Xing Yuan

15.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
346 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Xing Yuan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Xing Yuan has authored 346 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 90 papers in Water Science and Technology and 74 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Xing Yuan's work include Climate variability and models (113 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (72 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (71 papers). Xing Yuan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (113 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (72 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (71 papers). Xing Yuan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Xing Yuan's co-authors include Eric F. Wood, Peng Ji, Linying Wang, Justin Sheffield, Jiao Qu, Peili Wu, Feng Ma, Yumiao Wang, Yihang Guo and Ming Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Xing Yuan

332 papers receiving 11.9k 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 global transition to flash droughts under climate change

2023 469 citations Xing Yuan, Yumiao Wang et al. profile →
Anthropogenic shift towards higher risk of flash drought over China

2019 350 citations Xing Yuan, Linying Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xing Yuan China	58	5.6k	3.1k	2.3k	2.2k	2.0k	346	12.1k
Hong Jiang China	73	2.8k 0.5×	5.0k 1.6×	956 0.4×	4.1k 1.8×	2.6k 1.3×	481	20.8k
Bernhard Wehrli Switzerland	60	1.8k 0.3×	3.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	209	14.2k
Rajasekhar Balasubramanian‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Singapore	77	1.8k 0.3×	3.1k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	3.2k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	306	19.8k
Jon Chorover United States	61	1.3k 0.2×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	800 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	269	12.8k
Richard G. Zepp United States	60	1.7k 0.3×	3.0k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	164	14.5k
Wilfried Winiwarter Austria	43	1.7k 0.3×	491 0.2×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	158	12.0k
Alistair G.L. Borthwick United Kingdom	51	1.6k 0.3×	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	472 0.2×	548 0.3×	332	9.6k
J. Staehelin Switzerland	48	3.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	5.9k 2.6×	730 0.3×	686 0.3×	155	9.8k
Laurent Li China	61	9.6k 1.7×	2.2k 0.7×	6.9k 3.0×	260 0.1×	474 0.2×	307	14.1k
Ming Fang China	57	1.2k 0.2×	1.1k 0.4×	3.2k 1.4×	3.8k 1.7×	1.8k 0.9×	275	11.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Feng & Xing Yuan. (2025). The propagation from atmospheric flash drought to soil flash drought and its changes in a warmer climate. Journal of Hydrology. 654. 132877–132877. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Tao, et al.. (2025). The Impacts of Satellite Data Quality Control and Meteorological Forcings on Snow Data Assimilation over the Sanjiangyuan Region. Water. 17(7). 1078–1078. 1 indexed citations

Si, Wenzhe, Rong Wang, Xing Yuan, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Ru–Ce interface electron transfer and reverse oxygen spillover promote chlorobenzene catalytic oxidation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 373. 125315–125315. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Haoran, Yuan Li, Weidong Li, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive Understanding of Accelerated Stress Test Protocols for Fe-N-C Catalysts in Acidic Aqueous Media. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 172(2). 24508–24508.

Ma, Feng & Xing Yuan. (2024). Vegetation Greening and Climate Warming Increased the Propagation Risk From Meteorological Drought to Soil Drought at Subseasonal Timescales. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(4). 27 indexed citations

Ji, Peng, et al.. (2024). Drivers of long-term changes in summer compound hot extremes in China: Climate change, urbanization, and vegetation greening. Atmospheric Research. 310. 107632–107632. 5 indexed citations

Ao, Xianquan, et al.. (2024). Effect of dissolved metal ions from mineral surfaces on the surface wettability of phosphate ore by flotation. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 701. 134995–134995. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Fang, et al.. (2024). Evaluation and comparison of 11 sets of gridded precipitation products over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Atmospheric Research. 302. 107315–107315. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Wenyan & Xing Yuan. (2024). Climate change and La Niña increase the likelihood of the ‘7·20’ extraordinary typhoon‐rainstorm in Zhengzhou, China. International Journal of Climatology. 44(5). 1355–1370. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Feng, et al.. (2024). Vegetation greening accelerated the propagation from meteorological to soil droughts in the Loess Plateau from a three-dimensional perspective. Journal of Hydrology. 650. 132522–132522. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Yaqiang, et al.. (2023). Changes of terrestrial water storage during 1981–2020 over China based on dynamic-machine learning model. Journal of Hydrology. 621. 129576–129576. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Chengzhi, Yi Xing, Kangning Zhang, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of photocathode coupling-mediated hydroxychloroquine degradation in a single-chamber microbial fuel cell based on electron transfer mechanism and power generation. Journal of Power Sources. 559. 232625–232625. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Yumiao & Xing Yuan. (2023). High Temperature Accelerates Onset Speed of the 2022 Unprecedented Flash Drought Over the Yangtze River Basin. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(22). 42 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhongwei, et al.. (2023). Groundwater Depletion Rate Over China During 1965–2016: The Long‐Term Trend and Inter‐annual Variation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(11). 27 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xing, et al.. (2023). Gradient removal of Si and P impurities from phosphogypsum and preparation of anhydrous calcium sulfate. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 11(3). 110312–110312. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiefeng, Guoqing Wang, Xiaohong Chen, et al.. (2023). Hydrological drought characterization considering onset, maximum streamflow deficit, and termination. Advances in Water Resources. 184. 104613–104613. 6 indexed citations

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Tian, Di, Eric F. Wood, & Xing Yuan. (2017). CFSv2-based sub-seasonal precipitation and temperature forecast skill over the contiguous United States. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(3). 1477–1490. 67 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xing, Feng Ma, Linying Wang, et al.. (2016). An experimental seasonal hydrological forecasting system over the Yellow River basin – Part 1: Understanding the role of initial hydrological conditions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(6). 2437–2451. 53 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xing, Zhuguo Ma, Ming Pan, & Chunxiang Shi. (2015). Microwave remote sensing of flash droughts during crop growing seasons. EGUGA. 8196. 2 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xing. (2009). Study on Load of Nonpoint Source Pollution in the Second Songhua River Basin. Nongye huanjing kexue xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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