Wei Yuan

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Wei Yuan is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Yuan has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 36 papers in Pollution and 22 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Wei Yuan's work include Mercury impact and mitigation studies (57 papers), Heavy metals in environment (36 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (31 papers). Wei Yuan is often cited by papers focused on Mercury impact and mitigation studies (57 papers), Heavy metals in environment (36 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (31 papers). Wei Yuan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Wei Yuan's co-authors include Xun Wang, Xinbin Feng, Che‐Jen Lin, Qibing Pei, Jonas Sommar, Zhiyun Lu, Min Shi, G. Grüner, Liangbing Hu and Ji Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Wei Yuan

119 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Critical Role of Alkyl Chain Branching of Organic Semicon... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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. Critical Role of Alkyl Chain Branching of Organic Semiconductors in Enabling Solution-Processed N-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Mobility of up to 3.50 cm2 V–1 s–1
    2013 380 citations Wei Yuan et al. profile →

Peers

Wei Yuan
Hang Xiao China
Mengmeng Yang China
Yizhen Chen China
Min Li China
Yuxi Zhang China
Xiaoxiao Li China
Zhengkai Li China
Yan Liang China
Shanshan Zheng China
Hang Xiao China
Wei Yuan
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Countries citing papers authored by Wei Yuan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Yuan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Yuan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Yuan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Yuan 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 Yuan. Wei Yuan 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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Zhang, Ge, Wei Yuan, Meiqing Sun, et al.. (2025). Climate-driven mercury dynamics in a tropical savanna: Low uptake, pulsed emissions, and weak sequestration. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 496. 139285–139285. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Hongming, Ruoyu Sun, Wang Zheng, et al.. (2024). Stable Isotopes Reveal the Contribution of Glacier Melting to Mercury Budget in Tibetan Rivers. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 12(1). 85–91.
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Duan, Jing, Ru‐Jin Huang, Chunshui Lin, et al.. (2024). Aromatic Nitration Enhances Absorption of Biomass Burning Brown Carbon in an Oxidizing Urban Environment. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(39). 17344–17354. 4 indexed citations
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Huang, Ru‐Jin, et al.. (2023). Measurement report: Brown carbon aerosol in polluted urban air of the North China Plain – day–night differences in the chromophores and optical properties. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(24). 15197–15207. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Bo, Wei Yuan, Xun Wang, et al.. (2022). Canopy-Level Flux and Vertical Gradients of Hg0 Stable Isotopes in Remote Evergreen Broadleaf Forest Show Year-Around Net Hg0 Deposition. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(9). 5950–5959. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Xun, et al.. (2022). Mercury accumulation and dynamics in montane forests along an elevation gradient in Southwest China. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 119. 1–10. 13 indexed citations
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Yuan, Wei, Xun Wang, Che‐Jen Lin, et al.. (2021). Quantification of Atmospheric Mercury Deposition to and Legacy Re-emission from a Subtropical Forest Floor by Mercury Isotopes. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(18). 12352–12361. 40 indexed citations
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Yuan, Wei, Ru‐Jin Huang, Lu Yang, et al.. (2021). Measurement report: PM 2.5 -bound nitrated aromatic compounds in Xi'an, Northwest China – seasonal variations and contributions to optical properties of brown carbon. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(5). 3685–3697. 33 indexed citations
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Wang, Xun, Wei Yuan, Che‐Jen Lin, Fei Wu, & Xinbin Feng. (2021). Stable mercury isotopes stored in Masson Pinus tree rings as atmospheric mercury archives. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 415. 125678–125678. 28 indexed citations
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Yuan, Wei, Ru‐Jin Huang, Lu Yang, et al.. (2020). Characterization of the light-absorbing properties, chromophore composition and sources of brown carbon aerosol in Xi'an, northwestern China. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(8). 5129–5144. 77 indexed citations
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Yuan, Shengliu, Jiubin Chen, Hongming Cai, et al.. (2017). Sequential samples reveal significant variation of mercury isotope ratios during single rainfall events. The Science of The Total Environment. 624. 133–144. 32 indexed citations
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Wang, Xun, Che‐Jen Lin, Wei Yuan, et al.. (2016). Emission-dominated gas exchange of elemental mercury vapor over naturalsurfaces in China. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(17). 11125–11143. 66 indexed citations
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Sordoni, Alessandro, Wei Yuan, & Jian‐Yun Nie. (2013). Universite de Montreal at TREC 2013: Experiments with Quantum Language Models in the Web Track.. Text REtrieval Conference. 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Wei, Yin Wei, & Min Shi. (2013). Ruthenium‐Catalyzed Intramolecular [2+2+2] Cycloaddition and Tandem Cross‐Metathesis of Triynes and Enediynes. ChemistryOpen. 2(2). 63–68. 18 indexed citations
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Yuan, Wei. (2005). Research on the User Collaborative Recommendation Algorithm in Personalized Search Engine. Microelectronics & Computer. 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Wei. (2004). Application of GIS in Urban Planning Information System. Computer and Modernization. 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Wei. (2003). Development of Geologic Specimen Database Based on Web. Jisuanji gongcheng. 1 indexed citations

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