Yang Yang

13.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
332 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Yang Yang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Yang has authored 332 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Atmospheric Science, 190 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 122 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Yang Yang's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (160 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (107 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (77 papers). Yang Yang is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (160 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (107 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (77 papers). Yang Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yang Yang's co-authors include Hong Liao, Sijia Lou, Hailong Wang, Pinya Wang, Xu Yue, Jia Zhu, Philip J. Rasch, Steven J. Smith, Lei Chen and Linwei Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Yang Yang

295 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Distribution of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Sediments of the Pearl River Delta and Adjacent South China Sea

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Yang China	48	4.7k	3.9k	3.3k	1.7k	635	332	7.7k
Yang Gao China	44	4.4k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	585 0.9×	247	6.5k
Xin Huang China	53	7.0k 1.5×	4.8k 1.2×	4.4k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	448 0.7×	209	9.4k
Yanlin Zhang China	53	5.4k 1.1×	4.5k 1.2×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	621 1.0×	347	9.5k
Weijun Li China	51	5.0k 1.1×	4.5k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	632 1.0×	199	7.6k
Tijian Wang China	47	5.3k 1.1×	4.0k 1.0×	3.6k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	746 1.2×	216	7.5k
Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis Greece	55	5.8k 1.2×	2.5k 0.6×	5.9k 1.8×	1.3k 0.8×	400 0.6×	207	8.2k
Zongbo Shi United Kingdom	50	5.1k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	566 0.9×	204	7.3k
Augustin Colette France	34	4.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	204 0.3×	91	6.0k
Sagnik Dey India	42	4.3k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	4.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	576 0.9×	177	6.6k
Jintai Lin China	45	4.2k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	384 0.6×	148	7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Yang

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

Zhang, Chao, et al.. (2025). An improved model on the evaporation kinetics of the single aerosol droplet and its application for the droplet composed of ammonium sulfate or sucrose solution. Powder Technology. 453. 120627–120627. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, et al.. (2025). A Dynamic Prediction Approach for Wire Icing Thickness under Extreme Weather Conditions Based on WGAN-GP-RTabNet. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 142(2). 2091–2109.

Wang, Ying, et al.. (2024). EHDPP induces proliferation inhibition and apoptosis to spermatocyte: Insights from transcriptomic and metabolomic profiles. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 284. 116878–116878. 2 indexed citations

Fang, Zhangfu, Zhe Chen, Yang Peng, et al.. (2024). Fine particulate matter contributes to COPD-like pathophysiology: experimental evidence from rats exposed to diesel exhaust particles. Respiratory Research. 25(1). 14–14. 15 indexed citations

Li, Bowei, et al.. (2024). Characteristics of China's coal mine methane emission sources at national and provincial levels. Environmental Research. 259. 119549–119549. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Yang & Na Zhao. (2024). Future projections of compound temperature and precipitation extremes and corresponding population exposure over global land. Global and Planetary Change. 236. 104427–104427. 16 indexed citations

Wang, Pinya, Yang Yang, Huimin Li, et al.. (2024). Impacts of tropical cyclone–heat wave compound events on surface ozone in eastern China: comparison between the Yangtze River and Pearl River deltas. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(20). 11775–11789. 6 indexed citations

Li, Bowei, Liya Guo, Yang Yang, et al.. (2024). Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes and product use are a non-ignorable factor in China’ s mitigation. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 6 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, et al.. (2024). Unique impacts of strong and westward-extended western Pacific subtropical high on ozone pollution over eastern China. Environmental Pollution. 358. 124515–124515. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Honglei, Yang Yang, Yi Cui, et al.. (2024). A case study of aircraft observations of ice cloud microphysical properties over the North China Plain: Vertical distribution, vertical airflow and aerosol–cloud effects. Atmospheric Research. 307. 107488–107488. 2 indexed citations

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Fan, Jia-Ning, Yang Yang, Yi Wang, et al.. (2024). Mathematical modeling of multi-component aerosol droplet evaporation and growth in indoor environments. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 474. 134837–134837. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Honglei, et al.. (2024). In-situ aircraft observations of aerosol and cloud microphysical characteristics of mixed-phase clouds over the North China Plain. The Science of The Total Environment. 949. 175248–175248. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Guoxing, Yang Yang, Bin Su, Yan Nie, & Hongbo Duan. (2023). Electricity production, power generation structure, and air pollution: A monthly data analysis for 279 cities in China (2015–2019). Energy Economics. 120. 106597–106597. 31 indexed citations

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Liao, Hong, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric HONO emissions in China: Unraveling the spatiotemporal patterns and their key influencing factors. Environmental Pollution. 343. 123228–123228. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Pinya, Yang Yang, Daokai Xue, et al.. (2023). Aerosols overtake greenhouse gases causing a warmer climate and more weather extremes toward carbon neutrality. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7257–7257. 64 indexed citations

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Liao, Hong, Ke Li, Xu Yue, et al.. (2023). Composited analyses of the chemical and physical characteristics of co-polluted days by ozone and PM _2.5 over 2013–2020 in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(1). 23–39. 20 indexed citations

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Peng, Xindong, et al.. (2022). Extension and Evaluation of University of Washington Moist Turbulence Scheme to Gray‐Zone Scales. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(8).

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Lou, Sijia, Manish Shrivastava, R. C. Easter, et al.. (2020). New SOA Treatments Within the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM): Strong Production and Sinks Govern Atmospheric SOA Distributions and Radiative Forcing. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(12). 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rudong, Hailong Wang, Qiang Fu, et al.. (2018). Local Radiative Feedbacks Over the Arctic Based on Observed Short‐Term Climate Variations. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(11). 5761–5770. 32 indexed citations

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Geerts, Bart, et al.. (2010). The Impact of Glaciogenic Seeding on Orographic Cloud Processes: Preliminary Results from the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project. The Journal of Weather Modification. 42(1). 105–107. 1 indexed citations

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