Yang Eric Li

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 696 citations indexed

About

Yang Eric Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Eric Li has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 696 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yang Eric Li's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Yang Eric Li is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Yang Eric Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Belgium. Yang Eric Li's co-authors include Bing Ren, Chenxu Zhu, Yanxiao Zhang, Jacinta Lucero, M. Margarita Behrens, Joshua Chiou, Kyle J. Gaulton, Yunjiang Qiu, Allen Wang and Kai Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Yang Eric Li

12 papers receiving 690 citations

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A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome

2021 200 citations Kai Zhang, James D. Hocker et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Eric Li United States	8	585	157	105	58	55	13	696
Vincent Liu United States	8	590 1.0×	73 0.5×	53 0.5×	47 0.8×	56 1.0×	9	678
Matthew Jones Australia	5	308 0.5×	86 0.5×	42 0.4×	103 1.8×	54 1.0×	5	407
Joseph Nasser United States	8	679 1.2×	76 0.5×	245 2.3×	59 1.0×	18 0.3×	8	804
Heather Eckart United States	8	291 0.5×	99 0.6×	37 0.4×	74 1.3×	54 1.0×	11	387
Shota Nakanoh United Kingdom	7	547 0.9×	133 0.8×	48 0.5×	27 0.5×	31 0.6×	11	606
Sarthak Sahoo India	14	309 0.5×	128 0.8×	40 0.4×	74 1.3×	206 3.7×	42	520
Ting La China	13	370 0.6×	309 2.0×	20 0.2×	87 1.5×	86 1.6×	20	622
Jay F. Sarthy United States	10	433 0.7×	59 0.4×	36 0.3×	32 0.6×	44 0.8×	24	531
Alessandra Vigilante United Kingdom	8	378 0.6×	83 0.5×	26 0.2×	33 0.6×	56 1.0×	16	463
Hector Roux de Bézieux United States	5	303 0.5×	65 0.4×	28 0.3×	99 1.7×	35 0.6×	7	405

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Eric Li

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Li, Yang Eric, et al.. (2025). scKGBERT: a knowledge-enhanced foundation model for single-cell transcriptomics. Genome biology. 26(1). 402–402.

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Li, Yang Eric, et al.. (2025). Multi‐Cohort Analysis Reveals Genetic Predispositions to Clonal Hematopoiesis as Mutation‐Specific Risk Factors for Stroke. PubMed. 6(1). 2400047–2400047. 1 indexed citations

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Xie, Yang, Chenxu Zhu, Zhaoning Wang, et al.. (2023). Droplet-based single-cell joint profiling of histone modifications and transcriptomes. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(10). 1428–1433. 30 indexed citations

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Cao, Jingxin, Yang Eric Li, Lu Li, et al.. (2023). Exploring the role of detoxification genes in the resistance of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus to different exogenous nematicidal substances using transcriptomic analyses. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 194. 105527–105527. 7 indexed citations

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Xie, Fangming, Ethan J. Armand, Zizhen Yao, et al.. (2023). Robust enhancer-gene regulation identified by single-cell transcriptomes and epigenomes. Cell Genomics. 3(7). 100342–100342. 7 indexed citations

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D’Aurizio, Romina, et al.. (2022). Bridging between Mouse and Human Enhancer-Promoter Long-Range Interactions in Neural Stem Cells, to Understand Enhancer Function in Neurodevelopmental Disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(14). 7964–7964. 7 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chenxu, Yanxiao Zhang, Yang Eric Li, et al.. (2021). Joint profiling of histone modifications and transcriptome in single cells from mouse brain. Nature Methods. 18(3). 283–292. 181 indexed citations

8.

Yan, Jian, Yunjiang Qiu, Yimeng Yin, et al.. (2021). Systematic analysis of binding of transcription factors to noncoding variants. Nature. 591(7848). 147–151. 88 indexed citations

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Tan, Changming, Ze’e Chen, Canzhao Liu, et al.. (2021). Mediator complex proximal Tail subunit MED30 is critical for Mediator core stability and cardiomyocyte transcriptional network. PLoS Genetics. 17(9). e1009785–e1009785. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kai, James D. Hocker, Michael Miller, et al.. (2021). A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome. Cell. 184(24). 5985–6001.e19. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hocker, James D., Olivier Poirion, Fugui Zhu, et al.. (2021). Cardiac cell type–specific gene regulatory programs and disease risk association. Science Advances. 7(20). 61 indexed citations

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Teng, Shuaishuai, Yang Eric Li, Ming Yang, et al.. (2019). Tissue-specific transcription reprogramming promotes liver metastasis of colorectal cancer. Cell Research. 30(1). 34–49. 79 indexed citations

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Li, Yang Eric, Mu Xiao, Binbin Shi, et al.. (2017). Identification of high-confidence RNA regulatory elements by combinatorial classification of RNA–protein binding sites. Genome biology. 18(1). 169–169. 27 indexed citations

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