Wei Luo

11.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
175 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Wei Luo is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Social Psychology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Luo has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Epidemiology, 18 papers in Social Psychology and 17 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Wei Luo's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (17 papers), Mental Health Treatment and Access (15 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (13 papers). Wei Luo is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (17 papers), Mental Health Treatment and Access (15 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (13 papers). Wei Luo collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Wei Luo's co-authors include Bao‐Liang Zhong, Yi Li, Marie DesMeules, Mauricio Santillana, Alexander M. Clark, Shengjie Lai, A Wielgosz, Amanda S. Duncan, Alan M. MacEachren and Hongjie Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Wei Luo

161 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19 among Chinese residents during the rapid rise period of the COVID-19 outbreak: a quick online cross-sectional survey

2020 2.0k citations Bao‐Liang Zhong, Wei Luo et al. profile →
Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China

2020 864 citations Wei Luo, Mauricio Santillana et al. profile →
Social physics

2022 375 citations Marko Jusup, Petter Holme et al. Physics Reports profile →
Prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese university students amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2021 131 citations Wei Luo, Bao‐Liang Zhong et al. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Luo China	32	1.9k	1.8k	1.3k	890	820	175	6.8k
Li Ping Wong Malaysia	44	1.1k 0.6×	680 0.4×	685 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	2.0k 2.4×	234	7.2k
Lin Yang Hong Kong	42	731 0.4×	2.6k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	431 0.5×	409 0.5×	176	7.1k
Anna Odone Italy	42	1.6k 0.8×	395 0.2×	434 0.3×	550 0.6×	1.3k 1.5×	326	7.3k
Xi Chen China	40	512 0.3×	350 0.2×	1.1k 0.9×	633 0.7×	671 0.8×	297	6.1k
Jue Liu China	44	490 0.3×	1.0k 0.6×	543 0.4×	328 0.4×	1.0k 1.3×	405	8.6k
Mehdi Khan United Kingdom	9	909 0.5×	753 0.4×	702 0.6×	402 0.5×	199 0.2×	16	5.0k
Jarvis T. Chen United States	40	781 0.4×	367 0.2×	653 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	1.8k 2.2×	161	6.3k
Emily Ying Yang Chan Hong Kong	39	758 0.4×	356 0.2×	333 0.3×	825 0.9×	702 0.9×	195	5.4k
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi United Kingdom	53	2.1k 1.1×	556 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	2.6k 3.2×	284	13.8k
Peng Jia China	46	837 0.4×	294 0.2×	641 0.5×	316 0.4×	366 0.4×	321	8.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Luo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Luo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Luo

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

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Jiang, Nan, Shuangshuang Ma, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2025). Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and Early Offspring Development: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study. Biological Psychiatry. 98(12). 934–943. 1 indexed citations

Luo, Wei, et al.. (2025). Interpretable State Estimation in Power Systems Based on the Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks. Electronics. 14(2). 320–320. 1 indexed citations

Luo, Wei, et al.. (2024). Mapping environmental suitability changes for arbovirus mosquitoes in Southeast Asia: 1960–2020. iScience. 27(8). 110498–110498. 5 indexed citations

Cai, Shuangfeng, Quan Li, Siyu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Sweet taste receptors play roles in artificial sweetener-induced enhanced urine output in mice. npj Science of Food. 8(1). 2–2. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Rui, Mei‐Po Kwan, Wei Luo, et al.. (2023). Estimation of urban-scale photovoltaic potential: A deep learning-based approach for constructing three-dimensional building models from optical remote sensing imagery. Sustainable Cities and Society. 93. 104515–104515. 41 indexed citations

Xu, Shuangxi, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of ultimate bearing capacity of large-scale perforated beams with variable cross-section: Experimental verification and numerical simulation. Journal of Constructional Steel Research. 212. 108220–108220. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Wei, Linfeng He, Zihui Yang, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the international trade resilience during COVID-19. Applied Geography. 154. 102923–102923. 8 indexed citations

Li, Yangyang, et al.. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on NO ₂ and PM _2.5 levels and their associations with human mobility patterns in Singapore. Annals of GIS. 28(4). 515–531. 7 indexed citations

Jusup, Marko, Petter Holme, Kiyoshi Kanazawa, et al.. (2022). Social physics. Physics Reports. 948. 1–148. 375 indexed citations breakdown →

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Luo, Wei, et al.. (2022). Investigating Linkages Between Spatiotemporal Patterns of the COVID-19 Delta Variant and Public Health Interventions in Southeast Asia: Prospective Space-Time Scan Statistical Analysis Method. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 8(8). e35840–e35840. 8 indexed citations

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Cai, Hongke, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the Dynamical–Statistical Downscaling Model for Extended Range Precipitation Forecasts in China. Atmosphere. 13(10). 1663–1663. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Yi, Yuxin Chen, Meng Li, et al.. (2022). Colchicine may become a new cornerstone therapy for coronary artery disease: a meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials. Clinical Rheumatology. 41(6). 1873–1887. 7 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xiaoliang, Huadong Li, Yong Liu, et al.. (2022). The Effects of ATIR Blocker on the Severity of COVID-19 in Hypertensive Inpatients and Virulence of SARS-CoV-2 in Hypertensive hACE2 Transgenic Mice. Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. 15(1). 38–48. 5 indexed citations

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Castro, Lauren, Nicholas Generous, Wei Luo, et al.. (2021). Using heterogeneous data to identify signatures of dengue outbreaks at fine spatio-temporal scales across Brazil. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(5). e0009392–e0009392. 13 indexed citations

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Luo, Wei, Bao‐Liang Zhong, & Helen Chiu. (2021). Prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese university students amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 30. e31–e31. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hu, Tao, Siqin Wang, Wei Luo, et al.. (2021). Revealing Public Opinion Towards COVID-19 Vaccines With Twitter Data in the United States: Spatiotemporal Perspective. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(9). e30854–e30854. 115 indexed citations

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Masrur, Arif, Manzhu Yu, Wei Luo, & Ashraf Dewan. (2020). Space-Time Patterns, Change, and Propagation of COVID-19 Risk Relative to the Intervention Scenarios in Bangladesh. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(16). 5911–5911. 42 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qunshan, Helen Fischer, Wei Luo, & Elizabeth A. Wentz. (2019). Community Resilience in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA: The Analysis of Indoor Heat-Related Death and Urban Thermal Environment. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Honglin, Yunyu Xiao, Tianming Zhang, et al.. (2019). Treatment Status of Elderly Patients With Severe Mental Disorders in Rural China. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology. 32(6). 291–297. 12 indexed citations

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Luo, Wei, David A. Katz, Deven T. Hamilton, et al.. (2018). Development of an Agent-Based Model to Investigate the Impact of HIV Self-Testing Programs on Men Who Have Sex With Men in Atlanta and Seattle. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 4(2). e58–e58. 18 indexed citations

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