Wei Cheng

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Wei Cheng is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Cheng has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 27 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wei Cheng's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (16 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (11 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (10 papers). Wei Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (16 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (11 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (10 papers). Wei Cheng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Wei Cheng's co-authors include Timothy M. Lohman, Taekjip Ha, Ivan Rasnik, Carlos Bustamante, Mary C. Murphy, Ignacio Tinoco, George H. Gauss, Sophie Dumont, Katherine M. Brendza and Byumseok Koh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Wei Cheng

89 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Probing Single-Stranded DNA Conformational Flexibility Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy

2004 506 citations Mary C. Murphy, Ivan Rasnik et al. Biophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Cheng United States	27	1.9k	900	599	494	478	96	3.7k
Andrew J. Spakowitz United States	33	2.4k 1.3×	757 0.8×	525 0.9×	769 1.6×	499 1.0×	100	4.3k
Jens Michaelis Germany	32	1.8k 1.0×	617 0.7×	434 0.7×	556 1.1×	297 0.6×	86	3.2k
Dimitrios Stamou Denmark	40	3.4k 1.8×	1.0k 1.1×	659 1.1×	655 1.3×	387 0.8×	90	5.7k
Ming Li China	37	2.7k 1.4×	774 0.9×	250 0.4×	718 1.5×	353 0.7×	218	4.5k
Melik C. Demirel United States	35	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.7×	536 0.9×	1.3k 2.7×	709 1.5×	90	5.3k
Thorsten Hugel Germany	36	1.8k 0.9×	739 0.8×	1.6k 2.7×	1.0k 2.1×	916 1.9×	106	4.6k
Patrick Schultz France	44	4.7k 2.5×	736 0.8×	452 0.8×	1.4k 2.8×	359 0.8×	127	7.2k
Jay X. Tang United States	40	2.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	671 1.1×	645 1.3×	119 0.2×	105	5.6k
Kenneth A. Marx United States	33	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	502 0.8×	323 0.7×	692 1.4×	169	4.1k
Motomu Tanaka Germany	37	2.8k 1.5×	1.9k 2.1×	1.1k 1.9×	775 1.6×	1.0k 2.2×	244	6.2k

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

Cheng, Wei & Julie Zikherman. (2025). Molecular mechanisms for direct sensing of virus-like antigens by B cells. International Immunology. 38(2). 74–84.

Zhang, J., et al.. (2025). Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of laser pulse duration effects on Ni/SiC ohmic contacts during ultraviolet laser annealing. Optics & Laser Technology. 192. 113499–113499.

Wang, Pengfei, Wei Cheng, Mengjia Lu, Guo‐Hua Hu, & Binfeng Yun. (2024). Investigating Mode Characteristics of an Ultra-High Q Silicon Nitride Micro-Disk Resonator and High Resolution Microwave Photonic Filtering. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(2). 648–655.

Mueller, James L., et al.. (2024). An Integrated Signaling Threshold Initiates IgG Response toward Virus-like Immunogens. The Journal of Immunology. 213(8). 1061–1075. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Wei, Guo Chen, Yifei Chen, et al.. (2024). Flexible and reconfigurable integrated optical filter based on tunable optical coupler cascaded with coupled resonator optical waveguide. Optics Express. 32(14). 24058–24058.

Brooks, Jeremy F., James L. Mueller, Vivasvan S. Vykunta, et al.. (2023). Molecular basis for potent B cell responses to antigen displayed on particles of viral size. Nature Immunology. 24(10). 1762–1777. 25 indexed citations

Wang, Jin, Wei Cheng, Mengjia Lu, et al.. (2023). Optimization and comprehensive comparison of thermo-optic phase shifter with folded waveguide on SiN and SOI platforms. Optics Communications. 555. 130242–130242. 4 indexed citations

Mueller, James L., et al.. (2020). Synthetic Liposomal Mimics of Biological Viruses for the Study of Immune Responses to Infection and Vaccination. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 31(3). 685–697. 17 indexed citations

Cheng, Wei. (2016). The Density Code for the Development of a Vaccine?. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 105(11). 3223–3232. 22 indexed citations

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Cheng, Wei. (2014). Mechanisms of HCV NS3 Helicase Monitored by Optical Tweezers. Methods in molecular biology. 1259. 229–255. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Wei, Juan Chang, Qingqiang Yin, et al.. (2013). ARTIFICIAL SYNTHESIS OF SWINE HEPCIDIN GENE AND EXPRESSION INPichia pastoris. Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology. 44(8). 795–804. 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Jin Hee, et al.. (2013). Optimized Infectivity of the Cell-Free Single-Cycle Human Immunodeficiency Viruses Type 1 (HIV-1) and Its Restriction by Host Cells. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67170–e67170. 18 indexed citations

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Pavelyev, Vladimir, et al.. (2012). Diffractive optical elements for the formation of “light bottle” intensity distributions. Applied Optics. 51(18). 4215–4215. 23 indexed citations

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Yu, Jin, Wei Cheng, Carlos Bustamante, & George Oster. (2011). Coupling Translocation with Nucleic Acid Unwinding by NS3 Helicase. Biophysical Journal. 100(3). 353a–354a. 1 indexed citations

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Bustamante, Carlos, Wei Cheng, & Yara X. Mejia. (2011). Revisiting the Central Dogma One Molecule at a Time. Cell. 144(4). 480–497. 130 indexed citations

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Yu, Jin, Wei Cheng, Carlos Bustamante, & George Oster. (2010). Coupling Translocation with Nucleic Acid Unwinding by NS3 Helicase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 404(3). 439–455. 6 indexed citations

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Cheng, Wei, Ignacio Tinoco, & Carlos Bustamante. (2009). Direct Observation of NS3 Substeps at Single Base Pair Resolution. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 367a–367a. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Wei, et al.. (2005). Mechanical Strength of Amorphous CaCO₃ Colloidal Spheres. Langmuir. 21(15). 6666–6668. 28 indexed citations

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Murphy, Mary C., Ivan Rasnik, Wei Cheng, Timothy M. Lohman, & Taekjip Ha. (2004). Probing Single-Stranded DNA Conformational Flexibility Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal. 86(4). 2530–2537. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ha, Taekjip, Ivan Rasnik, Wei Cheng, et al.. (2002). Initiation and re-initiation of DNA unwinding by the Escherichia coli Rep helicase. Nature. 419(6907). 638–641. 369 indexed citations

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