Xue Feng

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Xue Feng is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xue Feng has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Atmospheric Science and 19 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Xue Feng's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (14 papers) and Climate variability and models (12 papers). Xue Feng is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (14 papers) and Climate variability and models (12 papers). Xue Feng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Xue Feng's co-authors include Amilcare Porporato, I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe, Giulia Vico, Sally Thompson, Alexandra G. Konings, Stefano Manzoni, Gabriel G. Katul, Yanlan Liu, Mukesh Kumar and Shabeh ul Hasson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Xue Feng

79 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Changes in rainfall seasonality in the tropics 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2024 100 200 300 400
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. Changes in rainfall seasonality in the tropics
    2013 479 citations Xue Feng, Amilcare Porporato et al. profile →
  2. Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity
    2024 59 citations Xue Feng, Alexandra G. Konings 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
Xue Feng United States 26 1.6k 621 476 367 356 93 2.3k
Juan Camilo Villegas Colombia 34 2.0k 1.3× 847 1.4× 492 1.0× 526 1.4× 647 1.8× 82 3.7k
Chelcy Ford Miniat United States 27 1.3k 0.8× 603 1.0× 517 1.1× 496 1.4× 463 1.3× 74 2.0k
Celso von Randow Brazil 28 2.3k 1.5× 607 1.0× 482 1.0× 650 1.8× 344 1.0× 75 3.0k
Herbert Formayer Austria 26 1.3k 0.8× 709 1.1× 250 0.5× 263 0.7× 172 0.5× 92 2.4k
Stanislaus J. Schymanski Switzerland 26 1.6k 1.0× 426 0.7× 914 1.9× 560 1.5× 476 1.3× 63 2.8k
S. Iida Japan 22 948 0.6× 341 0.5× 325 0.7× 318 0.9× 511 1.4× 84 1.7k
Henry W. Loescher United States 28 1.6k 1.0× 558 0.9× 247 0.5× 797 2.2× 478 1.3× 69 2.8k
Marco Turco Spain 34 2.6k 1.6× 918 1.5× 330 0.7× 486 1.3× 302 0.8× 74 3.4k
Anna Harper United Kingdom 28 1.8k 1.1× 684 1.1× 166 0.3× 504 1.4× 328 0.9× 64 2.3k
Joel A. Biederman United States 31 2.3k 1.5× 955 1.5× 699 1.5× 968 2.6× 354 1.0× 94 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xue Feng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xue Feng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xue Feng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xue Feng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xue Feng 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 Xue Feng. Xue Feng 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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Feng, Xue, et al.. (2025). Revisiting competitive outcomes through a trait lens: a global meta-analysis across species provenance. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10639–10639.
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Feng, Xue, et al.. (2025). Canopy Temperature Reveals Disparities in Urban Tree Benefits. AGU Advances. 6(1).
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Holtzman, Natan, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem Water‐Saving Timescale Varies Spatially With Typical Drydown Length. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 4 indexed citations
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Feng, Xue, et al.. (2024). Different roads, same destination: The shared future of plant ecophysiology and ecohydrology. Plant Cell & Environment. 47(9). 3447–3465. 3 indexed citations
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Skelton, Robert P., et al.. (2023). Exploring within‐plant hydraulic trait variation: A test of the vulnerability segmentation hypothesis. Plant Cell & Environment. 46(9). 2726–2746. 12 indexed citations
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Ali, Geneviève, Nandita B. Basu, Karletta Chief, et al.. (2023). A commentary on women’s contributions in hydrology. Journal of Hydrology. 624. 129884–129884. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, X., et al.. (2023). Integrating the Spatial Configurations of Green and Gray Infrastructure in Urban Stormwater Networks. Water Resources Research. 59(12). 8 indexed citations
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Feng, Xue, et al.. (2023). Dynamically optimizing stomatal conductance for maximum turgor-driven growth over diel and seasonal cycles. AoB Plants. 15(5). plad044–plad044. 6 indexed citations
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Manzoni, Stefano, Simone Fatichi, Xue Feng, et al.. (2022). Consistent responses of vegetation gas exchange to elevated atmospheric CO 2 emerge from heuristic and optimization models. Biogeosciences. 19(17). 4387–4414. 9 indexed citations
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Thompson, Sally, et al.. (2021). Plant Hydraulic Transport Controls Transpiration Response to SoilWater Stress. 4 indexed citations
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Thompson, Sally, et al.. (2021). Plant hydraulic transport controls transpiration sensitivity to soil water stress. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(8). 4259–4274. 15 indexed citations
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Feng, Xue, M. J. Deventer, G. H. C. Ng, et al.. (2020). Climate Sensitivity of Peatland Methane Emissions Mediated by Seasonal Hydrologic Dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(17). 33 indexed citations
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Deventer, M. J., Xue Feng, Randall K. Kolka, et al.. (2019). Intra- and Inter-Annual Variability in Wetland CH4 Emissions from a Sub-Boreal Peatland. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Feng, Xue, et al.. (2018). Application and Prospect of Molecular Module-based Crop Design Technology in Maize Breeding. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 33(9). 923–931. 1 indexed citations
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Bonetti, Sara, Xue Feng, & Amilcare Porporato. (2017). Ecohydrological controls on plant diversity in tropical South America. Ecohydrology. 10(6). 6 indexed citations
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Feng, Xue. (2007). Investigation of Soil Water Availability Influenced by Soil Conditioner. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage. 1 indexed citations
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Feng, Xue. (1998). Carving Out a Way and Gratifying Achievements. Journal of Glaciolgy and Geocryology. 1 indexed citations

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