Kai Ye

83.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
190 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Kai Ye is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Ye has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Kai Ye's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (19 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (18 papers). Kai Ye is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (28 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (19 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (18 papers). Kai Ye collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Kai Ye's co-authors include Zemin Ning, Quan Long, Rolf Apweiler, Marcel H. Schulz, Li Ding, Michael C. Wendl, Beifang Niu, Michael D. McLellan, Mingchao Xie and Qunyuan Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kai Ye

178 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Mutational landscape and significance across 12 major cancer types

2013 3.1k citations Kai Ye et al. profile →
Pindel: a pattern growth approach to detect break points of large deletions and medium sized insertions from paired-end short reads

2009 1.3k citations Kai Ye et al. profile →
MSIsensor: microsatellite instability detection using paired tumor-normal sequence data

2013 462 citations Kai Ye et al. profile →
A Tandem Duplicate of Anti-Müllerian Hormone with a Missense SNP on the Y Chromosome Is Essential for Male Sex Determination in Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

2015 310 citations Kai Ye et al. profile →
NextDenovo: an efficient error correction and accurate assembly tool for noisy long reads

2024 154 citations Jiang Hu, Zhuo Wang et al. Genome biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Ye China	45	5.1k	2.4k	1.9k	1.6k	1.4k	190	10.8k
Wei Liang China	51	4.5k 0.9×	900 0.4×	420 0.2×	1.6k 1.0×	953 0.7×	202	9.6k
Mao Mao China	40	2.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	895 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	233 0.2×	489	6.5k
Qin Yan China	51	5.9k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	652 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	366 0.3×	229	9.0k
Michael Bittner United States	59	9.7k 1.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	120 0.1×	261	14.6k
Rogier Versteeg Netherlands	55	7.4k 1.5×	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	135 0.1×	174	10.8k
Deon J. Venter Australia	43	3.0k 0.6×	994 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	129 0.1×	115	6.4k
Tao Cheng China	53	8.0k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	36 0.0×	427	14.0k
James Chen United States	54	10.1k 2.0×	876 0.4×	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	30 0.0×	227	14.2k
Yuchen Liu China	47	3.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	450 0.2×	806 0.5×	48 0.0×	367	7.2k
Xiao Hui Zhang China	41	1.6k 0.3×	447 0.2×	275 0.1×	278 0.2×	480 0.3×	226	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Ye

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Ye

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Ye

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Xinhao, et al.. (2025). Counterintuitive passivation role of manganese in stainless steel under high potential in neutral NaCl solution. Corrosion Science. 246. 112756–112756. 2 indexed citations

Bush, Stephen J., Songbo Wang, Jia‐Shi Peng, et al.. (2025). STMiner: Gene-centric spatial transcriptomics for deciphering tumor tissues. Cell Genomics. 5(2). 100771–100771. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Bo, et al.. (2025). Long and Accurate: How HiFi Sequencing is Transforming Genomics. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 23(1). 4 indexed citations

Wang, Chuantao, et al.. (2025). Photoswitchable molecular assembly for controlled chloride transport across the lipid membranes. Science China Chemistry. 68(8). 3602–3610.

Ye, Kai, et al.. (2025). In vitro digestion and fermentation characteristics of Agrocybe cylindracea polysaccharides and their interaction with the gut microbiota. Food Research International. 211. 116424–116424. 3 indexed citations

Luo, Ying, Zhe Wang, Yongde Zhang, et al.. (2024). Vertical migration behavior simulation and prediction of Pb and Cd in co-contaminated soil around Pb-Zn smelting slag site. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 469. 133990–133990. 19 indexed citations

Ye, Kai, et al.. (2024). Oncolytic virus encoding 4-1BBL and IL15 enhances the efficacy of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte adoptive therapy in HCC. Cancer Gene Therapy. 32(1). 71–82. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Nan, Wei Zhang, Jian Dong, et al.. (2024). Sex-determining region Y gene promotes liver fibrosis and accounts for sexual dimorphism in its pathophysiology. Journal of Hepatology. 80(6). 928–940. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Songbo, Jiadong Lin, Peng Jia, et al.. (2024). De novo and somatic structural variant discovery with SVision-pro. Nature Biotechnology. 43(2). 181–185. 9 indexed citations

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Hu, Jiang, Zhuo Wang, Zongyi Sun, et al.. (2024). NextDenovo: an efficient error correction and accurate assembly tool for noisy long reads. Genome biology. 25(1). 107–107. 154 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gao, Shenghan, et al.. (2024). Centromere Landscapes Resolved from Hundreds of Human Genomes. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 22(5). 2 indexed citations

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Hu, Jiang, Zhuo Wang, Fan Liang, et al.. (2024). NextPolish2: A Repeat-aware Polishing Tool for Genomes Assembled Using HiFi Long Reads. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 22(1). 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Yu, et al.. (2023). Evolutionary analysis of conserved non‐coding elements subsequent to whole‐genome duplication in opium poppy. The Plant Journal. 116(6). 1804–1824. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Xuhan, Kai Ye, Herman van Vlijmen, Adriaan P. IJzerman, & Gerard J. P. van Westen. (2023). DrugEx v3: scaffold-constrained drug design with graph transformer-based reinforcement learning. Journal of Cheminformatics. 15(1). 24–24. 45 indexed citations

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Ye, Kai, Zekai Zhang, Can Liu, et al.. (2023). Molecular rotaxane shuttle-relay accelerates K+/Cl− symport across a lipid membrane. Science China Chemistry. 66(8). 2300–2308. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Wan‐Ping, Qihui Zhu, Xiaofei Yang, et al.. (2022). JAX-CNV: A Whole-Genome Sequencing-Based Algorithm for Copy Number Detection at Clinical Grade Level. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 20(6). 1197–1206. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaofei, Shenghan Gao, Li Guo, et al.. (2021). Three chromosome-scale Papaver genomes reveal punctuated patchwork evolution of the morphinan and noscapine biosynthesis pathway. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6030–6030. 62 indexed citations

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Fokkens, Like, Li Guo, Susanne Dora, et al.. (2020). A Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly for the Fusarium oxysporum Strain Fo5176 To Establish a Model Arabidopsis -Fungal Pathosystem. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(10). 3549–3555. 27 indexed citations

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Sun, Jianyong, et al.. (2020). Homotopic Convex Transformation: A New Landscape Smoothing Method for the Traveling Salesman Problem. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 52(1). 495–507. 8 indexed citations

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Ye, Kai. (2010). The Value of Preoperative Diagnosis Based on Fine-needle Aspiration Cytology for Breast Cancer. 1 indexed citations

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