Huifang Zheng, Lihui Xiu, Jian Yang. 2012. A new species of Barbine genus Sinocyclocheilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Zuojiang River drainage in Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes.
Yang Jian, Maurice Kottelat, Chen Xiaoyong, Yang Junxing. 2012. Yaoshania and Erromyzon kalotaenia, a new genus and a new species of balitorid loaches from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Zootaxa.
Yang Jian, Chen Xiaoyong, Yang Junxing. 2012. A re-examination of the molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Schizothorax (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) through enhanced sampling, with emphasis on the species in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, China. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2012.00661.x
Chen Ziming, Yang Jian, Yang Junxing. 2012. Description of a new species of the genus Yunnanilus Nichols, 1925 (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa, 3269: 57–64.
Yang Jian, Wu Tie Jun, Yang Jun Xing. 2012. A new cave-dwelling loach, Triplophysa macrocephala, (Teleostei: Cypriniformens: Balitoridae), from Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93: 169-175.
Yang Jian, Wu Tie Jun, Lan Jia Hu. 2011. A new blind loach, Triplophysa huanjiangensis (Teleostei: Balitoridae), from Guangxi, China. Zoological Research, 32 (5): 566-571.
Yang Jian, Chen Xiaoyong, Yang Junxing. 2010. Molecular and morphological analysis of endangered species Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 88 (2): 189–199.
Yang Jian, Chen Xiaoyong, Yang Junxing. 2009. The identity of Schizothorax griseus Pellegrin, 1931, with descriptions of three new species of schizothoracine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from China. Zootaxa 2006: 23–40
Yang Jian, Chen Xiaoyong, Yang Junxing. 2008. Threatened fishes of the world: Cyprinus micristius Regan 1906 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 83(2):221–222
Yang Jian, Chen Xiaoyong , Yang Junxing. 2008. A new species of the genus Mekongina Fowler, 1937(Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from South China. Journal of Fish Biology 73: 2005-2011
Yang Jian, Chen Xiaoyong, Yang Junxing. 2007. A new species of Metahomaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from China. Zootaxa, 1526: 63―68.
