Weiwei Wen

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Weiwei Wen is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiwei Wen has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Plant Science, 39 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Weiwei Wen's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (24 papers), Plant Gene Expression Analysis (14 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (13 papers). Weiwei Wen is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (24 papers), Plant Gene Expression Analysis (14 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (13 papers). Weiwei Wen collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Bulgaria. Weiwei Wen's co-authors include Jianbing Yan, Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh, Jie Liu, Haijun Liu, Wenqiang Li, Yang Zhou, Ning Yang, Jie Luo and Huihui Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Weiwei Wen

69 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Metabolome-based genome-wide association study of maize kernel leads to novel biochemical insights

2014 387 citations Weiwei Wen, Haijun Liu et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weiwei Wen China	27	1.5k	1.1k	773	199	131	73	2.4k
Linhai Wang China	37	3.1k 2.1×	1.4k 1.3×	380 0.5×	78 0.4×	128 1.0×	127	3.9k
Ying Sun China	29	2.7k 1.9×	2.0k 1.9×	149 0.2×	129 0.6×	234 1.8×	84	3.7k
Yanqiang Gao China	16	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	532 0.7×	242 1.2×	126 1.0×	31	2.2k
Rong Zhou China	30	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	217 0.3×	64 0.3×	67 0.5×	81	2.2k
Jong Il Chung South Korea	16	1.6k 1.1×	398 0.4×	141 0.2×	340 1.7×	155 1.2×	46	2.5k
Nai‐Qian Dong China	14	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	525 0.7×	112 0.6×	99 0.8×	17	2.3k
Byeong Cheol Moon South Korea	31	2.0k 1.4×	2.1k 1.9×	183 0.2×	140 0.7×	239 1.8×	171	3.5k
Gang Wu China	27	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	201 0.3×	76 0.4×	82 0.6×	140	2.4k
Ding Tang China	38	2.7k 1.8×	2.5k 2.3×	529 0.7×	68 0.3×	41 0.3×	92	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weiwei Wen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jiang, Deyuan & Weiwei Wen. (2025). Not just flavor: Insights into the metabolism of tea plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 85. 102716–102716. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Lin, et al.. (2025). Physiological insights into the responses of tea plants to aluminum through an integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1).

Fernie, Alisdair R., et al.. (2025). The horizontally transferred gene, CsMTAN, rewired purine traffic to build caffeine factories in tea leaves. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology.

Chen, Yan, Weiwei Wen, Ying Xu, et al.. (2024). Targeting RhoA expression with formononetin and salvianolic acid B to mitigate pancreatic cancer-associated endothelial cells changes. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 336. 118711–118711. 1 indexed citations

Meng, Minghui, Xiaohui Jiang, Anthony Bolger, et al.. (2024). In‐depth exploration of the genomic diversity in tea varieties based on a newly constructed pangenome of Camellia sinensis. The Plant Journal. 119(4). 2096–2115. 8 indexed citations

Zhu, Feng, Weiwei Wen, Yunjiang Cheng, Saleh Alseekh, & Alisdair R. Fernie. (2023). Integrating multiomics data accelerates elucidation of plant primary and secondary metabolic pathways. aBIOTECH. 4(1). 47–56. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaoliang, Youjun Zhang, Xiaohui Jiang, et al.. (2023). Depicting the genetic and metabolic panorama of chemical diversity in the tea plant. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 22(4). 1001–1016. 10 indexed citations

Chen, Yan, Jianfeng Yang, Weiwei Wen, et al.. (2023). HtrA3: a promising prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. PeerJ. 11. e16237–e16237. 3 indexed citations

Gui, Songtao, Weiwei Wen, Minghui Meng, et al.. (2022). Going broad and deep: sequencing‐driven insights into plant physiology, evolution, and crop domestication. The Plant Journal. 113(3). 446–459. 8 indexed citations

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Wan, Haoliang, Zhuoran Li, Xiaoliang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Transcription factor CsESE3 positively modulates both jasmonic acid and wax biosynthesis in citrus. aBIOTECH. 3(4). 250–266. 5 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xiaohui, Weiyi Zhang, Alisdair R. Fernie, & Weiwei Wen. (2021). Combining novel technologies with interdisciplinary basic research to enhance horticultural crops. The Plant Journal. 109(1). 35–46. 29 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhehui, Lu Yang, Xiang Zhu, et al.. (2021). Multiomics-based dissection of citrus flavonoid metabolism using a Citrus reticulata × Poncirus trifoliata population. Horticulture Research. 8(1). 56–56. 29 indexed citations

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Zhu, Feng, Saleh Alseekh, Weiwei Wen, Yunjiang Cheng, & Alisdair R. Fernie. (2021). Genome-wide association studies of Arabidopsis dark-induced senescence reveals signatures of autophagy in metabolic reprogramming. Autophagy. 18(2). 457–458. 5 indexed citations

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Zhu, Feng, Saleh Alseekh, Hao Tong, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide association of the metabolic shifts underpinning dark-induced senescence in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 34(1). 557–578. 40 indexed citations

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Deng, Min, Xuehai Zhang, Jingyun Luo, et al.. (2020). Metabolomics analysis reveals differences in evolution between maize and rice. The Plant Journal. 103(5). 1710–1722. 50 indexed citations

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Wan, Haoliang, Hongbo Liu, Jingyu Zhang, et al.. (2020). Lipidomic and transcriptomic analysis reveals reallocation of carbon flux from cuticular wax into plastid membrane lipids in a glossy “Newhall” navel orange mutant. Horticulture Research. 7(1). 41–41. 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weiyi, Saleh Alseekh, Xiang Zhu, et al.. (2020). Dissection of the domestication‐shaped genetic architecture of lettuce primary metabolism. The Plant Journal. 104(3). 613–630. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weiyi, Cheng Luo, Federico Scossa, et al.. (2020). A phased genome based on single sperm sequencing reveals crossover pattern and complex relatedness in tea plants. The Plant Journal. 105(1). 197–208. 14 indexed citations

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Wen, Weiwei, Hongmei Zheng, Yingjian Jiang, et al.. (2017). Effect of intestinal epithelial autophagy on bacterial translocation in severe acute pancreatitis. Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. 41(6). 703–710. 17 indexed citations

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Wen, Weiwei, et al.. (2012). Genetic Characterization of a Core Set of a Tropical Maize Race Tuxpeño for Further Use in Maize Improvement. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e32626–e32626. 41 indexed citations

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