Wenzhe Jiao

3.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
50 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Wenzhe Jiao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenzhe Jiao has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Wenzhe Jiao's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers), Climate variability and models (20 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (19 papers). Wenzhe Jiao is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers), Climate variability and models (20 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (19 papers). Wenzhe Jiao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Wenzhe Jiao's co-authors include Lixin Wang, Qing Chang, Paolo D’Odorico, Honglang Wang, William K. Smith, Lifu Zhang, Matthew F. McCabe, Qingxi Tong, Kimberly A. Novick and Chao Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Wenzhe Jiao

47 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades

2021 430 citations Wenzhe Jiao, Lixin Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Multi-sensor remote sensing for drought characterization: current status, opportunities and a roadmap for the future

2021 201 citations Wenzhe Jiao, Lixin Wang et al. profile →
Dryland productivity under a changing climate

2022 178 citations Lixin Wang, Wenzhe Jiao et al. profile →
China’s current forest age structure will lead to weakened carbon sinks in the near future

2023 87 citations Wenzhe Jiao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenzhe Jiao United States	25	1.9k	788	566	381	321	50	2.4k
Yunhe Yin China	25	1.4k 0.8×	445 0.6×	551 1.0×	505 1.3×	210 0.7×	66	2.0k
Natasha MacBean United States	26	1.9k 1.0×	958 1.2×	634 1.1×	224 0.6×	384 1.2×	50	2.5k
Longhui Li China	29	1.5k 0.8×	640 0.8×	376 0.7×	434 1.1×	367 1.1×	60	2.2k
Sinkyu Kang South Korea	23	1.2k 0.6×	780 1.0×	574 1.0×	230 0.6×	451 1.4×	73	2.0k
Dongdong Kong China	25	2.2k 1.2×	726 0.9×	762 1.3×	959 2.5×	462 1.4×	74	2.8k
Guodong Yin China	16	1.2k 0.7×	783 1.0×	302 0.5×	365 1.0×	251 0.8×	26	1.8k
Xiangzhong Luo United States	26	1.8k 1.0×	987 1.3×	497 0.9×	282 0.7×	334 1.0×	59	2.6k
Jian Bi China	16	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	807 1.4×	370 1.0×	408 1.3×	32	3.1k
Xiuqin Fang China	22	1.7k 0.9×	756 1.0×	712 1.3×	632 1.7×	317 1.0×	54	2.4k
Thomas Grünwald Germany	20	2.1k 1.1×	462 0.6×	726 1.3×	468 1.2×	373 1.2×	38	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Wenzhe Jiao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenzhe Jiao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Zaixing, et al.. (2025). pnetr : An R package for the PnET family of forest ecosystem models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(7). 1378–1388.

Geng, Jie, et al.. (2025). A new index for comprehensively assessing multiple ecosystem services in typical arid and semi-arid areas. Journal of Arid Environments. 227. 105316–105316. 2 indexed citations

You, Yongfa, et al.. (2025). Intensifying impacts of compound drought and heatwave events on water use efficiency in U.S. corn and soybean. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 375. 110873–110873.

She, Dunxian, et al.. (2024). Soil moisture plays an increasingly important role in constraining vegetation productivity in China over the past two decades. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 356. 110193–110193. 23 indexed citations

Li, Yao, et al.. (2024). Varied responses of Amazon forests to the 2005, 2010, and 2015/2016 droughts inferred from multi-source satellite data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 353. 110051–110051. 11 indexed citations

Bell, Stephen M., Samuel Raymond, He Yin, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2139–2139. 13 indexed citations

Zeng, Zhaoqi, Wenxiang Wu, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2023). Increased risk of flash droughts with raised concurrent hot and dry extremes under global warming. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 58 indexed citations

Zhang, Yu, Xiaohong Liu, Wenzhe Jiao, et al.. (2023). Spatial Heterogeneity of Vegetation Resilience Changes to Different Drought Types. Earth s Future. 11(4). 48 indexed citations

Tian, Chao, Lixin Wang, Fadong Li, et al.. (2023). The moisture origin of dew: Insights from three sites with contrasting climatic conditions. Hydrological Processes. 37(6). 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Shuai, Bojie Fu, Fangli Wei, et al.. (2023). Drylands contribute disproportionately to observed global productivity increases. Science Bulletin. 68(2). 224–232. 47 indexed citations

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Chang, Qing, Darren L. Ficklin, Wenzhe Jiao, et al.. (2023). Earlier Ecological Drought Detection by Involving the Interaction of Phenology and Eco‐Physiological Function. Earth s Future. 11(3). 23 indexed citations

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Farella, Martha M., et al.. (2022). Thermal remote sensing for plant ecology from leaf to globe. Journal of Ecology. 110(9). 1996–2014. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Xiaohong Liu, Wenzhe Jiao, et al.. (2021). Drought monitoring based on a new combined remote sensing index across the transitional area between humid and arid regions in China. Atmospheric Research. 264. 105850–105850. 25 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yusen, Lixin Wang, Honglang Wang, et al.. (2021). A modified isotope-based method for potential high-frequency evapotranspiration partitioning. Advances in Water Resources. 160. 104103–104103. 9 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yusen, Lixin Wang, Wenqing Lin, Wenzhe Jiao, & Taisheng Du. (2020). New isotope-based evapotranspiration partitioning method using the Keeling plot slope and direct measured parameters. 2 indexed citations

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Tian, Chao, et al.. (2020). Triple isotope variations of monthly tap water in China. Scientific Data. 7(1). 336–336. 9 indexed citations

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Jiao, Wenzhe, Lixin Wang, Kimberly A. Novick, & Qing Chang. (2019). A new station-enabled multi-sensor integrated index for drought monitoring. Journal of Hydrology. 574. 169–180. 49 indexed citations

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Wu, Bo, et al.. (2019). Research on remote sensing drought monitoring by considering spatial non-stationary characteristics. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 23(3). 487–500. 2 indexed citations

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Jiao, Wenzhe, Qing Chang, & Lixin Wang. (2019). The Sensitivity of Satellite Solar‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Meteorological Drought. Earth s Future. 7(5). 558–573. 90 indexed citations

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Kaseke, Kudzai Farai, et al.. (2018). Precipitation Origins and Key Drivers of Precipitation Isotope (¹⁸O, ²H, and ¹⁷O) Compositions Over Windhoek. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(14). 7311–7330. 34 indexed citations

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