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Researcher · University of California, San Francisco · United States

Yifan Cheng

Yifan Cheng publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Structural Biology and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0001-9535-0369 OpenAlex
World rank
#20,796
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,579
of 1,627,098
Works
353
Citations
42k
Citations per work
118.6
h-index
86
i10-index 197Top 0.5% in Molecular Biology
Yifan Cheng

What does Yifan Cheng research?

Yifan Cheng's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (42%), Materials Science (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Everything else: 164 works · 46.6% of their workLife Sciences: 158 works · 44.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 148 works · 41.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 107 works · 30.2% of their workStructural Biology: 30 works · 8.6% of their workCell Biology: 11 works · 3.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 works · 3.0% of their workPlant Science: 11 works · 3.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 30 works · 8.5% of their workMaterials Science: 30 works · 8.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 16 works · 4.5% of their workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 14 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKYifan Cheng353works
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences9%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else16446.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14841.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences113.0%
    1. Materials Science308.5%
  1. 1Molecular Biology30% of their works
  2. 2Structural Biology9% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  4. 4Surfaces, Coatings and Films4% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology3% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yifan Cheng's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Single-Particle Analysis, Ion Channels, Ribosome, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Translation, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Calcium Signaling.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Cryo-Electron Microscopy831 topic
  2. Single-Particle Analysis831 topic
  3. Ion Channels392 topics
  4. Ribosome391 topic
  5. Scanning Electron Microscopy391 topic
  6. Translation391 topic
  7. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy391 topic
  8. Calcium Signaling211 topic
  9. Chromatin211 topic
  10. TRP Channels211 topic
  11. Transcription211 topic
  12. Light Harvesting201 topic
  13. Photosystem II201 topic
  14. Proteasome201 topic
  15. Ubiquitin201 topic
  16. Calcium Channels181 topic
  17. Voltage-Gated Channels181 topic

Where does Yifan Cheng work?

Yifan Cheng's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, San Francisco, United States.

How many publications and citations does Yifan Cheng have?

OpenAlex counts 353 works and 41,854 citations for Yifan Cheng, an h-index of 86, ranking #20,796 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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