Wei Liao

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Wei Liao is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Liao has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 14 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Wei Liao's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (13 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (13 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (12 papers). Wei Liao is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (13 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (13 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (12 papers). Wei Liao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Wei Liao's co-authors include Yi‐Qing Ni, Yong Xia, J.M. Ko, Shen Xu, Yeonsook Heo, Liang Gao, Xinyu Li, Jinqing Peng, Chao Lu and Xiaoma Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Energy and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Wei Liao

64 papers receiving 1.7k 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. Linking urban park cool island effects to the landscape patterns inside and outside the park: A simultaneous equation modeling approach
    2023 94 citations Wei Liao, Jean‐Michel Guldmann et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →

Peers

Wei Liao
Mohammadamin Azimi United States
Yongtu Liang China
Weigang Zhao China
Kwangbok Jeong South Korea
Meng Yuan China
A.T.D. Perera Switzerland
Ziqi Wang China
Martin Mayfield United Kingdom
Shifen Cheng China
Mohammadamin Azimi United States
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Countries citing papers authored by Wei Liao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Liao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Liao

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

All Works

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Wang, Minghao, et al.. (2025). Impact of residential morphology on outdoor thermal comfort and building energy consumption in winter and summer: A case study. Urban Climate. 61. 102479–102479. 2 indexed citations
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Liao, Wei, et al.. (2024). A twenty-year dataset of hourly energy generation and consumption from district campus building energy systems. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1400–1400. 2 indexed citations
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Guo, Heng, et al.. (2024). A systematic literature review of risk management research on hydrometeorological hazards-related Natech events. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 92. 105478–105478.
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Li, Xiaoma, et al.. (2024). A novel approach to identify the microclimatic edge effect width of urban green spaces at the landscape level: A case study of Changsha, China. Urban forestry & urban greening. 99. 128462–128462. 2 indexed citations
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Liao, Wei, et al.. (2023). Linking urban park cool island effects to the landscape patterns inside and outside the park: A simultaneous equation modeling approach. Landscape and Urban Planning. 232. 104681–104681. 94 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Hu, et al.. (2023). Greening residential quarters in China: What are the roles of urban form, socioeconomic factors, and biophysical context?. Urban forestry & urban greening. 86. 128020–128020. 11 indexed citations
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Wu, Nan, et al.. (2023). The effect of substituent group in allyl benzoxazine on the thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties of modified bismaleimide. Reactive and Functional Polymers. 191. 105673–105673. 20 indexed citations
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Xiao, Yiqiang, et al.. (2023). A human-machine collaboration frame in daylighting optimization of semi-outdoor space design by using phased synergistic method: A case study. Journal of Building Engineering. 79. 107879–107879. 2 indexed citations
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Pan, Yue, et al.. (2023). Low defect and high mechanical properties POSS copolymerization phthalonitrile resin prepared by powder hot isostatic pressing. Materials Letters. 352. 135140–135140. 3 indexed citations
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Liao, Wei, Chul‐Ho Kim, Yiqiang Xiao, et al.. (2023). Quantifying Photovoltaic surplus at an urban scale: A case study in Seoul. Energy and Buildings. 298. 113523–113523. 4 indexed citations
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Liao, Wei, et al.. (2021). The effect of spatial heterogeneity in urban morphology on surface urban heat islands. Energy and Buildings. 244. 111027–111027. 78 indexed citations
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Li, Guomin, Bing Zeng, Wei Liao, Xinyu Li, & Liang Gao. (2018). A new AGV scheduling algorithm based on harmony search for material transfer in a real-world manufacturing system. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 10(3). 52 indexed citations
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Lu, Chao, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao, Wei Liao, & Jin Yi. (2016). An effective multi-objective discrete virus optimization algorithm for flexible job-shop scheduling problem with controllable processing times. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 104. 156–174. 131 indexed citations
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Chen, Shu Hui, et al.. (2012). Monitoring dynamic characteristics of Canton Tower under different excitations. Zhendong yu chongji. 31(3). 49–54. 2 indexed citations
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Ni, Yi‐Qing, Yong Xia, Wei Liao, & J.M. Ko. (2009). Technology innovation in developing the structural health monitoring system for Guangzhou New TV Tower. Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 16(1). 73–98. 320 indexed citations
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Liao, Wei, et al.. (2004). Monitoring Layer-by-layer Assembling of Films Containing Diazo-resines by Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 20(4). 405–408. 5 indexed citations

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