Han Wang

12.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
176 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Han Wang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Han Wang has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 44 papers in Plant Science and 41 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Han Wang's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (28 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers). Han Wang is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (28 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers). Han Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Australia. Han Wang's co-authors include I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison, Trevor F. Keenan, Ian J. Wright, Yongming Luo, Haibo Zhang, Xiaoyu Xia, ‪Damià Barceló, Yufan Fei and F.Z. Cui and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Han Wang

168 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Global climatic drivers of leaf size 2016 2026 2019 2022 2017 2019 2016 200 400 600
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. Global climatic drivers of leaf size
    2017 647 citations Ian J. Wright, Ning Dong et al. Science profile →
  2. Response of soil enzyme activities and bacterial communities to the accumulation of microplastics in an acid cropped soil
    2019 642 citations Han Wang et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  3. Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake
    2016 325 citations Trevor F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Han Wang China 40 2.1k 1.4k 1.1k 1.1k 1.1k 176 6.2k
Wenjie Liu China 46 1.4k 0.7× 986 0.7× 959 0.8× 458 0.4× 560 0.5× 207 6.0k
Rainer Horn Germany 67 1.1k 0.5× 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.2× 518 0.5× 396 0.4× 385 14.3k
Chengrong Chen Australia 59 1.3k 0.6× 2.6k 1.9× 3.3k 2.9× 894 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 236 10.9k
Yunqiang Wang China 60 2.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 2.0k 1.8× 551 0.5× 566 0.5× 225 9.9k
Albert Bleeker Netherlands 33 867 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 658 0.6× 384 0.4× 74 5.1k
Thomas Kätterer Sweden 52 1.3k 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 3.0k 2.6× 428 0.4× 408 0.4× 186 8.6k
Ji Chen China 52 2.0k 1.0× 2.6k 1.9× 2.9k 2.6× 541 0.5× 410 0.4× 363 10.2k
Eldor A. Paul United States 44 1.4k 0.6× 2.0k 1.4× 4.1k 3.6× 992 0.9× 943 0.9× 75 10.3k
Yue Li China 40 1.1k 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 345 0.3× 365 0.3× 192 5.2k
Xinhua He China 60 1.1k 0.5× 5.9k 4.2× 1.9k 1.7× 890 0.8× 700 0.6× 357 12.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Han Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Han Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Han Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Han Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Han 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 Han Wang. Han 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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Harrison, Sandy P., et al.. (2025). A unifying principle for global greenness patterns and trends. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 7 indexed citations
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Jiang, Anan, Zijie Wang, Dianwen Song, et al.. (2025). The Application of Ultrasound‐Induced Blood–Brain Barrier Opening in Neurology and Immunology. Small. 21(31). e2502699–e2502699. 3 indexed citations
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Yan, Yulin, Bolun Li, Benjamin Dechant, et al.. (2025). Plant traits shape global spatiotemporal variations in photosynthetic efficiency. Nature Plants. 11(4). 924–934. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wenwu, et al.. (2025). Vegetation restoration contributes to a reduction in wind and water erosion in China's drylands. Applied Geography. 176. 103517–103517. 1 indexed citations
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He, Pengcheng, Qing Ye, Kailiang Yu, et al.. (2025). Relationship between wind speed and plant hydraulics at the global scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 273–281. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhen, Hongyu Ma, Zhi Su, et al.. (2024). Optimal scheduling study of cascade hydropower stations to ensure ecological flow requirements—A case study of the Gorge Section of the Yongding River, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 953. 175977–175977. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhengbing, Matteo Detto, Zhengfei Guo, et al.. (2024). Global photosynthetic capacity jointly determined by enzyme kinetics and eco-evo-environmental drivers. Fundamental Research. 5(5). 2062–2072. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Junying, Youzhen Xiang, Zhitao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Incremental learning for crop growth parameters estimation and nitrogen diagnosis from hyperspectral data. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 215. 108356–108356. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Han, Beiquan Mou, Qifeng Li, et al.. (2023). CELLULAR ANALYSIS OF VID24 KNOCKOUT STRAIN UNDER 5-HYDROXYMETHYLFURFURAL STRESS IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 21(6). 5433–5451. 1 indexed citations
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Dong, Ning, I. Colin Prentice, Ian J. Wright, et al.. (2022). Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function. Journal of Ecology. 110(11). 2585–2602. 26 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing M., Rong Wang, Yihong Liu, et al.. (2022). Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research. Earth system science data. 14(9). 4077–4093. 42 indexed citations
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Wang, Han, Gang Xue, Zhao Jiang, et al.. (2021). Key technologies and equipment for contaminated surface/groundwater environment in the rural river network area of China: integrated remediation. Environmental Sciences Europe. 33(1). 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Han, et al.. (2021). Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements. New Phytologist. 232(3). 1286–1296. 39 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhengbing, Zhengfei Guo, Shawn Serbin, et al.. (2021). Spectroscopy outperforms leaf trait relationships for predicting photosynthetic capacity across different forest types. New Phytologist. 232(1). 134–147. 35 indexed citations
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Jin, Jiaxin, Xuanlong Ma, Huai Chen, et al.. (2019). Grassland production in response to changes in biological metrics over the Tibetan Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 666. 641–651. 11 indexed citations
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Wright, Ian J., Ning Dong, Vincent Maire, et al.. (2017). Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science. 357(6354). 917–921. 647 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Han. (2005). A Elementary Study on Biomass Accumulation and Nutriment Content Change of Medicago Sativa L.cv Jacklin. Shuitu baochi yanjiu. 1 indexed citations

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