Jinliang Yang

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Jinliang Yang is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jinliang Yang has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Plant Science, 28 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jinliang Yang's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (28 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (17 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (13 papers). Jinliang Yang is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (28 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (17 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (13 papers). Jinliang Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Jinliang Yang's co-authors include James C. Schnable, Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra, Bing Yang, Wolf B. Frommer, Davide Sosso, Gen Xu, Chenyong Miao, Yufeng Ge, Patrick S. Schnable and Masaharu Suzuki and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Jinliang Yang

57 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Seed filling in domesticated maize and rice depends on SWEET-mediated hexose transport

2015 380 citations Davide Sosso, Jinliang Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jinliang Yang United States	22	1.5k	584	497	212	121	59	1.9k
Vincent Segura France	22	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	794 1.6×	148 0.7×	122 1.0×	54	2.7k
Malia Gehan United States	16	1.3k 0.8×	242 0.4×	366 0.7×	393 1.9×	81 0.7×	29	1.6k
Fiona Corke United Kingdom	22	1.7k 1.1×	243 0.4×	756 1.5×	118 0.6×	136 1.1×	49	1.9k
Nathan D. Miller United States	23	1.8k 1.2×	195 0.3×	987 2.0×	133 0.6×	89 0.7×	40	2.0k
Jiuran Zhao China	27	1.9k 1.3×	738 1.3×	832 1.7×	105 0.5×	254 2.1×	114	2.5k
Aluízio Borém Brazil	24	1.5k 1.0×	362 0.6×	238 0.5×	123 0.6×	262 2.2×	130	1.8k
Myriam Dauzat France	21	1.6k 1.1×	163 0.3×	501 1.0×	180 0.8×	115 1.0×	30	1.9k
Christoph Grieder Switzerland	13	911 0.6×	565 1.0×	248 0.5×	139 0.7×	164 1.4×	24	1.2k
Josquin Tibbits Australia	21	1.1k 0.8×	487 0.8×	431 0.9×	137 0.6×	150 1.2×	52	1.6k
Waseem Hussain United States	13	982 0.7×	299 0.5×	247 0.5×	126 0.6×	87 0.7×	38	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jinliang Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jinliang Yang

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Zhixiong, Wei Xie, Qiang Huang, et al.. (2025). Discovery of STING antagonists targeting cGAS-STING pathway to alleviate IMQ-induced psoriasis-like dermatitis. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 210. 107091–107091. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yiru, Cheng He, Qiqi Wang, et al.. (2025). Large DNA and protein language models enhance discovery of deleterious mutations in maize. Genome biology. 26(1). 412–412.

Mukhtar, Hussnain, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen input differentially shapes the rhizosphere microbiome diversity and composition across diverse maize lines. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 61(1). 1–12. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Qi, et al.. (2024). Dissecting the colocalized GWAS and eQTLs with mediation analysis for high-dimensional exposures and confounders. Biometrics. 80(2). 1 indexed citations

He, Cheng, Jacob D. Washburn, Heidi F. Kaeppler, et al.. (2024). Trait association and prediction through integrative k ‐mer analysis. The Plant Journal. 120(2). 833–850. 1 indexed citations

Mural, Ravi V., et al.. (2024). Dissecting the genetic architecture of sunflower disc diameter using genome‐wide association study. Plant Direct. 8(10). e70010–e70010. 1 indexed citations

Li, Delin, et al.. (2024). TWAS facilitates gene-scale trait genetic dissection through gene expression, structural variations, and alternative splicing in soybean. Plant Communications. 5(10). 101010–101010. 6 indexed citations

Wijewardane, Nuwan K., Huichun Zhang, Jinliang Yang, et al.. (2023). A leaf-level spectral library to support high-throughput plant phenotyping: predictive accuracy and model transfer. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(14). 4050–4062. 15 indexed citations

Ge, Yufeng, et al.. (2023). Leaf-Counting in Monocot Plants Using Deep Regression Models. Sensors. 23(4). 1890–1890. 6 indexed citations

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Cheng, Hao, et al.. (2023). Microbiome-enabled genomic selection improves prediction accuracy for nitrogen-related traits in maize. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 14(3). 3 indexed citations

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Meier, Michael, Gen Xu, Martha Lopez‐Guerrero, et al.. (2022). Association analyses of host genetics, root-colonizing microbes, and plant phenotypes under different nitrogen conditions in maize. eLife. 11. 27 indexed citations

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Xu, Gen, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide mediation analysis: an empirical study to connect phenotype with genotype via intermediate transcriptomic data in maize. Genetics. 221(2). 8 indexed citations

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Deng, Siwen, et al.. (2021). Genome wide association study reveals plant loci controlling heritability of the rhizosphere microbiome. The ISME Journal. 15(11). 3181–3194. 135 indexed citations

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Meier, Michael, Martha Lopez‐Guerrero, Marty R. Schmer, et al.. (2021). Rhizosphere Microbiomes in a Historical Maize-Soybean Rotation System Respond to Host Species and Nitrogen Fertilization at the Genus and Subgenus Levels. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(12). e0313220–e0313220. 25 indexed citations

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Samayoa, Luis Fernando, Bode A. Olukolu, Chin Jian Yang, et al.. (2021). Domestication reshaped the genetic basis of inbreeding depression in a maize landrace compared to its wild relative, teosinte. PLoS Genetics. 17(12). e1009797–e1009797. 9 indexed citations

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Miao, Chenyong, Jinliang Yang, & James C. Schnable. (2018). Optimising the identification of causal variants across varying genetic architectures in crops. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 17(5). 893–905. 33 indexed citations

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Bezrutczyk, Margaret, Thomas Hartwig, Si Nian Char, et al.. (2018). Impaired phloem loading in zmsweet13a,b,c sucrose transporter triple knock‐out mutants in Zea mays. New Phytologist. 218(2). 594–603. 134 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhaobin, Wei Li, Erica Unger‐Wallace, et al.. (2017). Ideal crop plant architecture is mediated by tassels replace upper ears1, a BTB/POZ ankyrin repeat gene directly targeted by TEOSINTE BRANCHED1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(41). E8656–E8664. 75 indexed citations

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Yang, Jinliang, Sofiane Mezmouk, Andy Baumgarten, et al.. (2017). Incomplete dominance of deleterious alleles contributes substantially to trait variation and heterosis in maize. PLoS Genetics. 13(9). e1007019–e1007019. 121 indexed citations

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Yang, Jinliang, Jinliang Yang, Yangping Wu, et al.. (2014). Polymorphisms in CISH Gene Are Associated with Persistent Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Han Chinese Population. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e100826–e100826. 14 indexed citations

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