Yang Zhang

84.3k citations

956 papers · 53.4k indexed · 27 hit papers · h-index 89

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.01%
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Circular RNAs in diseases
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Cancer Research top 0.1%
- MicroRNA in disease regulation

Papers in

Molecular Biology 561
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 169
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 98
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 73
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 52
- RNA modifications and cancer 44
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 35
Structural Biology 7

Co-authors: Ambrish Roy Jianyi Yang Jeffrey Skolnick Alper Küçükural Dong Xu Sitao Wu Chengxin Zhang Ling‐Ling Chen
Journals: Bioinformatics (33 papers)Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics (32 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (23 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (17 papers)PLoS ONE (17 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Yang Zhang

912 papers receiving 52.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies in overcoming chemotherapy resistance in cancer 2025 · 33 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Molecular Biomedicine
2024 Nature Methods
2023 Cell Host & Microbe
2022 Nature Protocols
2022 Nature Methods
2021 Cell Reports Methods
2019 Journal of Cheminformatics
2017 Nucleic Acids Research
2017 Nucleic Acids Research
2017 Cell Research
2016 Cell Reports
2016 Genome Research
2015 Nucleic Acids Research
2014 Cell
2014 Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
2013 Bioinformatics
2012 Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
2012 Nucleic Acids Research
2012 Nucleic Acids Research
2011 Biophysical Journal
2010 Bioinformatics
2010 Nature Protocols
2010 Circulation
2008 BMC Bioinformatics
2007 Nucleic Acids Research
2005 Nucleic Acids Research
2004 Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Mechanism of anthracite dust suppression by surfactants with different alkyl chain lengths: Thermodynamic micelle morphology, adsorption probability, and interfacial forces Chemical Engineering Science ·Kunihiko Terasoma, Junwen Zhang, Davida J Schiffer, Shaoqi Kong, Sahrish Ghaffar, Yang Zhang, Juliana Manosalva, Shaokang Wu	2025	2
2	Evaluation of the efficacy of electroacupuncture on pain and tolerance for unsedated colonoscopy: A study protocol for a prospective, randomized, sham-controlled trial World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion ·Yang Zhang, F Polonio Enríquez, Jie Zhang, Shuang Ren, Yue Liu, Yu‐Xiang Li, Xiaoyu Ma, Xu Wang, Hao Sun, Bleni Apaza Enriquez	2025	0
3	Changes and factors of thermal discharge from 2013 to 2023: A case study of the Tianwan nuclear power plant Ecological Indicators ·Dr.IsraaAtif. Kalantan., D.J. Hunter, Yang Zhang, Qing Xu, Gan Jianhu	2025	0
4	Self-illuminating liposome-derived in situ triggerable photodynamic therapy combining radionuclide therapy for synergistic treatment of lung cancer Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B ·Shalak Mv, M H Baluch, Murshid Za, Juanjuan Liu, Wendan Pu, Yang Zhang, Chenwen Li, Hou Yan, Jianxiang Zhang, Jiawei Guo	2025	0
5	Carrier-free nanomedicine for combined antibacterial therapy through pH-responsive controlled release of sulfadiazine and emodin Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology ·P. P., Jinxiu Liu, Haiping He, 倩周, Yang Zhang, Ning Guo, Li Li Lim	2024	1
6	Field collaborative recognition method and experiment for thermal infrared imaging of damaged potatoes Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ·J.J. M. Roberts, Anna James, 清水里香子, Yang Zhang, Xiao Chen, رافع، علياء رضاه, Xueqiang Li	2024	2
7	Study of vibration patterns and response transfer relationships in walnut tree trunks Scientia Horticulturae ·Yanyan Wang, Warner C. Danforth, Yang Zhang, Dave MacDonell, Hongping Zhou, Illtyd Tretilowan, Eugenia Di Pietro	2024	1
8	Variable linear transformation improved physics-informed neural networks to solve thin-layer flow problems Journal of Computational Physics ·R. Mashinistov, Yuxin Wu, Guihua Zhang, Yang Zhang	2024	13
