Changhe Lu

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Changhe Lu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Changhe Lu has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Changhe Lu's work include Remote Sensing and Land Use (8 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (4 papers). Changhe Lu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and Land Use (8 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (4 papers). Changhe Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Changhe Lu's co-authors include Xiubin Li, Minghong Tan, Hui Xie, M.K. van Ittersum, Dingrong Wu, Qiang Yu, H. Hengsdijk, R. Rabbinge, Xiuhong Wang and Wei Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Changhe Lu

20 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Urban land expansion and arable land loss in China—a case study of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region

2004 518 citations Minghong Tan, Xiubin Li et al. Land Use Policy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Changhe Lu China	13	788	227	220	213	171	20	1.2k
Ademola K. Braimoh Japan	20	973 1.2×	248 1.1×	172 0.8×	264 1.2×	116 0.7×	52	1.6k
Ling Yi China	17	730 0.9×	259 1.1×	209 0.9×	327 1.5×	86 0.5×	30	1.2k
Guodong Han China	13	801 1.0×	331 1.5×	162 0.7×	456 2.1×	121 0.7×	33	1.4k
Penghui Jiang China	21	1.1k 1.4×	182 0.8×	197 0.9×	331 1.6×	81 0.5×	50	1.4k
Xiangbin Kong China	17	511 0.6×	452 2.0×	112 0.5×	225 1.1×	181 1.1×	81	1.2k
Jianming Niu China	15	970 1.2×	296 1.3×	199 0.9×	497 2.3×	131 0.8×	35	1.7k
Chu Thai Hoanh Sri Lanka	23	637 0.8×	243 1.1×	112 0.5×	202 0.9×	265 1.5×	91	1.6k
Jinyong Xu China	13	735 0.9×	218 1.0×	239 1.1×	347 1.6×	71 0.4×	15	1.1k
Shunguang Hu China	16	904 1.1×	291 1.3×	297 1.4×	399 1.9×	79 0.5×	33	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Changhe Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Changhe Lu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Changhe Lu

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xiao, Xingyuan, et al.. (2025). Long-Term Annual Changes in Agricultural Carbon Footprints and Associated Driving Factors in China from 2000 to 2020. Agronomy. 15(2). 453–453. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Wen, Xingguo Mo, Suxia Liu, & Changhe Lu. (2024). Impacts of climate change on grassland fractional vegetation cover variation on the Tibetan Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 939. 173320–173320. 19 indexed citations

Zhang, Zemin & Changhe Lu. (2023). Assessing changes in potential yields and yield gaps of summer maize in the North China Plain. Food and Energy Security. 13(1). 8 indexed citations

Shi, Wenjiao, Xiangzheng Deng, Changhe Lu, et al.. (2022). Improvement of resource use efficiency versus mitigation of environmental impacts in rice production of Fujian Province, China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 368. 133154–133154. 8 indexed citations

Yu, Xinyang, Younggu Her, Xicun Zhu, Changhe Lu, & Xuefei Li. (2021). Multi-Temporal Arable Land Monitoring in Arid Region of Northwest China Using a New Extraction Index. Sustainability. 13(9). 5274–5274. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Zhiyuan & Changhe Lu. (2017). Spatial-temporal variation of grain production after the Grain for Green Project in the Loess Plateau, China. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 59. 12049–12049. 3 indexed citations

Yu, Xinyang & Changhe Lu. (2015). Alpine Glacier Change in the Eastern Altun Mountains of Northwest China during 1972-2010. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117262–e0117262. 5 indexed citations

Lu, Changhe, et al.. (2015). Spatiotemporal variation and trends in rainfall erosivity in China's dryland region during 1961–2012. CATENA. 133. 362–372. 54 indexed citations

Yu, Xinyang & Changhe Lu. (2014). Urban percent impervious surface and its relationship with land surface temperature in Yantai City, China. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 17. 12163–12163. 5 indexed citations

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Hou, Lingling, Dana L. Hoag, Catherine Keske, & Changhe Lu. (2013). Sustainable value of degraded soils in China's Loess Plateau: An updated approach. Ecological Economics. 97. 20–27. 20 indexed citations

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Tan, Minghong, et al.. (2008). Urban population densities and their policy implications in China. Habitat International. 32(4). 471–484. 53 indexed citations

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Lu, Changhe, et al.. (2006). [Environmental impact assessment of the land use change in china based on ecosystem service value].. PubMed. 27(10). 2139–44. 14 indexed citations

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Lu, Changhe, et al.. (2006). Change of cultivated land and its implications on food security in China. Chinese Geographical Science. 16(4). 299–305. 31 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiuhong, et al.. (2006). Implications for development of grain-for-green policy based on cropland suitability evaluation in desertification-affected north China. Land Use Policy. 24(2). 417–424. 126 indexed citations

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Tan, Minghong, Xiubin Li, & Changhe Lu. (2005). Urban land expansion and arable land loss of the major cities in China in the 1990s. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 48(9). 1492–1500. 77 indexed citations

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Wu, Dingrong, Qiang Yu, Changhe Lu, & H. Hengsdijk. (2005). Quantifying production potentials of winter wheat in the North China Plain. European Journal of Agronomy. 24(3). 226–235. 137 indexed citations

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Tan, Minghong, Xiubin Li, Hui Xie, & Changhe Lu. (2004). Urban land expansion and arable land loss in China—a case study of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. Land Use Policy. 22(3). 187–196. 518 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lu, Changhe, M.K. van Ittersum, & R. Rabbinge. (2003). Quantitative assessment of resource-use efficient cropping systems: a case study for Ansai in the Loess Plateau of China. European Journal of Agronomy. 19(2). 311–326. 37 indexed citations

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Lu, Changhe & M.K. van Ittersum. (2003). A trade-off analysis of policy objectives for Ansai, the Loess Plateau of China. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 102(3). 235–246. 35 indexed citations

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Lu, Changhe, M.K. van Ittersum, & R. Rabbinge. (2003). A scenario exploration of strategic land use options for the Loess Plateau in northern China. Agricultural Systems. 79(2). 145–170. 65 indexed citations

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