Wei-Ming Ni

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Wei-Ming Ni is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei-Ming Ni has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Applied Mathematics, 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 8 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Wei-Ming Ni's work include Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (12 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (10 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (8 papers). Wei-Ming Ni is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (12 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (10 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (8 papers). Wei-Ming Ni collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Wei-Ming Ni's co-authors include Izumi Takagi, Yuan Lou, Shoji Yotsutani, Yaping Wu, Xiaoqing He, Xing‐Bin Pan, Chang‐Shou Lin, King‐Yeung Lam, Xuefeng Wang and Changfeng Gui and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Journal of Differential Equations and Journal of Mathematical Biology.

In The Last Decade

Wei-Ming Ni

20 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Locating the peaks of least-energy solutions to a semilin... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Locating the peaks of least-energy solutions to a semilinear Neumann problem
    1993 428 citations Wei-Ming Ni, Izumi Takagi Duke Mathematical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei-Ming Ni United States 18 969 708 664 454 371 21 1.7k
Jean‐Michel Roquejoffre France 24 778 0.8× 465 0.7× 765 1.2× 511 1.1× 315 0.8× 72 1.6k
Izumi Takagi Japan 16 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 524 0.8× 466 1.0× 517 1.4× 29 2.2k
Jong‐Shenq Guo Taiwan 28 1.1k 1.1× 683 1.0× 1.6k 2.4× 619 1.4× 546 1.5× 142 2.6k
Shiwang Ma China 19 805 0.8× 293 0.4× 655 1.0× 280 0.6× 444 1.2× 84 1.4k
Peter Poláčik United States 24 1.2k 1.2× 902 1.3× 466 0.7× 212 0.5× 484 1.3× 92 1.8k
Julián López-Gómez Spain 27 1.9k 2.0× 1.3k 1.8× 975 1.5× 659 1.5× 523 1.4× 155 2.8k
Shair Ahmad United States 22 671 0.7× 196 0.3× 886 1.3× 370 0.8× 168 0.5× 70 1.5k
Nicholas D. Alikakos United States 17 462 0.5× 499 0.7× 293 0.4× 433 1.0× 210 0.6× 35 1.2k
Eiji Yanagida Japan 24 1.1k 1.1× 723 1.0× 311 0.5× 165 0.4× 605 1.6× 120 1.8k
Atsushi Yagi Japan 18 665 0.7× 543 0.8× 252 0.4× 742 1.6× 454 1.2× 71 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei-Ming Ni

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei-Ming Ni

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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He, Xiaoqing, et al.. (2025). Total population for a resource-limited single consumer model. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 90(2). 20–20.
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He, Xiaoqing & Wei-Ming Ni. (2013). The effects of diffusion and spatial variation in Lotka–Volterra competition–diffusion system II: The general case. Journal of Differential Equations. 254(10). 4088–4108. 66 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming & Masaharu Taniguchi. (2013). Traveling fronts of pyramidal shapes in competition-diffusion systems. Networks and Heterogeneous Media. 8(1). 379–395. 32 indexed citations
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Lam, King‐Yeung & Wei-Ming Ni. (2010). Limiting profiles of semilinear elliptic equations with large advection in population dynamics. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. 26(3). 1051–1067. 51 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming, et al.. (2009). Higher Order Approximations in the Heat Equation and the Truncated Moment Problem. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. 40(6). 2241–2261. 5 indexed citations
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Gui, Changfeng, Wei-Ming Ni, & Xuefeng Wang. (2001). Further Study on a Nonlinear Heat Equation. Journal of Differential Equations. 169(2). 588–613. 69 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming, Peter Poláčik, & Eiji Yanagida. (2001). Monotonicity of stable solutions in shadow systems. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 353(12). 5057–5069. 26 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming, Izumi Takagi, & Eiji Yanagida. (2001). Stability of least energy patterns of the shadow system for an activator-inhibitor model. Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 18(2). 259–272. 44 indexed citations
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Lou, Yuan, Salomé Martínez, & Wei-Ming Ni. (2000). On $3\times 3$ Lotka-Volterra competition systems with cross-diffusion. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. 6(1). 175–190. 50 indexed citations
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Lou, Yuan & Wei-Ming Ni. (1999). Diffusion vs Cross-Diffusion: An Elliptic Approach. Journal of Differential Equations. 154(1). 157–190. 239 indexed citations
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Lou, Yuan, Wei-Ming Ni, & Yaping Wu. (1998). On the global existence of a cross-diffusion system. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. 4(2). 193–203. 105 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming & Izumi Takagi. (1993). Locating the peaks of least-energy solutions to a semilinear Neumann problem. Duke Mathematical Journal. 70(2). 428 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ni, Wei-Ming, Xing‐Bin Pan, & Izumi Takagi. (1992). Singular behavior of least-energy solutions of a semilinear Neumann problem involving critical Sobolev exponents. Duke Mathematical Journal. 67(1). 91 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming, et al.. (1991). On the structure of the conformal Gaussian curvature equation on ℝ2. Duke Mathematical Journal. 62(3). 35 indexed citations
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Lin, Chang‐Shou & Wei-Ming Ni. (1988). A counterexample to the nodal domain conjecture and a related semilinear equation. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 102(2). 271–277. 53 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming & Shoji Yotsutani. (1988). Semilinear elliptic equations of Matukuma-type and related topics. 5(1). 1–32. 100 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming & Izumi Takagi. (1986). On the Neumann problem for some semilinear elliptic equations and systems of activator-inhibitor type. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 297(1). 351–368. 85 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming, et al.. (1985). On the elliptic equation Δu+Ku(n+2)/(n−2)=0 and related topics. Duke Mathematical Journal. 52(2). 117 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming, et al.. (1985). On the least growth of harmonic functions am the boundary behavior of riemann mappings. Communications in Partial Differential Equations. 10(7). 767–786. 2 indexed citations
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Ni, Wei-Ming. (1980). Some minimax principles and their applications in nonlinear elliptic equations. Journal d Analyse Mathématique. 37(1). 248–275. 24 indexed citations

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