Weifeng Yang

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Weifeng Yang is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weifeng Yang has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Oceanography, 28 papers in Atmospheric Science and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Weifeng Yang's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (45 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (17 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers). Weifeng Yang is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (45 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (17 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers). Weifeng Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Weifeng Yang's co-authors include Hongkui Deng, Yang Zhao, Xu Zhang, Jian Ge, Kang Liu, Junqing Ye, Min Chen, Chun Liu, Honggang Li and Yanqin Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Weifeng Yang

111 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Pluripotent Stem Cells Induced from Mouse Somatic Cells by Small-Molecule Compounds

2013 1.0k citations Pingping Hou, Yanqin Li et al. Science profile →
Stretchable ionic–electronic bilayer hydrogel electronics enable in situ detection of solid-state epidermal biomarkers

2024 116 citations Sherwin Chong Li Tan, Wei Peng Goh et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weifeng Yang China	26	2.0k	552	451	324	321	120	3.3k
Satoshi Kitajima Japan	28	1.9k 1.0×	365 0.7×	295 0.7×	459 1.4×	51 0.2×	88	3.6k
Cheng Liu China	33	2.6k 1.3×	115 0.2×	165 0.4×	168 0.5×	245 0.8×	157	4.4k
Kimberly A. Mace United Kingdom	26	665 0.3×	319 0.6×	117 0.3×	102 0.3×	617 1.9×	47	2.6k
Yan Ding China	33	1.6k 0.8×	168 0.3×	69 0.2×	302 0.9×	168 0.5×	124	3.5k
Wei‐Chun Chin United States	34	484 0.2×	929 1.7×	675 1.5×	144 0.4×	206 0.6×	89	3.9k
Jun Yamamoto Japan	30	590 0.3×	138 0.3×	173 0.4×	191 0.6×	75 0.2×	171	2.7k
Deming Zhao China	36	1.9k 1.0×	169 0.3×	147 0.3×	170 0.5×	1.0k 3.2×	296	5.1k
Haifeng Gu China	36	2.1k 1.1×	1.8k 3.2×	119 0.3×	278 0.9×	154 0.5×	249	4.7k
Stephan Schneider Germany	33	1.3k 0.7×	75 0.1×	221 0.5×	751 2.3×	93 0.3×	82	3.2k
Keng Po Lai Hong Kong	36	1.3k 0.7×	64 0.1×	278 0.6×	158 0.5×	76 0.2×	143	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Weifeng Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weifeng Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weifeng Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weifeng Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weifeng 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 Weifeng Yang. Weifeng 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

Tao, Meihui, Po Zhang, Weifeng Yang, et al.. (2025). Global, regional, and national burden of disease attributable to a diet low in milk, 1990–2021: An updated analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study 2021. Journal of Dairy Science. 108(5). 4558–4572. 1 indexed citations

Bao, Hongyan, Yuanbi Yi, Jutta Niggemann, et al.. (2025). Predicting Dissolved Black Carbon Concentration From Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter Along the Land‐Ocean Continuum. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(22).

Tan, Sherwin Chong Li, Wei Peng Goh, Yin Liu, et al.. (2024). Stretchable ionic–electronic bilayer hydrogel electronics enable in situ detection of solid-state epidermal biomarkers. Nature Materials. 23(8). 1115–1122. 116 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Weifeng, et al.. (2023). Dynamics of particulate black carbon in the South China Sea: Magnitude, resident timescale, sinking speed, and flux. The Science of The Total Environment. 877. 162847–162847. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Weifeng, et al.. (2023). Multilevel Feature Fusion-Based GCN for Rumor Detection with Topic Relevance Mining. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2023. 1–9. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, et al.. (2023). Enhanced mesopelagic particle export in the northern South China Sea derived from 210Po/210Pb disequilibrium. Chemical Geology. 634. 121582–121582.

Gong, Qing, Peng Hu, Weifeng Yang, et al.. (2022). Microwave-Assisted Preparation of the Cubic RuSe₂/C Catalyst for Fuel Cell Applications. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(11). 13166–13175. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Weifeng, et al.. (2022). A New Radiotracer for Particulate Carbon Dynamics: Examination of ²¹⁰Bi‐²¹⁰Pb in Seawater. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(12). 2 indexed citations

Yang, Weifeng, Qiang Tong, Shuhua Ma, et al.. (2022). Traditional Chinese Medicine Tanreqing Targets Both Cell Division and Virulence in Staphylococcus aureus. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 12. 884045–884045. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Xin, Xiaoyan Wu, Min Chen, et al.. (2021). Isotopic Constraint on the Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling of Nitrate in the Jiulong River Estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(3). 13 indexed citations

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Li, Danyang, Jiaxing Liu, Run Zhang, et al.. (2019). N2 fixation impacted by carbon fixation via dissolved organic carbon in the changing Daya Bay, South China Sea. The Science of The Total Environment. 674. 592–602. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Min, et al.. (2019). Enhanced but highly variable bioturbation around seamounts in the northwest Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 156. 103190–103190. 20 indexed citations

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Yang, Weifeng, et al.. (2018). Transport of dissolved black carbon from the Prydz Bay Shelf, Antarctica to the deep Southern Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 63(5). 2179–2190. 14 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of METase-pemetrexed-loaded PEG–PLGA nanoparticles modified with anti-CD133–scFV for treatment of gastric carcinoma. Bioscience Reports. 38(1). 21 indexed citations

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Yang, Weifeng, et al.. (2017). Source and Fate of Dissolved Black Carbon in the Western South China Sea During the Southwest Monsoon Prevailing Season. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 122(11). 2817–2830. 32 indexed citations

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Yang, Weifeng, Lihao Zhang, Run Zhang, et al.. (2017). Utilizing ²¹⁰Po deficit to constrain particle dynamics in mesopelagic water, western South China Sea. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(4). 1594–1607. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Kang, Yang Zhao, Haibo Li, et al.. (2015). Generation of Naive Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Rhesus Monkey Fibroblasts. Cell stem cell. 16(2). 211–212. 1 indexed citations

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Hou, Pingping, Yanqin Li, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2013). Pluripotent Stem Cells Induced from Mouse Somatic Cells by Small-Molecule Compounds. Science. 341(6146). 651–654. 1014 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Xingwei, et al.. (2011). Effects of different pacing algorithms on cumulative ventricular pacing proportion in patients with pacemakers.. PubMed. 124(18). 2937–42. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Weifeng, et al.. (2006). Excess polonium-210 in the coastal atmosphere originating from marine biogenic material. 海洋学报(英文版). 1 indexed citations

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