Fan Wang

10.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
430 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Fan Wang is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fan Wang has authored 430 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 221 papers in Oceanography, 178 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 102 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Fan Wang's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (204 papers), Climate variability and models (153 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (91 papers). Fan Wang is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (204 papers), Climate variability and models (153 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (91 papers). Fan Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Fan Wang's co-authors include Yuanlong Li, Jialun Ping, Dunxin Hu, Shijian Hu, Hongxia Huang, Chuanyu Liu, T. Goldman, Pengfei Lin, Tangdong Qu and Jianing Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Fan Wang

396 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2020 2023 100 200 300 400 500
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. Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate
    2015 520 citations Shijian Hu, Janet Sprintall et al. profile →
  2. Deep-learning-based information mining from ocean remote-sensing imagery
    2020 275 citations Bin Zhang, Fan Wang et al. profile →
  3. The seas around China in a warming climate
    2023 86 citations Fan Wang, Xuegang Li et al. profile →

Peers

Fan Wang
Hiroshi Murakami Japan
Hiroyuki Murakami Japan
Jason Holt United Kingdom
Giuseppe Etiope Italy
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert United States
Kenneth E. Peters United States
Peter B. Rhines United States
Lei Wang China
Andrew W. Robertson United States
John Marshall United Kingdom
Hiroshi Murakami Japan
Fan Wang
Citations per year, relative to Fan Wang Fan Wang (= 1×) peers Hiroshi Murakami

Countries citing papers authored by Fan Wang

Since Specialization
Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fan Wang

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fan Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fan Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fan 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 Fan Wang. Fan 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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Yu, Jin‐Yi, et al.. (2025). Linking North Pacific eastern subtropical mode water to ENSO: precursor signatures and subtropical cell pathways. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1).
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Ren, Qiuping, Shang‐Ping Xie, Qihua Peng, Yuanlong Li, & Fan Wang. (2025). Equatorial Atlantic mid-depth warming indicates Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Wang, Fan, et al.. (2024). Analysis and Design of Bat-Like Flapping-Wing Aircraft. Aerospace. 11(4). 325–325. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Fan, et al.. (2024). Uniformly elevated future heat stress in China driven by spatially heterogeneous water vapor changes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4522–4522. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanlong, et al.. (2023). Water sources of the Lombok, Ombai and Timor outflows of the Indonesian throughflow. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Heyu, Yan He, Xiaomin Wu, et al.. (2023). PathNarratives: Data annotation for pathological human-AI collaborative diagnosis. Frontiers in Medicine. 9. 1070072–1070072. 13 indexed citations
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Ma, Kai, et al.. (2023). Ocean mixing induced by three-dimensional structure of equatorial mode tropical instability waves in the Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Fan, et al.. (2023). Special Sea‐Level and Circulation Anomalies in the Philippine Sea During the 2006/2007 and 2009/2010 El Niño Events. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(6). 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Shijian, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the Contribution of Salinity Effect to the Seasonal Variability of the Makassar Strait Throughflow. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(21). 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Fan, et al.. (2022). Intraseasonal Variability of Surface Circulation in the Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool Induced by Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(11). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Xuegang, Jinming Song, Baoxiao Qu, et al.. (2022). Reconstruction of global surface ocean p CO 2 using region-specific predictors based on a stepwise FFNN regression algorithm. Biogeosciences. 19(3). 845–859. 13 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanlong, et al.. (2021). Ocean Salinity Aspects of the Ningaloo Niño. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6141–6161. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Min, et al.. (2021). GPS determined coseismic slip of the 2021Mw7.4 Maduo, China, earthquake and its tectonic implication. Geophysical Journal International. 228(3). 2048–2055. 31 indexed citations
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Wang, Jianing, et al.. (2021). Linking Seasonal‐to‐Interannual Variability of Intermediate Currents in the Southwest Tropical Pacific to Wind Forcing and ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(5). 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Chuanyu, et al.. (2019). The Subsurface Mode Tropical Instability Waves in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean and Their Impacts on Shear and Mixing. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(21). 12270–12278. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Chuanyu, Xiaowei Wang, Armin Köhl, Fan Wang, & Zhiyu Liu. (2018). The Northeast‐Southwest Oscillating Equatorial Mode of the Tropical Instability Wave and Its Impact on Equatorial Mixing. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(1). 218–225. 20 indexed citations
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Ren, Qiuping, et al.. (2018). Seasonality of the Mindanao Current/Undercurrent System. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(2). 1105–1122. 34 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhiyu, et al.. (2017). Weak Thermocline Mixing in the North Pacific Low‐Latitude Western Boundary Current System. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(20). 40 indexed citations

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