Chunyan Yang

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 957 citations indexed

About

Chunyan Yang is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Chunyan Yang has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 957 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Chunyan Yang's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (9 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (5 papers). Chunyan Yang is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (9 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (5 papers). Chunyan Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Chunyan Yang's co-authors include Douglas W. Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, Yinqiu Ji, Zhaoli Ding, Brent C. Emerson, Chengxi Ye, Chenxue Yang, Rhett D. Harrison, Kai Zhang and Joseph D. Orkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Chunyan Yang

13 papers receiving 944 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.

Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring

2012 529 citations Douglas W. Yu, Yinqiu Ji et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chunyan Yang China	12	783	492	214	159	126	15	957
Carla Martins Lopes Brazil	12	788 1.0×	593 1.2×	197 0.9×	70 0.4×	30 0.2×	20	944
James J. N. Kitson United Kingdom	12	283 0.4×	134 0.3×	128 0.6×	302 1.9×	118 0.9×	16	624
Paula M. Mackie Canada	6	247 0.3×	236 0.5×	58 0.3×	161 1.0×	84 0.7×	12	590
Philippa C. Griffin Australia	15	228 0.3×	189 0.4×	154 0.7×	262 1.6×	159 1.3×	24	868
Stephanie Kirk United States	5	198 0.3×	213 0.4×	60 0.3×	148 0.9×	87 0.7×	16	526
Elizabeth Christina Miller United States	13	196 0.3×	125 0.3×	122 0.6×	143 0.9×	58 0.5×	21	590
Hernán E. Morales Denmark	17	289 0.4×	325 0.7×	94 0.4×	169 1.1×	73 0.6×	34	948
María José Madeira Spain	17	435 0.6×	110 0.2×	90 0.4×	144 0.9×	192 1.5×	31	691
Caitlin Potter United Kingdom	8	348 0.4×	216 0.4×	56 0.3×	88 0.6×	50 0.4×	11	490
Rémi Allio France	9	175 0.2×	349 0.7×	64 0.3×	220 1.4×	75 0.6×	15	746

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chunyan Yang

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

Liu, Zichao, Viorel D. Popescu, Zhaoli Ding, et al.. (2025). Comparative Efficiency of Multiple eDNA Sampling Methods for Monitoring Vertebrate Diversity in Mountainous Region. Environmental DNA. 7(4).

Gu, Yongzhe, Delin Li, Jindong Li, et al.. (2024). Accurately estimate soybean growth stages from UAV imagery by accounting for spatial heterogeneity and climate factors across multiple environments. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 225. 109313–109313. 2 indexed citations

Orkin, Joseph D., Kai He, Zhenhua Guan, et al.. (2024). Landscape and conservation genetics of western black crested gibbons (Nomascus concolor) in China. American Journal of Primatology. 87(1). e23662–e23662.

Ji, Yinqiu, Christopher C. M. Baker, Viorel D. Popescu, et al.. (2022). Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1555–1555. 25 indexed citations

Yang, Chunyan, Kristine Bohmann, Xiaoyang Wang, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity Soup II: A bulk‐sample metabarcoding pipeline emphasizing error reduction. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(7). 1252–1264. 34 indexed citations

Yang, Chunyan, et al.. (2021). The ecological impact of pest-induced tree dieback on insect biodiversity in Yunnan pine plantations, China. Forest Ecology and Management. 491. 119173–119173. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Lin, Guopeng Ren, Fangyuan Hua, et al.. (2021). Integrating habitat availability into restoration efforts for biodiversity conservation: Evaluating effectiveness and setting priorities. Biological Conservation. 257. 109127–109127. 13 indexed citations

Levi, Taal, Jennifer M. Allen, Donovan A. Bell, et al.. (2018). Environmental DNA for the enumeration and management of Pacific salmon. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(3). 597–608. 82 indexed citations

Yang, Chunyan, et al.. (2017). Using eDNA to detect the distribution and density of invasive crayfish in the Honghe-Hani rice terrace World Heritage site. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177724–e0177724. 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kai, Siliang Lin, Yinqiu Ji, et al.. (2016). Plant diversity accurately predicts insect diversity in two tropical landscapes. Molecular Ecology. 25(17). 4407–4419. 58 indexed citations

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Yang, Chunyan, Douglas Schaefer, Weijie Liu, et al.. (2016). Higher fungal diversity is correlated with lower CO2 emissions from dead wood in a natural forest. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 31066–31066. 26 indexed citations

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Orkin, Joseph D., Yuming Yang, Chunyan Yang, Douglas W. Yu, & Xuelong Jiang. (2016). Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34758–34758. 46 indexed citations

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Yang, Chenxue, Xiaoyang Wang, Jeremy A. Miller, et al.. (2014). Using metabarcoding to ask if easily collected soil and leaf-litter samples can be used as a general biodiversity indicator. Ecological Indicators. 46. 379–389. 67 indexed citations

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Harris, Richard B., et al.. (2014). Evidence that the Tibetan fox is an obligate predator of the plateau pika: conservation implications. Journal of Mammalogy. 95(6). 1207–1221. 25 indexed citations

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Yu, Douglas W., Yinqiu Ji, Brent C. Emerson, et al.. (2012). Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 3(4). 613–623. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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