Yunzhang Wang

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yunzhang Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunzhang Wang has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology and 13 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Yunzhang Wang's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (19 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (15 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (10 papers). Yunzhang Wang is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (19 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (15 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (10 papers). Yunzhang Wang collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Finland. Yunzhang Wang's co-authors include Sara Hägg, Juulia Jylhävä, Nancy L. Pedersen, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Xia Li, Alexander Ploner, Chandra A. Reynolds, Deborah Finkel, Dylan M. Williams and Yi Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, Neurology and Journal of Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Yunzhang Wang

45 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Longitudinal trajectories, correlations and mortality associations of nine biological ages across 20-years follow-up

2020 243 citations Xia Li, Alexander Ploner et al. eLife profile →
A genome‐wide association study of the frailty index highlights brain pathways in ageing

2021 179 citations Janice L. Atkins, Juulia Jylhävä et al. Aging Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yunzhang Wang Sweden	17	400	395	378	152	145	49	1.2k
Scott A. Grandy Canada	19	253 0.6×	319 0.8×	123 0.3×	54 0.4×	56 0.4×	49	1.0k
Dellara F. Terry United States	18	322 0.8×	229 0.6×	113 0.3×	97 0.6×	30 0.2×	26	1.1k
Anna Skalska Poland	19	314 0.8×	141 0.4×	145 0.4×	47 0.3×	36 0.2×	58	1.1k
Daniel A. Dworkis United States	13	194 0.5×	279 0.7×	46 0.1×	165 1.1×	33 0.2×	34	1.1k
Rachel Thomas United States	15	208 0.5×	141 0.4×	60 0.2×	35 0.2×	27 0.2×	30	1.1k
Arseniy Yashkin United States	16	125 0.3×	134 0.3×	28 0.1×	74 0.5×	67 0.5×	64	873
I‐Chien Wu Taiwan	15	307 0.8×	76 0.2×	214 0.6×	17 0.1×	55 0.4×	54	753
Benjumin Hsu Australia	19	239 0.6×	123 0.3×	106 0.3×	51 0.3×	36 0.2×	41	856
Sakari Kainulainen Finland	20	409 1.0×	216 0.5×	51 0.1×	129 0.8×	8 0.1×	59	1.4k
Tamara Harris United States	9	441 1.1×	66 0.2×	65 0.2×	17 0.1×	25 0.2×	13	819

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yunzhang Wang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ji, Qianqian, et al.. (2025). Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy, Smoking Initiation, and the Risk of Epilepsy in the UK Biobank. Neuroepidemiology. 1–10.

Yue, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Analysis of Physiological Oxygen Concentrations in Different Abdominal Fat Layers by Body Mass Index. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 49(4). 1145–1153.

Evertsson, Björn, Pierre de Flon, Yunzhang Wang, et al.. (2024). Hypogammaglobulinaemia during rituximab treatment in multiple sclerosis: A Swedish cohort study. European Journal of Neurology. 31(8). e16331–e16331. 4 indexed citations

Li, Xinxiu, Joseph Loscalzo, Oleg Sysoev, et al.. (2024). Transcript and protein signatures derived from shared molecular interactions across cancers are associated with mortality. Journal of Translational Medicine. 22(1). 444–444. 2 indexed citations

Mak, Jonathan K. L., Marianne Nygaard, Laura Kananen, et al.. (2024). Epigenome‐wide analysis of frailty: Results from two European twin cohorts. Aging Cell. 23(6). e14135–e14135. 4 indexed citations

Mak, Jonathan K. L., Ida Karlsson, Bowen Tang, et al.. (2023). Temporal Dynamics of Epigenetic Aging and Frailty From Midlife to Old Age. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 79(10). 13 indexed citations

McMurran, Christopher E, Yunzhang Wang, Jonathan K. L. Mak, et al.. (2023). Advanced biological ageing predicts future risk for neurological diagnoses and clinical examination findings. Brain. 146(12). 4891–4902. 9 indexed citations

Li, Xia, Alexander Ploner, Yunzhang Wang, et al.. (2023). Rare functional variants in the CRP and G6PC genes modify the relationship between obesity and serum C‐reactive protein in white British population. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine. 11(12). e2255–e2255. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yunzhang, et al.. (2022). Dynamic patterns of blood lipids and DNA methylation in response to statin therapy. Clinical Epigenetics. 14(1). 153–153. 6 indexed citations

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Karlsson, Ida, Yiqiang Zhan, Yunzhang Wang, et al.. (2022). Adiposity and the risk of dementia: mediating effects from inflammation and lipid levels. European Journal of Epidemiology. 37(12). 1261–1271. 12 indexed citations

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Atkins, Janice L., Juulia Jylhävä, Nancy L. Pedersen, et al.. (2021). A genome‐wide association study of the frailty index highlights brain pathways in ageing. Aging Cell. 20(9). e13459–e13459. 179 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gao, Wenjing, Sara Hägg, Weihua Cao, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide associations between alcohol consumption and blood DNA methylation: evidence from twin study. Epigenomics. 13(12). 939–951. 7 indexed citations

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Tomata, Yasutake, Yunzhang Wang, Sara Hägg, & Juulia Jylhävä. (2021). Fatty Acids and Frailty: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Nutrients. 13(10). 3539–3539. 16 indexed citations

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Tomata, Yasutake, Yunzhang Wang, Sara Hägg, & Juulia Jylhävä. (2021). Protein Nutritional Status and Frailty: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Journal of Nutrition. 152(1). 269–275. 8 indexed citations

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Bai, Ge, Yunzhang Wang, Ralf Kuja‐Halkola, et al.. (2021). Frailty and the risk of dementia: is the association explained by shared environmental and genetic factors?. BMC Medicine. 19(1). 248–248. 19 indexed citations

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Li, Xia, Alexander Ploner, Yunzhang Wang, et al.. (2020). Longitudinal trajectories, correlations and mortality associations of nine biological ages across 20-years follow-up. eLife. 9. 243 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hägg, Sara, Juulia Jylhävä, Yunzhang Wang, Kamila Czene, & Felix Graßmann. (2020). Deciphering the genetic and epidemiological landscape of mitochondrial DNA abundance. Human Genetics. 140(6). 849–861. 60 indexed citations

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Seeboth, Anne, Daniel L. McCartney, Yunzhang Wang, et al.. (2020). DNA methylation outlier burden, health, and ageing in Generation Scotland and the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936. Clinical Epigenetics. 12(1). 49–49. 11 indexed citations

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Karlsson, Ida, Yunzhang Wang, Juulia Jylhävä, et al.. (2019). Replicating associations between DNA methylation and body mass index in a longitudinal sample of older twins. International Journal of Obesity. 44(6). 1397–1405. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunzhang, Robert Karlsson, Erik Lampa, et al.. (2018). Epigenetic influences on aging: a longitudinal genome-wide methylation study in old Swedish twins. Epigenetics. 13(9). 975–987. 62 indexed citations

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