Zunyi Yang

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Zunyi Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zunyi Yang has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Infectious Diseases and 6 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zunyi Yang's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (11 papers). Zunyi Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (11 papers). Zunyi Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Bulgaria. Zunyi Yang's co-authors include Steven A. Benner, Weihong Tan, Fei Chen, A. Michael Sismour, Biao Yu, P Sheng, Kevin M. Bradley, Yu Yang, Yujia Sun and Ting Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Zunyi Yang

44 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Metal–Organic Framework Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery in Biomedical Applications

2020 558 citations Yujia Sun, Liwei Zheng et al. Nano-Micro Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zunyi Yang United States	22	1.7k	521	337	330	274	44	2.4k
Paola Laurino Japan	19	1.0k 0.6×	357 0.7×	321 1.0×	61 0.2×	325 1.2×	44	1.6k
Marcel Hollenstein France	27	2.5k 1.5×	469 0.9×	279 0.8×	37 0.1×	298 1.1×	88	2.9k
Xiaoman Liu China	27	697 0.4×	391 0.8×	478 1.4×	37 0.1×	317 1.2×	74	1.9k
Dennis Bong United States	22	1.4k 0.8×	165 0.3×	530 1.6×	185 0.6×	1.1k 3.9×	49	2.5k
Dipankar Sen Canada	39	7.3k 4.3×	1.2k 2.2×	675 2.0×	39 0.1×	222 0.8×	101	7.9k
Jan Paczesny Poland	22	372 0.2×	411 0.8×	463 1.4×	75 0.2×	149 0.5×	66	1.4k
Hong‐Ming Ding China	25	1.5k 0.9×	870 1.7×	765 2.3×	93 0.3×	512 1.9×	83	3.0k
Gilles Bruylants Belgium	21	536 0.3×	256 0.5×	480 1.4×	86 0.3×	210 0.8×	55	1.2k
Daisuke Miyoshi Japan	39	4.6k 2.7×	891 1.7×	751 2.2×	24 0.1×	160 0.6×	123	5.4k
Thomas W. Bell United States	29	748 0.4×	130 0.2×	558 1.7×	225 0.7×	1.1k 3.9×	120	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Zunyi Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zunyi Yang

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

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Zhou, Nicolette A., Kevin M. Bradley, Chris McLendon, et al.. (2025). Harnessing Non-standard Nucleic Acids for Highly Sensitive Icosaplex (20-Plex) Detection of Microbial Threats for Environmental Surveillance. ACS Synthetic Biology. 14(2). 470–484. 1 indexed citations

Rocca, James R., Shuichi Hoshika, Zunyi Yang, et al.. (2024). A folding motif formed with an expanded genetic alphabet. Nature Chemistry. 16(10). 1715–1722. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Bang, Kevin M. Bradley, Myong‐Jung Kim, et al.. (2024). Enzyme-assisted high throughput sequencing of an expanded genetic alphabet at single base resolution. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4057–4057. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Bang, Xiaoshu Pan, I‐Ting Teng, et al.. (2024). Functional Selection of Tau Oligomerization‐Inhibiting Aptamers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(18). e202402007–e202402007. 12 indexed citations

Sun, Yujia, Liwei Zheng, Yu Yang, et al.. (2020). Metal–Organic Framework Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery in Biomedical Applications. Nano-Micro Letters. 12(1). 103–103. 558 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Liqin, Sai Wang, Zunyi Yang, et al.. (2019). An Aptamer‐Nanotrain Assembled from Six‐Letter DNA Delivers Doxorubicin Selectively to Liver Cancer Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 132(2). 673–678. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Fei, et al.. (2017). Biological phosphorylation of an Unnatural Base Pair (UBP) using a Drosophila melanogaster deoxynucleoside kinase (DmdNK) mutant. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0174163–e0174163. 9 indexed citations

Alto, Barry W., et al.. (2017). Point of sampling detection of Zika virus within a multiplexed kit capable of detecting dengue and chikungunya. BMC Infectious Diseases. 17(1). 293–293. 77 indexed citations

Bradley, Kevin M., Patricia Moussatche, Shuichi Hoshika, et al.. (2016). A norovirus detection architecture based on isothermal amplification and expanded genetic systems. Journal of Virological Methods. 237. 64–71. 11 indexed citations

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Shao, Yaming, Shuichi Hoshika, Zunyi Yang, et al.. (2015). A Crystal Structure of a Functional RNA Molecule Containing an Artificial Nucleobase Pair. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(34). 9853–9856. 18 indexed citations

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Glushakova, Lyudmyla G., Kevin M. Bradley, Barry W. Alto, et al.. (2015). High-throughput multiplexed xMAP Luminex array panel for detection of twenty two medically important mosquito-borne arboviruses based on innovations in synthetic biology. Journal of Virological Methods. 214. 60–74. 44 indexed citations

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Glushakova, Lyudmyla G., Nidhi Sharma, Shuichi Hoshika, et al.. (2015). Detecting respiratory viral RNA using expanded genetic alphabets and self-avoiding DNA. Analytical Biochemistry. 489. 62–72. 20 indexed citations

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Yang, Zunyi, Chris McLendon, Daniel Hutter, et al.. (2015). Helicase‐Dependent Isothermal Amplification of DNA and RNA by Using Self‐Avoiding Molecular Recognition Systems. ChemBioChem. 16(9). 1365–1370. 26 indexed citations

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Benner, Steven A., et al.. (2015). Next-generation DNA in pathogen detection, surveillance, and CLIA-waivable diagnostics. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9490. 94900K–94900K. 5 indexed citations

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Benner, Steven A., et al.. (2010). Setting the Stage: The History, Chemistry, and Geobiology behind RNA. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 4(1). a003541–a003541. 44 indexed citations

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Sheng, P, Zunyi Yang, Youngmi Kim, et al.. (2008). Design of a novel molecular beacon: modification of the stem with artificially genetic alphabet. Chemical Communications. 5128–5128. 32 indexed citations

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Benner, Steven A., et al.. (2008). Synthetic Biology for Improved Personalized Medicine. Nucleic Acids Symposium Series. 52(1). 243–244. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Zunyi, et al.. (2007). Enzymatic incorporation of a third nucleobase pair. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(13). 4238–4249. 130 indexed citations

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Yang, Zunyi & Biao Yu. (2001). Stereoselective synthesis of 2-S-ethyl(phenyl)-2-thio-β-glucopyranosides via 1,2-migration and concurrent glycosidation of ethyl(phenyl) 2,3-orthoester-1-thio-α-mannopyranosides. Carbohydrate Research. 333(2). 105–114. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Zunyi, Wenbin Lin, & Biao Yu. (2000). Rearrangement of sugar 1,2-orthoesters to glycosidic products: a mechanistic implication. Carbohydrate Research. 329(4). 879–884. 41 indexed citations

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