Yulei Wei

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yulei Wei is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yulei Wei has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cancer Research and 6 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Yulei Wei's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (6 papers). Yulei Wei is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (6 papers). Yulei Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yulei Wei's co-authors include Jun Wu, Leqian Yu, Masahiro Sakurai, Simeng Wen, Yu Zhao, Daniel A. Schmitz, Wei Xiong, Yuanjie Niu, Shuhua Zhao and Lei Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yulei Wei

35 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Blastocyst-like structures generated from human pluripotent stem cells

2021 318 citations Leqian Yu, Yulei Wei et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yulei Wei China	16	1.0k	237	135	131	123	38	1.3k
Yingying Hu China	15	1.2k 1.1×	256 1.1×	30 0.2×	106 0.8×	62 0.5×	38	1.5k
Jichang Wang China	18	958 0.9×	177 0.7×	34 0.3×	321 2.5×	55 0.4×	41	1.3k
Michelle Percharde United Kingdom	13	921 0.9×	103 0.4×	57 0.4×	236 1.8×	34 0.3×	15	1.1k
Genbao Shao China	22	871 0.8×	256 1.1×	100 0.7×	28 0.2×	65 0.5×	60	1.3k
Esther Nuebel United States	7	905 0.9×	204 0.9×	63 0.5×	19 0.1×	116 0.9×	8	1.1k
Buhe Nashun China	11	788 0.8×	68 0.3×	117 0.9×	46 0.4×	46 0.4×	19	913
Moyra Lawrence United Kingdom	5	816 0.8×	92 0.4×	30 0.2×	72 0.5×	26 0.2×	7	954
Deanne Tibbitts United States	8	747 0.7×	67 0.3×	187 1.4×	101 0.8×	40 0.3×	19	1.1k
Xihua Li China	18	703 0.7×	297 1.3×	17 0.1×	140 1.1×	53 0.4×	61	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yulei Wei

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wei, Yulei, et al.. (2025). Effects of phospholipase C inhibition on the regulation of membrane lipid metabolism in maize leaves. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1547477–1547477.

Yang, Xiaolong, Nannan He, H. J. Yang, et al.. (2025). Spatial transcriptomic characterization of a Carnegie stage 7 human embryo. Nature Cell Biology. 27(2). 360–369. 14 indexed citations

Xiao, Zhenyu, Lina Cui, Nannan He, et al.. (2024). 3D reconstruction of a gastrulating human embryo. Cell. 187(11). 2855–2874.e19. 34 indexed citations

Hsieh, Pei‐Ling, Yi-Wen Liao, Yulei Wei, et al.. (2024). Osthole mitigates the myofibroblast properties in oral submucous fibrosis by suppressing the TGF-β/smad2 signaling pathway and NCK-AS1 expression. Journal of Dental Sciences. 20(2). 911–918. 1 indexed citations

Pinzón-Arteaga, Carlos A., Ryan O’Hara, Alice Mazzagatti, et al.. (2024). TASOR expression in naive embryonic stem cells safeguards their developmental potential. Cell Reports. 43(11). 114887–114887. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yu, Simeng Wen, Hang Li, et al.. (2023). Enhancer RNA promotes resistance to radiotherapy in bone-metastatic prostate cancer by m⁶A modification. Theranostics. 13(2). 596–610. 24 indexed citations

Pinzón-Arteaga, Carlos A., Yinjuan Wang, Yulei Wei, et al.. (2023). Bovine blastocyst-like structures derived from stem cell cultures. Cell stem cell. 30(5). 611–616.e7. 36 indexed citations

Wei, Yulei, Carlos A. Pinzón-Arteaga, Deirdre M. Logsdon, et al.. (2023). Generation of Human Blastoids from Naive Pluripotent Stem Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 2767. 1–18. 1 indexed citations

Xie, Peitao, Yulei Wei, Guixian Li, et al.. (2022). Two percolation behaviors in binary heterogeneous composites for high permittivity and negative permittivity. Engineered Science. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenjing, et al.. (2022). PD‐L1 rs2890658 Polymorphism Increases Risk for Non‐Small‐Cell Lung Cancer in Northern China Population Based on Experimental Data and Meta‐Analysis. Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging. 2022(1). 8433489–8433489. 4 indexed citations

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Yu, Leqian, Yulei Wei, Jialei Duan, et al.. (2021). Blastocyst-like structures generated from human pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 591(7851). 620–626. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wei, Yulei, Xinyu Liu, Haiyang Zhang, et al.. (2021). Membrane Lipids’ Metabolism and Transcriptional Regulation in Maize Roots Under Cold Stress. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 639132–639132. 44 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaoxuan, Yulei Wei, Jiaxin Li, et al.. (2021). The Adjustment of Membrane Lipid Metabolism Pathways in Maize Roots Under Saline–Alkaline Stress. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 635327–635327. 25 indexed citations

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Wen, Simeng, et al.. (2020). Functional roles of antisense enhancer RNA for promoting prostate cancer progression. Theranostics. 11(4). 1780–1794. 25 indexed citations

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Wei, Yulei, et al.. (2020). miR-484 suppresses endocrine therapy-resistant cells by inhibiting KLF4-induced cancer stem cells in estrogen receptor-positive cancers. Breast Cancer. 28(1). 175–186. 14 indexed citations

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Yang, Yanjun, et al.. (2020). Ligustrazine eases lung cancer by regulating PTEN and Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Translational Cancer Research. 9(3). 1742–1751. 8 indexed citations

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Wei, Yulei, et al.. (2020). Impact of Long Non-coding RNAs Associated With Microenvironment on Survival for Bladder Cancer Patients. Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 567200–567200. 7 indexed citations

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Wen, Simeng, et al.. (2020). Long non-coding RNA NEAT1 promotes bone metastasis of prostate cancer through N6-methyladenosine. Molecular Cancer. 19(1). 171–171. 208 indexed citations

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Wang, Dawei, Yu Liu, Ziying Chen, et al.. (2019). Impact of diabetes mellitus on coagulation function before and after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 11(12). 5517–5526. 4 indexed citations

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Wei, Yulei, Ganesh N. Pandian, Tingting Zou, et al.. (2016). A Multi‐target Small Molecule for Targeted Transcriptional Activation of Therapeutically Significant Nervous System Genes. ChemistryOpen. 5(6). 517–521. 11 indexed citations

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