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D-Index
66
Citations
20823
World Ranking
2585
National Ranking
1146

Yi Xing publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

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

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 137 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Yi Xing D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Yi Xing is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to engineering-related fields.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering

Within these domains, Yi Xing's work focuses on several subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Pollution
  • Materials Chemistry

The scientist's main research topics cover:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yi Xing include:

  • Wei Su
  • Bo Jiang
  • Chen Hong
  • Jiaqing Wang
  • Haobo Ya

Yi Xing has published extensively in various venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Fuel

Selected recent publications by Yi Xing include:

  • Recent advances on ecological effects of microplastics on soil environment, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of ofloxacin by g-C3N4/NH2-MIL-88B(Fe) heterostructure: Mechanisms, DFT calculation, degradation pathway and toxicity evolution, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • rMATS-turbo: an efficient and flexible computational tool for alternative splicing analysis of large-scale RNA-seq data, 2024, Nature Protocols
  • isoCirc catalogs full-length circular RNA isoforms in human transcriptomes, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Recent advances on the effects of microplastics on elements cycling in the environment, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Yi Xing was awarded the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2013.

Best Publications

  • A transcriptome database for astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes: a new resource for understanding brain development and function.

    John D. Cahoy;Ben Emery;Amit Kaushal;Lynette C. Foo

  • rMATS: Robust and flexible detection of differential alternative splicing from replicate RNA-Seq data

    Shihao Shen;Juw Won Park;Zhi-xiang Lu;Lan Lin

  • m6A RNA Modification Controls Cell Fate Transition in Mammalian Embryonic Stem Cells

    Pedro J. Batista;Benoit Molinie;Jinkai Wang;Kun Qu

  • The bifunctional microRNA miR-9/miR-9* regulates REST and CoREST and is downregulated in Huntington's disease.

    Amy N. Packer;Yi Xing;Scott Q. Harper;Lesley Jones

  • Structure and activity of putative intronic miRNA promoters.

    Alex Mas Monteys;Ryan M. Spengler;Ji Wan;Luis Tecedor

  • Detection of splice junctions from paired-end RNA-seq data by SpliceMap

    Kin Fai Au;Hui Jiang;Lan Lin;Yi Xing

  • An ESRP‐regulated splicing programme is abrogated during the epithelial–mesenchymal transition

    Claude C Warzecha;Peng Jiang;Karine Amirikian;Kimberly A Dittmar

  • Nonallele-specific Silencing of Mutant and Wild-type Huntingtin Demonstrates Therapeutic Efficacy in Huntington's Disease Mice

    Ryan L Boudreau;Jodi L McBride;Inês Martins;Shihao Shen

  • Genome-Wide Maps of m6A circRNAs Identify Widespread and Cell-Type-Specific Methylation Patterns that Are Distinct from mRNAs.

    Chan Zhou;Benoit Molinie;Kaveh Daneshvar;Joshua V. Pondick

  • MATS: a Bayesian framework for flexible detection of differential alternative splicing from RNA-Seq data

    Shihao Shen;Juw Won Park;Jian Huang;Kimberly A. Dittmar

  • m(6)A-LAIC-seq reveals the census and complexity of the m(6)A epitranscriptome.

    Benoit Molinie;Jinkai Wang;Kok Seong Lim;Roman Hillebrand

  • The Expanding Landscape of Alternative Splicing Variation in Human Populations.

    Eddie Park;Zhicheng Pan;Zijun Zhang;Lan Lin

  • Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure--evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes.

    Yi Xing;Christopher Lee

  • The epithelial splicing factors ESRP1 and ESRP2 positively and negatively regulate diverse types of alternative splicing events

    Claude C. Warzecha;Shihao Shen;Yi Xing;Russ P. Carstens

  • BS69/ZMYND11 Reads and Connects Histone H3.3 Lysine 36 Trimethylation-Decorated Chromatin to Regulated Pre-mRNA Processing

    Rui Guo;Lijuan Zheng;Juw Won Park;Ruitu Lv

  • Transcriptome-wide analyses of CstF64–RNA interactions in global regulation of mRNA alternative polyadenylation

    Chengguo Yao;Jacob Biesinger;Ji Wan;Lingjie Weng

  • ASAP: the Alternative Splicing Annotation Project

    Christopher J. Lee;Levan Atanelov;Barmak Modrek;Yi Xing

  • Transcriptome-wide discovery of microRNA binding sites in Human Brain

    Ryan L. Boudreau;Peng Jiang;Brian L. Gilmore;Ryan M. Spengler

  • Global analysis of alternative splicing differences between humans and chimpanzees

    John A. Calarco;Yi Xing;Mario Cáceres;Joseph P. Calarco

  • Rbfox Proteins Regulate Splicing as Part of a Large Multiprotein Complex LASR

    Andrey Damianov;Yi Ying;Chia-Ho Lin;Ji-Ann Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee University of California, Los Angeles
Beverly L. Davidson
Beverly L. Davidson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Wing Hung Wong
Wing Hung Wong Stanford University
Ying Nian Wu
Ying Nian Wu University of California, Los Angeles
Douglas L. Black
Douglas L. Black University of California, Los Angeles
Peipei Ping
Peipei Ping University of California, Los Angeles
Anne E. Kwitek
Anne E. Kwitek Medical College of Wisconsin
Yang Shi
Yang Shi University of Oxford
Xiaohui Xie
Xiaohui Xie University of California, Irvine
Timothy J. Aitman
Timothy J. Aitman University of Edinburgh

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