Wei-An Lai

3.7k citations
88 papers · 2.8k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 26

Impact in

  • Ecology top 2%
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Papers in

    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 42
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 14

Wei-An Lai

87 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Phosphate solubilizing bacteria from subtropical soil and their tricalcium phosphate solubilizing abilities 2006 · 976 citations
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Peers

Wei-An Lai
Comparison fields: 5 of 103
  • Microbiology 75
  • Ecology 966
  • Plant Science 1.3k
  • Soil Science 286
  • Pollution 274
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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei-An Lai

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Wei-An Lai, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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2 20244
3 20242
4 20232
5 20209
6 201913
7 20174
8 201454
9 20142
10 201415
11 200937
12 200924
13 200940
14 200915
15 200921
16 200836
17 200819
18 200828
19 200845
20 200811

About Wei-An Lai

Wei-An Lai is a scholar working on Microbiology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Endocrinology, having authored 88 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (65 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (14 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (11 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (9 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (8 papers) and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Microbiology (75 citations), Ecology (966 citations), Plant Science (1.3k citations), Soil Science (286 citations) and Pollution (274 citations). Wei-An Lai has collaborated with scholars based in Taiwan, Germany and India. Frequent co-authors include Chiu‐Chung Young, Fo‐Ting Shen, A. B. Arun, P. D. Rekha, Shih-Yao Lin, Asif Hameed, Yi-Han Hsu, You‐Cheng Liu, Peter Kämpfer and Mariyam Shahina. Their work appears in journals such as INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Applied Soil Ecology, World Journal of Surgical Oncology and Biology and Fertility of Soils.

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