参与发表SCI论文16篇。以第一或并列第一身份发表论文7篇（中科院大类分区一区4篇，二区3篇；top期刊5篇）。Google scholar统计被引超900次，h-index:12, i10-index: 13.
1. Yan, W., Hall, A.B. and Jiang, X., 2022. Bacteroidales species in the human gut are a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes regulated by invertible promoters. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 8(1), pp.1-9.
2. Yan, W., Zhou, Q., Yuan, Z., Fu, L., Wen, C., Yang, N. and Sun, C., 2021. Impact of the gut microecology on Campylobacter presence revealed by comparisons of the gut microbiota from chickens raised on litter or in individual cages. BMC Microbiology, 21(1), pp.1-15.
3. Yuan, Z. #, Yan, W. #, Wen, C., Zheng, J., Yang, N. and Sun, C., 2020. Enterotype identification and its influence on regulating the duodenum metabolism in chickens. Poultry Science, 99(3), pp.1515-1527. (contributed equally).
4. Wen, C. #, Yan, W. #, Sun, C.#, Ji, C., Zhou, Q., Zhang, D., Zheng, J. and Yang, N., 2019. The gut microbiota is largely independent of host genetics in regulating fat deposition in chickens. The ISME Journal, 13(6), pp.1422-1436. (contributed equally; to 2023.12, citation>130).
5. Yan, W. #, Sun, C. #, Zheng, J., Wen, C., Ji, C., Zhang, D., Chen, Y., Hou, Z. and Yang, N., 2019. Efficacy of fecal sampling as a gut proxy in the study of chicken gut microbiota. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, p.2126. (contributed equally; to 2023.12, citation>80)
6. Yan, W., Sun, C., Wen, C., Ji, C., Zhang, D. and Yang, N., 2019. Relationships between feeding behaviors and performance traits in slow-growing yellow broilers. Poultry Science, 98(2), pp.548-555.
7. Yan, W., Sun, C., Yuan, J. and Yang, N., 2017. Gut metagenomic analysis reveals prominent roles of Lactobacillus and cecal microbiota in chicken feed efficiency. Scientific Reports, 7(1), pp.1-11. (to 2023.12, citation>230).
8. Wen, C., Yan, W., Mai, C., Duan, Z., Zheng, J., Sun, C. and Yang, N., 2021. Joint contributions of the gut microbiota and host genetics to feed efficiency in chickens. Microbiome, 9(1), pp.1-23.
9. Yang, Y., Yan, W., Hall, A.B. and Jiang, X., 2021. Characterizing transcriptional regulatory sequences in coronaviruses and their role in recombination. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(4), pp.1241-1248.
10. Wen, C., Yan, W., Zheng, J., Ji, C., Zhang, D., Sun, C. and Yang, N., 2018. Feed efficiency measures and their relationships with production and meat quality traits in slower growing broilers. Poultry science, 97(7), pp.2356-2364.
11. Yang, Y., Dufault-Thompson, K., Yan, W., Cai, T., Xie, L. and Jiang, X., 2024. Large-scale genomic survey with deep learning-based method reveals strain-level phage specificity determinants. GigaScience, 13, p.giae017.
12. Huang, Q., Wen, C., Yan, W., Sun, C., Gu, S., Zheng, J., & Yang, N. 2022. Comparative analysis of the characteristics of digestive organs in broiler chickens with different feed efficiencies. Poultry Science, 101(12), 102184.
13. Zhou, Q., Lan, F., Li, X., Yan, W., Sun, C., Li, J., Yang, N. and Wen, C., 2021. The Spatial and Temporal Characterization of Gut Microbiota in Broilers. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8.
14. Wang, S., Shibata, Y., Tanizaki, Y., Zhang, H., Yan, W., Fu, L., & Shi, Y. B. (2022). Comparative analysis of transcriptome profiles reveals distinct and organ-dependent genomic and nongenomic actions of thyroid hormone in Xenopus tropicalis tadpoles. Thyroid, (ja).
15. Zhang, X., Wang, R., Xie, X., Hu, Y., Wang, J., Sun, Q., Feng, X., Lin, W., Tong, S., Yan, W. et al. (2022). Mining bacterial NGS data vastly expands the complete genomes of temperate phages. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 4(3), lqac057.
16. Yi, G., Yuan, J., Bi, H., Yan, W., Yang, N. and Qu, L., 2015. In-depth duodenal transcriptome survey in chickens with divergent feed efficiency using RNA-Seq. PloS one, 10(9), p.e0136765.