Yang Shen

7.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Yang Shen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Shen has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Yang Shen's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (32 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (24 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (13 papers). Yang Shen is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (32 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (24 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (13 papers). Yang Shen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Yang Shen's co-authors include Ad Bax, Frank Delaglio, Gabriel Cornilescu, David Baker, Jinfa Ying, C.H. Arrowsmith, Yibing Wu, Alexander Lemak, Robert M. Vernon and Gaohua Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yang Shen

42 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

TALOS+: a hybrid method for predicting protein backbone torsion angles from NMR chemical shifts

2009 2.1k citations Yang Shen, Frank Delaglio et al. Journal of Biomolecular NMR profile →
Protein backbone and sidechain torsion angles predicted from NMR chemical shifts using artificial neural networks

2013 852 citations Yang Shen, Ad Bax Journal of Biomolecular NMR profile →
Consistent blind protein structure generation from NMR chemical shift data

2008 669 citations Yang Shen, Oliver F. Lange et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Shen United States	23	4.7k	1.5k	1.3k	447	416	44	5.9k
Pau Bernadó France	44	5.2k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	360 0.8×	462 1.1×	131	6.4k
Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen France	44	4.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	360 0.8×	521 1.3×	116	6.3k
Gabriel Cornilescu United States	31	6.5k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	674 1.5×	621 1.5×	62	8.2k
Eldon L. Ulrich United States	27	5.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	440 1.0×	435 1.0×	54	6.2k
Christina Redfield United Kingdom	40	4.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	482 1.1×	497 1.2×	140	5.5k
Sarah Rauscher Canada	14	4.3k 0.9×	941 0.6×	472 0.4×	434 1.0×	422 1.0×	32	5.8k
Susan Marqusee United States	46	7.0k 1.5×	2.6k 1.7×	1.0k 0.8×	588 1.3×	636 1.5×	128	8.3k
Mikael Akke Sweden	44	5.8k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	2.0k 1.5×	313 0.7×	581 1.4×	120	7.0k
Lawrence P. McIntosh Canada	48	5.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	683 0.5×	621 1.4×	435 1.0×	145	7.5k
Yaakov Levy Israel	47	6.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	653 0.5×	524 1.2×	527 1.3×	161	7.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Duan, Mojie, Yang Shen, Yan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Dynamic structures of a membrane transporter in native cellular membranes. Science Advances. 11(46). eadv4583–eadv4583. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Yang, Melody Smith, John M. Louis, & Ad Bax. (2024). Alpha-helices as alignment reporters in residual dipolar coupling analysis of proteins. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 79(1). 47–57.

Shen, Yang, James L. Baber, Jinfa Ying, et al.. (2023). Experimental NOE, Chemical Shift, and Proline Isomerization Data Provide Detailed Insights into Amelotin Oligomerization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(32). 18063–18074. 5 indexed citations

Li, Jianping, Yang Shen, Yanke Chen, et al.. (2021). Structure of membrane diacylglycerol kinase in lipid bilayers. Communications Biology. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

Barnes, Chris, et al.. (2020). A lowly populated, transient β-sheet structure in monomeric Aβ1-42 identified by multinuclear NMR of chemical denaturation. Biophysical Chemistry. 270. 106531–106531. 18 indexed citations

Wang, Liqun, Yang Shen, Yanbo Yang, et al.. (2017). Stern-Layer Adsorption of Oligonucleotides on Lamellar Cationic Lipid Bilayer Investigated by Polarization-Resolved SFG-VS. ACS Omega. 2(12). 9241–9249. 12 indexed citations

Roche, Julien, Jinfa Ying, Yang Shen, Dennis A. Torchia, & Ad Bax. (2016). ARTSY-J: Convenient and precise measurement of 3JHNHα couplings in medium-size proteins from TROSY-HSQC spectra. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 268. 73–81. 5 indexed citations

Mantsyzov, Alexey B., Yang Shen, Jung Ho Lee, Gerhard Hummer, & Ad Bax. (2015). MERA: a webserver for evaluating backbone torsion angle distributions in dynamic and disordered proteins from NMR data. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 63(1). 85–95. 35 indexed citations

Shen, Yang & Ad Bax. (2013). Protein backbone and sidechain torsion angles predicted from NMR chemical shifts using artificial neural networks. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 56(3). 227–241. 852 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schot, Gijs van der, Zaiyong Zhang, Robert M. Vernon, et al.. (2013). Improving 3D structure prediction from chemical shift data. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 57(1). 27–35. 22 indexed citations

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Shen, Yang & Ad Bax. (2012). Identification of helix capping and β-turn motifs from NMR chemical shifts. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 52(3). 211–232. 75 indexed citations

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Shen, Yang & Ad Bax. (2010). SPARTA+: a modest improvement in empirical NMR chemical shift prediction by means of an artificial neural network. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 48(1). 13–22. 432 indexed citations

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Das, Rhiju, Ingemar André, Yang Shen, et al.. (2009). Simultaneous prediction of protein folding and docking at high resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(45). 18978–18983. 123 indexed citations

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Shen, Yang, Frank Delaglio, Gabriel Cornilescu, & Ad Bax. (2009). TALOS+: a hybrid method for predicting protein backbone torsion angles from NMR chemical shifts. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 44(4). 213–223. 2098 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shen, Yang & Ad Bax. (2009). Prediction of Xaa-Pro peptide bond conformation from sequence and chemical shifts. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 46(3). 199–204. 117 indexed citations

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Shen, Yang, Oliver F. Lange, Frank Delaglio, et al.. (2008). Consistent blind protein structure generation from NMR chemical shift data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(12). 4685–4690. 669 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shen, Yang, Robert M. Vernon, David Baker, & Ad Bax. (2008). De novo protein structure generation from incomplete chemical shift assignments. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 43(2). 63–78. 204 indexed citations

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Shen, Yang & Ad Bax. (2007). Protein backbone chemical shifts predicted from searching a database for torsion angle and sequence homology. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 38(4). 289–302. 287 indexed citations

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Gong, Haipeng, Yang Shen, & George D. Rose. (2007). Building native protein conformation from NMR backbone chemical shifts using Monte Carlo fragment assembly. Protein Science. 16(8). 1515–1521. 28 indexed citations

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Huang, Shengfeng, Shaochun Yuan, Meiling Dong, et al.. (2005). The phylogenetic analysis of tetraspanins projects the evolution of cell–cell interactions from unicellular to multicellular organisms. Genomics. 86(6). 674–684. 132 indexed citations

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