Ian A. Yang

46.5k citations

211 papers · 7.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine top 0.5%
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
Physiology top 0.5%
- Asthma and respiratory diseases

Papers in

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 127
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research 57
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment 22
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations 20
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms 19
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research 19
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases 13
Issues, ethics and legal aspects 3

Co-authors: Kwun M. Fong Rayleen Bowman John W. Holloway John W. Upham Peter G. Gibson Sandra Hodge Stephen T. Holgate Paul N. Reynolds
Journals: Respirology (21 papers)European Respiratory Journal (8 papers)Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (8 papers)Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (7 papers)PLoS ONE (5 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Ian A. Yang

204 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Disease-associated gut microbiome and metabolome changes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2020 · 264 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Nature Communications
2017 The Lancet
2012 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ian A. Yang, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Acute effects of low-dose bisoprolol on lung function and blood pressure in COPD patients ERJ Open Research ·Harry Ståhl, Allison Martin, Robert J. Hancox, Catherina L. Chang, Richard Beasley, Jérémy Wrobel, Vanessa M. McDonald, Claudia C. Dobler, Ian A. Yang, Claude S. Farah, Belinda Cochrane, Graham S. Hillis, Myrthe van de Belt, Ashutosh N. Aggarwal, Channa D Ranasinha, 泰史堤, Christine Jenkins	2025	0
2	An epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition induced extracellular vesicle prognostic signature in non-small cell lung cancer Communications Biology ·Richard J. Lobb, Bert Hoveling, Ali El Othmani, Emma L. Norris, Marcus L. Hastie, Sarah Everitt, Ian A. Yang, Rayleen Bowman, Shankar Siva, Jill E. Larsen, Jeffrey J. Gorman, Michael MacManus, Antoine Leimgruber, Kwun M. Fong, Andreas Möller	2023	19
3	Mobile Health Pulmonary Rehabilitation Compared to a Center-Based Program for Cost-Effectiveness and Effects on Exercise Capacity, Health Status, and Quality of Life in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Physical Therapy ·Sally Wootton, Marita Dale, Jennifer Alison, Sarah Brown, S. A. Sasmakov, Andrew S. L. Chan, Marlien Varnfield, Ian A. Yang, Michelle Cunich, Sarah Dennis, Zoe McKeough	2023	6
4	Preventing adverse cardiac events (PACE) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): study protocol for a double-blind, placebo controlled, randomised controlled trial of bisoprolol in COPD BMJ Open ·Allison Martin, Robert J. Hancox, Catherina L. Chang, Richard Beasley, Jérémy Wrobel, Vanessa M. McDonald, Claudia C. Dobler, Ian A. Yang, Claude S. Farah, Belinda Cochrane, Graham S. Hillis, Myrthe van de Belt, Ashutosh N. Aggarwal, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Simone Lemieux, 泰史堤, Christine Jenkins	2021	4
5	Disease-associated gut microbiome and metabolome changes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Nature Communications ·Kate L Bowerman, Saima Firdous Rehman, Annalicia Vaughan, Nancy Lachner, Kurtis F. Budden, Richard Kim, David Wood, Shaan L. Gellatly, Shakti D. Shukla, Lisa G. Wood, Ian A. Yang, Peter Wark, Philip Hugenholtz, Philip M. Hansbro Hit paper breakdown →	2020	264
6	Diagnosis and treatment of lung disease associated with alpha one‐antitrypsin deficiency: A position statement from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand* Respirology ·Jack Dummer, Claudia C. Dobler, Mark Holmes, Daniel C. Chambers, Ian A. Yang, Lianne Parkin, Sheree Smith, Peter Wark, Anouk Dev, Sandra Hodge, Eli Dabscheck, Julian Gooi, Sant Ambrogio S, Jesús Ashgarraga, Anne E. Holland	2020	9
7	Management of acute COPD exacerbations in Australia: do we follow the guidelines? ERJ Open Research ·R.R. Karunanayaka, Richard Wood‐Baker, Peter Wark, Ian A. Yang, Peter G. Gibson, Anastasia Hutchinson, Dimitar Sajkov, Sarah A. Hiles, Sant Ambrogio S, Vanessa M. McDonald	2020	12
8	Long-Term Azithromycin Reduces Haemophilus influenzae and Increases Antibiotic Resistance in Severe Asthma American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Steven Taylor, Lex E. X. Leong, Fredrick M. Mobegi, Jocelyn M. Choo, Steve Wesselingh, Ian A. Yang, John W. Upham, Paul N. Reynolds, Sandra Hodge, Alan James, Christine Jenkins, Matthew Peters, Melissa Baraket, Guy B. Marks, Peter G. Gibson, Geraint B. Rogers, Jodie L. Simpson	2019	128
