Weihua Chen

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Weihua Chen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Weihua Chen has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Atmospheric Science, 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 26 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Weihua Chen's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (52 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (24 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (17 papers). Weihua Chen is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (52 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (24 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (17 papers). Weihua Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Weihua Chen's co-authors include Patrick M. Finnegan, Xuemei Wang, Ming Chang, Shiguo Jia, Shengzhen Zhou, Jingying Mao, Qi Fan, Beicheng Xia, Tijian Wang and Chong Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Weihua Chen

85 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Arsenic Toxicity: The Effects on Plant Metabolism 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 200 400 600
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. Arsenic Toxicity: The Effects on Plant Metabolism
    2012 606 citations Weihua Chen et al. profile →

Peers

Weihua Chen
G.P. Wyers Netherlands
D. C. Parashar India
Yuzhong Zhang China
Mengmeng Li China
Abhijit Chatterjee India
Andrew A. May United States
Thilina Jayarathne United States
Qiusheng He China
Jeff Peischl United States
Joanne Shorter United States
G.P. Wyers Netherlands
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Countries citing papers authored by Weihua Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weihua Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weihua Chen

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

All Works

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Liu, Junwen, Fan Jiang, Gan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Substantial reductions in black carbon from both fossil fuels and biomass burning during China’s Clean Air Action. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(35). e2500843122–e2500843122.
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Chen, Weihua, et al.. (2024). Can stock trading suspension calm down investors during market crises?. Journal of Financial Markets. 71. 100934–100934. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhizhong, Haodong Zhang, Yuchen Li, et al.. (2024). High Efficiency of 5 μm‐Diameter Blue Micro‐Light‐Emitting Diodes. physica status solidi (a). 221(21).
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Chen, Hongxu, et al.. (2023). Contribution of future urbanization to summer regional warming in the Pearl River Delta. Urban Climate. 49. 101476–101476. 14 indexed citations
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You, Yingchang, Jingying Mao, Weihua Chen, et al.. (2023). Effects of tropical cyclones with different tracks on ozone pollution over the Pearl River Delta region. Atmospheric Research. 286. 106680–106680. 14 indexed citations
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Yan, Xinyu, Lei He, Wenjuan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Efficient ammonia-nitrogen removal and recovery from wastewater via the continuous flat-sheet gas-permeable membranes reactor pretreatment. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 52. 103571–103571. 18 indexed citations
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Wu, Liping, Liting Yang, Yuqing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Prediction of ozone pollution impacted by vegetation planning in the Pearl River Delta, China. Atmospheric Environment. 309. 119936–119936. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Weihua, Shiguo Jia, Min Shao, et al.. (2023). Precipitation trend increases the contribution of dry reduced nitrogen deposition. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 8 indexed citations
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Huang, Minjuan, et al.. (2022). Seasonal variation of transport pathways and potential source areas at high inorganic nitrogen wet deposition sites in southern China. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 114. 444–453. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Weihua, et al.. (2022). Study on the Dispersion of Radionuclides under Different Hydrological Conditions of Spent Fuel Shipping in Daya Bay. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2022. 1–15. 1 indexed citations
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Jia, Shiguo, Qi Zhang, Liming Yang, et al.. (2021). Deposition of ambient particles in the human respiratory system based on single particle analysis: A case study in the Pearl River Delta, China. Environmental Pollution. 283. 117056–117056. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuemei, et al.. (2021). The Development and Application of Machine Learning in Atmospheric Environment Studies. Remote Sensing. 13(23). 4839–4839. 28 indexed citations
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Shao, Min, Wenjie Wang, Bin Yuan, et al.. (2021). Quantifying the role of PM2.5 dropping in variations of ground-level ozone: Inter-comparison between Beijing and Los Angeles. The Science of The Total Environment. 788. 147712–147712. 80 indexed citations
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Chen, Weihua, Shiguo Jia, Buqing Zhong, et al.. (2020). Stabilization for the secondary species contribution to PM2.5 in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) over the past decade, China: A meta-analysis. Atmospheric Environment. 242. 117817–117817. 42 indexed citations
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Chen, Weihua, Shiguo Jia, Luolin Wu, et al.. (2020). Temporal and spatial patterns of nitrogen wet deposition in different weather types in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China. The Science of The Total Environment. 740. 139936–139936. 23 indexed citations
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Jia, Shiguo, Qi Zhang, Sayantan Sarkar, et al.. (2019). Size-segregated deposition of atmospheric elemental carbon (EC) in the human respiratory system: A case study of the Pearl River Delta, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 708. 134932–134932. 16 indexed citations

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