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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Microbiology 80 1167 1047 527 446 286 22119

Yang Liu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yang Liu between 1988 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yang Liu published across 39 years, from 1988 to 2026, averaging 19.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 173 publications in 2025. 175 of the 772 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
50 100 150
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 173. Peak 173 publications in 2025. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 1 publication 1995: 3 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 3 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 12 publications 2004: 12 publications 2005: 10 publications 2006: 10 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 16 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 18 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 17 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 31 publications 2022: 67 publications 2023: 159 publications 2024: 73 publications 2025: 173 publications 2026: 2 publications
1988 2026

772 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yang Liu: publications per year, 1988 to 2026
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 1
1994 1
1995 3
1996 2
1997 2
1998 5
1999 2
2000 1
2001 3
2002 5
2003 12
2004 12
2005 10
2006 10
2007 7
2008 8
2009 16
2010 12
2011 11
2012 7
2013 10
2014 16
2015 18
2016 14
2017 18
2018 15
2019 17
2020 28
2021 31
2022 67
2023 159
2024 73
2025 173
2026 2
Total 772
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Yang Liu publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yang Liu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 55–64 to 679+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 135–144 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 285–294 publications, is where this scientist sits. 55–64 publications: 8 scientists 65–74 publications: 29 scientists 75–84 publications: 55 scientists 85–94 publications: 112 scientists 95–104 publications: 137 scientists 105–114 publications: 190 scientists 115–124 publications: 235 scientists 125–134 publications: 234 scientists 135–144 publications: 288 scientists 145–154 publications: 265 scientists 155–164 publications: 264 scientists 165–174 publications: 253 scientists 175–184 publications: 276 scientists 185–194 publications: 190 scientists 195–204 publications: 234 scientists 205–214 publications: 208 scientists 215–224 publications: 198 scientists 225–234 publications: 155 scientists 235–244 publications: 161 scientists 245–254 publications: 160 scientists 255–264 publications: 146 scientists 265–274 publications: 139 scientists 275–284 publications: 148 scientists 285–294 publications: 115 scientists 295–304 publications: 96 scientists 305–314 publications: 88 scientists 315–324 publications: 106 scientists 325–334 publications: 65 scientists 335–344 publications: 76 scientists 345–354 publications: 64 scientists 355–364 publications: 62 scientists 365–374 publications: 65 scientists 375–384 publications: 61 scientists 385–394 publications: 34 scientists 395–404 publications: 44 scientists 405–414 publications: 36 scientists 415–424 publications: 35 scientists 425–434 publications: 29 scientists 435–444 publications: 33 scientists 445–454 publications: 34 scientists 455–464 publications: 25 scientists 465–474 publications: 26 scientists 475–484 publications: 20 scientists 485–494 publications: 19 scientists 495–504 publications: 16 scientists 505–514 publications: 17 scientists 515–524 publications: 23 scientists 525–534 publications: 14 scientists 535–544 publications: 14 scientists 545–554 publications: 18 scientists 555–564 publications: 12 scientists 565–574 publications: 7 scientists 575–584 publications: 9 scientists 585–594 publications: 9 scientists 595–604 publications: 9 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 9 scientists 625–634 publications: 7 scientists 635–644 publications: 4 scientists 645–654 publications: 5 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 7 scientists 675–678 publications: 3 scientists 679+ publications: 99 scientists
55–64 publications 679+

This scientist: 286 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
55–64 8
65–74 29
75–84 55
85–94 112
95–104 137
105–114 190
115–124 235
125–134 234
135–144 288
145–154 265
155–164 264
165–174 253
175–184 276
185–194 190
195–204 234
205–214 208
215–224 198
225–234 155
235–244 161
245–254 160
255–264 146
265–274 139
275–284 148
285–294 115 286
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
335–344 76
345–354 64
355–364 62
365–374 65
375–384 61
385–394 34
395–404 44
405–414 36
415–424 35
425–434 29
435–444 33
445–454 34
455–464 25
465–474 26
475–484 20
485–494 19
495–504 16
505–514 17
515–524 23
525–534 14
535–544 14
545–554 18
555–564 12
565–574 7
575–584 9
585–594 9
595–604 9
605–614 7
615–624 9
625–634 7
635–644 4
645–654 5
655–664 6
665–674 7
675–678 3
679+ 99
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Yang Liu D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yang Liu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40 to 127+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 58 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 80 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 112 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 123 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40 30
41 86
42 90
43 117
44 122
45 123
46 108
47 110
48 106
49 109
50 129
51 111
52 116
53 127
54 134
55 134
56 112
57 136
58 162
59 151
60 139
61 123
62 126
63 144
64 109
65 103
66 124
67 112
68 103
69 131
70 94
71 93
72 96
73 92
74 80
75 66
76 87
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57 80
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42
87 41
88 32
89 38
90 35
91 34
92 27
93 26
94 33
95 22
96 37
97 22
98 21
99 22
100 30
101 16
102 20
103 17
104 19
105 16
106 19
107 18
108 14
109 10
110 9
111 7
112 11
113 6
114 15
115 10
116 12
117 7
118 10
119 10
120 11
121 2
122 7
123 12
124 5
125 9
126 6
127+ 95
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Yang Liu is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research focuses extensively on the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular concentration in molecular biology, oncology, immunology, cancer research, and genetics.

