Honglang Wang

731 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 519 citations indexed

About

Honglang Wang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Statistics and Probability and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Honglang Wang has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 519 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Statistics and Probability and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Honglang Wang's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (5 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (4 papers). Honglang Wang is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (5 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (4 papers). Honglang Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Honglang Wang's co-authors include Lixin Wang, Wenzhe Jiao, Qing Chang, Paolo D’Odorico, William K. Smith, Yuehua Cui, Kimberly A. Novick, Yehua Li, Ping-Shou Zhong and Taisheng Du and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Honglang Wang

16 papers receiving 510 citations

Hit Papers

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300 400
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. Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades
    2021 430 citations Wenzhe Jiao, Lixin Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Honglang Wang United States 7 398 155 145 83 63 16 519
R. E. Schulze South Africa 13 324 0.8× 84 0.5× 78 0.5× 162 2.0× 38 0.6× 28 539
Ziqian Zhong China 10 380 1.0× 140 0.9× 107 0.7× 56 0.7× 46 0.7× 15 462
Jasper Denissen Germany 7 438 1.1× 233 1.5× 117 0.8× 88 1.1× 128 2.0× 11 573
Rui Kong China 12 212 0.5× 60 0.4× 119 0.8× 73 0.9× 32 0.5× 29 385
R. I. Negrón Juárez United States 9 443 1.1× 178 1.1× 186 1.3× 105 1.3× 104 1.7× 10 576
Tye Parzybok United States 7 361 0.9× 207 1.3× 102 0.7× 143 1.7× 71 1.1× 14 528
Mana Gharun Switzerland 14 532 1.3× 227 1.5× 127 0.9× 97 1.2× 82 1.3× 32 629
Xiaodong Zeng China 14 572 1.4× 243 1.6× 136 0.9× 35 0.4× 55 0.9× 33 697

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Fields of papers citing papers by Honglang Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Honglang Wang

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Zhang, Jingyi, Xu Liu, Honglang Wang, & Yuehua Cui. (2025). Functional Varying-Index Coefficients Model for Dynamic Synergistic Gene–Environment Interactions. Statistics in Biosciences. 18(1). 111–130. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jingyi, Honglang Wang, & Yuehua Cui. (2025). Generalized functional varying-index coefficient model for dynamic synergistic gene-environment interactions with binary longitudinal traits. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0318103–e0318103. 1 indexed citations
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Qiao, Na, et al.. (2024). Comparative Impact of Fog and Rainfall on Vegetation in a Foggy Desert. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(20). 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Yusen, Lixin Wang, Zhongwang Wei, et al.. (2024). Using Median Point in Keeling Plot to Reduce the Uncertainty of the Isotopic Composition of Evapotranspiration. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 25(4). 637–649. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Honglang, Jingyi Zhang, Kelly L. Klump, S. Alexandra Burt, & Yuehua Cui. (2022). Multivariate partial linear varying coefficients model for gene‐environment interactions with multiple longitudinal traits. Statistics in Medicine. 41(19). 3643–3660. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Honglang, et al.. (2021). Robust estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects: an algorithm-based approach. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 52(10). 4981–4998. 2 indexed citations
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Jiao, Wenzhe, Lixin Wang, William K. Smith, et al.. (2021). Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3777–3777. 430 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yuan, Yusen, Lixin Wang, Honglang Wang, et al.. (2021). A modified isotope-based method for potential high-frequency evapotranspiration partitioning. Advances in Water Resources. 160. 104103–104103. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Honglang, et al.. (2021). Empirical Likelihood Ratio Tests for Varying Coefficient Geo Models. Statistica Sinica. 5 indexed citations
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Yuan, Yusen, Taisheng Du, Honglang Wang, & Lixin Wang. (2020). Novel Keeling-plot-based methods to estimate the isotopic composition of ambient water vapor. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(9). 4491–4501. 7 indexed citations
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Wong, Samuel W. K., Honglang Wang, Robert S. Tepper, Gregory M. Sokol, & Rebecca S. Rose. (2019). Expired Tidal Volume Variation in Extremely Low Birth Weight and Very Low Birth Weight Infants on Volume-Targeted Ventilation. The Journal of Pediatrics. 207. 248–251.e1. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Honglang, et al.. (2017). Empirical Likelihood Ratio Tests for Coefficients in High Dimensional Heteroscedastic Linear Models. Statistica Sinica. 3 indexed citations
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Han, Fang, Hongkai Ji, Zhicheng Ji, & Honglang Wang. (2017). A provable smoothing approach for high dimensional generalized regression with applications in genomics. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 11(2). 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Honglang, Ping-Shou Zhong, Yuehua Cui, & Yehua Li. (2017). Unified Empirical Likelihood Ratio Tests for Functional Concurrent Linear Models and the Phase Transition from Sparse to Dense Functional Data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 80(2). 343–364. 15 indexed citations
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