Joy Yang

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Joy Yang is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joy Yang has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Ecology, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Joy Yang's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (2 papers). Joy Yang is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (2 papers). Joy Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Taiwan. Joy Yang's co-authors include Chris Meyer, Matthieu Leray, Ryuji J. Machida, Suzanne C. Mills, Vincent Ranwez, J. T. Boehm, Jennifer Meyer, Julia A. Segre, Effie Nomicos and Sean Conlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Joy Yang

9 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents
    2013 1.1k citations Matthieu Leray, Joy Yang et al. Frontiers in Zoology profile →
  2. Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin
    2013 839 citations Keisha Findley, Julia Oh et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joy Yang United States 7 1.3k 1.1k 327 302 213 9 2.2k
Leah Reshef Israel 18 1.2k 1.0× 732 0.6× 33 0.1× 177 0.6× 129 0.6× 37 2.4k
Rob Roy Ramey United States 9 558 0.4× 2.0k 1.8× 39 0.1× 140 0.5× 585 2.7× 10 3.0k
Céline Cosseau France 27 638 0.5× 754 0.7× 63 0.2× 107 0.4× 95 0.4× 58 2.4k
Ignacio Moneo Spain 33 1.1k 0.9× 282 0.2× 691 2.1× 38 0.1× 112 0.5× 120 3.0k
Lifeng Zhu China 27 707 0.6× 999 0.9× 22 0.1× 52 0.2× 192 0.9× 79 2.0k
William B. Schill United States 26 299 0.2× 254 0.2× 93 0.3× 75 0.2× 63 0.3× 82 1.6k
Bo Zeng China 26 215 0.2× 1.2k 1.1× 30 0.1× 88 0.3× 264 1.2× 107 1.9k
B. Jesse Shapiro Canada 30 926 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 8 0.0× 194 0.6× 245 1.2× 81 2.5k
Jonathan B. Clayton United States 15 241 0.2× 1.1k 0.9× 39 0.1× 70 0.2× 272 1.3× 36 1.5k
Andrea J. Jani United States 10 381 0.3× 216 0.2× 30 0.1× 35 0.1× 59 0.3× 11 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Joy Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joy Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Joy Yang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Joy Yang. The network helps show where Joy Yang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joy Yang

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

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Fan, Yupeng, Joy Yang, Daliang Ning, et al.. (2025). Modest functional diversity decline and pronounced composition shifts of microbial communities in a mixed waste-contaminated aquifer. Microbiome. 13(1). 106–106. 1 indexed citations
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Kauffman, Kathryn M., William K. Chang, Julia M. Brown, et al.. (2022). Resolving the structure of phage–bacteria interactions in the context of natural diversity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 372–372. 82 indexed citations
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Yang, Joy, Wenwen Fang, Julia M. Brown, et al.. (2021). Degradation of host translational machinery drives tRNA acquisition in viruses. Cell Systems. 12(8). 771–779.e5. 43 indexed citations
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Leray, Matthieu, Alice L. Alldredge, Joy Yang, et al.. (2019). Dietary partitioning promotes the coexistence of planktivorous species on coral reefs. Molecular Ecology. 28(10). 2694–2710. 30 indexed citations
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Kauffman, Kathryn M., Fatima A. Hussain, Joy Yang, et al.. (2018). A major lineage of non-tailed dsDNA viruses as unrecognized killers of marine bacteria. Nature. 554(7690). 118–122. 142 indexed citations
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Leray, Matthieu, Joy Yang, Chris Meyer, et al.. (2013). A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents. Frontiers in Zoology. 10(1). 34–34. 1089 indexed citations breakdown →
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Findley, Keisha, Julia Oh, Joy Yang, et al.. (2013). Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin. Nature. 498(7454). 367–370. 839 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Joy, Shelise Brooks, Jennifer Meyer, et al.. (2012). Pan-PCR, a Computational Method for Designing Bacterium-Typing Assays Based on Whole-Genome Sequence Data. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 51(3). 752–758. 17 indexed citations
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