Yözen Hernández

905 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 572 citations indexed

About

Yözen Hernández is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yözen Hernández has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 572 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Pharmacology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yözen Hernández's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (6 papers) and Vector-borne infectious diseases (3 papers). Yözen Hernández is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (6 papers) and Vector-borne infectious diseases (3 papers). Yözen Hernández collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Denmark. Yözen Hernández's co-authors include Sean F. Brady, Bimal Koirala, Zongqiang Wang, Matthew Zimmerman, Steven Park, David S. Perlin, Gary Benson, Benjamin J. Luft, Emmanuel F. Mongodin and Claire M. Fraser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yözen Hernández

20 papers receiving 564 citations

Hit Papers

A naturally inspired antibiotic to target multidrug-resis... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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.

  1. A naturally inspired antibiotic to target multidrug-resistant pathogens
    2022 158 citations Zongqiang Wang, Bimal Koirala et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yözen Hernández United States 12 281 140 135 111 93 22 572
Andrea Schiefer Germany 13 127 0.5× 72 0.5× 78 0.6× 150 1.4× 32 0.3× 25 423
Sylvain Biéler Switzerland 18 324 1.2× 215 1.5× 75 0.6× 151 1.4× 59 0.6× 36 937
Fabrício Freitas Fernandes Brazil 16 235 0.8× 47 0.3× 76 0.6× 102 0.9× 149 1.6× 41 784
Andréia Bergamo Estrela Germany 14 303 1.1× 61 0.4× 46 0.3× 31 0.3× 80 0.9× 19 462
Sara L. Zimmer United States 15 520 1.9× 34 0.2× 32 0.2× 44 0.4× 122 1.3× 34 767
Peter Yorgey United States 6 475 1.7× 23 0.2× 70 0.5× 42 0.4× 73 0.8× 7 905
Mi-Hee Chang United States 7 200 0.7× 87 0.6× 100 0.7× 124 1.1× 13 0.1× 7 426
Djalal Meziane‐Cherif France 14 186 0.7× 26 0.2× 34 0.3× 108 1.0× 45 0.5× 24 406
Lei Pan China 17 452 1.6× 85 0.6× 29 0.2× 67 0.6× 70 0.8× 45 902
Julia Breger United States 7 366 1.3× 18 0.1× 76 0.6× 406 3.7× 20 0.2× 7 873

Countries citing papers authored by Yözen Hernández

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yözen Hernández

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yözen Hernández. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yözen Hernández. The network helps show where Yözen Hernández may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yözen Hernández

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Burian, Ján, Robert E. Boer, Yözen Hernández, et al.. (2025). Bioactive molecules unearthed by terabase-scale long-read sequencing of a soil metagenome. Nature Biotechnology. 1 indexed citations
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Peek, James, et al.. (2025). Environmental resistome–guided development of resistance-tolerant antibiotics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(21). e2504781122–e2504781122. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Zongqiang, et al.. (2024). Tapcin, an In Vivo Active Dual Topoisomerase I/II Inhibitor Discovered by Synthetic Bioinformatic Natural Product (Syn‐BNP)‐Coupled Metagenomics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(17). e202317187–e202317187. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Zongqiang, Bimal Koirala, Yözen Hernández, et al.. (2022). A naturally inspired antibiotic to target multidrug-resistant pathogens. Nature. 601(7894). 606–611. 158 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Zongqiang, et al.. (2022). Lapcin, a potent dual topoisomerase I/II inhibitor discovered by soil metagenome guided total chemical synthesis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 842–842. 15 indexed citations
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Burian, Ján, et al.. (2022). High-throughput retrieval of target sequences from complex clone libraries using CRISPRi. Nature Biotechnology. 41(5). 626–630. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Zongqiang, Bimal Koirala, Yözen Hernández, Matthew Zimmerman, & Sean F. Brady. (2022). Bioinformatic prospecting and synthesis of a bifunctional lipopeptide antibiotic that evades resistance. Science. 376(6596). 991–996. 74 indexed citations
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Wang, Zongqiang, Bimal Koirala, Yözen Hernández, & Sean F. Brady. (2022). Discovery of Paenibacillaceae Family Gram-Negative-Active Cationic Lipopeptide Antibiotics Using Evolution-Guided Chemical Synthesis. Organic Letters. 24(27). 4943–4948. 9 indexed citations
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Hernández, Yözen, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide characterization of human minisatellite VNTRs: population-specific alleles and gene expression differences. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(8). 4308–4324. 15 indexed citations
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Li, Lei, Bimal Koirala, Yözen Hernández, et al.. (2021). Identification of structurally diverse menaquinone-binding antibiotics with in vivo activity against multidrug-resistant pathogens. Nature Microbiology. 7(1). 120–131. 35 indexed citations
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Yesavage, Jerome A., Art Noda, M. Windy McNerney, et al.. (2019). Sleep-wake disorders in Alzheimer’s disease: further genetic analyses in relation to objective sleep measures. International Psychogeriatrics. 32(7). 807–813. 5 indexed citations
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Hernández, Yözen, et al.. (2018). BpWrapper: BioPerl-based sequence and tree utilities for rapid prototyping of bioinformatics pipelines. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(1). 76–76. 9 indexed citations
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Gelfand, Yevgeniy, et al.. (2014). VNTRseek—a computational tool to detect tandem repeat variants in high-throughput sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(14). 8884–8894. 25 indexed citations
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Mongodin, Emmanuel F., Sherwood Casjens, John F. Bruno, et al.. (2013). Inter- and intra-specific pan-genomes of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: genome stability and adaptive radiation. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 693–693. 62 indexed citations
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Duitama, Jorge, et al.. (2011). Linkage disequilibrium based genotype calling from low-coverage shotgun sequencing reads. BMC Bioinformatics. 12(S1). S53–S53. 18 indexed citations
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Wywiał, Ewa, Sherwood Casjens, Yözen Hernández, et al.. (2009). Fast, adaptive evolution at a bacterial host-resistance locus: The PFam54 gene array in Borrelia burgdorferi. Gene. 445(1-2). 26–37. 42 indexed citations

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