Z. Wan

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Z. Wan is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Z. Wan has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Environmental Engineering, 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Z. Wan's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers), Calibration and Measurement Techniques (4 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (2 papers). Z. Wan is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers), Calibration and Measurement Techniques (4 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (2 papers). Z. Wan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Z. Wan's co-authors include William C. Snyder, Zehao Li, Hyeong-Wook Choi, Jeff Dozier, Yasuhiro Kishi, Katsumasa Nakajima, Fu‐An Kang, Paweł Nowak, D.V. Erbe and Yong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Remote Sensing and Pure and Applied Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Z. Wan

12 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

New refinements and validation of the MODIS Land-Surface Temperature/Emissivity products

2007 1.0k citations Z. Wan Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Classification-based emissivity for land surface temperature measurement from space

1998 553 citations William C. Snyder, Z. Wan et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Z. Wan United States	9	1.4k	1.1k	914	290	270	13	2.0k
Mehmet Karaca Türkiye	20	490 0.4×	575 0.5×	819 0.9×	104 0.4×	219 0.8×	40	1.5k
Xiaolei Yu China	10	590 0.4×	285 0.3×	440 0.5×	131 0.5×	250 0.9×	22	937
Jiameng Lai China	23	1.1k 0.8×	542 0.5×	702 0.8×	113 0.4×	606 2.2×	32	1.4k
Jason Duffe Canada	21	253 0.2×	206 0.2×	316 0.3×	547 1.9×	547 2.0×	56	1.5k
Fred M. Vukovich United States	23	327 0.2×	1.0k 1.0×	725 0.8×	152 0.5×	310 1.1×	71	1.7k
Jack Fishman United States	30	527 0.4×	3.5k 3.3×	2.9k 3.2×	305 1.1×	545 2.0×	73	4.2k
María João Costa Portugal	27	228 0.2×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	131 0.5×	205 0.8×	123	2.0k
Huizhi Liu China	21	338 0.2×	687 0.7×	947 1.0×	140 0.5×	30 0.1×	78	1.5k
T. Owen United States	14	952 0.7×	679 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	173 0.6×	402 1.5×	25	1.6k
Xuguang Sun China	25	160 0.1×	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	269 0.9×	98 0.4×	64	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Z. Wan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Z. Wan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Z. Wan

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Wan, Z., et al.. (2024). Dynamic simulation of branch deformation under snow pressure. Advances in Complex Systems. 15(1).

2.

Zhu, Xiaojie, et al.. (2021). The Interactive Modeling Method of Virtual City Scene Based on Building Codes. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. 15(1). 5 indexed citations

3.

Ding, Xiao, et al.. (2020). A Computer Model for Simulating the Bicycle Rider's Behavior in a Virtual Riding System. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. 14(3). 4 indexed citations

4.

Erbe, D.V., Lori D. Klaman, Douglas Wilson, et al.. (2009). Prodrug delivery of novel PTP1B inhibitors to enhance insulin signalling. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 11(6). 579–588. 17 indexed citations

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Wan, Z. & Zehao Li. (2008). Radiance‐based validation of the V5 MODIS land‐surface temperature product. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 29(17-18). 5373–5395. 240 indexed citations

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Wan, Z.. (2007). New refinements and validation of the MODIS Land-Surface Temperature/Emissivity products. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112(1). 59–74. 1019 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moretto, Alessandro F., Michael J. Smith, Z. Wan, et al.. (2005). Bicyclic and tricyclic thiophenes as protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 14(7). 2162–2177. 68 indexed citations

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Choi, Hyeong-Wook, Fu‐An Kang, Yasuhiro Kishi, et al.. (2003). Synthetic studies on the marine natural product halichondrins. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 75(1). 1–17. 54 indexed citations

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Wan, Z. & Jeff Dozier. (2002). A viewing-angle dependent split-window method for retrieving land-surface temperatures from space. 2. 1177–1179. 2 indexed citations

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Lü, Xiang, Z. Wan, Christopher C. Moeller, et al.. (2000). Retrieval of geophysical parameters from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer thermal infrared data: evaluation of a two-step physical algorithm. Applied Optics. 39(20). 3537–3537. 38 indexed citations

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Snyder, William C., et al.. (1998). Classification-based emissivity for land surface temperature measurement from space. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 19(14). 2753–2774. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moody, Alison, Éric F. Lambin, Alfredo Huete, et al.. (1994). MODIS Land Cover Product: Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document. UCL Discovery (University College London). 34 indexed citations

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Dozier, Jeff & Z. Wan. (1994). Development of practical multiband algorithms for estimating land-surface temperature from EOS/MODIS data. Advances in Space Research. 14(3). 81–90. 12 indexed citations

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