Weiwei Sun

14.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
330 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Weiwei Sun is a scholar working on Media Technology, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiwei Sun has authored 330 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 186 papers in Media Technology, 120 papers in Atmospheric Science and 73 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Weiwei Sun's work include Remote-Sensing Image Classification (172 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (101 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (75 papers). Weiwei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Remote-Sensing Image Classification (172 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (101 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (75 papers). Weiwei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Macao. Weiwei Sun's co-authors include Qian Du, Jiangtao Peng, Gang Yang, Xiangchao Meng, Weiyue Li, Zhiyong Lv, Kai Ren, Jón Atli Benediktsson, Yenming Mark Lai and Wei Li and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Weiwei Sun

305 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

Hyperspectral Band Selection: A Review 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2020 2021 2023 2022 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. Hyperspectral Band Selection: A Review
    2019 369 citations Weiwei Sun, Qian Du IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine profile →
  2. Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis precipitation dataset over Chinese Mainland
    2020 319 citations Weiwei Sun et al. profile →
  3. Low-Rank and Sparse Representation for Hyperspectral Image Processing: A review
    2021 192 citations Jiangtao Peng, Weiwei Sun et al. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine profile →
  4. Coupled Temporal Variation Information Estimation and Resolution Enhancement for Remote Sensing Spatial–Temporal–Spectral Fusion
    2023 184 citations Weiwei Sun, Xiangchao Meng et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  5. Land Cover Change Detection With Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Images: Review, Progress, and Perspective
    2022 149 citations Weiwei Sun et al. profile →
  6. Hyperspectral Image Classification With Multi-Attention Transformer and Adaptive Superpixel Segmentation-Based Active Learning
    2023 123 citations Weiwei Sun et al. profile →
  7. Enhanced mangrove vegetation index based on hyperspectral images for mapping mangrove
    2022 123 citations Gang Yang, Weiwei Sun et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
  8. Spatial–Spectral Attention Network Guided With Change Magnitude Image for Land Cover Change Detection Using Remote Sensing Images
    2022 119 citations Weiwei Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  9. DBCTNet: Double Branch Convolution-Transformer Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
    2024 49 citations Jiangtao Peng, Weiwei Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Weiwei Sun China 52 4.9k 3.1k 2.1k 1.3k 1.3k 330 8.8k
Jóhannes R. Sveinsson Iceland 39 6.2k 1.3× 3.4k 1.1× 2.5k 1.2× 1.9k 1.4× 987 0.7× 155 8.7k
Francesca Bovolo Italy 46 5.7k 1.2× 3.9k 1.3× 1.3k 0.6× 2.7k 2.0× 896 0.7× 226 8.1k
Bing Zhang China 53 7.9k 1.6× 3.8k 1.2× 3.6k 1.7× 1.7k 1.2× 972 0.7× 320 13.1k
Paolo Gamba Italy 50 6.6k 1.3× 3.6k 1.2× 2.2k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 440 10.6k
Peijun Du China 53 5.3k 1.1× 3.9k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 2.5k 1.9× 2.1k 1.6× 369 10.2k
Devis Tuia Switzerland 53 5.4k 1.1× 2.5k 0.8× 3.7k 1.8× 2.2k 1.6× 1.3k 1.0× 251 11.0k
Naoto Yokoya Japan 52 7.3k 1.5× 2.3k 0.7× 4.6k 2.2× 1.7k 1.3× 792 0.6× 173 10.9k
Lichao Mou Germany 36 3.8k 0.8× 2.1k 0.7× 2.2k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 544 0.4× 126 6.7k
Jing Yao China 39 4.8k 1.0× 2.1k 0.7× 2.7k 1.3× 949 0.7× 428 0.3× 128 9.8k
Lianru Gao China 53 9.1k 1.9× 4.1k 1.3× 4.1k 2.0× 1.3k 1.0× 518 0.4× 277 12.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weiwei Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weiwei Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weiwei Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weiwei Sun 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 Weiwei Sun. Weiwei Sun 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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Feng, Tian, Zhen Fang, Weiwei Sun, et al.. (2025). Impacts of decadal increasing nitrogen deposition on North Pacific marine ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management. 379. 124844–124844.
