Bó Wáng

10.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
431 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Bó Wáng is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bó Wáng has authored 431 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 291 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 126 papers in Genetics and 104 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Bó Wáng's work include Fossil Insects in Amber (260 papers), Plant and animal studies (128 papers) and Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (72 papers). Bó Wáng is often cited by papers focused on Fossil Insects in Amber (260 papers), Plant and animal studies (128 papers) and Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (72 papers). Bó Wáng collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Germany. Bó Wáng's co-authors include Haichun Zhang, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Jacek Szwedo, Daran Zheng, Yan Fang, Michael S. Engel, Iwona Kania, Su‐Chin Chang, Vincent Perrichot and Fangyuan Xia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bó Wáng

406 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

An ammonite trapped in Burmese amber

2019 271 citations Haichun Zhang, Bó Wáng et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the earliest Cenomanian Burmese amber

2014 262 citations Bó Wáng et al. Cretaceous Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bó Wáng China	36	4.1k	1.5k	1.3k	649	512	431	5.9k
Dong Ren China	37	7.8k 1.9×	2.4k 1.6×	2.5k 1.8×	425 0.7×	585 1.1×	717	8.7k
John R. Stewart United Kingdom	31	674 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	326 0.5×	1.3k 2.6×	96	4.2k
Gregory J. Jordan Australia	50	4.0k 1.0×	880 0.6×	876 0.7×	3.1k 4.7×	1.3k 2.6×	224	9.2k
Ming Li China	37	910 0.2×	757 0.5×	169 0.1×	514 0.8×	1.2k 2.4×	233	4.7k
Richard D. Stevens United States	35	2.3k 0.6×	607 0.4×	670 0.5×	582 0.9×	2.6k 5.1×	165	5.4k
Jinzhong Fu Canada	34	890 0.2×	1.5k 1.0×	178 0.1×	180 0.3×	820 1.6×	132	3.7k
David M. Unwin United Kingdom	36	869 0.2×	374 0.2×	3.1k 2.3×	369 0.6×	414 0.8×	100	4.3k
Anne‐Béatrice Dufour France	18	1.8k 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	283 0.2×	1.2k 1.8×	2.6k 5.1×	33	7.3k
Alexander Zizka Germany	28	1.5k 0.4×	418 0.3×	403 0.3×	471 0.7×	794 1.6×	69	3.3k
Mary Seely South Africa	37	1.1k 0.3×	421 0.3×	150 0.1×	364 0.6×	1.4k 2.7×	123	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Bó Wáng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bó Wáng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bó Wáng

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tang, Zihua, et al.. (2025). Illuminating interaction networks along the Silk Roads: a multi-isotopic analysis of the Zaghunluq Cemetery, southern Xinjiang, China. Antiquity. 99(405). 762–779.

Yang, Hu, Daran Zheng, Joost Frieling, et al.. (2025). Climate–carbon-cycle interactions and spatial heterogeneity of the late Triassic Carnian pluvial episode. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5404–5404. 2 indexed citations

Engel, Michael S., et al.. (2025). Descending from trees: a Cretaceous winged ice-crawler illuminates the ecological shift and origin of Grylloblattidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2049). 20250557–20250557. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Lijun, JI Shu'an, Su‐Chin Chang, et al.. (2024). High-precision age constraint for the Xiyingzi Bed of the Jiufotang Formation in western Liaoning, Northeast China. Palaeoworld. 34(4). 100901–100901. 1 indexed citations

Poinar, George O., et al.. (2024). First spider-parasitized mermithid nematode from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research. 158. 105866–105866. 1 indexed citations

Wáng, Bó, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2031). 20241444–20241444. 1 indexed citations

Song, Zhengyu, et al.. (2024). A new Early Cretaceous ommatine beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Archostemata) from Inner Mongolia, China. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. 135(5). 528–532.

Liu, Feilong, Can Wang, Honglei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Vertical heterogeneity enhances network complexity and stability of co-occurrence microbes in the eastern Indian Ocean. Environmental Research. 263(Pt 3). 120225–120225. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Mingjian, Hui Ding, Chaofan Jin, et al.. (2024). Theoretical Analysis and Expression Profiling of 17β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Genes in Gonadal Development and Steroidogenesis of Leopard Coral Grouper (Plectropomus leopardus). International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(4). 2180–2180. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Tao, et al.. (2023). Understanding the effects of tree-crop intercropping systems on crop production in China by combining field experiments with a meta-analysis. Agricultural Systems. 210. 103705–103705. 3 indexed citations

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Engel, Michael S. & Bó Wáng. (2022). A new species of embidopsocine barklouse in Langhian amber from Zhangpu, China (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae). Palaeoentomology. 5(5). 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Chunpeng, Bó Wáng, Torsten Wappler, et al.. (2022). High acoustic diversity and behavioral complexity of katydids in the Mesozoic soundscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(51). e2210601119–e2210601119. 7 indexed citations

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Engel, Michael S., et al.. (2021). Stingless bees in Miocene amber of southeastern China (Hymenoptera: Apidae). LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 1–83. 23 indexed citations

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Wáng, Bó, A. S. Bashkuev, Cédric Aria, et al.. (2020). Mouthpart homologies and life habits of Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies. Science Advances. 6(10). eaay1259–eaay1259. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, He, et al.. (2020). Exceptional preservation of reproductive organs and giant sperm in Cretaceous ostracods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1935). 20201661–20201661. 14 indexed citations

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Barden, Phillip, Vincent Perrichot, & Bó Wáng. (2020). Specialized Predation Drives Aberrant Morphological Integration and Diversity in the Earliest Ants. Current Biology. 30(19). 3818–3824.e4. 45 indexed citations

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Engel, Michael S., Bó Wáng, Abdulaziz S. Alqarni, et al.. (2018). A primitive honey bee from the Middle Miocene deposits of southeastern Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys. 775(775). 117–129. 7 indexed citations

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Badano, Davide, Michael S. Engel, Andrea Basso, Bó Wáng, & Pierfilippo Cerretti. (2018). Diverse Cretaceous larvae reveal the evolutionary and behavioural history of antlions and lacewings. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3257–3257. 82 indexed citations

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Wichard, Wilfried, Marianne Espeland, & Bó Wáng. (2018). Caddisflies with unusual hair-fans on the legs in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Trichoptera). 11(1). 21–28. 10 indexed citations

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Bao, Tong, et al.. (2018). The first true Mordellidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from lower Cenomanian amber of Myanmar. Cretaceous Research. 93. 60–65. 5 indexed citations

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