Wenyi Sun

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Wenyi Sun is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenyi Sun has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Water Science and Technology, 46 papers in Soil Science and 35 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Wenyi Sun's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (47 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (45 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (24 papers). Wenyi Sun is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (47 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (45 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (24 papers). Wenyi Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Austria. Wenyi Sun's co-authors include Xingmin Mu, Peng Gao, Guangju Zhao, Fei Wang, Xiaoyan Song, Quanqin Shao, Jiyuan Liu, Jun Zhai, Pengfei Li and Dan Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Wenyi Sun

73 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Spatiotemporal vegetation cover variations associated with climate change and ecological restoration in the Loess Plateau

2015 489 citations Wenyi Sun, Xiaoyan Song et al. profile →
Assessing the effects of land use and topography on soil erosion on the Loess Plateau in China

2014 383 citations Wenyi Sun, Jun Zhai et al. CATENA profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenyi Sun China	31	1.9k	1.7k	1.7k	1.6k	629	77	3.8k
Olivier Planchon France	25	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	599 1.0×	84	3.4k
Amaury Frankl Belgium	31	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	907 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	410 0.7×	129	3.2k
Paulo Tarso Sanches de Oliveira Brazil	31	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	913 0.6×	222 0.4×	113	3.0k
Yanqing Lian China	26	575 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	667 0.4×	697 1.1×	81	3.1k
Peter B. Hairsine Australia	33	2.7k 1.4×	837 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	205 0.3×	66	3.6k
Matthias Vanmaercke Belgium	35	3.0k 1.5×	981 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	308 0.5×	99	4.0k
Nazzareno Diodato Italy	26	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	947 0.6×	825 0.5×	657 1.0×	121	2.4k
José Carlos González Hidalgo Spain	36	1.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.7×	1.0k 0.6×	973 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	107	4.3k
G. Sterk Netherlands	39	2.6k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	998 0.6×	1000 0.6×	748 1.2×	109	4.3k
R. P. D. Walsh United Kingdom	32	998 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	601 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	334 0.5×	81	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Wenyi Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenyi Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenyi Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wenyi Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wenyi 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 Wenyi Sun. Wenyi Sun 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

Tian, Yun, et al.. (2025). Soil erosion resilience under climate extremes: Disentangling the impacts of vegetation restoration and rainfall intensification across China. Ecological Indicators. 178. 113994–113994. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Wenyi & Sheng‐Ao Liu. (2025). Carbon conservation in continental subduction zones revealed by zinc isotopes in ultrahigh-pressure marbles. Geology. 53(8). 694–698.

Jia, Hao, et al.. (2025). Hydrological shifts from vegetation restoration in semi-arid regions: insights from the typical watersheds of the Yellow River. Ecological Indicators. 178. 113924–113924. 1 indexed citations

Jia, Hao, et al.. (2025). Post-conversion vegetation restoration: PRE and VPD dominated the NDVI changes on the Loess Plateau. Journal of Environmental Management. 394. 127434–127434. 1 indexed citations

Tian, Yun, et al.. (2025). How does land use transfer affect ecosystem services in Northwest China?. Ecological Engineering. 219. 107712–107712.

Wu, Changxue, Peng Gao, Ruirui Xu, Xingmin Mu, & Wenyi Sun. (2024). Influence of landscape pattern changes on water conservation capacity: A case study in an arid/semiarid region of China. Ecological Indicators. 163. 112082–112082. 28 indexed citations

Wu, Hao, et al.. (2024). The comprehensive effects of future multi‐scenario land use change and climate change on water conservation in Northwest China. Land Degradation and Development. 35(12). 3844–3854. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Hao, Pingping Zhou, Xiaoyan Song, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and its response to meteorological drought in the Yellow River Basin. Journal of Environmental Management. 360. 121023–121023. 11 indexed citations

Tian, Peng, Xiaojing Tian, Ren Geng, et al.. (2023). Response of soil erosion to vegetation restoration and terracing on the Loess Plateau. CATENA. 227. 107103–107103. 60 indexed citations

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Tian, Xiaojing, Peng Tian, Guangju Zhao, et al.. (2023). Sediment source tracing during flood events in the Huangfu River basin in the northern Loess Plateau, China. Journal of Hydrology. 620. 129540–129540. 13 indexed citations

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Zhao, Guangju, et al.. (2021). Sediment Yield in Dam-Controlled Watersheds in the Pisha Sandstone Region on the Northern Loess Plateau, China. Land. 10(11). 1264–1264. 9 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaonan, Wenyi Sun, Xingmin Mu, Peng Gao, & Guangju Zhao. (2020). Run‐off affected by climate and anthropogenic changes in a large semi‐arid river basin. Hydrological Processes. 34(8). 1906–1919. 27 indexed citations

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Zhao, Guangju, Xingmin Mu, Juying Jiao, et al.. (2018). Assessing response of sediment load variation to climate change and human activities with six different approaches. The Science of The Total Environment. 639. 773–784. 70 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaonan, Wenyi Sun, Pengfei Li, et al.. (2018). Reduced sediment transport in the Chinese Loess Plateau due to climate change and human activities. The Science of The Total Environment. 642. 591–600. 70 indexed citations

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Wang, Yinyin, Gao‐Lin Wu, Lei Deng, et al.. (2017). Prediction of aboveground grassland biomass on the Loess Plateau, China, using a random forest algorithm. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 6940–6940. 64 indexed citations

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Gao, Peng, et al.. (2016). Dynamic sediment discharge in the Hekou–Longmen region of Yellow River and soil and water conservation implications. The Science of The Total Environment. 578. 56–66. 90 indexed citations

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Li, Hongchen, et al.. (2016). Integrating a mini catchment with mulching for soil water management in a sloping jujube orchard on the semiarid Loess Plateau of China. Solid Earth. 7(1). 167–175. 26 indexed citations

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He, Yi, Xingmin Mu, Peng Gao, et al.. (2015). Spatial Variability and Periodicity of Precipitation in the Middle Reaches of the Yellow River, China. Advances in Meteorology. 2016. 1–9. 12 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenyi, Shengli Guo, & Xiaogang Zhou. (2010). [Effects of topographies and land uses on soil organic carbon in subsurface in hilly region of Loess Plateau].. PubMed. 31(11). 2740–7. 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenyi, et al.. (2009). Pacific subduction and Mesozoic mineralization in eastern China. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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