Zhijian Wei

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Zhijian Wei is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhijian Wei has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 23 papers in Surgery and 17 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Zhijian Wei's work include Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (20 papers), Spinal Cord Injury Research (15 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (14 papers). Zhijian Wei is often cited by papers focused on Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (20 papers), Spinal Cord Injury Research (15 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (14 papers). Zhijian Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Zhijian Wei's co-authors include Baoyou Fan, Shiqing Feng, Lei Huang, Hengxing Zhou, Xianhu Zhou, Shiqing Feng, Guidong Shi, Aman Xu, Xin Cheng and Aman Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ACS Nano and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Zhijian Wei

58 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Microenvironment Imbalance of Spinal Cord Injury 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2022 100 200 300
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. Microenvironment Imbalance of Spinal Cord Injury
    2018 397 citations Baoyou Fan, Zhijian Wei et al. profile →
  2. Progression in translational research on spinal cord injury based on microenvironment imbalance
    2022 150 citations Baoyou Fan, Zhijian Wei et al. profile →

Peers

Zhijian Wei
Claire M Rice United Kingdom
Pasquale De Bonis Italy
Gustavo Pradilla United States
Domenico Gerardo Iacopino Italy
David Hunt United Kingdom
Wenchun Qu United States
Brian P. Walcott United States
Bassem Yamout Lebanon
Giuseppe Barbagallo Italy
Gerhard Walter Germany
Claire M Rice United Kingdom
Zhijian Wei
Citations per year, relative to Zhijian Wei Zhijian Wei (= 1×) peers Claire M Rice

Countries citing papers authored by Zhijian Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhijian Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhijian Wei. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Zhijian Wei. The network helps show where Zhijian Wei may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhijian Wei

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

All Works

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Xu, Boyang, Ling Li, Wei Qian, et al.. (2025). Cholesterol metabolism on stem cell fate determination: a frontier horizon. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 16(1). 561–561.
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Wang, Wenzhao, Mingjie Sun, Zhengdong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Application of microenvironment biomimetic materials in spinal cord injury and future prospects. 2(3). 137–139.
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Li, Junjin, et al.. (2024). Senescence- and Immunity-Related Changes in the Central Nervous System: A Comprehensive Review. Aging and Disease. 16(4). 2177–2177. 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Peipei, Zhijian Wei, Junjie Xia, & Feng Yu. (2024). Correlation of HCT-ALB, SmtO2, CRT and LAC with renal impairment and prognosis in patients with septic shock. Journal of Medical Biochemistry. 43(6). 927–935.
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Zhang, Jianping, Han Ding, Wenxiang Li, et al.. (2024). Nicotinamide Riboside Promotes the Proliferation of Endogenous Neural Stem Cells to Repair Spinal Cord Injury. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. 20(7). 1854–1868. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoxiong, Jianping Zhang, Jinze Li, et al.. (2023). Discovery of therapeutic targets for spinal cord injury based on molecular mechanisms of axon regeneration after conditioning lesion. Journal of Translational Medicine. 21(1). 511–511. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiaodong, et al.. (2023). Prognostic significance of post-preoperative tumor markers increments in patients with non-metastatic gastric cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 149(13). 12191–12201. 5 indexed citations
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Wei, Zhijian, et al.. (2023). Nomogram established using risk factors of early gastric cancer for predicting the lymph node metastasis. World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology. 15(4). 665–676. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lixiang, Jun Ma, Lei Chen, et al.. (2023). Efficacy and outcome of extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage plus surgery vs surgery alone with advanced gastric cancer patients. World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 15(3). 430–439. 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Zhijian, Shiqing Feng, Jinze Li, et al.. (2022). Bioinformatics analysis of ferroptosis in spinal cord injury. Neural Regeneration Research. 18(3). 626–626. 36 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lixiang, et al.. (2022). Prognostic factors for disease-free survival in postoperative patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and construction of a nomogram model. World Journal of Clinical Cases. 10(36). 13250–13263. 1 indexed citations
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Wei, Zhijian, Lei Huang, Xinyue Zhang, & Aman Xu. (2020). Expression and significance of Her2 and Ki-67 in gastric adenocarcinoma without distant metastasis: a cohort study. BMC Gastroenterology. 20(1). 343–343. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lixiang, Wenxiu Han, & Zhijian Wei. (2018). The evaluation of immune and nutrition-based prognostic index for gastric cancer. Zhonghua putong waike zazhi. 33(1). 16–19. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Lu, Hengxing Zhou, Bin Pan, et al.. (2017). c-Jun Amino-Terminal Kinase is Involved in Valproic Acid-Mediated Neuronal Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic NSCs and Neurite Outgrowth of NSC-Derived Neurons. Neurochemical Research. 42(4). 1254–1266. 13 indexed citations
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Fan, Baoyou, Zhijian Wei, Xianhu Zhou, et al.. (2016). Does vertebral augmentation lead to an increasing incidence of adjacent vertebral failure? A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Surgery. 36(Pt A). 369–376. 12 indexed citations
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Fan, Baoyou, Xianhu Zhou, Zhijian Wei, et al.. (2016). Cannulated screw fixation and plate fixation for displaced intra-articular calcaneus fracture: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. International Journal of Surgery. 34. 64–72. 33 indexed citations
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Wei, Zhijian, Lei Huang, & Aman Xu. (2016). Reoperation in an adult female with "right-sided" Hirschsprung's disease complicated by refractory hypertension and cough. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 22(41). 9235–9235. 2 indexed citations

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