Bei Yang

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Bei Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bei Yang has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Oncology and 10 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Bei Yang's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (9 papers). Bei Yang is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (9 papers). Bei Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Bei Yang's co-authors include Jia Chen, Li Yang, Jia Wei, Ying Wang, Xingxu Huang, Jing Wu, Xiaosa Li, Michael J. Bouchard, David E. Smith and Jianping Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bei Yang

79 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A pan-coronavirus fusion inhibitor targeting the HR1 domain of human coronavirus spike

2019 374 citations Shuai Xia, Ian A. Wilson et al. profile →
Base editing with a Cpf1–cytidine deaminase fusion

2018 322 citations Xiaosa Li, Ying Wang et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bei Yang China	27	1.9k	401	374	246	245	80	2.7k
Rui Wu China	25	1.9k 1.0×	296 0.7×	321 0.9×	274 1.1×	625 2.6×	93	3.3k
Natarajan V. Bhanu United States	33	2.0k 1.1×	497 1.2×	206 0.6×	459 1.9×	237 1.0×	72	3.7k
Guang Yang China	29	1.6k 0.9×	212 0.5×	240 0.6×	447 1.8×	264 1.1×	105	3.0k
Jonathan Greene United States	22	2.0k 1.1×	247 0.6×	494 1.3×	325 1.3×	456 1.9×	48	3.1k
Jeffrey C. Silva United States	23	3.2k 1.7×	158 0.4×	287 0.8×	371 1.5×	403 1.6×	32	4.5k
Samuel G. Mackintosh United States	30	2.2k 1.1×	140 0.3×	203 0.5×	230 0.9×	290 1.2×	79	2.9k
Martina Gentzsch United States	34	1.9k 1.0×	199 0.5×	276 0.7×	279 1.1×	166 0.7×	67	3.8k
Bettina Sarg Austria	32	2.0k 1.0×	141 0.4×	147 0.4×	159 0.6×	224 0.9×	105	3.1k
Shridhar Bhat United States	21	1.5k 0.8×	333 0.8×	112 0.3×	345 1.4×	331 1.4×	37	2.6k
Shuo Liu China	31	2.3k 1.2×	258 0.6×	202 0.5×	644 2.6×	195 0.8×	125	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Bei Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bei Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bei Yang

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fan, Yuhang, Wenchao Xu, Hao Qin, et al.. (2025). Leveraging base excision repair for efficient adenine base editing of mitochondrial DNA. Nature Biotechnology. 44(2). 277–290. 3 indexed citations

Li, Guangye, Guo Chen, Jia Wei, et al.. (2025). Specific and efficient RNA A-to-I editing through cleavage of an ADAR inhibitor. Nature Biotechnology. 44(2). 303–315. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Jun, Jinghui Zhang, Shujing Xu, et al.. (2024). Transport and inhibition mechanisms of the human noradrenaline transporter. Nature. 632(8026). 930–937. 14 indexed citations

Yang, Bei, et al.. (2024). Recent progress in gene therapy for familial hypercholesterolemia treatment. iScience. 27(9). 110641–110641. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Wenchao, et al.. (2023). Nucleoside deaminases: the key players in base editing toolkit. Biophysics Reports. 9(6). 325–325. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Bo, Feng Zhou, Chao Peng, et al.. (2023). Structure of human NaV1.6 channel reveals Na+ selectivity and pore blockade by 4,9-anhydro-tetrodotoxin. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1030–1030. 22 indexed citations

Sun, S. F., et al.. (2023). Visualization of conformational transition of GRP94 in solution. Life Science Alliance. 7(2). e202302051–e202302051. 2 indexed citations

Li, Xiaosa, Lina Zhou, Guangye Li, et al.. (2022). Highly efficient prime editing by introducing same-sense mutations in pegRNA or stabilizing its structure. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1669–1669. 102 indexed citations

Li, Xiaojing, Feng Xu, Hao Xu, et al.. (2022). Structural basis for modulation of human NaV1.3 by clinical drug and selective antagonist. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1286–1286. 48 indexed citations

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Su, Jie, Qiaoshuai Lan, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2022). Antigenic mapping reveals sites of vulnerability on α-HCoV spike protein. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1179–1179. 5 indexed citations

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Dong, Yanli, Yiwei Gao, Shuai Xu, et al.. (2021). Closed-state inactivation and pore-blocker modulation mechanisms of human CaV2.2. Cell Reports. 37(5). 109931–109931. 43 indexed citations

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Xie, Jia, et al.. (2020). Inhibitory antibodies identify unique sites of therapeutic vulnerability in rhinovirus and other enteroviruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(24). 13499–13508. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Jun, Jie Li, Wenzhang Chen, et al.. (2020). Allosteric inhibition of CRISPR-Cas9 by bacteriophage-derived peptides. Genome biology. 21(1). 51–51. 21 indexed citations

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Yang, Li, Bei Yang, & Jia Chen. (2019). One Prime for All Editing. Cell. 179(7). 1448–1450. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiao, Jianan Li, Ying Wang, et al.. (2018). Efficient base editing in methylated regions with a human APOBEC3A-Cas9 fusion. Nature Biotechnology. 36(10). 946–949. 190 indexed citations

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Yang, Bei & David E. Smith. (2017). In Silico Absorption Analysis of Valacyclovir in Wildtype and Pept1 Knockout Mice Following Oral Dose Escalation. Pharmaceutical Research. 34(11). 2349–2361. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Bei, Haiping Zhang, & Hao Wang. (2015). Atomistic insights into the lung cancer-associated L755P mutation in HER2 resistance to lapatinib: a molecular dynamics study. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 21(2). 24–24. 11 indexed citations

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Hurley, James H. & Bei Yang. (2013). Making Sense of Vps4. Journal of Molecular Biology. 426(3). 503–506. 4 indexed citations

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Shen, Ning, Minyu Zhou, Bei Yang, et al.. (2008). Catalytic mechanism of the tryptophan activation reaction revealed by crystal structures of human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase in different enzymatic states. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(4). 1288–1299. 35 indexed citations

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Yang, Bei, Bing He, Samy M. Abdel‐Halim, et al.. (1999). Molecular Cloning of a Full-Length cDNA for Human Type 3 Adenylyl Cyclase and Its Expression in Human Islets. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 254(3). 548–551. 18 indexed citations

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