Yirong Li

9.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
126 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Yirong Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yirong Li has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Infectious Diseases and 18 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Yirong Li's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (17 papers), COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (17 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (9 papers). Yirong Li is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (17 papers), COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (17 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (9 papers). Yirong Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Yirong Li's co-authors include Guangming Ye, Haibo Xu, Dan Xu, Lan Lan, Xia Chen, Shaokang Wang, Yunbao Pan, Liangjun Chen, Xinghuan Wang and Zhenyu Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, JAMA and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yirong Li

121 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Positive RT-PCR Test Results in Patients Recovered From COVID-19

2020 822 citations Lan Lan, Dan Xu et al. profile →
RNA based mNGS approach identifies a novel human coronavirus from two individual pneumonia cases in 2019 Wuhan outbreak

2020 391 citations Liangjun Chen, Guangming Ye et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yirong Li China	27	2.1k	1.0k	491	477	455	126	4.0k
Anthony Raymond Tam Hong Kong	28	2.6k 1.2×	588 0.6×	482 1.0×	478 1.0×	340 0.7×	75	4.6k
Yang Pan China	27	2.6k 1.2×	913 0.9×	748 1.5×	258 0.5×	730 1.6×	135	5.1k
Rosina Ehmann Germany	9	3.4k 1.6×	453 0.4×	633 1.3×	526 1.1×	429 0.9×	19	4.5k
Michael Seilmaier Germany	9	3.4k 1.6×	467 0.4×	630 1.3×	530 1.1×	418 0.9×	21	4.5k
Sebastian Brünink Germany	9	3.5k 1.6×	381 0.4×	629 1.3×	527 1.1×	415 0.9×	14	4.5k
Zhaohui Qian China	18	3.5k 1.6×	913 0.9×	204 0.4×	479 1.0×	194 0.4×	58	4.7k
Wolfgang Guggemos Germany	8	3.4k 1.6×	375 0.4×	630 1.3×	530 1.1×	416 0.9×	16	4.4k
Sandra Ciesek Germany	40	3.1k 1.4×	979 0.9×	534 1.1×	324 0.7×	337 0.7×	175	5.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yirong Li

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

Fan, Junli, et al.. (2025). RNA Modifications in Health and Disease. MedComm. 6(9). e70341–e70341. 3 indexed citations

Lü, Shuang, Yuqing Zhang, Shaowei Zhu, et al.. (2025). Hantaan virus glycoprotein Gc induces NEDD4‐dependent PTEN ubiquitination and degradation to escape the restriction of autophagosomes and facilitate viral propagation. The FASEB Journal. 39(1). e70295–e70295. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Zhiyong, et al.. (2024). A rapid, sensitive, and high-throughput pathogen detection method and application of identifying pathogens based on multiplex PCR technology combined with capillary electrophoresis. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 111(1). 116563–116563. 4 indexed citations

Hu, Bing, Jingjing Guo, Xiaohong Chen, et al.. (2024). Discovery and genetic characterization of novel paramyxoviruses from small mammals in Hubei Province, Central China. Microbial Genomics. 10(5). 1 indexed citations

Li, Yirong, et al.. (2024). Exploring the reform of pharmacology curriculum based on ChatGPT. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences. 9(1). 1 indexed citations

Kim, Jungtaek, et al.. (2023). Multi-BOWS: multi-fidelity multi-objective Bayesian optimization with warm starts for nanophotonic structure design. Digital Discovery. 3(2). 381–391. 5 indexed citations

Xie, Linlin, Liangjun Chen, Xinran Li, et al.. (2023). Analysis of Lung Microbiome in COVID-19 Patients during Time of Hospitalization. Pathogens. 12(7). 944–944. 12 indexed citations

Yang, Chao, Bowen Hu, Feng Tang, et al.. (2022). Prognostic Value of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) in Patients with Glioblastoma: A Comprehensive Study Based on Meta-Analysis and Retrospective Single-Center Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(24). 7514–7514. 16 indexed citations

Xu, Jiale, Bing Hu, Yijie Liu, et al.. (2022). Pathogenic Leptospira Infections in Hubei Province, Central China. Microorganisms. 11(1). 99–99. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yirong, Yunfang Zhang, Yuan‐Yuan Tang, & Han‐Yue Zhang. (2022). [(Histamine)(18-crown-6)₂][BF₄]₂is a high-temperature piezoelectric. Chemical Communications. 58(33). 5148–5151. 11 indexed citations

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Tang, Yueting, Huaqin Pan, Fen Yao, et al.. (2021). Aberrant cytokine expression in COVID-19 patients: Associations between cytokines and disease severity. Cytokine. 143. 155523–155523. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Jiahao, Ding Wu, Yi Yu, et al.. (2021). Rapid and unamplified identification of COVID-19 with morpholino-modified graphene field-effect transistor nanosensor. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 183. 113206–113206. 147 indexed citations

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Chen, Liangjun, Jingjing Guo, Weiwei Guo, et al.. (2020). Molecular Epidemiology and Vaccine Compatibility Analysis of Seasonal Influenza Viruses in Wuhan, 2016–2019. Virologica Sinica. 35(5). 556–565. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Minhua, Dan Xu, Lan Lan, et al.. (2020). Thin-Section Chest CT Imaging of COVID-19 Pneumonia: A Comparison Between Patients with Mild and Severe Disease. Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging. 2(2). e200126–e200126. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Fang, Jianhong Ma, Jiafu Li, et al.. (2020). A rare case of NIPT discrepancy caused by the placental mosaicism of three different karyotypes, 47,XXX, 47,XX,+21, and 48,XXX,+21. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine. 8(8). e1279–e1279. 5 indexed citations

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Ye, Guangming, et al.. (2020). Analysis of false-negative results for 2019 novel coronavirus nucleic acid test and related countermeasures. Zhonghua jianyan yixue zazhi. 43(12). 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Fuling, Jingfeng Li, Mengxin Lü, et al.. (2020). Tracing asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers among 3674 hospital staff:a cross-sectional survey. EClinicalMedicine. 26. 100510–100510. 14 indexed citations

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Ligr, Martin, Ruzeen Patwa, Garrett Daniels, et al.. (2011). Expression and Function of Androgen Receptor Coactivator p44/Mep50/WDR77 in Ovarian Cancer. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e26250–e26250. 39 indexed citations

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Li, Yirong, et al.. (2010). Association and Gene-Gene Interactions of Eight Common Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Pediatric Asthma in Middle China. Journal of Asthma. 47(3). 238–244. 54 indexed citations

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Li, Yirong. (2005). Correlation of the gene polymorphism at position 2964(G/A) in 3′ untranslated region of STAT6 gene with asthma and serum IgE in Chinese Han population of Hubei. 2 indexed citations

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