Yi Ren

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
89 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Yi Ren is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Ren has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Yi Ren's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (11 papers). Yi Ren is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (11 papers). Yi Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yi Ren's co-authors include Wu Xiong, Qirong Shen, Ruifu Zhang, Weibing Xun, Youzhi Miao, Yunpeng Liu, Nan Zhang, Lu Feng, Lei Wang and Zhihui Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yi Ren

84 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Specialized metabolic fun... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2021 2019 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Specialized metabolic functions of keystone taxa sustain soil microbiome stability
    2021 479 citations Yi Ren et al. profile →
  2. Diversity-triggered deterministic bacterial assembly constrains community functions
    2019 381 citations Yi Ren et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yi Ren 1.4k 1.0k 998 581 529 89 3.4k
Antonis Chatzinotas 1.9k 1.3× 2.6k 2.5× 981 1.0× 299 0.5× 487 0.9× 100 4.9k
L. Anne Glover 2.0k 1.4× 1.6k 1.6× 885 0.9× 190 0.3× 642 1.2× 83 4.1k
Massimiliano Cardinale 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 2.9k 2.9× 1.1k 1.8× 279 0.5× 94 5.1k
Marco Bazzicalupo 1.5k 1.1× 958 0.9× 2.1k 2.1× 221 0.4× 163 0.3× 103 4.0k
Andrea Squartini 608 0.4× 635 0.6× 2.2k 2.2× 434 0.7× 341 0.6× 195 4.0k
Yang Bai 2.2k 1.6× 1.2k 1.2× 4.3k 4.3× 366 0.6× 578 1.1× 87 6.7k
Ole Nybroe 1.8k 1.3× 1.4k 1.4× 1.9k 1.9× 147 0.3× 453 0.9× 109 5.4k
Johan H. J. Leveau 2.0k 1.4× 1.1k 1.0× 3.2k 3.2× 388 0.7× 202 0.4× 105 5.7k
Rodrigo Costa 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.2× 109 0.2× 234 0.4× 97 4.0k
Tsutomu Hattori 786 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.5× 683 1.2× 508 1.0× 190 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Ren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yi Ren. 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 Yi Ren. The network helps show where Yi Ren may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Ren

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

All Works

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Chen, Xiangyu, Yong He, Yue Wang, et al.. (2025). TGR5 dysfunction underlies chronic social defeat stress via cAMP/PKA signaling pathway in the hippocampus. Translational Psychiatry. 15(1). 366–366.
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Wang, Shengke, Min Wang, Yilei Wu, et al.. (2025). Emergence and global spread of a dominant multidrug-resistant clade within Acinetobacter baumannii. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2787–2787. 11 indexed citations
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Ren, Yi, et al.. (2025). Metabolic division engineering of Escherichia coli consortia for de novo biosynthesis of flavonoids and flavonoid glycosides. Metabolic Engineering. 89. 60–75. 10 indexed citations
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Pu, Juncai, Yiyun Liu, Hailin Wu, et al.. (2025). Characterizing metabolomic and proteomic changes in depression: a systematic analysis. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(7). 3120–3128. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Ning, Yi Ren, Lei Xing, et al.. (2024). In situ Raman spectral observation of succinimide intermediates in amyloid fibrillation kinetics. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 309. 123867–123867. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Ke, Yi Ren, Jinzhou Feng, et al.. (2024). Oral d-ribose causes depressive-like behavior by altering glycerophospholipid metabolism via the gut-brain axis. Communications Biology. 7(1). 69–69. 16 indexed citations
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Wu, Yilei, Shengkai Li, Ling Zhong, et al.. (2024). Centralized industrialization of pork in Europe and America contributes to the global spread of Salmonella enterica. Nature Food. 5(5). 413–422. 17 indexed citations
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Ren, Yi, et al.. (2024). Tracing the dual-circulation value chain: Measurement on the embedding characteristics and evidence from China. Journal of Urban Management. 14(2). 418–433.
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Xu, Ke, Shuang Zhao, Yi Ren, et al.. (2024). Elevated SCN11A concentrations associated with lower serum lipid levels in patients with major depressive disorder. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 202–202. 2 indexed citations
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Ren, Yi, et al.. (2024). Data augmented large language models for medical record generation. Applied Intelligence. 55(2). 3 indexed citations
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Zhong, Ling, Menghan Zhang, Yu Yang, et al.. (2023). Distributed genotyping and clustering of Neisseria strains reveal continual emergence of epidemic meningococcus over a century. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7706–7706. 5 indexed citations
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Han, Chang, et al.. (2023). MIST: A microbial identification and source tracking system for next‐generation sequencing data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). e146–e146. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhen, Song Yue, Lipeng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Translational profile of coding and non-coding RNAs revealed by genome wide profiling of ribosome footprints in grapevine. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1097846–1097846. 3 indexed citations
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Pan, Ruliang, et al.. (2020). Decision-making process during collective movement initiation in golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). Scientific Reports. 10(1). 480–480. 10 indexed citations
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Ren, Yi, et al.. (2012). Investigation on Shading Effect of Urban Green Space in Summer in Hangzhou. Advanced materials research. 424-425. 916–919. 6 indexed citations
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Ren, Yi, et al.. (2007). Floral Morphogenesis of Coptis (Ranunculaceae). Chinese Bulletin of Botany. 24(1). 80. 12 indexed citations
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Ren, Yi, et al.. (1997). COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON LEAF EPIDERM OF ATHYRIACEAE. Xibei zhiwu xuebao. 17(5). 37–43. 2 indexed citations

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