Qingyang Xiao

20.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Qingyang Xiao is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingyang Xiao has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 30 papers in Environmental Engineering and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Qingyang Xiao's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (41 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (27 papers). Qingyang Xiao is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (41 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (27 papers). Qingyang Xiao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Qingyang Xiao's co-authors include Guannan Geng, Yang Liu, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Xia Meng, Howard H. Chang, Yixuan Zheng, Tao Xue, Shigan Liu and Fengchao Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Qingyang Xiao

69 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM _2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion

2021 349 citations Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Tracking PM_2.5 and O₃ Pollution and the Related Health Burden in China 2013–2020

2021 243 citations Qingyang Xiao, Guannan Geng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Tracking Daily Concentrations of PM_2.5 Chemical Composition in China since 2000

2022 189 citations Shigan Liu, Guannan Geng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Drivers of Increasing Ozone during the Two Phases of Clean Air Actions in China 2013–2020

2023 94 citations Yuxi Liu, Guannan Geng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qingyang Xiao China	34	3.3k	1.9k	1.7k	867	411	75	4.6k
Michael Hannigan United States	40	3.4k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	769 0.9×	665 1.6×	130	5.2k
Meng Fan China	30	1.4k 0.4×	849 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	942 1.1×	205 0.5×	224	4.4k
Changqing Lin China	37	2.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	905 0.5×	805 0.9×	350 0.9×	126	4.5k
Yan Zhuang China	23	1.0k 0.3×	699 0.4×	855 0.5×	666 0.8×	44 0.1×	113	2.7k
David M. Broday Israel	36	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	277 0.7×	122	4.4k
Sofia Sousa Portugal	32	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	510 0.3×	303 0.3×	144 0.4×	102	2.9k
Jaakko Kukkonen Finland	41	3.2k 1.0×	3.2k 1.7×	2.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	273 0.7×	173	6.2k
Liqun Peng China	13	1.6k 0.5×	780 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	772 0.9×	150 0.4×	43	2.8k
Yuanxun Zhang China	34	3.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	691 0.8×	784 1.9×	176	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Qingyang Xiao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qingyang Xiao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qingyang Xiao

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Qiang, Qingyang Xiao, Guannan Geng, et al.. (2025). Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires. Nature. 645(8081). 672–678. 4 indexed citations

Xiao, Qingyang, et al.. (2025). Power outage-risk integrated social vulnerability analysis highlights disparities in small residential communities. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Tong, Dan, Steven J. Davis, Wei Li, et al.. (2025). Cost-competitive plant-by-plant strategy for spatially resolved CCUS deployment toward carbon neutrality in global key industries. One Earth. 8(9). 101378–101378.

Xu, Ruochong, Jingxian Li, Dan Tong, et al.. (2025). A technology-based global non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) emission inventory under the MEIC framework. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(19). 12675–12700.

Li, Tiantian, Chen Chen, Mengxue Zhang, et al.. (2024). Accountability analysis of health benefits related to National Action Plan on Air Pollution Prevention and Control in China. PNAS Nexus. 3(4). pgae142–pgae142. 3 indexed citations

Lu, H., Ruohan Wang, Jiajianghui Li, et al.. (2023). Long-term exposure to the components of fine particulate matters and disability after stroke: Findings from the China National Stroke Screening Surveys. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 460. 132244–132244. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Yuxi, Guannan Geng, Jing Cheng, et al.. (2023). Drivers of Increasing Ozone during the Two Phases of Clean Air Actions in China 2013–2020. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(24). 8954–8964. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Chuanfeng, Yanluan Lin, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Potential Impacts of Aerosol on Diurnal Variation of Precipitation in Autumn Over the Sichuan Basin, China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(13). 7 indexed citations

Xiao, Qingyang, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal continuous estimates of daily 1 km PM _2.5 from 2000 to present under the Tracking Air Pollution in China (TAP) framework. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(19). 13229–13242. 57 indexed citations

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Li, Jiajianghui, Man Cao, Mingkun Tong, et al.. (2022). Long-Term Exposure to Ozone Increases Neurological Disability after Stroke: Findings from a Nationwide Longitudinal Study in China. Biology. 11(8). 1216–1216. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Shigan, Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao, et al.. (2022). Tracking Daily Concentrations of PM_2.5 Chemical Composition in China since 2000. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(22). 16517–16527. 189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Geng, Guannan, Qingyang Xiao, Shigan Liu, et al.. (2021). Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM _2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(17). 12106–12115. 349 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiao, Qingyang, Yixuan Zheng, Guannan Geng, et al.. (2021). Separating emission and meteorological contributions to long-term PM _2.5 trends over eastern China during 2000–2018. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(12). 9475–9496. 146 indexed citations

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Xiao, Qingyang, Guannan Geng, Tao Xue, et al.. (2021). Tracking PM_2.5 and O₃ Pollution and the Related Health Burden in China 2013–2020. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(11). 6922–6932. 243 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiao, Qingyang, et al.. (2020). Pose-Guided Knowledge Transfer for Object Part Segmentation. 3961–3965. 6 indexed citations

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Liang, Fengchao, Fangchao Liu, Keyong Huang, et al.. (2020). Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Disease in China. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 75(7). 707–717. 214 indexed citations

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Xiao, Qingyang, Howard H. Chang, Guannan Geng, & Yang Liu. (2018). An Ensemble Machine-Learning Model To Predict Historical PM_2.5Concentrations in China from Satellite Data. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(22). 13260–13269. 256 indexed citations

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Xiao, Qingyang, Myungje Choi, Shobha Kondragunta, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of VIIRS, GOCI, and MODIS Collection 6 AOD retrievals against ground sunphotometer observations over East Asia. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(3). 1255–1269. 117 indexed citations

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Liu, Ping, Fei Yang, Zhuang Yu, et al.. (2016). Dysregulated expression of microRNAs and mRNAs in pulmonary artery remodeling in ascites syndrome in broiler chickens. Oncotarget. 8(2). 1993–2007. 27 indexed citations

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Xiao, Qingyang, Myungje Choi, Shobha Kondragunta, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of VIIRS, GOCI, and MODIS Collection 6 AOD retrievals against ground sunphotometer measurements over East Asia. 5 indexed citations

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