9	Primary human bronchial epithelial cell responses to diesel and biodiesel emissions at an air-liquid interface Toxicology in Vitro ·Annalicia Vaughan, Svetlana Stevanović, Mohammad Jafari, Rayleen Bowman, Kwun M. Fong, Zoran Ristovski, Ian A. Yang	2019	13
10	Efficacy of azithromycin in severe asthma from the AMAZES randomised trial ERJ Open Research ·Peter G. Gibson, Ian A. Yang, John W. Upham, Paul N. Reynolds, Sandra Hodge, Alan James, Christine Jenkins, Matthew Peters, Guy B. Marks, Melissa Baraket, Heather Powell, Jodie L. Simpson	2019	33
11	Anti-inflammatory deficiencies in neutrophilic asthma: reduced galectin-3 and IL-1RA/IL-1β Respiratory Research ·Peng Gao, Peter G. Gibson, Katherine J. Baines, Ian A. Yang, John W. Upham, Paul N. Reynolds, Sandra Hodge, Alan James, Christine Jenkins, Matthew Peters, Jie Zhang, Jodie L. Simpson	2015	68
12	Sputum and serum periostin levels are associated with, but do not predict sputum eosinophil proportion in severe asthma American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Jodie L. Simpson, Ian A. Yang, John W. Upham, Paul N. Reynolds, Sandra Hodge, Alan James, Christine Jenkins, Matthew Peters, Guiquan Jia, Cécile Holweg, Peter G. Gibson	2015	2
13	Full blood count parameters for the detection of asthma inflammatory phenotypes Clinical & Experimental Allergy ·Xin Zhang, Jodie L. Simpson, Heather Powell, Ian A. Yang, John W. Upham, Paul N. Reynolds, Sandra Hodge, Alan James, Christine Jenkins, Matthew Peters, Jaw‐Town Lin, Peter G. Gibson	2014	177
14	Levels of anti-cytokine antibodies may be elevated in patients with pulmonary disease associated with non-tuberculous mycobacteria Cytokine ·MI Hernandez, Grant Waterer, Rachel Thomson, Ian A. Yang, اصغر آوریده, Dino B.A. Tan, Patricia Price	2014	16
15	Alternatives to Induced Sputum for Identifying Patients with Eosinophilic Asthma Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) ·Joe Leigh Simpson, Ian A. Yang, Paul N. Reynolds, Sandra Hodge, Alan James, John W. Upham, Christine Jenkins, Matthew Peters, Peter G. Gibson, (unknown)	2013	2
16	Interobserver agreement of lung adenocarcinoma diagnosis when applying the 2011 Iaslc/ats/ers Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Edwina Duhig, Raquel Luz de Lima, C.M. Chen, Coyotes Team, Luis Enrique Torán, Ian A. Yang, Rayleen Bowman, Kwun M. Fong	2012	0
17	Relationships between pleural plaques, lung asbestos content and asbestos exposure in Australians with or at risk of lung cancer Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Antonio Antenor Tognon, Kossi Gnamey, R. Slaughter, Marion Dale Pokriots, Jane Crossin, Henry Marshall, Nabila Tanti Pramuja, Weijia Zhang, M.E. Tan, Ian A. Yang, Kwun M. Fong, Rayleen Bowman	2011	1
18	Screening for activatingEGFRmutations in surgically resected nonsmall cell lung cancer European Respiratory Journal ·Krishna Bajee Sriram, M.E. Tan, 史启祯王尧宇, Casey M. Wright, Fatemeh Bagheri, Rebecca E. Stockwell, Raquel Luz de Lima, Edwina Duhig, Ian A. Yang, Rayleen Bowman, Kwun M. Fong	2011	28
19	Gene expression of lung squamous cell carcinoma reflects mode of lymph node involvement European Respiratory Journal ·Jill E. Larsen, Sandra Pavey, Qin-Zeng Hu, Ian A. Yang, Raquel Luz de Lima, Maree Colosimo, Nicholas K. Hayward, Kwun M. Fong	2007	11
20	Association of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Polymorphisms and Ozone-induced Change in Lung Function American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Ian A. Yang, Olaf Holz, Rudolf A. Jörres, H Magnussen, Sheila J. Barton, Santiago Rodrı́guez, Julie A. Cakebread, John W. Holloway, Stephen T. Holgate	2004	66

About Ian A. Yang

Ian A. Yang is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Issues, ethics and legal aspects, Physiology, Emergency Medical Services and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, having authored 211 papers that have together received 7.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (57 papers), Asthma and respiratory diseases (44 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (20 papers), Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (19 papers), Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (19 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (16 papers) and Occupational and environmental lung diseases (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (3.6k citations), Physiology (2.5k citations), Emergency Medical Services (611 citations), Immunology (1.1k citations) and Immunology and Allergy (278 citations). Ian A. Yang has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Kwun M. Fong, Rayleen Bowman, John W. Holloway, John W. Upham, Peter G. Gibson, Sandra Hodge, Stephen T. Holgate, Paul N. Reynolds, Jodie L. Simpson and Esther Sim. Their work appears in journals such as Respirology, European Respiratory Journal, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and PLoS ONE.

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