Wei Pan

14.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
273 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Wei Pan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Pan has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Molecular Biology, 121 papers in Genetics and 67 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Wei Pan's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (94 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (73 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (72 papers). Wei Pan is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (94 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (73 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (72 papers). Wei Pan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Wei Pan's co-authors include Xiaotong Shen, Peng Wei, Han Fang, Jizhen Lin, Chap T. Le, Chong Wu, Haoran Xue, Yunzhang Zhu, Saonli Basu and Yangqing Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Wei Pan

271 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Akaike's Information Criterion in Generalized Estimating Equations

2001 2.0k citations Wei Pan Biometrics profile →
Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects

2021 201 citations Haoran Xue, Xiaotong Shen et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
Combining the strengths of inverse-variance weighting and Egger regression in Mendelian randomization using a mixture of regressions model

2021 162 citations Zhaotong Lin, Wei Pan 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 Pan United States	47	3.5k	2.4k	1.7k	967	514	273	9.8k
Brian S. Yandell United States	49	2.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	639 0.7×	257 0.5×	153	9.8k
Anne‐Laure Boulesteix Germany	47	2.6k 0.7×	747 0.3×	916 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	1.2k 2.3×	148	12.0k
Kathryn Roeder United States	54	3.5k 1.0×	5.7k 2.4×	1.4k 0.8×	968 1.0×	165 0.3×	164	13.5k
Geert Verbeke Belgium	50	1.2k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	4.3k 2.5×	1.3k 1.3×	293 0.6×	312	14.2k
Rob Tibshirani United States	19	4.7k 1.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	369 0.7×	28	14.2k
Yudi Pawitan Sweden	52	5.4k 1.6×	3.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	575 0.6×	174 0.3×	231	14.3k
Sandrine Dudoit United States	50	11.4k 3.3×	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	323 0.6×	99	17.4k
Russell D. Wolfinger United States	39	2.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	903 0.5×	178 0.2×	953 1.9×	89	9.5k
Chris Holmes United Kingdom	42	1.6k 0.5×	972 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	90 0.2×	146	6.5k
Frank Bretz Switzerland	40	1.6k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	3.9k 2.3×	489 0.5×	3.1k 6.0×	185	17.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Pan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Pan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Pan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pan, Wei, et al.. (2025). Immune Cells and Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Causal Investigation Through Mendelian Randomization. Brain and Behavior. 15(1). e70263–e70263. 4 indexed citations

Liao, Hui‐ling, Haoran Xue, & Wei Pan. (2024). Inferring causal direction between two traits using R2 with application to transcriptome-wide association studies. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(8). 1782–1795. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Kui, Jiawei Wang, Yuhua Chen, et al.. (2024). Causal relationship between gut microbiota and risk of esophageal cancer: evidence from Mendelian randomization study. Aging. 16(4). 3596–3611. 11 indexed citations

Shen, Xiaotong, et al.. (2024). Inferring a directed acyclic graph of phenotypes from GWAS summary statistics. Biometrics. 80(1). 2 indexed citations

Pan, Wei, et al.. (2023). Statistical inference with large‐scale trait imputation. Statistics in Medicine. 43(4). 625–641. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Zhaotong, et al.. (2023). Integrating GWAS summary statistics, individual-level genotypic and omic data to enhance the performance for large-scale trait imputation. Human Molecular Genetics. 32(17). 2693–2703. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Zhaotong, et al.. (2023). DeLIVR: a deep learning approach to IV regression for testing nonlinear causal effects in transcriptome-wide association studies. Biostatistics. 25(2). 468–485. 6 indexed citations

Lin, Zhaotong, et al.. (2023). Inference of causal metabolite networks in the presence of invalid instrumental variables with GWAS summary data. Genetic Epidemiology. 47(8). 585–599. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Chong, Jingjing Zhu, Xiaoran Tong, et al.. (2021). Novel strategy for disease risk prediction incorporating predicted gene expression and DNA methylation data: a multi‐phased study of prostate cancer. Cancer Communications. 41(12). 1387–1397. 8 indexed citations

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Hebbel, Robert P., Peng Wei, Liming Milbauer, et al.. (2020). Abnormal Endothelial Gene Expression Associated With Early Coronary Atherosclerosis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 9(14). e016134–e016134. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianfeng, Zhaopeng Luo, Jingjing Jin, et al.. (2017). Genetic diversities of 24 tobacco cultivars analyzed by SNP. Tobacco Science & Technology. 2 indexed citations

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Kwak, Il‐Youp & Wei Pan. (2016). Gene- and pathway-based association tests for multiple traits with GWAS summary statistics. Bioinformatics. 33(1). 64–71. 31 indexed citations

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Pan, Wei, Il‐Youp Kwak, & Peng Wei. (2015). A Powerful Pathway-Based Adaptive Test for Genetic Association with Common or Rare Variants. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 97(1). 86–98. 48 indexed citations

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Kim, Junghi, Jeffrey R. Wozniak, Bryon A. Mueller, & Wei Pan. (2014). Testing Group Differences in Brain Functional Connectivity: Using Correlations or Partial Correlations?. Brain Connectivity. 5(4). 214–231. 23 indexed citations

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Basu, Saonli, Wei Pan, & William S. Oetting. (2011). A Dimension Reduction Approach for Modeling Multi-Locus Interaction in Case-Control Studies. Human Heredity. 71(4). 234–245. 6 indexed citations

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Pan, Wei. (2009). Statistical Tests of Genetic Association in the Presence of Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions. Human Heredity. 69(2). 131–142. 10 indexed citations

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Parker, David L., et al.. (2007). Organizational Characteristics of Small Metal-Fabricating Businessesin Minnesota. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 13(2). 160–166. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Xu, Huilin Qi, Catherine M. Verfaillie, & Wei Pan. (2003). Statistical significance analysis of longitudinal gene expression data. Bioinformatics. 19(13). 1628–1635. 30 indexed citations

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Pan, Wei & John E. Connett. (2002). SELECTING THE WORKING CORRELATION STRUCTURE IN GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS WITH APPLICATION TO THE LUNG HEALTH STUDY. Statistica Sinica. 12(2). 475–490. 61 indexed citations

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Pan, Wei. (1999). Extending the Iterative Convex Minorant Algorithm to the Cox Model for Interval-Censored Data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 8(1). 109–120. 103 indexed citations

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