James R. Wang

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

James R. Wang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, James R. Wang has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 20 papers in Environmental Engineering and 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in James R. Wang's work include Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (24 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (20 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers). James R. Wang is often cited by papers focused on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (24 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (20 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers). James R. Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Finland. James R. Wang's co-authors include Thomas J. Schmugge, Thomas J. Jackson, Edwin T. Engman, Peggy O’Neill, Tsan Mo, P. Racette, Gerald M. Heymsfield, Gail Skofronick‐Jackson, Lihua Li and K. Franklin Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

James R. Wang

35 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An Empirical Model for the Complex Dielectric Permittivity of Soils as a Function of Water Content

1980 772 citations James R. Wang, Thomas J. Schmugge IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James R. Wang United States	17	1.5k	1.5k	308	294	278	35	2.0k
Giovanni Macelloni Italy	26	1.7k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	496 1.6×	79 0.3×	135 0.5×	152	2.2k
Kimmo Rautiainen Finland	22	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	227 0.7×	53 0.2×	87 0.3×	72	1.4k
Mariko Burgin United States	13	582 0.4×	728 0.5×	220 0.7×	79 0.3×	91 0.3×	47	867
В. Л. Миронов Russia	17	941 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	179 0.6×	412 1.4×	18 0.1×	94	1.4k
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad United States	13	311 0.2×	475 0.3×	147 0.5×	128 0.4×	68 0.2×	48	708
Ziad S. Haddad United States	20	1.3k 0.8×	535 0.4×	161 0.5×	95 0.3×	607 2.2×	104	1.5k
Jiancheng Shi United States	9	527 0.3×	738 0.5×	397 1.3×	157 0.5×	30 0.1×	36	824
Peter Coppo Italy	13	330 0.2×	367 0.2×	345 1.1×	80 0.3×	158 0.6×	48	765
Simon Kraatz United States	17	299 0.2×	224 0.1×	100 0.3×	85 0.3×	103 0.4×	51	792
Rashmi Shah United States	15	534 0.4×	851 0.6×	452 1.5×	69 0.2×	143 0.5×	68	1.0k

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Olson, William S., Linwei Tian, Mircea Grecu, et al.. (2016). The Microwave Radiative Properties of Falling Snow Derived from Nonspherical Ice Particle Models. Part II: Initial Testing Using Radar, Radiometer and In Situ Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 55(3). 709–722. 31 indexed citations

Jones, W. Linwood, et al.. (2013). Radiometric intercalibration of the Microwave Humidity Sounder on NOAA-18, MetOp-A, and NOAA-19 using SAPHIR on Megha-Tropiques. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 11. 1151–1154. 4 indexed citations

Wang, James R., et al.. (2012). Observations of Storm Signatures by the Recently Modified Conical Scanning Millimeter-Wave Imaging Radiometer. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 51(1). 411–424. 9 indexed citations

Qiu, Yubao, Huadong Guo, Jiancheng Shi, et al.. (2011). Analysis of the passive microwave high-frequency signal in the shallow snow retrieval. 3863–3866. 4 indexed citations

Qiu, Yubao, Huadong Guo, Jiancheng Shi, et al.. (2010). Analysis between AMSR-E swath brightness temperature and ground snow depth data in winter time over Tibet Plateau, China. 26. 2367–2370. 3 indexed citations

Qiu, Yubao, Jiancheng Shi, Juha Lemmetyinen, et al.. (2009). The atmosphere influence to AMSR-E measurements over snow-covered areas: Simulation and experiments. II–610. 6 indexed citations

Qiu, Yubao, Huadong Guo, Jiancheng Shi, et al.. (2009). THE PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF SNOW MONITORING USING AMSR-E AND WINTER SNOW CAMPAIGN OVER TIBET PLATEAN, CHINA. 1 indexed citations

Wang, James R., P. Racette, & Jeffrey R. Piepmeier. (2008). A Comparison of Near-Concurrent Measurements From the SSMIS and CoSMIR for Some Selected Channels Over the Frequency Range of 50–183 GHz. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 46(4). 923–933. 11 indexed citations

Skofronick‐Jackson, Gail, James R. Wang, Gerald M. Heymsfield, et al.. (2003). Combined Radiometer–Radar Microphysical Profile Estimations with Emphasis on High-Frequency Brightness Temperature Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 42(4). 476–487. 26 indexed citations

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Skofronick‐Jackson, Gail & James R. Wang. (2000). The Estimation of Hydrometeor Profiles from Wideband Microwave Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 39(10). 1645–1656. 18 indexed citations

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Racette, P. & James R. Wang. (1998). <title>Passive millimeter- and submillimeter-wave imaging for atmospheric research</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3378. 114–122. 2 indexed citations

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Teng, William, Bhaskar J. Choudhury, & James R. Wang. (1997). The effects of laterite and associated terrain components on PBMR response in HAPEX-Sahel. Journal of Hydrology. 188-189. 310–329. 3 indexed citations

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Nichols, William, Richard H. Cuenca, Thomas J. Schmugge, & James R. Wang. (1993). Pushbroom microwave radiometer results from HAPEX-MOBILHY. Remote Sensing of Environment. 46(2). 119–128. 9 indexed citations

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Sellers, P. J., Forrest G. Hall, Brian L. Markham, et al.. (1990). Experiment design and operations. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1300. 90–90. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, James R., J. C. Shiue, Thomas J. Schmugge, & Edwin T. Engman. (1989). Mapping surface soil moisture with L-band radiometric measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment. 27(3). 305–311. 37 indexed citations

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Wang, James R., et al.. (1984). Thermal Microwave Emission from Vegetated Fields: A Comparison between Theory And Experiment. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. GE-22(2). 143–150. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, James R., Peggy O’Neill, Thomas J. Jackson, & Edwin T. Engman. (1983). Multifrequency Measurements of the Effects of Soil Moisture, Soil Texture, And Surface Roughness. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. GE-21(1). 44–51. 184 indexed citations

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Wang, James R.. (1983). Passive microwave sensing of soil moisture content: The effects of soil bulk density and surface roughness. Remote Sensing of Environment. 13(4). 329–344. 41 indexed citations

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Jackson, Thomas J., Thomas J. Schmugge, & James R. Wang. (1983). Correction to ‘Passive microwave sensing of soil moisture under vegetation canopies’ by Thomas J. Jackson, Thomas J. Schmugge, and James R. Wang. Water Resources Research. 19(1). 297–297. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, James R., et al.. (1982). Radiometric measurements over bare and vegetated fields at 1.4-GHz and 5-GHz frequencies. Remote Sensing of Environment. 12(4). 295–311. 32 indexed citations

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