Wei Yang

12.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
172 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Wei Yang is a scholar working on Nephrology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Yang has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Nephrology, 38 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 34 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Wei Yang's work include Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (23 papers), Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (22 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (16 papers). Wei Yang is often cited by papers focused on Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (23 papers), Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (22 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (16 papers). Wei Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Wei Yang's co-authors include Rui Wang, Lingyun Wu, Guangdong Yang, Harold I. Feldman, Bo Jiang, Solomon H. Snyder, Asif K. Mustafa, Jiansong Qi, Shengming Zhang and Qinghe Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Wei Yang

162 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

H ₂ S as a Physiologic Vasorelaxant: Hypertension in Mice with Deletion of Cystathionine γ-Lyase

2008 2.0k citations Guangdong Yang, Lingyun Wu et al. Science profile →
Reconsidering the Consequences of Using Race to Estimate Kidney Function

2019 244 citations Wei Yang, Peter P. Reese et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Yang United States	47	2.5k	2.5k	1.7k	1.1k	1.1k	172	9.2k
Anna F. Dominiczak United Kingdom	66	997 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	9.8k 5.9×	4.2k 3.7×	2.3k 2.2×	358	22.1k
Michael Y. Tsai United States	61	1.3k 0.5×	389 0.2×	2.3k 1.4×	3.2k 2.8×	865 0.8×	412	16.1k
Masaomi Nangaku Japan	82	945 0.4×	8.4k 3.4×	2.4k 1.5×	6.9k 6.2×	2.3k 2.2×	712	24.1k
Paul J. Cannon United States	52	479 0.2×	856 0.3×	2.4k 1.4×	1.8k 1.6×	932 0.9×	187	8.4k
Stephan J. L. Bakker Netherlands	75	504 0.2×	6.4k 2.6×	4.2k 2.5×	4.2k 3.8×	2.5k 2.3×	889	24.2k
Tomonori Okamura Japan	61	563 0.2×	832 0.3×	5.1k 3.1×	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	634	16.4k
Florian Kronenberg Austria	73	384 0.2×	4.2k 1.7×	3.4k 2.1×	4.7k 4.2×	1.6k 1.5×	380	20.4k
Michel Burnier Switzerland	66	327 0.1×	2.7k 1.1×	7.3k 4.4×	2.4k 2.1×	1.9k 1.8×	605	17.1k
Arnold von Eckardstein Switzerland	82	902 0.4×	724 0.3×	4.0k 2.4×	6.5k 5.8×	1.2k 1.1×	419	22.2k
John H. Eckfeldt United States	55	306 0.1×	3.9k 1.6×	2.5k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	194	14.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Yang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xue, Cong, Wei Yang, Anqi Hu, et al.. (2025). CYP2D6 polymorphisms and endoxifen concentration in Chinese patients with breast cancer. BMC Cancer. 25(1). 410–410. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingwei, et al.. (2025). Construction and validation of a prediction model for arteriovenous fistula thrombosis in patients with AVF using Lasso regression. The Journal of Vascular Access. 26(6). 2053–2066. 1 indexed citations

Park, Cheol Ho, Hyung Woo Kim, Jung Tak Park, et al.. (2025). BP and Kidney Disease Progression in Advanced CKD. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 20(9). 1179–1189. 1 indexed citations

Shulman, R S, Wei Yang, Peter P. Reese, et al.. (2025). Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitors in Patients With Nonproteinuric Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Outcomes: Findings From the CRIC Study. Kidney Medicine. 8(1). 101159–101159.

Tighiouart, Hocine, Shiyuan Miao, Marc Froissart, et al.. (2024). Estimating glomerular filtration rate in kidney transplant recipients: considerations for selecting equations. Kidney International. 106(5). 991–995. 1 indexed citations

Yao, Yi, Brad C. Astor, Wei Yang, Tom Greene, & Liang Li. (2024). Predicting kidney graft function and failure among kidney transplant recipients. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 24(1). 324–324.

Miano, Todd A., Athena F. Zuppa, Rui Feng, et al.. (2024). Development and validation of a population pharmacokinetic model to guide perioperative tacrolimus dosing after lung transplantation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100134–100134. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Wei, Huining Peng, Min He, Zhiyun Peng, & Guangcheng Wang. (2024). Novel tubulin polymerization inhibitors based on the hybridization of coumarin and indole ring: Design, synthesis and bioactivities evaluation. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1305. 137761–137761. 4 indexed citations

Dhopeshwarkar, Neil, Wei Yang, Sean Hennessy, et al.. (2023). Combining Super Learner with high‐dimensional propensity score to improve confounding adjustment: A real‐world application in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 33(1). e5678–e5678. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Wei, S. Bobdiwala, S. Sur, et al.. (2023). Beta-human chorionic gonadotrophin point of care testing for the management of pregnancy of unknown location. Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 48(3). 103643–103643. 1 indexed citations

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Bundy, Joshua D., Mahboob Rahman, Kunihiro Matsushita, et al.. (2022). Risk Prediction Models for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: The CRIC Study. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 33(3). 601–611. 14 indexed citations

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Fan, Meiyan, et al.. (2022). Occurrence, synthesis and biological activity of 2-(2-phenyethyl)chromones. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 237. 114397–114397. 28 indexed citations

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Lu, Minggen & Wei Yang. (2021). Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis of Complex Survey Data with Application to BRFSS Data. Journal of Data Science. 10(2). 157–173.

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Zheng, Zihe, Sushrut S. Waikar, Insa M. Schmidt, et al.. (2021). Subtyping CKD Patients by Consensus Clustering: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 32(3). 639–653. 42 indexed citations

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Anderson, Amanda H., Wei Yang, Chi‐yuan Hsu, et al.. (2012). Estimating GFR Among Participants in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 60(2). 250–261. 160 indexed citations

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Joffe, Marshall M., Wei Yang, & Harold I. Feldman. (2010). Selective Ignorability Assumptions in Causal Inference. The International Journal of Biostatistics. 6(2). Article 11–Article 11. 11 indexed citations

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John, Anitha S., Jack Rychik, Wei Yang, & Elizabeth Goldmuntz. (2009). Abstract 2002: 22q11.2 Deletion Status and the Risk of Aortic Root Dilation in Pediatric Patients With Tetralogy of Fallot. Circulation. 120. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Guangdong, Lingyun Wu, Bo Jiang, et al.. (2008). H ₂ S as a Physiologic Vasorelaxant: Hypertension in Mice with Deletion of Cystathionine γ-Lyase. Science. 322(5901). 587–590. 2004 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ramakrishna, Rohan, Michael Stiefel, Alejandro M Spiotta, et al.. (2008). Brain oxygen tension and outcome in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Journal of neurosurgery. 109(6). 1075–1082. 56 indexed citations

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Yu, Jianqing, Megan K. Liszewski, Jihong Dai, et al.. (2008). A more precise HIV integration assay designed to detect small differences finds lower levels of integrated DNA in HAART treated patients. Virology. 379(1). 78–86. 68 indexed citations

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