Xianwei Song

793 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 464 citations indexed

About

Xianwei Song is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Geochemistry and Petrology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xianwei Song has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 464 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Water Science and Technology, 7 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 6 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xianwei Song's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (6 papers) and Karst Systems and Hydrogeology (5 papers). Xianwei Song is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (6 papers) and Karst Systems and Hydrogeology (5 papers). Xianwei Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Xianwei Song's co-authors include Xuefa Wen, Sidan Lyu, Yang Gao, Nianpeng He, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Timothy A. Quine, Sophie M. Green, Tao Peng, Jing Wang and Shibo Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Nature Geoscience and Plant and Soil.

In The Last Decade

Xianwei Song

20 papers receiving 459 citations

Hit Papers

Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands... 2024 2026 2025 2024 20 40 60
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. Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates
    2024 68 citations Han Hu, Ji Chen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xianwei Song China 13 132 115 100 95 84 20 464
Salvatore Calabrese United States 17 155 1.2× 102 0.9× 126 1.3× 51 0.5× 115 1.4× 38 548
Gurbir Singh Dhillon Canada 9 85 0.6× 157 1.4× 169 1.7× 60 0.6× 129 1.5× 20 509
Zihao Bian China 15 184 1.4× 97 0.8× 100 1.0× 76 0.8× 139 1.7× 33 506
Qiufang He China 14 64 0.5× 79 0.7× 50 0.5× 63 0.7× 129 1.5× 45 547
Sílvia Poblador Spain 10 89 0.7× 72 0.6× 111 1.1× 61 0.6× 108 1.3× 17 400
Barbara A. Kleiss United States 7 73 0.6× 77 0.7× 132 1.3× 101 1.1× 351 4.2× 22 576
Baohua Zhang China 14 119 0.9× 150 1.3× 108 1.1× 53 0.6× 149 1.8× 46 583
Haotian Yang China 14 173 1.3× 37 0.3× 221 2.2× 64 0.7× 176 2.1× 58 674
Jarrod O. Miller United States 13 103 0.8× 37 0.3× 116 1.2× 74 0.8× 183 2.2× 36 461

Countries citing papers authored by Xianwei Song

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xianwei Song

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xianwei Song. 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 Xianwei Song. The network helps show where Xianwei Song may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xianwei Song

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Huang, Yuhan, You Huang, Meng Yang, et al.. (2025). Soil nitrogen leaching driven by different soil infiltration pathways: A simulated study in eucalyptus urophylla × E. Grandis plantation. Journal of Hydrology. 660. 133325–133325. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Han, Ji Chen, Feng Zhou, et al.. (2024). Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates. Nature Geoscience. 17(1). 26–31. 68 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Lu, et al.. (2024). Dynamics and fractions of soil organic carbon in response to 35 years of afforestation in subtropical China. Plant and Soil. 500(1-2). 481–494. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Cuimei, Yajun Tang, Lei Chen, et al.. (2024). An inducible CRISPR activation tool for accelerating plant regeneration. Plant Communications. 5(5). 100823–100823. 20 indexed citations
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Song, Xianwei, et al.. (2022). High dissolved organic carbon deposition is buffered by surface soil in a headwater catchment of a subtropical plantation. Journal of Hydrology. 607. 127557–127557. 10 indexed citations
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Cao, Xiaofeng, Jianmin Zhou, Xianwei Song, et al.. (2021). Approaches and Research Progresses of Marginal Land Productivity Expansion and Ecological Benefit Improvement in China. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 36(3). 336–348. 25 indexed citations
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Lyu, Sidan, Jing Wang, Xianwei Song, & Xuefa Wen. (2021). The relationship of δD and δ18O in surface soil water and its implications for soil evaporation along grass transects of Tibet, Loess, and Inner Mongolia Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 600. 126533–126533. 28 indexed citations
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Song, Xianwei, et al.. (2021). Flux and source of dissolved inorganic carbon in a headwater stream in a subtropical plantation catchment. Journal of Hydrology. 600. 126511–126511. 18 indexed citations
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Song, Xianwei, Sidan Lyu, & Xuefa Wen. (2020). Limitation of soil moisture on the response of transpiration to vapor pressure deficit in a subtropical coniferous plantation subjected to seasonal drought. Journal of Hydrology. 591. 125301–125301. 74 indexed citations
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Hao, Zhuo, Yang Gao, Sophie M. Green, et al.. (2019). Using δ13C to reveal the importance of different water transport pathways in two nested karst basins, Southwest China. Journal of Hydrology. 571. 425–436. 16 indexed citations
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Gao, Yang, Zhuo Hao, Jun Yang, et al.. (2019). Tracking the fate of deposited nitrogen and its redistribution in a subtropical watershed in China. Ecohydrology. 12(5). 10 indexed citations
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Jia, Junjie, Yang Gao, Xianwei Song, & Shibo Chen. (2019). Characteristics of phytoplankton community and water net primary productivity response to the nutrient status of the Poyang Lake and Gan River, China. Ecohydrology. 12(7). 28 indexed citations
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Zhao, Guoqing, et al.. (2019). Isotopically-tracked hydrological changes in carbon cycling and its sources in a Chinese subtropical forested watershed. Journal of Hydrology. 575. 1041–1051. 8 indexed citations
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Song, Xianwei, Sophie M. Green, Xuefa Wen, et al.. (2019). Rainfall driven transport of carbon and nitrogen along karst slopes and associative interaction characteristic. Journal of Hydrology. 573. 246–254. 18 indexed citations
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Gao, Yang, Xianwei Song, Sophie M. Green, et al.. (2018). Migration and leaching characteristics of base cation: indicating environmental effects on soil alkalinity in a karst area. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(21). 20899–20910. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Yufei, Yang Gao, Zhuo Hao, et al.. (2018). Determining phytolith-occluded organic carbon sequestration using an upgraded optimized extraction method: indicating for a missing carbon pool. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(24). 24507–24515. 9 indexed citations
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Song, Xianwei, Yang Gao, Sophie M. Green, et al.. (2017). Nitrogen loss from karst area in China in recent 50 years: An in‐situ simulated rainfall experiment's assessment. Ecology and Evolution. 7(23). 10131–10142. 59 indexed citations
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Song, Xianwei, Yang Gao, Xuefa Wen, et al.. (2017). Carbon sequestration potential and its eco-service function in the karst area, China. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 27(8). 967–980. 36 indexed citations

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