Kai Wei

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Kai Wei is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Wei has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Biomaterials, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kai Wei's work include Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (25 papers), Silk-based biomaterials and applications (12 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (9 papers). Kai Wei is often cited by papers focused on Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (25 papers), Silk-based biomaterials and applications (12 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (9 papers). Kai Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and South Korea. Kai Wei's co-authors include Ick Soo Kim, Mayakrishnan Gopiraman, Zeeshan Khatri, Ke‐Qin Zhang, Shiou Liang Wee, Byoung‐Suhk Kim, Qi Gao, Tze Pin Ng, Ya Yang and Hui Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kai Wei

121 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Review of Structure Construction of Silk Fibroin Biomaterials from Single Structures to Multi-Level Structures

2017 384 citations Kai Wei, Ick Soo Kim et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Wei China	31	1.1k	697	497	369	336	127	3.3k
Seong‐Tshool Hong South Korea	30	650 0.6×	522 0.7×	936 1.9×	455 1.2×	317 0.9×	112	3.0k
Jing Wen China	44	796 0.7×	725 1.0×	1.7k 3.5×	232 0.6×	667 2.0×	184	5.2k
Ruy Carlos Ruver Beck Brazil	41	839 0.8×	744 1.1×	850 1.7×	267 0.7×	250 0.7×	161	5.0k
Sanjay Singh India	40	643 0.6×	406 0.6×	1.3k 2.7×	156 0.4×	314 0.9×	154	4.5k
Caihong Hu China	32	879 0.8×	369 0.5×	1.2k 2.5×	300 0.8×	534 1.6×	95	5.2k
Karim Amighi Belgium	41	822 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	850 1.7×	226 0.6×	351 1.0×	148	5.5k
Manisha Pandey Malaysia	40	1.3k 1.2×	937 1.3×	975 2.0×	119 0.3×	483 1.4×	131	4.5k
Tin Wui Wong Malaysia	37	942 0.9×	460 0.7×	580 1.2×	72 0.2×	225 0.7×	127	3.7k
Giuseppina Sandri Italy	48	2.2k 2.0×	830 1.2×	922 1.9×	106 0.3×	432 1.3×	202	6.6k
Eneko Larrañeta United Kingdom	53	1.5k 1.4×	2.2k 3.1×	1.0k 2.0×	148 0.4×	218 0.6×	155	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Wei

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai 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 Kai Wei. Kai 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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Chen, Xiaotong, et al.. (2025). Association between physical activity and cognitive function in post-menopausal women with high parity: the chain-mediating effects of nutritional status and depression. BMC Women s Health. 25(1). 27–27.

Jiang, Qing, Shaohua Gao, Lei Sun, et al.. (2025). Towards Single-Lens Controllable Depth-of-Field Imaging via Depth-Aware Point Spread Functions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 11. 305–320.

Wei, Kai, et al.. (2025). Association between marijuana and depression: Exploring the mediating role of environmental pollutants. Journal of Affective Disorders. 388. 119607–119607.

Wang, Ping, et al.. (2024). Pinus massoniana pollen polysaccharides alleviate LPS-induced myocardial injury through p110β-mediated inhibition of the PI3K/AKT/NFκB pathway. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 283(Pt 3). 137713–137713. 3 indexed citations

Hu, Yue, Yifan Feng, Siyu Chen, et al.. (2024). Dissociation-related behaviors in mice emerge from the inhibition of retrosplenial cortex parvalbumin interneurons. Cell Reports. 44(1). 115086–115086. 1 indexed citations

Wei, Kai, Hongyan Wang, Junjie Yang, Shaohui Lin, & Chunbo Li. (2024). Nutritional risk and adverse health outcomes in Chinese community-dwelling older adults: A study based on the Elderly Nutritional Indicators for Geriatric Malnutrition Assessment (ENIGMA). Nutrition. 126. 112489–112489. 2 indexed citations

Wei, Kai, Shaohui Lin, Junjie Yang, & Chunbo Li. (2024). Dietary Habits and Depression in Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Moderating Role of Physical Exercise. Nutrients. 16(5). 740–740. 2 indexed citations

Han, Cai-Yun, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous removal of Rhodamine B and Cu(II) by Fe0(1 1 0)-decorated ZSM-5: Cu(II) role, reactivity and mechanism. Chemical Engineering Science. 282. 119225–119225. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Jie, et al.. (2023). Identification of Crotonylation Metabolism Signature Predicting Overall Survival for Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. International Journal of Clinical Practice. 2023. 1–17. 4 indexed citations

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Sha, Zhou, et al.. (2022). Anti-tumor activity of polysaccharides extracted fromPinus massonianapollen in colorectal cancer-in vitroandin vivostudies. Food & Function. 13(11). 6350–6361. 15 indexed citations

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Zhou, Fan, et al.. (2022). Pine pollen polysaccharides promote cell proliferation and accelerate wound healing by activating the JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathway. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 210. 579–587. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tao�, Wei Chen, Lei Liu, et al.. (2018). Anticancer effects and underlying mechanism of Colchicine on human gastric cancer cell lines in vitro and in vivo. Bioscience Reports. 39(1). 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Siyuan, et al.. (2018). Cell-free plasma hypermethylated CASZ1, CDH13 and ING2 are promising biomarkers of esophageal cancer. Journal of Biomedical Research. 32(6). 424–424. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Qingsong, N. D. Qi, Yu Peng, et al.. (2017). Sub-micron silk fibroin film with high humidity sensibility through color changing. RSC Advances. 7(29). 17889–17897. 73 indexed citations

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Wei, Kai, Yihui Guan, Jingjie Ge, et al.. (2016). Analysis of glucose metabolism of 18F-FDG in major depression patients using PET imaging: Correlation of salivary cortisol and α-amylase. Neuroscience Letters. 629. 52–57. 14 indexed citations

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Wei, Kai, Zhiwei Yin, & Yuansheng Xie. (2016). Roles of the kidney in the formation, remodeling and repair of bone. Journal of Nephrology. 29(3). 349–357. 38 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiaqi, Ying Wei, Qingli Luo, et al.. (2016). Baicalin attenuates inflammation in mice with OVA-induced asthma by inhibiting NF-κB and suppressing CCR7/CCL19/CCL21. International Journal of Molecular Medicine. 38(5). 1541–1548. 56 indexed citations

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Wei, Kai, et al.. (2011). Cytotoxic effects and the mechanism of three types of magnetic nanoparticles on human hepatoma BEL-7402 cells. Nanoscale Research Letters. 6(1). 480–480. 80 indexed citations

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Wei, Kai, et al.. (2010). Research on the effect of immune enhancement of Taishan pine pollen polysaccharide in murine.. Zhongguo nongye Kexue. 43(17). 3645–3652. 7 indexed citations

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Wei, Kai. (2010). Surface Modification of Magnetic Fe_3O_4 Nanoparticles by Folic Acid. Wuji huaxue xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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