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D-Index
48
Citations
9042
World Ranking
4216
National Ranking
286

Xiaohua Wei publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaohua Wei sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 169 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Xiaohua Wei D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaohua Wei sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xiaohua Wei is a researcher affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. The main areas of interest in Wei's scientific work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Tree-ring climate responses, Forest ecology and management, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Wei has contributed extensively to the literature with numerous publications appearing in key venues such as Forest Ecology and Management, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Water Resources Research, and Forests. Among these, Forest Ecology and Management is the most frequent venue, where Wei has published eight papers. Wei's scholarly output includes notable recent papers such as:

  • Deforestation, forestation, and water supply (2021, Science)
  • A global synthesis on the effects of thinning on hydrological processes: Implications for forest management (2022, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Forest water-use efficiency: Effects of climate change and management on the coupling of carbon and water processes (2023, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Nature-based framework for sustainable afforestation in global drylands under changing climate (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Forest restoration and hydrology (2022, Forest Ecology and Management)

Wei collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors, including Yiping Hou, Mingfang Zhang, Qiang Li, Wenfei Liu, and Jinyu Hui, reflecting ongoing research partnerships and collaborative contributions to the field.

In addition to peer-reviewed journal articles, Wei has authored book publications, including a recent work published by Знание-М eBooks titled THE SPATIAL BEHAVIOUR OF MIGROTORY EASTERN SPOT-BILLED DUCK AND MALLARD WINTERING POPULATIONS IN SHANGHAI CITY, CHINA (2024).

Best Publications

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • Potential water yield reduction due to forestation across China

    Ge Sun;Guoyi Zhou;Zhiqiang Zhang;Xiaohua Wei

  • A global review on hydrological responses to forest change across multiple spatial scales: Importance of scale, climate, forest type and hydrological regime

    Mingfang Zhang;Ning Liu;Richard Harper;Qiang Li

  • Global pattern for the effect of climate and land cover on water yield

    Guoyi Zhou;Xiaohua Wei;Xiuzhi Chen;Ping Zhou

  • Quantifying the hydrological responses to climate change in an intact forested small watershed in Southern China

    Guoyi Zhou;Xiaohua Wei;Yiping Wu;Shuguang Liu

  • Quantifying streamflow change caused by forest disturbance at a large spatial scale: A single watershed study

    Xiaohua Wei;Mingfang Zhang

  • Litterfall Production Along Successional and Altitudinal Gradients of Subtropical Monsoon Evergreen Broadleaved Forests in Guangdong, China

    Guoyi Zhou;Lili Guan;Xiaohua Wei;Deqiang Zhang

  • Forest ecohydrological research in the 21st century: what are the critical needs?

    James M. Vose;Ge Sun;Chelcy R. Ford;Michael Bredemeier

  • Factors influencing leaf litter decomposition: an intersite decomposition experiment across China

    Guoyi Zhou;Lili Guan;Xiaohua Wei;Xuli Tang

  • The effect of forest harvesting and climatic variability on runoff in a large watershed: The case study in the Upper Minjiang River of Yangtze River basin

    Mingfang Zhang;Xiaohua Wei;Pengsen Sun;Shirong Liu

  • Forest recovery and river discharge at the regional scale of Guangdong Province, China

    Guoyi Zhou;Xiaohua Wei;Yan Luo;Mingfang Zhang

  • Deforestation, forestation, and water supply

    Mingfang Zhang;Xiaohua Wei

  • Annual runoff and evapotranspiration of forestlands and non‐forestlands in selected basins of the Loess Plateau of China

    Yanhui Wang;Pengtao Yu;Karl-Heinz Feger;Xiaohua Wei

  • Natural forests exhibit higher carbon sequestration and lower water consumption than planted forests in China

    Zhen Yu;Zhen Yu;Shirong Liu;Jingxin Wang;Xiaohua Wei

  • Vegetation cover-another dominant factor in determining global water resources in forested regions.

    Xiaohua Wei;Qiang Li;Mingfang Zhang;Krysta Giles-Hansen

  • Greening China Naturally

    Shixiong Cao;Ge Sun;Zhiqiang Zhang;Liding Chen

  • The impact of large-scale forest harvesting on hydrology in the Willow watershed of Central British Columbia

    Yong Lin;Xiaohua Wei

  • Relationship between vegetation carbon storage and urbanization: A case study of Xiamen, China

    Yin Ren;Xing Wei;Xiaohua Wei;Junzhong Pan

  • Quantifying the Relative Contributions of Forest Change and Climatic Variability to Hydrology in Large Watersheds: A Critical Review of Research Methods

    Xiaohua Wei;Wenfei Liu;Peicong Zhou

  • Forecasting carbon budget under climate change and CO2 fertilization for subtropical region in China using Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS) model

    Q. Zhu;H. Jiang;J. Liu;C. Peng

  • Soil N/P and C/P ratio regulate the responses of soil microbial community composition and enzyme activities in a long-term nitrogen loaded Chinese fir forest

    Fangfang Shen;Fangfang Shen;Jianping Wu;Houbao Fan;Wenfei Liu

  • Hydrological processes in major types of Chinese forest

    X. Wei;S. Liu;G. Zhou;C. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Guoyi Zhou
Guoyi Zhou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Ge Sun
Ge Sun US Forest Service
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Qiuan Zhu
Qiuan Zhu Hohai University
Meine van Noordwijk
Meine van Noordwijk World Agroforestry Centre
Irena F. Creed
Irena F. Creed University of Toronto
Junhua Yan
Junhua Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Jiang
Hong Jiang Nanjing University
Shuguang Liu
Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology

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