Wei‐Ning Xiang

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Wei‐Ning Xiang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei‐Ning Xiang has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 18 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Wei‐Ning Xiang's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (35 papers), Urban Planning and Landscape Design (18 papers) and Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (15 papers). Wei‐Ning Xiang is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (35 papers), Urban Planning and Landscape Design (18 papers) and Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (15 papers). Wei‐Ning Xiang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Wei‐Ning Xiang's co-authors include Keith Clarke, Ji Han, Chao Liang, Zhenhua Huang, Kaoshan Dai, Min Liu, Jianguo Wu, Jingzhu Zhao, Lang Zhang and Liang Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Environmental Pollution and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Wei‐Ning Xiang

93 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Environmental issues associated with wind energy – A review 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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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. Environmental issues associated with wind energy – A review
    2014 326 citations Wei‐Ning Xiang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei‐Ning Xiang United States 28 1.5k 799 713 501 440 98 3.1k
Rusong Wang China 29 1.9k 1.3× 899 1.1× 753 1.1× 478 1.0× 684 1.6× 105 3.7k
Jack Ahern United States 19 2.3k 1.5× 567 0.7× 1.1k 1.5× 429 0.9× 569 1.3× 38 3.4k
Brian Deal United States 27 1.3k 0.9× 657 0.8× 837 1.2× 216 0.4× 222 0.5× 80 2.5k
Dong Kun Lee South Korea 31 1.0k 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 908 1.3× 257 0.5× 272 0.6× 190 3.1k
Yue Che China 30 1.1k 0.7× 678 0.8× 856 1.2× 264 0.5× 171 0.4× 109 2.8k
David Saurı́ Spain 37 2.2k 1.5× 795 1.0× 477 0.7× 587 1.2× 430 1.0× 157 5.4k
Carlo Lavalle Italy 28 2.2k 1.5× 433 0.5× 443 0.6× 369 0.7× 323 0.7× 132 3.7k
Liang Zhou China 28 1.8k 1.2× 903 1.1× 744 1.0× 239 0.5× 471 1.1× 132 3.1k
E. Koomen Netherlands 29 2.1k 1.4× 378 0.5× 461 0.6× 349 0.7× 378 0.9× 116 3.1k
Jasper van Vliet Netherlands 37 3.6k 2.4× 797 1.0× 637 0.9× 660 1.3× 808 1.8× 84 4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei‐Ning Xiang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei‐Ning Xiang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei‐Ning Xiang

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

All Works

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Xiang, Wei‐Ning. (2024). To the avid gardeners of SEPR community knowledge garden. 6(1). 103–104. 1 indexed citations
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Xiang, Wei‐Ning. (2023). An appreciation letter to our 2022 reviewers and guest editors. 5(1). 123–124. 2 indexed citations
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Xiang, Wei‐Ning. (2023). Right ways to pursue ecopracticology and their moral guardrails. 5(4). 443–447. 1 indexed citations
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Rosa, Daniele La, Stephan Pauleit, & Wei‐Ning Xiang. (2021). Unearthing time-honored examples of nature-based solutions. 3(4). 329–335. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Hui, et al.. (2017). A Comparative Study of Chinese Translation of Resilience Terminology in Socio-Ecological System and Its Related Research Fields. Urban Planning International. 32(4). 29–39. 16 indexed citations
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Dai, Xiaohu, et al.. (2017). Effects of combined ultrasound and alkali pretreatment on waste activated sludge disintegration and anaerobic digestion. 11(5). 3073–3078. 2 indexed citations
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Hou, Jinju, et al.. (2017). Inhibition efficiency evaluation of lignocellulose-derived compounds for bioethanol production. Journal of Cleaner Production. 165. 1107–1114. 35 indexed citations
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Head, Brian & Wei‐Ning Xiang. (2016). Working with wicked problems in socio-ecological systems: More awareness, greater acceptance, and better adaptation. Landscape and Urban Planning. 154. 1–3. 26 indexed citations
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Xiang, Wei‐Ning, et al.. (2015). [Spatiotemporal pattern of carbon sources and sinks in Yangtze River Delta region, China].. PubMed. 26(4). 973–80. 6 indexed citations
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Pan, Chen, et al.. (2015). [Near surface CO2 concentration and its quantitative relationship with character of underlying surface in Shanghai City, China].. PubMed. 26(7). 2123–30. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Min, Chen Pan, Liang Chen, et al.. (2015). Spatial variation of near-surface CO2 concentration during spring in Shanghai. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 7(1). 31–39. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiuzhuo, Varenyam Achal, Wei‐Ning Xiang, & Duan‐Chao Wang. (2014). Identification of Heavy Metal Resistant Bacteria Isolated from Yangtze River, China. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 16(3). 619–623. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Liang, et al.. (2014). [Quantitative analysis of the built-up area expansion in Su-Xi-Chang region, China].. PubMed. 25(5). 1422–30. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Huiqian, et al.. (2014). A Medicago truncatula H+-pyrophosphatase gene, MtVP1, improves sucrose accumulation and anthocyanin biosynthesis in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Genetics and Molecular Research. 13(2). 3615–3626. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2014). The Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Land Surface Temperatures in Shanghai, and Their Responses to Land-use Change. Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management. 2(3). 217–228. 1 indexed citations
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Gobster, Paul H. & Wei‐Ning Xiang. (2012). Progress and prospects. Landscape and Urban Planning. 105(1-2). 2–4. 8 indexed citations
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Xiang, Wei‐Ning. (2008). A Study on Site Coverage Spatial Distribution Pattern of Beijing City Based on Gis. 4 indexed citations
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Xiang, Wei‐Ning, et al.. (2007). Spatial planning method for the basic farmland protection based on the farmland classification. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 2007(1). 1 indexed citations

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