Yang Liao

44.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 20.8k citations indexed

About

Yang Liao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Liao has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 20.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Immunology and 14 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yang Liao's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (12 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers). Yang Liao is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (12 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers). Yang Liao collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Yang Liao's co-authors include Wei Shi, Gordon K. Smyth, Stephen L. Nutt, Axel Kallies, Julie Tellier, Simon N. Willis, Renee Gloury, David M. Tarlinton, Lynn M. Corcoran and Simon Preston and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Yang Liao

61 papers receiving 20.7k 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.

featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features

2013 15.4k citations Yang Liao, Gordon K. Smyth et al. Bioinformatics profile →
The Subread aligner: fast, accurate and scalable read mapping by seed-and-vote

2013 1.9k citations Yang Liao, Gordon K. Smyth et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The R package Rsubread is easier, faster, cheaper and better for alignment and quantification of RNA sequencing reads

2019 1.6k citations Yang Liao, Gordon K. Smyth et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers

Yang Liao

IMMUN

GENET

Katleen De Preter Belgium

Yong Zhang China

Harold Pimentel United States

Chris Zaleski United States

Philippe Batut United States

Bruce Poppe Belgium

Nadine Van Roy Belgium

Filip Pattyn Belgium

Frank Speleman Belgium

Anne De Paepe Belgium

Katleen De Preter Belgium

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IMMUN

2.4k ×0.7

3.4k ×1.3

2.5k ×1.1

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Citations per year, relative to Yang Liao Yang Liao (= 1×) peers Katleen De Preter

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Liao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Liao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Liao

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

Liao, Yang, et al.. (2025). Current Tools for Investigating Breast Cancer Screening Hesitancy: A Systematic Scoping Review. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science. 24(4). 1304–1328.

Zhang, Yiqiang, Peng Wan, Yi Zhao, et al.. (2025). NACC1 accelerates the progression of AML by regulating the ADAM9/PI3K/AKT axis. International Journal of Medical Sciences. 22(3). 630–640.

Liao, Yang, Yi Zhao, Yiqiang Zhang, et al.. (2025). OTUB1 promotes the progression of acute myeloid leukemia by regulating glycolysis via deubiquitinating c-Myc. Cellular Signalling. 131. 111735–111735. 1 indexed citations

Kueh, Andrew J., Martin Pál, Lin Tai, et al.. (2025). Transcriptomic changes including p53 dysregulation prime DNMT3A mutant cells for transformation. EMBO Reports. 26(11). 2855–2882.

Liao, Yang, et al.. (2025). Psychometric validation of a culturally adapted health belief model scale for breast cancer screening in Chinese women. PLoS ONE. 20(9). e0331279–e0331279.

Liao, Yang, et al.. (2025). Psychometric validation of a knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) scale for breast cancer screening among Chinese women. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 3478–3478.

Sun, Na, Yang Liao, Guisheng Wang, et al.. (2024). Whole-genome sequencing of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with capsular serotype K2 isolates from mink in China. BMC Veterinary Research. 20(1). 356–356. 2 indexed citations

Ioannidis, Lisa J., Emily M. Eriksson, Suhendro Suwarto, et al.. (2023). Integrated systems immunology approach identifies impaired effector T cell memory responses as a feature of progression to severe dengue fever. Journal of Biomedical Science. 30(1). 24–24. 4 indexed citations

Baldoni, Pedro L., Yunshun Chen, Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh, et al.. (2023). Dividing out quantification uncertainty allows efficient assessment of differential transcript expression with edgeR. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(3). e13–e13. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Liqing, Menghan Chen, Qihui Sun, Yang Liao, & Rong Rong. (2023). Discovery of the potential neuraminidase inhibitors from Polygonum cuspidatum by ultrafiltration combined with mass spectrometry guided by molecular docking. Journal of Separation Science. 46(10). e2200937–e2200937. 7 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhoujie, Isaak Quast, Feng Yan, et al.. (2022). CD137L and CD4 T cells limit BCL6‐expressing pre‐germinal center B cell expansion and BCL6‐driven B cell malignancy. Immunology and Cell Biology. 100(9). 705–717. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Menghan, et al.. (2022). An affinity interaction guided two-dimensional separation system for the screening of neuraminidase inhibitors from Reynoutria japonica Houtt. roots. Journal of Chromatography A. 1678. 463338–463338. 2 indexed citations

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Liao, Yang & Wei Shi. (2020). Read trimming is not required for mapping and quantification of RNA-seq reads at the gene level. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2(3). lqaa068–lqaa068. 26 indexed citations

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Fedele, Pasquale L., Yang Liao, Jianan Gong, et al.. (2020). The transcription factor IRF4 represses proapoptotic BMF and BIM to licence multiple myeloma survival. Leukemia. 35(7). 2114–2118. 21 indexed citations

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Liao, Yang & Wei Du. (2018). An Rb family–independent E2F3 transcription factor variant impairs STAT5 signaling and mammary gland remodeling during pregnancy in mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(9). 3156–3167. 7 indexed citations

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Liao, Yang & Wei Du. (2017). Rb‐independent E2F3 promotes cell proliferation and alters expression of genes involved in metabolism and inflammation. FEBS Open Bio. 7(10). 1611–1621. 11 indexed citations

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Xin, Annie, Frédérick Masson, Yang Liao, et al.. (2016). A molecular threshold for effector CD8+ T cell differentiation controlled by transcription factors Blimp-1 and T-bet. Nature Immunology. 17(4). 422–432. 126 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tianyi, Yang Liao, Jennifer S. Searle, et al.. (2014). Hyperactivated Wnt Signaling Induces Synthetic Lethal Interaction with Rb Inactivation by Elevating TORC1 Activities. PLoS Genetics. 10(5). e1004357–e1004357. 13 indexed citations

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Liao, Yang, Gordon K. Smyth, & Wei Shi. (2013). featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features. Bioinformatics. 30(7). 923–930. 15434 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liao, Yang, Aaron Harwood, & Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. (2010). Decentralisation of Score Finder: A Framework for Credibility Management on User-Generated Contents. Lecture notes in computer science. 6119.

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