Yong-Fang Li

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Yong-Fang Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yong-Fang Li has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Plant Science and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yong-Fang Li's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (18 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (12 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers). Yong-Fang Li is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (18 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (12 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers). Yong-Fang Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and India. Yong-Fang Li's co-authors include Ramanjulu Sunkar, Guru Jagadeeswaran, Stuart Austin, Ying Zhang, Brenda Youngren, Kirill V. Sergueev, Yun Zheng, Guo‐Yuan Yang, Yaohui Tang and Flemming Hansen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Yong-Fang Li

76 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Functions of microRNAs in plant stress responses

2012 760 citations Ramanjulu Sunkar, Yong-Fang Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yong-Fang Li China	27	1.7k	1.5k	562	273	260	80	3.2k
Yiping Wang China	32	1.8k 1.1×	696 0.5×	1.0k 1.8×	341 1.2×	68 0.3×	94	3.1k
David Trollinger United States	13	2.0k 1.2×	552 0.4×	528 0.9×	379 1.4×	197 0.8×	14	3.4k
Ophry Pines Israel	36	3.2k 1.9×	501 0.3×	323 0.6×	151 0.6×	205 0.8×	86	4.1k
Peng Liu China	34	3.1k 1.8×	2.0k 1.3×	362 0.6×	103 0.4×	532 2.0×	140	4.7k
Stéphane Claverol France	33	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	134 0.2×	260 1.0×	95 0.4×	110	3.6k
A. Jimmy Ytterberg Sweden	36	3.1k 1.8×	929 0.6×	468 0.8×	222 0.8×	130 0.5×	54	4.6k
Atsushi Nakazawa Japan	42	2.6k 1.5×	276 0.2×	1.6k 2.9×	359 1.3×	128 0.5×	120	4.9k
Ralf B. Schittenhelm Australia	33	2.0k 1.2×	261 0.2×	210 0.4×	250 0.9×	112 0.4×	142	3.2k
Claudina Rodrigues‐Pousada Portugal	30	2.5k 1.5×	577 0.4×	179 0.3×	227 0.8×	70 0.3×	106	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yong-Fang Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yong-Fang Li

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shi, Xiaojing, Shengju Wu, Chunfu Zhang, et al.. (2025). A simple polydopamine‐based platform for engineering extracellular vesicles with brain‐targeting peptide and imaging probes to improve stroke outcome. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 14(1). e70031–e70031. 11 indexed citations

Li, Yong-Fang, et al.. (2025). Does participation in pension insurance promote or inhibit high-quality economic development? A heterogeneity and threshold effects analysis. International Review of Financial Analysis. 107. 104600–104600.

Zhang, Xingfang, et al.. (2024). Bawei Chenxiang Powder Protects Cardiomyocytes From Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury via the PI3K–AKT Pathway. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 22(5). e202401424–e202401424.

Govindan, Ganesan, et al.. (2024). RNA N6-Methyladenosine Affects Copper-Induced Oxidative Stress Response in Arabidopsis thaliana. Non-Coding RNA. 10(1). 8–8. 7 indexed citations

Li, Yong-Fang, Ganesan Govindan, Anuj Kumar, et al.. (2023). High Daytime Temperature Responsive MicroRNA Profiles in Developing Grains of Rice Varieties with Contrasting Chalkiness. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(14). 11631–11631. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Rui, Yong-Fang Li, Yanan Pang, et al.. (2022). VIR-CRISPR: Visual in-one-tube ultrafast RT-PCR and CRISPR method for instant SARS-CoV-2 detection. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1212. 339937–339937. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Lı, Lı Wang, Ying Yin, et al.. (2020). Transcriptome Profiling of the Elongating Internode of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Seedlings in Response to Mepiquat Chloride. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1751–1751. 20 indexed citations

Lassen, Mats Christian Højbjerg, Atif Qasim, Tor Biering‐Sørensen, et al.. (2019). Cardiac function assessed by myocardial deformation in adult polycystic kidney disease patients. BMC Nephrology. 20(1). 324–324. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Li, Li Wang, Lifeng Wang, et al.. (2019). MicroRNA-373 promotes the development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by targeting LATS2 and OXR1. The International Journal of Biological Markers. 34(2). 148–155. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Yong-Fang, Miao Zhao, Menglei Wang, et al.. (2019). An improved method of constructing degradome library suitable for sequencing using Illumina platform. Plant Methods. 15(1). 134–134. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Yong-Fang, Menglei Wang, Lı Wang, et al.. (2019). Identification and Temporal Expression Analysis of Conserved and Novel MicroRNAs in the Leaves of Winter Wheat Grown in the Field. Frontiers in Genetics. 10. 779–779. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Kun, Li Liu, Xiaotuo Zhang, et al.. (2018). Phased secondary small interfering RNAs in Panaxnotoginseng. BMC Genomics. 19(S1). 41–41. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Yong-Fang, Yun Zheng, Lakshminarayana R. Vemireddy, et al.. (2018). Comparative transcriptome and translatome analysis in contrasting rice genotypes reveals differential mRNA translation in salt-tolerant Pokkali under salt stress. BMC Genomics. 19(S10). 935–935. 55 indexed citations

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Cui, Qi, Jingqi Fu, Yuxin Hu, et al.. (2017). Deficiency of long isoforms of Nfe2l1 sensitizes MIN6 pancreatic β cells to arsenite-induced cytotoxicity. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 329. 67–74. 26 indexed citations

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Formey, Damien, L. Iñiguez, Yong-Fang Li, et al.. (2015). Genome-wide identification of the Phaseolus vulgaris sRNAome using small RNA and degradome sequencing. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 423–423. 37 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuyan, Yong-Fang Li, Da Wang, et al.. (2014). Relationship between the actual test results of groundwater arsenic level and the predictions of a geographic information system model in four provinces of Huaihe River Basin. 33(1). 30–33. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yong-Fang, et al.. (2014). Arabidopsis nudix hydrolase 7 plays a role in seed germination. Planta. 239(5). 1015–1025. 14 indexed citations

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Yang, Bo‐Yi, Yuyan Liu, Yong-Fang Li, et al.. (2013). Geographical Distribution of MTHFR C677T, A1298C and MTRR A66G Gene Polymorphisms in China: Findings from 15357 Adults of Han Nationality. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e57917–e57917. 109 indexed citations

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Li, Yong-Fang, Yixing Wang, Yuhong Tang, Vijaya Gopal Kakani, & Ramamurthy Mahalingam. (2013). Transcriptome analysis of heat stress response in switchgrass (Panicum virgatumL.). BMC Plant Biology. 13(1). 153–153. 91 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yun, Yong-Fang Li, Ramanjulu Sunkar, & Weixiong Zhang. (2011). SeqTar: an effective method for identifying microRNA guided cleavage sites from degradome of polyadenylated transcripts in plants. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(4). e28–e28. 89 indexed citations

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