Denghui Wei

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 935 citations indexed

About

Denghui Wei is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Biology and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Denghui Wei has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 935 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Pollution, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Denghui Wei's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (16 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (8 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (7 papers). Denghui Wei is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (16 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (8 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (7 papers). Denghui Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, Ireland and South Korea. Denghui Wei's co-authors include Tiebang Kang, Ruhua Zhang, Yuanzhong Wu, Ying Gao, Song Gao, Liyan Huang, Run Gong, Wen Wang, Xiaojing Zhang and Yongpeng Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Denghui Wei

45 papers receiving 926 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

RAB31 marks and controls an ESCRT-independent exosome pathway

2020 350 citations Denghui Wei, Ying Gao et al. Cell Research profile →
Appraisal of potential toxic elements pollution, sources apportionment, and health risks in groundwater from a coastal area of SE China

2025 20 citations Denghui Wei, Shiming Yang et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Denghui Wei China	16	527	243	240	115	93	48	935
Hui Cai China	23	1.2k 2.2×	174 0.7×	605 2.5×	69 0.6×	42 0.5×	46	1.8k
Qingyuan Cheng China	12	184 0.3×	114 0.5×	73 0.3×	131 1.1×	37 0.4×	33	804
Heling Wang China	14	175 0.3×	122 0.5×	89 0.4×	53 0.5×	52 0.6×	48	719
Wang Li China	19	166 0.3×	416 1.7×	49 0.2×	112 1.0×	82 0.9×	98	1.0k
Adam J. Williamson Belgium	16	1.0k 1.9×	53 0.2×	76 0.3×	28 0.2×	77 0.8×	31	1.4k
Chunming Li China	12	232 0.4×	165 0.7×	127 0.5×	57 0.5×	15 0.2×	33	619
Juan Wang China	19	352 0.7×	44 0.2×	266 1.1×	72 0.6×	42 0.5×	90	933
Yuting Hu China	20	488 0.9×	263 1.1×	78 0.3×	61 0.5×	19 0.2×	62	1.3k
M. Colombo Italy	22	489 0.9×	288 1.2×	109 0.5×	19 0.2×	27 0.3×	58	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Denghui Wei

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Denghui Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Denghui Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Denghui 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 Denghui Wei. Denghui Wei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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He, Xiaobo, Qiuxia Wang, Denghui Wei, et al.. (2025). Lysosomal EGFR acts as a Rheb-GEF independent of its kinase activity to activate mTORC1. Cell Research. 35(7). 497–509. 3 indexed citations

Yang, Shiming, et al.. (2025). Quantitative source apportionment and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements from the surface water and groundwater in a typical coal-mining area. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 140. 104008–104008. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Xiaodan, Yi Ouyang, Xueping Zheng, et al.. (2025). RAB33A promotes metastasis via RhoC accumulation through non-canonical autophagy in cervical cancer. Cell Death and Disease. 16(1). 130–130.

Wei, Denghui, Shiming Yang, Juan Antonio Torres-Martínez, et al.. (2025). Appraisal of potential toxic elements pollution, sources apportionment, and health risks in groundwater from a coastal area of SE China. Journal of Environmental Management. 377. 124691–124691. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Wei, Denghui, Si Chen, Shiming Yang, et al.. (2025). Using positive matrix factorization, sensitivity analysis, and machine learning models to identify hydrochemical processes and predict groundwater quality in a typical metropolitan city. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 39(12). 5977–5999.

Zhang, Yunhui, Denghui Wei, Haidong Li, et al.. (2025). Spatial source-oriented analysis and probabilistic health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in soils integrating the Geo-detector, APCS-MLR, and Monte-Carlo models. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(5). 117983–117983. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yunhui, et al.. (2024). Natural background level, source apportionment and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in multi-layer aquifers of arid area in Northwest China. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 479. 135663–135663. 22 indexed citations

Zhang, Yunhui, Denghui Wei, Xun Huang, et al.. (2024). Natural background levels, source apportionment and health risks of potentially toxic elements in groundwater of highly urbanized area. The Science of The Total Environment. 935. 173276–173276. 20 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaojing, Wenxiao Wang, Denghui Wei, et al.. (2024). Cultivation of the coupling bacteria for simultaneous autotrophic nitrogen and sulfur removal and its remediation effect on the river sediment. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(1). 111923–111923. 5 indexed citations

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Luo, Li, Denghui Wei, Yihui Pan, et al.. (2023). MFN2 suppresses clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by modulating mitochondria‐dependent dephosphorylation of EGFR. Cancer Communications. 43(7). 808–833. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaojing, Denghui Wei, Zhao Chen, et al.. (2023). Tolerance of anaerobic digestion sludge to heavy metals: COD removal, biogas production, and microbial variation. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 55. 104157–104157. 9 indexed citations

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Long, Zhi‐Qing, Zi‐Qi Zheng, Lulu Zhang, et al.. (2023). m6A-enriched lncRNA LINC00839 promotes tumor progression by enhancing TAF15-mediated transcription of amine oxidase AOC1 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(7). 104873–104873. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Na, Xiaojing Zhang, Denghui Wei, et al.. (2023). Effect of sulfide on the nitrogen removal performance and microbial community of low-substrate Anammox process. Environmental Technology. 45(12). 2427–2437. 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiaodan, Bei-Bei Xiao, Yi Ouyang, et al.. (2023). Activating STING/TBK1 suppresses tumor growth via degrading HPV16/18 E7 oncoproteins in cervical cancer. Cell Death and Differentiation. 31(1). 78–89. 25 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hongli, Xiaojing Zhang, Denghui Wei, et al.. (2022). Establishment of anammox coupled with sulfide-depending autotrophic denitrification process and its efficient pollutants removal performance. Chemosphere. 313. 137468–137468. 11 indexed citations

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Lv, Jia‐Wei, Chen‐Fei Wu, Junyan Li, et al.. (2022). Improving on-treatment risk stratification of cancer patients with refined response classification and integration of circulating tumor DNA kinetics. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 268–268. 6 indexed citations

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Han, Fang, et al.. (2021). Effects of Different Potato Rotation Patterns on Fungal Community Structure in Rhizosphere Soil. WIT transactions on ecology and the environment. 30(7). 1412. 1 indexed citations

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Wei, Denghui, Ying Gao, Liyan Huang, et al.. (2020). RAB31 marks and controls an ESCRT-independent exosome pathway. Cell Research. 31(2). 157–177. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Xiaojing, Zhao Chen, Yongpeng Ma, et al.. (2019). Response of partial nitrification sludge to the single and combined stress of CuO nanoparticles and sulfamethoxazole antibiotic on microbial activity, community and resistance genes. The Science of The Total Environment. 712. 135759–135759. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaomei, et al.. (2017). Baculovirus infection induces disruption of the nuclear lamina. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7823–7823. 21 indexed citations

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