Wei Shui

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Wei Shui is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Shui has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 14 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Wei Shui's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (8 papers). Wei Shui is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (8 papers). Wei Shui collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Wei Shui's co-authors include Qianfeng Wang, Jingyu Zeng, Junyu Qi, Rongrong Zhang, Xiaoping Wu, Xiaohong Zhang, Wenjie Liao, Yue Zeng, Xuesong Zhang and Jun Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Wei Shui

69 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A multi-scale daily SPEI dataset for drought characteriza... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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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.

  1. A multi-scale daily SPEI dataset for drought characterization at observation stations over mainland China from 1961 to 2018
    2021 161 citations Qianfeng Wang, Jingyu Zeng 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 Shui China 19 588 214 204 190 134 74 1.3k
Ying Tang China 22 513 0.9× 301 1.4× 227 1.1× 254 1.3× 77 0.6× 51 1.7k
Yiping Fang China 23 383 0.7× 110 0.5× 130 0.6× 244 1.3× 186 1.4× 72 1.8k
S. Prieler Austria 13 440 0.7× 248 1.2× 260 1.3× 322 1.7× 127 0.9× 22 1.5k
Yuhao Feng China 22 750 1.3× 423 2.0× 114 0.6× 170 0.9× 71 0.5× 67 1.6k
Patrick M. Bösch Switzerland 10 469 0.8× 210 1.0× 128 0.6× 183 1.0× 76 0.6× 23 2.0k
Junze Zhang China 26 867 1.5× 223 1.0× 243 1.2× 189 1.0× 51 0.4× 99 2.0k
Lenny Bernstein United States 5 537 0.9× 208 1.0× 134 0.7× 295 1.6× 88 0.7× 8 1.6k
Lennart Folkeson Sweden 19 254 0.4× 191 0.9× 232 1.1× 259 1.4× 221 1.6× 41 1.4k
Zhengtao Zhang China 21 364 0.6× 152 0.7× 112 0.5× 136 0.7× 111 0.8× 58 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Shui

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Shui

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Shui

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Shui. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Shui 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 Shui. Wei Shui 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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Wu, Yuqing, et al.. (2025). Area influences microbial resource limitations in karst fragmented habitats. Applied Soil Ecology. 206. 105875–105875. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Yu, Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento, et al.. (2025). Global rainfall erosivity: Observation, attribution, and projection. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 100605–100605.
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Shui, Wei, et al.. (2024). The life strategy of bacteria rather than fungi shifts in karst tiankeng island-like systems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(12). e0158124–e0158124. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Mingdong, et al.. (2024). Energy self-sufficiency and carbon neutrality potential of Chinese urban wastewater treatment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 475. 143657–143657. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiemin, et al.. (2024). A Review of Research on Progress in the Theory and Practice of Eco-Product Value Realization. Land. 13(3). 316–316. 11 indexed citations
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Xing, Yanli, et al.. (2023). The Relationship Between Prognostic Nutritional Indexes and the Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. International Journal of COPD. Volume 18. 1155–1167. 4 indexed citations
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Shui, Wei, et al.. (2023). Analysis of Slope Stability with Different Vegetation Types under the Influence of Rainfall. Forests. 14(9). 1865–1865. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Qianfeng, Rongrong Zhang, Junyu Qi, et al.. (2022). An improved daily standardized precipitation index dataset for mainland China from 1961 to 2018. Scientific Data. 9(1). 124–124. 69 indexed citations
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Li, Hui, et al.. (2022). The characterization of microbial communities and associations in karst tiankeng. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1002198–1002198. 11 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanan & Wei Shui. (2020). Agricultural nonpoint source pollution in urban agricultural areas: An assessment system and mitigation methods. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal. 27(2). 405–430. 12 indexed citations
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Shui, Wei, et al.. (2019). [Scenario simulation of ecosystem service trade-offs in bay cities: A case study in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China].. PubMed. 30(12). 4293–4302. 11 indexed citations
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Shui, Wei, et al.. (2018). [Spatial pattern of plant community in original karst tiankeng: A case study of Zhanyi tiankeng in Yunnan, China].. PubMed. 29(6). 1725–1735. 6 indexed citations
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Shui, Wei, et al.. (2016). Carbon fixation ability of desertified grassland ecosystem in Zoige Plateau. 25(6). 50. 2 indexed citations
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Shui, Wei. (2012). A Review of Study on Ecological Migrant. Shijie dili yanjiu. 1 indexed citations
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Shui, Wei & Lie Chen. (2005). THE INDUSTRIALIZATION DRIVING MECHANISM FOR URBANIZATION IN MOUNTAINOUS ECOLOGICAL COUNTY——A Case Study of Shixing County in the Mountain Area of North Guangdong. Tropical Geography.
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Shui, Wei & Lie Chen. (2005). Urbanization and Rural Tourism Development in Suburbs: A Case Study of Heming Village in Qionglai City. Geography and Geo-Information Science. 1 indexed citations

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