Xianfeng Wang

17.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
165 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Xianfeng Wang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xianfeng Wang has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Atmospheric Science, 49 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 33 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Xianfeng Wang's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (92 papers), Geological formations and processes (29 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 papers). Xianfeng Wang is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (92 papers), Geological formations and processes (29 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 papers). Xianfeng Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Xianfeng Wang's co-authors include Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Yongjin Wang, Xinggong Kong, Augusto S. Auler, Zhisheng An, R. Lawrence Edwards, Chuan‐Chou Shen, Francisco W. Cruz and Megan J. Kelly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xianfeng Wang

153 papers receiving 12.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

2008 1.6k citations Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

2016 1.2k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

2013 1.2k citations Hai Cheng, Chuan‐Chou Shen et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record

2008 862 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Ice Age Terminations

2009 743 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies

2004 648 citations Xianfeng Wang, Augusto S. Auler et al. profile →
Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

2013 452 citations Hai Cheng, Francisco W. Cruz et al. profile →
The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

2010 387 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y

2015 276 citations R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xianfeng Wang

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Hydraulic and climate controls of hypogene and epigene speleogenesis at a regional scale in northeastern Brazil 2025 ·Geomorphology ·Augusto S. Auler, Philippe Audra, Jo De Waele, Rúbson Pinheiro Maia, Francisco H.R. Bezerra, Xianfeng Wang, Marco Antonellini, Fabrizio Balsamo, Giovanni Bertotti, (unknown), Vincenzo La Bruna, (unknown), Francisco Pinheiro Lima‐Filho, (unknown), (unknown), Diego Guimarães Florêncio Pujoni, Felipe Bachion de Santana, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	The resilient Middle Triassic habitable climate following Early Triassic severe carbon isotope oscillations: contributions from microbialites, Upper Yangtze Block 2025 ·Frontiers in Marine Science ·Xianfeng Wang, Karem Azmy, Anqing Chen, (unknown), (unknown)	0
3	Revealing the Circulation Patterns Most Conducive to Regional Heatwave in Southeast Asia and the Mechanisms Behind 2025 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Yang Lyu, Jingyu Wang, Xiefei Zhi, Shoupeng Zhu, (unknown), (unknown), Yi Fan, Yan Ji, Edward Park, Xianfeng Wang	0
4	Mercury trophic transfer and biomagnification in food webs within a tropical embayment as evidenced by nitrogen and carbon stable isotope analysis 2025 ·Environmental Research ·(unknown), Chawalit Charoenpong, Shaoneng He, Paco Bustamante, (unknown), Xianfeng Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Penjai Sompongchaiyakul	0
5	Genetic diversity and population structure of wild and artificially selected populations of the ridgetail white prawn (Exopalaemon carinicauda) using consolidated mitochondrial cytochrome b and microsatellite markers 2024 ·Aquaculture Reports ·(unknown), Shuangfeng Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xianfeng Wang, Junping Liang	0
6	Isotopic characteristics of extreme “dragon-boat water” rainfall between mid-May and mid-June in 2022 in Fuzhou, southeastern China 2024 ·Journal of Hydrology ·(unknown), Xiuyang Jiang, Xianfeng Wang, (unknown), Sifan Chen, Shuijing Zhai, Shaoneng He	3
7	Burst flooding in Singapore: an emerging urban flooding type revealed by high-temporal-resolution observations 2024 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Jingyu Wang, Hui Su, Xiefei Zhi, Xianfeng Wang, Edward Park, (unknown), (unknown), Max Wong	1
8	Source apportionment and emission projections of heavy metals from traffic sources in India: Insights from elemental and Pb isotopic compositions 2024 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sambuddha Misra, Waliur Rahaman, Manish Tiwari, Xianfeng Wang, Reshmi Das	14
9	First record of plastiglomerates, pyroplastics and plasticrusts along the beaches of Tamilnadu, Southeast coast of India 2024 ·Marine Pollution Bulletin ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xianfeng Wang, (unknown)	5
10	Precipitation records of anthropogenic nitrogen pollution in two metropolitan cities of Southeast Asia 2023 ·Urban Climate ·Kun Zhang, Xueyan Liu, Wei Song, Tô Thị Hiền, Xianfeng Wang, Zhili Chen, (unknown), Shaoneng He	3
11	Stalagmite multi-proxy records of weak Asian summer monsoon interval during Termination III as an analogue to Termination I 2023 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·(unknown), Shitao Chen, Shan Zhang, (unknown), Qingfeng Shao, Xianfeng Wang, (unknown), Kan Zhao, Yongjin Wang	1
12	Significant changes in cloud radiative effects over Southwestern United States during the COVID-19 flight reduction period 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Jingyu Wang, Yun Lin, Xianfeng Wang, Yu Gu, Steve Hung Lam Yim	1
13	Precipitation response to Heinrich Event-3 in the northern Indochina as revealed in a high-resolution speleothem record 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Shih‐Yu Lee, Yue‐Gau Chen, Hong‐Wei Chiang, Chuan‐Chou Shen, Xianfeng Wang, (unknown), (unknown)	3
14	Variations in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone over the mid-to-late Holocene inferred from speleothem δ18O in central Brazil 2021 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·(unknown), Xianfeng Wang, Edgardo M. Latrubesse, Shaoneng He, (unknown)	16
15	On the glacial-interglacial variability of the Asian monsoon in speleothem δ ¹⁸ O records 2020 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), Xianglei Li, Hong‐Wei Chiang, Hai Cheng, (unknown), Sakonvan Chawchai, Shaoneng He, Yi Lü, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xianfeng Wang	57
16	Estimation of Metal Emissions From Tropical Peatland Burning in Indonesia by Controlled Laboratory Experiments 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Reshmi Das, Xianfeng Wang, Masayuki Itoh, Satomi Shiodera, Mikinori Kuwata	10
17	Holocene relative sea-level records from coral microatolls in Western Borneo, South China Sea 2018 ·The Holocene ·Jędrzej Majewski, Adam D. Switzer, A. J. Meltzner, Peter Parham, Benjamin P. Horton, Sarah Bradley, Jeremy Pile, Hong‐Wei Chiang, Xianfeng Wang, (unknown), Jani Tanzil, Moritz Müller, Aazani Mujahid	15
18	Optimizing MC-ICP-MS with SEM protocols for determination of U and Th isotope ratios and 230Th ages in carbonates 2018 ·Quaternary Geochronology ·Hong‐Wei Chiang, Yanbin Lü, Xianfeng Wang, Ke Lin, Xiaokang Liu	27
19	High-resolution Holocene South American monsoon history recorded by a speleothem from Botuverá Cave, Brazil 2016 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Juan Pablo Bernal, Francisco W. Cruz, Nicolás M. Stríkis, Xianfeng Wang, Michael Deininger, (unknown), Carlos Ortega‐Obregón, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Augusto S. Auler	107
20	Growth rates of speleothems in NW Iberian Peninsula over the last two glacial cycles and relationship with climate 2013 ·Quaternary Research ·Heather Stoll, Ana Moreno, Ana Méndez-Vicente, Saúl González‐Lemos, (unknown), María José Domínguez‐Cuesta, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Xianfeng Wang	2

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