Caige Sun

908 total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 745 citations indexed

About

Caige Sun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Caige Sun has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 745 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Caige Sun's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (13 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (12 papers). Caige Sun is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (13 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (12 papers). Caige Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Caige Sun's co-authors include Fenglei Fan, Tao Lin, Guoqin Zhang, Jianhui Xu, Meixia Lin, Ye Hong, Xinhu Li, Xulong Liu, Jing Dong and Jiancheng Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Caige Sun

24 papers receiving 737 citations

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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.

Estimating the Characteristic Spatiotemporal Variation in Habitat Quality Using the InVEST Model—A Case Study from Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area

2021 179 citations Caige Sun, Fenglei Fan et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Caige Sun China	14	543	288	271	123	81	26	745
Santanu Dinda India	14	483 0.9×	266 0.9×	240 0.9×	145 1.2×	101 1.2×	19	709
Xuewei Dang China	11	611 1.1×	311 1.1×	282 1.0×	149 1.2×	179 2.2×	19	852
Cristián Henríquez Chile	15	420 0.8×	174 0.6×	235 0.9×	132 1.1×	55 0.7×	51	739
Amir Reza Shahtahmassebi China	11	464 0.9×	217 0.8×	190 0.7×	165 1.3×	75 0.9×	17	699
Valentina Sagris Estonia	10	532 1.0×	199 0.7×	179 0.7×	111 0.9×	94 1.2×	22	819
Fengning Hu China	11	485 0.9×	453 1.6×	340 1.3×	91 0.7×	165 2.0×	12	775
Chunzhu Wei China	15	387 0.7×	370 1.3×	202 0.7×	83 0.7×	171 2.1×	29	748
Parviz Azizi Iran	5	622 1.1×	125 0.4×	189 0.7×	182 1.5×	146 1.8×	8	747
Zhenkun Lei China	12	466 0.9×	161 0.6×	146 0.5×	72 0.6×	83 1.0×	27	602
Shisong Cao China	19	435 0.8×	385 1.3×	240 0.9×	77 0.6×	175 2.2×	48	777

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caige Sun

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ye, Ying, Caixia Chen, Chunxue Yu, Caige Sun, & Shoubao Geng. (2025). Identifying stepping-stones within small wetlands in highly urbanized areas and under network construction: A case study of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao greater Bay Area, China. Ecological Indicators. 176. 113622–113622. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Junhao, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal Regulation of Urban Thermal Environments by Source–Sink Landscapes: Implications for Urban Sustainability in Guangzhou, China. Sustainability. 17(17). 7655–7655.

Liu, Xiaoyang, et al.. (2024). Biomass Inversion of Highway Slope Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing and Deep Learning. Forests. 15(9). 1564–1564. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Guang, Lin Wang, Shenghui Fang, et al.. (2024). Accurate solution of the SAIL model by leaf inclination angle calculation based on laser point clouds. Geo-spatial Information Science. 28(2). 722–740.

Wang, Yi‐Ting, et al.. (2023). Habitat Quality Assessment and Driving Factors Analysis of Guangdong Province, China. Sustainability. 15(15). 11615–11615. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Jian, Weihong Li, Jieying Chen, & Caige Sun. (2022). Refined Carbon Emission Measurement Based on NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta Region, China. Sensors. 23(1). 191–191. 7 indexed citations

Sun, Caige, et al.. (2022). Multi-criteria framework for identifying the trade-offs and synergies relationship of ecosystem services based on ecosystem services bundles. Ecological Indicators. 144. 109453–109453. 42 indexed citations

Zhang, Junmao, Tao Lin, Caige Sun, et al.. (2022). Long-Term Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Impact Factors of Land Surface Temperature of Inhabited Islands with Different Urbanization Levels. Remote Sensing. 14(19). 4997–4997. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Caige, et al.. (2021). Estimating the Characteristic Spatiotemporal Variation in Habitat Quality Using the InVEST Model—A Case Study from Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 1008–1008. 179 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Tao, Xing Li, Meixia Lin, et al.. (2021). Analysis of sustainability of Chinese cities based on network big data of city rankings. Ecological Indicators. 133. 108374–108374. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Jianhui, et al.. (2021). Exploring the Variation Trend of Urban Expansion, Land Surface Temperature, and Ecological Quality and Their Interrelationships in Guangzhou, China, from 1987 to 2019. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 1019–1019. 23 indexed citations

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Sun, Caige, et al.. (2021). Investigation of Dynamic Coupling Coordination between Urbanization and the Eco-Environment—A Case Study in the Pearl River Delta Area. Land. 10(2). 190–190. 22 indexed citations

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Sun, Caige, Hao Chen, & Fenglei Fan. (2020). Improving Accuracy of Impervious Surface Extraction Based on a Threshold Hierarchical Method (THM). Applied Sciences. 10(23). 8409–8409. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Meixia, Tao Lin, Caige Sun, et al.. (2019). Using the Eco-Erosion Index to assess regional ecological stress due to urbanization – A case study in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration. Ecological Indicators. 111. 106028–106028. 53 indexed citations

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Xu, Jianhui, et al.. (2019). Directional Analysis of Urban Expansion Based on Sub-pixel and Regional Scale: A Case Study of Main Districts in Guangzhou, China. Chinese Geographical Science. 29(4). 652–666. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Jianhui, et al.. (2018). Measuring spatio-temporal dynamics of impervious surface in Guangzhou, China, from 1988 to 2015, using time-series Landsat imagery. The Science of The Total Environment. 627. 264–281. 64 indexed citations

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Sun, Caige, Tao Lin, Qianjun Zhao, et al.. (2017). Spatial pattern of urban green spaces in a long-term compact urbanization process—A case study in China. Ecological Indicators. 96. 111–119. 57 indexed citations

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Sun, Caige, et al.. (2017). Residential Spatial Differentiation Based on Urban Housing Types—An Empirical Study of Xiamen Island, China. Sustainability. 9(10). 1777–1777. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Caige, et al.. (2016). Landscape pattern analysis of green space in central urban area of Zhuhai city. 305–308. 4 indexed citations

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Lin, Tao, Caige Sun, Xinhu Li, et al.. (2015). Spatial pattern of urban functional landscapes along an urban–rural gradient: A case study in Xiamen City, China. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 46. 22–30. 40 indexed citations

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