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Chen, Chao, Weiwei Sun, Zhaohui Yang, et al.. (2024). Tracking dynamics characteristics of tidal flats using landsat time series and Google Earth Engine cloud platform. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 209. 107751–107751. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Yumiao, Luwei Feng, Weiwei Sun, et al.. (2024). A lightweight CNN-Transformer network for pixel-based crop mapping using time-series Sentinel-2 imagery. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 226. 109370–109370. 21 indexed citations
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Sun, Weiwei, et al.. (2024). Incubation temperature effect on bacterial self-healing capabilities of cementitious mortar cracks: Deep learning based crack sealing rates evaluations. Construction and Building Materials. 441. 137489–137489. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Weiwei, Jingchao Shi, Brian Alan Johnson, et al.. (2024). Utilizing GaoFen-2 derived urban green space information to predict local surface temperature. Urban forestry & urban greening. 99. 128463–128463. 2 indexed citations
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Fu, Bolin, et al.. (2024). Quantifying vegetation species functional traits along hydrologic gradients in karst wetland based on 3D mapping with UAV hyperspectral point cloud. Remote Sensing of Environment. 307. 114160–114160. 17 indexed citations
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De-xing, Chen, Siyu Chen, Yuqing Lin, et al.. (2024). Variations in soil fungal communities: Comparative insights from coniferous and mixed broadleaf-conifer forests. Pedobiologia. 107. 151007–151007. 2 indexed citations
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Fu, Bolin, Shurong Zhang, Weiwei Sun, et al.. (2024). Synergistic retrieval of mangrove vital functional traits using field hyperspectral and satellite data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 131. 103963–103963. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Gang, Weiwei Sun, Bolin Fu, et al.. (2024). The phenology and water level time-series mangrove index for improved mangrove monitoring. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 134. 104188–104188. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Jiangtao, et al.. (2024). Domain Fusion Contrastive Learning for Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–12. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Chao, Liyan Wang, Gang Yang, Weiwei Sun, & Yongze Song. (2023). Mapping of Ecological Environment Based on Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing Platform and Landsat Long-Term Data: A Case Study of the Zhoushan Archipelago. Remote Sensing. 15(16). 4072–4072. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guo, et al.. (2023). A multimodal fusion method for Alzheimer’s disease based on DCT convolutional sparse representation. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16. 1100812–1100812. 10 indexed citations
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Xiao, Bin, Hongchang He, Bolin Fu, et al.. (2023). Comparison of leaf chlorophyll content retrieval performance of citrus using FOD and CWT methods with field-based full-spectrum hyperspectral reflectance data. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 217. 108559–108559. 37 indexed citations
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Huang, Yi, et al.. (2023). Cross-scene wetland mapping on hyperspectral remote sensing images using adversarial domain adaptation network. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 203. 37–54. 77 indexed citations
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Sun, Weiwei, et al.. (2023). Explainable predictions of multi-component oxides enabled by attention-based neural networks. Scripta Materialia. 240. 115847–115847. 2 indexed citations
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Ge, Chiru, Qian Du, Weiwei Sun, et al.. (2021). Deep Residual Network-Based Fusion Framework for Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 2458–2472. 34 indexed citations
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Jiang, Wei, et al.. (2020). Optimizing Through Learned Errors for Accurate Sports Field Registration. 201–210. 30 indexed citations
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Meng, Xiangchao, Feng Shao, Huanfeng Shen, et al.. (2020). A Large-Scale Benchmark Data Set for Evaluating Pansharpening Performance: Overview and Implementation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 9(1). 18–52. 129 indexed citations

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