Yang Zhang

1.6k total papers · 83.3k total citations
907 papers, 51.1k citations indexed

About

Yang Zhang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Zhang has authored 907 papers receiving a total of 51.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 551 papers in Molecular Biology, 151 papers in Materials Chemistry and 71 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yang Zhang’s work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (167 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (116 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (96 papers). Yang Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (167 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (116 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (96 papers). Yang Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yang Zhang's co-authors include Ambrish Roy, Jianyi Yang, Jeffrey Skolnick, Alper Küçükural, Dong Xu, Sitao Wu, Chengxin Zhang, Ling‐Ling Chen, Li Yang and Robin Pearce and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Zhang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yang Zhang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yang Zhang 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 Zhang. Yang Zhang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Yang Zhang

866 papers receiving 50.6k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yang Zhang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yang Zhang. The network helps show where Yang Zhang may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Zhang

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This map shows the geographic impact of Yang Zhang's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Yang Zhang with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yang Zhang more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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