Mei Cui

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
133 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Mei Cui is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mei Cui has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Physiology and 33 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Mei Cui's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (19 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (16 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (16 papers). Mei Cui is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (19 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (16 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (16 papers). Mei Cui collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and United States. Mei Cui's co-authors include Kim Tieu, Qiang Dong, Yanxin Zhao, Min Guo, Xingdong Chen, Serge Przedborski, Yanfeng Jiang, Chun Hui Zhou, Cristòfol Vives-Bauzá and Ted M. Dawson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mei Cui

122 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

PINK1-dependent recruitment of Parkin to mitochondria in mitophagy

2009 1.3k citations Cristòfol Vives-Bauzá, Chun Hui Zhou et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Microglial exosomes facilitate α-synuclein transmission in Parkinson’s disease

2020 377 citations Min Guo, Yanxin Zhao et al. Brain profile →
The progress of gut microbiome research related to brain disorders

2020 317 citations Sibo Zhu, Yanfeng Jiang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mei Cui China	32	2.4k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	865	133	5.1k
Sung‐Chun Tang Taiwan	43	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	902 0.8×	1.7k 1.9×	251	6.9k
Shang‐Der Chen Taiwan	43	2.4k 1.0×	823 0.6×	549 0.4×	996 0.9×	699 0.8×	116	4.9k
Giovanni Rizzo Italy	36	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.1×	411 0.5×	143	6.3k
Jan M. Schwab Germany	48	1.9k 0.8×	853 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	615 0.6×	1.3k 1.5×	125	7.9k
Jason D. Huber United States	40	1.8k 0.7×	835 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	718 0.7×	1.8k 2.1×	92	5.0k
Takeo Kato Japan	46	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	2.4k 1.9×	1.3k 1.2×	614 0.7×	277	8.6k
Julia Kofler United States	40	1.4k 0.6×	552 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1000 0.9×	914 1.1×	138	4.8k
Shengdi Chen China	41	2.2k 0.9×	462 0.3×	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	879 1.0×	131	5.4k
Jiankun Cui United States	33	3.2k 1.3×	673 0.5×	738 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	968 1.1×	86	6.1k
Yan Leng China	42	3.8k 1.6×	590 0.4×	880 0.7×	713 0.6×	645 0.7×	116	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Mei Cui

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mei Cui

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mei Cui

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mei Cui. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mei Cui 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 Mei Cui. Mei Cui 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

Li, Jincheng, Ziyu Yuan, Jialin Li, et al.. (2025). Immune, blood-brain barrier, and metabolic biomarkers mediate gut-brain axis crosstalk in alzheimer’s disease. Biomarker Research. 13(1). 137–137.

Yang, Zhao, Yue Yuan, Rongze Wang, et al.. (2025). Clinical, Electroencephalogram and Imaging Characteristics of Patients With Anti‐LGI1 Antibody Encephalitis: A Multicenter Cohort Study. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 31(5). e70414–e70414.

Chen, Danlei, Yuyuan Huang, Keliang Chen, et al.. (2025). Cognitive impairment in cerebellar phenotype of multiple system atrophy and its association with hot-cross bun sign. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports. 9. 4133477668–4133477668.

Wang, Rongze, Shufen Chen, Ya-Ru Zhang, et al.. (2025). Clinical, radiological, pathological and prognostic features of general paresis: a cohort study. Brain. 148(8). 2763–2771. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Min, Minjie Zhang, Jincheng Li, et al.. (2025). Paranodal instability driven by axonal mitochondrial accumulation in ischemic demyelination and cognitive decline. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(8). 3502–3515.

Zhang, Minjie, Min Guo, Yichen Zhao, et al.. (2025). Activated microglial exosomes enhance α-Synuclein internalization and accelerate neurodegeneration in lewy body dementia. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 23(1). 740–740.

Wang, Yawen, Yi Zheng, Min Fan, et al.. (2024). Lipid metabolism mediates the association between body mass index change and bone mineral density: The Taizhou imaging study. Preventive Medicine. 184. 107999–107999. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yingzhe, et al.. (2024). Vascular cognitive impairment: Advances in clinical research and management. Chinese Medical Journal. 137(23). 2793–2807. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Kelin, Yingzhe Wang, Yanfeng Jiang, et al.. (2024). Analysis of gait pattern related to high cerebral small vessel disease burden using quantitative gait data from wearable sensors. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 250. 108162–108162. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Jialin, Qingxia Huang, Yingzhe Wang, et al.. (2023). Circulating Lipoproteins Mediate the Association Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognitive Decline: A Community-Based Cohort Study. PubMed. 4(1). 51–55. 7 indexed citations

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Guo, Yu, Xue‐Ning Shen, Shu‐Yi Huang, et al.. (2023). Head-to-head comparison of 6 plasma biomarkers in early multiple system atrophy. npj Parkinson s Disease. 9(1). 40–40. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Shu‐Yi, Mei Cui, Meng Zhao, et al.. (2023). Plasma Biomarkers and Positron Emission Tomography Tau Pathology in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Movement Disorders. 38(4). 676–682. 9 indexed citations

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Zhu, Sibo, Kelin Xu, Yanfeng Jiang, et al.. (2021). The gut microbiome in subclinical atherosclerosis: a population-based multiphenotype analysis. Lara D. Veeken. 61(1). 258–269. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Guotai, Tao Song, Qiang Dong, et al.. (2020). Automatic ischemic stroke lesion segmentation from computed tomography perfusion images by image synthesis and attention-based deep neural networks. Medical Image Analysis. 65. 101787–101787. 71 indexed citations

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Wang, Yingzhe, Yanfeng Jiang, Chen Suo, et al.. (2019). Deep/mixed cerebral microbleeds are associated with cognitive dysfunction through thalamocortical connectivity disruption: The Taizhou Imaging Study. NeuroImage Clinical. 22. 101749–101749. 19 indexed citations

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Yang, Qi, Mei Cui, Yanping Liu, et al.. (2014). Tissue kallikrein induces SH-SY5Y cell proliferation via epidermal growth factor receptor and extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 pathway. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 446(1). 25–29. 11 indexed citations

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Fang, Fang, Whitney V. Christian, Mei Cui, et al.. (2010). Neurosteroid transport by the organic solute transporter OSTα–OSTβ. Journal of Neurochemistry. 115(1). 220–233. 28 indexed citations

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Vives-Bauzá, Cristòfol, Chun Hui Zhou, Yong Huang, et al.. (2009). PINK1-dependent recruitment of Parkin to mitochondria in mitophagy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(1). 378–383. 1321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Su, Jingjing, Mei Cui, Yuping Tang, et al.. (2009). Blockade of bradykinin B2 receptor more effectively reduces postischemic blood–brain barrier disruption and cytokines release than B1 receptor inhibition. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 388(2). 205–211. 39 indexed citations

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Cui, Mei. (2006). Preparation and Evaluation of Experimental Rat Models of Aging. 4 indexed citations

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