9	Who are the best contributors? Designing a multimodal science communication interface based on the ECM, TAM and the Taguchi methods Computer Standards & Interfaces ·Mengjun Huang, Yue Luo, Ji-Wei He, Zhen Ling, CB Matsen, Yang Zhang	2024	0
10	Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV)-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron by intranasal immunization Antiviral Research ·Qiu‐Yan Zhang, Hongqing Zhang, Yanan Zhang, Zherui Zhang, Xiaodan Li, Naela Al Absi, Yang Zhang, Jiaqi Li, 宮子関, Xiaoling Chen, Jing Wang, IGOR BOELZA, Cheng‐Lin Deng, Jianjun Chen, Han‐Qing Ye, Bo Zhang	2023	4
11	Differential identification of GSH for acute coronary syndrome using a colorimetric sensor based on nanoflower-like artificial nanozymes Talanta ·Hong-An Xu, Hongjin Zhang, He Sun, Damir Varešlija, Wenbin Zhong, Qing Chen, J. Eazer, Ge Jin, Yang Zhang	2023	8
12	Grain boundary softening from stress assisted helium cavity coalescence in ultrafine-grained tungsten Acta Materialia ·William Cunningham, Yang Zhang, Spencer L. Thomas, Osman El‐Atwani, Yongqiang Wang, Jason R. Trelewicz	2023	14
13	Screening and validation of an alkaline-tolerant biomimetic affinity chromatography A5–87 resin for purification of discarded bovine serum Immunoglobulin G Journal of Chromatography A ·Guorong Ma, A. Kharchilava, Pei Wang, Yang Zhang, Rui Ma, Ubaydullayev Utkirjon Murodillayevich, 吴其伟, Yating Li, Abd Elahi Mahboubeh, Julia Stephania Maldonado, 阿部稔, Margarita López- Corrales, Zhongren Ma	2023	2
14	Deducing high-accuracy protein contact-maps from a triplet of coevolutionary matrices through deep residual convolutional networks PLoS Computational Biology ·Yang Li, Chengxin Zhang, Eric W. Bell, Wei Zheng, Xiaogen Zhou, Dong‐Jun Yu, Yang Zhang	2021	59
15	MMpred: a distance-assisted multimodal conformation sampling for de novo protein structure prediction Bioinformatics ·Khalid Al Zubaidi, Jun Liu, Xiaogen Zhou, Jianzhong Su, Yang Zhang, Guijun Zhang	2021	23
16	HMGA2 Polymorphisms and Hepatoblastoma Susceptibility: A Five-Center Case-Control Study SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Li L, Zhenjian Zhuo, Yang Zhang, Jiang Zhu, Xianghuo He, Jiän Zhang, Xin Yu, Jianxing He, Tao Zhang	2020	4
17	A Differential Diagnosis Model For Diabetic Nephropathy And Non-Diabetic Renal Disease In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Complicated With Chronic Kidney Disease SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Yang Zhang, 貴志三谷, Yufeng Huang, Ningshao Xia	2019	3
18	Preparation and rheo-squeeze casting of semi-solid AZ91–2 wt% Ca magnesium alloy by gas bubbling process Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources ·Yang Zhang, Guohua Wu, Wencai Liu, Liang Zhang, Song Pang, Wenjiang Ding	2015	13
19	Preclinical Pharmacokinetics, Tolerability, and Pharmacodynamics of Metuzumab, a Novel CD147 Human–Mouse Chimeric and Glycoengineered Antibody Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Zheng Zhang, Yang Zhang, Qian Sun, Fei Feng, A.S. Shilpasree, Mi Li, Zhi‐Nan Chen	2014	29
20	The protein structure prediction problem could be solved using the current PDB library Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yang Zhang, Jeffrey Skolnick	2005	212

About Yang Zhang

Yang Zhang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Spectroscopy, Materials Chemistry and Cancer Research, having authored 956 papers that have together received 53.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (169 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (117 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (98 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (73 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (52 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (44 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (40 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (35 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (37.2k citations), Cancer Research (5.1k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (4.5k citations), Microbiology (1.3k citations) and Structural Biology (287 citations). Yang Zhang has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Bioinformatics, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Molecular Biology and PLoS ONE.

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