Laixiang Sun

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
165 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Laixiang Sun is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Laixiang Sun has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Environmental Engineering, 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 39 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Laixiang Sun's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (36 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (20 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (17 papers). Laixiang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (36 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (20 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (17 papers). Laixiang Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Laixiang Sun's co-authors include Klaus Hubacek, Kuishuang Feng, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Günther Fischer, Zhan Tian, Eunsuk Hong, Junguo Liu, Honglin Zhong and Dabo Guan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laixiang Sun

155 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Outsourcing CO ₂ within China

2013 548 citations Kuishuang Feng, Laixiang Sun et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997–2013

2015 342 citations Kuishuang Feng, Laixiang Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laixiang Sun United States	40	2.5k	1.8k	1.4k	1.1k	702	165	6.1k
Xiangzheng Deng China	44	2.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.6×	3.2k 2.3×	766 0.7×	544 0.8×	196	7.6k
Shinichiro Fujimori Japan	50	2.4k 1.0×	3.1k 1.7×	2.0k 1.4×	856 0.8×	1.9k 2.8×	200	8.4k
Paul Lucas Netherlands	33	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.6×	636 0.6×	998 1.4×	67	5.0k
Tomoko Hasegawa Japan	40	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	438 0.4×	751 1.1×	136	5.7k
Gengyuan Liu China	46	3.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	689 1.0×	303	7.3k
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky Germany	44	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	730 0.6×	704 1.0×	98	6.9k
Leon Clarke United States	55	2.9k 1.2×	3.6k 2.0×	2.0k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	2.6k 3.7×	139	9.0k
Can Wang China	56	3.6k 1.5×	3.7k 2.1×	959 0.7×	702 0.6×	1.9k 2.7×	258	9.2k
Wenjia Cai China	40	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	618 0.4×	465 0.4×	994 1.4×	137	4.9k
Mathis Wackernagel United States	45	4.5k 1.8×	2.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	79	9.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Laixiang Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laixiang Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laixiang Sun

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Laixiang, et al.. (2025). Global Ionosphere Total Electron Content Prediction Based on Bidirectional Denoising Wavelet Transform Convolution. Atmosphere. 16(10). 1139–1139.

Wu, Xiao‐Qin, Jing Meng, Laixiang Sun, et al.. (2025). Technological pathways for cost-effective steel decarbonization. Nature. 647(8088). 93–101. 1 indexed citations

Tian, Zhan, et al.. (2024). A multi-objective optimization approach for harnessing rainwater in changing climate. Advances in Climate Change Research. 15(5). 976–987. 1 indexed citations

Funes, J. G., et al.. (2024). Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income. Food Security. 16(3). 623–635. 1 indexed citations

Feng, Kuishuang, et al.. (2024). Satellite-based soybean yield prediction in Argentina: A comparison between panel regression and deep learning methods. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 221. 108978–108978. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Laixiang, et al.. (2024). The Socio-Environmental Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition: A Spatial and Hierarchical Analysis. Nutrients. 16(13). 2014–2014. 1 indexed citations

Tian, Peipei, Kuishuang Feng, Laixiang Sun, et al.. (2024). Higher total energy costs strain the elderly, especially low-income, across 31 developed countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(12). e2306771121–e2306771121. 25 indexed citations

Wang, Peng, Jiashuo Li, Klaus Hubacek, et al.. (2024). Incorporating platinum circular economy into China’s hydrogen pathways toward carbon neutrality. PNAS Nexus. 3(5). pgae172–pgae172. 7 indexed citations

Tanaka, Tetsuji, et al.. (2023). Satellite forecasting of crop harvest can trigger a cross-hemispheric production response and improve global food security. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 334–334. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Pengfei, Xu Zhao, Laixiang Sun, et al.. (2023). What can we learn from the 2008 financial crisis for global power decarbonization after COVID-19?. Fundamental Research. 5(3). 1221–1232. 8 indexed citations

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Tian, Peipei, Kuishuang Feng, Heran Zheng, et al.. (2023). Implementation of carbon pricing in an aging world calls for targeted protection schemes. PNAS Nexus. 2(7). pgad209–pgad209. 15 indexed citations

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Hu, Guangxiao, Kuishuang Feng, & Laixiang Sun. (2023). Multiscale Analysis of the Relationship between Toxic Chemical Hazard Risks and Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Groups in Texas, USA. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(5). 2019–2030. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Hetong, Kuishuang Feng, Peng Wang, et al.. (2023). China’s electric vehicle and climate ambitions jeopardized by surging critical material prices. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1246–1246. 98 indexed citations

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Xu, Hanqing, Zhan Tian, Laixiang Sun, et al.. (2022). Compound flood impact of water level and rainfall during tropical cyclone periods in a coastal city: the case of Shanghai. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(7). 2347–2358. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Shuai, Ralf Toumi, Qinghua Ye, et al.. (2021). Is the tropical cyclone surge in Shanghai more sensitive to landfall location or intensity change?. Atmospheric Science Letters. 22(10). 5 indexed citations

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Tian, Zhan, Qian Ke, Junguo Liu, et al.. (2020). Nature‐based solutions for urban pluvial flood risk management. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 7(3). 117 indexed citations

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Yu, Yang, Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, & Laixiang Sun. (2016). Global Implications of China's Future Food Consumption. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 20(3). 593–602. 58 indexed citations

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Duarte, Rosa, Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, et al.. (2015). Modeling the carbon consequences of pro-environmental consumer behavior. Applied Energy. 184. 1207–1216. 61 indexed citations

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Hubacek, Klaus & Laixiang Sun. (2005). Economic and Societal Changes in China and their Effects onWater Use A Scenario Analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 9(1-2). 187–200. 78 indexed citations

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Sun, Laixiang. (2003). Ownership and Governance of Enterprises. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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