Weijun Pan

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Weijun Pan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Weijun Pan has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Cell Biology and 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Weijun Pan's work include Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (16 papers), Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (12 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (10 papers). Weijun Pan is often cited by papers focused on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (16 papers), Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (12 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (10 papers). Weijun Pan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Weijun Pan's co-authors include Dianqing Wu, Jiyong Wang, Junhao Mao, David Kimelman, Gist H. Farr, Huidong Yuan, Christopher Flynn, Li Lin, Shinji Takada and Bo Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Weijun Pan

68 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

GSK3: a multifaceted kinase in Wnt signaling

2009 696 citations Dianqing Wu, Weijun Pan profile →
Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-5 Binds to Axin and Regulates the Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway

2001 677 citations Junhao Mao, Jiyong Wang et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weijun Pan China	28	2.2k	562	369	304	295	73	3.4k
Jean Charron Canada	30	2.1k 0.9×	350 0.6×	508 1.4×	481 1.6×	208 0.7×	63	3.3k
Stefania Petrini Italy	34	2.2k 1.0×	352 0.6×	353 1.0×	364 1.2×	283 1.0×	127	3.7k
J. Douglas Coffin United States	33	3.0k 1.3×	574 1.0×	530 1.4×	859 2.8×	281 1.0×	49	4.0k
Mathias Mericskay France	32	2.6k 1.2×	774 1.4×	376 1.0×	319 1.0×	390 1.3×	65	4.3k
Yongchao Ma China	30	2.0k 0.9×	298 0.5×	260 0.7×	220 0.7×	260 0.9×	95	3.3k
Vincent Sauzeau France	27	1.8k 0.8×	468 0.8×	271 0.7×	175 0.6×	430 1.5×	51	3.3k
Margaret Clagett‐Dame United States	31	2.2k 1.0×	364 0.6×	152 0.4×	811 2.7×	305 1.0×	90	3.7k
Francesco Saverio Ambesi‐Impiombato Italy	27	1.6k 0.7×	411 0.7×	383 1.0×	475 1.6×	179 0.6×	72	3.3k
Miyuki Suzawa Japan	27	1.7k 0.8×	259 0.5×	503 1.4×	842 2.8×	266 0.9×	38	3.1k
Michael T. Chin United States	36	2.6k 1.1×	280 0.5×	293 0.8×	451 1.5×	397 1.3×	100	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Weijun Pan

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Weijun Pan's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Weijun Pan with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Weijun Pan more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Weijun Pan

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Weijun Pan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Weijun Pan. The network helps show where Weijun Pan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weijun Pan

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Tan, Qixing, et al.. (2025). Elf1 Deficiency Impairs Macrophage Development in Zebrafish Model Organism. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(6). 2537–2537.

Zhao, Zixuan, Cong Liu, Limin Zhang, et al.. (2025). The TIM22 carrier translocase supports cell proliferation by facilitating mitochondrial iron uptake for Fe-S biogenesis. Molecular Cell. 85(24). 4587–4601.e7.

Zhang, Rong, Wei Zhu, Xiaolei Liu, et al.. (2024). Mutant kri1l causes abnormal retinal development via cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induction. Cell Death Discovery. 10(1). 251–251. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Di, Yaping Zhang, Lili Zhang, et al.. (2023). Cthrc1 deficiency aggravates wound healing and promotes cardiac rupture after myocardial infarction via non-canonical WNT5A signaling pathway. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 19(4). 1299–1315. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Yu, Yuwen Zhu, Yue Chang, et al.. (2023). Proteolytic activation of angiomotin by DDI2 promotes angiogenesis. The EMBO Journal. 42(15). e112900–e112900. 8 indexed citations

Yu, Qing, Yujie Chen, Guangdun Peng, et al.. (2022). Activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling by Zeb1 in endothelial progenitors induces vascular quiescence entry. Cell Reports. 41(8). 111694–111694. 10 indexed citations

Qin, Xiaofei, Linbo Wang, Xiaohu Chen, et al.. (2021). In-vivo 3D imaging of Zebrafish’s intersegmental vessel development by a bi-directional light-sheet illumination microscope. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 557. 8–13. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Yang, Rui Zhang, Weijun Pan, et al.. (2021). Effects of L-carnitine combined with pancreatic kininogenase on thioredoxin 2, thioredoxin reductase 1, and sperm quality in patients with oligoasthenospermia. Translational Andrology and Urology. 10(8). 3515–3523. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaofen, Wenjuan Zhang, Changbin Jing, et al.. (2021). Mutation of Gemin5 Causes Defective Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells Proliferation in Zebrafish Embryonic Hematopoiesis. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 670654–670654. 8 indexed citations

10.

Zhu, Yuanduo, Beibei Zhu, Hui Gao, et al.. (2018). Repeated measures of prenatal phthalate exposure and maternal hemoglobin concentration trends: The Ma'anshan birth cohort (MABC) study. Environmental Pollution. 242(Pt B). 1033–1041. 19 indexed citations

11.

Huang, Kun, Shuangqin Yan, You You, et al.. (2018). [Association between pregnancy-related anxiety of pregnant women and autism-like behavior in their offspring at 18 months of age].. PubMed. 39(6). 826–829. 3 indexed citations

12.

Zhang, Ruilin, Jie He, Weijun Pan, et al.. (2018). Report of the Fifth Zebrafish Research Conference of China. Zebrafish. 16(1). 128–134.

13.

Jin, Da‐Qing, Yiwei Chen, Weijun Pan, et al.. (2017). Vegfa signaling regulates diverse artery/vein formation in vertebrate vasculatures. Journal of genetics and genomics. 44(10). 483–492. 20 indexed citations

14.

Ge, Xing, Kun Huang, Leijing Mao, et al.. (2016). [Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and fetal outcomes: a prospective birth cohort study].. PubMed. 37(2). 187–91. 10 indexed citations

15.

Qin, Bo, Dan Cao, Huihui Wu, et al.. (2016). Phosphorylation of SKAP by GSK3β ensures chromosome segregation by a temporal inhibition of Kif2b activity. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 38791–38791. 6 indexed citations

16.

Ding, Xiuxiu, Leijing Mao, Xing Ge, et al.. (2015). [Course and risk factors of maternal pregnancy-related anxiety across pregnancy in Ma' anshan city].. PubMed. 44(3). 371–5. 9 indexed citations

17.

Du, Tingting, Peng‐Fei Xu, Zhiwei Dong, et al.. (2014). Setdb2 controls convergence and extension movements during zebrafish gastrulation by transcriptional regulation of dvr1. Developmental Biology. 392(2). 233–244. 19 indexed citations

18.

Wang, Sheng, Jun‐Lin Yin, Fen Nie, et al.. (2013). Small-molecule modulation of Wnt signaling via modulating the Axin-LRP5/6 interaction. Nature Chemical Biology. 9(9). 579–585. 73 indexed citations

19.

Kamei, Makoto, Sumio Isogai, Weijun Pan, & Brant M. Weinstein. (2010). Imaging Blood Vessels in the Zebrafish. Methods in cell biology. 100. 27–54. 51 indexed citations

20.

Mao, Junhao, Jiyong Wang, Bo Liu, et al.. (2001). Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-5 Binds to Axin and Regulates the Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway. Molecular Cell. 7(4). 801–809. 677 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact