Wei Chen

11.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
272 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Wei Chen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Chen has authored 272 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Molecular Biology, 65 papers in Oncology and 62 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Wei Chen's work include Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (19 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (17 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (14 papers). Wei Chen is often cited by papers focused on Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (19 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (17 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (14 papers). Wei Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Wei Chen's co-authors include Fazlul H. Sarkar, Seema Sethi, Cheng Zhu, Jizhong Lou, Daniel J. Sargent, Lois E. Shepherd, Roberto Labianca, Charles L. Loprinzi, Steven R. Alberts and Guido Francini and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Wei Chen

253 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

Pooled Analysis of Fluorouracil-Based Adjuvant Therapy for Stage II and III Colon Cancer: Who Benefits and by How Much?

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Chen China	47	3.6k	2.4k	1.6k	1.3k	1.1k	272	8.2k
Fan Yang China	45	3.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	753 0.7×	491	8.4k
Éva Szabó United States	43	4.2k 1.2×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	767 0.7×	199	8.1k
Steven de Jong Netherlands	53	5.2k 1.5×	3.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	188	9.1k
Nicolás André France	50	4.1k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	882 0.8×	264	8.6k
Shu Zhang China	47	4.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	723 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	351	9.6k
Li Yu China	47	4.8k 1.4×	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	939 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	410	9.1k
Ajay P. Singh United States	51	4.6k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	653 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	251	8.2k
Lili Zhao United States	49	4.6k 1.3×	4.1k 1.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	2.5k 2.4×	389	11.2k
Xuelei Ma China	48	3.7k 1.0×	3.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.6×	313	10.5k
Rajiv Dhir United States	47	4.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 1.2×	2.7k 2.0×	546 0.5×	242	8.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Chen

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

Chen, Xinyuan, Nils Müller, Xu Lei, et al.. (2025). Sleep neuroimaging: Review and future directions. Journal of Sleep Research. 34(6). e14462–e14462. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yinan, Liang Tang, Zhimin Shao, et al.. (2025). Gastric cancer adapts high lipid microenvironment via suppressing PPARG-FABP1 axis after arriving in the lymph node. Redox Biology. 85. 103759–103759. 1 indexed citations

Li, Zhongwen, Kuan Chen, Ke Ding, et al.. (2024). Promoting smartphone-based keratitis screening using meta-learning: A multicenter study. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 157. 104722–104722. 2 indexed citations

Zeng, Yu, Haitao Hu, Wei Chen, et al.. (2024). Changes in volatile compounds in withering tea leaves after infestation with tea green leafhopper (Empoasca onukii Matsuda). European Journal of Agronomy. 156. 127163–127163. 3 indexed citations

Xie, Jun, Baijun Dong, Wei Chen, et al.. (2024). Olaparib Combined with Abiraterone versus Olaparib Monotherapy for Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Progressing after Abiraterone and Harboring DNA Damage Repair Deficiency: A Multicenter Real-world Study. European Urology Oncology. 7(5). 1088–1096. 3 indexed citations

Brown, Michael C., David Boczkowski, Nadeem A. Sheikh, et al.. (2024). Peripheral Blood IFN Responses to Toll-Like Receptor 1/2 Signaling Associate with Longer Survival in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer Treated with Sipuleucel-T. Cancer Research Communications. 4(10). 2724–2733. 3 indexed citations

Heyza, Joshua, Christopher K. Yunker, Lisa Polin, et al.. (2023). ATR inhibition overcomes platinum tolerance associated with ERCC1- and p53-deficiency by inducing replication catastrophe. NAR Cancer. 5(1). zcac045–zcac045. 4 indexed citations

Jiang, Jiewei, et al.. (2023). Automatic diagnosis of keratitis using object localization combined with cost-sensitive deep attention convolutional neural network. Journal Of Big Data. 10(1). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Yansu, Haoyong Yu, Xiaojing Ma, et al.. (2023). Clusterin is closely associated with adipose tissue insulin resistance. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 39(7). e3688–e3688. 4 indexed citations

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Vaishampayan, Ulka N., Archana Thakur, Wei Chen, et al.. (2022). Phase II Trial of Pembrolizumab and Anti-CD3 x Anti-HER2 Bispecific Antibody-Armed Activated T Cells in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 29(1). 122–133. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, Wei, Junnan Ru, Da Man, et al.. (2022). MiR-652-3p promotes malignancy and metastasis of cancer cells via inhibiting TNRC6A in hepatocellular carcinoma. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 640. 1–11. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Jie, Zhongzhen Liu, Wei Chen, et al.. (2020). Kindlin-2 promotes rear focal adhesion disassembly and directional persistence during cell migration. Journal of Cell Science. 134(1). 8 indexed citations

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Fatemizadeh, Emad, Tatiana Cristina Moraes Pinto Blumetti, Steven Daveluy, et al.. (2019). Optical Radiomic Signatures Derived from Optical Coherence Tomography Images Improve Identification of Melanoma. Cancer Research. 79(8). 2021–2030. 95 indexed citations

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Tai, Yuling, Huanhuan Wang, Lin Yang, et al.. (2019). Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Regulatory Mechanisms of Theanine Synthesis in Tea (Camellia sinensis) and Oil Tea (Camellia oleifera) Plants. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 67(36). 10235–10244. 19 indexed citations

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Heyza, Joshua, Donovan Watza, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2018). Identification and Characterization of Synthetic Viability with ERCC1 Deficiency in Response to Interstrand Crosslinks in Lung Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 25(8). 2523–2536. 24 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Kosei, Dhong Hyo Kho, Takashi Yanagawa, et al.. (2016). Galectin-3 Cleavage Alters Bone Remodeling: Different Outcomes in Breast and Prostate Cancer Skeletal Metastasis. Cancer Research. 76(6). 1391–1402. 53 indexed citations

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Meng, Fanyan, Cecilia L. Speyer, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2014). PDGFRα and β Play Critical Roles in Mediating Foxq1-Driven Breast Cancer Stemness and Chemoresistance. Cancer Research. 75(3). 584–593. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haijun, Fanyan Meng, Bas Kreike, et al.. (2011). Engagement of I-Branching β-1, 6- N -Acetylglucosaminyltransferase 2 in Breast Cancer Metastasis and TGF-β Signaling. Cancer Research. 71(14). 4846–4856. 70 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haijun, Di Chen, Wei Chen, et al.. (2010). Disulfiram Treatment Facilitates Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Inhibition in Human Breast Cancer Cells In vitro and In vivo. Cancer Research. 70(10). 3996–4004. 94 indexed citations

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Disis, Mary L., Emanuel Calenoff, Ann Murphy, et al.. (1994). Existent T-cell and antibody immunity to HER-2/neu protein in patients with breast cancer.. PubMed. 54(1). 16–20. 390 indexed citations

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