Xiaohua Wei

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
193 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Xiaohua Wei is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaohua Wei has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 84 papers in Water Science and Technology and 57 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Xiaohua Wei's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (81 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (73 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (42 papers). Xiaohua Wei is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (81 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (73 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (42 papers). Xiaohua Wei collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Xiaohua Wei's co-authors include Mingfang Zhang, Guoyi Zhou, Ge Sun, Shirong Liu, Qiang Li, Wenfei Liu, Zhiqiang Zhang, James M. Vose, Steven G. McNulty and Yiping Hou and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xiaohua Wei

186 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

A global review on hydrol... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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. A global review on hydrological responses to forest change across multiple spatial scales: Importance of scale, climate, forest type and hydrological regime
    2016 333 citations Mingfang Zhang, Qiang Li et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Xiaohua Wei 3.8k 2.8k 1.8k 1.6k 1.2k 193 6.4k
Xiaoming Feng 5.4k 1.4× 2.4k 0.8× 2.2k 1.2× 2.7k 1.7× 1.3k 1.1× 116 8.0k
C. Tague 4.4k 1.1× 3.5k 1.3× 994 0.6× 1.8k 1.1× 2.3k 1.8× 156 7.7k
Fei Wang 3.5k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 2.3k 1.3× 2.4k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 198 7.0k
Sibyll Schaphoff 3.4k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 782 0.4× 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 80 6.9k
Xuefa Wen 3.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.5× 1.8k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 189 6.3k
Zehao Shen 3.0k 0.8× 1.1k 0.4× 902 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 133 6.3k
Shufen Pan 3.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 127 6.4k
Dominik Wisser 3.5k 0.9× 4.0k 1.4× 577 0.3× 1.2k 0.7× 815 0.7× 44 7.0k
Antônio Donato Nobre 3.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.4× 743 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 67 5.2k
Yuan Zeng 5.0k 1.3× 1.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 3.0k 1.8× 875 0.7× 130 8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaohua Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaohua Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaohua Wei

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

All Works

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Hou, Yiping, et al.. (2025). Impact of heatwave and thinning on tree growth and soil water content in young lodgepole pine forests. Forest Ecosystems. 15. 100398–100398.
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Zhu, Jian Hua, Xiaohua Wei, Zhihui Yang, et al.. (2024). Efficient mineralization of cadmium and arsenic by poorly crystalline CaFe-layered double hydroxide in soil: Performance and mechanism. Environmental Research. 262(Pt 2). 119994–119994. 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Xiaohua, et al.. (2024). A note on the P3-isolation number of a graph. RAIRO. Operations research. 58(5). 4607–4619.
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Sun, Ge, Xiaohua Wei, Lu Hao, et al.. (2023). Forest hydrology modeling tools for watershed management: A review. Forest Ecology and Management. 530. 120755–120755. 37 indexed citations
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Li, Qiang, Mingfang Zhang, Xiaohua Wei, et al.. (2021). Roles of forest disturbance and climate variability on streamflow components in snow‐dominated paired watersheds at multiple temporal scales. Hydrological Processes. 35(12). 2 indexed citations
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Hou, Yiping, Mingfang Zhang, Xiaohua Wei, et al.. (2021). Quantification of ecohydrological sensitivities and their influencing factors at the seasonal scale. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(3). 1447–1466. 10 indexed citations
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Wei, Xiaohua, et al.. (2020). Long-term logging residue loadings affect tree growth but not soil nutrients in Pinus contorta Doug. ex Loud. forests. Annals of Forest Science. 77(2). 7 indexed citations
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Li, Qiang, Xiaohua Wei, Xin Yang, et al.. (2018). Topography significantly influencing low flows in snow-dominated watersheds. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(3). 1947–1956. 30 indexed citations
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Liu, Wenfei, Xiaohua Wei, Qiang Li, et al.. (2016). Hydrological recovery in two large forested watersheds of southeastern China: the importance of watershed properties in determining hydrological responses to reforestation. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(12). 4747–4756. 28 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaorui, et al.. (2013). [Effects of reforestation on soil chemical properties and microbial communities in a severely degraded sub-tropical red soil region].. PubMed. 24(4). 1094–100. 2 indexed citations
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Song, Xinzhang, Hong Jiang, Changhui Peng, et al.. (2012). Leaf litter decomposition along the temperate - tropical transect (East China) : the influence of stand succession, litter quality and climate. Polish Journal of Ecology. 60(2). 265–276. 3 indexed citations
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Cui, Xia, S. Liu, & Xiaohua Wei. (2012). Impacts of forest changes on hydrology: a case study of large watersheds in the upper reaches of Minjiang River watershed in China. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(11). 4279–4290. 53 indexed citations
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Sun, Pengsen, et al.. (2012). Climate change, growing season water deficit and vegetation activity along the north–south transect of eastern China from 1982 through 2006. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(10). 3835–3850. 15 indexed citations
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Ma, Yuandan, Hong Jiang, Bin Wang, et al.. (2009). Carbon storage of cycad and other gymnosperm ecosystems in China: implications to evolutionary trends.. Polish Journal of Ecology. 57(4). 635–646. 3 indexed citations

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