Chengjie Mao

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Chengjie Mao is a scholar working on Neurology, Epidemiology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengjie Mao has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Neurology, 39 papers in Epidemiology and 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Chengjie Mao's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (79 papers), Restless Legs Syndrome Research (27 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (21 papers). Chengjie Mao is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (79 papers), Restless Legs Syndrome Research (27 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (21 papers). Chengjie Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Chengjie Mao's co-authors include Chun‐Feng Liu, Yaping Yang, Li‐Fang Hu, Kangping Xiong, Jing Chen, Weidong Hu, Fen Wang, Hui-fen Zheng, Yun Shen and Fen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Chengjie Mao

117 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Circadian disruption and sleep disorders in neurodegeneration

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chengjie Mao China	25	848	612	497	330	327	123	2.1k
Peethambaran Arun United States	26	696 0.8×	591 1.0×	1.0k 2.0×	416 1.3×	255 0.8×	69	2.9k
Rachel E. Bennett United States	23	631 0.7×	407 0.7×	1.2k 2.5×	975 3.0×	623 1.9×	40	3.0k
Nicole M. Ashpole United States	27	288 0.3×	197 0.3×	828 1.7×	533 1.6×	430 1.3×	53	2.4k
Han Soo Yoo South Korea	30	1.0k 1.2×	262 0.4×	229 0.5×	507 1.5×	247 0.8×	127	2.5k
Carlos Singer United States	32	2.8k 3.3×	324 0.5×	391 0.8×	400 1.2×	291 0.9×	134	3.8k
Anna E. King Australia	32	1.3k 1.5×	333 0.5×	1.0k 2.1×	781 2.4×	531 1.6×	125	3.2k
Aleš Bartoš Czechia	22	397 0.5×	102 0.2×	475 1.0×	612 1.9×	272 0.8×	98	1.7k
Giulia Maria Sancesario Italy	28	534 0.6×	146 0.2×	457 0.9×	718 2.2×	411 1.3×	77	2.2k
Dirk Woitalla Germany	32	2.3k 2.7×	467 0.8×	944 1.9×	556 1.7×	503 1.5×	112	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chengjie Mao

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Gao, Fan, Xiaoyu Cheng, Junyi Liu, et al.. (2025). Incidence, mortality, and burden of Parkinson’s disease in China: A time-trend analysis and comparison with the global burden based on Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Chinese Medical Journal. 138(23). 3176–3183. 1 indexed citations

Ding, Jingxuan, Chengjie Mao, J. L. Niedziela, et al.. (2025). Atomic dynamics in MCrX2 (M=Ag,Cu;X=S,Se) across magnetic and superionic transitions. Physical Review Materials. 9(3). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Erlei, et al.. (2025). Convergent reductions in interhemispheric functional, structural and callosal connectivity in Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 17. 1512130–1512130.

Wu, Jiajing, Sheng Zhuang, Fan Gao, et al.. (2025). Clinical Effect on Cortical Reactivity of Theta Burst Versus High‐Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease: A TMS‐EEG Study. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 31(9). e70605–e70605.

Liang, Xiaoyun, Ping Wang, Xiaoyu Cheng, et al.. (2024). Quantifying cerebral blood flow changes using arterial spin labeling: A comparative study of idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and Parkinson's disease. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 109. 158–164. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinghua, et al.. (2024). Mixture of Attention Variants for Modal Fusion in Multi-Modal Sentiment Analysis. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 8(2). 14–14. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Junyi, Jiarui Zhang, Xiaoyu Cheng, et al.. (2024). Microglial Melatonin Receptor 1 Degrades Pathological Alpha‐Synuclein Through Activating LC3‐Associated Phagocytosis In Vitro. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 30(10). e70088–e70088. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Chengjie, Hao Peng, Sheng Zhuang, et al.. (2024). Association Between Sleep Characteristics and Likelihood of Prodromal Parkinson’s Disease: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in the HABIT Study. Nature and Science of Sleep. Volume 16. 1355–1364. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Jiayu, Yiming Wang, Yuan Yuan, et al.. (2024). Changes in slow-wave sleep characteristics in Parkinson's disease patients with mild-moderate depression. Sleep Medicine. 121. 219–225. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Hao, Chengjie Mao, Jianan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Cohort Profile: Heart and Brain Investigation in Taicang (HABIT) study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 53(1). 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Junyi, Dongqin Chen, Manhua Liu, et al.. (2023). How sleep quality affects activities of daily living in Parkinson’s disease: the mediating role of disease severity and the moderating role of cognition. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 15. 1238588–1238588. 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Jiahui, Wen Li, Hong Jin, et al.. (2023). Associations between variants in levodopa metabolic pathway genes and levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience Letters. 801. 137140–137140. 3 indexed citations

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Mao, Chengjie, Zhaohui Lu, Rongfang Shi, et al.. (2023). Sarcopenia is associated with non-motor symptoms in Han Chinese patients with Parkinson's Disease: a cross-sectional study. BMC Geriatrics. 23(1). 494–494. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Kai, Xiaoyu Cheng, Hong Jin, et al.. (2022). Fiber selectivity of peripheral neuropathy in patients with Parkinson's disease. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 146(1). 75–81. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Lanxiang, Chang Liu, Yingqi Shao, et al.. (2022). Peripheral blood inflammatory cytokines are associated with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder in Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience Letters. 782. 136692–136692. 9 indexed citations

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Shen, Yun, Ying Chen, Sheng Zhuang, et al.. (2021). REM sleep without atonia and vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials: clinical brainstem dysfunction in early-stage Parkinson's disease and isolated REM sleep behavior disorder. Sleep Medicine. 89. 122–129. 11 indexed citations

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Liu, Jing, et al.. (2018). Clinical observation of botulinum toxin type A on foot dystonia in Parkinson's disease. Toxicon. 156. S69–S69.

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Chen, Jing, et al.. (2014). The change of cystatine C in Parkinson’s disease patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Chin J Neurol. 47(6). 365–369. 1 indexed citations

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Xiong, Kangping, Chengjie Mao, Yun Shen, et al.. (2014). Clinical manifestations of Parkinson disease and the onset of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. Sleep Medicine. 15(6). 647–653. 57 indexed citations

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Xiong, Kangping, et al.. (2012). Study on objective sleep disturbances in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Chin J Neurol. 45(6). 377–381. 1 indexed citations

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