Xiao Wu

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
65 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Xiao Wu is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiao Wu has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Xiao Wu's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (21 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (19 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (7 papers). Xiao Wu is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (21 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (19 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (7 papers). Xiao Wu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Xiao Wu's co-authors include Danielle Braun, Francesca Dominici, M. Benjamin Sabath, Rachel C. Nethery, Martin M. F. Choi, Joel Schwartz, Marianthi‐Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Francesca Dominici, Antonella Zanobetti and Qian Di and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Xiao Wu

59 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2023 2023 250 500 750 1000
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. Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis
    2020 1.0k citations Xiao Wu, Rachel C. Nethery et al. Science Advances profile →
  2. Association between triglyceride-glucose index and all-cause mortality in critically ill patients with ischemic stroke: analysis of the MIMIC-IV database
    2023 103 citations Weimin Cai, Jun Xu et al. Cardiovascular Diabetology profile →
  3. Air Pollution and Mortality at the Intersection of Race and Social Class
    2023 94 citations Kevin Josey, Scott Delaney et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers

Xiao Wu
Danielle Braun United States
Prisco Piscitelli Italy
Yixin Li China
Cui Guo China
M. Benjamin Sabath United States
Rachel C. Nethery United States
Bin Luo China
Changqing Lin China
John S. Ji China
Sourangsu Chowdhury India
Danielle Braun United States
Xiao Wu
Citations per year, relative to Xiao Wu Xiao Wu (= 1×) peers Danielle Braun

Countries citing papers authored by Xiao Wu

Since Specialization
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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiao Wu

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiao Wu

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

All Works

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Lee, Whanhee, Seulkee Heo, Xiao Wu, et al.. (2023). Associations between greenness and kidney disease in Massachusetts: The US Medicare longitudinal cohort study. Environment International. 173. 107844–107844. 7 indexed citations
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Wu, Xiao, et al.. (2023). Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests. Science Advances. 9(45). eadi4123–eadi4123. 21 indexed citations
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Josey, Kevin, Scott Delaney, Xiao Wu, et al.. (2023). Air Pollution and Mortality at the Intersection of Race and Social Class. New England Journal of Medicine. 388(15). 1396–1404. 94 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Xiao, et al.. (2023). Combining aggregate and individual-level data to estimate individual-level associations between air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(8). e0002178–e0002178. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Xiao, Kate R. Weinberger, Gregory A. Wellenius, Francesca Dominici, & Danielle Braun. (2023). Assessing the causal effects of a stochastic intervention in time series data: are heat alerts effective in preventing deaths and hospitalizations?. Biostatistics. 25(1). 57–79. 3 indexed citations
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Klompmaker, Jochem O., Francine Laden, Peter James, et al.. (2023). Long-term exposure to summer specific humidity and cardiovascular disease hospitalizations in the US Medicare population. Environment International. 179. 108182–108182. 16 indexed citations
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Cai, Weimin, et al.. (2023). Association between triglyceride-glucose index and all-cause mortality in critically ill patients with ischemic stroke: analysis of the MIMIC-IV database. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 22(1). 103 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Xiao, Fabrizia Mealli, Marianthi‐Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Francesca Dominici, & Danielle Braun. (2022). Matching on Generalized Propensity Scores with Continuous Exposures. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 119(545). 757–772. 26 indexed citations
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Kodros, John K., Michelle L. Bell, Francesca Dominici, et al.. (2022). Unequal airborne exposure to toxic metals associated with race, ethnicity, and segregation in the USA. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6329–6329. 40 indexed citations
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Klompmaker, Jochem O., Jaime E. Hart, M. Benjamin Sabath, et al.. (2021). County-level exposures to greenness and associations with COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the United States. Environmental Research. 199. 111331–111331. 72 indexed citations
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Li, Jiyuan, et al.. (2021). A highly specific aptamer probe targeting PD-L1 in tumor tissue sections: Mutation favors specificity. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1185. 339066–339066. 17 indexed citations
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Klompmaker, Jochem O., Jaime E. Hart, Peter James, et al.. (2021). Air pollution and cardiovascular disease hospitalization – Are associations modified by greenness, temperature and humidity?. Environment International. 156. 106715–106715. 66 indexed citations
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Wu, Xiao, Rachel C. Nethery, M. Benjamin Sabath, Danielle Braun, & Francesca Dominici. (2020). Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis. Science Advances. 6(45). 1003 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Xiao, Danielle Braun, Joel Schwartz, Marianthi‐Anna Kioumourtzoglou, & Francesca Dominici. (2020). Evaluating the impact of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter on mortality among the elderly. Science Advances. 6(29). eaba5692–eaba5692. 155 indexed citations
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Shi, Liuhua, Xiao Wu, Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi, et al.. (2020). Long-term effects of PM2·5 on neurological disorders in the American Medicare population: a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 4(12). e557–e565. 211 indexed citations
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Wu, Xiao, Y. Jun Xu, & Bradley P. Carlin. (2019). Optimizing interim analysis timing for Bayesian adaptive commensurate designs. Statistics in Medicine. 39(4). 424–437. 6 indexed citations
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Won, Joong‐Ho, Xiao Wu, Sang H. Lee, & Ying Lü. (2017). Cross-sectional design with a short-term follow-up for prognostic imaging biomarkers. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 113. 154–176. 1 indexed citations
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Chinnappan, Dharmaraj, et al.. (2001). Acquired Robertsonian translocations in two leukemia patients. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 131(2). 104–108. 3 indexed citations

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