Wen Sun

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
146 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Wen Sun is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wen Sun has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Epidemiology, 55 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 39 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Wen Sun's work include Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (62 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (50 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (17 papers). Wen Sun is often cited by papers focused on Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (62 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (50 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (17 papers). Wen Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Wen Sun's co-authors include Xinfeng Liu, Jinjing Wang, Wusheng Zhu, Gelin Xu, Lulu Xiao, Hyeung Kim, Dan Liu, Zhou Songyang, Matthew S. O’Connor and Ma Wan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Wen Sun

128 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wen Sun China	25	844	790	589	555	471	146	2.8k
Dawei Chen China	28	845 1.0×	862 1.1×	392 0.7×	402 0.7×	380 0.8×	258	3.3k
Wusheng Zhu China	33	1.1k 1.3×	635 0.8×	717 1.2×	765 1.4×	247 0.5×	132	3.0k
Xin Cheng China	27	772 0.9×	755 1.0×	460 0.8×	302 0.5×	398 0.8×	148	2.7k
Jeong‐Ho Hong South Korea	33	773 0.9×	1.8k 2.3×	487 0.8×	608 1.1×	293 0.6×	143	4.6k
Alexander Kunz Germany	31	1.1k 1.3×	547 0.7×	754 1.3×	254 0.5×	304 0.6×	109	3.2k
Ran Meng China	26	662 0.8×	345 0.4×	785 1.3×	326 0.6×	219 0.5×	154	2.5k
Sunil A. Sheth United States	28	1.4k 1.7×	2.1k 2.6×	792 1.3×	759 1.4×	351 0.7×	146	4.4k
Sen Lin China	31	936 1.1×	971 1.2×	1.2k 2.0×	304 0.5×	287 0.6×	145	3.3k
Domenico Di Raimondo Italy	39	1.0k 1.2×	738 0.9×	257 0.4×	465 0.8×	530 1.1×	144	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wen Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wen Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mi, Yuling, et al.. (2025). Association Between Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio and Parkinson's Disease Across Different Glucose Metabolism Statuses—A Prospective Study From UK Biobank. European Journal of Neurology. 32(7). e70299–e70299. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Lulu, Weiliang Shi, Zandong Li, et al.. (2025). One-Year Outcome After Endovascular Thrombectomy for Basilar Artery Occlusion With Mild Deficits. Stroke. 56(8). 2122–2134.

Li, Jian, Mohamed Fahmy Doheim, Zhongming Qiu, et al.. (2025). Endovascular Treatment for Acute Posterior Circulation Tandem Lesions: Insights From the BASILAR and PERSIST Registries. Journal of Stroke. 27(1). 75–84.

Yin, Dawei, et al.. (2024). Impairments of neurovascular coupling after stroke lower glymphatic system function and lead to depressive symptom: A longitudinal cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 367. 255–262. 5 indexed citations

Huang, Kai, Kun Zuo, Songlin Wang, et al.. (2024). ASCOD phenotyping of acute vertebrobasilar artery occlusion treated by mechanical thrombectomy: insight from the PERSIST registry. Journal of neurosurgery. 141(4). 983–991. 1 indexed citations

Yin, Dawei, et al.. (2024). Neuroimaging of neuropsychological disturbances following ischaemic stroke (CONNECT): a prospective cohort study protocol. BMJ Open. 14(1). e077799–e077799. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Zhixin, Wei Li, Xianjun Huang, et al.. (2024). Endovascular treatment effect in vertebrobasilar artery occlusion patients with posterior circulation Acute Stroke Prognosis Early CT Score (pc-ASPECTS) <6. Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. 17(10). jnis–2024. 1 indexed citations

Kong, Lingqi, Pengfei Xu, Nan Shen, et al.. (2024). STING orchestrates microglia polarization via interaction with LC3 in autophagy after ischemia. Cell Death and Disease. 15(11). 824–824. 5 indexed citations

Xiao, Lulu, Dezhi Liu, Yongkun Li, et al.. (2024). Functional Outcomes and Symptomatic Intracranial Hemorrhage After Endovascular Treatment in Acute Vertebrobasilar Artery Occlusions: External Validation of Prediction Models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). e001284–e001284.

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Ding, Xianhui, Lulu Xiao, Min Li, et al.. (2024). After early mTICI 2b, stop or continue? Insights from the PERSIST Registry. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 11(7). 1921–1929.

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Li, Tong, Yingchun Wu, Hongchao Shi, et al.. (2023). Endovascular treatment of acute basilar artery occlusion in patients with and without atrial fibrillation: results from the ATTENTION registry. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 16. 4223440526–4223440526. 2 indexed citations

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Bao, Lei, Zhifeng Mao, Chenchen Cui, et al.. (2023). Utility of labial salivary gland biopsy in the histological diagnosis of neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease. European Journal of Neurology. 31(1). e16102–e16102. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Xianjun, Chu Chen, Min Li, et al.. (2022). First-pass effect in patients with acute vertebrobasilar artery occlusion undergoing thrombectomy: insights from the PERSIST registry. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 15. 4213420683–4213420683. 9 indexed citations

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Tao, Chunrong, Rui Li, Yuyou Zhu, et al.. (2022). Endovascular treatment for acute basilar artery occlusion: A multicenter randomized controlled trial (ATTENTION). International Journal of Stroke. 17(7). 815–819. 34 indexed citations

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Xu, Pengfei, Zuowei Duan, Feng Zhang, et al.. (2022). Effects of admission systemic inflammatory indicators on clinical outcomes in patients with vertebrobasilar artery occlusion: insight from the PERSIST registry. Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. 15(e2). e270–e276. 9 indexed citations

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Xiao, Lulu, Jinjing Wang, Yujing Liu, et al.. (2021). Obesity and Poststroke Fatigue: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study. Neurology and Therapy. 10(2). 955–969. 10 indexed citations

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Tao, Chunrong, Pengfei Xu, Jinjing Wang, et al.. (2021). Stressful life events can predict post‐stroke fatigue in patients with ischemic stroke. European Journal of Neurology. 28(9). 3080–3088. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Xianjun, Hongquan Guo, Lili Yuan, et al.. (2021). Blood pressure variability and outcomes after mechanical thrombectomy based on the recanalization and collateral status. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 14. 1280218951–1280218951. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhonghua, et al.. (2020). <p>Causal Effects of Sleep Traits on Ischemic Stroke and Its Subtypes: A Mendelian Randomization Study</p>. Nature and Science of Sleep. Volume 12. 783–790. 18 indexed citations

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Sun, Wen, et al.. (2010). Magnetic resonance imaging of moyamoya disease. 18(7). 513–517.

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