Wen‐Yong Guo

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Wen‐Yong Guo is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wen‐Yong Guo has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 20 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Wen‐Yong Guo's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers), Plant and animal studies (13 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (12 papers). Wen‐Yong Guo is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers), Plant and animal studies (13 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (12 papers). Wen‐Yong Guo collaborates with scholars based in China, Denmark and Czechia. Wen‐Yong Guo's co-authors include Hans Brix, Carla Lambertini, Xiuzhen Li, Petr Pyšek, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Laura A. Meyerson, Mark van Kleunen, Simon Pierce, Franz Essl and Jan Pergl and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Wen‐Yong Guo

47 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change

2024 37 citations Coline C. F. Boonman, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wen‐Yong Guo China	21	444	399	336	298	164	48	1.0k
Carlos Alberto Arnillas Canada	16	386 0.9×	409 1.0×	255 0.8×	284 1.0×	237 1.4×	32	1.1k
Leigh C. Moorhead United States	9	280 0.6×	352 0.9×	397 1.2×	296 1.0×	124 0.8×	13	1.0k
Petr Macek Czechia	21	396 0.9×	535 1.3×	422 1.3×	437 1.5×	160 1.0×	44	1.1k
Frank A. Hemmings Australia	13	237 0.5×	628 1.6×	249 0.7×	477 1.6×	201 1.2×	16	1.1k
Thomas Ibanez France	20	239 0.5×	514 1.3×	172 0.5×	326 1.1×	146 0.9×	53	913
Rüdiger Kaufmann Austria	16	444 1.0×	244 0.6×	163 0.5×	275 0.9×	132 0.8×	27	1.0k
Donatella Cogoni Italy	19	244 0.5×	421 1.1×	476 1.4×	428 1.4×	275 1.7×	69	1.1k
Marek Sammul Estonia	20	290 0.7×	585 1.5×	387 1.2×	384 1.3×	95 0.6×	35	981
Ioannis Tsiripidis Greece	21	198 0.4×	495 1.2×	534 1.6×	528 1.8×	217 1.3×	77	1.2k
Heike Culmsee Germany	20	283 0.6×	660 1.7×	330 1.0×	368 1.2×	124 0.8×	35	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Wen‐Yong Guo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wen‐Yong Guo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wen‐Yong Guo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wen‐Yong Guo 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 Wen‐Yong Guo. Wen‐Yong Guo 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

Guo, Wen‐Yong, et al.. (2025). Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species. Journal of Ecology. 113(7). 1622–1635.

Boonman, Coline C. F., Selwyn Hoeks, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, et al.. (2025). High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(26). e2420059122–e2420059122. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Ruiling, Mark van Kleunen, Simon Pierce, et al.. (2025). Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole‐plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments. Journal of Ecology. 113(10). 3019–3036. 1 indexed citations

Pyšek, Petr, et al.. (2024). Clonal alien plants in the mountains spread upward more extensively and faster than non-clonal. NeoBiota. 91. 29–48. 4 indexed citations

Guo, Kun, Petr Pyšek, Milan Chytrý, et al.. (2024). Stage dependence of Elton’s biotic resistance hypothesis of biological invasions. Nature Plants. 10(10). 1484–1492. 12 indexed citations

Boonman, Coline C. F., Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Selwyn Hoeks, et al.. (2024). More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communications. 15(1). 166–166. 37 indexed citations breakdown →

Guo, Wen‐Yong, Jan Čuda, Hana Skálová, et al.. (2024). Climate and genome size shape the intraspecific variation in ecological adaptive strategies of a cosmopolitan grass species. Functional Ecology. 38(9). 2054–2066. 7 indexed citations

Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., Brian Maitner, Coline C. F. Boonman, et al.. (2024). occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(7). 2 indexed citations

Guo, Kun, Ruiling Liu, Yanyan Wang, et al.. (2023). Intraspecific variations of adaptive strategies of native and invasive plant species along an elevational gradient. Flora. 304. 152297–152297. 7 indexed citations

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Pyšek, Petr, Magdalena Lučanová, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2023). Small genome size and variation in ploidy levels support the naturalization of vascular plants but constrain their invasive spread. New Phytologist. 239(6). 2389–2403. 22 indexed citations

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Mencuccini, Maurizio, Raúl García‐Valdés, William M. Hammond, et al.. (2023). Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(10). 1620–1632. 22 indexed citations

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Guo, Wen‐Yong, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, et al.. (2023). Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6950–6950. 22 indexed citations

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Guo, Kun, Petr Pyšek, Milan Chytrý, et al.. (2022). Ruderals naturalize, competitors invade: Varying roles of plant adaptive strategies along the invasion continuum. Functional Ecology. 36(10). 2469–2479. 25 indexed citations

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Yin, Xue, Scott Jarvie, Wen‐Yong Guo, et al.. (2021). Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(10). 1990–2003. 19 indexed citations

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Lambertini, Carla, Wen‐Yong Guo, Siyuan Ye, et al.. (2020). Phylogenetic diversity shapes salt tolerance in Phragmites australis estuarine populations in East China. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 17645–17645. 22 indexed citations

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Pyšek, Petr, Wen‐Yong Guo, Kateřina Štajerová, et al.. (2019). Facultative mycorrhizal associations promote plant naturalization worldwide. Ecosphere. 10(11). 17 indexed citations

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Guo, Wen‐Yong, Mark van Kleunen, Simon Pierce, et al.. (2019). Domestic gardens play a dominant role in selecting alien species with adaptive strategies that facilitate naturalization. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(5). 628–639. 64 indexed citations

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Guo, Wen‐Yong, Carla Lambertini, Petr Pyšek, Laura A. Meyerson, & Hans Brix. (2018). Living in two worlds: Evolutionary mechanisms act differently in the native and introduced ranges of an invasive plant. Ecology and Evolution. 8(5). 2440–2452. 15 indexed citations

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Pyšek, Petr, Hana Skálová, Jan Čuda, et al.. (2018). Small genome separates native and invasive populations in an ecologically important cosmopolitan grass. Ecology. 99(1). 79–90. 47 indexed citations

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Čuda, Jan, et al.. (2017). Invasive herb Impatiens glandulifera has minimal impact on multiple components of temperate forest ecosystem function. Biological Invasions. 19(10). 3051–3066. 34 indexed citations

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