Wensheng Wei

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Wensheng Wei is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wensheng Wei has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Wensheng Wei's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (36 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (6 papers). Wensheng Wei is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (36 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (6 papers). Wensheng Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Wensheng Wei's co-authors include Pengfei Yuan, Shiyou Zhu, Yuexin Zhou, Sheng Yang He, Yanyi Huang, Chunmei Li, Zhongzheng Cao, Zhiheng Liu, Stanley N. Cohen and Nisse Kalkkinen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wensheng Wei

69 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

High-throughput screening of a CRISPR/Cas9 library for functional genomics in human cells

2014 552 citations Shiyou Zhu, Pengfei Yuan et al. Nature profile →
Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing

2019 251 citations Eric S. Lander, Françoise Βaylis et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Wensheng Wei

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GENET

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Ella Hartenian United States

William H. Majoros United States

Adam C. Wilkinson United Kingdom

Sangsu Bae South Korea

Will Dampier United States

Belinda Giardine United States

Dariusz Przybylski United States

Xiaoyan Wang China

Raymond J. Monnat United States

Yan Jaszczyszyn France

Ella Hartenian United States

Wensheng Wei

5.0k ×2.1

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389 ×0.7

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738 ×1.6

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424 ×1.2

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446 ×1.5

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Citations per year, relative to Wensheng Wei Wensheng Wei (= 1×) peers Ella Hartenian

Countries citing papers authored by Wensheng Wei

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wensheng Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wensheng Wei. 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 Wensheng Wei. The network helps show where Wensheng Wei may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wensheng Wei

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Tang, Wei, et al.. (2025). Prime editor-based high-throughput screening reveals functional synonymous mutations in human cells. Nature Biotechnology. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xue, et al.. (2025). Precise modelling of mitochondrial diseases using optimized mitoBEs. Nature. 639(8055). 735–745. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Liang, Changming Luan, Mengjia Hong, et al.. (2025). A mitochondrial disease model is generated and corrected using engineered base editors in rat zygotes. Nature Biotechnology. 44(3). 382–386. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xinning, et al.. (2025). FOCAS: Transcriptome-wide screening of individual m6A sites functionally dissects epitranscriptomic control of gene expression in cancer. Cell. 189(3). 922–938.e23.

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Li, Yizhou, et al.. (2024). Functional profiling of serine, threonine and tyrosine sites. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(4). 532–543. 6 indexed citations

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Liu, Yang, Qingming Yang, Chunmeng Wang, et al.. (2024). The interim analysis of a first-in-human phase 1 trial of ET-901, a CRISPR edited allogeneic immune-cloaked anti-CD19 CAR-T cell therapy in patients with r/r B-NHL.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(16_suppl). e19010–e19010. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoxue, Zongyi Yi, Wei Tang, & Wensheng Wei. (2024). Streamlined process for effective and strand-selective mitochondrial base editing using mitoBEs. Biophysics Reports. 10(0). 1–1.

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Li, Mi, Ming Shi, Yuxuan Li, et al.. (2023). DddA homolog search and engineering expand sequence compatibility of mitochondrial base editing. Nature Communications. 14(1). 874–874. 38 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, Bo Ding, Ping Xu, et al.. (2022). Regulatory elements can be essential for maintaining broad chromatin organization and cell viability. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(8). 4340–4354. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiangpeng, Xiao Qu, Congcong Liu, et al.. (2022). Human FcRn Is a Two-in-One Attachment-Uncoating Receptor for Echovirus 18. mBio. 13(4). e0116622–e0116622. 13 indexed citations

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Yi, Zongyi, Liang Qu, Zhiheng Liu, et al.. (2022). Engineered circular ADAR-recruiting RNAs increase the efficiency and fidelity of RNA editing in vitro and in vivo. Nature Biotechnology. 40(6). 946–955. 124 indexed citations

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Lander, Eric S., Françoise Βaylis, Feng Zhang, et al.. (2019). Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing. Nature. 567(7747). 165–168. 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Qu, Liang, Zongyi Yi, Shiyou Zhu, et al.. (2019). Programmable RNA editing by recruiting endogenous ADAR using engineered RNAs. Nature Biotechnology. 37(9). 1059–1069. 194 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, Zhongzheng Cao, Yinan Wang, et al.. (2018). Genome-wide screening for functional long noncoding RNAs in human cells by Cas9 targeting of splice sites. Nature Biotechnology. 36(12). 1203–1210. 103 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhuo & Wensheng Wei. (2018). PrePAIRing Cas9s for screening success. Nature Biotechnology. 36(2). 147–148. 2 indexed citations

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Wei, Wensheng, François G. Schmitt, Yongxiang Huang, et al.. (2017). Investigation of Turbulence Behaviour in the Stable Boundary Layer Using Arbitrary-Order Hilbert Spectra. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 163(2). 311–326. 26 indexed citations

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Shao, Shipeng, Weiwei Zhang, Huan Hu, et al.. (2016). Long-term dual-color tracking of genomic loci by modified sgRNAs of the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(9). e86–e86. 127 indexed citations

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Qian, Lili, Pengfei Yuan, Sun‐Young Jeong, et al.. (2014). Bidirectional effect of Wnt signaling antagonist DKK1 on the modulation of anthrax toxin uptake. Science China Life Sciences. 57(5). 469–481. 9 indexed citations

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Wei, Wensheng, et al.. (2006). The LDL Receptor-Related Protein LRP6 Mediates Internalization and Lethality of Anthrax Toxin. Cell. 124(6). 1141–1154. 105 indexed citations

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Lih, Chih‐Jian, Wensheng Wei, & Stanley N. Cohen. (2006). Txr1: a transcriptional regulator of thrombospondin-1 that modulates cellular sensitivity to taxanes. Genes & Development. 20(15). 2082–2095. 52 indexed citations

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