Wei Peng

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Wei Peng is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Peng has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 29 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Peng's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (43 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (28 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (14 papers). Wei Peng is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (43 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (28 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (14 papers). Wei Peng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Austria. Wei Peng's co-authors include Denise L. Mauzerall, Fabian Wagner, Junnan Yang, Xi Lu, Tong Zhu, Qiang Zhang, Kirk R. Smith, Xiaoyuan Li, Chris Nielsen and Michael B. McElroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wei Peng

88 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Air pollutant emissions from Chinese households: A major and underappreciated ambient pollution source

2016 409 citations Denise L. Mauzerall, Qiang Zhang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Peng China	31	1.3k	746	724	610	553	91	3.1k
Pallav Purohit Austria	38	1.2k 0.9×	886 1.2×	764 1.1×	737 1.2×	592 1.1×	109	4.4k
Yan Hao China	38	830 0.6×	1.4k 1.9×	477 0.7×	481 0.8×	609 1.1×	119	3.7k
Fabian Wagner Austria	38	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	811 1.1×	1.3k 2.1×	849 1.5×	131	4.3k
Sha Yu United States	25	843 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	473 0.7×	679 1.1×	663 1.2×	53	3.3k
Haikun Wang China	44	2.1k 1.6×	1.6k 2.1×	966 1.3×	960 1.6×	705 1.3×	119	5.3k
Tatsuya Hanaoka Japan	27	704 0.5×	987 1.3×	269 0.4×	943 1.5×	327 0.6×	71	2.7k
Shaohui Zhang China	32	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	314 0.4×	842 1.4×	247 0.4×	109	3.4k
Yang Xie China	31	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	320 0.4×	1.5k 2.4×	246 0.4×	111	3.4k
Jens Borken Austria	28	1.9k 1.5×	942 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	439 0.7×	645 1.2×	75	3.5k
Jill Baumgartner Canada	36	2.4k 1.8×	747 1.0×	568 0.8×	214 0.4×	334 0.6×	110	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Peng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Peng

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wei Peng. 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 Peng. The network helps show where Wei Peng may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Peng

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Peng, Wei, Alicia Zhao, Yang Ou, et al.. (2025). Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States. One Earth. 8(3). 101232–101232. 2 indexed citations

Wen, Xinyu, Hucai Zhang, Guangchao Liang, et al.. (2025). Unveiling hidden threats: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons pollution in the glacial waters of the Meili Snow Mountains in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE. 20(10). e0334592–e0334592.

Sun, Wenxin, Rencheng Zhu, Menglei Wang, et al.. (2024). Evaporative volatile organic compounds from the actual vehicle refueling emissions: Characteristics, secondary transformation, and health effects in winter and summer seasons. Atmospheric Environment. 338. 120811–120811. 3 indexed citations

Davidson, Michael R., et al.. (2024). Simulating institutional heterogeneity in sustainability science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(8). e2215674121–e2215674121. 17 indexed citations

Liu, Huikun, Qiyuan Wang, Wei Peng, et al.. (2024). The impacts of regional transport on anthropogenic source contributions of PM2.5 in a basin city, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 917. 170038–170038. 9 indexed citations

Lv, Lingling, Wei Peng, Jingnan Hu, Yangxi Chu, & Xiao Liu. (2024). High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of PM2.5 traffic source impacts integrating machine learning and source-specific multipollutant indicator. Environment International. 183. 108421–108421. 6 indexed citations

Fang, Yan Ru, Wei Peng, M.S. Hossain, et al.. (2023). Neutralizing China's transportation sector requires combined decarbonization efforts from power and hydrogen supply. Applied Energy. 349. 121636–121636. 22 indexed citations

Zhuang, Minghao, Xi Lu, Wei Peng, et al.. (2021). Opportunities for household energy on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in line with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 144. 110982–110982. 32 indexed citations

Wang, Gang, et al.. (2021). Variations in characteristics and transport pathways of PM2.5 during heavy pollution episodes in 2013–2019 in Jinan, a central city in the north China Plain. Environmental Pollution. 284. 117450–117450. 17 indexed citations

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Xue, Tao, Tong Zhu, Wei Peng, et al.. (2021). Clean air actions in China, PM2.5 exposure, and household medical expenditures: A quasi-experimental study. PLoS Medicine. 18(1). e1003480–e1003480. 33 indexed citations

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Budolfson, Mark, Francis Dennig, Frank Errickson, et al.. (2021). Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being. Nature Climate Change. 11(12). 1111–1116. 65 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ying, Jianlei Lang, Da‐Wei Huang, et al.. (2020). Impact of rural residential coal combustion on air pollution in Shandong, China. Chemosphere. 260. 127517–127517. 36 indexed citations

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Qin, Yue, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Edward Byers, et al.. (2018). Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry. Nature Sustainability. 1(9). 505–511. 55 indexed citations

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Meng, Zhaoyang, Xiaobin Xu, Weili Lin, et al.. (2018). Role of ambient ammonia in particulate ammonium formation at a rural site in the North China Plain. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(1). 167–184. 107 indexed citations

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Peng, Wei. (2011). Study on the Influence Factors of China's Carbon Intensity——Based on Provincial Panel Data. Economic management journal. 4 indexed citations

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Peng, Wei. (2011). Spatial and Temporal Distribution Variation and Source Characteristics of Atmospheric Pollutants at a Typical Rural Site of Liaozhong County,Liaoning Province. The Research of Environmental Sciences.

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Peng, Wei, et al.. (2010). Comparative evaluation of the protective potentials of human paraoxonase 1 and 3 against CCl4-induced liver injury. Toxicology Letters. 193(2). 159–166. 15 indexed citations

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Peng, Wei, Xiaoling Jiang, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2008). Protective effects of transgene expressed human PON3 against CCl4-induced subacute liver injury in mice. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 63(8). 592–598. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chi, Wei Peng, Xiaoling Jiang, et al.. (2007). Transgene expression of human PON1 Q in mice protected the liver against CCl₄‐induced injury. The Journal of Gene Medicine. 10(1). 94–100. 22 indexed citations

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Zang, Yuhui, Xu Zhang, Xiaoling Jiang, et al.. (2006). Expression, refolding, and characterization of recombinant thrombopoietin/stem cell factor fusion protein in Escherichia coli. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 74(4). 836–842. 5 indexed citations

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