Zhexing Wen

10.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Zhexing Wen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhexing Wen has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Zhexing Wen's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (10 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (9 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (9 papers). Zhexing Wen is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (10 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (9 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (9 papers). Zhexing Wen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Zhexing Wen's co-authors include Guo‐li Ming, James Q. Zheng, Kimberly M. Christian, Hongjun Song, Hongjun Song, Bing Yao, Gary J. Bassell, Yukio Sasaki, Peng Jin and Hengli Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Zhexing Wen

63 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Zika Virus Infects Human Cortical Neural Progenitors and Attenuates Their Growth

2016 914 citations Hengli Tang, Christy Hammack et al. Cell stem cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhexing Wen United States	30	1.6k	1.0k	851	653	606	65	3.7k
Stevens K. Rehen Brazil	34	2.6k 1.6×	723 0.7×	786 0.9×	516 0.8×	552 0.9×	119	4.7k
Charles L. Howe United States	37	1.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.7×	311 0.4×	712 1.1×	273 0.5×	94	5.0k
Kimberly M. Christian United States	25	1.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.9×	800 0.9×	1.8k 2.7×	571 0.9×	47	5.4k
Chen Zhang China	35	1.8k 1.1×	991 1.0×	196 0.2×	299 0.5×	210 0.3×	166	4.1k
Patrícia P. Garcez Brazil	16	797 0.5×	358 0.4×	771 0.9×	338 0.5×	572 0.9×	36	2.2k
Markus U. Ehrengruber Switzerland	32	1.8k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	307 0.4×	150 0.2×	277 0.5×	54	3.7k
Carmen Sandoval-Espinosa United States	6	1.2k 0.7×	186 0.2×	510 0.6×	519 0.8×	466 0.8×	6	2.2k
Cristian L. Achim United States	40	1.5k 0.9×	686 0.7×	464 0.5×	296 0.5×	1.2k 2.0×	124	6.8k
Pamela E. Knapp United States	41	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	325 0.4×	681 1.0×	303 0.5×	120	5.0k
Marcus Kaul United States	35	1.7k 1.1×	870 0.9×	368 0.4×	219 0.3×	660 1.1×	81	5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhexing Wen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhexing Wen

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hu, Ming, Jan Gralla, Ying Zhou, et al.. (2025). Non-Catalytic Inhibitors of the p38/MK2 Interface: Repurposing Approved Drugs to Target Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(24). 25866–25880.

Yan, Yan, Rui Chen, Hakmook Kang, et al.. (2025). Tensor decomposition of multi-dimensional splicing events across multiple tissues to identify splicing-mediated risk genes associated with complex traits. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(7). e1013303–e1013303. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Xin, et al.. (2024). Deep5hmC: predicting genome-wide 5-hydroxymethylcytosine landscape via a multimodal deep learning model. Bioinformatics. 40(9). 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Ying, et al.. (2024). Non‐Invasive Quality Control of Organoid Cultures Using Mesofluidic CSTR Bioreactors and High‐Content Imaging. Advanced Materials Technologies. 10(3). 8 indexed citations

Yan, Chao, Alyson L. Dickson, Bingshan Li, et al.. (2024). Leveraging generative AI to prioritize drug repurposing candidates for Alzheimer’s disease with real-world clinical validation. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 46–46. 29 indexed citations

Kumar, Amit, Saravanan S. Karuppagounder, Yingxin Chen, et al.. (2023). 2-Deoxyglucose drives plasticity via an adaptive ER stress-ATF4 pathway and elicits stroke recovery and Alzheimer’s resilience. Neuron. 111(18). 2831–2846.e10. 30 indexed citations

Zou, Zhongyu, Jiangbo Wei, Yantao Chen, et al.. (2023). FMRP phosphorylation modulates neuronal translation through YTHDF1. Molecular Cell. 83(23). 4304–4317.e8. 55 indexed citations

Cheng, Yichen, Mausumi Basu, Janhavi P. Natekar, et al.. (2022). Intrinsic antiviral immunity of barrier cells revealed by an iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier cellular model. Cell Reports. 39(9). 110885–110885. 14 indexed citations

O’Donovan, Sinead M., Laura M. Rowland, Zóltan Sarnyai, et al.. (2022). Schizophrenia: a disorder of broken brain bioenergetics. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(5). 2393–2404. 55 indexed citations

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Werner, Erica, Avanti Gokhale, Chi Xu, et al.. (2022). The mitochondrial RNA granule modulates manganese-dependent cell toxicity. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 33(12). ar108–ar108. 3 indexed citations

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Gokhale, Avanti, Stephanie A. Zlatic, A. Freeman, et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial Proteostasis Requires Genes Encoded in a Neurodevelopmental Syndrome Locus. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(31). 6596–6616. 19 indexed citations

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Chen, Junyu, Emily C. Bruggeman, Feng Wang, et al.. (2021). 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is dynamically regulated during forebrain organoid development and aberrantly altered in Alzheimer’s disease. Cell Reports. 35(4). 109042–109042. 38 indexed citations

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Bentea, Eduard, Erica A. K. DePasquale, Sinead M. O’Donovan, et al.. (2019). Kinase network dysregulation in a human induced pluripotent stem cell model of DISC1 schizophrenia. Molecular Omics. 15(3). 173–188. 28 indexed citations

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Hammack, Christy, Sarah C. Ogden, Chongchong Xu, et al.. (2019). Zika Virus Infection Induces DNA Damage Response in Human Neural Progenitors That Enhances Viral Replication. Journal of Virology. 93(20). 51 indexed citations

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Wang, Quan, Rui Chen, Feixiong Cheng, et al.. (2019). A Bayesian framework that integrates multi-omics data and gene networks predicts risk genes from schizophrenia GWAS data. Nature Neuroscience. 22(5). 691–699. 84 indexed citations

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Wen, Zhexing, Shaolei Teng, Lingling Wang, et al.. (2017). Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) protein disturbs neural function in multiple disease-risk pathways. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(14). 2634–2648. 19 indexed citations

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Tang, Hengli, Christy Hammack, Sarah C. Ogden, et al.. (2016). Zika Virus Infects Human Cortical Neural Progenitors and Attenuates Their Growth. Cell stem cell. 18(5). 587–590. 914 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wen, Zhexing, Kimberly M. Christian, Hongjun Song, & Guo‐li Ming. (2015). Modeling psychiatric disorders with patient-derived iPSCs. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 36. 118–127. 61 indexed citations

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Kim, Ju‐Young, Fengyu Zhang, Xin Duan, et al.. (2012). Interplay between DISC1 and GABA Signaling Regulates Neurogenesis in Mice and Risk for Schizophrenia. Cell. 148(5). 1051–1064. 167 indexed citations

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Shim, Sangwoo, et al.. (2011). Postsynaptic TRPC1 Function Contributes to BDNF-Induced Synaptic Potentiation at the Developing Neuromuscular Junction. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(41). 14754–14762. 18 indexed citations

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