Ao Sun

524 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 446 citations indexed

About

Ao Sun is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ao Sun has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 446 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 2 papers in Environmental Engineering and 1 paper in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ao Sun's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (2 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (1 paper) and Livestock Farming and Management (1 paper). Ao Sun is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (2 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (1 paper) and Livestock Farming and Management (1 paper). Ao Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and Australia. Ao Sun's co-authors include Keying Wang, Xunpeng Shi, Yongping Sun, Ping Zhang, Meng Wu, Huaiwei Sun, Xiaofan Zeng, Yiran Zhang, Dongwei GUI and Jie Xue and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Econometrics and Atmospheric Research.

In The Last Decade

Ao Sun

8 papers receiving 442 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.

Resource abundance, industrial structure, and regional carbon emissions efficiency in China

2019 404 citations Keying Wang, Meng Wu et al. Resources Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ao Sun China	3	363	186	110	55	49	10	446
Liwen Sun China	5	317 0.9×	158 0.8×	102 0.9×	30 0.5×	74 1.5×	8	391
Qizhen Wang China	9	251 0.7×	135 0.7×	72 0.7×	28 0.5×	33 0.7×	10	340
Xiumei Sun China	12	398 1.1×	203 1.1×	134 1.2×	17 0.3×	77 1.6×	19	524
Yongda He China	12	429 1.2×	147 0.8×	164 1.5×	34 0.6×	44 0.9×	20	538
Yingzhi Xu China	12	299 0.8×	112 0.6×	79 0.7×	66 1.2×	75 1.5×	29	417
Shijie Li China	10	385 1.1×	176 0.9×	167 1.5×	20 0.4×	51 1.0×	16	473
Xundi Diao China	9	447 1.2×	94 0.5×	115 1.0×	93 1.7×	35 0.7×	33	575
Sai Chen China	8	236 0.7×	88 0.5×	84 0.8×	65 1.2×	86 1.8×	11	436
Tao Ge China	12	480 1.3×	123 0.7×	136 1.2×	25 0.5×	33 0.7×	22	558
Yu Ying United States	6	338 0.9×	135 0.7×	128 1.2×	21 0.4×	26 0.5×	17	428

Countries citing papers authored by Ao Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ao Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ao Sun. 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 Ao Sun. The network helps show where Ao Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ao Sun

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Wang, Junling, Ao Sun, Chenchen Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, & Jinyu Huang. (2025). Improved deep learning-based detection of drainage pipeline defects using an enhanced YOLOv8 framework. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 78. 108605–108605.

2.

Sun, Ao, et al.. (2025). Semi-supervised learning-based identification of the attachment between sludge and microparticles in wastewater treatment. Journal of Environmental Management. 375. 124268–124268. 3 indexed citations

3.

Sun, Ao. (2024). Enterprise Digital Transformation and Environmental Performance. Journal of Cases on Information Technology. 26(1). 1–22. 2 indexed citations

4.

Li, Jianbo, et al.. (2024). Local Ancestry and Adaptive Introgression in Xiangnan Cattle. Biology. 13(12). 1000–1000. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Ao, et al.. (2023). Time is Money: The Social Benefits of Time-of-Use Tariffs. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Ao. (2023). Financial Market Stability, Development of Digital Inclusive Finance and Enterprise Innovation Output. 6(7). 1 indexed citations

7.

Liu, Jingyuan, et al.. (2022). A generalized knockoff procedure for FDR control in structural change detection. Journal of Econometrics. 239(2). 105331–105331. 1 indexed citations

8.

Wang, Keying, Meng Wu, Yongping Sun, et al.. (2019). Resource abundance, industrial structure, and regional carbon emissions efficiency in China. Resources Policy. 60. 203–214. 404 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Zhang, Yiran, Ao Sun, Huaiwei Sun, et al.. (2018). Error adjustment of TMPA satellite precipitation estimates and assessment of their hydrological utility in the middle and upper Yangtze River Basin, China. Atmospheric Research. 216. 52–64. 33 indexed citations

10.

Gao, Xianwen, et al.. (2015). Coke oven pushing plan optimization scheduling research based on improved ant colony algorithm. 2743–2746.

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