Weilin Liao

82 total papers · 3.6k total citations
55 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Weilin Liao is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Weilin Liao has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Environmental Engineering, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Weilin Liao's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (33 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (12 papers). Weilin Liao is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (33 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (12 papers). Weilin Liao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Weilin Liao's co-authors include Xiaoping Liu, Dan Li, Xia Li, Dagang Wang, Guangzhao Chen, A. J. Rigden, Xun Liang, Xiaoping Liu, Xiaocong Xu and Kangning Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Weilin Liao

51 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global projections of fut... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2019 2021 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways
    2020 619 citations Guangzhao Chen, Xia Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?
    2019 286 citations Dan Li, Weilin Liao et al. Science Advances profile →
  3. Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities
    2021 274 citations Jun Wang, Yang Chen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Weilin Liao 1.8k 1.4k 921 712 209 55 2.7k
Gabriele Manoli 1.4k 0.8× 1.7k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 503 0.7× 225 1.1× 52 2.7k
Mark McCarthy 1.7k 1.0× 720 0.5× 577 0.6× 1.1k 1.6× 263 1.3× 57 2.9k
Hao Zhang 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 918 1.0× 676 0.9× 91 0.4× 78 2.6k
Manjula Ranagalage 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 754 0.8× 454 0.6× 185 0.9× 61 2.5k
Lijian Han 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 1.3k 1.5× 644 0.9× 170 0.8× 83 2.9k
Salman Qureshi 2.4k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 1.9k 2.0× 543 0.8× 142 0.7× 97 3.9k
Jinming Feng 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 0.8× 646 0.7× 1.4k 2.0× 216 1.0× 87 2.9k
Rui Yao 2.3k 1.3× 2.2k 1.6× 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.5× 271 1.3× 84 3.6k
Lei Zhao 2.0k 1.1× 2.3k 1.7× 1.5k 1.7× 954 1.3× 349 1.7× 81 4.0k
Kangning Huang 1.5k 0.9× 682 0.5× 633 0.7× 543 0.8× 120 0.6× 40 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Weilin Liao

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Weilin Liao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Weilin Liao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Weilin Liao more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Weilin Liao

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weilin Liao

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

All Works

Loading papers...

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Catherine Best‐Popescu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Dun Zhao Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Dale P. Conner Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Paul E. Hermans Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jean Délery Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nicolas Bruno Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Junchao Zhao Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Maria Browall
Rankless by CCL
2026