Aihui Wang

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Aihui Wang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aihui Wang has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 46 papers in Atmospheric Science and 19 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Aihui Wang's work include Climate variability and models (45 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (28 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers). Aihui Wang is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (45 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (28 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers). Aihui Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Aihui Wang's co-authors include Xubin Zeng, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Justin Sheffield, Xianghui Kong, Donglin Guo, Lei Wang, Sarith Mahanama, Randal D. Koster, T. J. Bohn and Kun Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Aihui Wang

66 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Soil Moisture Drought in China, 1950–2006 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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. Soil Moisture Drought in China, 1950–2006
    2011 437 citations Aihui Wang, Dennis P. Lettenmaier et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aihui Wang China 24 1.7k 1.2k 637 444 141 68 2.2k
Trent W. Ford United States 23 1.7k 1.0× 950 0.8× 467 0.7× 705 1.6× 211 1.5× 66 2.3k
Kaye L. Brubaker United States 21 1.7k 1.0× 1.6k 1.3× 675 1.1× 425 1.0× 48 0.3× 47 2.4k
Cécile B. Ménard Finland 14 991 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 379 0.6× 398 0.9× 41 0.3× 17 1.9k
T. J. Bohn United States 18 1.2k 0.7× 847 0.7× 869 1.4× 316 0.7× 57 0.4× 36 1.9k
Fei Yuan China 31 2.3k 1.4× 1.3k 1.1× 1.5k 2.4× 543 1.2× 163 1.2× 81 3.0k
Xieyao Ma China 24 1.1k 0.6× 516 0.4× 448 0.7× 159 0.4× 221 1.6× 60 1.4k
Daniel G. Kingston New Zealand 25 1.8k 1.1× 637 0.5× 1.3k 2.0× 235 0.5× 123 0.9× 55 2.2k
Aurore Porson United Kingdom 13 1.0k 0.6× 904 0.8× 237 0.4× 379 0.9× 32 0.2× 17 1.4k
Tinghai Ou Sweden 24 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.3× 394 0.6× 126 0.3× 70 0.5× 70 2.1k
Jürg Schmidli Switzerland 13 1.8k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 453 0.7× 210 0.5× 121 0.9× 23 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Aihui Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Aihui Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aihui Wang

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Qian, Yongkang Xue, Xianghui Kong, et al.. (2025). Excessive Tibetan Plateau spring warming found to cause catastrophic June 2024 heavy rainfall in China. Science Bulletin. 70(10). 1596–1600. 1 indexed citations
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Shen, Shuling, Aihui Wang, Zhenglin Du, et al.. (2025). Hydrothermal-driven catalytic etching-reduction equilibrium: Precise synthesis of Sub-3 nm Ag clusters on TiO2 for enhanced photocatalysis. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1045. 184830–184830.
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Wang, Aihui, et al.. (2025). A Review of Soil Moisture Data in China: Definitions, Sources, and Applications in Hydrometeorology Research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(6). E1108–E1129. 1 indexed citations
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Kong, Xianghui, Aihui Wang, Yongkang Xue, et al.. (2025). Predicting on the Extreme Precipitation in East and Southeast Asia during Summer 2022 from the Antecedent Soil Temperature Anomaly over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Climate. 38(9). 2109–2128. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Xin, Aihui Wang, & Jianqi Sun. (2024). Land surface processes response to warming and wetting trend in Northwest China. Environmental Research Letters. 19(10). 104017–104017. 4 indexed citations
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He, Qing, Hui Lü, Kun Yang, et al.. (2024). Global Optimization of Soil Texture Maps From Satellite‐Observed Soil Moisture Drydowns and Its Implementation in Noah‐MP Land Surface Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(6). 6 indexed citations
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Ma, Xin & Aihui Wang. (2024). Evaluation and Uncertainty Analysis of the Land Surface Hydrology in LS3MIP Models Over China. Earth and Space Science. 11(7). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui, et al.. (2021). Research on land surface temperature downscaling method based on diurnal temperature cycle model deviation coefficient calculation. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 25(8). 1735–1748. 4 indexed citations
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Ye, Tao, Weihang Liu, Deliang Chen, et al.. (2021). Reducing livestock snow disaster risk in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau due to warming and socioeconomic development. The Science of The Total Environment. 813. 151869–151869. 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui, et al.. (2020). Comparison of Ten Potential Evapotranspiration Models and Their Attribution Analyses for Ten Chinese Drainage Basins. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 37(9). 959–974. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui & Xueli Shi. (2019). A Multilayer Soil Moisture Dataset Based on the Gravimetric Method in China and Its Characteristics. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 20(8). 1721–1736. 37 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui, et al.. (2019). Hot Spots of Climate Extremes in the Future. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(6). 3035–3049. 33 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui, et al.. (2018). Assessments of the Northern Hemisphere snow cover response to 1.5 and 2.0 °C warming. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 865–877. 14 indexed citations
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Yue, Xu, Susanna Strada, Nadine Unger, & Aihui Wang. (2017). Future inhibition of ecosystem productivity by increasing wildfire pollution over boreal North America. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(22). 13699–13719. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Xiuping, Lei Wang, Deliang Chen, Kun Yang, & Aihui Wang. (2014). Seasonal evapotranspiration changes (1983–2006) of four large basins on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 119(23). 78 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui, et al.. (2013). Changes in Daily Climate Extremes of Observed Temperature and Precipitation in China. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 6(5). 312–319. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui & Xubin Zeng. (2013). Development of Global Hourly 0.5° Land Surface Air Temperature Datasets. Journal of Climate. 26(19). 7676–7691. 50 indexed citations
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Wang, Aihui, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, & Justin Sheffield. (2011). Soil Moisture Drought in China, 1950–2006. Journal of Climate. 24(13). 3257–3271. 437 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Aihui. (2008). Recent Progress in the Land-Surface and Hydrological Process Studies. 2 indexed citations

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