Wei Ren

8.3k citations
134 papers · 6.0k · 2 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

  • Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
    • Climate variability and models
    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Soil Science top 0.5%
    • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in

Co-authors
Hanqin Tian (59 shared papers)Chaoqun Lü (37 shared papers)Shufen Pan (37 shared papers)Mingliang Liu (23 shared papers)Guangsheng Chen (25 shared papers)Xiaofeng Xu (23 shared papers)Bo Tao (34 shared papers)Chi Zhang (16 shared papers)
Journals
Global Biogeochemical Cycles (6 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (6 papers)Journal of Hydrology (5 papers)Remote Sensing (5 papers)Biogeosciences (4 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesChinaAustralia

In The Last Decade

Wei Ren

126 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Wei Ren's Hit Papers

Global synthesis of cover crop impacts on main crop yield 2024 · 42 citations
420+2+4Years since publication100200300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2024 Field Crops Research
  2. 2019 Global Change Biology

Peers

Wei Ren
Comparison fields: 5 of 128
  • Global and Planetary Change 3.3k
  • Soil Science 1.4k
  • Environmental Chemistry 654
  • Water Science and Technology 903
  • Atmospheric Science 1.2k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Ren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Wei Ren, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1
Responses of soil carbon sequestration to climate‐smart agriculture practices: A meta‐analysis
Global Change Biology ·Xiongxiong Bai, Yawen Huang, Wei Ren, Mark S. Coyne, Pierre-André Jacinthe, Bo Tao, Dafeng Hui, Jian Yang, Chris Matocha
Hit paper breakdown →		2019323
2
Model estimates of net primary productivity, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency in the terrestrial ecosystems of the southern United States during 1895–2007
Forest Ecology and Management ·Hanqin Tian, Guangsheng Chen, Mingliang Liu, Chi Zhang, Ge Sun, Chaoqun Lü, Xiaofeng Xu, Wei Ren, Shufen Pan, Arthur H. Chappelka
2009302
3
China's terrestrial carbon balance: Contributions from multiple global change factors
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Hanqin Tian, Jerry M. Melillo, Chaoqun Lü, David W. Kicklighter, Mingliang Liu, Wei Ren, Xiaofeng Xu, Guangsheng Chen, Chi Zhang, Shufen Pan, Jiyuan Liu, Steven W. Running
2011255
4
Greenhouse gas emissions and crop yield in no-tillage systems: A meta-analysis
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Yawen Huang, Wei Ren, Lixin Wang, Dafeng Hui, John H. Grove, X. B. Yang, Bo Tao, Ben M. Goff
2018207
5
Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems due to multiple environmental changes
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability ·Hanqin Tian, Guangsheng Chen, Chaoqun Lü, Xiaofeng Xu, Wei Ren, Bowen Zhang, Kamaljit Banger, Bo Tao, Shufen Pan, Mingliang Liu, Chi Zhang, Lori Bruhwiler, Steven C. Wofsy
2015193
6
Ozone effects on crops and consideration in crop models
European Journal of Agronomy ·Lisa Emberson, Håkan Pleijel, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, M. van den Berg, Wei Ren, Stephanie Osborne, Gina Mills, Divya Pandey, Frank Dentener, Patrick Büker, Frank Ewert, Renate Koeble, Rita Van Dingenen
2018180
7
Impacts of urbanization on carbon balance in terrestrial ecosystems of the Southern United States
Environmental Pollution ·Chi Zhang, Hanqin Tian, Guangsheng Chen, Arthur H. Chappelka, Xiaofeng Xu, Wei Ren, Dafeng Hui, Mingliang Liu, Chaoqun Lü, Shufen Pan, Graeme Lockaby
2012160
8
Spatial and temporal patterns of CH 4 and N 2 O fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of North America during 1979–2008: application of a global biogeochemistry model
Biogeosciences ·Hanqin Tian, Xiaofeng Xu, Mingliang Liu, Wei Ren, Chi Zhang, G. Chen, Chaoqun Lü
2010154
9
Effects of Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change on Evapotranspiration and Water Yield in China During 1900‐20001
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association ·Mingliang Liu, Hanqin Tian, Guangsheng Chen, Wei Ren, Chi Zhang, Jiyuan Liu
