Wesley Wei Qian

832 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 346 citations indexed

About

Wesley Wei Qian is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sensory Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley Wei Qian has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 346 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 2 papers in Sensory Systems. Recurrent topics in Wesley Wei Qian's work include Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (2 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (2 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (2 papers). Wesley Wei Qian is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (2 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (2 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (2 papers). Wesley Wei Qian collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Wesley Wei Qian's co-authors include Jian Peng, Yunan Luo, Guangde Jiang, Huimin Zhao, Yang Liu, Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling, Jennifer N. Wei, Tianhao Yu, Yufeng Su and Alexander B. Wiltschko and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Wesley Wei Qian

8 papers receiving 340 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.

A principal odor map unifies diverse tasks in olfactory perception

2023 93 citations Emily J. Mayhew, Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley Wei Qian United States	7	195	59	47	37	35	8	346
Chakra S. Chennubhotla United States	9	235 1.2×	74 1.3×	78 1.7×	11 0.3×	67 1.9×	14	381
Hongyang Li United States	15	283 1.5×	62 1.1×	20 0.4×	41 1.1×	22 0.6×	36	569
Chi Chung Lam Hong Kong	10	148 0.8×	17 0.3×	50 1.1×	8 0.2×	14 0.4×	16	301
Balaji Selvam United States	14	331 1.7×	32 0.5×	7 0.1×	8 0.2×	27 0.8×	41	460
Trias Thireou Greece	12	195 1.0×	20 0.3×	12 0.3×	33 0.9×	12 0.3×	38	447
Mathilde Koch France	10	439 2.3×	118 2.0×	14 0.3×	27 0.7×	22 0.6×	12	526
Katarína Furmanová Czechia	6	244 1.3×	26 0.4×	3 0.1×	26 0.7×	48 1.4×	23	389
Uwe Radelof Germany	9	231 1.2×	18 0.3×	8 0.2×	25 0.7×	14 0.4×	14	306
Samuel DeLuca United States	6	458 2.3×	32 0.5×	9 0.2×	7 0.2×	117 3.3×	8	632
Hyeonjin Kim South Korea	10	139 0.7×	10 0.2×	6 0.1×	35 0.9×	12 0.3×	20	300

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wesley Wei Qian

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Wei, Jennifer N., Marnix Vlot, Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling, et al.. (2025). A deep learning and digital archaeology approach for mosquito repellent discovery. Chemical Senses. 50. 1 indexed citations

2.

Qian, Wesley Wei, Jennifer N. Wei, Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling, et al.. (2023). Metabolic activity organizes olfactory representations. eLife. 12. 11 indexed citations

3.

Segal, Dmitri, Stefan Maier, Wesley Wei Qian, et al.. (2023). A central chaperone-like role for 14-3-3 proteins in human cells. Molecular Cell. 83(6). 974–993.e15. 35 indexed citations

4.

Mayhew, Emily J., Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling, Jennifer N. Wei, et al.. (2023). A principal odor map unifies diverse tasks in olfactory perception. Science. 381(6661). 999–1006. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alerasool, Nader, Zhen-Yuan Lin, Jessica Lacoste, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive interactome profiling of the human Hsp70 network highlights functional differentiation of J domains. Molecular Cell. 81(12). 2549–2565.e8. 51 indexed citations

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Luo, Yunan, Guangde Jiang, Tianhao Yu, et al.. (2021). ECNet is an evolutionary context-integrated deep learning framework for protein engineering. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5743–5743. 112 indexed citations

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Qian, Wesley Wei, Subhashini Venugopalan, Arunachalam Narayanaswamy, et al.. (2020). Batch equalization with a generative adversarial network. Bioinformatics. 36(Supplement_2). i875–i883. 12 indexed citations

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Sánchez-Lengeling, Benjamín, Jennifer N. Wei, Brian K. Lee, et al.. (2020). Evaluating Attribution for Graph Neural Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 5898–5910. 31 indexed citations

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