Youming Zhang

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
171 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Youming Zhang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Youming Zhang has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Molecular Biology, 83 papers in Pharmacology and 29 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Youming Zhang's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (82 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (17 papers). Youming Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (82 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (17 papers). Youming Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Youming Zhang's co-authors include Rolf Müller, Xiaoying Bian, Jun Fu, Aiying Li, A. Francis Stewart, Liqiu Xia, Alberto Plaza, Hailong Wang, Liujie Huo and Olena Perlova and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Youming Zhang

160 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Streptomyces: The biofactory of secondary metabolites

2022 207 citations Khorshed Alam, Yiming Zhao et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Youming Zhang China	37	2.9k	1.8k	727	661	467	171	4.4k
Xiaoying Bian China	28	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	444 0.6×	380 0.6×	430 0.9×	91	2.7k
Yuquan Xu China	38	2.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	374 0.5×	1.6k 2.4×	451 1.0×	131	4.5k
Daniel Krug Germany	26	2.4k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	835 1.1×	585 0.9×	134 0.3×	39	3.5k
Wensheng Xiang China	34	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	566 0.8×	1.8k 2.7×	146 0.3×	403	5.2k
Yasuo Ohnishi Japan	45	4.8k 1.7×	3.6k 2.0×	1.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	573 1.2×	199	6.8k
Kirstin Scherlach Germany	44	2.9k 1.0×	3.7k 2.0×	982 1.4×	1.7k 2.5×	184 0.4×	113	6.2k
Hugo Gramajo Argentina	31	2.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	409 0.6×	358 0.5×	348 0.7×	92	3.3k
Roel A. L. Bovenberg Netherlands	37	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	598 0.8×	544 0.8×	275 0.6×	86	3.4k
Uffe Hasbro Mortensen Denmark	40	5.0k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	753 1.0×	871 1.3×	330 0.7×	111	5.9k
Andy M. Bailey United Kingdom	40	2.1k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	554 0.8×	1.7k 2.6×	175 0.4×	138	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Youming Zhang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Youming Zhang

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Chao, J. Mu, Kexin Liu, et al.. (2025). Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Chiral-Proline Derivatives as Novel HSP90 Inhibitors. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 16(2). 301–310. 3 indexed citations

Lin, Zhongxiao, Jianghong Cai, Quan Zheng, et al.. (2023). Discovery of deoxyandrographolide and its novel effect on vascular senescence by targeting HDAC1. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(5). e338–e338. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Songya, Lin Zhang, Anja Greule, et al.. (2023). P450-mediated dehydrotyrosine formation during WS9326 biosynthesis proceeds via dehydrogenation of a specific acylated dipeptide substrate. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 13(8). 3561–3574. 6 indexed citations

Jiang, Tianyu, et al.. (2023). Coelenterazine-Type Bioluminescence-Induced Optical Probes for Sensing and Controlling Biological Processes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(6). 5074–5074. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Mei, Yu Xu, Ni Li, et al.. (2023). Effect of fertilization combination on cucumber quality and soil microbial community. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1122278–1122278. 13 indexed citations

Sun, Tao, et al.. (2023). The Genomic-Driven Discovery of Glutarimide-Containing Derivatives from Burkholderia gladioli. Molecules. 28(19). 6937–6937. 4 indexed citations

Zhong, Lin, Haibo Zhou, Xingyan Wang, et al.. (2023). Biosynthesis and engineering of the nonribosomal peptides with a C-terminal putrescine. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6619–6619. 16 indexed citations

Li, Yue, Kai Gong, Yingying Yu, et al.. (2022). Biocontrol of strawberry gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea with the termite associated Streptomyces sp. sdu1201 and actinomycin D. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1051730–1051730. 19 indexed citations

Zhou, Haibo, Liujie Huo, Aiying Li, et al.. (2022). Characterization of a Cryptic NRPS Gene Cluster in Bacillus velezensis FZB42 Reveals a Discrete Oxidase Involved in Multithiazole Biosynthesis. ACS Catalysis. 12(6). 3371–3381. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chao, et al.. (2022). Antioxidant Capacities and Enzymatic Inhibitory Effects of Different Solvent Fractions and Major Flavones from Celery Seeds Produced in Different Geographic Areas in China. Antioxidants. 11(8). 1542–1542. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Aiying, Yang Liu, Xiaoju Li, et al.. (2021). Genome-Guided Discovery of Highly Oxygenated Aromatic Polyketides, Saccharothrixins D–M, from the Rare Marine Actinomycete Saccharothrix sp. D09. Journal of Natural Products. 84(11). 2875–2884. 17 indexed citations

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Alam, Khorshed, Md. Mahmudul Islam, Caiyun Li, et al.. (2021). Genome Mining of Pseudomonas Species: Diversity and Evolution of Metabolic and Biosynthetic Potential. Molecules. 26(24). 7524–7524. 18 indexed citations

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Risso-Ballester, Jennifer, Marie Galloux, Jingjing Cao, et al.. (2021). A condensate-hardening drug blocks RSV replication in vivo. Nature. 595(7868). 596–599. 146 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xingwang, Cai You, Ce Geng, et al.. (2021). Biosynthesis of Chuangxinmycin Featuring a Deubiquitinase‐like Sulfurtransferase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(46). 24418–24423. 15 indexed citations

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Alam, Khorshed, Md. Mahmudul Islam, Kai Gong, et al.. (2021). In silico genome mining of potential novel biosynthetic gene clusters for drug discovery from Burkholderia bacteria. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 140. 105046–105046. 16 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wei, Ying Cong, Hongmei Li, et al.. (2020). Challenges and potential for improving the druggability of podophyllotoxin-derived drugs in cancer chemotherapy. Natural Product Reports. 38(3). 470–488. 79 indexed citations

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Zhu, Liwen, Xudong Qu, Shengying Li, et al.. (2019). Enzymatic O-Glycosylation of Etoposide Aglycone by Exploration of the Substrate Promiscuity for Glycosyltransferases. ACS Synthetic Biology. 8(12). 2718–2725. 7 indexed citations

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Ding, Wei, Emilia Oueis, María García‐Altares, et al.. (2018). Two Types of Threonine-Tagged Lipopeptides Synergize in Host Colonization by Pathogenic Burkholderia Species. ACS Chemical Biology. 13(5). 1370–1379. 35 indexed citations

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Jing, Xiaoshu, Jia Yin, Vinothkannan Ravichandran, et al.. (2018). Engineering Pseudomonas protegens Pf‐5 to improve its antifungal activity and nitrogen fixation. Microbial Biotechnology. 13(1). 118–133. 42 indexed citations

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Zhang, Youming. (2014). Biometric Verification of a Subject Based on Data Mining of Saccade Eye Movement Signals. Tampere University Institutional Repository (Tampere University). 1 indexed citations

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