Yingying Sang

13.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
106 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Yingying Sang is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Nephrology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Yingying Sang has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 30 papers in Nephrology and 19 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Yingying Sang's work include Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (26 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (18 papers) and Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (14 papers). Yingying Sang is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (26 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (18 papers) and Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (14 papers). Yingying Sang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Yingying Sang's co-authors include Josef Coresh, Kunihiro Matsushita, Morgan E. Grams, Shoshana H. Ballew, Alex R. Chang, Andrew S. Levey, Lesley A. Inker, Benjamin Lazarus, John Laterra and Chen Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Yingying Sang

98 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease

2016 496 citations Yingying Sang, Alex R. Chang et al. profile →
Age and Association of Kidney Measures With Mortality and End-stage Renal Disease

2012 420 citations Kunihiro Matsushita, Yingying Sang et al. profile →
Stroke Incidence and Mortality Trends in US Communities, 1987 to 2011

2014 384 citations Silvia Koton, Wayne D. Rosamond et al. profile →
Change in Albuminuria and GFR as End Points for Clinical Trials in Early Stages of CKD: A Scientific Workshop Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation in Collaboration With the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency

2019 314 citations Andrew S. Levey, Josef Coresh et al. American Journal of Kidney Diseases profile →
Associations of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with mortality and renal failure by sex: a meta-analysis

2013 313 citations Dorothea Nitsch, Morgan E. Grams et al. profile →
Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate

2015 279 citations Morgan E. Grams, Yingying Sang et al. profile →

Peers

Yingying Sang

NEPHR

CCM

PRM

SURGE

Li Zuo China

Barış Afşar Türkiye

Manish M. Sood Canada

Kazuhiko Tsuruya Japan

Bénédicte Stengel France

James P. Lash United States

Anthony J. Bleyer United States

Charles J. Ferro United Kingdom

Sunil Bhandari United Kingdom

Tsuyoshi Watanabe Japan

Li Zuo China

Yingying Sang

4.0k ×2.1

NEPHR

1.3k ×0.8

CCM

938 ×0.7

PRM

1.1k ×1.1

SURGE

854 ×1.1

Citations per year, relative to Yingying Sang Yingying Sang (= 1×) peers Li Zuo

Countries citing papers authored by Yingying Sang

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yingying Sang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yingying Sang

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

Lv, Zhao, et al.. (2025). STMTNet: Spatio-Temporal Multiscale Triad Network for Cropland Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 26005–26020.

Ishigami, Junichi, Esther Kim, Shoshana H. Ballew, et al.. (2025). Arterial Stiffness and Subsequent Incidence of CKD and Kidney Function Decline in a Large Longitudinal Community Cohort: The Atherosclerosis in Communities (ARIC) Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 86(1). 32–42.

Sang, Yingying, et al.. (2025). Decarbonization pathways in the transport sector: A review of integrated assessment models and future directions for model improvement. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 225. 116204–116204.

Ballew, Shoshana H., Yingying Sang, Josef Coresh, et al.. (2024). Incorporation of Cystatin C Testing in Clinical Practice: Real World Experience in Sweden. Kidney International Reports. 9(12). 3596–3599. 1 indexed citations

Mok, Yejin, Yifei Lü, Shoshana H. Ballew, et al.. (2024). Premorbid physical activity and prognosis after incident myocardial infarction: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study. American Heart Journal. 274. 75–83. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Frances, Junichi Ishigami, Yuanjie Pang, et al.. (2024). Peripheral artery disease and risk of kidney outcomes: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Atherosclerosis. 397. 118558–118558. 1 indexed citations

Fu, Edouard L., Juan Jesús Carrero, Yingying Sang, et al.. (2024). Association of Low Glomerular Filtration Rate With Adverse Outcomes at Older Age in a Large Population With Routinely Measured Cystatin C. Annals of Internal Medicine. 177(3). 269–279. 9 indexed citations

Ndumele, Chiadi E., Sadiya S. Khan, Deidra C. Crews, et al.. (2023). Abstract 13270: Social Deprivation Index and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among 2.5 Million Patients in the US. Circulation. 148(Suppl_1).

Kamson, David, et al.. (2023). Impact of Frontline Ivosidenib on Volumetric Growth Patterns in Isocitrate Dehydrogenase–mutant Astrocytic and Oligodendroglial Tumors. Clinical Cancer Research. 29(23). 4863–4869. 14 indexed citations

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Sang, Yingying, Elizabeth Selvin, Alex R. Chang, et al.. (2022). Pharmacologic Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in the U.S., Sweden, and Israel. Diabetes Care. 45(12). 2926–2934. 13 indexed citations

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Mok, Yejin, Junichi Ishigami, Yingying Sang, et al.. (2021). Clinically Recognized Varicose Veins and Physical Function in Older Individuals: The ARIC Study. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 77(8). 1637–1643. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Jennifer, Aditya Surapaneni, Yingying Sang, et al.. (2020). Classification of Cause of CKD Using ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 31(10S). 207–207.

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Qiao, Yao, Jung‐Im Shin, Teresa K. Chen, et al.. (2020). Association of Albuminuria Levels With the Prescription of Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade. Hypertension. 76(6). 1762–1768. 18 indexed citations

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Matsushita, Kunihiro, Yingying Sang, Chao Yang, et al.. (2019). Dyskalemia, its patterns, and prognosis among patients with incident heart failure: A nationwide study of US veterans. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0219899–e0219899. 14 indexed citations

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Matsushita, Kunihiro, Jingsha Chen, Yingying Sang, et al.. (2016). Risk of end-stage renal disease in Japanese patients with chronic kidney disease increases proportionately to decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate. Kidney International. 90(5). 1109–1114. 42 indexed citations

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Matsushita, Kunihiro, Yingying Sang, Shoshana H. Ballew, et al.. (2015). Kidney Measures with Diabetes and Hypertension on Cardiovascular Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. American Journal of Nephrology. 41(4-5). 409–417. 13 indexed citations

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Tilghman, Jessica, Hao Wu, Yingying Sang, et al.. (2014). HMMR Maintains the Stemness and Tumorigenicity of Glioblastoma Stem-like Cells. Cancer Research. 74(11). 3168–3179. 107 indexed citations

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Sang, Yingying, Shoshana H. Ballew, Zoltán Szabó, et al.. (2014). Incidence of and risk factors for acute kidney injury after major surgery. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 25. 1 indexed citations

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Hui, Xuan, Kunihiro Matsushita, Yingying Sang, et al.. (2013). CKD and Cardiovascular Disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study: Interactions With Age, Sex, and Race. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 62(4). 691–702. 63 indexed citations

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Sang, Yingying, Guangming Xiong, & Edmund Maser. (2011). Steroid degradation and two steroid-inducible enzymes in the marine bacterium H5. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 191(1-3). 89–94. 15 indexed citations

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