Wu Sun

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 672 citations indexed

About

Wu Sun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wu Sun has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 672 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wu Sun's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (7 papers). Wu Sun is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (7 papers). Wu Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Wu Sun's co-authors include Kadmiel Maseyk, Ulli Seibt, Joshua B. Fisher, Yao Zhang, A. M. Michalak, Trevor F. Keenan, Xiangzhong Luo, Sha Zhou, Pierre Gentine and Xu Lian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Wu Sun

42 papers receiving 656 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.

  1. Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2
    2022 199 citations A. M. Michalak, Wu Sun et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Wu Sun 393 168 130 120 62 45 672
Andrew Zumkehr 170 0.4× 88 0.5× 61 0.5× 49 0.4× 66 1.1× 10 351
João Francisco Escobedo 266 0.7× 118 0.7× 151 1.2× 95 0.8× 163 2.6× 58 805
Xiangyang Zhou 489 1.2× 138 0.8× 59 0.5× 75 0.6× 79 1.3× 43 750
Lijuan Wang 259 0.7× 228 1.4× 104 0.8× 167 1.4× 88 1.4× 63 724
Yuanyuan Wang 231 0.6× 129 0.8× 45 0.3× 164 1.4× 102 1.6× 53 551
Zhao Wang 186 0.5× 67 0.4× 29 0.2× 174 1.4× 89 1.4× 57 547
Mengxue Liu 311 0.8× 48 0.3× 27 0.2× 113 0.9× 53 0.9× 57 561
Liyin He 301 0.8× 112 0.7× 130 1.0× 206 1.7× 111 1.8× 25 566
Yuliang Zhou 356 0.9× 64 0.4× 81 0.6× 77 0.6× 80 1.3× 81 749

Countries citing papers authored by Wu Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wu Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wu Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wu Sun. The network helps show where Wu Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wu Sun

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

All Works

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Foster, Kelsey, Wu Sun, Julian Merder, et al.. (2025). Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(6).
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Hou, Junyu, Wu Sun, Qunyao Yuan, et al.. (2025). Multiscale Engineered Bionic Solid‐State Electrolytes Breaking the Stiffness‐Damping Trade‐Off. Angewandte Chemie. 137(11).
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Hou, Junyu, Wu Sun, Qunyao Yuan, et al.. (2025). Multiscale Engineered Bionic Solid‐State Electrolytes Breaking the Stiffness‐Damping Trade‐Off. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(11). e202421427–e202421427. 11 indexed citations
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Hou, Junyu, Gang Wang, Rongrong Cheacharoen, et al.. (2024). Composite electrolytes and interface designs for progressive solid‐state sodium batteries. Carbon Energy. 6(10). 18 indexed citations
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Foster, Kelsey, Wu Sun, Yoichi P. Shiga, Jiafu Mao, & A. M. Michalak. (2024). Multiscale assessment of North American terrestrial carbon balance. Biogeosciences. 21(3). 869–891. 3 indexed citations
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Lai, Jiameng, Linda M. J. Kooijmans, Wu Sun, et al.. (2024). Terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from plant carbonyl sulfide uptake. Nature. 634(8035). 855–861. 13 indexed citations
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Sun, Wu, Junyu Hou, Yunlei Zhou, et al.. (2024). Amorphous FeSnOx Nanosheets with Hierarchical Vacancies for Room‐Temperature Sodium‐Sulfur Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(38). e202404816–e202404816. 25 indexed citations
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Chen, Haijun, Nan Xu, Yunpeng Liu, et al.. (2023). Molybdate modified nano zero-valent iron via green synthesis enhances Cr(VI) reduction during their cotransport in water-saturated porous media. Chemical Engineering Journal. 479. 147599–147599. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Wu, et al.. (2023). Soil Compaction and Maize Root Distribution under Subsoiling Tillage in a Wheat–Maize Double Cropping System. Agronomy. 13(2). 394–394. 15 indexed citations
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Maignan, Fabienne, Marine Remaud, Jérôme Ogée, et al.. (2022). Global modelling of soil carbonyl sulfide exchanges. Biogeosciences. 19(9). 2427–2463. 15 indexed citations
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Maignan, Fabienne, Marine Remaud, Jérôme Ogée, et al.. (2021). Global modelling of soil carbonyl sulfide exchange. 1 indexed citations
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Kolari, Pasi, Linda M. J. Kooijmans, Huilin Chen, et al.. (2020). Towards standardized processing of eddy covariance flux measurements of carbonyl sulfide. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(7). 3957–3975. 19 indexed citations
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Sun, Wu, Linda M. J. Kooijmans, Kadmiel Maseyk, et al.. (2018). Soil fluxes of carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide in a boreal forest in southern Finland. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(2). 1363–1378. 32 indexed citations
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Sun, Wu, et al.. (2018). Stomatal control of leaf fluxes of carbonyl sulfide and CO 2 in a Typha freshwater marsh. Biogeosciences. 15(11). 3277–3291. 10 indexed citations
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Sun, Wu, et al.. (2017). The influence of vapor pressure deficit (VPD) on the use of carbonyl sulfide (COS) as a photosynthetic tracer. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Kooijmans, Linda M. J., Kadmiel Maseyk, Ulli Seibt, et al.. (2017). Canopy uptake dominates nighttime carbonyl sulfide fluxes in a boreal forest. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(18). 11453–11465. 36 indexed citations
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Sun, Wu, et al.. (2015). A soil diffusion–reaction model for surface COS flux: COSSM v1. Geoscientific model development. 8(10). 3055–3070. 24 indexed citations
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Sun, Wu & Shukui Niu. (2012). Forest fire behavior in main coniferous forests in Beijing.. Dongbei linye daxue xuebao. 40(2). 54–60. 1 indexed citations

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