Wei Hou

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 834 citations indexed

About

Wei Hou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Hou has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 834 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Hou's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (8 papers). Wei Hou is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (8 papers). Wei Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Wei Hou's co-authors include Ulrich Walz, Liang Zhai, Xianyue Xiong, Lin Fu, Jian Sun, Shigang Zhang, Hao Xu, Wen Zhou, Xia Yan and Fengyin Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Fuel and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Wei Hou

49 papers receiving 808 citations

Hit Papers

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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 status and development strategy of coalbed methane industry in China

2023 153 citations Wei Hou, Xianyue Xiong et al. Petroleum Exploration and Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Hou China	16	256	254	249	210	139	55	834
Sukanta Roy India	21	124 0.5×	127 0.5×	227 0.9×	120 0.6×	57 0.4×	64	1.5k
Kris Piessens Belgium	13	132 0.5×	153 0.6×	61 0.2×	182 0.9×	58 0.4×	42	744
Tianxin Li China	15	82 0.3×	150 0.6×	84 0.3×	58 0.3×	47 0.3×	44	727
Athanasios Angeloudis United Kingdom	22	205 0.8×	127 0.5×	63 0.3×	45 0.2×	129 0.9×	61	1.3k
Ian Bryden United Kingdom	19	398 1.6×	178 0.7×	161 0.6×	77 0.4×	103 0.7×	93	1.6k
Kai Zoßeder Germany	19	231 0.9×	159 0.6×	162 0.7×	177 0.8×	31 0.2×	64	1.2k
Paul E. Hardisty Australia	10	131 0.5×	111 0.4×	59 0.2×	206 1.0×	106 0.8×	24	627
A. Annunziatellis Italy	12	113 0.4×	206 0.8×	80 0.3×	79 0.4×	65 0.5×	30	698
David J. Campagna United States	11	89 0.3×	59 0.2×	61 0.2×	101 0.5×	143 1.0×	21	571
Michael Hartnett Ireland	20	69 0.3×	384 1.5×	62 0.2×	172 0.8×	165 1.2×	96	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Hou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Hou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Hou

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

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Zhou, Lihong, Yong Li, Rong Ding, et al.. (2025). Differential accumulation characteristics and production of coalbed methane/coal-rock gas: A case study of the No. 8 coal seam of the Carboniferous Benxi Formation in the Daji block, Ordos Basin, NW China. Petroleum Exploration and Development. 52(4). 872–882.

Hou, Wei, Jixian Zhang, Z. X. Peng, & Ulrich Walz. (2025). Assessing habitat fragmentation in highly urbanized area: Implications for mitigating landscape dissection and habitat restoration. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 139. 104557–104557.

Ran, Yuping, et al.. (2024). Coordination Analysis Between Urban Livability and Population Distribution in China’s Major Urban Agglomerations. Sustainability. 16(23). 10438–10438. 2 indexed citations

Hou, Wei, et al.. (2024). Dynamic responses of monopile offshore wind turbines under different wind-wave misalignment angles. Structures. 69. 107454–107454. 2 indexed citations

Li, Shitao, Yuhong Wu, Wei Hou, et al.. (2024). Correlation analysis of the impact of Clonorchis sinensis juvenile on gut microbiota and transcriptome in mice. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(2). e0155024–e0155024. 2 indexed citations

Hou, Wei, et al.. (2023). Optimization of green infrastructure networks in the perspectives of enhancing structural connectivity and multifunctionality in an urban megaregion. Journal of Environmental Management. 348. 119084–119084. 16 indexed citations

Xu, Yinuo, Wei Hou, & Chunxiao Zhang. (2023). Spatial Association Rules and Thermal Environment Differentiation Evaluation of Local Climate Zone and Urban Functional Zone. Land. 12(9). 1701–1701. 4 indexed citations

Li, Cheng, Jie Zhao, & Wei Hou. (2023). Nonlinear Effects of Landscape Patterns on Ecosystem Services at Multiple Scales Based on Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Models. Remote Sensing. 15(7). 1919–1919. 16 indexed citations

Hou, Wei & Xinpeng Li. (2023). Assessing urban green infrastructure: A simple and practical measure of its spatial distribution equity and a comprehensive evaluation. Ecological Indicators. 158. 111408–111408. 5 indexed citations

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Hou, Wei, Liang Zhai, & Ulrich Walz. (2022). Identification of spatial conservation and restoration priorities for ecological networks planning in a highly urbanized region: A case study in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China. Ecological Engineering. 187. 106859–106859. 28 indexed citations

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Li, Zhenghong, et al.. (2019). Research and Application of Regional Power Grid Auto Transfer System for the Petal-Shape Distribution Networks based on HSR Network. 52(8). 64–70.

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Xu, Hao, Dazhen Tang, Jonathan P. Mathews, et al.. (2018). The impact of the coal macrolithotype on reservoir productivity, hydraulic fracture initiation and propagation. Fuel. 239. 471–483. 50 indexed citations

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Hou, Wei, et al.. (2018). Water Shut Offs in Two Openhole Gravel Pack Wells, Deepwater Angola. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 2 indexed citations

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Zhai, Liang, et al.. (2018). From big data to big analysis: a perspective of geographical conditions monitoring. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion. 9(3). 194–208. 6 indexed citations

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Hou, Wei, et al.. (2017). An Integrated Approach for Monitoring and Information Management of the Guanling Landslide (China). ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 6(3). 79–79. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jixian, et al.. (2016). Research framework of geographical conditions and big data. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 20(5). 1017–1026. 1 indexed citations

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Hou, Wei, et al.. (2016). Upper Semi-Continuity of Pullback Attractors for the 2D Non-Autonomous Navier-Stokes Equations with Weak Damping. 36(4). 739. 1 indexed citations

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Hou, Wei & Ulrich Walz. (2016). An integrated approach for landscape contrast analysis with particular consideration of small habitats and ecotones. Nature Conservation. 14. 25–39. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lingrui, et al.. (2015). Blow-Up Criterion of Weak Solutions for the 3D Boussinesq Equations. Journal of Function Spaces. 2015. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

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Shen, Weidong, Kelly M. Reavis, Gerald A. Maguire, et al.. (2012). Subjective Evaluation of Personalized Equalization Curves in Music. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 1 indexed citations

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