Wei Xiao

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Wei Xiao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Xiao has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 33 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Wei Xiao's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (38 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (23 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers). Wei Xiao is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (38 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (23 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers). Wei Xiao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Wei Xiao's co-authors include Xuhui Lee, Shoudong Liu, Mi Zhang, Natalie M. Schultz, Qitao Xiao, Xuefa Wen, Lei Zhao, Chang Cao, Wei Wang and Cheng Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Wei Xiao

87 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Urban heat islands in China enhanced by haze pollution

2016 365 citations Chang Cao, Xuhui Lee et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Xiao China	25	1.6k	864	587	570	518	98	2.5k
Shoudong Liu China	23	1.3k 0.8×	906 1.0×	452 0.8×	585 1.0×	354 0.7×	69	2.2k
Amy Townsend‐Small United States	28	1.1k 0.7×	819 0.9×	403 0.7×	392 0.7×	177 0.3×	56	2.3k
D. Serça France	30	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	392 0.7×	279 0.5×	248 0.5×	65	2.7k
Emily M. Elliott United States	26	811 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	294 0.5×	514 0.9×	603 1.2×	56	2.9k
Ramiro Neves Portugal	30	855 0.5×	413 0.5×	1.2k 2.1×	313 0.5×	771 1.5×	156	3.0k
Alain Patoine Canada	22	1.4k 0.9×	1.7k 2.0×	585 1.0×	258 0.5×	278 0.5×	40	2.8k
Huawu Wu China	26	1.0k 0.6×	747 0.9×	335 0.6×	214 0.4×	749 1.4×	102	2.1k
Kjetil Tørseth Norway	26	1.7k 1.1×	2.1k 2.5×	189 0.3×	355 0.6×	149 0.3×	69	3.2k
Stephen D. Sebestyen United States	29	552 0.4×	558 0.6×	472 0.8×	333 0.6×	906 1.7×	93	3.0k
Hengpeng Li China	23	965 0.6×	198 0.2×	303 0.5×	344 0.6×	1.0k 2.0×	89	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Xiao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Xiao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Xiao

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Tianhao, et al.. (2025). Atmospheric CO2 and CH4 observations in Hangzhou before, during, and after the 2023 Asian Games: Insights from vehicle-carried and fixed stations. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 16(6). 102499–102499. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xuanye, Hailong Yang, Lingbing Bu, et al.. (2025). Estimation of diurnal emissions of CO ₂ from thermal power plants using spaceborne integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) lidar. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(13). 6725–6740.

Zhang, Yifan, Junqing Zhang, Fan Sun, et al.. (2025). Revising the coal mining CH4 emission factor based on multiple inventories and atmospheric inversion approach at one of the world's largest coal production areas: Shanxi province, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 965. 178616–178616. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhengqi, Shuzhuang Feng, Wei Liu, et al.. (2024). Development of a regional carbon assimilation system and its application for estimating fossil fuel carbon emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177720–177720. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Shuo, Zhaozhong Feng, Shuangxi Fang, et al.. (2024). Assessing the Accuracy of Eddy‐Covariance Measurement at Different Source Emission Scenarios. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(14). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Shengjie, Kei Yoshimura, Camille Risi, et al.. (2024). Skill of isotope-enabled climate models for daily surface water vapour in East Asia. Global and Planetary Change. 239. 104502–104502. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Mi, Wei Xiao, Zhen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Aerosol interference with open-path eddy covariance measurement in a lake environment. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355. 110104–110104. 1 indexed citations

Li, Ying, Xiwu Li, Changshu He, et al.. (2024). A Review of Solid-State Additive Manufacturing: Method, Microstructural Evolution, Mechanical Properties, Applications and Challenges.

Mao, Zhihua, Yang Zhang, Lingbing Bu, et al.. (2024). Measurement of CO ₂ Column Concentration Above Cloud Tops With a Spaceborne IPDA Lidar. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23).

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Xiao, Qitao, Yuan Zhou, Juhua Luo, et al.. (2023). Low carbon dioxide emissions from aquaculture farm of lake revealed by long-term measurements. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 363. 108851–108851. 10 indexed citations

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Xiao, Wei, et al.. (2023). Use of metadiscourse for identity construction in tourist city publicity：A comparative study of Chinese and Australian social media discourse. Heliyon. 9(12). e23122–e23122. 2 indexed citations

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Xiao, Qitao, Jianming Deng, Mi Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ecological water diversion activity changes the fate of carbon in a eutrophic lake. Environmental Research. 245. 117959–117959. 5 indexed citations

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Xiao, Ke, Timothy J. Griffis, Xuhui Lee, Wei Xiao, & John M. Baker. (2023). A coupled equilibrium boundary layer model with stable water isotopes and its application to local water recycling. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 339. 109572–109572. 3 indexed citations

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Hu, Cheng, Junqing Zhang, Bing Qi, et al.. (2023). Global warming will largely increase waste treatment CH ₄ emissions in Chinese megacities: insight from the first city-scale CH ₄ concentration observation network in Hangzhou, China. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(7). 4501–4520. 12 indexed citations

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Hu, Cheng, Wei Xiao, Timothy J. Griffis, et al.. (2023). Estimation of Anthropogenic CH ₄ and CO ₂ Emissions in Taiyuan‐Jinzhong Region: One of the World's Largest Emission Hotspots. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(8). 8 indexed citations

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Xiao, Wei, et al.. (2020). Determining the Isotopic Composition of Surface Water Vapor Flux From High‐Frequency Observations Using Flux‐Gradient and Keeling Plot Methods. Earth and Space Science. 8(3). 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Cheng, Jianping Huang, Yongwei Wang, et al.. (2019). Vertical distribution of PM2.5 and interactions with the atmospheric boundary layer during the development stage of a heavy haze pollution event. The Science of The Total Environment. 704. 135329–135329. 64 indexed citations

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Wei, Zhongwang, Xuhui Lee, Xin Wen, & Wei Xiao. (2017). Evapotranspiration partitioning for three agro-ecosystems with contrasting moisture conditions: a comparison of an isotope method and a two-source model calculation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Chang, et al.. (2015). [Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Lake Taihu Surface Albedo and Its Impact Factors].. PubMed. 36(10). 3611–9. 2 indexed citations

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Xiao, Wei, et al.. (2011). APPLICATION ANALYSIS OF MICROSATELLITE MARKERS FROM SILURUS MERIAIONALIS ON THREE SPECIES OF SILURIFORMES. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica. 35(4). 638–645. 1 indexed citations

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