Wei Hu

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Wei Hu is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Hu has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 65 papers in Environmental Engineering and 50 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Wei Hu's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (75 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (44 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (37 papers). Wei Hu is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (75 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (44 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (37 papers). Wei Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, New Zealand and Canada. Wei Hu's co-authors include Bingcheng Si, Mingan Shao, Klaus Reichardt, Fengpeng Han, Asim Biswas, Dongli She, Henry Wai Chau, Jun Fan, Yunqiang Wang and Quanjiu Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Wei Hu

132 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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Soil moisture decline in China’s monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change

2024 55 citations Yunqiang Wang, Wei Hu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Enhancing soil penetration resistance measurements and interpretations: Normalising for moisture variability to better assess land use effects 2025 ·Geoderma ·Wei Hu, (unknown), (unknown), Esther D. Meenken, Mike Beare	0
2	Soil macroaggregate-occluded mineral-associated organic carbon drives the response of soil organic carbon to land use change 2024 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·(unknown), Wei Hu, Mike Beare, David Baird	6
3	Time stability of soil volumetric water content and its optimal sampling design in contrasting forest catchments 2024 ·Journal of Hydrology ·(unknown), Dean F. Meason, Serajis Salekin, Wei Hu, (unknown), (unknown), Jianming Xue	1
4	Soil moisture decline in China’s monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change breakdown → 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yunqiang Wang, Wei Hu, (unknown), Yali Zhao, Pingping Zhang, Zimin Li, Zixuan Zhou, Yongping Tong, Shaozhen Liu, Jingxiong Zhou, Mingbin Huang, Xiaoxu Jia, Brent Clothier, Mingan Shao, Weijian Zhou, Zhisheng An	55
5	Bringing ancient loess critical zones into a new era of sustainable development goals 2024 ·Earth-Science Reviews ·Xiaoxu Jia, Ping Zhu, Xiaorong Wei, Yuanjun Zhu, Mingbin Huang, Wei Hu, Yunqiang Wang, Tuvia Turkeltaub, Andrew Binley, Robert Horton, Mingan Shao	4
6	Response of soil organic carbon stock to land use is modulated by soil hydraulic properties 2023 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·(unknown), Wei Hu, Mike Beare, David Baird, Si‐Liang Li	7
7	Disentangling the Impact of Event‐ and Annual‐Scale Precipitation Extremes on Critical‐Zone Hydrology in Semiarid Loess Vegetated by Apple Trees 2023 ·Water Resources Research ·Xiaodong Gao, (unknown), Yijian Zeng, (unknown), Wei Hu, Luca Brocca, Min Yang, Pute Wu, Xining Zhao	13
8	Soil water dynamics and groundwater evolutions of check dams under natural rainfall reduction in semi-arid areas 2023 ·Journal of Hydrology ·Zhanbin Luo, (unknown), Mingan Shao, Wei Hu, Qian Yang, Shougang Zhang	23
9	A global insight on sensitivity of nitrate leaching to drainage in arable cropping systems 2023 ·Journal of Hydrology ·Jinbo Li, Wei Hu, Mike Beare, Edmar Teixeira, Rogerio Cichota, Henry Wai Chau, Hong J. Di, Keith C. Cameron	0
10	Evaporation-driven internal hydraulic redistribution alleviates root drought stress: Mechanisms and modeling 2023 ·PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Yang Liu, Nadezhda Nadezhdina, Wei Hu, Brent Clothier, Jie Duan, Ximeng Li, Benye Xi	3
11	Long-term variation of the sap flow to tree diameter relation in a temperate poplar forest 2023 ·Journal of Hydrology ·(unknown), Ximeng Li, Wei Hu, (unknown), Nan Di, Jie Duan, Doudou Li, Yang Liu, (unknown), Aoyu Wang, (unknown), Benye Xi	16
12	Compaction induced soil structural degradation affects productivity and environmental outcomes: A review and New Zealand case study 2021 ·Geoderma ·Wei Hu, John J. Drewry, Mike Beare, André Eger, Karin Müller	52
13	Combined Cultivation Pattern Reduces Soil Erosion and Nutrient Loss from Sloping Farmland on Red Soil in Southwestern China 2020 ·Agronomy ·(unknown), Wei Hu, Henry Wai Chau, Baokun Lei, Hongjie Di, (unknown), Meiting Hou, (unknown)	22
14	Response of deep soil drought to precipitation, land use and topography across a semiarid watershed 2019 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Yunqiang Wang, Mingan Shao, Hui Sun, (unknown), Jun Fan, Wei Hu, Linchuan Fang	53
15	Effects of tillage, compaction and nitrogen inputs on crop production and nitrogen losses following simulated forage crop grazing 2019 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Wei Hu, Mike Beare, (unknown), R. N. Gillespie, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Weiwen Qiu, David Baird	10
16	Spatial and temporal variability of 0‐ to 5‐m soil–water storage at the watershed scale 2018 ·Hydrological Processes ·(unknown), Yunqiang Wang, Zhisheng An, Wei Hu, Khan M. G. Mostofa, Xuezhang Li, Bingxia Liu	11
17	Soil organic carbon prediction based on scale-specific relationships with environmental factors by discrete wavelet transform 2018 ·Geoderma ·(unknown), Wei Hu, (unknown), Yi Cao, Rutian Bi, Wude Yang	22
18	Temporally stable patterns but seasonal dependent controls of soil water content: Evidence from wavelet analyses 2017 ·Hydrological Processes ·Wei Hu, Bingcheng Si, Asim Biswas, Henry Wai Chau	64
19	Environmental controls on the spatial variability of soil water dynamics in a small watershed 2017 ·Journal of Hydrology ·Wei Hu, Henry Wai Chau, Weiwen Qiu, Bingcheng Si	28
20	Spatial variability of soil electrical conductivity in a small watershed on the Loess Plateau of China 2014 ·Geoderma ·Wei Hu, Ming Shao, Li Wan, Bingcheng Si	23

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