Mai Shi

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Mai Shi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mai Shi has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 17 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Mai Shi's work include Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (12 papers), Diabetes Treatment and Management (12 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (8 papers). Mai Shi is often cited by papers focused on Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (12 papers), Diabetes Treatment and Management (12 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (8 papers). Mai Shi collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Mai Shi's co-authors include Stephen Kwok‐Wing Tsui, Shitao Rao, Mary Miu Yee Waye, Cheuk-Wa Wong, Weicheng Liang, Weiming Fu, Jinfang Zhang, Qi Zhang, Puping Liang and Ye Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Hepatology.

In The Last Decade

Mai Shi

55 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Translation of the circular RNA circβ-catenin promotes liver cancer cell growth through activation of the Wnt pathway

2019 369 citations Mai Shi, Shitao Rao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mai Shi China	16	665	344	230	137	130	61	1.1k
Müjdat Zeybel Türkiye	16	534 0.8×	117 0.3×	190 0.8×	490 3.6×	128 1.0×	33	1.2k
Fabian B. Fahlbusch Germany	20	299 0.4×	136 0.4×	95 0.4×	81 0.6×	71 0.5×	77	1.0k
Gijs W.D. Landman Netherlands	18	516 0.8×	136 0.4×	510 2.2×	239 1.7×	224 1.7×	68	1.4k
Kalyane Bach‐Ngohou France	18	209 0.3×	125 0.4×	117 0.5×	77 0.6×	205 1.6×	49	946
Annekatrin Lukanova Sweden	18	322 0.5×	298 0.9×	189 0.8×	283 2.1×	82 0.6×	21	1.3k
Giuditta Benincasa Italy	24	651 1.0×	217 0.6×	159 0.7×	86 0.6×	224 1.7×	59	1.3k
Jun Sasaki Japan	19	284 0.4×	96 0.3×	269 1.2×	122 0.9×	395 3.0×	67	1.1k
Chengping Hu China	18	381 0.6×	192 0.6×	113 0.5×	152 1.1×	162 1.2×	50	1.2k
Sergi Sayols-Baixeras Spain	16	655 1.0×	117 0.3×	98 0.4×	96 0.7×	134 1.0×	37	1.0k
Yanmei Huang China	16	167 0.3×	66 0.2×	165 0.7×	113 0.8×	149 1.1×	45	994

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mai Shi

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hua, Rong, Mai Shi, Elaine Chow, Aimin Yang, & Yin Ting Cheung. (2025). Genetic evidence for the effects of glucokinase activation on frailty‐related outcomes: A Mendelian randomisation study. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 27(6). 3072–3083.

Tam, Claudia H.T., Aimin Yang, Mai Shi, et al.. (2025). Association of maternal overweight and gestational diabetes mellitus with offspring adiposity trajectory: from birth to early adolescence. Diabetologia. 68(10). 2194–2204.

Yu, Gechang, Xinran Wu, Zhaowen Liu, et al.. (2025). Genetic influence and neural pathways underlying the dose-response relationships between wearable-measured physical activity and mental health in adolescence. Psychiatry Research. 349. 116503–116503.

Zhang, Xinge, Hongjiang Wu, Eric S. H. Lau, et al.. (2024). Health impacts of new‐onset diabetes in women post‐gestational diabetes mellitus: Insights from Hong Kong's territory‐wide data. Journal of Diabetes Investigation. 15(6). 772–781. 3 indexed citations

Chan, Juliana C.N., Elaine Chow, Alice P.S. Kong, et al.. (2024). Multifaceted nature of young-onset diabetes - can genomic medicine improve the precision of diagnosis and management?. 8(1). 13–34. 8 indexed citations

Yang, Aimin, Mai Shi, Hongjiang Wu, et al.. (2024). Clinical outcomes following discontinuation of metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced chronic kidney disease in Hong Kong: a territory-wide, retrospective cohort and target trial emulation study. EClinicalMedicine. 71. 102568–102568. 12 indexed citations

Tam, Claudia H.T., Hongbo Liu, Cadmon K.P. Lim, et al.. (2023). DNA methylation markers for kidney function and progression of diabetic kidney disease. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2543–2543. 34 indexed citations

Wu, Hongjiang, Aimin Yang, Eric S. H. Lau, et al.. (2023). Age- and sex-specific hospital bed-day rates in people with and without type 2 diabetes: A territory-wide population-based cohort study of 1.5 million people in Hong Kong. PLoS Medicine. 20(8). e1004261–e1004261. 11 indexed citations

Fan, Baoqi, Emily Poon, Eric S. H. Lau, et al.. (2023). Differential Associations of GAD Antibodies (GADA) and C-Peptide With Insulin Initiation, Glycemic Responses, and Severe Hypoglycemia in Patients Diagnosed With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 46(6). 1282–1291. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xinge, Hongjiang Wu, Baoqi Fan, et al.. (2022). Lifetime risk of developing diabetes in Chinese people with normoglycemia or prediabetes: A modeling study. PLoS Medicine. 19(7). e1004045–e1004045. 13 indexed citations

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Huang, Chuiguo, Mai Shi, Hongjiang Wu, et al.. (2022). Human Serum Metabolites as Potential Mediators from Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity to COVID-19 Severity and Susceptibility: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization Study. Metabolites. 12(7). 598–598. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, Aimin, Mai Shi, Eric S. H. Lau, et al.. (2022). Clinical outcomes following discontinuation of renin-angiotensin-system inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced chronic kidney disease: a prospective cohort study. EClinicalMedicine. 55. 101751–101751. 29 indexed citations

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Fan, Baoqi, Hongjiang Wu, Mai Shi, et al.. (2022). Associations of the HOMA2‐%B and HOMA2‐IR with progression to diabetes and glycaemic deterioration in young and middle‐aged Chinese. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 38(5). 14 indexed citations

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Yang, Aimin, Hongjiang Wu, Eric S. H. Lau, et al.. (2022). Effects of RAS inhibitors on all-site cancers and mortality in the Hong Kong diabetes surveillance database (2002-2019). EBioMedicine. 83. 104219–104219. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xinge, Hongjiang Wu, Baoqi Fan, et al.. (2022). The role of age on the risk relationship between prediabetes and major morbidities and mortality: analysis of the Hong Kong diabetes surveillance database of 2 million Chinese adults. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 30. 100599–100599. 16 indexed citations

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Yang, Aimin, Mai Shi, Hongjiang Wu, et al.. (2021). Long-term metformin use and risk of pneumonia and related death in type 2 diabetes: a registry-based cohort study. Diabetologia. 64(8). 1760–1765. 18 indexed citations

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Rao, Shitao, Mai Shi, Xinyu Han, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide copy number variation-, validation- and screening study implicates a new copy number polymorphism associated with suicide attempts in major depressive disorder. Gene. 755. 144901–144901. 8 indexed citations

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Shi, Mai, et al.. (2016). [Relationship between Life Habits and Constitution Types of Chinese Medicine in the Senile Living at Home in Beijing Downtown].. PubMed. 36(5). 564–9. 3 indexed citations

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Lu, Jia, Yanbo Zhu, Xiaomei Zhang, et al.. (2016). Logistic regression analysis of the relationship between abdominal obesity and health-related quality of life in adults. Zhonghua xingwei yixue yu naokexue zazhi. 25(5). 446–451. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Li, Xiao Cong, Mai Shi, et al.. (2015). [High-risk HPV genotyping PCR testing as a means of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions early screening].. PubMed. 50(4). 246–52. 1 indexed citations

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