2008152
10
Responses of global terrestrial evapotranspiration to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 in the 21st century
Earth s Future ·Shufen Pan, Hanqin Tian, Shree R. S. Dangal, Qichun Yang, Jia Yang, Chaoqun Lü, Bo Tao, Wei Ren, Zhiyun Ouyang
2014150
11
Net exchanges of CO2, CH4, and N2O between China's terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere and their contributions to global climate warming
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Hanqin Tian, Xiaofeng Xu, Chaoqun Lü, Mingliang Liu, Wei Ren, Guangsheng Chen, Jerry M. Melillo, Jiyuan Liu
2011144
12
Century-Scale Responses of Ecosystem Carbon Storage and Flux to Multiple Environmental Changes in the Southern United States
Ecosystems ·Hanqin Tian, Guangsheng Chen, Chi Zhang, Mingliang Liu, Ge Sun, Arthur H. Chappelka, Wei Ren, Xiaofeng Xu, Chaoqun Lü, Shufen Pan, Hua Chen, Dafeng Hui, Steven G. McNulty, Graeme Lockaby, Eric D. Vance
2012120
13
Methane emissions from global rice fields: Magnitude, spatiotemporal patterns, and environmental controls
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Bowen Zhang, Hanqin Tian, Wei Ren, Bo Tao, Chaoqun Lü, Jia Yang, Kamaljit Banger, Shufen Pan
2016111
14
Drought in the Southern United States over the 20th century: variability and its impacts on terrestrial ecosystem productivity and carbon storage
Climatic Change ·Guangsheng Chen, Hanqin Tian, Chi Zhang, Mingliang Liu, Wei Ren, Wenquan Zhu, Arthur H. Chappelka, Stephen A. Prior, Graeme Lockaby
2012105
15
Increasing Mississippi river discharge throughout the 21st century influenced by changes in climate, land use, and atmospheric CO2
Geophysical Research Letters ·Bo Tao, Hanqin Tian, Wei Ren, Jia Yang, Qichun Yang, Ruoying He, Wei‐Jun Cai, Steven E. Lohrenz
2014103
16
North American terrestrial CO2 uptake largely offset by CH4 and N2O emissions: toward a full accounting of the greenhouse gas budget
Climatic Change ·Hanqin Tian, Guangsheng Chen, Chaoqun Lü, Xiaofeng Xu, Daniel J. Hayes, Wei Ren, Shufen Pan, D. N. Huntzinger, Steven C. Wofsy
2014103
17
Anthropogenic and climatic influences on carbon fluxes from eastern North America to the Atlantic Ocean: A process‐based modeling study
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Hanqin Tian, Qichun Yang, Raymond G. Najjar, Wei Ren, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, C. Hopkinson, Shufen Pan
2015101
18
Effect of nitrogen deposition on China's terrestrial carbon uptake in the context of multifactor environmental changes
Ecological Applications ·Chaoqun Lü, Hanqin Tian, Mingliang Liu, Wei Ren, Xiaofeng Xu, Guangsheng Chen, Chi Zhang
201195
19
Vertical decoupling of soil nutrients and water under climate warming reduces plant cumulative nutrient uptake, water‐use efficiency and productivity
New Phytologist ·José Ignacio Querejeta, Wei Ren, Iván Prieto
202194
20
Climate and land use controls over terrestrial water use efficiency in monsoon Asia
Ecohydrology ·Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lü, Guangsheng Chen, Xiaofeng Xu, Mingliang Liu, Wei Ren, Bo Tao, Ge Sun, Shufen Pan, Jiyuan Liu
201191

About Wei Ren

Wei Ren is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology, having authored 134 papers that have together received 6.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (34 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (32 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (23 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (20 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (17 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (3.3k citations), Soil Science (1.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (654 citations), Water Science and Technology (903 citations) and Atmospheric Science (1.2k citations). Wei Ren has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lü, Shufen Pan, Mingliang Liu, Guangsheng Chen, Xiaofeng Xu, Bo Tao, Chi Zhang, Jia Yang and Dafeng Hui. Their work appears in journals such as Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Journal of Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Biogeosciences.

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