Wei Perng

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Wei Perng is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Perng has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 57 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 39 papers in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Recurrent topics in Wei Perng's work include Birth, Development, and Health (80 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (35 papers) and Gestational Diabetes Research and Management (35 papers). Wei Perng is often cited by papers focused on Birth, Development, and Health (80 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (35 papers) and Gestational Diabetes Research and Management (35 papers). Wei Perng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Slovenia. Wei Perng's co-authors include Emily Oken, Sheryl L. Rifas‐Shiman, Dana Dabelea, Matthew W. Gillman, Marie‐France Hivert, Karen E. Peterson, Eduardo Villamor, Zachary M. Laubach, Martha María Téllez‐Rojo and Christos S. Mantzoros and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Wei Perng

140 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes: The Epidemiology of an Awakening Epidemic

2023 95 citations Wei Perng, Dana Dabelea et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Perng United States	31	1.1k	684	648	528	516	152	2.7k
Sylvain Sebért United Kingdom	28	931 0.9×	481 0.7×	456 0.7×	452 0.9×	617 1.2×	105	2.5k
Melissa Suter United States	24	901 0.8×	426 0.6×	379 0.6×	542 1.0×	363 0.7×	67	1.9k
Colleen Pearson United States	31	1.2k 1.1×	653 1.0×	756 1.2×	266 0.5×	365 0.7×	89	3.0k
Dafang Chen China	29	578 0.5×	465 0.7×	430 0.7×	425 0.8×	168 0.3×	167	2.9k
Eero Kajantie Finland	31	2.5k 2.3×	855 1.3×	1.5k 2.2×	313 0.6×	579 1.1×	78	3.7k
Marie‐Jo Brion United Kingdom	21	1.1k 1.0×	926 1.4×	563 0.9×	671 1.3×	421 0.8×	34	3.5k
Lindsey A. Sjaarda United States	31	949 0.9×	990 1.4×	740 1.1×	185 0.4×	226 0.4×	125	2.8k
Adam J. Watkins United Kingdom	28	2.0k 1.9×	971 1.4×	844 1.3×	868 1.6×	359 0.7×	68	3.1k
Kimberly O’Brien United States	43	825 0.8×	814 1.2×	896 1.4×	371 0.7×	941 1.8×	170	5.4k
Izzuddin M. Aris United States	32	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	807 1.2×	136 0.3×	350 0.7×	153	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Perng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Perng

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Conway, Baqiyyah, et al.. (2025). BMI and Mortality: The Diabetes-Obesity Paradox Examined in a Large US Cohort. Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity. Volume 18. 1195–1206. 1 indexed citations

Rifas‐Shiman, Sheryl L., Izzuddin M. Aris, Wei Perng, et al.. (2025). Adolescent “Lean PCOS” Is Characterized by Higher Insulin Resistance and Adverse Adipokine Profile. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Barnard, Leslie M., et al.. (2025). Firearm access, storage practices, and suicide risk factors among Colorado adults during 2020–2022. 2(4).

Dabelea, Dana, John L. Adgate, Wei Perng, et al.. (2024). Associations of urinary biomarkers of phthalates, phenols, parabens, and organophosphate esters with glycemic traits in pregnancy: The Healthy Start Study. Environmental Research. 262(Pt 1). 119810–119810. 5 indexed citations

Cohen, Nathan, Sheryl L. Rifas‐Shiman, Wei Perng, et al.. (2024). Associations of gestation length and offspring birthweight for gestational age with menopausal symptoms and age of natural menopause at midlife among women enrolled in a prebirth longitudinal cohort. Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society. 32(4). 323–330.

Dabelea, Dana, et al.. (2024). Maternal Inflammation, Offspring Neurobehavioral Health, and Perinatal Correlates in the Healthy Start Study. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5. 1–24.

Moore, Brianna F., Noel T. Mueller, Wei Perng, et al.. (2024). Impact of prenatal exposure to delta 9‐tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on birth size and postnatal growth trajectories. Pediatric Obesity. 20(1). e13187–e13187. 1 indexed citations

Francis, Ellen C., Katerina Kechris, Randi K. Johnson, et al.. (2024). Maternal Serum Metabolomics in Mid-Pregnancy Identifies Lipid Pathways as a Key Link to Offspring Obesity in Early Childhood. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(14). 7620–7620. 3 indexed citations

Harrall, Kylie K., Deborah H. Glueck, Leslie A. Lange, et al.. (2024). GLP-1R Gene Polymorphisms and Metabolic Traits During Childhood and Adolescence: The EPOCH Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 110(9). e3031–e3040. 1 indexed citations

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Perng, Wei, Noya Galai, Qi Zhao, et al.. (2024). Sociodemographic Correlates of High Cardiovascular Health Across Childhood and Adolescence: A Prospective Study Among 2 Cohorts in the ECHO Consortium. Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(15). e036279–e036279. 1 indexed citations

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Harrall, Kylie K., et al.. (2023). Associations of infant feeding practices with abdominal and hepatic fat measures in childhood in the longitudinal Healthy Start Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 119(2). 560–568. 2 indexed citations

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Rifas‐Shiman, Sheryl L., Wei Perng, Mandy B. Belfort, et al.. (2023). Growth Velocities Across Distinct Early Life Windows and Child Cognition: Insights from a Contemporary US Cohort. The Journal of Pediatrics. 263. 113653–113653. 3 indexed citations

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Kasman, Matt, Ross A. Hammond, Jody M. Ganiban, et al.. (2023). Childhood Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: an Agent-Based Model of Context-Specific Reduction Efforts. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 65(6). 1003–1014. 2 indexed citations

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Laubach, Zachary M., Kay E. Holekamp, Izzuddin M. Aris, Natalie Slopen, & Wei Perng. (2022). Applications of conceptual models from lifecourse epidemiology in ecology and evolutionary biology. Biology Letters. 18(7). 20220194–20220194. 4 indexed citations

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Francis, Ellen C., Dana Dabelea, Kristen E. Boyle, Thomas Jansson, & Wei Perng. (2021). Maternal Diet Quality Is Associated with Placental Proteins in the Placental Insulin/Growth Factor, Environmental Stress, Inflammation, and mTOR Signaling Pathways: The Healthy Start ECHO Cohort. Journal of Nutrition. 152(3). 816–825. 14 indexed citations

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Laubach, Zachary M., Eleanor J. Murray, Kim L. Hoke, Rebecca J. Safran, & Wei Perng. (2021). A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1943). 20202815–20202815. 80 indexed citations

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Gering, Eben, Zachary M. Laubach, Patty S.D. Weber, et al.. (2021). Toxoplasma gondii infections are associated with costly boldness toward felids in a wild host. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3842–3842. 29 indexed citations

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Laubach, Zachary M., Julia Greenberg, Julie W. Turner, et al.. (2021). Early-life social experience affects offspring DNA methylation and later life stress phenotype. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4398–4398. 23 indexed citations

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Francis, Ellen C., Dana Dabelea, Brandy M. Ringham, Katherine A. Sauder, & Wei Perng. (2020). Maternal blood glucose level and offspring glucose–insulin homeostasis: what is the role of offspring adiposity?. Diabetologia. 64(1). 83–94. 13 indexed citations

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Mitro, Susanna D., Jinxi Liu, Lindsay M. Jaacks, et al.. (2020). Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance plasma concentrations and metabolomic markers of type 2 diabetes in the Diabetes Prevention Program trial. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 232. 113680–113680. 18 indexed citations

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