Xu Lei

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Xu Lei is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Lei has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 71 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 16 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Xu Lei's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (78 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (50 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (41 papers). Xu Lei is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (78 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (50 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (41 papers). Xu Lei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Xu Lei's co-authors include Dezhong Yao, Hong Yuan, Jing Yu, Peng Xu, Yulin Wang, Wenrui Zhao, Ping Yang, Xinyuan Chen, Fei Xin and Hong Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xu Lei

159 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

EEG spectral analysis in insomnia disorder: A systematic ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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.

  1. EEG spectral analysis in insomnia disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    2021 155 citations Xinyuan Chen, Xu Lei et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xu Lei China 31 2.5k 980 413 274 243 172 3.2k
Christos Papadelis United States 30 2.0k 0.8× 748 0.8× 402 1.0× 767 2.8× 179 0.7× 113 3.4k
José L. Cantero Spain 40 3.0k 1.2× 905 0.9× 258 0.6× 544 2.0× 165 0.7× 123 4.5k
Mercedes Atienza Spain 38 3.1k 1.2× 909 0.9× 219 0.5× 476 1.7× 166 0.7× 98 4.0k
Jaeseung Jeong South Korea 29 2.8k 1.1× 378 0.4× 188 0.5× 466 1.7× 201 0.8× 125 4.3k
Mauro Gianni Perrucci Italy 30 3.3k 1.3× 718 0.7× 514 1.2× 708 2.6× 127 0.5× 81 4.2k
Filippo Zappasodi Italy 41 3.5k 1.4× 308 0.3× 489 1.2× 320 1.2× 291 1.2× 142 4.7k
Kieko Kochi Switzerland 29 3.3k 1.3× 524 0.5× 179 0.4× 481 1.8× 204 0.8× 49 4.2k
Charmaine Demanuele United States 18 1.9k 0.7× 698 0.7× 343 0.8× 393 1.4× 33 0.1× 55 2.6k
Masaya Misaki United States 28 2.1k 0.8× 719 0.7× 255 0.6× 315 1.1× 32 0.1× 94 3.0k
Stephen M. LaConte United States 31 2.4k 0.9× 491 0.5× 1.2k 2.9× 214 0.8× 154 0.6× 83 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Xu Lei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xu Lei

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Lei

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

All Works

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Chen, Xinyuan, Nils Müller, Xu Lei, et al.. (2025). Sleep neuroimaging: Review and future directions. Journal of Sleep Research. 34(6). e14462–e14462. 1 indexed citations
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Lei, Xu, et al.. (2025). Aperiodic and periodic components of resting-state EEG in primary insomnia. Sleep Medicine. 129. 45–54. 1 indexed citations
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Niu, Mengting, Chunyu Wang, Yaojia Chen, et al.. (2024). CircRNA identification and feature interpretability analysis. BMC Biology. 22(1). 44–44. 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Haonan, et al.. (2024). Gene expression is associated with brain function of insomnia disorder, rather than brain structure. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 136. 111209–111209. 1 indexed citations
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Lei, Xu, et al.. (2024). Latent profile of the insomnia severity index: A longitudinal study. Sleep Medicine. 115. 202–209. 4 indexed citations
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Niu, Mengting, Chunyu Wang, Yaojia Chen, Quan Zou, & Xu Lei. (2024). Identification, characterization and expression analysis of circRNA encoded by SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(2). 12 indexed citations
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Sun, Haonan, et al.. (2023). Response inhibition impairment related to altered frontal-striatal functional connectivity in insomnia disorder: A pilot and non-clinical study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 170. 138–146. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Ang, Haiyang Liu, Xu Lei, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical fluctuation shapes a dynamic flow linked to states of consciousness. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3238–3238. 6 indexed citations
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Tian, Yun, Michael V. Vitiello, Debo Dong, et al.. (2023). Risk of insomnia during COVID-19: effects of depression and brain functional connectivity. Cerebral Cortex. 33(11). 7015–7025. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhiyi, Pan Feng, Benjamin Becker, et al.. (2021). Neural connectome prospectively encodes the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neurobiology of Stress. 15. 100378–100378. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jianhai, Li Zhu, Jiajia Tang, et al.. (2021). EEG-Based Sleep Staging Analysis with Functional Connectivity. Sensors. 21(6). 1988–1988. 31 indexed citations
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Chen, Xinyuan, et al.. (2020). Lying posture affects sleep structures and cortical activities: a simultaneous EEG-fMRI imaging of the sleeping and waking brain. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 15(4). 2178–2186. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Yajie, Wei Duan, & Xu Lei. (2020). <p>Impaired Coupling of the Brain’s Default Network During Sleep Deprivation: A Resting-State EEG Study</p>. Nature and Science of Sleep. Volume 12. 937–947. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Shengdong, et al.. (2018). Temporal dynamics of spontaneous default-mode network activity mediate the association between reappraisal and depression. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 13(12). 1235–1247. 21 indexed citations
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Lei, Xu. (2012). Research of intrusion detection method based on particle swarm optimization and immune Agent. Computer Engineering and Applications Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Dezhong, et al.. (2009). Electroencephalogram Based Brain-Computer Interface: Key Techniques and Application Prospect. Dianzi Ke-ji Daxue xuebao. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Qiang, et al.. (2009). An Algorithm for Idle-State Detection and Continuous Classifier Design in Motor-Imagery-Based BCI. Journal of Electronic Science and Technology. 7(1). 27–33. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaogang & Xu Lei. (2001). Smoothed Local PCA by BYY data smoothing learning. 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집. 924–927. 1 indexed citations

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