Bifeng Hu

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Bifeng Hu is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Bifeng Hu has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Environmental Engineering, 46 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 27 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Bifeng Hu's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (55 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (44 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (27 papers). Bifeng Hu is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (55 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (44 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (27 papers). Bifeng Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Bifeng Hu's co-authors include Zhou Shi, Songchao Chen, Yin Zhou, Jie Hu, Xiaolin Jia, Jie Peng, Shuai Shao, Lianqing Zhou, Zhiyi Fu and Fang Xia and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Bifeng Hu

93 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Current status, spatial features, health risks, and potential driving factors of soil heavy metal pollution in China at province level

2020 366 citations Bifeng Hu, Shuai Shao et al. Environmental Pollution profile →
Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution and Health Risks in the Soil-Plant-Human System in the Yangtze River Delta, China

2017 365 citations Bifeng Hu, Xiaolin Jia et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bifeng Hu China	33	1.6k	1.4k	1.2k	685	548	100	4.0k
Gergely Tóth Hungary	24	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	759 0.6×	430 0.6×	491 0.9×	88	4.0k
Luboš Borůvka Czechia	35	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	254 0.4×	798 1.5×	157	4.3k
Yongcun Zhao China	36	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	907 0.7×	444 0.6×	847 1.5×	141	4.9k
Mei Lei China	41	3.6k 2.3×	599 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	301 0.5×	201	6.1k
Lingqing Wang China	44	2.3k 1.4×	548 0.4×	787 0.6×	1.2k 1.7×	662 1.2×	197	6.2k
Xingmei Liu China	25	2.1k 1.3×	432 0.3×	751 0.6×	715 1.0×	323 0.6×	43	3.3k
David C. Weindorf United States	46	1.5k 1.0×	2.9k 2.1×	2.3k 1.9×	353 0.5×	871 1.6×	234	7.0k
Raúl Zornoza Spain	41	1.4k 0.9×	698 0.5×	535 0.4×	272 0.4×	782 1.4×	147	5.4k
Ángel Faz Spain	41	2.7k 1.7×	309 0.2×	630 0.5×	750 1.1×	363 0.7×	142	5.2k
Songchao Chen China	44	837 0.5×	3.4k 2.5×	2.1k 1.7×	307 0.4×	1.3k 2.4×	173	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bifeng Hu

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Geng, Yibo, et al.. (2025). Contamination Characteristics, SourceApportionment, and Health RiskAssessment of Heavy Metals in Farmlandacross Hunan Province, China. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies.

Xiong, Qiulin, et al.. (2025). Ecological Security Zoning Considering Land Degradation Neutrality: A Case Study in Southern Jiangxi Province, China. Land Degradation and Development. 37(4). 1316–1329.

Chen, Songchao, et al.. (2025). High-Accuracy Mapping of Soil Organic Carbon by Mining Sentinel-1/2 Radar and Optical Time-Series Data with Super Ensemble Model. Remote Sensing. 17(4). 678–678. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Bifeng, Qian Zhu, Yibo Geng, et al.. (2025). Improved estimation of soil organic carbon stock in subtropical cropland of Southern China based on digital soil mapping and multi-sources data. Geo-spatial Information Science. 28(6). 2864–2887. 1 indexed citations

Li, Hongyi, Jiang-Tao Yang, Bifeng Hu, et al.. (2025). Improving in-situ spectral estimation of wetland soil organic carbon by integrating multiple optimization strategies. CATENA. 255. 109078–109078. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Yuwei, Asim Biswas, Yongsheng Hong, et al.. (2024). Enhancing soil profile analysis with soil spectral libraries and laboratory hyperspectral imaging. Geoderma. 450. 117036–117036. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Yu, et al.. (2024). Predicting soil organic carbon content using simulated insitu spectra and moisture correction algorithms in southern Xinjiang, China. Geoderma Regional. 37. e00783–e00783. 5 indexed citations

Hu, Bifeng, Yue Zhou, Songchao Chen, et al.. (2024). A high-resolution map of soil organic carbon in cropland of Southern China. CATENA. 237. 107813–107813. 39 indexed citations

Hu, Bifeng, et al.. (2024). Fine-resolution baseline maps of soil nutrients in farmland of Jiangxi Province using digital soil mapping and interpretable machine learning. CATENA. 249. 108635–108635. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Hongyi, Bifeng Hu, Yin Zhou, et al.. (2024). Effects of straw return on soil carbon sequestration, soil nutrients and rice yield of in acidic farmland soil of Southern China. Environment Development and Sustainability. 27(12). 29775–29795. 5 indexed citations

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Hu, Bifeng, et al.. (2024). Estimation of Soil Salinity by Combining Spectral and Texture Information from UAV Multispectral Images in the Tarim River Basin, China. Remote Sensing. 16(19). 3671–3671. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Xueyao, et al.. (2023). Estimating monthly surface ozone using multi-source satellite products in China based on Deep Forest model. Atmospheric Environment. 307. 119819–119819. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiawen, Bifeng Hu, Songchao Chen, et al.. (2023). A novel framework for improving soil organic matter prediction accuracy in cropland by integrating soil, vegetation and human activity information. The Science of The Total Environment. 903. 166112–166112. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xianglin, Songchao Chen, Jie Xue, et al.. (2023). Improving model parsimony and accuracy by modified greedy feature selection in digital soil mapping. Geoderma. 432. 116383–116383. 41 indexed citations

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Li, Baoguo, Yan Cao, Zhou Shi, et al.. (2023). Comparison of Depth-Specific Prediction of Soil Properties: MIR vs. Vis-NIR Spectroscopy. Sensors. 23(13). 5967–5967. 6 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaolin, et al.. (2023). Development of Soil Fertility Index Using Machine Learning and Visible-Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Land. 12(12). 2155–2155. 10 indexed citations

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Hu, Bifeng, Hongyi Li, Yali Wen, et al.. (2023). Mapping soil organic matter and identifying potential controls in the farmland of Southern China: Integration of multi‐source data, machine learning and geostatistics. Land Degradation and Development. 34(17). 5468–5485. 21 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaolin, et al.. (2023). Potential Risk Evaluation for Soil Environmental Quality Assessment in China Based on Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Theory. Eurasian Soil Science. 56(7). 984–993. 1 indexed citations

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Hu, Bifeng, Hongyi Li, Yue Zhou, et al.. (2023). Climate and soil management factors control spatio-temporal variation of soil nutrients and soil organic matter in the farmland of Jiangxi Province in South China. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 23(6). 2373–2395. 20 indexed citations

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Hu, Bifeng, Jie Xue, Yin Zhou, et al.. (2020). Modelling bioaccumulation of heavy metals in soil-crop ecosystems and identifying its controlling factors using machine learning. Environmental Pollution. 262. 114308–114308. 195 indexed citations

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