Xiaodan Guan

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Xiaodan Guan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaodan Guan has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 51 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Xiaodan Guan's work include Climate variability and models (42 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (20 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). Xiaodan Guan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (42 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (20 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). Xiaodan Guan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Xiaodan Guan's co-authors include Jianping Huang, Ruixia Guo, Guoyin Wang, Haipeng Yu, Fei Ji, Yongli He, Jieru Ma, Yongkun Xie, Pu Lin and Ni Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Xiaodan Guan

66 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 500 1000 1.5k
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. Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change
    2015 2.0k citations Jianping Huang, Haipeng Yu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaodan Guan China 21 2.5k 1.7k 585 417 400 73 3.8k
Haipeng Yu China 22 2.5k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 701 1.2× 491 1.2× 449 1.1× 83 3.9k
Ruixia Guo China 13 1.7k 0.7× 949 0.6× 489 0.8× 298 0.7× 350 0.9× 21 2.8k
Célia M. Gouveia Portugal 35 4.0k 1.6× 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 1.8× 472 1.1× 541 1.4× 94 4.9k
Ahmed El Kenawy Spain 38 3.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.0× 453 0.8× 854 2.0× 582 1.5× 119 4.8k
Hao Guo China 29 2.6k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 946 1.6× 605 1.5× 259 0.6× 89 3.7k
Jonathan Spinoni Italy 25 3.2k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 467 0.8× 862 2.1× 699 1.7× 46 4.5k
Yuqing Zhang China 32 1.7k 0.7× 679 0.4× 704 1.2× 433 1.0× 459 1.1× 142 3.3k
Qi Hu China 34 2.8k 1.1× 2.2k 1.3× 278 0.5× 483 1.2× 264 0.7× 107 4.1k
Andy Wiltshire United Kingdom 26 2.5k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 925 1.6× 337 0.8× 277 0.7× 48 3.5k
Juan Pablo Boisier Chile 20 2.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 507 0.9× 854 2.0× 232 0.6× 35 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaodan Guan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaodan Guan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaodan Guan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaodan Guan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaodan Guan 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 Xiaodan Guan. Xiaodan Guan 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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Zhang, Boyuan, Yongli He, Bo Huang, et al.. (2025). Disagreement in Detected Heatwave Trends Resulting From Diagnostic Methods. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(6). 1 indexed citations
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Du, Zongliang, et al.. (2025). Observed evolution of global climate change hotspots. Environmental Research Letters. 20(7). 74031–74031. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Shanshan, et al.. (2025). Distinct Effects of Soil Moisture on Surface Water Availability in Nearshore and Inland Drylands. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(20).
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He, Yongli, et al.. (2024). The transition to humid extreme cold events in winter during the past six decades over China. Environmental Research Letters. 19(9). 94051–94051. 1 indexed citations
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He, Yongli, Xiaoxia Wang, Bo Huang, et al.. (2024). The influence of water vapour on winter humidity‐related extreme cold events in China. International Journal of Climatology. 44(10). 3464–3482. 1 indexed citations
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Dong, Li, Jianping Huang, Yixuan Wang, et al.. (2023). Analysis of Long‐Term Trends in the Vertical Distribution and Transport Paths of Atmospheric Aerosols in Typical Regions of China Using 15 Years of CALIOP Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(14). 6 indexed citations
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Guan, Xiaodan, et al.. (2023). The turning of ecological change in the Yellow River Basin. Hydrological Processes. 37(12). 5 indexed citations
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He, Yongli, Boyuan Zhang, Zihan Xia, Shanshan Wang, & Xiaodan Guan. (2023). Global Warming has Increased the Distance Traveled by Marine Heatwaves. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(2). 6 indexed citations
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Guan, Xiaodan, et al.. (2022). Speeding extreme cold events under global warming. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84012–84012. 8 indexed citations
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He, Yongli, Jianping Huang, Xiaodan Guan, et al.. (2022). The Influence of Precipitation Phase Changes on the Recharge Process of Terrestrial Water Storage in the Cold Season Over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(4). 15 indexed citations
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He, Yongli, Shujuan Hu, Fei Ji, et al.. (2021). Enhanced Warming in Global Dryland Lakes and Its Drivers. Remote Sensing. 14(1). 86–86. 10 indexed citations
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He, Yongli, Jianping Huang, Yu Ren, et al.. (2021). The Mechanism of Increasing Summer Water Vapor Over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(10). 42 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiamin, Yuping Guan, Lixin Wu, et al.. (2021). Changing Lengths of the Four Seasons by Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(6). 132 indexed citations
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Kong, Xiangjun, et al.. (2019). Decadal Change in Soil Moisture Over East Asia in Response to a Decade‐Long Warming Hiatus. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(15). 8619–8630. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Siyu, Jianping Huang, Nanxuan Jiang, et al.. (2017). Estimations of anthropogenic dust emissions at global scale from 2007 to 2010. 4 indexed citations
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Guan, Xiaodan, Jianping Huang, Yanting Zhang, Yongkun Xie, & Jingjing Liu. (2016). The relationship between anthropogenic dust and population over global semi-arid regions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(8). 5159–5169. 37 indexed citations
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Guan, Xiaodan, Jianping Huang, Ruixia Guo, et al.. (2015). Role of radiatively forced temperature changes in enhanced semi-arid warming in the cold season over east Asia. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(23). 13777–13786. 56 indexed citations
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Guan, Xiaodan, Jianping Huang, Ruixia Guo, Pu Lin, & Yun Zhang. (2015). Role of radiatively forced temperature changes in enhanced semi-arid warming over East Asia. 5 indexed citations

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