Wei Cheng

8.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
188 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Wei Cheng is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Cheng has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Physiology and 39 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Wei Cheng's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (40 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (26 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (21 papers). Wei Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (40 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (26 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (21 papers). Wei Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Wei Cheng's co-authors include Edmund T. Rolls, Jianfeng Feng, Jianfeng Feng, Jie Zhang, Jin‐Tai Yu, Ya-Ru Zhang, Hongtao Ruan, Jingnan Du, Weikang Gong and Yuzhu Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wei Cheng

177 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

The orbitofrontal cortex: reward, emotion and depression

2020 253 citations Edmund T. Rolls, Wei Cheng et al. profile →
Plasma proteomic profiles predict future dementia in healthy adults

2024 126 citations Yu Guo, Jia You et al. profile →
Glymphatic system dysfunction predicts amyloid deposition, neurodegeneration, and clinical progression in Alzheimer's disease

2024 87 citations Shu‐Yi Huang, Yu Guo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Cheng China	35	2.3k	844	769	685	565	188	4.6k
Albert C. Yang Taiwan	43	2.1k 0.9×	820 1.0×	990 1.3×	500 0.7×	749 1.3×	224	6.5k
Matthew S. Panizzon United States	36	2.2k 1.0×	970 1.1×	1.3k 1.7×	1.0k 1.5×	592 1.0×	171	5.1k
Annette Horstmann Germany	35	1.7k 0.8×	447 0.5×	452 0.6×	576 0.8×	697 1.2×	112	4.2k
Jian Zhang China	37	2.1k 0.9×	570 0.7×	465 0.6×	884 1.3×	279 0.5×	188	4.1k
Ilya M. Veer Germany	34	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	572 0.7×	870 1.3×	322 0.6×	80	4.3k
Gabriel Leonard Canada	38	1.8k 0.8×	387 0.5×	485 0.6×	664 1.0×	476 0.8×	80	4.5k
Christopher Clark Australia	37	2.6k 1.2×	614 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	611 0.9×	231 0.4×	108	5.4k
Efstathios D. Gennatas United States	23	2.5k 1.1×	512 0.6×	861 1.1×	1.3k 1.8×	550 1.0×	42	3.9k
Christina E. Wierenga United States	41	2.3k 1.0×	651 0.8×	1.8k 2.3×	973 1.4×	812 1.4×	144	5.8k
Christian Habeck United States	38	2.5k 1.1×	422 0.5×	1.5k 1.9×	1.1k 1.6×	875 1.5×	151	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Cheng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Cheng 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 Cheng. Wei Cheng 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, Haiyun, Yue‐Ting Deng, Yu Guo, et al.. (2025). Clinical Utility of Plasma GFAP and NEFL as Biomarkers for Dementia in the Community. Journal of Neurochemistry. 169(8). e70210–e70210.

Cheng, Wei, et al.. (2025). “I'm telling you”: The use of interactional metadiscourse in Chinese live streaming commerce. Journal of Pragmatics. 237. 14–29. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Jiayi, Yuzhu Li, Dandan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behavior, and incident neuropsychiatric diseases: a large prospective cohort study of 73411 participants. Molecular Psychiatry. 31(3). 1485–1499.

Li, Yuzhu, et al.. (2025). Temporal trends of blood-based markers in various psychiatric disorders and their cross-sectional brain structure associations. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 239–239. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Liyun, Ya‐Nan Ou, Yan Fu, et al.. (2024). Associations between antipsychotics exposure and dementia risk: A prospective cohort study of 415,100 participants. Journal of Affective Disorders. 349. 201–209. 2 indexed citations

Li, Lei, et al.. (2024). Liver abscess in the caudate lobe caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae: a rare case report and literature review. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 708–708. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Rongze, Yu He, Yue‐Ting Deng, et al.. (2024). Body weight in neurological and psychiatric disorders: a large prospective cohort study. Nature Mental Health. 2(1). 41–51. 12 indexed citations

Zhang, Bei, Jia You, Edmund T. Rolls, et al.. (2024). Identifying behaviour-related and physiological risk factors for suicide attempts in the UK Biobank. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(9). 1784–1797. 11 indexed citations

Wu, Bang‐Sheng, Jujiao Kang, Weishi Liu, et al.. (2024). Exome sequencing identifies genes associated with sleep-related traits. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(3). 576–589. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Cheng, Chao Xie, Jia You, et al.. (2024). Contrastive machine learning reveals Parkinson’s disease specific features associated with disease severity and progression. Communications Biology. 7(1). 954–954. 2 indexed citations

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Sahakian, Barbara J., Christelle Langley, Yuchao Jiang, et al.. (2023). Early-initiated childhood reading for pleasure: associations with better cognitive performance, mental well-being and brain structure in young adolescence. Psychological Medicine. 54(2). 359–373. 25 indexed citations

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Ma, Qing, Xiaoyang Han, Yu Xiong, et al.. (2023). Association of maternal hypertension during pregnancy with brain structure and behavioral problems in early adolescence. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 33(7). 2173–2187. 3 indexed citations

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Ou, Ya‐Nan, Kevin H.M. Kuo, Yang Liu, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal associations of cardiovascular health and vascular events with incident dementia. Stroke and Vascular Neurology. 9(4). 418–428. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, Ya‐Hui, Yuzhu Li, Yue Leng, et al.. (2023). Lung function and risk of incident dementia: A prospective cohort study of 431,834 individuals. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 109. 321–330. 23 indexed citations

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Chen, Si‐Jia, Bang‐Sheng Wu, Yi‐Jun Ge, et al.. (2023). The genetic architecture of the corpus callosum and its genetic overlap with common neuropsychiatric diseases. Journal of Affective Disorders. 335. 418–430. 4 indexed citations

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He, Xiao‐Yu, Bang‐Sheng Wu, Kevin H.M. Kuo, et al.. (2023). Association between polygenic risk for Alzheimer’s disease and brain structure in children and adults. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 15(1). 109–109. 7 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yujie, Yang Liu, Barbara J. Sahakian, et al.. (2023). The brain structure, immunometabolic and genetic mechanisms underlying the association between lifestyle and depression. Nature Mental Health. 1(10). 736–750. 39 indexed citations

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Kang, Jujiao, Tianye Jia, Chun Shen, et al.. (2022). Increased brain volume from higher cereal and lower coffee intake: shared genetic determinants and impacts on cognition and metabolism. Cerebral Cortex. 32(22). 5163–5174. 10 indexed citations

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Deng, Yue‐Ting, Yuzhu Li, Shu‐Yi Huang, et al.. (2022). Association of life course adiposity with risk of incident dementia: a prospective cohort study of 322,336 participants. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(8). 3385–3395. 25 indexed citations

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Hu, He‐Ying, Bang‐Sheng Wu, Ya‐Nan Ou, et al.. (2022). Tea consumption and risk of incident dementia: A prospective cohort study of 377 592 UK Biobank participants. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1). 171–171. 24 indexed citations

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