Mark N. Wu

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Mark N. Wu is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark N. Wu has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mark N. Wu's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (32 papers), Circadian rhythm and melatonin (28 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (23 papers). Mark N. Wu is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (32 papers), Circadian rhythm and melatonin (28 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (23 papers). Mark N. Wu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Belgium. Mark N. Wu's co-authors include Adam P. Spira, Sha Liu, Qili Liu, Masashi Tabuchi, Kyunghee Koh, Amita Sehgal, Zhifeng Yue, Luigi Ferrucci, Eleanor M. Simonsick and Susan M. Resnick and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Mark N. Wu

61 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Self-reported Sleep and β-Amyloid Deposition in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

2013 425 citations Adam P. Spira, Alyssa Gamaldo et al. JAMA Neurology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark N. Wu United States	29	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	941	608	65	3.5k
Nirinjini Naidoo United States	33	952 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	719 0.8×	756 1.2×	56	3.8k
Gi Hoon Son South Korea	34	1.1k 0.7×	588 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	261 0.3×	932 1.5×	89	3.9k
Muriel Koehl France	33	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	510 0.4×	237 0.3×	982 1.6×	60	5.8k
David A. Bechtold United Kingdom	38	824 0.6×	646 0.5×	2.5k 2.1×	623 0.7×	835 1.4×	62	4.4k
Bruce F. O’Hara United States	28	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	511 0.5×	1.2k 1.9×	54	3.3k
Carles Sanchis‐Segura Spain	34	2.0k 1.4×	896 0.7×	641 0.5×	210 0.2×	974 1.6×	72	3.8k
Kazuyuki Shinohara Japan	33	722 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	459 0.5×	370 0.6×	159	3.7k
Jonathan P. Wisor United States	28	935 0.6×	2.2k 1.6×	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	277 0.5×	70	3.4k
Hiromasa Funato Japan	28	607 0.4×	804 0.6×	610 0.5×	343 0.4×	809 1.3×	76	2.7k
Karen L. Gamble United States	34	808 0.6×	722 0.5×	2.4k 1.9×	674 0.7×	575 0.9×	91	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark N. Wu

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Amorim, Mateus R., Noah Williams, Melanie Alexis Ruiz, et al.. (2025). Targeting melanocortin 4 receptor to treat sleep-disordered breathing in mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(12). 1 indexed citations

Lee, Sang‐Soo, Qiang Liu, Dong Won Kim, et al.. (2025). Sleep need–dependent plasticity of a thalamic circuit promotes homeostatic recovery sleep. Science. 388(6753). eadm8203–eadm8203. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Qiang, Sang‐Soo Lee, Jiali Xiong, et al.. (2025). A Subcircuit in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Generates Wakefulness. Advanced Science. 12(39). e05131–e05131.

Spira, Adam P., Fangyu Liu, Vadim Zipunnikov, et al.. (2024). Evaluating a novel 24-hour rest/activity rhythm marker of preclinical β-amyloid deposition. SLEEP. 47(5). 4 indexed citations

Han, Xiaoning, Guanshu Liu, Sang‐Soo Lee, et al.. (2024). Metabolic and vascular imaging markers for investigating Alzheimer’s disease complicated by sleep fragmentation in mice. Frontiers in Physiology. 15. 1456690–1456690. 5 indexed citations

Han, Emily L., Sang‐Soo Lee, Ian D. Blum, et al.. (2024). Tob Regulates the Timing of Sleep Onset at Night inDrosophila. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(18). e0389232024–e0389232024.

Antonsdottir, Inga, Jill A. Rabinowitz, Jacek Urbanek, et al.. (2023). 24 h Rest/Activity Rhythms in Older Adults with Memory Impairment: Associations with Cognitive Performance and Depressive Symptomatology. Advanced Biology. 7(11). e2300138–e2300138. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Qiang, Dong Won Kim, Sang‐Soo Lee, et al.. (2023). A clock-dependent brake for rhythmic arousal in the dorsomedial hypothalamus. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6381–6381. 6 indexed citations

Ho, Margaret C.W., Masashi Tabuchi, Matthew Brown, et al.. (2022). Sleep need-dependent changes in functional connectivity facilitate transmission of homeostatic sleep drive. Current Biology. 32(22). 4957–4966.e5. 15 indexed citations

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Liang, Xitong, Margaret C.W. Ho, Yajun Zhang, et al.. (2019). Morning and Evening Circadian Pacemakers Independently Drive Premotor Centers via a Specific Dopamine Relay. Neuron. 102(4). 843–857.e4. 72 indexed citations

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Wu, Mark N., et al.. (2019). Sleep Duration and Cognition in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Older Adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 27(12). 1386–1396. 46 indexed citations

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Tabuchi, Masashi, et al.. (2019). Semaphorin 2b Regulates Sleep-Circuit Formation in the Drosophila Central Brain. Neuron. 104(2). 322–337.e14. 12 indexed citations

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Blum, Ian D., et al.. (2018). Time for Bed: Genetic Mechanisms Mediating the Circadian Regulation of Sleep. Trends in Genetics. 34(5). 379–388. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Qili, Masashi Tabuchi, Sha Liu, et al.. (2017). Branch-specific plasticity of a bifunctional dopamine circuit encodes protein hunger. Science. 356(6337). 534–539. 81 indexed citations

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Spira, Adam P., Lenis P. Chen-Edinboro, Mark N. Wu, & Kristine Yaffe. (2014). Impact of sleep on the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 27(6). 478–483. 216 indexed citations

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Spira, Adam P., Alyssa Gamaldo, Yang An, et al.. (2013). Self-reported Sleep and β-Amyloid Deposition in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. JAMA Neurology. 70(12). 1537–43. 425 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Qili, et al.. (2012). Two Dopaminergic Neurons Signal to the Dorsal Fan-Shaped Body to Promote Wakefulness in Drosophila. Current Biology. 22(22). 2114–2123. 202 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xiangzhong, Kyunghee Koh, Corinne J. Smith, et al.. (2009). An Isoform-Specific Mutant Reveals a Role of PDP1ε in the Circadian Oscillator. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(35). 10920–10927. 42 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaoli, Jay P. Farber, Mark N. Wu, Robert D. Foreman, & Chao Qin. (2008). Roles of dorsal column pathway and transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 in augmentation of cerebral blood flow by upper cervical spinal cord stimulation in rats. Neuroscience. 152(4). 950–958. 18 indexed citations

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Wu, Mark N.. (1998). ROP, the Drosophila Sec1 homolog, interacts with syntaxin and regulates neurotransmitter release in a dosage-dependent manner. The EMBO Journal. 17(1). 127–139. 163 indexed citations

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