Guofang Wei

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Guofang Wei is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Geometry and Topology and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Guofang Wei has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Applied Mathematics, 43 papers in Geometry and Topology and 24 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Guofang Wei's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (51 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (36 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (24 papers). Guofang Wei is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (51 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (36 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (24 papers). Guofang Wei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Guofang Wei's co-authors include William Wylie, Peter Petersen, Xianzhe Dai, Jeffrey S. Case, Christina Sormani, Xiaodong Wang, Rugang Ye, Zhenlei Zhang, Jiayin Pan and Lili Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Inventiones mathematicae and Advances in Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Guofang Wei

54 papers receiving 990 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.

Comparison geometry for the Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor

2009 318 citations Guofang Wei, William Wylie Journal of Differential Geometry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guofang Wei United States	15	1.1k	797	488	153	104	55	1.1k
William Wylie United States	12	803 0.8×	636 0.8×	520 1.1×	49 0.3×	35 0.3×	24	818
Xiuxiong Chen United States	18	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	326 0.7×	150 1.0×	21 0.2×	52	1.3k
F. Tricerri Italy	13	749 0.7×	635 0.8×	510 1.0×	155 1.0×	23 0.2×	25	847
Rugang Ye United States	10	496 0.5×	388 0.5×	107 0.2×	134 0.9×	101 1.0×	18	589
Jeff Viaclovsky United States	12	583 0.6×	377 0.5×	155 0.3×	87 0.6×	137 1.3×	30	619
Andrea Mondino United Kingdom	14	594 0.6×	327 0.4×	189 0.4×	94 0.6×	61 0.6×	50	643
Robert C. Reilly United States	9	628 0.6×	359 0.5×	184 0.4×	110 0.7×	121 1.2×	12	680
Kazuo Akutagawa Japan	13	523 0.5×	414 0.5×	195 0.4×	64 0.4×	48 0.5×	41	550
Nataša Šešum United States	15	658 0.6×	563 0.7×	292 0.6×	66 0.4×	49 0.5×	39	676
Oldřich Kowalski Czechia	19	1.2k 1.1×	983 1.2×	978 2.0×	201 1.3×	23 0.2×	106	1.4k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wei, Guofang, et al.. (2025). Log-concavity and fundamental gaps on surfaces of positive curvature. Communications in Analysis and Geometry. 33(1). 239–260. 1 indexed citations

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Dai, Xianzhe, Shouhei Honda, Jiayin Pan, & Guofang Wei. (2023). Singular Weyl’s law with Ricci curvature bounded below. 10(34). 1212–1253. 4 indexed citations

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Pan, Jiayin & Guofang Wei. (2022). Semi-local simple connectedness of non-collapsing Ricci limit spaces. Journal of the European Mathematical Society. 24(12). 4027–4062. 6 indexed citations

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Clutterbuck, Julie, et al.. (2021). The Vanishing of the Fundamental Gap of Convex Domains in H<sup>n</sup>. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 6 indexed citations

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Stancu, Alina, et al.. (2021). The Fundamental Gap of Horoconvex Domains in ℍn. International Mathematics Research Notices. 2022(20). 16035–16045. 3 indexed citations

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Wei, Guofang, et al.. (2021). Improved Relative Volume Comparison for Integral Ricci Curvature and Applications to Volume Entropy. Journal of Geometric Analysis. 32(1). 3 indexed citations

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Wei, Guofang, et al.. (2020). Fundamental Gap of Convex Domains in the Spheres. American Journal of Mathematics. 142(4). 1161–1191. 9 indexed citations

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Wei, Guofang, et al.. (2019). Reilly-type inequalities for p-Laplacian on submanifolds in space forms. Nonlinear Analysis. 184. 210–217. 13 indexed citations

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Dai, Xianzhe, Guofang Wei, & Zhenlei Zhang. (2018). Neumann isoperimetric constant estimate for convex domains. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 146(8). 3509–3514. 5 indexed citations

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Dai, Xianzhe, Guofang Wei, & Zhenlei Zhang. (2017). Local Sobolev constant estimate for integral Ricci curvature bounds. Advances in Mathematics. 325. 1–33. 25 indexed citations

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Wei, Guofang, et al.. (2014). On volumes of complex hyperbolic orbifolds. The Michigan Mathematical Journal. 63(2). 7 indexed citations

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Case, Jeffrey S., et al.. (2010). Rigidity of quasi-Einstein metrics. Differential Geometry and its Applications. 29(1). 93–100. 130 indexed citations

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Sormani, Christina & Guofang Wei. (2009). The cut-off covering spectrum. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 362(5). 2339–2391. 2 indexed citations

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Wei, Guofang & William Wylie. (2007). Comparison Geometry for the Smooth Metric Measure Spaces. 21 indexed citations

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Dai, Xianzhe, Xiaodong Wang, & Guofang Wei. (2007). On the variational stability of Kähler-Einstein metrics. Communications in Analysis and Geometry. 15(4). 669–693. 10 indexed citations

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Ennis, John M. & Guofang Wei. (2006). Describing the universal cover of a compact limit. Differential Geometry and its Applications. 24(5). 554–562. 6 indexed citations

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Wei, Guofang, et al.. (2004). . International Mathematics Research Notices. 2004(57). 3079–3079. 11 indexed citations

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Sormani, Christina & Guofang Wei. (2004). The covering spectrum of a compact length space. Journal of Differential Geometry. 67(1). 13 indexed citations

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Petersen, Peter & Guofang Wei. (2000). Analysis and geometry on manifolds with integral Ricci curvature bounds. II. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 353(2). 457–478. 50 indexed citations

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Peterson, P A, et al.. (1997). Comparison Geometry with Integral Curvature Bounds. Geometric and Functional Analysis. 7(6). 1011–1030. 12 indexed citations

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