Ben Yang

809 total citations
21 papers, 634 citations indexed

About

Ben Yang is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Yang has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 634 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Paleontology, 7 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ben Yang's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (21 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (8 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 papers). Ben Yang is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (21 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (8 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 papers). Ben Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Ben Yang's co-authors include Michael Steiner, Helmut Keupp, Guoxiang Li, Maoyan Zhu, Pengju Liu, Jianni Liu, Ulrich Struck, Tianchen He, Graham Shields and Dan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ben Yang

21 papers receiving 617 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Yang China 11 596 228 210 161 136 21 634
Daniel A. Stephen United States 15 656 1.1× 171 0.8× 138 0.7× 174 1.1× 167 1.2× 22 703
Marie‐Béatrice Forel France 16 724 1.2× 185 0.8× 140 0.7× 156 1.0× 242 1.8× 66 779
Claudio Garbelli Italy 13 480 0.8× 210 0.9× 183 0.9× 182 1.1× 99 0.7× 25 580
Yuanqiao Peng China 15 592 1.0× 159 0.7× 181 0.9× 172 1.1× 120 0.9× 19 654
Natalia Bykova Russia 15 659 1.1× 359 1.6× 134 0.6× 167 1.0× 183 1.3× 29 765
Lyle L. Nelson United States 15 534 0.9× 310 1.4× 102 0.5× 229 1.4× 77 0.6× 24 617
Brian M. Kelley United States 11 600 1.0× 184 0.8× 283 1.3× 241 1.5× 88 0.6× 21 715
Xuejian Zhu China 15 620 1.0× 213 0.9× 86 0.4× 121 0.8× 144 1.1× 39 678
Hongfei Hou China 12 504 0.8× 197 0.9× 104 0.5× 161 1.0× 96 0.7× 39 579
Thomas Wotte Germany 10 390 0.7× 201 0.9× 124 0.6× 121 0.8× 73 0.5× 20 436

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Yang

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All Works

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Steiner, Michael, Ben Yang, Mingcai Hou, et al.. (2022). Morphometric analysis of stem-group mollusks from the northern Yangtze Craton, China. Journal of Paleontology. 96(5). 1024–1036. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yunhuan, Emily Carlisle, Ben Yang, et al.. (2022). Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome. Nature. 609(7927). 541–546. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lei, Can Chen, Xia Wang, et al.. (2022). Cloudina aggregates from the uppermost Dengying Formation, Three Gorges area, South China, and stratigraphical implications. Precambrian Research. 370. 106552–106552. 10 indexed citations
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Steiner, Michael, Ben Yang, Simon V. Hohl, Da Li, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2021). Exceptionally preserved early Cambrian bilaterian developmental stages from Mongolia. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1037–1037. 9 indexed citations
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Yang, Ben, Lucas V. Warren, Michael Steiner, Emily F. Smith, & Pengju Liu. (2021). Taxonomic revision of Ediacaran tubular fossils: Cloudina, Sinotubulites and Conotubus. Journal of Paleontology. 96(2). 256–273. 17 indexed citations
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Steiner, Michael, Simon V. Hohl, Ben Yang, Xiangtong Huang, & Da Li. (2021). Rewriting the Cambrian Biogeography of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt Using Combined Faunal Cluster, Zircon Age and C Isotope Analysis. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(19). 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Ben & Michael Steiner. (2021). Terreneuvian bio- and chemostratigraphy of the South Sichuan Region (South China). Journal of the Geological Society. 178(5). 10 indexed citations
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Yang, Ben, et al.. (2020). Ultrastructure of Ediacaran cloudinids suggests diverse taphonomic histories and affinities with non-biomineralized annelids. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 535–535. 44 indexed citations
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Liu, Pengju, et al.. (2020). Algal affinity and possible life cycle of the early Cambrian acritarch Yurtusia uniformis from South China. Palaeontology. 63(6). 903–917. 10 indexed citations
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Steiner, Michael, et al.. (2020). Cambrian small skeletal fossil and carbon isotope records of the southern Huangling Anticline, Hubei (China) and implications for chemostratigraphy of the Yangtze Platform. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 554. 109817–109817. 41 indexed citations
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Heubeck, Christoph, et al.. (2019). Environmental setting of the Cambrian Terreneuvian rocks from the southwestern Yangtze Platform, South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 538. 109424–109424. 6 indexed citations
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Dai, Tao, Xingliang Zhang, Shanchi Peng, & Ben Yang. (2019). Enrolment and trunk segmentation of a Cambrian eodiscoid trilobite. Lethaia. 52(4). 502–512. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Dan, Hong‐Fei Ling, Ulrich Struck, et al.. (2018). Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2575–2575. 112 indexed citations
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Yang, Ben, Michael Steiner, Maoyan Zhu, et al.. (2016). Transitional Ediacaran–Cambrian small skeletal fossil assemblages from South China and Kazakhstan: Implications for chronostratigraphy and metazoan evolution. Precambrian Research. 285. 202–215. 94 indexed citations
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Liu, Pengju, Xian‐Hua Li, Shouming Chen, et al.. (2015). New SIMS U–Pb zircon age and its constraint on the beginning of the Nantuo glaciation. Science Bulletin. 60(10). 958–963. 49 indexed citations
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Liu, Pengju, et al.. (2015). Ecology and phylogenetic affinity of the early Cambrian tubular microfossilMegathrix longus. Palaeontology. 59(1). 13–28. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Ben, Lei Zhang, Taniel Danelian, Qinglai Feng, & Michael Steiner. (2014). Chert-hosted small shelly fossils: expanded tool of biostratigraphy in the Early Cambrian. GFF. 136(1). 303–308. 17 indexed citations
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Yang, Ben, Michael Steiner, & Helmut Keupp. (2014). Early Cambrian palaeobiogeography of the Zhenba–Fangxian Block (South China): Independent terrane or part of the Yangtze Platform?. Gondwana Research. 28(4). 1543–1565. 62 indexed citations
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Yang, Ben, Michael Steiner, Guoxiang Li, & Helmut Keupp. (2013). Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implications. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 398. 28–58. 81 indexed citations

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