Wen Chen

21.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
616 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Wen Chen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Wen Chen has authored 616 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 449 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 412 papers in Atmospheric Science and 188 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Wen Chen's work include Climate variability and models (398 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (193 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (158 papers). Wen Chen is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (398 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (193 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (158 papers). Wen Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Wen Chen's co-authors include Lin Wang, Shangfeng Chen, Ronghui Huang, Renguang Wu, Juan Feng, Wen Zhou, Lin Wang, Ke Wei, Bin Yu and Debashis Nath and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Wen Chen

582 papers receiving 16.4k 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.

A CMIP5 multimodel projection of future temperature, precipitation, and climatological drought in China

2013 367 citations Wen Chen et al. profile →
A Review on Variable-Order Fractional Differential Equations: Mathematical Foundations, Physical Models, Numerical Methods and Applications

2019 293 citations Wen Chen et al. profile →
Recent pronounced warming on the Mongolian Plateau boosted by internal climate variability

2024 50 citations Wen Chen, Shangfeng Chen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wen Chen China	62	13.0k	11.5k	4.7k	1.1k	593	616	16.7k
David B. Stephenson United Kingdom	59	10.2k 0.8×	8.2k 0.7×	1.9k 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.2k 2.0×	163	14.4k
Jianping Huang China	77	16.9k 1.3×	14.7k 1.3×	957 0.2×	1.3k 1.2×	1.7k 2.9×	521	23.5k
James P. Kossin United States	53	9.5k 0.7×	11.2k 1.0×	5.4k 1.2×	202 0.2×	386 0.7×	136	14.2k
Eugenia Kalnay United States	59	18.9k 1.5×	17.6k 1.5×	3.9k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	4.3k 7.2×	264	24.7k
Matthew J. Menne United States	30	6.7k 0.5×	5.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.4×	687 0.6×	724 1.2×	51	8.4k
Peter J. Webster United States	63	17.1k 1.3×	15.7k 1.4×	8.5k 1.8×	752 0.7×	666 1.1×	156	21.8k
Martin Wild Switzerland	70	15.2k 1.2×	12.2k 1.1×	992 0.2×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 2.5×	302	19.3k
Piers Forster United Kingdom	73	12.7k 1.0×	10.8k 0.9×	823 0.2×	336 0.3×	1.1k 1.8×	271	17.5k
Thomas R. Knutson United States	56	11.1k 0.9×	10.7k 0.9×	4.6k 1.0×	442 0.4×	499 0.8×	123	15.0k
David S. Battisti United States	68	13.7k 1.1×	13.8k 1.2×	7.0k 1.5×	423 0.4×	357 0.6×	189	20.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wen Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wen Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wen Chen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Wen, Jinling Piao, Shangfeng Chen, et al.. (2024). Responses of gross primary productivity in different types of terrestrial ecosystems to interannual variation in the northern boundary of the East Asian summer monsoon. Global and Planetary Change. 236. 104414–104414. 3 indexed citations

Bai, Leilei, Xin Liu, Changhui Wang, et al.. (2024). Varying removal of emerging organic contaminants in drinking water treatment residue-based biofilter systems: Influence of hydraulic loading rates on microbiology. Chemical Engineering Journal. 491. 152169–152169. 6 indexed citations

Li, Yulan, Hainan Gong, Wen Chen, & Lin Wang. (2024). Contribution of internal variability to the Mongolian Plateau summer precipitation trends in MPI-ESM large-ensemble model. Global and Planetary Change. 240. 104544–104544. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Li, Weiming Liu, Jingzhao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Indian summer monsoon history during the last glacial cycle revealed by a loess sequence from the Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 657. 112593–112593.

Chen, Wen, Shangfeng Chen, Shang‐Ping Xie, et al.. (2024). Recent pronounced warming on the Mongolian Plateau boosted by internal climate variability. Nature Geoscience. 17(3). 181–188. 50 indexed citations breakdown →

Gong, Hainan, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic forcing intensified internally driven concurrent heatwaves in August 2022 across the Northern Hemisphere. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 7 indexed citations

Cheng, Shuyuan, Rong Yin, Kunpeng Wu, et al.. (2024). Trajectories and influencing factors of cognitive function and physical disability in Chinese older people. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1380657–1380657. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Shaowen, et al.. (2024). The North Pacific Meridional Mode and Its Impact on ENSO in the Second Version of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Earth System Model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(16).

Xu, Hansen, Chunyan Li, Wen Chen, et al.. (2023). Heavy metal fraction, pollution, and source-oriented risk assessment in biofilms on a river system polluted by mining activities. Chemosphere. 322. 138137–138137. 20 indexed citations

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Chen, Shiyao, et al.. (2022). Decadal intensified and slantwise Subpolar Front in the Japan/East Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuyao, Zhou Meng, Wen Chen, et al.. (2022). Ocean Fronts and Their Acoustic Effects: A Review. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10(12). 2021–2021. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Lin, Geoffrey K. Vallis, Ruth Geen, et al.. (2021). Amplified Waveguide Teleconnections Along the Polar Front Jet Favor Summer Temperature Extremes Over Northern Eurasia. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(13). 31 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen, et al.. (2021). Is There Any Improvement in Simulation of the Wintertime Western Pacific Teleconnection Pattern and Associated Climate Anomalies in CMIP6 Compared to CMIP5 Models?. Journal of Climate. 34(22). 8841–8861. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Feng Yuan, Yehua Dennis Wei, Wen Chen, & Lei Wang. (2021). Understanding spatial and compositional dynamics of employment centers in urban China: Empirical evidence from Nanjing. Growth and Change. 52(4). 2635–2661. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Lijuan, et al.. (2019). The 2017–2018 Winter Drought in North China and Its Causes. Atmosphere. 10(2). 60–60. 6 indexed citations

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Gao, Jinlong, Yehua Dennis Wei, Wen Chen, & Komali Yenneti. (2015). Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Sustainability. 7(8). 10281–10307. 82 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen. (2011). Water System Landscape Planning of Jiang'an Campus of Sichuan University. Anhui nongye kexue.

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Chen, Wen. (2009). Evaluation of Soil Heavy Metal Environmental Capacity of Agricultural Land in Fuzhou Area. Safety and Environmental Engineering. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen. (2008). Comparison of the Roles of Wave Activities in the Breakup of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 2 indexed citations

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Gao, Xiaoqing, et al.. (2006). Validation of SSiB Model over Gobi in Dunhuang and its Sensitivity to Vegetation Parameters. Zhongguo shamo. 5 indexed citations

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