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Yu-li Wang

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
37164
World Ranking
3992
National Ranking
1971

Yu-li Wang publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yu-li Wang sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 159 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Yu-li Wang D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yu-li Wang sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yu-li Wang is a researcher affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including engineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work specifically focuses on several subfields such as biomedical engineering, cell biology, orthopedics and sports medicine, automotive engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

In terms of research topics, Yu-li Wang has concentrated on areas such as cellular mechanics and interactions, 3D printing in biomedical research, bone tissue engineering materials, tendon structure and treatment, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, force microscopy techniques and applications, and microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies.

Their scholarly output includes papers published in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • Macromolecular Bioscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry

Some of their recent publications are:

  • Creating Complex Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Structures Using 3D Printing with Applications to Mechanobiology, 2020, Macromolecular Bioscience
  • Cyclic stretching-induced epithelial cell reorientation is driven by microtubule-modulated transverse extension during the relaxation phase, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Traction force microscopy by deep learning, 2021, Biophysical Journal
  • Cyclic stretching combined with cell-cell adhesion is sufficient for inducing cell intercalation, 2023, Biophysical Journal
  • How Epithelial Cells Reorient in Response to Cyclic Stretching, 2021, Research Square (Research Square)

Yu-li Wang has collaborated with several coauthors regularly. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Jui-Chien Lien
  • David Li
  • Yun-Chu Lin
  • Ming Yao
  • Chris R. Sims

Best Publications

  • Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate

    Dennis E. Discher;Paul Janmey;Yu Li Wang

  • Cell Movement Is Guided by the Rigidity of the Substrate

    Chun Min Lo;Hong Bei Wang;Micah Dembo;Yu Li Wang

  • Cell locomotion and focal adhesions are regulated by substrate flexibility

    Robert J. Pelham;Yu-li Wang

  • Stresses at the Cell-to-Substrate Interface during Locomotion of Fibroblasts

    Micah Dembo;Yu-Li Wang

  • Nascent Focal Adhesions Are Responsible for the Generation of Strong Propulsive Forces in Migrating Fibroblasts

    Karen A. Beningo;Micah Dembo;Irina N. Kaverina;J. Victor Small

  • Exchange of actin subunits at the leading edge of living fibroblasts: possible role of treadmilling.

    Yu-Li Wang

  • Substrate flexibility regulates growth and apoptosis of normal but not transformed cells

    Hong-Bei Wang;Micah Dembo;Yu-Li Wang

  • Traction Force Microscopy of Migrating Normal and H-ras Transformed 3T3 Fibroblasts

    Steven Munevar;Yu-li Wang;Micah Dembo

  • Focal adhesion kinase is involved in mechanosensing during fibroblast migration

    Hong-Bei Wang;Micah Dembo;Steven K. Hanks;Yu-li Wang

  • A role for the lissencephaly gene LIS1 in mitosis and cytoplasmic dynein function

    Nicole E. Faulkner;Denis L. Dujardin;Chin-Yin Tai;Kevin T. Vaughan

  • Substrate Rigidity Regulates the Formation and Maintenance of Tissues

    Wei-Hui Guo;Margo Tilley Frey;Margo Tilley Frey;Nancy A. Burnham;Yu-Li Wang

  • Preparation of a flexible, porous polyacrylamide substrate for mechanical studies of cultured cells.

    Yu-Li Wang;Robert J. Pelham

  • Fc-receptor-mediated phagocytosis is regulated by mechanical properties of the target

    Karen A. Beningo;Yu Li Wang

  • Role of Polo Kinase and Mid1p in Determining the Site of Cell Division in Fission Yeast

    Jürg Bähler;Alexander B. Steever;Sally Wheatley;Yu-li Wang

  • The regulation of traction force in relation to cell shape and focal adhesions.

    Andrew D. Rape;Wei-hui Guo;Yu-li Wang

  • Flexible substrata for the detection of cellular traction forces

    Karen A. Beningo;Yu Li Wang

  • High Resolution Detection of Mechanical Forces Exerted by Locomoting Fibroblasts on the Substrate

    Robert J. Pelham;Yu-li Wang

  • Responses of fibroblasts to anchorage of dorsal extracellular matrix receptors

    Karen A. Beningo;Micah Dembo;Yu Li Wang

  • Mammalian Spindle Orientation and Position Respond to Changes in Cell Shape in a Dynein-dependent Fashion

    Christopher B. O'Connell;Yu-li Wang

  • Midzone microtubule bundles are continuously required for cytokinesis in cultured epithelial cells.

    Sally P. Wheatley;Yu-li Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Micah Dembo
Micah Dembo Boston University
D L Taylor
D L Taylor University of Pittsburgh
J. Victor Small
J. Victor Small Austrian Academy of Sciences
Robert F. Murphy
Robert F. Murphy Carnegie Mellon University
Klaus M. Hahn
Klaus M. Hahn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James B. Meigs
James B. Meigs Harvard University
Thoru Pederson
Thoru Pederson University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Kurt I. Anderson
Kurt I. Anderson The Francis Crick Institute
Paul A. Janmey
Paul A. Janmey University of Pennsylvania
Mohammad F. Islam
Mohammad F. Islam Carnegie Mellon University

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