Xiaodong Wu

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
248 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Xiaodong Wu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaodong Wu has authored 248 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Atmospheric Science, 41 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaodong Wu's work include Climate change and permafrost (162 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (139 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (48 papers). Xiaodong Wu is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (162 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (139 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (48 papers). Xiaodong Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xiaodong Wu's co-authors include Lin Zhao, Guojie Hu, Tonghua Wu, Defu Zou, Qiangqiang Pang, Ren Li, Changwei Xie, Wangping Li, Yongping Qiao and Xiaofan Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xiaodong Wu

237 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

A new map of permafrost distribution on the Tibetan Plateau

2017 671 citations Defu Zou, Lin Zhao et al. profile →
Characteristic, changes and impacts of permafrost on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

2019 238 citations Li Ren, Yu Sheng et al. profile →
Changing climate and the permafrost environment on the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) plateau

2020 219 citations Lin Zhao, Defu Zou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaodong Wu China	42	4.4k	942	940	751	674	248	6.4k
Heather Viles United Kingdom	52	2.0k 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	589 0.6×	826 1.1×	412 0.6×	267	8.5k
Huijun Jin China	52	6.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	635 0.8×	267 0.4×	224	8.3k
Qingbai Wu China	52	7.6k 1.7×	812 0.9×	907 1.0×	1.0k 1.4×	355 0.5×	283	9.7k
Tonghua Wu China	38	5.1k 1.2×	666 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	892 1.2×	294 0.4×	200	6.3k
Frederick E. Nelson United States	47	8.1k 1.8×	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	935 1.2×	275 0.4×	139	9.2k
Simon J. Blott United Kingdom	21	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	453 0.5×	338 0.5×	494 0.7×	29	5.7k
Lin Zhao China	52	7.2k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	876 1.3×	372	9.6k
A. Joshua West United States	45	3.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	824 1.1×	506 0.8×	130	7.7k
Zhibao Dong China	50	3.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	676 0.9×	3.0k 4.5×	278	7.7k
D. J. Jerolmack United States	43	2.1k 0.5×	2.7k 2.9×	469 0.5×	261 0.3×	1.4k 2.1×	114	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaodong Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaodong Wu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Tonghua, Hasi Bagan, Xudong Zhu, et al.. (2025). Revealing the dual impacts of climate change and grazing on vegetation in Mongolia: Permafrost buffering and the paradox of greening. Advances in Climate Change Research. 16(4). 830–845.

Wu, Xiaodong, et al.. (2025). Automatic emergency obstacle avoidance for intelligent vehicles considering driver-environment risk evaluation. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 123. 110187–110187. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Sizhong, et al.. (2025). Multivariate Insight into Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in Subarctic Abandoned Farmland by the Chronosequence Approach. Agronomy. 15(4). 893–893.

Yang, Haohan, et al.. (2024). Steering authority allocation strategy for human-machine shared control based on driver take-over feasibility. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 120. 109753–109753. 3 indexed citations

Li, Wangping, Xiaodong Wu, Xiaoqiang Cheng, et al.. (2024). Lake changes and their driving factors in circum-arctic permafrost regions from 1990 to 2022. Ecological Indicators. 163. 112066–112066. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Jie, Tonghua Wu, Lin Liu, et al.. (2024). Elevation-dependent shift of landslide activity in mountain permafrost regions of the Qilian Mountains. Advances in Climate Change Research. 15(6). 1067–1077. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Yifan, Lin Zhao, Defu Zou, et al.. (2024). Assessment of Soil Temperature and Its Change Trends in the Permafrost Regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Land. 13(7). 1029–1029.

Yu, Chenghao, Hui Yang, Wen‐Sheng Zhao, et al.. (2024). Research of Single-Event Burnout in P-NiO/n-Ga ₂ O ₃ Heterojunction Diode. IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability. 24(4). 480–486. 1 indexed citations

Li, Wang, et al.. (2023). Effects of thaw slump on soil bacterial communities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. CATENA. 232. 107342–107342. 10 indexed citations

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Yu, Chenghao, et al.. (2023). Simulation study on single-event burnout in field-plated Ga2O3 MOSFETs. Microelectronics Reliability. 149. 115227–115227. 7 indexed citations

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Wu, Tonghua, Xiaodong Wu, Sizhong Yang, et al.. (2023). Carbon budgets and environmental controls in alpine ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. CATENA. 229. 107224–107224. 12 indexed citations

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Cao, Xiaoyan, Xiaodong Wu, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2023). Spatial-temporal variation in XCH4 during 2009–2021 and its driving factors across the land of the Northern Hemisphere. Atmospheric Research. 291. 106811–106811. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Junjie, Ren Li, Hongchao Liu, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of CLM5.0 for simulating surface energy budget and soil hydrothermal regime in permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 332. 109380–109380. 9 indexed citations

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Zhu, Guang, et al.. (2023). Intracontinental deformation around the fixed tip of the continental-scale, strike-slip Tan–Lu fault zone in eastern China. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(2). 5 indexed citations

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Zou, Defu, Lin Zhao, Guangyue Liu, et al.. (2022). Vegetation Mapping in the Permafrost Region: A Case Study on the Central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 14(1). 232–232. 6 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) Plateau, China. Earth system science data. 13(8). 4207–4218. 126 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Dong, Tonghua Wu, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2021). A 1 km resolution soil organic carbon dataset for frozen ground in the Third Pole. Earth system science data. 13(7). 3453–3465. 52 indexed citations

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Ni, Jie, Tonghua Wu, Xiaofan Zhu, et al.. (2020). Simulation of the Present and Future Projection of Permafrost on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau with Statistical and Machine Learning Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(2). 116 indexed citations

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Su, Nan, Guang Zhu, Cheng Liu, et al.. (2020). Alternation of back-arc extension and compression in an overriding plate: evidence from Cretaceous structures in the western Liaoning region, eastern China. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 109(2). 707–727. 21 indexed citations

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