Wei Ying

6.0k citations

79 papers · 4.4k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Cancer Research top 1%
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Immunology top 2%
- Immune cells in cancer

Papers in ⓘ

Cancer Research 21
- MicroRNA in disease regulation 17
Immunology 21
- Immune cells in cancer 11
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 6

Co-authors: Jerrold M. Olefsky (13 shared papers)Felipe C.G. Reis (6 shared papers)Wenxian Fu (4 shared papers)Gautam Bandyopadhyay (12 shared papers)Roi Isaac (5 shared papers)Joshua Wollam (6 shared papers)Jachelle M. Ofrecio (4 shared papers)Pingping Li (3 shared papers)
Journals: Cell Metabolism (5 papers)Nature Metabolism (3 papers)Scientific Reports (2 papers)Diabetes (2 papers)Frontiers in Immunology (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Wei Ying

71 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Aberrant iron distribution via hepatocyte-stellate cell axis drives liver lipogenesis and fibrosis 2022 · 150 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Cell Metabolism
2021 Cell Metabolism
2021 Cell Metabolism
2019 Nature Reviews Endocrinology
2017 Cell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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1	Adipose Tissue Macrophage-Derived Exosomal miRNAs Can Modulate In Vivo and In Vitro Insulin Sensitivity Cell ·Wei Ying, Matthew Riopel, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Yi Dong, Amanda Birmingham, Jong Bae Seo, Jachelle M. Ofrecio, Joshua Wollam, Angelina Hernández-Carretero, Wenxian Fu, Pingping Li, Jerrold M. Olefsky Hit paper breakdown →	2017	931
2	Exosomes as mediators of intercellular crosstalk in metabolism Cell Metabolism ·Roi Isaac, Felipe C.G. Reis, Wei Ying, Jerrold M. Olefsky Hit paper breakdown →	2021	520
3	Investigation of Macrophage Polarization Using Bone Marrow Derived Macrophages Journal of Visualized Experiments ·Wei Ying, Patali S. Cheruku, Fuller W. Bazer, Stephen Safe, Beiyan Zhou	2013	266
4	The role of macrophages in obesity-associated islet inflammation and β-cell abnormalities Nature Reviews Endocrinology ·Wei Ying, Wenxian Fu, Yun Sok Lee, Jerrold M. Olefsky Hit paper breakdown →	2019	261
5	Hematopoietic-Derived Galectin-3 Causes Cellular and Systemic Insulin Resistance Cell ·Pingping Li, Shuainan Liu, Min Lü, Gautum K. Bandyopadhyay, Dayoung Oh, Takeshi Imamura, Andrew M. Johnson, Dorothy D. Sears, Zhufang Shen, Bing Cui, Lijuan Kong, Shaocong Hou, Xiao Liang, Salvatore Iovino, Steven M. Watkins, Wei Ying, Olivia Osborn, Joshua Wollam, Martin Brenner, Jerrold M. Olefsky	2016	240
6	MiR-690, an exosomal-derived miRNA from M2-polarized macrophages, improves insulin sensitivity in obese mice Cell Metabolism ·Wei Ying, Hong Gao, Felipe C.G. Reis, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Jachelle M. Ofrecio, Zhenlong Luo, Yudong Ji, Zhongmou Jin, Crystal Ly, Jerrold M. Olefsky Hit paper breakdown →	2021	221
7	Expansion of Islet-Resident Macrophages Leads to Inflammation Affecting β Cell Proliferation and Function in Obesity Cell Metabolism ·Wei Ying, Yun Sok Lee, Yi Dong, Jason S. Seidman, Meixiang Yang, Roi Isaac, Jong Bae Seo, Bi-Huei Yang, Joshua Wollam, Matthew Riopel, Joanne McNelis, Christopher K. Glass, Jerrold M. Olefsky, Wenxian Fu	2018	190
8	Aberrant iron distribution via hepatocyte-stellate cell axis drives liver lipogenesis and fibrosis Cell Metabolism ·Hong Gao, Zhongmou Jin, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Gaowei Wang, Dinghong Zhang, Karina Cunha e Rocha, Xiao Liu, Huayi Zhao, Tatiana Kisseleva, David A. Brenner, Michael Karin, Wei Ying Hit paper breakdown →	2022	150
9	MicroRNA-223 is a crucial mediator of PPARγ-regulated alternative macrophage activation Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Wei Ying, Alexander M. Tseng, Richard Chang, Andrew Morin, Tyler Brehm, Karen Triff, Vijayalekshmi Nair, Guoqing Zhuang, Hui Song, Srikanth Kanameni, Haiqing Wang, Michael C. Golding, Fuller W. Bazer, Robert S. Chapkin, Stephen Safe, Beiyan Zhou	2015	124
10	Adipose tissue B2 cells promote insulin resistance through leukotriene LTB4/LTB4R1 signaling Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Wei Ying, Joshua Wollam, Jachelle M. Ofrecio, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Dalila El Ouarrat, Yun Sok Lee, Da Young Oh, Pingping Li, Olivia Osborn, Jerrold M. Olefsky	2017	101
