Yichen Wei

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 564 citations indexed

About

Yichen Wei is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichen Wei has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 564 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yichen Wei's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (5 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers). Yichen Wei is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (5 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers). Yichen Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Yichen Wei's co-authors include Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun, Xudong Cao, Bo Song, Yuxuan Wang, Xiaobing Sun, Jin Hong, Yi Wang, Xiao Liu and Xiaobing Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Optics Express, Remote Sensing and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Yichen Wei

7 papers receiving 545 citations

Hit Papers

Face Alignment at 3000 FPS via Regressing Local Binary Fe... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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. Face Alignment at 3000 FPS via Regressing Local Binary Features
    2014 550 citations Shaoqing Ren, Xudong Cao 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
Yichen Wei China 4 488 197 46 44 37 8 564
Patrick Snape United Kingdom 9 477 1.0× 160 0.8× 68 1.5× 21 0.5× 37 1.0× 13 513
Zhimin Cao China 8 628 1.3× 199 1.0× 37 0.8× 29 0.7× 36 1.0× 15 717
Linlin Shen China 8 484 1.0× 163 0.8× 18 0.4× 14 0.3× 51 1.4× 13 587
Yibo Hu China 15 766 1.6× 170 0.9× 55 1.2× 17 0.4× 141 3.8× 28 875
Reinhard Knothe Switzerland 4 840 1.7× 149 0.8× 330 7.2× 40 0.9× 33 0.9× 4 930
Levi Valgaerts Germany 10 814 1.7× 86 0.4× 232 5.0× 33 0.8× 13 0.4× 10 841
Yudong Guo China 10 499 1.0× 99 0.5× 214 4.7× 25 0.6× 10 0.3× 18 560
Kha Gia Quach United States 12 294 0.6× 33 0.2× 36 0.8× 45 1.0× 13 0.4× 20 357
Haiwen Feng Germany 3 502 1.0× 48 0.2× 219 4.8× 27 0.6× 15 0.4× 5 546

Countries citing papers authored by Yichen Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yichen Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yichen Wei

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Wang, Yuxuan, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Aerosol Vertical Distribution Retrieval With Combined LSTM and Transformer Model From OCO-2 O2 A-Band Observations. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 9650–9665. 2 indexed citations
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Hong, Jin, et al.. (2024). Feature Variable Selection Based on VIS-NIR Spectra and Soil Moisture Content Prediction Model Construction. Journal of Spectroscopy. 2024. 1–16. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaobing, Jinji Ma, Jin Hong, et al.. (2024). Towards multi-views cloud retrieval accounting for the 3-D structure collected by directional polarization camera. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 212. 146–163. 3 indexed citations
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Wei, Yichen, Xiaobing Sun, Xiao Liu, et al.. (2023). Simulation of Parallel Polarization Radiance for Retrieving Chlorophyll a Concentrations in Open Oceans Based on Spaceborne Polarization Crossfire Strategy. Remote Sensing. 15(23). 5490–5490. 2 indexed citations
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Ren, Shaoqing, Xudong Cao, Yichen Wei, & Jian Sun. (2014). Face Alignment at 3000 FPS via Regressing Local Binary Features. 1685–1692. 550 indexed citations breakdown →

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