Chenghao Wang

3.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
88 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Chenghao Wang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Chenghao Wang has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 35 papers in Environmental Engineering and 26 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Chenghao Wang's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (27 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (17 papers) and Climate variability and models (12 papers). Chenghao Wang is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (27 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (17 papers) and Climate variability and models (12 papers). Chenghao Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Chile. Chenghao Wang's co-authors include Zhi‐Hua Wang, Jiachuan Yang, Soe W. Myint, Kamil E. Kaloush, Chuyuan Wang, Jiyun Song, Qi Li, Sarah Féron, Young‐Hee Ryu and Robert B. Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Chenghao Wang

77 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban vegetation during extreme heat

2024 80 citations Zhaowu Yu, Jiaqi Chen et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Cooling efficacy of trees across cities is determined by background climate, urban morphology, and tree trait

2024 58 citations Chenghao Wang et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →
Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions

2025 16 citations Zhaowu Yu, Siheng Li et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chenghao Wang United States	27	1.2k	817	810	312	300	88	2.2k
Xu Tang China	17	1.1k 1.0×	912 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	199 0.6×	1.0k 3.4×	37	2.4k
Chunlin Li China	30	897 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	631 0.8×	96 0.3×	363 1.2×	182	2.8k
A. W. M Ng Australia	27	1.2k 1.0×	787 1.0×	664 0.8×	404 1.3×	158 0.5×	83	2.3k
Xiaoming Cai United Kingdom	33	2.1k 1.8×	715 0.9×	1.5k 1.8×	358 1.1×	890 3.0×	100	3.1k
Mo Wang China	28	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	477 0.6×	228 0.7×	269 0.9×	117	2.7k
Yongming Xu China	24	1.1k 1.0×	806 1.0×	523 0.6×	170 0.5×	757 2.5×	92	2.1k
Lijian Han China	26	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	1.4k 1.7×	81 0.3×	647 2.2×	83	2.9k
Weifeng Li China	30	1.8k 1.5×	2.1k 2.5×	2.3k 2.8×	140 0.4×	811 2.7×	92	4.4k
Weixing Zhang China	20	419 0.4×	592 0.7×	546 0.7×	104 0.3×	160 0.5×	55	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Chenghao Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chenghao Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chenghao Wang

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

Yu, Zhaowu, et al.. (2025). Satellite-driven evidence of forest-induced temperature variability and its biophysical and biogeochemical pathways across latitudes. Ecological Indicators. 175. 113545–113545. 1 indexed citations

Thompson, Lawrence S., et al.. (2025). Assessment of convection-permitting hydroclimate modeling in urban areas across the contiguous United States. Urban Climate. 61. 102375–102375. 4 indexed citations

Yu, Zhaowu, Siheng Li, Wenjun Yang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(18). 9082–9092. 16 indexed citations breakdown →

Miao, Chunping, et al.. (2025). A review of urban energy resilience assessment under extreme climate conditions. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 23(1).

Wang, Zhi‐Hua, et al.. (2025). Impact of urban trees on carbon dioxide exchange: Mechanistic pathways, environmental controls, and feedback. Journal of Environmental Management. 374. 124028–124028. 2 indexed citations

Liang, Jiawei, Bing Li, Yanhong Yang, et al.. (2025). Thermal decomposition catalytic properties of ammonium perchlorate with three new energetic complexes on the basis of metal centre regulation. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 348. 125376–125376.

Liu, Jia, Fei Xue, Xiaojuan Guo, et al.. (2024). Methane dynamics altered by reservoir operations in a typical tributary of the Three Gorges Reservoir. Water Research. 263. 122163–122163. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Zhi‐Hua, et al.. (2024). Megacities are causal pacemakers of extreme heatwaves. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 17 indexed citations

Lu, Mingzhen, Chuanbin Zhou, Chenghao Wang, Robert B. Jackson, & Christopher P. Kempes. (2024). Worldwide scaling of waste generation in urban systems. Nature Cities. 1(2). 126–135. 41 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhaowu, Jiaqi Chen, Jike Chen, et al.. (2024). Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban vegetation during extreme heat. Remote Sensing of Environment. 305. 114098–114098. 80 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Chenghao, Chengbin Deng, Janet Reyna, et al.. (2024). CHUWD-H v1.0: a comprehensive historical hourly weather database for U.S. urban energy system modeling. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1383–1383. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Chenghao, Jiyun Song, Dachuan Shi, et al.. (2023). Impacts of climate change, population growth, and power sector decarbonization on urban building energy use. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6434–6434. 67 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhi‐Hua, et al.. (2023). Finding Causal Gateways of Precipitation Over the Contiguous United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(4). 8 indexed citations

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Dong, Yue, Jia Liu, Xiang Cheng, et al.. (2023). Wastewater-influenced estuaries are characterized by disproportionately high nitrous oxide emissions but overestimated IPCC emission factor. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhi‐Hua, et al.. (2022). Detecting the causal influence of thermal environments among climate regions in the United States. Journal of Environmental Management. 322. 116001–116001. 19 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Zutao, Tong Jiao, Sarah Féron, et al.. (2022). Albedo changes caused by future urbanization contribute to global warming. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3800–3800. 128 indexed citations

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Cordero, Raúl R., Edgardo Sepúlveda, Sarah Féron, et al.. (2022). Black carbon in the Southern Andean snowpack. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44042–44042. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Chenghao. (2020). The Residence Time of Pollutants Emitted within the Urban Canopy Influenced by Street Canyon Geometry and Emission Conditions. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Chenghao, et al.. (2017). Landscape determinants of spatio-temporal patterns of aerosol optical depth in the two most polluted metropolitans in the United States. The Science of The Total Environment. 609. 1556–1565. 32 indexed citations

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Xiao, Shangbin, Weiguo Liu, Hong Yang, et al.. (2014). Extreme Methane Bubbling Emissions from a Subtropical Shallow Eutrophic Pond. 1(2). 4 indexed citations

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