Yige Zhang

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Yige Zhang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Yige Zhang has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Atmospheric Science, 19 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 15 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Yige Zhang's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (14 papers). Yige Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (14 papers). Yige Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yige Zhang's co-authors include Mark Pagani, Zhonghui Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Robert M. DeConto, Steven M. Bohaty, Junfeng Ji, Lixin Zhang, Zhengrong Wang, Gavin L. Foster and Xiaolei Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yige Zhang

66 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marin... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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. Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives
    2021 241 citations Yige Zhang, Xiaoqing Liu et al. profile →

Peers

Yige Zhang
Gordon N. Inglis United Kingdom
Bruce W. Fouke United States
Tanja Bosak United States
Kuo‐Yen Wei Taiwan
Atsushi Matsuoka Japan
Luo Wang China
Gernot Arp Germany
Carme Huguet Spain
Francisca Martínez‐Ruiz Spain
Min‐Te Chen Taiwan
Gordon N. Inglis United Kingdom
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Countries citing papers authored by Yige Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yige Zhang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yige Zhang

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

All Works

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Zhang, Yige, et al.. (2025). No apparent state-dependency of equilibrium climate sensitivity between the Pleistocene glacial and interglacial climate states. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6608–6608. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuqing, N. Zhou, Yige Zhang, et al.. (2024). Photo- and thermo-responsive poly(ionic liquid) hydrogel regulated by hierarchical host–guest interactions. Polymer. 311. 127505–127505. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaohui, et al.. (2024). Measurement and optimization of sustainable urban form elements in New Urban districts using multi-source data. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuqing, Yige Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Photo- and thermo-regulated phase inversion of poly(ionic liquid) aqueous two-phase systems via host–guest interaction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 154117–154117. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Yangyang, Gunnar W. Schade, Yige Zhang, et al.. (2024). Can the Artificial Release of Fluorinated Gases Offset Global Cooling Due to Supervolcanic Eruptions?. Atmosphere. 15(11). 1322–1322. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yige, et al.. (2023). Methane Index: Towards a quantitative archaeal lipid biomarker proxy for reconstructing marine sedimentary methane fluxes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 354. 74–87. 12 indexed citations
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Shan, Wei, Yige Zhang, Yang‐Yong Lv, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms of methyl 2-methylbutyrate suppression on Aspergillus flavus growth and aflatoxin B1 biosynthesis. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 409. 110462–110462. 12 indexed citations
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Zhao, Kelei, Qianglin Zeng, Yige Zhang, et al.. (2023). Evolution of lasR mutants in polymorphic Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations facilitates chronic infection of the lung. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5976–5976. 25 indexed citations
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Ma, Teng, Yang Yang, Yige Zhang, et al.. (2023). Chronic pulmonary bacterial infection facilitates breast cancer lung metastasis by recruiting tumor-promoting MHCIIhi neutrophils. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 8(1). 296–296. 33 indexed citations
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Gao, Chao, Yige Zhang, Huan Yang, et al.. (2023). Biomarker evidence of the water mass structure and primary productivity changes in the Chukchi Sea over the past 70 years. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yige, et al.. (2023). Integrating RNA-seq and scRNA-seq to explore the mechanism of macrophage ferroptosis associated with COPD. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 1139137–1139137. 16 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yige, et al.. (2023). Ionic liquids with reversible photo-induced conductivity regulation in aqueous solution. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 13766–13766. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Xingchen, Yuwei Wang, Alexandra Auderset, et al.. (2022). Oceanic nutrient rise and the late Miocene inception of Pacific oxygen-deficient zones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(45). e2204986119–e2204986119. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yige, et al.. (2022). Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes. Nature Geoscience. 15(10). 839–844. 18 indexed citations
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Zhao, Cheng, Zhenyu Xu, Yige Zhang, et al.. (2022). Contribution of prgH gene for Salmonella Pullorum to virulence and the expression of NLRP3, Caspase-1 and IL-1β in chickens. Microbial Pathogenesis. 171. 105744–105744. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yige, et al.. (2019). Low CO2 levels of the entire Pleistocene epoch. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4342–4342. 41 indexed citations
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Wang, Jinxiang, Wei Xie, Yige Zhang, Travis B. Meador, & Lixin Zhang. (2017). Evaluating Production of Cyclopentyl Tetraethers by Marine Group II Euryarchaeota in the Pearl River Estuary and Coastal South China Sea: Potential Impact on the TEX86 Paleothermometer. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 2077–2077. 14 indexed citations

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