Wei Fan

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Wei Fan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Fan has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Wei Fan's work include Marine and fisheries research (16 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (12 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (10 papers). Wei Fan is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (16 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (12 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (10 papers). Wei Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Wei Fan's co-authors include Jinhui Li, Quanyin Tan, A. K. Awasthi, Yuan Chen, Jiandong Chen, Shulei Cheng, Jiawei Han, Yaliang Li, Jing Gao and Qi Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Wei Fan

92 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Single-use plastics: Production, usage, dis... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2020 2014 100 200 300 400
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. Single-use plastics: Production, usage, disposal, and adverse impacts
    2020 458 citations Wei Fan, Quanyin Tan et al. profile →
  2. Resolving conflicts in heterogeneous data by truth discovery and source reliability estimation
    2014 329 citations Wei Fan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Fan China 28 711 440 397 357 346 101 2.8k
Guozhu Mao China 30 784 1.1× 455 1.0× 234 0.6× 930 2.6× 237 0.7× 78 3.2k
Jingjing Wang China 30 433 0.6× 234 0.5× 288 0.7× 166 0.5× 195 0.6× 150 2.5k
Milind Kandlikar Canada 37 490 0.7× 574 1.3× 828 2.1× 414 1.2× 295 0.9× 92 3.8k
Huimin Li China 29 166 0.2× 698 1.6× 211 0.5× 133 0.4× 208 0.6× 224 3.7k
Jia Li China 33 363 0.5× 167 0.4× 201 0.5× 620 1.7× 209 0.6× 218 4.1k
Kai Fang China 44 2.0k 2.8× 302 0.7× 676 1.7× 2.4k 6.6× 187 0.5× 176 6.1k
Kathleen B. Aviso Philippines 36 353 0.5× 327 0.7× 131 0.3× 850 2.4× 348 1.0× 235 4.1k
Yu Qi China 40 156 0.2× 444 1.0× 231 0.6× 857 2.4× 252 0.7× 155 5.7k
Lan Mu China 33 277 0.4× 298 0.7× 403 1.0× 188 0.5× 255 0.7× 179 3.7k
Ke Wang China 49 3.5k 4.9× 585 1.3× 632 1.6× 2.4k 6.8× 141 0.4× 258 7.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Fan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Fan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wei Fan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wei Fan. The network helps show where Wei Fan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Fan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Fan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Fan 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 Wei Fan. Wei Fan 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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Yu, Jinlong, et al.. (2025). Global trends and prospects in research on heavy metal pollution at contaminated sites. Journal of Environmental Management. 383. 125402–125402. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li‐Jun, Luís A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano, et al.. (2025). Trace fossils from the Meishucun section of South China: revisiting ichnotaxonomy, behavioural diversification and ecosystem engineering from a key Ediacaran–Cambrian succession. Papers in Palaeontology. 11(2). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yongxia, Wei Fan, Siyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Evaluation on the applicability of conventional high-temperature titanium alloy for directed energy deposition. Materials Science and Engineering A. 939. 148497–148497.
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Yang, Shenglong, Lijun Wang, Shengmao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal variability of fishing habitat suitability to tuna purse seine fleet in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 70. 103366–103366. 5 indexed citations
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Zhao, Ling, Wei Fan, Yang Liu, et al.. (2024). A novel synthetic strategy of mesoporous Ti4O7-coated electrode for highly efficient wastewater treatment. Ceramics International. 50(15). 26503–26512. 10 indexed citations
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Fan, Wei, et al.. (2023). Drivers of global energy export dependency: A decomposition analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 187. 113758–113758. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Quanyin, et al.. (2023). Comparative life cycle assessment of polyethylene agricultural mulching film and alternative options including different end-of-life routes. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 178. 113239–113239. 37 indexed citations
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Fan, Wei, et al.. (2023). Mapping Suspended Sediment Changes in the Western Pacific Coasts. Remote Sensing. 15(21). 5192–5192. 4 indexed citations
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Yu, Jiadong, et al.. (2023). Mechanochemical upcycling of spent LiCoO 2 to new LiNi 0.80 Co 0.15 Al 0.05 O 2 battery: An atom economy strategy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(14). e2217698120–e2217698120. 44 indexed citations
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Fan, Wei, et al.. (2023). Role of land use in China’s urban energy consumption: based on a deep clustering network and decomposition analysis. Annals of Operations Research. 339(1-2). 835–859. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Lin, et al.. (2022). Characterization of Fine-Scale Turbulence Generated in a Laboratory Orbital Shaker and Its Influence on Skeletonema costatum. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10(8). 1053–1053. 2 indexed citations
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Fan, Wei, et al.. (2019). Examining the Temporal Demand and Sustainability of Copper in China. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(23). 13812–13821. 32 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiandong, et al.. (2018). Fitting Chinese cities’ population distributions using remote sensing satellite data. Ecological Indicators. 98. 327–333. 28 indexed citations
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Fan, Wei. (2012). Biomass and carbon storage of Rhus typhina in hilly area of Taihang Mountain. Zhongnan Linye Keji Daxue xuebao. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Wei. (2008). Temporal-spatial Change of Concentration of Chlorophyll-a in the East China Sea During 1997-2007. The Research of Environmental Sciences. 6 indexed citations
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Fan, Wei. (2001). Effects of global environment change and human activity on fishery resources. Journal of Fishery Sciences of China. 3 indexed citations

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