Their primary research topics include CAR-T cell therapy, immune cell function and interaction, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, cancer hypoxia and metabolism, and lymphoma diagnosis and treatment.

Yang Liu has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Bispecific CAR-T cells targeting both CD19 and CD22 for therapy of adults with relapsed or refractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 2020, Journal of Hematology & Oncology
  • Optimized tandem CD19/CD20 CAR-engineered T cells in refractory/relapsed B cell lymphoma, 2020, Blood
  • The model of cytokine release syndrome in CAR T-cell treatment for B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 2020, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
  • Maintaining manganese in tumor to activate cGAS-STING pathway evokes a robust abscopal anti-tumor effect, 2021, Journal of Controlled Release
  • Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1-mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues, 2022, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yang Liu include Pan Zheng, Weidong Han, Michael Wang, Peng Zhang, and Joseph McIntosh. These collaborations reflect repeated joint contributions in related research areas.

Yang Liu has published extensively in prominent research venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Blood
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • PubMed
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Yang Liu received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Characteristics and Significance of the Pre-metastatic Niche

    Yang Liu;Xuetao Cao;Xuetao Cao

  • COVID-19 immune features revealed by a large-scale single-cell transcriptome atlas.

    Xianwen Ren;Wen Wen;Xiaoying Fan;Wenhong Hou

  • CD24 and Siglec-10 Selectively Repress Tissue Damage-Induced Immune Responses

    Guo-Yun Chen;Jie Tang;Pan Zheng;Yang Liu

  • mTOR Regulation and Therapeutic Rejuvenation of Aging Hematopoietic Stem Cells

    Chong Chen;Yu Liu;Yang Liu;Pan Zheng

  • In vivo evidence for a dependence on interleukin 15 for survival of natural killer cells.

    Megan A. Cooper;Jennifer E. Bush;Todd A. Fehniger;Jeffrey B. VanDeusen

  • FOXP3 is an X-linked breast cancer suppressor gene and an important repressor of the HER-2/ErbB2 oncogene

    Tao Zuo;Lizhong Wang;Carl Morrison;Xing Chang

  • Host-Viral Infection Maps Reveal Signatures of Severe COVID-19 Patients.

    Pierre Bost;Amir Giladi;Yang Liu;Yanis Bendjelal

  • Dispersed cells represent a distinct stage in the transition from bacterial biofilm to planktonic lifestyles.

    Song Lin Chua;Yang Liu;Joey Kuok Hoong Yam;Yicai Chen

  • Immunosuppressive cells in tumor immune escape and metastasis

    Yang Liu;Xuetao Cao

  • Dendritic cells in the thymus contribute to T-regulatory cell induction

    Anna I. Proietto;Serani van van Dommelen;Penghui Zhou;Alexandra Rizzitelli

  • Inhibition of the B7-H3 immune checkpoint limits tumor growth by enhancing cytotoxic lymphocyte function

    Young Hee Lee;Natalia Martin-Orozco;Natalia Martin-Orozco;Peilin Zheng;Jing Li

  • The origin and function of tumor-associated macrophages.

    Yang Liu;Xuetao Cao

  • Current understanding of multi-species biofilms.

    Liang Yang;Yang Liu;Hong Wu;Niels Høiby

  • Induction of Siglec-G by RNA viruses inhibits the innate immune response by promoting RIG-I degradation.

    Weilin Chen;Chaofeng Han;Bin Xie;Xiang Hu

  • Distinct roles of extracellular polymeric substances in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development

    Liang Yang;Yifan Hu;Yang Liu;Jingdong Zhang

  • Somatic Single Hits Inactivate the X-Linked Tumor Suppressor FOXP3 in the Prostate

    Lizhong Wang;Runhua Liu;Weiquan Li;Chong Chen

  • T Regulatory Cells and Priming the Suppressive Tumor Microenvironment.

    Christina M. Paluskievicz;Xuefang Cao;Reza Abdi;Pan Zheng

  • T cell costimulation by B7/BB1 induces CD8 T cell-dependent tumor rejection: an important role of B7/BB1 in the induction, recruitment, and effector function of antitumor T cells.

    Lakshmi Ramarathinam;M. Castle;Yan Wu;Yang Liu

  • Combating biofilms

    Liang Yang;Yang Liu;Hong Wu;Zhijun Song

  • Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the heterogeneity of liver-resident immune cells in human.

    Juanjuan Zhao;Shuye Zhang;Yang Liu;Xiaomeng He

  • A reappraisal of CTLA-4 checkpoint blockade in cancer immunotherapy

    Xuexiang Du;Fei Tang;Mingyue Liu;Juanjuan Su

Frequent Co-Authors

Pan Zheng
Pan Zheng University of Maryland, Baltimore
Min Cheng
Min Cheng Hunan University
Danlian Huang
Danlian Huang Hunan University
Chen Zhang
Chen Zhang Hunan University
Xuetao Cao
Xuetao Cao Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
Zvi Schwartz
Zvi Schwartz Virginia Commonwealth University
Weiping Xiong
Weiping Xiong Hunan University
Cui Lai
Cui Lai Hunan University
Klaus Fassbender
Klaus Fassbender Saarland University
Barbara D. Boyan
Barbara D. Boyan Virginia Commonwealth University

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