Chang Xia

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Chang Xia is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Chang Xia has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Transportation and 12 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Chang Xia's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (14 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (9 papers). Chang Xia is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (14 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (9 papers). Chang Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Chang Xia's co-authors include Anqi Zhang, Anthony Gar‐On Yeh, Haijun Wang, Anthony G.O. Yeh, Bin Zhang, Jiayu Wu, Jian Lin, Yan Zhang, Yaolin Liu and Yiheng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Global Environmental Change and Landscape and Urban Planning.

In The Last Decade

Chang Xia

35 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Analyzing spatial relationships between urban land use in... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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.

  1. Analyzing spatial relationships between urban land use intensity and urban vitality at street block level: A case study of five Chinese megacities
    2019 344 citations Chang Xia, Anthony Gar‐On Yeh et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chang Xia China 19 918 551 383 363 197 37 1.4k
Zhangzhi Tan China 10 537 0.6× 439 0.8× 207 0.5× 241 0.7× 177 0.9× 13 1.0k
Ahmed Mustafà Belgium 20 804 0.9× 154 0.3× 295 0.8× 145 0.4× 223 1.1× 66 1.2k
Inés Santé Spain 16 1.1k 1.2× 147 0.3× 405 1.1× 195 0.5× 168 0.9× 33 1.4k
Ronghui Tan China 16 650 0.7× 204 0.4× 145 0.4× 174 0.5× 92 0.5× 29 907
Daniele La Rosa Italy 23 1.5k 1.6× 308 0.6× 222 0.6× 1.1k 2.9× 634 3.2× 55 2.2k
Marjo Kasanko Italy 5 914 1.0× 158 0.3× 315 0.8× 174 0.5× 102 0.5× 11 1.1k
Inge Uljee Belgium 13 773 0.8× 143 0.3× 283 0.7× 127 0.3× 118 0.6× 35 1.0k
Rafael Crecente Spain 15 951 1.0× 112 0.2× 433 1.1× 133 0.4× 195 1.0× 29 1.4k
Zhiwei Yang China 20 670 0.7× 175 0.3× 114 0.3× 320 0.9× 402 2.0× 38 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Chang Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chang Xia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chang Xia

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

All Works

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Xia, Chang. (2024). The role of everyday mobility in adaptation to air pollution hazard: A mixed-method approach combining big and traditional data. Global Environmental Change. 88. 102914–102914. 3 indexed citations
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He, Sanwei, et al.. (2024). Investigating the effects of urban morphology on vitality of community life circles using machine learning and geospatial approaches. Applied Geography. 167. 103287–103287. 20 indexed citations
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Zhang, Anqi & Chang Xia. (2024). Scale effect on the relationship between urban landscape patterns and land surface temperature. Sustainable Cities and Society. 117. 105942–105942. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Anqi, et al.. (2024). The impact of urban landscape patterns on land surface temperature at the street block level: Evidence from 38 big Chinese cities. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 110. 107673–107673. 12 indexed citations
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Xia, Chang. (2024). Escaping Environmental Hazards? Human Mobility in Response to Air Pollution and Extreme Cold Events. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 114(6). 1268–1290. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Anqi & Chang Xia. (2024). A new two-step estimation approach for retrieving surface urban heat island intensity and footprint based on urban-rural temperature gradients. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 38(11). 2348–2378. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Gang, et al.. (2022). Spatial mismatches between nighttime light intensity and building morphology in Shanghai, China. Sustainable Cities and Society. 81. 103851–103851. 38 indexed citations
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Xia, Chang & Anthony G.O. Yeh. (2022). Mobility as a response to environmental hazards in the urban context: A new perspective on mobility and inequality. Travel Behaviour and Society. 27. 192–203. 12 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bin & Chang Xia. (2021). The effects of sample size and sample prevalence on cellular automata simulation of urban growth. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 36(1). 158–187. 18 indexed citations
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Xia, Chang, Anqi Zhang, & Anthony G.O. Yeh. (2021). The Varying Relationships between Multidimensional Urban Form and Urban Vitality in Chinese Megacities: Insights from a Comparative Analysis. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112(1). 141–166. 81 indexed citations
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Zhang, Anqi, et al.. (2021). Exploring the effects of 3D urban form on urban air quality: Evidence from fifteen megacities in China. Sustainable Cities and Society. 78. 103649–103649. 37 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bin, Haijun Wang, Sanwei He, & Chang Xia. (2020). Analyzing the effects of stochastic perturbation and fuzzy distance transformation on Wuhan urban growth simulation. Transactions in GIS. 24(6). 1779–1798. 13 indexed citations
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Wang, Haijun, Bin Zhang, Chang Xia, Sanwei He, & Wenting Zhang. (2019). Using a maximum entropy model to optimize the stochastic component of urban cellular automata models. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 34(5). 924–946. 35 indexed citations
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Xia, Chang, Bin Zhang, Haijun Wang, Si Qiao, & Anqi Zhang. (2019). A minimum-volume oriented bounding box strategy for improving the performance of urban cellular automata based on vectorization and parallel computing technology. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 57(1). 91–106. 12 indexed citations
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Xia, Chang, Anqi Zhang, Haijun Wang, & Anthony G.O. Yeh. (2019). Predicting the expansion of urban boundary using space syntax and multivariate regression model. Habitat International. 86. 126–134. 49 indexed citations
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Xia, Chang, Anqi Zhang, Haijun Wang, Boen Zhang, & Yan Zhang. (2018). Bidirectional urban flows in rapidly urbanizing metropolitan areas and their macro and micro impacts on urban growth: A case study of the Yangtze River middle reaches megalopolis, China. Land Use Policy. 82. 158–168. 77 indexed citations
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Wu, Jiayu, et al.. (2018). Urban landscape as a spatial representation of land rent: A quantitative analysis. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 74. 62–73. 15 indexed citations

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