11	Arginine Decarboxylase and Agmatinase: An Alternative Pathway for De Novo Biosynthesis of Polyamines for Development of Mammalian Conceptuses1 Biology of Reproduction ·Xiaoqiu Wang, Wei Ying, Kathrin A. Dunlap, Gang Lin, M. Carey Satterfield, Robert C. Burghardt, Guoyao Wu, Fuller W. Bazer	2014	98
12	MiR-690 treatment causes decreased fibrosis and steatosis and restores specific Kupffer cell functions in NASH Cell Metabolism ·Hong Gao, Zhongmou Jin, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Karina Cunha e Rocha, Xiao Liu, Huayi Zhao, Dinghong Zhang, Hani Jouihan, Soheil Pourshahian, Tatiana Kisseleva, David A. Brenner, Wei Ying, Jerrold M. Olefsky	2022	96
13	CRIg+ Macrophages Prevent Gut Microbial DNA–Containing Extracellular Vesicle–Induced Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance Gastroenterology ·Zhenlong Luo, Yudong Ji, Hong Gao, Felipe C.G. Reis, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Zhongmou Jin, Crystal Ly, Ya‐Ju Chang, Dinghong Zhang, Deepak Kumar, Wei Ying	2020	83
14	Hepatocyte-derived exosomes from early onset obese mice promote insulin sensitivity through miR-3075 Nature Metabolism ·Yudong Ji, Zhenlong Luo, Hong Gao, Felipe C.G. Reis, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Zhongmou Jin, Kameswari Ananthakrishnan Manda, Roi Isaac, Meixiang Yang, Wenxian Fu, Wei Ying, Jerrold M. Olefsky	2021	71
15	Accumulation of microbial DNAs promotes to islet inflammation and β cell abnormalities in obesity in mice Nature Communications ·Hong Gao, Zhenlong Luo, Yudong Ji, Kechun Tang, Zhongmou Jin, Crystal Ly, Dorothy D. Sears, Sushil K. Mahata, Wei Ying	2022	66
16	Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: An Immunometabolic Perspective Frontiers in Endocrinology ·Paras K. Mishra, Wei Ying, Shyam Sundar Nandi, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Kaushik K. Patel, Sushil K. Mahata	2017	57
17	Catestatin Inhibits Obesity-Induced Macrophage Infiltration and Inflammation in the Liver and Suppresses Hepatic Glucose Production, Leading to Improved Insulin Sensitivity Diabetes ·Wei Ying, Sumana Mahata, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Zhenqi Zhou, Joshua Wollam, Jessica Vu, Rafael Mayoral, Nai‐Wen Chi, Nicholas J. G. Webster, Angelo Corti, Sushil K. Mahata	2018	51
18	A Bunyavirus-Inducible Ubiquitin Ligase Targets RNA Polymerase IV for Degradation during Viral Pathogenesis in Rice Molecular Plant ·Chao Zhang, Wei Ying, Le Xu, Kangcheng Wu, Liang Yang, Chaonan Shi, Guoyi Yang, Dong Chen, Feifei Yu, Qi Xie, Shou‐Wei Ding, Jian Wu	2020	46
19	The many faces of interferon tau Amino Acids ·Fuller W. Bazer, Wei Ying, Xiaoqiu Wang, Kathrin A. Dunlap, Beiyan Zhou, Greg A. Johnson, Guoyao Wu	2015	46
20	Exosome-Mediated Impact on Systemic Metabolism Annual Review of Physiology ·Karina Cunha e Rocha, Wei Ying, Jerrold M. Olefsky	2024	46

About Wei Ying

Wei Ying is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Immunology, Biological Psychiatry, Physiology and Epidemiology, having authored 79 papers that have together received 4.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include MicroRNA in disease regulation (17 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (14 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (11 papers), Immune cells in cancer (11 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (9 papers), Circular RNAs in diseases (7 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (6 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (1.3k citations), Immunology (997 citations), Molecular Biology (2.6k citations), Physiology (658 citations) and Epidemiology (860 citations). Wei Ying has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Jerrold M. Olefsky, Felipe C.G. Reis, Wenxian Fu, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Roi Isaac, Joshua Wollam, Jachelle M. Ofrecio, Pingping Li, Matthew Riopel and Yun Sok Lee. Their work appears in journals such as Cell Metabolism, Nature Metabolism, Scientific Reports, Diabetes and Frontiers in Immunology.

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