activity
The FASEB Journal ·Ling Fang, William W. Du, Xiangling Yang, Kui Chen, Anand Ghanekar, Gary Levy, Weining Yang, Albert Yee, Wei‐Yang Lu, Jim W. Xuan, Zhongli Gao, Feng Xie, Chengyan He, Zhaoqun Deng, Burton B. Yang
2012114
14
The pseudogene TUSC2P promotes TUSC2 function by binding multiple microRNAs
Nature Communications ·Zina Jeyapalan Rutnam, William W. Du, Weining Yang, Xiangling Yang, Burton B. Yang
201489
15
Ergosterol Peroxide Isolated from Ganoderma lucidum Abolishes MicroRNA miR-378-Mediated Tumor Cells on Chemoresistance
PLoS ONE ·Qingping Wu, Yizhen Xie, Zhaoqun Deng, Xiangmin Li, Weining Yang, Chunwei Jiao, Ling Fang, Sen-Zhu Li, Honghui Pan, Albert Yee, Daniel Y. Lee, Chong Li, Zhi Zhang, (unknown), Burton B. Yang
201285
16
The Circular RNA circSKA3 Binds Integrin β1 to Induce Invadopodium Formation Enhancing Breast Cancer Invasion
Molecular Therapy ·William W. Du, Weining Yang, Xiangmin Li, Ling Fang, Nan Wu, Feiya Li, Yú Chen, Qihan He, Elizabeth Liu, Zhenguo Yang, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Mingyao Liu, Burton B. Yang
202080
17
Roles of versican in cancer biology--tumorigenesis, progression and metastasis.
PubMed ·William W. Du, Weining Yang, Albert Yee
201372
18
Cyclin G2 inhibits epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition by disrupting Wnt/β-catenin signaling
Oncogene ·Stefanie Bernaudo, Mohamed A. Salem, Xin Qi, Weijie Zhou, Chen‐chen Zhang, Weining Yang, David Rosman, Zhaoqun Deng, G. Ye, Burton B. Yang, Barbara C. Vanderhyden, Zhenguo Wu, Chun Peng
201662
19
A Neuroligin Isoform Translated by circNlgn Contributes to Cardiac Remodeling
Circulation Research ·William W. Du, Jindong Xu, Weining Yang, Nan Wu, Feiya Li, Le Zhou, Sheng Wang, Xiangmin Li, Alina T. He, Kevin Y. Du, Kaixuan Zeng, Jian Ma, Juanjuan Lyu, Chao Zhang, Chi Zhou, Katarina Maksimovic, Burton B. Yang
202160
20
The roles of microRNAs in tumorigenesis and angiogenesis.
PubMed ·Weining Yang, Daniel Y Lee, Yaacov Ben‐David
201159

About Weining Yang

Weining Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, Oncology and Cell Biology, having authored 54 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Circular RNAs in diseases (17 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (16 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (10 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (7 papers), Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research (4 papers), Complement system in diseases (3 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (3.8k citations), Molecular Biology (5.0k citations), Aging (29 citations), Immunology and Allergy (68 citations) and Immunology (205 citations). Weining Yang has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Burton B. Yang, William W. Du, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Zhenguo Yang, Zhenguo Yang, Elizabeth Liu, Albert Yee, Xiangmin Li, Nan Wu and Ling Fang. Their work appears in journals such as Cell Death and Differentiation, Molecular Therapy, Oncogene, Oncotarget and Theranostics.

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