Alex Wu

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Alex Wu is a scholar working on Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Wu has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Plant Science, 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 14 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Alex Wu's work include Food composition and properties (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (9 papers). Alex Wu is often cited by papers focused on Food composition and properties (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (9 papers). Alex Wu collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Alex Wu's co-authors include Robert G. Gilbert, Graeme Hammer, Enpeng Li, Graham D. Farquhar, Al Doherty, Susanne von Caemmerer, Matthew K. Morell, Robert J Henry, Kai Wang and Jovin Hasjim and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Alex Wu

41 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Quantifying impacts of enhancing photosynthesis on crop yield

2019 301 citations Alex Wu, Graeme Hammer et al. profile →
Water Use Efficiency as a Constraint and Target for Improving the Resilience and Productivity of C₃ and C₄ Crops

2019 230 citations Alex Wu, Graeme Hammer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Wu Australia	23	1.2k	1.0k	574	468	225	44	2.3k
Qin Zhou China	27	1.7k 1.4×	309 0.3×	190 0.3×	114 0.2×	365 1.6×	107	2.2k
Xudong Zhang China	21	999 0.9×	344 0.3×	227 0.4×	134 0.3×	374 1.7×	43	1.5k
K. Lorenz United States	25	792 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 2.3×	129 0.3×	90 0.4×	96	2.5k
Zhong-Yang HUO China	25	1.7k 1.5×	499 0.5×	221 0.4×	53 0.1×	446 2.0×	146	2.1k
Zhenghui Liu China	34	2.9k 2.5×	473 0.5×	127 0.2×	85 0.2×	809 3.6×	142	3.6k
R. S. Yadav India	31	2.4k 2.1×	202 0.2×	261 0.5×	216 0.5×	447 2.0×	108	3.0k
Gaëtan F. Tremblay Canada	28	669 0.6×	281 0.3×	148 0.3×	122 0.3×	1.7k 7.7×	151	2.8k
Fei Dai China	23	1.7k 1.5×	157 0.2×	118 0.2×	84 0.2×	154 0.7×	58	2.0k
Daniel H. Putnam United States	24	696 0.6×	148 0.1×	200 0.3×	75 0.2×	885 3.9×	84	1.8k
Ravi Valluru United Kingdom	17	1.3k 1.1×	261 0.3×	75 0.1×	92 0.2×	176 0.8×	22	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Wu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Wu 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 Alex Wu. Alex Wu 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

Hammer, Graeme, et al.. (2025). Enhancing sorghum yield and risk management via optimizing crop design. 7(2).

Wang, Zixi, Luxuan Han, Alex Wu, et al.. (2025). Research progress on factors affecting the shelf life and preservation techniques of fresh wet noodles. Journal of Cereal Science. 124. 104219–104219.

Wu, Alex, Ramanath Subramanyam, & Gopesh Anand. (2025). Carbon management practices and associations with firm performance. Journal of Environmental Management. 391. 126414–126414. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Alex, Sandra K. Truong, Ryan F. McCormick, et al.. (2024). Contrasting leaf‐scale photosynthetic low‐light response and its temperature dependency are key to differences in crop‐scale radiation use efficiency. New Phytologist. 241(6). 2435–2447. 9 indexed citations

Li, Changfeng, Alex Wu, & Robert G. Gilbert. (2023). Critical examination of the characterization techniques, and the evidence, for the existence of extra‐long amylopectin chains. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety. 22(5). 4053–4073. 4 indexed citations

Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, et al.. (2023). Loss of plastid ndh genes in an autotrophic desert plant. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 21. 5016–5027. 6 indexed citations

Zhi, Xiaoyu, Graeme Hammer, Andrew Borrell, et al.. (2022). Genetic basis of sorghum leaf width and its potential as a surrogate for transpiration efficiency. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 135(9). 3057–3071. 7 indexed citations

Zhi, Xiaoyu, Alex Wu, Andries Potgieter, et al.. (2022). Estimating Photosynthetic Attributes from High-Throughput Canopy Hyperspectral Sensing in Sorghum. Plant Phenomics. 2022. 9768502–9768502. 20 indexed citations

Wu, Alex, et al.. (2020). Effects of Nonstarch Genetic Modifications on Starch Structure and Properties. Foods. 9(2). 222–222. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Cheng, Alex Wu, Wenwen Yu, et al.. (2020). Parameterizing starch chain-length distributions for structure-property relations. Carbohydrate Polymers. 241. 116390–116390. 161 indexed citations

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Wang, Kai, Francisco Vilaplana, Alex Wu, Jovin Hasjim, & Robert G. Gilbert. (2019). The size dependence of the average number of branches in amylose. Carbohydrate Polymers. 223. 115134–115134. 26 indexed citations

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Wu, Alex, Youhong Song, Erik van Oosterom, & Graeme Hammer. (2016). Connecting Biochemical Photosynthesis Models with Crop Models to Support Crop Improvement. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 1518–1518. 68 indexed citations

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Li, Enpeng, Alex Wu, Juan Li, Qiaoquan Liu, & Robert G. Gilbert. (2015). Improved understanding of rice amylose biosynthesis from advanced starch structural characterization. Rice. 8(1). 55–55. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Kai, Peterson Wambugu, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2015). The biosynthesis, structure and gelatinization properties of starches from wild and cultivated African rice species (Oryza barthii and Oryza glaberrima). Carbohydrate Polymers. 129. 92–100. 71 indexed citations

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Li, Cheng, Alex Wu, Mark S. Turner, et al.. (2015). The Characterization of Modified Starch Branching Enzymes: Toward the Control of Starch Chain-Length Distributions. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0125507–e0125507. 31 indexed citations

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Wu, Alex, Enpeng Li, & Robert G. Gilbert. (2014). Exploring extraction/dissolution procedures for analysis of starch chain-length distributions. Carbohydrate Polymers. 114. 36–42. 204 indexed citations

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Wu, Alex, Jean‐Philippe Ral, Matthew K. Morell, & Robert G. Gilbert. (2014). New Perspectives on the Role of α- and β-Amylases in Transient Starch Synthesis. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e100498–e100498. 27 indexed citations

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Wu, Alex, Torsten Witt, & Robert G. Gilbert. (2013). Characterization Methods for Starch-Based Materials: State of the Art and Perspectives. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 66(12). 1550–1563. 51 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Robert G., et al.. (2013). Improving human health through understanding the complex structure of glucose polymers. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 405(28). 8969–8980. 35 indexed citations

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Wu, Alex, T. Andrew Black, Diana Verseghy, et al.. (2000). A comparison of parametrizations of canopy conductance of aspen and Douglas‐fir forests for class. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 38(1). 81–112. 19 indexed citations

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