30. Kara Kedrick, Wenlong Yang, Thomas Gebhart, Yang Wang*, and Russell J. Funk*, Opening Knowledge Gaps Drives Scientific Progress, Arxiv: 2509.21899, 2025
29. Suman Kalyan Maity, YangWang, Nima Dehmamy, Victoria Medvec, Brian Uzzi, and Dashun Wang, Early career setback and future achievement in professional sports, Scientific Reports, 15, 33505, 2025
28. Moxin Li, Yang Wang*, Affiliation homogeneity and scientific impact: A comparative study across nations, Journal of Informetrics, 19, 101673, 2025
27. Wenlong Yang, Yang Wang*, Exploring Team Creativity: The Nexus between Freshness and Experience, Journal of Informetrics, 18, 101588, 2024
26. Meiling Li, Yang Wang*, Haifeng Du, Aruhan Bai*, Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists, Research Policy, 53, 105801, 2024. （FT50，ABS 4*）
25. Yang Zhang, Yang Wang*, Understanding Delays in Publishing Interdisciplinary Research, Information Processing & Management, 61, 103826, 2024.
24. Moxin Li, Yang Wang*, Influence of Political Tensions on Scientific Productivity, Citation Impact, and Knowledge Combinations, Scientometrics, 129, 2337–2370, 2024
23. Wenlong Yang, Yang Wang*, Higher-order structures of local collaboration networks are associated with individual scientific productivity, EPJ Data Science, 13, 15, 2024
22. Liying Guo, Yang Wang*, Meiling Li, Exploration, exploitation and funding success: Evidence from junior scientists supported by the Chinese Young Scientists Fund, Journal of Informetrics, 18, 101492, 2024
21. Yang Zhang, Yang Wang*, Haifeng Du, Shlomo Havlin, Delayed Impact of Interdisciplinary Research, Journal of Informetrics, 18, 101468, 2024.
20. 李美玲，王洋，阿儒涵，李铭禄，高风险高回报项目资助有助于科研创新吗？——基于科学大数据的文献耦合网络分析，科学学研究，2023. （基金委政策文摘2024第二期收录）
19. Meiling Li, Yang Zhang, and Yang Wang*, Regression discontinuity design and its applications to Science of Science: A survey, Journal of Data and Information Science, 8(2), 43-65, 2023.
18. Xiaochen He, Yang Wang, Haifeng Du, Marcus Feldman, A memetic algorithm for finding multiple subgraphs that optimally cover an input network, PLoS ONE, 18(1), e0280506, 2023.
17. Yue Wang, Ning Li, Bin Zhang, Qian Huang*, Jian Wu*, Yang Wang*, The effect of structural holes on producing novel and disruptive research in physics, Scientometrics, 128, 1801-1823, 2023.
16. Yi Liu, Senbin Yu, Chaoyang Zhang, Peiran Zhang, Yang Wang, Liang Gao, Critical Percolation on Temporal High-Speed Railway Networks, Mathematics, 10, 24, 2022.
15. Jiarui Fan, Haifeng Du*, Yang Wang*, Xiaochen He, The Effect of Local and Global Interventions on Epidemic Spreading, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 23, 12627, 2021.
14. Yang Wang*, and Xinyue Wang, Anatomy of Complex System Research, Complexity, 5208356, 2020.
13. Yian Yin, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang, Quantifying dynamics of failure across science, startups, and security, Nature, 2019.
12. Yang Wang, Benjamin F. Jones, and Dashun Wang, Early-career setback and future career impact, Nature Communications, 10, 4331, 2019. (One of the 50 most read Nature Communications articles from across the life and biological sciences in 2019)
11. Lu Liu, Yang Wang, Chaoming Song, Roberta Sinatra, C. Lee Giles, and Dashun Wang, Hot streaks in artistic, cultural, and scientific careers, Nature, 559, 396 - 399, 2018.
10. Yang Wang, Dong Zhou, Armin Bunde, and Shlomo Havlin, Testing reanalysis datasets in Antarctica: Trends, persistence properties and trend significance, Journal of Geophysical Research, 121: 12839, 2016.
9. Yang Wang*, Avi Gozolchiani, Yosef Ashkenazy, and Shlomo Havlin, El-Nino related waves and climate networks, New Journal of Physics, 18: 033021, 2016. (Highlight of 2016)
8. Qingyi Feng, Ruggero Vasile, Marc Segond, Avi Gozolchiani, Yang Wang, Markus Abel, Shilomo Havlin, Armin Bunde, and Henk A. Dijkstra, ClimateLearn: A machine-learning approach for climate prediction using network measures, Journal Geoscientific Model Development, 2016.
7. Julei Fu, Ying Fan, Yang Wang, and Shouyang Wang, Network analysis of terrorist activities, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 27: 1079, 2014.
6. Yang Wang*, Avi Gozolchiani, Yosef Ashkenazy, Oded Guez, Yehiel Berezin, and Shlomo Havlin, Dominant imprint of Rossby waves in the climate network, Physical Review Letters 111: 138501, 2013. (Highlighted by APS Synopsis)
5. Oded Guez, Avi Gozolchiani, Yehiel Berezin, Yang Wang, and Shlomo Havlin, Global climate network evolves with North Atlantic Oscillation phases: Coupling to Southern Pacific Ocean, Eurphys. Lett. 103: 68006, 2013.
4. Yang Wang, An Zeng, Zengru Di, Ying Fan, Spectral coarse graining for random walks in bipartite networks, Chaos, 23: 013104, 2013.
3. Yang Wang, Zengru Di, Ying Fan, Identifying and Characterizing Nodes Important to Community Structure Using the Spectrum of the Graph, PLoS ONE, 6(11): e27418, 2011.
2. Yang Wang, An Zeng, Zengru Di, Ying Fan, Enhancing synchronization in growing networks, Europhys. Lett. 96, 58007, 2011.
1. Yang Wang, Yanqing Hu, Zengru Di, Ying Fan, The effect of hub nodes on the community structure in scale-free networks, Physica A, 390, 4027-4033, 2011.