Wesley Peng

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 735 citations indexed

About

Wesley Peng is a scholar working on Neurology, Epidemiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley Peng has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 735 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Neurology, 4 papers in Epidemiology and 4 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Wesley Peng's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (5 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (4 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (4 papers). Wesley Peng is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (5 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (4 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (4 papers). Wesley Peng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Wesley Peng's co-authors include Dimitri Krainc, Yvette C. Wong, Soojin Kim, Georgia Minakaki, Maria Nguyen, Pingping Song, Dana Sall, Priya Radhakrishnan, Alison C. Essary and Zhong Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Wesley Peng

12 papers receiving 729 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.

Mitochondria-lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial Ca²⁺dynamics via lysosomal TRPML1

2020 221 citations Wesley Peng, Yvette C. Wong et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley Peng United States	10	415	210	151	142	107	13	735
Daniel A. East United Kingdom	12	472 1.1×	186 0.9×	93 0.6×	137 1.0×	36 0.3×	12	732
Benjamin Gottschalk Austria	22	924 2.2×	119 0.6×	285 1.9×	127 0.9×	48 0.4×	57	1.3k
Daniel J. Colacurcio United States	5	324 0.8×	191 0.9×	237 1.6×	143 1.0×	89 0.8×	7	657
Bernadeta Michalska Poland	12	480 1.2×	120 0.6×	154 1.0×	153 1.1×	11 0.1×	14	768
Roberta Felici Italy	16	534 1.3×	148 0.7×	136 0.9×	23 0.2×	215 2.0×	18	1.1k
Liliya Euro Finland	21	1.4k 3.3×	89 0.4×	198 1.3×	98 0.7×	64 0.6×	32	1.7k
Catherine Marquer France	17	604 1.5×	38 0.2×	398 2.6×	175 1.2×	23 0.2×	29	1.1k
Puneet Anand United States	11	356 0.9×	83 0.4×	266 1.8×	81 0.6×	20 0.2×	23	777
Anjli Venkateswaran United States	7	305 0.7×	62 0.3×	162 1.1×	84 0.6×	9 0.1×	7	609
Andrew Folick United States	9	309 0.7×	93 0.4×	120 0.8×	63 0.4×	34 0.3×	9	699

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wesley Peng

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13 of 13 papers shown

Peng, Wesley, et al.. (2024). VPS13C regulates phospho-Rab10-mediated lysosomal function in human dopaminergic neurons. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(5). 10 indexed citations

Essary, Alison C., et al.. (2024). Identifying High-Cost, High-Need Patients in a Network of Community Hospitals. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 15. 4287853570–4287853570.

Peng, Wesley, et al.. (2023). Parkin regulates amino acid homeostasis at mitochondria-lysosome (M/L) contact sites in Parkinson’s disease. Science Advances. 9(29). eadh3347–eadh3347. 47 indexed citations

Shum, Andrew, Sofia Zaichick, Gregory S. McElroy, et al.. (2023). Octopamine metabolically reprograms astrocytes to confer neuroprotection against α-synuclein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(17). e2217396120–e2217396120. 10 indexed citations

Song, Pingping, Wesley Peng, Véronique Sauvé, et al.. (2023). Parkinson’s disease-linked parkin mutation disrupts recycling of synaptic vesicles in human dopaminergic neurons. Neuron. 111(23). 3775–3788.e7. 29 indexed citations

Sall, Dana, et al.. (2023). Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Differences in Primary Care No-Show Risk with Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 38(12). 2734–2741. 3 indexed citations

Sall, Dana, et al.. (2022). Exploring the role of telehealth in providing equitable healthcare to the vulnerable patient population during COVID-19. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 30(6). 1047–1050. 22 indexed citations

Peng, Wesley, et al.. (2022). GaAs to Si Direct Wafer Bonding at T ≤ 220 °C in Ambient Air Via Nano-Bonding™ and Surface Energy Engineering (SEE). Silicon. 14(17). 11903–11926. 2 indexed citations

Peng, Wesley, Yvette C. Wong, & Dimitri Krainc. (2020). Mitochondria-lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial Ca²⁺dynamics via lysosomal TRPML1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(32). 19266–19275. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wong, Yvette C., Wesley Peng, & Dimitri Krainc. (2019). Lysosomal Regulation of Inter-mitochondrial Contact Fate and Motility in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 2. Developmental Cell. 50(3). 339–354.e4. 73 indexed citations

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Peng, Wesley, Georgia Minakaki, Maria Nguyen, & Dimitri Krainc. (2019). Preserving Lysosomal Function in the Aging Brain: Insights from Neurodegeneration. Neurotherapeutics. 16(3). 611–634. 58 indexed citations

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Wong, Yvette C., Soojin Kim, Wesley Peng, & Dimitri Krainc. (2019). Regulation and Function of Mitochondria–Lysosome Membrane Contact Sites in Cellular Homeostasis. Trends in Cell Biology. 29(6). 500–513. 232 indexed citations

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Woll, Kellie A., Wesley Peng, Qiansheng Liang, et al.. (2017). Photoaffinity Ligand for the Inhalational Anesthetic Sevoflurane Allows Mechanistic Insight into Potassium Channel Modulation. ACS Chemical Biology. 12(5). 1353–1362. 28 indexed citations

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