Wei Gai

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Wei Gai is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Gai has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Neurology, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Wei Gai's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (27 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (10 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (9 papers). Wei Gai is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (27 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (10 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (9 papers). Wei Gai collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Wei Gai's co-authors include Heiko Braak, Kelly Del Tredici, Peter Blumbergs, Poul Henning Jensen, Dean L. Pountney, Michael G. Schlossmacher, Tim Chataway, Xiaofeng Shen, Donald E. Walker and Sukanto Sinha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Wei Gai

72 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Idiopathic Parkinson's disease: possible routes by which vulnerable neuronal types may be subject to neuroinvasion by an unknown pathogen

2003 1.2k citations Wei Gai et al. profile →
Phosphorylation of Ser-129 Is the Dominant Pathological Modification of α-Synuclein in Familial and Sporadic Lewy Body Disease

2006 1.1k citations John P. Anderson, Donald E. Walker et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Gai Australia	31	3.7k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	1000	74	5.3k
Toshiki Uchihara Japan	41	2.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	204	6.1k
Paul T. Kotzbauer United States	31	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	52	5.2k
Laura A. Volpicelli‐Daley United States	42	4.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	2.3k 1.6×	1.2k 1.2×	71	6.9k
Ian Murray United States	28	2.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	809 0.8×	80	5.2k
He-Jin Lee South Korea	27	4.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	2.6k 1.7×	1.7k 1.2×	2.1k 2.1×	36	6.4k
Clemens R. Scherzer United States	35	1.8k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	758 0.8×	72	4.5k
Benjamin Dehay France	36	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	785 0.8×	90	5.2k
Yih‐Ru Wu Taiwan	34	2.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	809 0.5×	1.9k 1.4×	707 0.7×	218	4.9k
Un Jung Kang United States	54	4.6k 1.2×	3.4k 2.0×	1.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.8×	875 0.9×	127	8.1k
Javier Blesa Spain	25	2.7k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	684 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	795 0.8×	53	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Gai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Gai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Gai 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 Gai. Wei Gai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Huihui, J. Zhao, Lei Su, et al.. (2025). AI‐Assisted Detection of Early Gastric Cancer via Visualization of Mucosal Acidity Compromise During Endoscopy. Advanced Science. 12(46). e04932–e04932.

Niu, Xinxin, Shuang Qiu, Yafeng Zheng, et al.. (2025). A Rare Q-Fever Infection Diagnosed Using Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Liver Transplantation Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review. Infection and Drug Resistance. Volume 18. 25–30. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Yuanjie, et al.. (2024). A generic plug & play diffusion-based denosing module for medical image segmentation. Neural Networks. 172. 106096–106096. 7 indexed citations

Li, Jiayan, et al.. (2024). Clinical application value of simultaneous plasma and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid metagenomic next generation sequencing in patients with pneumonia-derived sepsis. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 1393–1393. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Hongbin, Yafeng Zheng, Xiaoyang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Clinical evaluation of cell-free and cellular metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids. Journal of Advanced Research. 55. 119–129. 33 indexed citations

Zhang, Wei, et al.. (2016). Neuroprotective activities of natural products from marine macroalgae during 1999–2015. Journal of Applied Phycology. 28(6). 3599–3616. 45 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiufeng, Rui‐Min Han, Xiaoran Sun, et al.. (2013). The effect of the skeleton structure of flavanone and flavonoid on interaction with transferrin. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 23(24). 6677–6681. 27 indexed citations

Guerreiro, Patrícia, Yue Huang, Amanda M. Gysbers, et al.. (2012). LRRK2 interactions with α-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease brains and in cell models. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 91(4). 513–522. 67 indexed citations

Pountney, Dean L., Mark J. Raftery, Fariba Chegini, Peter Blumbergs, & Wei Gai. (2008). NSF, Unc-18-1, dynamin-1 and HSP90 are inclusion body components in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease identified by anti-SUMO-1-immunocapture. Acta Neuropathologica. 116(6). 603–614. 33 indexed citations

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Anderson, John P., Donald E. Walker, Jason Goldstein, et al.. (2006). Phosphorylation of Ser-129 Is the Dominant Pathological Modification of α-Synuclein in Familial and Sporadic Lewy Body Disease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(40). 29739–29752. 1088 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pountney, Dean L., Nicolas H. Voelcker, & Wei Gai. (2005). Annular alpha-synuclein oligomers are potentially toxic agents in alpha-synucleinopathy. Hypothesis. Neurotoxicity Research. 7(1-2). 59–67. 51 indexed citations

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Pountney, Dean L., Fariba Chegini, Xiaofeng Shen, Peter Blumbergs, & Wei Gai. (2005). SUMO-1 marks subdomains within glial cytoplasmic inclusions of multiple system atrophy. Neuroscience Letters. 381(1-2). 74–79. 53 indexed citations

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Pountney, Dean L., et al.. (2004). Annular α‐synuclein species from purified multiple system atrophy inclusions. Journal of Neurochemistry. 90(2). 502–512. 55 indexed citations

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Gai, Wei, et al.. (2003). α-Synuclein expression localizes to the Golgi apparatus in bovine adrenal medullary chromaffin cells. Brain Research. 984(1-2). 233–236. 14 indexed citations

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Schlossmacher, Michael G., Matthew P. Frosch, Wei Gai, et al.. (2002). Parkin Localizes to the Lewy Bodies of Parkinson Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies. American Journal Of Pathology. 160(5). 1655–1667. 255 indexed citations

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Gai, Wei & W.W. Blessing. (1996). Nitric oxide synthesising neurons in the central subnucleus of the nucleus tractus solitarius in humans. Neuroscience Letters. 204(3). 189–192. 7 indexed citations

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Gai, Wei, Xin‐Fu Zhou, & Robert A. Rush. (1996). Analysis of low affinity neurotrophin receptor (p75) expression in glia of the CNS‐PNS transition zone following dorsal root transection. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 22(5). 434–439. 17 indexed citations

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Gai, Wei, Peter Blumbergs, & W.W. Blessing. (1995). Microtubule-associated protein 5 is a component of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in the brainstem and forebrain regions affected in Parkinson's disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 91(1). 78–81. 29 indexed citations

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Gai, Wei, Peter Blumbergs, L. B. Geffen, & W.W. Blessing. (1993). Galanin-containing fibers innervate substance P-containing neurons in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in humans. Brain Research. 618(1). 135–141. 9 indexed citations

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Halliday, Glenda M., Wei Gai, W.W. Blessing, & L. B. Geffen. (1990). Substance P-containing neurons in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum of the human brain. Neuroscience. 39(1). 81–96. 28 indexed citations

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