Boyang Ji

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Boyang Ji is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Boyang Ji has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Physiology and 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Boyang Ji's work include Gut microbiota and health (23 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (18 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (8 papers). Boyang Ji is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (23 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (18 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (8 papers). Boyang Ji collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Denmark and China. Boyang Ji's co-authors include Jens Nielsen, Manish Kumar, Yongjun Wei, Parizad Babaei, Peishun Li, Hao Luo, Jens Nielsen, Jinpeng Wang, Rodrigo Ledesma‐Amaro and Xiao‐Jun Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Boyang Ji

64 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Compositional and functional differences of the mucosal microbiota along the intestine of healthy individuals

2020 327 citations Boyang Ji, Petia Kovatcheva‐Datchary et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boyang Ji Sweden	26	1.6k	393	266	202	170	66	2.4k
Francesco Peri Italy	35	2.0k 1.3×	330 0.8×	290 1.1×	109 0.5×	138 0.8×	137	4.8k
Abolfazl Barzegari Iran	36	1.5k 0.9×	388 1.0×	335 1.3×	509 2.5×	118 0.7×	123	3.3k
Karl Burgess United Kingdom	32	1.7k 1.0×	572 1.5×	128 0.5×	120 0.6×	159 0.9×	76	3.0k
Hao Gong China	30	1.4k 0.9×	178 0.5×	555 2.1×	203 1.0×	224 1.3×	109	3.0k
Hong Wu China	30	1.7k 1.1×	213 0.5×	175 0.7×	157 0.8×	143 0.8×	123	3.2k
Masayuki Nakano Japan	33	1.5k 0.9×	281 0.7×	212 0.8×	366 1.8×	177 1.0×	104	4.2k
Wai Kit Ong United States	12	1.9k 1.2×	304 0.8×	143 0.5×	173 0.9×	149 0.9×	15	2.5k
Marcello Manfredi Italy	30	1.4k 0.9×	229 0.6×	239 0.9×	208 1.0×	260 1.5×	171	2.9k
Robert A. Quinn United States	27	2.1k 1.3×	194 0.5×	365 1.4×	221 1.1×	292 1.7×	70	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boyang Ji

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ji, Boyang, et al.. (2025). Programming biological communication between distinct membraneless compartments. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(7). 1110–1117. 3 indexed citations

Ji, Boyang, et al.. (2024). Transcriptomic meta-analysis to identify potential antifungal targets in Candida albicans. BMC Microbiology. 24(1). 66–66. 5 indexed citations

Gao, Xiang, Xiao-Long Yuan, Tao Zheng, & Boyang Ji. (2023). Promoting efficient production of scytonemin in cell culture of Nostoc flagelliforme by periodic short-term solar irradiation. Bioresource Technology Reports. 21. 101352–101352. 8 indexed citations

Hartwig, Tanja Schlaikjær, Louise Ambye, Jennifer R. Gruhn, et al.. (2023). Cell-Free Fetal DNA for Genetic Evaluation in Copenhagen Pregnancy Loss Study (COPL): A Prospective Cohort Study. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 78(6). 345–346.

Zhao, Yonggang, et al.. (2023). Whole-genome sequencing reveals high-risk clones of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Guangdong, China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1117017–1117017. 18 indexed citations

Wei, Yongjun & Boyang Ji. (2023). The health effects of artificial sweeteners: Towards personalized quantification and prediction through gut microbiome. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 89–91. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Hao, Peishun Li, Boyang Ji, & Jens Nielsen. (2022). Modeling the metabolic dynamics at the genome-scale by optimized yield analysis. Metabolic Engineering. 75. 119–130. 8 indexed citations

Ji, Boyang, et al.. (2021). CODY enables quantitatively spatiotemporal predictions on in vivo gut microbial variability induced by diet intervention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(13). 25 indexed citations

Li, Gang, Yating Hu, Jan Zrimec, et al.. (2021). Bayesian genome scale modelling identifies thermal determinants of yeast metabolism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 190–190. 31 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinpeng, Rodrigo Ledesma‐Amaro, Yongjun Wei, Boyang Ji, & Xiao‐Jun Ji. (2020). Metabolic engineering for increased lipid accumulation in Yarrowia lipolytica – A Review. Bioresource Technology. 313. 123707–123707. 159 indexed citations

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Das, Promi, Simonas Marcišauskas, Boyang Ji, & Jens Nielsen. (2019). Metagenomic analysis of bile salt biotransformation in the human gut microbiome. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 517–517. 52 indexed citations

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Kumar, Manish, Boyang Ji, Karsten Zengler, & Jens Nielsen. (2019). Modelling approaches for studying the microbiome. Nature Microbiology. 4(8). 1253–1267. 123 indexed citations

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Marcišauskas, Simonas, Boyang Ji, & Jens Nielsen. (2019). Reconstruction and analysis of a Kluyveromyces marxianus genome-scale metabolic model. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 551–551. 40 indexed citations

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Das, Promi, Boyang Ji, Petia Kovatcheva‐Datchary, Fredrik Bäckhed, & Jens Nielsen. (2018). In vitro co-cultures of human gut bacterial species as predicted from co-occurrence network analysis. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0195161–e0195161. 42 indexed citations

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Motwalli, Olaa, Magbubah Essack, Boris R. Janković, et al.. (2017). In silico screening for candidate chassis strains of free fatty acid-producing cyanobacteria. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 33–33. 11 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Jens, Sietske Grijseels, Sylvain Prigent, et al.. (2017). Global analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters reveals vast potential of secondary metabolite production in Penicillium species. Nature Microbiology. 2(6). 17044–17044. 196 indexed citations

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Chen, Tao, Boyang Ji, Vaishnavi Ravikumar, et al.. (2017). Conversion of Glycerol to 3-Hydroxypropanoic Acid by Genetically Engineered Bacillus subtilis. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 638–638. 23 indexed citations

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Ji, Boyang, et al.. (2017). Serine/Threonine Protein Kinases from Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya Share a Common Evolutionary Origin Deeply Rooted in the Tree of Life. Journal of Molecular Biology. 430(1). 27–32. 61 indexed citations

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Shi, Lei, Boyang Ji, Ana Bošković, et al.. (2014). Evolution of Bacterial Protein-Tyrosine Kinases and Their Relaxed Specificity Toward Substrates. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(4). 800–817. 33 indexed citations

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Pradel, Nathalie, Boyang Ji, Grégory Gimenez, et al.. (2013). The First Genomic and Proteomic Characterization of a Deep-Sea Sulfate Reducer: Insights into the Piezophilic Lifestyle of Desulfovibrio piezophilus. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e55130–e55130. 51 indexed citations

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