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Yunpeng Wang

Yunpeng Wang

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
55
Citations
17870
World Ranking
206
National Ranking
2

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
20233
World Ranking
14160
National Ranking
69

Yunpeng Wang publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yunpeng Wang sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 151 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Yunpeng Wang D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yunpeng Wang sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Yunpeng Wang is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily spans genetics, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and physiology, with a significant focus on genetic associations and epidemiology as well as functional brain connectivity studies.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including health, environment, and cognitive aging, neurological disorders and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yunpeng Wang include:

  • Individual variations in 'brain age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change (2021, eLife)
  • Deep neural networks learn general and clinically relevant representations of the ageing brain (2022, NeuroImage)
  • Genome-wide Association Analysis of Parkinson's Disease and Schizophrenia Reveals Shared Genetic Architecture and Identifies Novel Risk Loci (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Genetic Association Between Schizophrenia and Cortical Brain Surface Area and Thickness (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Education and Income Show Heterogeneous Relationships to Lifespan Brain and Cognitive Differences Across European and US Cohorts (2021, Cerebral Cortex)

Yunpeng Wang frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, most notably:

  • Kristine B. Walhovd
  • Anders M. Fjell
  • Øystein Sørensen
  • Didac Vidal-Piñeiro
  • Ole A. Andreassen

Their publications often appear in well-regarded venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Translational Psychiatry, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Their body of work contributes to understanding complex neurological and psychiatric conditions as well as brain aging processes, integrating genetic data with neuroimaging and clinical information.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk.

    Iris E. Jansen;Jeanne E. Savage;Kyoko Watanabe;Julien Bryois

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Analysis of five chronic inflammatory diseases identifies 27 new associations and highlights disease-specific patterns at shared loci

    David Ellinghaus;Luke Jostins;Sarah L. Spain;Adrian Cortes

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders

    Min-Tzu Lo;David A. Hinds;Joyce Y. Tung;Carol Franz

  • Genetic assessment of age-associated Alzheimer disease risk: Development and validation of a polygenic hazard score

    Rahul S. Desikan;Chun Chieh Fan;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Andrew J. Schork

  • Genome-wide Pleiotropy Between Parkinson Disease and Autoimmune Diseases.

    Aree Witoelar;Iris E. Jansen;Yunpeng Wang;Rahul S. Desikan

  • Bivariate causal mixture model quantifies polygenic overlap between complex traits beyond genetic correlation.

    Oleksandr Frei;Dominic Holland;Olav Bjerkehagen Smeland;Olav Bjerkehagen Smeland;Alexey A. Shadrin

  • Genetic pleiotropy between multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia but not bipolar disorder : differential involvement of immune-related gene loci

    O A Andreassen;O A Andreassen;O A Andreassen;H F Harbo;Y Wang;W K Thompson

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis associates HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA and lifestyle factors with human longevity

    Peter K. Joshi;Nicola Pirastu;Katherine A Kentistou;Krista Fischer

  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts

    Guiyan Ni;Jian Zeng;Joana A. Revez;Ying Wang

  • Genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease at the MAPT locus.

    R.S. (R. S.) Desikan;A.J. (A. J.) Schork;Y. Wang;Y. Wang;Aree Witoelar

  • Polygenic hazard score to guide screening for aggressive prostate cancer: development and validation in large scale cohorts

    Tyler M. Seibert;Chun Chieh Fan;Yunpeng Wang;Verena Zuber;Verena Zuber

  • Association Between Genetic Traits for Immune-Mediated Diseases and Alzheimer Disease

    Jennifer S. Yokoyama;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Andrew J. Schork;Wesley K. Thompson

  • Immune-related genetic enrichment in frontotemporal dementia: An analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Iris Broce;Celeste M Karch;Natalie Wen;Chun C Fan

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Andrew J. Schork
Andrew J. Schork University of Copenhagen
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen

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