Weicai Wang

7.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
85 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Weicai Wang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Weicai Wang has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Atmospheric Science, 13 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Weicai Wang's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (46 papers), Climate change and permafrost (27 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (26 papers). Weicai Wang is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (46 papers), Climate change and permafrost (27 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (26 papers). Weicai Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Weicai Wang's co-authors include Tandong Yao, Guoqing Zhang, Xiaoxin Yang, Hongjie Xie, Tobias Bolch, Wei Yang, Yang Xiang, Yang Gao, Baosheng An and Taigang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Weicai Wang

82 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Third Pole Environment (TPE)

2012 751 citations Tandong Yao, Fan Zhang et al. profile →
Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

2017 371 citations Guoqing Zhang, Tandong Yao et al. profile →
An inventory of glacial lakes in the Third Pole region and their changes in response to global warming

2015 338 citations Guoqing Zhang, Tandong Yao et al. profile →
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya

2023 96 citations Guoqing Zhang, Tobias Bolch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weicai Wang China	32	2.8k	1.3k	646	636	341	85	4.4k
Xuejun Guo China	29	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 2.1×	182 0.3×	304 0.9×	75	5.6k
Xuan Wang China	36	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	294 0.5×	130 0.2×	186 0.5×	164	4.5k
Frank Yonghong Li China	35	1.2k 0.4×	705 0.6×	234 0.4×	586 0.9×	859 2.5×	250	4.9k
Qiao Liu China	32	2.4k 0.9×	457 0.4×	345 0.5×	508 0.8×	221 0.6×	108	4.3k
Jida Wang China	37	1.1k 0.4×	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 2.6×	213 0.3×	599 1.8×	108	4.2k
Gang Liu China	38	760 0.3×	812 0.6×	970 1.5×	482 0.8×	1.3k 3.9×	291	5.4k
Yun Fan China	29	3.6k 1.3×	4.1k 3.3×	1.1k 1.7×	114 0.2×	372 1.1×	71	7.1k
Linshan Liu China	31	1.0k 0.4×	1.7k 1.3×	336 0.5×	506 0.8×	1.3k 3.8×	120	3.3k
Feng Chen China	37	2.9k 1.0×	2.7k 2.1×	432 0.7×	201 0.3×	274 0.8×	250	4.4k
Tanguang Gao China	27	1.2k 0.4×	475 0.4×	187 0.3×	83 0.1×	219 0.6×	67	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Weicai Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weicai Wang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Taigang, Weicai Wang, Ioannis Kougkoulos, et al.. (2025). High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11173–11173.

Zhang, Guoqing, et al.. (2024). Potential threats of glacial lake changes to the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. Journal of Glaciology. 70. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xue, Guoqing Zhang, Georg Veh, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing glacial lake outburst floods in the Poiqu River basin, central Himalaya. Geomorphology. 449. 109063–109063. 9 indexed citations

Dai, Yufeng, Tao Wang, Yongwei Sheng, et al.. (2024). Westerly-triggered lake-effect snowfall enhanced with climate warming over the Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin. 69(7). 968–977. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Taigang, et al.. (2023). Increasing frequency and destructiveness of glacier-related slope failures under global warming. Science Bulletin. 69(1). 30–33. 15 indexed citations

Sun, Shouheng, et al.. (2023). The impact of regulatory policy on the growth of ride-hailing platform: System dynamics perspective. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 632. 129359–129359. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Shouheng, et al.. (2023). Can free-floating electric bike sharing promote more sustainable urban mobility? Evidence from a life cycle environmental impact assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 415. 137862–137862. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Taigang, Weicai Wang, & Baosheng An. (2023). A conceptual model for glacial lake bathymetric distribution. The cryosphere. 17(12). 5137–5154. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Wei, Zhongyan Wang, Baosheng An, et al.. (2023). Early warning system for ice collapses and river blockages in the Sedongpu Valley, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(9). 3015–3029. 9 indexed citations

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Zhao, Chuanxi, Wei Yang, Matthew Westoby, et al.. (2021). Brief communication: A ~50 Mm ³ ice-rock avalanche on 22 March 2021 in the Sedongpu valley, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity). 4 indexed citations

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Wu, Guangjian, Tandong Yao, Weicai Wang, et al.. (2019). Glacial Hazards on Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Alpines. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 34(11). 1285–1292. 28 indexed citations

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Yao, Tandong, et al.. (2019). Asian Water Tower Change and Its Impacts. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 34(11). 1203–1209. 77 indexed citations

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Wang, Ninglian, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal Pattern, Trend, and Influence of Glacier Change in Tibetan Plateau and Surroundings under Global Warming. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 34(11). 1220–1232. 38 indexed citations

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Allen, Simon, Guoqing Zhang, Weicai Wang, Tandong Yao, & Tobias Bolch. (2019). Potentially dangerous glacial lakes across the Tibetan Plateau revealed using a large-scale automated assessment approach. Science Bulletin. 64(7). 435–445. 156 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhi, Bingrui Li, Yanxiong Pan, et al.. (2017). Adsorption Behavior of Hydrophilic Luffa Sponges to Heavy Metal Ions in Water System. Gaodeng xuexiao huaxue xuebao. 38(4). 669. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhi, Yanxiong Pan, Kai Shi, et al.. (2016). Preparation of hydrophilic luffa sponges and their water absorption performance. Carbohydrate Polymers. 147. 178–187. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Weicai. (2010). Glaciers in the Upstream Manla Reservoir in the Nianchu River Basin,Tibet:Shrinkage and Impact. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qi, et al.. (2009). A theoretical and experimental investigation of the size distribution of polystyrene microspheres by seeded polymerization. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 342(1). 62–67. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Weicai. (2008). Applications of combined Fenton/Photo-Fenton and biological processes. Huagong jinzhan.

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Dong, Xiaoqing, Jun Xu, Weicai Wang, et al.. (2008). Repair effect of diabetic ulcers with recombinant human epidermal growth factor loaded by sustained-release microspheres. Science in China Series C Life Sciences. 51(11). 1039–1044. 39 indexed citations

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