Wenchang Yang

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Wenchang Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenchang Yang has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 34 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Wenchang Yang's work include Climate variability and models (33 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (19 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (15 papers). Wenchang Yang is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (33 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (19 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (15 papers). Wenchang Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Wenchang Yang's co-authors include Gabriel A. Vecchi, Rachel E. Baker, Bryan T. Grenfell, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Mark A. Cane, Richard Seager, Bradfield Lyon, Kaixiong Tao, Yuping Yin and Ruidong Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wenchang Yang

90 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Maresin1 Protect Against Ferroptosis-Induced Liver Injury Through ROS Inhibition and Nrf2/HO-1/GPX4 Activation

2022 145 citations Wenchang Yang, Yaxin Wang et al. Frontiers in Pharmacology profile →
4-Octyl itaconate inhibits aerobic glycolysis by targeting GAPDH to promote cuproptosis in colorectal cancer

2023 124 citations Wenchang Yang, Yongzhou Huang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenchang Yang China	29	908	753	614	468	352	98	3.0k
Hua Guo China	24	934 1.0×	293 0.4×	876 1.4×	347 0.7×	277 0.8×	67	5.8k
Gerhard Held Germany	32	445 0.5×	625 0.8×	588 1.0×	238 0.5×	212 0.6×	145	3.8k
Maria Andersson Sweden	31	232 0.3×	261 0.3×	336 0.5×	403 0.9×	106 0.3×	88	2.6k
Yibo Ding China	27	1.2k 1.3×	252 0.3×	265 0.4×	172 0.4×	77 0.2×	95	2.4k
Shilin Tang China	19	117 0.1×	122 0.2×	321 0.5×	126 0.3×	85 0.2×	57	1.7k
Bruce A. Warren United States	40	1.2k 1.3×	1.7k 2.3×	756 1.2×	325 0.7×	589 1.7×	132	6.3k
Tao He China	34	2.0k 2.2×	1.5k 2.0×	168 0.3×	237 0.5×	229 0.7×	177	6.4k
Mathew R. P. Sapiano United States	28	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	75 0.1×	231 0.5×	54 0.2×	55	2.9k
Arne Dahlback Norway	30	779 0.9×	877 1.2×	188 0.3×	185 0.4×	123 0.3×	77	2.9k
Ji Zhou China	32	763 0.8×	101 0.1×	476 0.8×	352 0.8×	415 1.2×	94	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Wenchang Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenchang Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenchang Yang

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kimutai, Joyce, Clair Barnes, Mariam Zachariah, et al.. (2025). Human-induced climate change increased 2021–2022 drought severity in horn of Africa. Weather and Climate Extremes. 47. 100745–100745.

Zeng, Liwu, Yaxin Wang, Yongzhou Huang, et al.. (2025). IRG1/itaconate enhances efferocytosis by activating Nrf2-TIM4 signaling pathway to alleviate con A induced autoimmune liver injury. Cell Communication and Signaling. 23(1). 63–63. 5 indexed citations

Vecchi, Gabriel A., et al.. (2025). Intersecting Memories of Immunity and Climate: Potential Multiyear Impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on Infectious Disease Spread. GeoHealth. 9(2). e2024GH001193–e2024GH001193.

He, Haozhe, Brian J. Soden, Gabriel A. Vecchi, & Wenchang Yang. (2025). Stratospheric aerosol injection can weaken the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 485–485.

Vecchi, Gabriel A., et al.. (2025). Consequential differences in satellite-era sea surface temperature trends across datasets. Nature Climate Change. 15(8). 897–903. 1 indexed citations

Vecchi, Gabriel A., et al.. (2025). Reducing Tropical Cyclone Activity in Global Climate Models by Evaporative Suppression. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(14). 1 indexed citations

Hsieh, Tsung‐Lin, et al.. (2024). Dependence of tropical cyclone seeds and climate sensitivity on tropical cloud response. Science Advances. 10(37). eadi2779–eadi2779. 1 indexed citations

Baker, Rachel E., Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, & Saki Takahashi. (2024). Increasing intensity of enterovirus outbreaks projected with climate change. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6466–6466. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Lei, Peng Zhang, Wenchang Yang, et al.. (2024). Development and Validation of a Novel Nomogram Model for Early Diagnosis of Anastomotic Leakage After Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery. Surgical Infections. 25(2). 160–168. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chenggang, Xiang Chen, Xianxiong Ma, et al.. (2023). Exosome-Delivered circSTAU2 Inhibits the Progression of Gastric Cancer by Targeting the miR-589/CAPZA1 Axis. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 18. 127–142. 24 indexed citations

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Harrington, Luke J., Piotr Wolski, Izidine Pinto, et al.. (2022). Limited role of climate change in extreme low rainfall associated with southern Madagascar food insecurity, 2019–21. Environmental Research Climate. 1(2). 21003–21003. 15 indexed citations

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Baker, Rachel E., Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, & Bryan T. Grenfell. (2021). Assessing the influence of climate on wintertime SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks. Nature Communications. 12(1). 846–846. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Ruidong, Wenchang Yang, Yuping Yin, et al.. (2021). 4-OI Attenuates Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Hepatic Injury via Regulating Oxidative Stress and the Inflammatory Response. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 12. 651444–651444. 45 indexed citations

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Soden, Brian J., et al.. (2021). Compensation Between Cloud Feedback and Aerosol‐Cloud Interaction in CMIP6 Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(4). 55 indexed citations

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Baker, Rachel E., Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, & Bryan T. Grenfell. (2020). Susceptible supply limits the role of climate in the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Science. 369(6501). 315–319. 205 indexed citations

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Baker, Rachel E., Sang Woo Park, Wenchang Yang, et al.. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(48). 30547–30553. 322 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Yuping Yin, Tao Wang, et al.. (2019). Maresin 1 mitigates concanavalin A-induced acute liver injury in mice by inhibiting ROS-mediated activation of NF-κB signaling. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 147. 23–36. 60 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenchang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, S. Fueglistaler, et al.. (2019). Climate Impacts From Large Volcanic Eruptions in a High‐Resolution Climate Model: The Importance of Forcing Structure. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(13). 7690–7699. 33 indexed citations

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Baker, Rachel E., Ayesha S. Mahmud, Caroline E. Wagner, et al.. (2019). Epidemic dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in current and future climates. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5512–5512. 95 indexed citations

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Hsieh, Chih-Min, et al.. (2008). Using RANS to Simulate Breaking Wave On a Slopping Bed.

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