Ling Yang

34.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
326 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Ling Yang is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ling Yang has authored 326 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Epidemiology, 69 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 52 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Ling Yang's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (36 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (35 papers) and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (28 papers). Ling Yang is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (36 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (35 papers) and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (28 papers). Ling Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Ling Yang's co-authors include Zhengming Chen, Canqing Yu, Liming Li, Yiping Chen, Zheng Bian, Jun Lv, Yu Guo, Donald Maxwell Parkin, Junshi Chen and Huaidong Du and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Ling Yang

305 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

Association Between Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Rural and Urban Areas of China

2017 366 citations Canqing Yu, Huaidong Du et al. profile →
Body-mass index and obesity in urban and rural China: findings from consecutive nationally representative surveys during 2004–18

2021 359 citations Zhenping Zhao, Ling Yang et al. profile →
The Burden of Hypertension and Associated Risk for Cardiovascular Mortality in China

2016 290 citations Sarah Lewington, Robert Clarke et al. profile →
Frailty index and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study

2020 249 citations Canqing Yu, Yu Guo et al. The Lancet Public Health profile →
Lifestyle, cardiometabolic disease, and multimorbidity in a prospective Chinese study

2021 243 citations Canqing Yu, Yu Guo et al. profile →
Association of Depression With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among Adults in China

2020 241 citations Canqing Yu, Jun Lv et al. profile →
The critical role of gut microbiota in obesity

2022 134 citations Ling Yang et al. profile →
Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy at age 30 years in the Chinese population: an observational study

2022 89 citations Canqing Yu, Yu Guo et al. The Lancet Public Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ling Yang China	51	1.9k	1.8k	1.8k	1.7k	1.5k	326	10.9k
Canqing Yu China	49	2.2k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	498	10.9k
Ioanna Tzoulaki United Kingdom	58	2.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.5×	186	13.9k
Zhengming Chen United Kingdom	54	2.7k 1.4×	2.3k 1.3×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.8×	374	13.5k
Sang Min Park South Korea	47	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	835 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	423	8.5k
Zheng Bian China	45	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	917 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	183	7.9k
Karl Michaëlsson Sweden	65	2.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	325	16.6k
Sun Ha Jee South Korea	57	2.3k 1.2×	3.1k 1.7×	2.4k 1.3×	2.6k 1.6×	2.1k 1.4×	424	14.6k
Farshad Farzadfar Iran	43	2.6k 1.4×	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	303	11.4k
Rino Bellocco Sweden	56	2.4k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	768 0.5×	224	11.1k
Tetsuya Mizoue Japan	60	3.8k 2.0×	1.8k 1.0×	3.0k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	738 0.5×	460	13.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ling Yang

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Chang, Yan, Wanzhen Li, Jingqing Chen, et al.. (2025). Methionine in embryonic development: metabolism, redox homeostasis, epigenetic modification and signaling pathway. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 65(32). 8051–8074. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Zhijia, Haijun Zhang, Canqing Yu, et al.. (2025). Risk thresholds for soft versus hard cardiovascular disease outcome models for initiating statin therapy among Chinese adults: a cost-utility analysis. BMC Medicine. 23(1). 353–353.

Wang, Xiaoqin, Xin Mei, Weiye Li, et al.. (2025). Prevalence of myopia and refractive parameters among children and adolescents in Hi-tech District of Chengdu City. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 12. 1502660–1502660.

Chen, Yiping, Jun Lv, Dianjianyi Sun, et al.. (2024). Reproductive factors and risk of lung cancer among 300,000 Chinese female never-smokers: evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank study. BMC Cancer. 24(1). 384–384. 4 indexed citations

Li, Aolin, Canqing Yu, Pei Pei, et al.. (2024). Phenotypic Versus Genetic Mismatch of BMI and Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence From Two Prospective Cohort Studies. Diabetes. 74(3). 320–331.

Sun, Zhijia, Haijun Zhang, Canqing Yu, et al.. (2024). Cost-Effectiveness of Salt Substitution and Antihypertensive Drug Treatment in Chinese Prehypertensive Adults. Hypertension. 81(12). 2529–2539.

Wang, Xue, Lu Chen, Jun Lv, et al.. (2024). Diabetes and chronic kidney disease in Chinese adults: a population-based cohort study. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 12(1). e003721–e003721. 2 indexed citations

Lv, Jun, Canqing Yu, Dianjianyi Sun, et al.. (2024). Dietary factors and patterns in relation to risk of later‐onset ulcerative colitis in Chinese: A prospective study of 0.5 million people. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 59(11). 1425–1434. 3 indexed citations

Zhuang, Zhenhuang, Jun Lv, Dianjianyi Sun, et al.. (2024). A genome-wide association study based on the China Kadoorie Biobank identifies genetic associations between snoring and cardiometabolic traits. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuanyuan, Ling Yang, Yiping Chen, et al.. (2024). Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank. The Lancet Public Health. 9(12). e1005–e1013. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Ling, Tong Liu, Yun Li, et al.. (2023). Controlling Risk Factors Reduces Cancer Risk in Patients with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: A Cohort Study. The American Journal of Medicine. 137(4). 341–349.e7. 1 indexed citations

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Clarke, Robert, Neil Wright, Robin Walters, et al.. (2023). Genetically Predicted Differences in Systolic Blood Pressure and Risk of Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study in Chinese Adults. Hypertension. 80(3). 566–576. 11 indexed citations

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Yu, Wei, Weihua Cao, Jun Lv, et al.. (2022). Dietary Patterns and Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among Chinese Adults: An 11-Year Prospective Study. Nutrients. 14(5). 996–996. 14 indexed citations

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Lv, Jun, Yuanjie Pang, Yu Guo, et al.. (2022). Association of egg consumption, metabolic markers, and risk of cardiovascular diseases: A nested case-control study. eLife. 11. 6 indexed citations

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Bennett, Derrick, Yu Guo, Yiping Chen, et al.. (2021). Long-term solid fuel use and risks of major eye diseases in China: A population-based cohort study of 486,532 adults. PLoS Medicine. 18(7). e1003716–e1003716. 22 indexed citations

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Zhang, Mei, Shiwei Liu, Ling Yang, et al.. (2019). Prevalence of Smoking and Knowledge About the Hazards of Smoking Among 170 000 Chinese Adults, 2013–2014. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 21(12). 1644–1651. 43 indexed citations

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Chen, Ting, et al.. (2018). Efficacy of retinal photocoagulation combined with Ranibizumab or Conbercept in patients with macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Y, Li, Ling Yang, Limin Wang, et al.. (2016). Burden of hypertension in China: A nationally representative survey of 174,621 adults. International Journal of Cardiology. 227. 516–523. 151 indexed citations

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Chang, Cindy M., et al.. (2016). Biomarkers of Tobacco Exposure: Summary of an FDA-Sponsored Public Workshop. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 26(3). 291–302. 101 indexed citations

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Yang, Ling, Marie Löf, Marit B. Veierød, et al.. (2011). Ultraviolet Exposure and Mortality among Women in Sweden. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 20(4). 683–690. 59 indexed citations

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