2026 huanming yang: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	159	97	93	2	2	661	222255

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Genetics in China Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Genetics in China Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in China Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in China Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine
2008 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Huanming Yang is affiliated with the Beijing Genomics Institute in China. Their research contributions span several aspects of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 440 publications in the broader field and 214 in medicine. Key subfields of study include molecular biology, genetics, cancer research, plant science, and immunology.

The primary topics of their work focus on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, gut microbiota and health, genomics and phylogenetic studies, cancer genomics and diagnostics, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, genetic diversity and population structure, as well as diet and metabolism studies.

Huanming Yang has co-authored extensively with several frequent collaborators, including Xun Xu, Jian Wang, Xin Jin, Xin Liu, and Karsten Kristiansen.

They have published predominantly in several scientific venues, with notable frequency in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
SSRN Electronic Journal
Cell
Nature

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Huanming Yang reflect a range of topics related to genomics and cellular biology. These include:

Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution, 2021, Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays, 2022, Cell
An atlas of the protein-coding genes in the human, pig, and mouse brain, 2020, Science
Single-cell landscape of the ecosystem in early-relapse hepatocellular carcinoma, 2020, Cell
An Integrated Gene Expression Landscape Profiling Approach to Identify Lung Tumor Endothelial Cell Heterogeneity and Angiogenic Candidates, 2020, Cancer Cell

Huanming Yang has been recognized by several scientific academies for their work. Awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences awarded in 2014, fellowship in The World Academy of Sciences since 2008, and membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina with a focus on human genetics and molecular medicine since 2012.

Best Publications

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

31093
Citations
A global reference for human genetic variation.

Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

18403
Citations
A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

Junjie Qin;Ruiqiang Li;Jeroen Raes;Manimozhiyan Arumugam

13472
Citations
Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

10086
Citations
A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

Junjie Qin;Yingrui Li;Zhiming Cai;Shenghui Li

7470
Citations
The International HapMap Project

John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

6219
Citations
A haplotype map of the human genome

John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

5528
Citations
SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

Ruibang Luo;Binghang Liu;Yinlong Xie;Yinlong Xie;Zhenyu Li

5526
Citations
A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

5383
Citations
A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica)

Stephen A. Goff;Darrell Ricke;Tien-Hung Lan;Gernot Presting

4435
Citations
De novo assembly of human genomes with massively parallel short read sequencing

Ruiqiang Li;Hongmei Zhu;Jue Ruan;Wubin Qian

3306
Citations
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

3090
Citations
Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

Bernhard Misof;Shanlin Liu;Karen Meusemann;Ralph S. Peters

2877
Citations
Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

2598
Citations
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

2437
Citations
The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation

Guofan Zhang;Xiaodong Fang;Ximing Guo;Li Li

2386
Citations
An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

Junhua Li;Huijue Jia;Xianghang Cai;Huanzi Zhong

2275
Citations
International network of cancer genome projects

Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

2242
Citations
Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

2118
Citations
Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

Xin Yi;Yu Liang;Emilia Huerta-Sanchez;Xin Jin

1717
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xun Xu Beijing Genomics Institute

Xiuqing Zhang China Agricultural University

Lars Bolund Aarhus University

Karsten Kristiansen University of Copenhagen

Xin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jun Wang University of Central Florida

Guojie Zhang Zhejiang University

Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta

Xiaodong Fang Beijing Genomics Institute

Yong Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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