Xiaolin Sun

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Xiaolin Sun is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaolin Sun has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Environmental Engineering, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Xiaolin Sun's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (29 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (13 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers). Xiaolin Sun is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (29 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (13 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers). Xiaolin Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Xiaolin Sun's co-authors include Minggang Xu, Kai Zhao, Yilai Lou, Wei Wang, R.Z. Wang, Huili Wang, Jingyi Wu, Yanjun Dai, Weilong Cong and Zhijian Pei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xiaolin Sun

54 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

  1. A China dataset of soil properties for land surface modelling (version 2, CSDLv2)
    2025 20 citations Wei Shangguan, Zhongwang Wei et al. Earth system science data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaolin Sun China 22 482 404 324 268 182 55 1.6k
Kai Zhao China 23 546 1.1× 286 0.7× 310 1.0× 125 0.5× 176 1.0× 138 1.9k
Jianmin Zhou China 25 225 0.5× 334 0.8× 363 1.1× 100 0.4× 274 1.5× 125 2.2k
Yanhui Zhang China 24 185 0.4× 237 0.6× 183 0.6× 243 0.9× 264 1.5× 108 2.3k
Dongsheng China 14 216 0.4× 396 1.0× 186 0.6× 107 0.4× 74 0.4× 139 1.7k
Xiaoguang Wang China 25 112 0.2× 369 0.9× 542 1.7× 193 0.7× 55 0.3× 81 1.7k
Zhenhua Zhang China 22 258 0.5× 76 0.2× 146 0.5× 89 0.3× 180 1.0× 86 1.5k
Boyu Kuang United Kingdom 15 126 0.3× 225 0.6× 670 2.1× 96 0.4× 69 0.4× 29 1.4k
Hanmi Zhou China 12 148 0.3× 85 0.2× 478 1.5× 172 0.6× 192 1.1× 29 1.5k
Murat Kaçıra United States 31 236 0.5× 133 0.3× 391 1.2× 570 2.1× 1.7k 9.2× 90 2.8k
Carey W. King United States 26 83 0.2× 108 0.3× 527 1.6× 519 1.9× 96 0.5× 68 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaolin Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaolin Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaolin Sun

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

All Works

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Shangguan, Wei, Zhongwang Wei, Hua Yuan, et al.. (2025). A China dataset of soil properties for land surface modelling (version 2, CSDLv2). Earth system science data. 17(2). 517–543. 20 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Yanan, Chang Liu, Jie Wang, et al.. (2024). Monitoring soil arsenic content in densely vegetated agricultural areas using UAV hyperspectral, satellite multispectral and SAR data. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 484. 136689–136689. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Haijian, Xiaolin Sun, Wenqiang Cui, et al.. (2024). Computational drug development for membrane protein targets. Nature Biotechnology. 42(2). 229–242. 27 indexed citations
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Zhang, Meiwei, Xiaolin Sun, Huili Wang, et al.. (2024). The roles of sampling depth, lateral profile density and vertical sampling density in 3D digital soil mapping of soil organic carbon. Geoderma. 445. 116840–116840. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Shiyu, Xiaolin Sun, Wenqiang Cui, & Shuguang Yuan. (2022). MM/PB(GB)SA benchmarks on soluble proteins and membrane proteins. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 13. 1018351–1018351. 22 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaolin, Budiman Minasny, Yunjin Wu, et al.. (2022). Soil organic carbon content increase in the east and south of China is accompanied by soil acidification. The Science of The Total Environment. 857(Pt 1). 159253–159253. 23 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaolin, Yunjin Wu, Chaosheng Zhang, & Huili Wang. (2019). Performance of median kriging with robust estimators of the variogram in outlier identification and spatial prediction for soil pollution at a field scale. The Science of The Total Environment. 666. 902–914. 14 indexed citations
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Dong, Jie, Xiaolin Sun, Ru Li, et al.. (2018). Identification of a novel autoantibody against self-vimentin specific in secondary Sjögren’s syndrome. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 20(1). 30–30. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaolin, et al.. (2018). Suppression of Dick Effect in Ramsey-CPT Atomic Clock by Interleaving Lock. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 65(11). 2195–2200. 2 indexed citations
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Ge, Tianshu, R.Z. Wang, Zhenyuan Xu, et al.. (2017). Solar heating and cooling: Present and future development. Renewable Energy. 126. 1126–1140. 168 indexed citations
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Hu, Junli, Fuyong Wu, Shengchun Wu, et al.. (2013). Phytoavailability and phytovariety codetermine the bioaccumulation risk of heavy metal from soils, focusing on Cd-contaminated vegetable farms around the Pearl River Delta, China. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 91. 18–24. 58 indexed citations
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Cong, Weilong, et al.. (2013). Rotary ultrasonic machining of CFRP: A mechanistic predictive model for cutting force. Ultrasonics. 54(2). 663–675. 129 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaolin, Yu-Guo Zhao, Gan‐Lin Zhang, et al.. (2011). Application of a Digital Soil Mapping Method in Producing Soil Orders on Mountain Areas of Hong Kong Based on Legacy Soil Data. Pedosphere. 21(3). 339–350. 14 indexed citations
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Liang, Peng, Dingding Shao, Shengchun Wu, et al.. (2010). The influence of mariculture on mercury distribution in sediments and fish around Hong Kong and adjacent mainland China waters. Chemosphere. 82(7). 1038–1043. 62 indexed citations
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Zhao, Lihong, et al.. (2005). Face detection based on skin color. 6. 3625–3628. 7 indexed citations

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