Yinjie Tang

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
158 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Yinjie Tang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yinjie Tang has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yinjie Tang's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (87 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (27 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (25 papers). Yinjie Tang is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (87 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (27 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (25 papers). Yinjie Tang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Yinjie Tang's co-authors include Jay D. Keasling, Lian He, Xueyang Feng, Le You, Mattheos Koffas, Stephen S. Fong, Whitney D. Hollinshead, Arul M. Varman, Bing Wu and Himadri B. Pakrasi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yinjie Tang

153 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Metabolic Burden: Cornerstones in Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering Applications

2016 470 citations Yinjie Tang, Mattheos Koffas et al. Trends in biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yinjie Tang United States	48	3.9k	1.6k	1.1k	799	710	158	6.2k
Fuli Li China	38	2.1k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	780 0.7×	534 0.7×	268 0.4×	225	5.1k
Dirk Weuster‐Botz Germany	45	5.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.8×	922 0.8×	700 0.9×	291 0.4×	272	7.8k
Xin‐Hui Xing China	50	3.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	499 0.4×	469 0.6×	411 0.6×	272	8.1k
Servé W. M. Kengen Netherlands	41	3.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	291 0.3×	830 1.0×	597 0.8×	105	5.2k
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan Canada	44	5.2k 1.3×	2.4k 1.5×	335 0.3×	207 0.3×	487 0.7×	166	7.0k
Armen Trchоunian Armenia	37	2.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	650 0.8×	137 0.2×	215	5.1k
Zhiwen Wang China	37	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	335 0.3×	473 0.6×	230 0.3×	172	4.5k
Brian F. Pfleger United States	41	4.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	710 0.6×	266 0.3×	467 0.7×	110	5.9k
Zhongming Wang China	51	2.0k 0.5×	3.4k 2.1×	3.7k 3.3×	737 0.9×	236 0.3×	244	8.4k
Aindrila Mukhopadhyay United States	48	6.0k 1.5×	2.8k 1.7×	437 0.4×	333 0.4×	577 0.8×	153	8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yinjie Tang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yinjie Tang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yinjie Tang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hansen, Axel Kornerup, et al.. (2025). Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Accelerate Discoveries on Mealworm Larvae and Plastic Degradation. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(50). 27437–27448.

Jung, Minhun, et al.. (2025). Molecular Insights into Novel Struvite–Hydrogel Composites for Simultaneous Ammonia and Phosphate Removal. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(22). 11286–11297. 1 indexed citations

Diao, Jinjin, Yuxin Tian, Daniel H. Yeh, et al.. (2025). Developing an alternative medium for in-space biomanufacturing. Nature Communications. 16(1). 728–728. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Zhitao, Xiao‐Ping Liao, Mattheos Koffas, et al.. (2025). Large language model for knowledge synthesis and AI-enhanced biomanufacturing. Trends in biotechnology. 43(8). 1864–1875. 3 indexed citations

Xiong, Xiaochao, et al.. (2024). Metabolic analyses of Yarrowia lipolytica for biopolymer production reveals roadblocks and strategies for microbial utilizing volatile fatty acids as sustainable feedstocks. Bioresource Technology. 417. 131855–131855. 4 indexed citations

Pakrasi, Himadri B., et al.. (2024). Network for knowledge Organization (NEKO): An AI knowledge mining workflow for synthetic biology research. Metabolic Engineering. 87. 60–67. 5 indexed citations

Backman, Tyler W. H., Christina Schenk, Tijana Radivojević, et al.. (2023). BayFlux: A Bayesian method to quantify metabolic Fluxes and their uncertainty at the genome scale. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(11). e1011111–e1011111. 4 indexed citations

Roell, Garrett W., Christina Schenk, Winston Anthony, et al.. (2023). A High-Quality Genome-Scale Model for Rhodococcus opacus Metabolism. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(6). 1632–1644. 8 indexed citations

Fang, Zhen, Yinjie Tang, & Mattheos Koffas. (2022). Harnessing electrical-to-biochemical conversion for microbial synthesis. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 75. 102687–102687. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhiguo, Tolutola Oyetunde, Whitney D. Hollinshead, et al.. (2017). Exploring eukaryotic formate metabolisms to enhance microbial growth and lipid accumulation. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 10(1). 22–22. 16 indexed citations

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Hollinshead, Whitney D., Sarah Rodriguez, Héctor García Martín, et al.. (2016). Examining Escherichia coli glycolytic pathways, catabolite repression, and metabolite channeling using Δpfk mutants. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9(1). 212–212. 80 indexed citations

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He, Lian, Stephen Gang Wu, Muhan Zhang, Yixin Chen, & Yinjie Tang. (2016). WUFlux: an open-source platform for 13C metabolic flux analysis of bacterial metabolism. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(1). 444–444. 30 indexed citations

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Feng, Xueyang, You Xu, Yixin Chen, & Yinjie Tang. (2012). MicrobesFlux: a web platform for drafting metabolic models from the KEGG database. BMC Systems Biology. 6(1). 94–94. 44 indexed citations

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Feng, Xueyang & Yinjie Tang. (2011). Evaluation of isotope discrimination in 13C-based metabolic flux analysis. Analytical Biochemistry. 417(2). 295–297. 9 indexed citations

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Tang, Yinjie, Rajat Sapra, Dominique C. Joyner, et al.. (2009). Analysis of Metabolic Pathways and Fluxes in a Newly Discovered Thermophilic and Ethanol-Tolerant Geobacillus Strain. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Bing, Rick Huang, Manoranjan Sahu, et al.. (2009). Bacterial responses to Cu-doped TiO2 nanoparticles. The Science of The Total Environment. 408(7). 1755–1758. 115 indexed citations

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Tang, Yinjie, et al.. (2007). Flux analysis of central metabolic pathways in Geobacter metallireducens during reduction of soluble Fe(III)-NTA. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 5 indexed citations

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Tang, Yinjie & Barbara Krieger‐Brockett. (2007). Mathematical analysis of the whole core injection method accuracy for measuring phenanthrene biodegradation rates in undisturbed marine sediments. Chemosphere. 68(5). 804–813. 4 indexed citations

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Tang, Yinjie, Jared Ashcroft, Ding Chen, et al.. (2007). Charge-Associated Effects of Fullerene Derivatives on Microbial Structural Integrity and Central Metabolism. Nano Letters. 7(3). 754–760. 154 indexed citations

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Tang, Yinjie, Adam L. Meadows, & Jay D. Keasling. (2006). A kinetic model describing Shewanella oneidensis MR‐1 growth, substrate consumption, and product secretion. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 96(1). 125–133. 72 indexed citations

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