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Ziheng Yang

Active 1993–2026

180
Papers
53,777
Citations
98
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Citations

Citations per year for Ziheng Yang1979: 4 citations1984: 1 citations1987: 1 citations1988: 1 citations1992: 1 citations1993: 1 citations1994: 10 citations1995: 39 citations1996: 80 citations1997: 72 citations1998: 109 citations1999: 118 citations2000: 210 citations2001: 322 citations2002: 364 citations2003: 483 citations2004: 470 citations2005: 657 citations2006: 677 citations2007: 495 citations2008: 518 citations2009: 504 citations2010: 414 citations2011: 495 citations2012: 416 citations2013: 413 citations2014: 667 citations2015: 489 citations2016: 416 citations2017: 362 citations2018: 414 citations2019: 1,112 citations2020: 1,090 citations2021: 1,060 citations2022: 735 citations2023: 642 citations2024: 1,003 citations2025: 427 citations2026: 29 citations1980–1983: no citations, so these years are not shown1985–1986: no citations, so these years are not shown1989–1991: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,119 citing papers, 24.7% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,552 citing papers, 9.3% of this breakdownChina: 1,447 citing papers, 8.7% of this breakdownGermany: 930 citing papers, 5.6% of this breakdownFrance: 752 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownCanada: 616 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 553 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownSpain: 447 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownJapan: 405 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 359 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownSweden: 356 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownBrazil: 313 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology52.9%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences15.2%
  • Environmental Science7.3%
  • Medicine6.7%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences6.6%
  • Immunology and Microbiology3.6%
  • Other7.7%

Topics

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies13.4%
  • Genetic diversity and population structure9.7%
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies4.1%
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics2.5%
  • Plant and animal studies2.1%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms2.1%
  • Other66.1%

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  1. Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age

    Authors: Paschalia Kapli, Ziheng Yang, Maximilian J. Telford - Nature Reviews Genetics 2020 cited by 576

  2. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: Approximate methods

    Authors: Ziheng Yang - Journal of Molecular Evolution 1994 cited by 3,116

  3. The timescale of early land plant evolution

    Authors: Jennifer L. Morris, Mark N. Puttick, James Clark, Dianne Edwards, Paul Kenrick, Silvia Pressel, Charles H. Wellman, Ziheng Yang, Harald Schneider, Philip C. J. Donoghue - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018 cited by 958

  4. Estimating Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Substitution Rates Under Realistic Evolutionary Models

    Authors: Ziheng Yang, Rasmus Nielsen - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2000 cited by 1,805

  5. Bayes Empirical Bayes Inference of Amino Acid Sites Under Positive Selection

    Authors: Ziheng Yang - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2005 cited by 2,425

  6. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system

    Authors: Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Tara Mahendrarajah, James Clark, Holly C. Betts, Nina Dombrowski, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Richard A. Boyle, Stuart J. Daines, Xi Chen, Nick Lane, Ziheng Yang, Graham Shields, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Anja Spang, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton, Philip C. J. Donoghue - Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024 cited by 229

  7. Probability Distribution of Molecular Evolutionary Trees: A New Method of Phylogenetic Inference

    Authors: Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang - Journal of Molecular Evolution 1996 cited by 1,669

  8. Species Tree Inference with BPP Using Genomic Sequences and the Multispecies Coalescent

    Authors: Tomáš Flouri, Xiyun Jiao, Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2018 cited by 461

  9. Beginner's Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection

    Authors: Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Paschalia Kapli, Ziheng Yang - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2023 cited by 221

  10. Versatile self-assembled MXene-Au nanocomposites for SERS detection of bacteria, antibacterial and photothermal sterilization

    Authors: Zizhen Yu, Li Jiang, Rongyang Liu, Weidan Zhao, Ziheng Yang, Jinyao Zhang, Shangzhong Jin - Chemical Engineering Journal 2021 cited by 200

  11. A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data

    Authors: Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Asif U. Tamuri, Matteo Battini, Fabrícia F. Nascimento, Emily Carlisle, Robert J. Asher, Ziheng Yang, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Mario dos Reis - Nature 2021 cited by 234

  12. Codon-Substitution Models for Detecting Molecular Adaptation at Individual Sites Along Specific Lineages

    Authors: Ziheng Yang, Rasmus Nielsen - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2002 cited by 1,434

  13. Bayes Estimation of Species Divergence Times and Ancestral Population Sizes Using DNA Sequences From Multiple Loci

    Authors: Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang - Genetics 2003 cited by 1,195

  14. The BPP program for species tree estimation and species delimitation

    Authors: Ziheng Yang - Current Zoology 2015 cited by 790

  15. Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times Under a Molecular Clock Using Multiple Fossil Calibrations with Soft Bounds

    Authors: Ziheng Yang, Bruce Rannala - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2005 cited by 936

  16. Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice

    Authors: Ziheng Yang, Bruce Rannala - Nature Reviews Genetics 2012 cited by 791

  17. Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

    Authors: James F. Parham, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Christopher J. Bell, Tyler Calway, Jason J. Head, Patricia A. Holroyd, Jun Inoue, Randall B. Irmis, Walter G. Joyce, Daniel T. Ksepka, José Salvatore Leister Patané, Nathan D. Smith, James E. Tarver, Marcel van Tuinen, Ziheng Yang, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Jenny M. Greenwood, Christy A. Hipsley, Louis L. Jacobs, Peter J. Makovicky, Johannes Müller, Krister T. Smith, Jessica M. Theodor, Rachel C. M. Warnock, Michael J. Benton - Systematic Biology 2011 cited by 788

  18. Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

    Authors: Mario dos Reis, Yuttapong Thawornwattana, Konstantinos Angelis, Maximilian J. Telford, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Ziheng Yang - Current Biology 2015 cited by 499

  19. INDELible: A Flexible Simulator of Biological Sequence Evolution

    Authors: William A. Fletcher, Ziheng Yang - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2009 cited by 484

  20. Statistical methods for detecting molecular adaptation

    Authors: Ziheng Yang, Joseph P. Bielawski - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2000 cited by 1,860

  21. A space-time process model for the evolution of DNA sequences.

    Authors: Ziheng Yang - Genetics 1995 cited by 453

  22. A Bayesian Implementation of the Multispecies Coalescent Model with Introgression for Phylogenomic Analysis

    Authors: Tomáš Flouri, Xiyun Jiao, Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2019 cited by 188

  23. The Spectre of Too Many Species

    Authors: Adam D. Leaché, Tianqi Zhu, Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang - Systematic Biology 2018 cited by 291

  24. Inferring Speciation Times under an Episodic Molecular Clock

    Authors: Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang - Systematic Biology 2007 cited by 495