Hui Wan

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Hui Wan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hui Wan has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Atmospheric Science and 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Hui Wan's work include Climate variability and models (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (9 papers). Hui Wan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (9 papers). Hui Wan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Hui Wan's co-authors include Xuebin Zhang, Panmao Zhai, Xiaohua Pan, Francis W. Zwiers, Ying Sun, Hong Yin, Ting Hu, Val R. Swail, Lianchun Song and Guoyu Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Hui Wan

34 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Trends in Total Precipitation and Frequency of Daily Prec... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2014 400 800 1.2k
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. Trends in Total Precipitation and Frequency of Daily Precipitation Extremes over China
    2005 1.2k citations Xuebin Zhang, Hui Wan et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  2. Rapid increase in the risk of extreme summer heat in Eastern China
    2014 596 citations Ying Sun, Xuebin Zhang et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hui Wan Canada 21 3.0k 2.3k 536 368 354 35 3.8k
Simon J. Brown United Kingdom 23 3.0k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 547 1.0× 282 0.8× 439 1.2× 40 3.7k
Byron E. Gleason United States 13 2.9k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 413 0.8× 389 1.1× 351 1.0× 16 4.0k
Klaus Wyser Sweden 31 3.8k 1.2× 2.9k 1.2× 663 1.2× 344 0.9× 345 1.0× 66 4.9k
Alexandre M. Ramos Portugal 39 3.9k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 436 0.8× 286 0.8× 275 0.8× 115 4.9k
Ying Shi China 29 2.7k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 497 0.9× 285 0.8× 377 1.1× 69 3.4k
Heiko Paeth Germany 32 2.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 340 0.6× 399 1.1× 450 1.3× 125 3.5k
Arona Diédhiou France 30 2.9k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 510 1.0× 331 0.9× 332 0.9× 145 3.7k
Lucie A. Vincent Canada 23 3.1k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 665 1.2× 408 1.1× 289 0.8× 28 4.1k
Claas Teichmann Germany 25 2.5k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 425 0.8× 276 0.8× 272 0.8× 45 3.3k
Ying Xu China 36 4.1k 1.3× 3.4k 1.4× 764 1.4× 538 1.5× 551 1.6× 125 5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Hui Wan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hui Wan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hui Wan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hui Wan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hui Wan 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 Hui Wan. Hui Wan 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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Kirchmeier‐Young, Megan C., et al.. (2025). Heat Wave Trends in Canadian Regions. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 63(4). 241–251.
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Zeng, Sidong, et al.. (2024). Global eight drought types: Spatio-temporal characteristics and vegetation response. Journal of Environmental Management. 359. 121069–121069. 5 indexed citations
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Gillett, Nathan P., Alex J. Cannon, Elizaveta Malinina, et al.. (2022). Human Influence on the 2021 British Columbia Floods. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Gillett, Nathan P., Alex J. Cannon, Elizaveta Malinina, et al.. (2022). Human influence on the 2021 British Columbia floods. Weather and Climate Extremes. 36. 100441–100441. 56 indexed citations
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Kirchmeier‐Young, Megan C., Xuebin Zhang, & Hui Wan. (2021). Climate change attribution with large ensembles. 1 indexed citations
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Kirchmeier‐Young, Megan C., Hui Wan, & Xuebin Zhang. (2021). Anthropogenic Contribution to the Rainfall Associated with the 2019 Ottawa River Flood. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(1). S33–S38. 6 indexed citations
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Qian, Budong, Xuebin Zhang, Ward Smith, et al.. (2019). Climate change impacts on Canadian yields of spring wheat, canola and maize for global warming levels of 1.5 °C, 2.0 °C, 2.5 °C and 3.0 °C. Environmental Research Letters. 14(7). 74005–74005. 66 indexed citations
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Vincent, Lucie A., et al.. (2018). Changes in Canada's Climate: Trends in Indices Based on Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 56(5). 332–349. 131 indexed citations
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Sun, Ying, Ting Hu, Xuebin Zhang, et al.. (2018). Anthropogenic Influence on the Eastern China 2016 Super Cold Surge. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99(1). S123–S127. 33 indexed citations
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Fyfe, John C., Chris Derksen, Lawrence Mudryk, et al.. (2017). Large near-term projected snowpack loss over the western United States. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14996–14996. 221 indexed citations
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Lu, Chunhui, Ying Sun, Hui Wan, Xuebin Zhang, & Hong Yin. (2016). Anthropogenic influence on the frequency of extreme temperatures in China. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(12). 6511–6518. 57 indexed citations
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Yin, Hong, Ying Sun, Hui Wan, Xuebin Zhang, & Chunhui Lu. (2016). Detection of anthropogenic influence on the intensity of extreme temperatures in China. International Journal of Climatology. 37(3). 1229–1237. 57 indexed citations
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Mueller, Brigitte, et al.. (2015). Lengthening of the growing season in wheat and maize producing regions. Weather and Climate Extremes. 9. 47–56. 51 indexed citations
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Song, Jiyun, Jun Xia, Liping Zhang, et al.. (2015). Streamflow prediction in ungauged basins by regressive regionalization: a case study in Huai River Basin, China. Hydrology research. 47(5). 1053–1068. 17 indexed citations
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Vincent, Lucie A., Xuebin Zhang, Ross Brown, et al.. (2015). Observed Trends in Canada’s Climate and Influence of Low-Frequency Variability Modes. Journal of Climate. 28(11). 4545–4560. 220 indexed citations
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Xiao, Yang, Xiang Zhang, Hui Wan, et al.. (2015). Spatial and temporal characteristics of rainfall across Ganjiang River Basin in China. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 128(2). 167–179. 17 indexed citations
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Wan, Hui, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, & Seung‐Ki Min. (2014). Attributing northern high-latitude precipitation change over the period 1966–2005 to human influence. Climate Dynamics. 45(7-8). 1713–1726. 50 indexed citations
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Sun, Ying, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, et al.. (2014). Rapid increase in the risk of extreme summer heat in Eastern China. Nature Climate Change. 4(12). 1082–1085. 596 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xiaolan L., Hui Wan, Francis W. Zwiers, et al.. (2011). Trends and low-frequency variability of storminess over western Europe, 1878–2007. Climate Dynamics. 37(11-12). 2355–2371. 46 indexed citations

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