Wei Mei

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Wei Mei is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Mei has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Atmospheric Science, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Wei Mei's work include Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers), Climate variability and models (24 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (18 papers). Wei Mei is often cited by papers focused on Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers), Climate variability and models (24 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (18 papers). Wei Mei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Wei Mei's co-authors include Shang‐Ping Xie, Claudia Pasquero, François Primeau, Youichi Kamae, James C. McWilliams, Ming Zhao, Hiroaki Ueda, I.‐I. Lin, Chun‐Chi Lien and Yuqing Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Wei Mei

38 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Intensification of landfalling typhoons over the northwest Pacific since the late 1970s

2016 334 citations Wei Mei, Shang‐Ping Xie Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Mei United States	18	1.4k	1.1k	827	100	86	42	1.6k
Hyeong‐Seog Kim South Korea	19	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	865 1.0×	54 0.5×	36 0.4×	36	1.8k
Seth Underwood United States	19	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	643 0.8×	51 0.5×	40 0.5×	26	1.6k
Rijin Wan China	7	1.2k 0.8×	967 0.9×	323 0.4×	61 0.6×	57 0.7×	10	1.3k
William Cabos Spain	22	743 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	779 0.9×	166 1.7×	29 0.3×	78	1.4k
Yihong Duan China	22	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	537 0.6×	24 0.2×	59 0.7×	120	1.5k
U. C. Mohanty India	25	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	486 0.6×	45 0.5×	83 1.0×	77	1.7k
Yi Chang Taiwan	23	552 0.4×	721 0.7×	598 0.7×	341 3.4×	65 0.8×	67	1.3k
Zhu Yongti Russia	3	921 0.7×	617 0.6×	470 0.6×	60 0.6×	98 1.1×	3	1.0k
Ryan Eastman United States	19	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	293 0.4×	93 0.9×	127 1.5×	36	1.9k
Max Mayfield United States	12	1.1k 0.8×	839 0.8×	501 0.6×	73 0.7×	82 1.0×	22	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Mei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Mei

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Mei

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

Yin, Yajuan, Wei Mei, Mei Liu, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiota‐derived trimethylamine‐N‐oxide inhibits SIRT1 to regulate SM22α‐mediated smooth muscle cell inflammation and promote atherosclerosis progression. Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling. 19(2). e70021–e70021.

Tang, Danling, Gregory R. Foltz, Wei Mei, et al.. (2025). Drivers of Tropical Cyclone‐Induced Ocean Cooling in Different Seasons Over the Northwest Pacific From Explainable Machine Learning. 2(4).

Zhao, Long, Fuchun Huang, Tiangang Wang, et al.. (2024). Liuweizhiji Gegen-Sangshen beverage protects against alcoholic liver disease in mice through the gut microbiota mediated SCFAs/GPR43/GLP-1 pathway. Frontiers in Nutrition. 11. 1495695–1495695. 1 indexed citations

Wei, Shulin, Mingxing Li, Long Zhao, et al.. (2024). Chemical profiling and quality evaluation of Liuweizhiji Gegen‐Sangshen oral liquid by UPLC‐Q‐TOF‐MS and HPLC‐diode array detector fingerprinting. Phytochemical Analysis. 35(4). 860–872. 4 indexed citations

Wei, Shulin, Mingxing Li, Long Zhao, et al.. (2024). Gegen-Sangshen oral liquid and its active fractions mitigate alcoholic liver disease in mice through repairing intestinal epithelial injury and regulating gut microbiota. Chinese Medicine. 19(1). 175–175. 3 indexed citations

Mei, Wei, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Variability of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Density in the Northwest Pacific. Journal of Climate. 37(4). 1111–1129. 4 indexed citations

Wei, Shulin, Mingxing Li, Long Zhao, et al.. (2024). Fingerprint profiling for quality evaluation and the related biological activity analysis of polysaccharides from Liuweizhiji Gegen-Sangshen beverage. Frontiers in Nutrition. 11. 1431518–1431518. 4 indexed citations

Tang, Danling, et al.. (2023). Predicting Tropical Cyclone‐Induced Sea Surface Temperature Responses Using Machine Learning. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(18). 15 indexed citations

Wang, Guihua, et al.. (2022). Ocean currents show global intensification of weak tropical cyclones. Nature. 611(7936). 496–500. 49 indexed citations

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Kamae, Youichi, Yukiko Imada, Hiroaki Kawase, & Wei Mei. (2021). Atmospheric Rivers Bring More Frequent and Intense Extreme Rainfall Events Over East Asia Under Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 34 indexed citations

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Li, Chuxuan, Wei Mei, & Youichi Kamae. (2021). Variability and predictability of cold-season North Atlantic atmospheric river occurrence frequency in a set of high-resolution atmospheric simulations. Climate Dynamics. 58(9-10). 2485–2500. 5 indexed citations

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Kamae, Youichi, et al.. (2020). Impacts of Seasonal Transitions of ENSO on Atmospheric River Activity over East Asia. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 98(3). 655–668. 17 indexed citations

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Lin, Yanluan, et al.. (2019). Tropical Cyclone Cold Wake Size and Its Applications to Power Dissipation and Ocean Heat Uptake Estimates. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(16). 10177–10185. 31 indexed citations

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Kamae, Youichi, Wei Mei, & Shang‐Ping Xie. (2017). Climatological Relationship between Warm Season Atmospheric Rivers and Heavy Rainfall over East Asia. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 95(6). 411–431. 67 indexed citations

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Mei, Wei & Shang‐Ping Xie. (2016). Intensification of landfalling typhoons over the northwest Pacific since the late 1970s. Nature Geoscience. 9(10). 753–757. 334 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mei, Wei, Shang‐Ping Xie, François Primeau, James C. McWilliams, & Claudia Pasquero. (2015). Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures. Science Advances. 1(4). e1500014–e1500014. 188 indexed citations

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Mei, Wei, Chun‐Chi Lien, I.‐I. Lin, & Shang‐Ping Xie. (2015). Tropical Cyclone–Induced Ocean Response: A Comparative Study of the South China Sea and Tropical Northwest Pacific*,+. Journal of Climate. 28(15). 5952–5968. 88 indexed citations

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Mei, Wei, Shang‐Ping Xie, & Ming Zhao. (2014). Variability of Tropical Cyclone Track Density in the North Atlantic: Observations and High-Resolution Simulations. Journal of Climate. 27(13). 4797–4814. 30 indexed citations

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Herwitz, Stanley R., Michio Aoyagi, Wei Mei, et al.. (2003). WIRELESS LAN FOR OPERATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING PAYLOAD ON A HIGH ALTITUDE SOLAR-POWERED UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 3 indexed citations

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Mei, Wei, et al.. (1998). REAL-TIME DATA SERVER-CLIENT SYSTEM FOR THE NEAR REAL-TIME RESEARCH ANALYSIS OF ENSEMBLE DATA. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 2 indexed citations

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