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Yunfeng Yang

Yunfeng Yang

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
73
Citations
25776
World Ranking
1163
National Ranking
21

Yunfeng Yang publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 236 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Yunfeng Yang D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yunfeng Yang is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and specializes in environmental science, with extensive research contributions primarily in microbial ecology and soil science. Their work spans several interconnected scientific fields, including agricultural and biological sciences, as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research covers specific subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Soil Science
  • Plant Science
  • Pollution

Yang's main topics of investigation include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Gut Microbiota and Health
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Microbial Bioremediation and Biosurfactants

The scientist has published frequently in several academic venues, reflecting a substantial body of research output. The major publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiome

Yang collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors with whom multiple publications have been produced. These frequent collaborators are:

  • Jizhong Zhou
  • Xue Guo
  • Qun Gao
  • Daliang Ning
  • Yufei Zeng

Selected recent publications illustrate the focus and range of Yang's research:

  • Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability, 2021, published in Nature Climate Change
  • A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming, 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity, 2020, published in Microbiome
  • Reduction of microbial diversity in grassland soil is driven by long-term climate warming, 2022, published in Nature Microbiology
  • Abundance of kinless hubs within soil microbial networks are associated with high functional potential in agricultural ecosystems, 2020, published in Environment International

Best Publications

  • Molecular ecological network analyses

    Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang;Yunfeng Yang;Zhili He

  • Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

    Mengting Maggie Yuan;Mengting Maggie Yuan;Xue Guo;Xue Guo;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  • A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming.

    Daliang Ning;Daliang Ning;Mengting Yuan;Mengting Yuan;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  • Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China.

    Shuo Jiao;Yunfeng Yang;Yiqin Xu;Jie Zhang

  • Phylogenetic Molecular Ecological Network of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Elevated CO2

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Feng Luo;Zhili He

  • Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Kai Xue

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Reproducibility and quantitation of amplicon sequencing-based detection

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Liyou Wu;Ye Deng;Xiaoyang Zhi

  • Network succession reveals the importance of competition in response to emulsified vegetable oil amendment for uranium bioremediation.

    Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Yujia Qin;Qichao Tu

  • High-Throughput Metagenomic Technologies for Complex Microbial Community Analysis: Open and Closed Formats

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Zhili He;Yunfeng Yang;Ye Deng;Ye Deng

  • Reduction of microbial diversity in grassland soil is driven by long-term climate warming

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  • Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity

    Renmao Tian;Daliang Ning;Zhili He;Ping Zhang

  • Climate warming leads to divergent succession of grassland microbial communities

    Xue Guo;Jiajie Feng;Zhou Shi;Xishu Zhou;Xishu Zhou

  • Stochastic assembly leads to alternative communities with distinct functions in a bioreactor microbial community.

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Wenzong Liu;Wenzong Liu;Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang

  • Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium cellulolyticum for Production of Isobutanol from Cellulose

    Wendy Higashide;Yongchao Li;Yunfeng Yang;James C. Liao;James C. Liao

  • Constructing gene co-expression networks and predicting functions of unknown genes by random matrix theory

    Feng Luo;Feng Luo;Yunfeng Yang;Jianxin Zhong;Jianxin Zhong;Haichun Gao;Haichun Gao

  • The microbial gene diversity along an elevation gradient of the Tibetan grassland

    Yunfeng Yang;Ying Gao;Shiping Wang;Depeng Xu

  • Responses of the functional structure of soil microbial community to livestock grazing in the Tibetan alpine grassland

    Yunfeng Yang;Linwei Wu;Qiaoyan Lin;Mengting Yuan

  • Abundance of kinless hubs within soil microbial networks are associated with high functional potential in agricultural ecosystems

    Yu Shi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Yuntao Li;Yunfeng Yang

  • Long-term successional dynamics of microbial association networks in anaerobic digestion processes.

    Linwei Wu;Yunfeng Yang;Si Chen;Mengxin Zhao

  • Microbial functional diversity: From concepts to applications.

    Arthur Escalas;Arthur Escalas;Lauren Hale;James W. Voordeckers;Yunfeng Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Joy D. Van Nostrand
Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Daliang Ning
Daliang Ning University of Oklahoma
Ye Deng
Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kai Xue
Kai Xue Chinese Academy of Sciences
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shiping Wang
Shiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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