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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
87
Citations
21309
World Ranking
2893
National Ranking
1484

Chemistry

D-Index
89
Citations
21542
World Ranking
2226
National Ranking
796

Yi Tang publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

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

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 283 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Yi Tang D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Yi Tang is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant work in Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Plant Science.

Their main research topics include:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Chemical Synthesis and Alkaloids
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Alkaloids: Synthesis and Pharmacology
  • Biochemical and Structural Characterization

Yi Tang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • M. Ohashi (25 publications)
  • K. N. Houk (18 publications)
  • Cooper S. Jamieson (10 publications)
  • Mengbin Chen (8 publications)
  • Neil K. Garg (8 publications)

Their work has been published extensively in scientific journals. Frequent venues include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (24 publications)
  • Organic Letters (6 publications)
  • Nature Chemical Biology (4 publications)
  • Nature Communications (3 publications)
  • Chemical Science (3 publications)

Notable recent papers authored by Yi Tang are:

  • "Recent developments in self-resistance gene directed natural product discovery," 2020, published in Natural Product Reports
  • "Genome mining for unknown-unknown natural products," 2023, published in Nature Chemical Biology
  • "Deciphering chemical logic of fungal natural product biosynthesis through heterologous expression and genome mining," 2022, published in Natural Product Reports
  • "Structural basis for the biosynthesis of lovastatin," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "An enzymatic Alder-ene reaction," 2020, published in Nature

Yi Tang was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Tailoring nanocarriers for intracellular protein delivery.

    Zhen Gu;Anuradha Biswas;Muxun Zhao;Yi Tang

  • A novel intracellular protein delivery platform based on single-protein nanocapsules

    Ming Yan;Juanjuan Du;Zhen Gu;Min Liang

  • Complete reconstitution of a highly reducing iterative polyketide synthase.

    Suzanne M. Ma;Jesse W.-H. Li;Jin W. Choi;Hui Zhou

  • Metabolic engineering for the production of natural products.

    Lauren B. Pickens;Yi Tang;Yit-Heng Chooi

  • Oxidative Cyclization in Natural Product Biosynthesis

    Man-Cheng Tang;Yi Zou;Kenji Watanabe;Christopher T. Walsh

  • Fluorinated Coiled‐Coil Proteins Prepared In Vivo Display Enhanced Thermal and Chemical Stability

    Yi Tang;Giovanna Ghirlanda;Wendy A. Petka;Tadashi Nakajima

  • Eight Kinetically Stable but Thermodynamically Activated Molecules that Power Cell Metabolism

    Christopher T. Walsh;Benjamin P. Tu;Yi Tang

  • Navigating the Fungal Polyketide Chemical Space: From Genes to Molecules

    Yit-Heng Chooi;Yi Tang

  • Biosynthesis of a Highly Stable Coiled-Coil Protein Containing Hexafluoroleucine in an Engineered Bacterial Host

    Yi Tang;David A. Tirrell

  • HEx: A heterologous expression platform for the discovery of fungal natural products

    Colin J. B. Harvey;Mancheng Tang;Ulrich Schlecht;Joe Horecka

  • Resistance-gene-directed discovery of a natural-product herbicide with a new mode of action.

    Yan Yan;Qikun Liu;Xin Zang;Xin Zang;Shuguang Yuan

  • Stabilization of coiled-coil peptide domains by introduction of trifluoroleucine.

    Yi Tang;Giovanna Ghirlanda;Nagarajan Vaidehi;Jeremy Kua

  • Cyclization of fungal nonribosomal peptides by a terminal condensation-like domain

    Xue Gao;Stuart W Haynes;Brian D Ames;Peng Wang

  • The role of distant mutations and allosteric regulation on LovD active site dynamics

    Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés;Sílvia Osuna;Xue Gao;Michael R Sawaya

  • Identification of the Viridicatumtoxin and Griseofulvin Gene Clusters from Penicillium aethiopicum

    Yit-Heng Chooi;Ralph A Cacho;Yi Tang

  • Biosynthesis of fungal indole alkaloids.

    Wei Xu;Diego J. Gavia;Yi Tang

  • Redox-responsive nanocapsules for intracellular protein delivery.

    Muxun Zhao;Anuradha Biswas;Biliang Hu;Kye-Il Joo

  • SAM-dependent enzyme-catalysed pericyclic reactions in natural product biosynthesis

    Masao Ohashi;Fang Liu;Yang Hai;Mengbin Chen

  • The fumagillin biosynthetic gene cluster in Aspergillus fumigatus encodes a cryptic terpene cyclase involved in the formation of β-trans-bergamotene.

    Hsiao-Ching Lin;Yit-Heng Chooi;Sourabh Dhingra;Wei Xu

  • Detection of mercury ion by infrared fluorescent protein and its hydrogel-based paper assay.

    Zhen Gu;Muxun Zhao;Yuewei Sheng;Laurent A Bentolila

  • Biosynthesis of Lovastatin Analogs with a Broadly Specific Acyltransferase

    Xinkai Xie;Kenji Watanabe;Wladyslaw A. Wojcicki;Clay C.C. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenjun Zhang
Wenjun Zhang University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher T. Walsh
Christopher T. Walsh Stanford University
Neil K. Garg
Neil K. Garg University of California, Los Angeles
Chaitan Khosla
Chaitan Khosla Stanford University
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Zhen Gu
Zhen Gu Zhejiang University
John C. Vederas
John C. Vederas University of Alberta
David A. Tirrell
David A. Tirrell California Institute of Technology
Stefan Iglauer
Stefan Iglauer Edith Cowan University
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology

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