Chao Wei

770 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 579 citations indexed

About

Chao Wei is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chao Wei has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 579 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Surgery, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Chao Wei's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers), Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (5 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (4 papers). Chao Wei is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers), Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (5 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (4 papers). Chao Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Chao Wei's co-authors include Jiing Feng Lirng, Chien Lin Liu, Cheng Yen Chang, Feng Chang, Michael Mu‐Huo Teng, Chao Bao Luo, Xuqi Li, Guanglin Qiu, Lin Fan and Xiangming Che and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and FEBS Letters.

In The Last Decade

Chao Wei

22 papers receiving 566 citations

Hit Papers

Brain endothelial GSDMD activation mediates inflammatory ... 2024 2026 2025 2024 40 80 120
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Brain endothelial GSDMD activation mediates inflammatory BBB breakdown
    2024 125 citations Chao Wei, Wei Jiang et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chao Wei China 11 217 184 182 116 70 23 579
Miao Chen China 12 123 0.6× 78 0.4× 63 0.3× 43 0.4× 35 0.5× 30 402
Ashraf A. Sabe United States 16 150 0.7× 201 1.1× 87 0.5× 174 1.5× 20 0.3× 53 640
Enhui Ren China 7 186 0.9× 42 0.2× 123 0.7× 35 0.3× 101 1.4× 14 423
Hongyang Xie China 10 270 1.2× 67 0.4× 88 0.5× 53 0.5× 60 0.9× 25 540
Jiliang Tan China 8 286 1.3× 62 0.3× 100 0.5× 113 1.0× 96 1.4× 14 487
Pablo Aránguiz Chile 12 260 1.2× 68 0.4× 44 0.2× 139 1.2× 63 0.9× 19 523
Xiong Jia China 13 263 1.2× 70 0.4× 25 0.1× 127 1.1× 82 1.2× 26 577
Guofeng Zhang China 13 201 0.9× 147 0.8× 23 0.1× 84 0.7× 31 0.4× 29 534

Countries citing papers authored by Chao Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chao Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Chao Wei. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Chao Wei. The network helps show where Chao Wei may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chao Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chao Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chao Wei based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chao Wei. Chao Wei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wei, Chao, Wei Jiang, Minmin Luo, & Feng Shao. (2025). BBB breakdown caused by plasma membrane pore formation. Trends in Cell Biology. 35(11). 933–943. 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Chao, Wei Jiang, Ruiyu Wang, et al.. (2024). Brain endothelial GSDMD activation mediates inflammatory BBB breakdown. Nature. 629(8013). 893–900. 125 indexed citations breakdown →
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Song, Xiaogang, et al.. (2023). Effects of resveratrol on tolerance to ischemia/reperfusion injury in aged male mice: Role of autophagy and apoptosis. Food Science & Nutrition. 11(10). 5938–5947. 6 indexed citations
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Zhu, Mengke, Chao Wei, Haijiang Wang, et al.. (2023). SIRT1 mediated gastric cancer progression under glucose deprivation through the FoxO1-Rab7-autophagy axis. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 14 indexed citations
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Wei, Chao, et al.. (2023). Lentinan alleviates sciatic nerve injury by promoting autophagy to remove myelin fragments. Phytotherapy Research. 37(9). 4042–4058. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ying, Chao Wei, Shuai Xia, et al.. (2022). Exosomal miR-625-3p secreted by cancer-associated fibroblasts in colorectal cancer promotes EMT and chemotherapeutic resistance by blocking the CELF2/WWOX pathway. Pharmacological Research. 186. 106534–106534. 38 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yongming, Chao Wei, Yi Guo, et al.. (2021). The Key Regulator of Necroptosis, RIP1 Kinase, Contributes to the Formation of Astrogliosis and Glial Scar in Ischemic Stroke. Translational Stroke Research. 12(6). 991–1017. 38 indexed citations
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Zheng, Ying, Shu Chen, Yongguo Li, et al.. (2021). Prevalence and Severity of HBV-Associated Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Due to Irregular Medication of Nucleos(t)ide Analogs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 205–209. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenming, et al.. (2020). Is there cervical spine muscle weakness in patients with Hirayama disease? A morphological study about cross-sectional areas of muscles on MRI. European Spine Journal. 29(5). 1022–1028. 6 indexed citations
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He, Yong‐Ming, Xiangjun Yang, Yonggang Li, et al.. (2019). Coronary artery anatomy in peri-crux cordis area on computed coronary tomography angiography. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 11(3). 848–856. 2 indexed citations
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Lin, James D., Chao Wei, Jamal N. Shillingford, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of a more ventral starting point for thoracic pedicle screws: higher maximal insertional arc and more medial and safer screw angulation. Journal of Neurosurgery Spine. 30(3). 337–343. 8 indexed citations
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Lin, James D., Lee A. Tan, Chao Wei, et al.. (2018). The posterior superior iliac spine and sacral laminar slope: key anatomical landmarks for freehand S2-alar-iliac screw placement. Journal of Neurosurgery Spine. 29(4). 429–434. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Juan, et al.. (2017). Neuroprotective and neurorescue effects of eggplant extract in 6-OHDAinduced Parkinson's rat model. Biomedical Research-tokyo. 28(16). 7220–7229. 2 indexed citations
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Qiu, Guanglin, Xuqi Li, Chao Wei, et al.. (2016). The Prognostic Role of SIRT1-Autophagy Axis in Gastric Cancer. Disease Markers. 2016. 1–11. 28 indexed citations
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McCampbell, Adrienne S., Ruhee Dere, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2016). Loss of p27 Associated with Risk for Endometrial Carcinoma Arising in the Setting of Obesity. Current Molecular Medicine. 16(3). 252–265. 5 indexed citations
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Qiu, Guanglin, Xuqi Li, Xiangming Che, et al.. (2015). SIRT1 is a regulator of autophagy: Implications in gastric cancer progression and treatment. FEBS Letters. 589(16). 2034–2042. 69 indexed citations
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Wei, Chao, et al.. (2013). Activation of Autophagy in Ischemic Postconditioning Contributes to Cardioprotective Effects Against Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rat Hearts. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 61(5). 416–422. 44 indexed citations
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Chen, Xuanwei, Jianhua Lin, Lei Chen, et al.. (2011). [One-stage posterior debridement, bone graft, and internal fixation for thoracic tuberculosis].. PubMed. 25(10). 1172–5. 1 indexed citations

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