Chunxing Yan, Wenjie Diao and Yanqing Zou, The strict inequality between tunnel numbers of satellite knots and its high distance companion, to appear in Chinese Annals of Mathematics, Series B.
Suzhen Han, Wenyuan Yang and Yanqing Zou, Counting double cosets with application to generic 3-manifolds, to appear in Journal of Topology.
Wenjie Diao, Yanqing Zou Distance two Heegaard splittings, JSJ decompositions and ranks of 3-manifolds, Science China Mathematics, 2025.
Junhua Wang, Wenjie Diao, Yanqing Zou Small difference between tunnel numbers of cable knots and their companions, TAIA 2024
Yanqing Zou, An upper bound on distance degenerate handle additions, CAG 2023.
Ruifeng Qiu, Yanqing Zou, Some results on Heegaard splitting, Acta Mathematica Scientia, 2022
Junhua Wang, Yanqing Zou, On tunnel numbers of a cable knot and its companion, TAIA 2020.
Yanqing Zou, Ruifeng Qiu, Finiteness of mapping class groups: locally large strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings, GGD 2020.
Junhua Wang , Yanqing Zou, Unstabilized boundary stabilization of a fat Heegaard splitting, JKTR 2019.
Ruifeng Qiu, Yanqing Zou, 3-manifolds admitting locally large distance 2 Heegaard splittings, Comm. Anal. Geom 2019.
Jiming Ma, Ruifeng Qiu,Yanqing Zou, Nondegenerate Dehn fillings of genus two Heegaard splittings of knots’ complements, Sci.China.Math, 2018.
Yanqing Zou, The unstabilized canonical Heegaard splitting of a mapping torus, Alg.Geom.Topol. 2017.
Zhang, Faze; Zou, Yanqing; The subset of R3 not realizing metrics on the curve complex. J. Knot Theory Ramifications 26 (2017), no. 5, 1750024, 10 pp.
Guo, Qilong; Zou, Yanqing A note on the planar surface sum of Heegaard splittings. Topology Appl. 204 (2016), 8–14.
Zhang, Faze; Qiu, Ruifeng; Zou, Yanqing Infinitely many hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting distance-d and genus-g Heegaard splittings. Geom. Dedicata 181 (2016), 213–222.
Zhang, Faze; Qiu, Ruifeng; Zou, Yanqing The subset of R3 realizing metrics on the curve complex. Topology Appl. 193 (2015), 259–269.
Zou, YanQing; Liu, XiMin Bilateral self-amalgamation of a Heegaard splitting and Hempel distance. Sci. China Math. 58 (2015), no. 7, 1499–1510.
Qiu, Ruifeng; Zou, Yanqing; Guo, Qilong The Heegaard distances cover all nonnegative integers. Pacific J. Math. 275 (2015), no. 1, 231–255
Guo, Qilong; Qiu, Ruifeng; Zou, Yanqing A note on Heegaard genus of self-amalgamated 3-manifold. Chin. Ann. Math. Ser. B 36 (2015), no. 1, 51–56.
Zou, Yan-qing; Liu, Xi-min Bounded 3-manifolds with distance n Heegaard splittings. Commun. Math. Res. 30 (2014), no. 3, 193–200.
Zou, Yanqing; Guo, Qilong; Qiu, Ruifeng The ∂-stabilization of a Heegaard splitting with distance at least 6 is unstabilized. Chin. Ann. Math. Ser. B 35 (2014), no. 4, 557–562.
Guo, Qi-long; Qiu, Rui-feng; Zou, Yan-qing; Zhang, Fa-ze Annulus and disk complex is contractible and quasi-convex. Commun. Math. Res. 29 (2013), no. 4, 377–382.
Zou, Yanqing; Du, Kun; Guo, Qilong; Qiu, Ruifeng Unstabilized self-amalgamation of a Heegaard splitting. Topology Appl. 160 (2013), no. 2, 406–411.
Guo, Qilong; Zou, Yanqing A formula on Heegaard genus of self-amalgamated 3-manifolds. Topology Appl. 159 (2012), no. 5, 1300–1303.