Lei Wang

13.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
328 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Lei Wang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Wang has authored 328 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Atmospheric Science, 143 papers in Water Science and Technology and 134 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lei Wang's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (115 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (107 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (55 papers). Lei Wang is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (115 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (107 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (55 papers). Lei Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Lei Wang's co-authors include Xiuping Li, Kun Yang, Deliang Chen, Toshio Koike, Jing Zhou, Tandong Yao, Wenbin Liu, Maheswor Shrestha, Tobias Bolch and Guoqing Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lei Wang

302 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

The imbalance of the Asian water tower

2022 696 citations Tandong Yao, Deliang Chen et al. profile →
Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

2017 371 citations Tandong Yao, Kun Yang et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
World record 32.35 tesla direct-current magnetic field generated with an all-superconducting magnet

2020 232 citations Lei Wang et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Wang

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Climate change will undermine the pivotal role of Asian water tower in water resources supply 2025 ·Science Bulletin ·Lei Wang, (unknown), Tandong Yao, Jing Zhou	1
2	Polar regions are critical in achieving global sustainable development goals 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Xin Li, Huadong Guo, Guodong Cheng, Xiaoyu Song, Youhua Ran, Min Feng, Tao Che, Xinwu Li, Lei Wang, Anmin Duan, Donghui Shangguan, Deliang Chen, Rui Jin, Jie Deng, Jianbin Su, (unknown)	3
3	Highly efficient MnNi@NC catalyst for PMS Activation: A Dual-Radical system for sulfamethoxazole degradation in Chloride-Rich wastewater 2025 ·Applied Surface Science ·Zhe Zhang, (unknown), Yangyang Wang, Xiaoshu Wang, Sunil Mehendale, (unknown), (unknown), Xingbo Li, Chao Shi, Lei Wang	4
4	An accurate reconstruction method for indoor bioaerosol concentration field from asynchronous and sparse LiDAR measurements based on latent diffusion models 2025 ·Building and Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Lei Wang, Han Hao, (unknown), (unknown), Qi Zhong	0
5	Effects of different particle size microplastics and di-n-butyl phthalate on photosynthesis and quality of spinach 2024 ·Environmental Technology & Innovation ·Yangyang Wang, Cheng Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Tongtong Li, Jin Liu, Jinsheng Wang, Lei Wang, Wenbing Tan	2
6	Impacts of elevated anthropogenic emissions on physicochemical characteristics of black-carbon-containing particles over the Tibetan Plateau 2024 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Jinbo Wang, Jiaping Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Tengyu Liu, Xuguang Chi, Xin Huang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Lei Wang, Qiaozhi Zha, Ximeng Qi, Wei Nie, Congbin Fu, Aijun Ding	0
7	Impact of Levee-Breach Width on the Channel–Levee–Floodplain: A Case Study in the Huaihe River Basin, China 2024 ·Water ·Yong Hu, Tianling Qin, Guoqiang Dong, (unknown), Xiaofeng Chen, Minjie Wang, Hongwei Ruan, Lei Wang	2
8	Numerical simulation and validation of heavy rainfall flood inundation in small watersheds in undocumented mountainous areas 2024 ·Hydrology research ·(unknown), Guowei Pang, Yongqing Long, Jinxi Song, (unknown), Yufei Yao, Bing Xu, Lei Wang	1
9	Measurement and Uncertainty Analysis of Lunar Soil Water Content via Heating Flux Method 2023 ·Aerospace ·Ziheng Liu, Huaiyu He, Jiannan Li, Jialong Hao, (unknown), Zhiheng Zhang, Shengyuan Jiang, Guanxin Chi, Ranran Liu, Lei Wang, Hao Geng, Changbin Xue	2
10	Controls of the recent precipitation anomalies in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: from the perspective of Indian summer monsoon activities and moisture sources 2023 ·Climate Dynamics ·Xiaoyu Guo, Lide Tian, Lei Wang, Yuanwei Wang, Jing Zhou	6
11	Large-scale circulation dominated precipitation variation and its effect on potential water availability across the Tibetan Plateau 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Xiuping Li, Lei Wang, Deliang Chen, Lonnie G. Thompson, Kun Yang, Shiyuan Zhong, Liu Liu, Zongxue Xu, Lei Song	6
12	Impacts of frozen ground degradation and vegetation greening on upper Brahmaputra runoff during 1981–2019 2023 ·International Journal of Climatology ·Yuanwei Wang, Lei Wang, Jing Zhou, (unknown), Zhidan Hu, Lin Zhao, Shengfeng Wang, (unknown)	19
13	Significant regime shifts in historical water yield in the Upper Brahmaputra River basin 2022 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Hao Li, (unknown), Liu Liu, Lei Wang, Akash Koppa, Feng Zhong, Dongfeng Li, Xuanxuan Wang, Wenfeng Liu, Xiuping Li, Zongxue Xu	7
14	Vanishing Glaciers at Southeast Tibetan Plateau Have Not Offset the Declining Runoff at Yarlung Zangbo 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Yuanwei Wang, Lei Wang, Jing Zhou, Tandong Yao, Wei Yang, Xiaoyang Zhong, Ruishun Liu, Zhidan Hu, Lun Luo, Qinghua Ye, Ningsheng Chen, (unknown)	51
15	Quantifying Water Scarcity in Northern China Within the Context of Climatic and Societal Changes and South‐to‐North Water Diversion 2020 ·Earth s Future ·Yuanyuan Yin, Lei Wang, Zhongjing Wang, Qiuhong Tang, Shilong Piao, Deliang Chen, Jun Xia, Tobias Conradt, Junguo Liu, Yoshihide Wada, Ximing Cai, Zhenghui Xie, Qingyun Duan, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou, Jianyun Zhang	58
16	Efficient Delineation of Nested Depression Hierarchy in Digital Elevation Models for Hydrological Analysis Using Level‐Set Method 2018 ·JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association ·Qiusheng Wu, Charles R. Lane, Lei Wang, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Jay R. Christensen, Hongxing Liu	57
17	Top-Layer Soil Moisture Retrieval over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau in Summer Based on AMSR-E Data 2017 ·Gaoyuan qixiang ·Zhe Li, Lei Wang, Lin Wang, (unknown), (unknown)	1
18	Estimation of wheat yield based on crop and remote sensing assimilation models. 2016 ·Nongye gongcheng xuebao ·(unknown), Pengxin Wang, Lei Wang, Shuyu Zhang, Li Li, (unknown)	5
19	Correcting basin-scale snowfall in a mountainous basin using a distributed snowmelt model and remote-sensing data 2014 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Maheswor Shrestha, Lei Wang, Toshio Koike, (unknown), Yongkang Xue, Yukiko Hirabayashi	44
20	[Effects of rape cropping in summer fallow period on dryland soil moisture content and winter wheat yield]. 2013 ·PubMed ·Gang Zhao, Tinglu Fan, Shangzhong Li, Jianjun Zhang, Yong Wang, (unknown), Lei Wang	1

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