Tao Xiao

740 total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 517 citations indexed

About

Tao Xiao is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Tao Xiao has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 517 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 13 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Tao Xiao's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (9 papers), Landslides and related hazards (8 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization (6 papers). Tao Xiao is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (9 papers), Landslides and related hazards (8 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization (6 papers). Tao Xiao collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Germany. Tao Xiao's co-authors include Jiading Wang, Ping Li, Swantje Bargmann, Wenbin Fei, Benjamin Klusemann, Shengjun Shao, Guoxiong Mei, Ingo Scheider, N. Huber and Gerold A. Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemistry of Materials, The Science of The Total Environment and Acta Materialia.

In The Last Decade

Tao Xiao

35 papers receiving 505 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.

  1. Effects of vegetation roots on the structure and hydraulic properties of soils: A perspective review
    2023 101 citations Tao Xiao, Ping Li et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tao Xiao China 15 199 127 104 79 78 37 517
Rongrong Zhang China 19 240 1.2× 223 1.8× 308 3.0× 51 0.6× 54 0.7× 57 941
Haowen Guo China 19 508 2.6× 134 1.1× 123 1.2× 136 1.7× 188 2.4× 79 1.1k
Yanhua Liu China 14 376 1.9× 82 0.6× 84 0.8× 37 0.5× 31 0.4× 36 728
Guanyun Peng China 13 283 1.4× 127 1.0× 48 0.5× 386 4.9× 112 1.4× 22 789
Xin Hou China 14 136 0.7× 55 0.4× 107 1.0× 37 0.5× 73 0.9× 41 749
Nan Wu China 16 160 0.8× 190 1.5× 130 1.3× 36 0.5× 45 0.6× 62 1.0k
Toshio Sakuma Japan 14 164 0.8× 150 1.2× 419 4.0× 140 1.8× 35 0.4× 104 820
Mengxia Han China 13 95 0.5× 203 1.6× 96 0.9× 17 0.2× 107 1.4× 38 425

Countries citing papers authored by Tao Xiao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tao Xiao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tao Xiao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tao Xiao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tao Xiao 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 Tao Xiao. Tao Xiao 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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Wang, Jiading, et al.. (2025). Study on the sliding mechanism of slopes along railways in loess regions of China under the coupling effect of extreme rainfall and train vibration. Transportation Geotechnics. 51. 101513–101513. 2 indexed citations
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Zhai, Hui, Ping Li, Tao Xiao, Liang Sun, & Jiading Wang. (2025). Effects of simple root exudates on loess aggregate stability and permeability. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 25(7). 2195–2210. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, et al.. (2025). Investigating saturated hydraulic conductivity and its variation in a fine-grained soil with root exudates of Robinia pseudoacacia L.. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. 17(11). 7447–7459. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, Ping Li, Sai K. Vanapalli, et al.. (2025). How root exudates of vegetation contribute to prevention and control of soil disintegration on Chinese Loess Plateau: A case study of Robinia pseudoacacia L.. Engineering Geology. 358. 108425–108425. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiading, et al.. (2024). Effects of train vibration load on the structure and hydraulic properties of soils. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7393–7393.
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Wang, Jiading, et al.. (2024). Effect of sisal fibers on the disintegration characteristics of sisal fiber-amended loess. Construction and Building Materials. 453. 139032–139032. 13 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, Ping Li, Wenbin Fei, & Jiading Wang. (2023). Effects of vegetation roots on the structure and hydraulic properties of soils: A perspective review. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167524–167524. 101 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Weiyan, Tao Xiao, Qiang Qian, et al.. (2023). Scale-Up Foreseeable Fabrication of CoS-MoS2 for Efficient Deoxygenation of Lignin-Derived Phenolics to Arenes. ACS Catalysis. 13(13). 8792–8802. 14 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, Kui Wu, Zhigang Shen, et al.. (2023). Preparation of Co–Co9S8–MoS2 catalyst for efficient deoxygenation of lignin-derived aromatic oxy-compounds into arenes. Fuel. 357. 129669–129669. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Zheng, et al.. (2022). Semianalytical Solution of Consolidation of Composite Ground with Floating Impervious Column in Unsaturated Soil. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 148(10). 5 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, Shengjun Shao, Tao Xiao, & Dandan Zhu. (2021). Pore‐Size Distribution Evolution of Intact, Compacted, and Saturated Loess from China during Consolidation and Shearing. Advances in Civil Engineering. 2021(1). 9 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, et al.. (2021). Hollow Mesoporous Nanoreactors with Encaged PtSn Alloy Nanoparticles for Selective Hydrogenation of Furfural to Furfuryl Alcohol. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 60(17). 6078–6088. 13 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, Ping Li, & Shengjun Shao. (2021). Fractal dimension and its variation of intact and compacted loess. Powder Technology. 395. 476–490. 26 indexed citations
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Li, Kaijie, Hongbo Yu, Tao Xiao, et al.. (2020). Coordination-Enhanced Synthesis for Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoreactors. Chemistry of Materials. 32(5). 2086–2096. 21 indexed citations
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Scheider, Ingo, et al.. (2014). Damage modeling of small-scale experiments on dental enamel with hierarchical microstructure. Acta Biomaterialia. 15. 244–253. 28 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao. (2001). Study on Co-Permeation of Solid Rare-Earth Element, Boron and Vanadium. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao. (2001). Study on Co-Permeation of Solid Rare Earth, Boron and Vanadium. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao. (2000). Effect of Rare Earth Elements on Kinetics of Salt Bath Vanadizing. 1 indexed citations

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