Wei Tan

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Wei Tan is a scholar working on Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Tan has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Geophysics, 22 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Tan's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (29 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (20 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (18 papers). Wei Tan is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (29 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (20 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (18 papers). Wei Tan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Wei Tan's co-authors include Hongping He, Xiaoliang Liang, Jianxi Zhu, Christina Yan Wang, Yuanhong Zhong, Runliang Zhu, Peng Yuan, Zisen He, Gu Yuan and Gaoling Wei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Applied Physics Letters and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Wei Tan

106 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Tan China	26	570	396	381	358	338	107	2.3k
Lijuan Liu China	31	808 1.4×	222 0.6×	220 0.6×	181 0.5×	310 0.9×	207	3.5k
Xiandong Liu China	33	535 0.9×	206 0.5×	730 1.9×	191 0.5×	240 0.7×	139	3.2k
Erzsébet Horváth Hungary	38	889 1.6×	522 1.3×	599 1.6×	177 0.5×	274 0.8×	135	3.9k
Juraj Majzlan Germany	34	927 1.6×	504 1.3×	924 2.4×	719 2.0×	508 1.5×	188	4.7k
Knud Dideriksen Denmark	28	350 0.6×	342 0.9×	484 1.3×	474 1.3×	377 1.1×	62	3.3k
H. Henry Teng China	33	885 1.6×	279 0.7×	364 1.0×	335 0.9×	770 2.3×	100	4.4k
Thelma S. Berquó United States	27	964 1.7×	738 1.9×	954 2.5×	303 0.8×	211 0.6×	44	3.5k
Guodong Zheng China	33	284 0.5×	425 1.1×	76 0.2×	281 0.8×	451 1.3×	176	3.3k
Yongchun Tang United States	43	658 1.2×	213 0.5×	120 0.3×	139 0.4×	133 0.4×	93	5.4k
Ralph Steininger Germany	25	604 1.1×	193 0.5×	206 0.5×	383 1.1×	122 0.4×	113	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Tan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Tan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Tan

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

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Liu, Changqing, Chengxu Zhang, Zhongchen Wu, et al.. (2025). Evaluating chemical weathering degree of basalts using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and its implications for Mars. Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy. 231. 107257–107257. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yan, et al.. (2024). Characterization of regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits using reflectance spectroscopy: Framework towards an efficient and reliable field exploration tool. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 267. 107578–107578. 2 indexed citations

Li, Shan, Jiaxin Xi, Xiaoju Lin, et al.. (2024). Influence of goethite nanophase on rare-earth element patterns and enrichment in marine phosphates during early diagenesis. Chemical Geology. 653. 122029–122029. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Gaofeng, Bowen Ling, Xiaoliang Liang, et al.. (2024). Transport Model of Rare Earth Elements in Weathering Crusts during Electrokinetic Mining. Minerals. 14(4). 360–360. 4 indexed citations

Guo, Kai, Yuxuan Cheng, Hongsheng Zhang, et al.. (2024). Insights to the Transition Regimes of Flow-Induced Vibration for Three Tandem Cylinders. The International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration. 29(4). 376–390. 1 indexed citations

Tan, Wei, Hongping He, J. R. Michalski, et al.. (2024). Experimental transformation of nontronite to kaolinite: implication for ferrallitization of Fe/Mg-rich clays in compositional stratigraphy on Mars. Icarus. 413. 116016–116016. 1 indexed citations

Kang, Shichang, Bowen Ling, Gaofeng Wang, et al.. (2024). Transport dynamics of rare earth elements in weathering crust soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 930. 172843–172843. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Hongyu, et al.. (2023). A pH-Responsive Asymmetric Microfluidic/Chitosan Device for Drug Release in Infective Bone Defect Treatment. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(5). 4616–4616. 12 indexed citations

Tan, Wei, et al.. (2023). Occurrence and magmatic origin of platinum-group minerals in the Hongge layered intrusion, SW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 255. 105776–105776. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuanyuan, Liu Liu, Mingqi Sun, et al.. (2023). Distribution and Fractionation of Rare Earth Elements (REE) in the Ion Adsorption-type REE Deposit (IAD) at Maofeng Mountain, Guangzhou, China. Clays and Clay Minerals. 71(3). 340–361. 6 indexed citations

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He, Hongping, Xiaoliang Liang, Zhiwei Bao, et al.. (2021). Characteristics and genesis of ion adsorption type REE deposits in the weathering crusts of metamorphic rocks in Ningdu, Ganzhou, China. Ore Geology Reviews. 135. 104173–104173. 37 indexed citations

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Li, Fangyuan, Wei Tan, Han Chen, et al.. (2018). Up- and downregulation of mature miR-1587 function by modulating its G-quadruplex structure and using small molecules. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 121. 127–134. 21 indexed citations

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Li, Ying, Gaoling Wei, Hongping He, et al.. (2018). Improvement of zinc substitution in the reactivity of magnetite coupled with aqueous Fe(II) towards nitrobenzene reduction. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 517. 104–112. 11 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lulu, Hanlie Hong, Qian Fang, et al.. (2017). Assessing the utility of visible-to-shortwave infrared reflectance spectroscopy for analysis of soil weathering intensity and paleoclimate reconstruction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 512. 80–94. 43 indexed citations

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Tan, Wei, et al.. (2017). Hsa‐miR‐1587 G‐quadruplex formation and dimerization induced by NH4+, molecular crowding environment and jatrorrhizine derivatives. Talanta. 179. 337–343. 25 indexed citations

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Tan, Wei, et al.. (2017). Investigation of G-quadruplex formation in the FGFR2 promoter region and its transcriptional regulation by liensinine. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1861(4). 884–891. 14 indexed citations

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Tan, Wei, Jiang Zhou, Jiangyong Gu, et al.. (2016). Probing the G‑quadruplex from hsa-miR-3620-5p and inhibition of its interaction with the target sequence. Talanta. 154. 560–566. 28 indexed citations

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He, Hongping, Yuanhong Zhong, Xiaoliang Liang, et al.. (2015). Natural Magnetite: an efficient catalyst for the degradation of organic contaminant. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 10139–10139. 93 indexed citations

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Liang, Xiaoliang, Peng Liu, Hongping He, et al.. (2015). The variation of cationic microstructure in Mn-doped spinel ferrite during calcination and its effect on formaldehyde catalytic oxidation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 306. 305–312. 47 indexed citations

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Tan, Wei, Deqing Zhang, & Daoben Zhu. (2007). 4-N-Methyl-N′-(2-dihydroxyboryl-benzyl)amino benzonitrile and its boronate analogue sensing saccharides and fluoride ion. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 17(9). 2629–2633. 26 indexed citations

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