Chengbin Deng

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Chengbin Deng is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengbin Deng has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Environmental Engineering and 8 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Chengbin Deng's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (14 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (8 papers). Chengbin Deng is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (14 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (8 papers). Chengbin Deng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Chengbin Deng's co-authors include Changshan Wu, Zhe Zhu, Qiusheng Wu, Eleanor C. Stokes, Steward T. A. Pickett, Karen C. Seto, Hannes Taubenböck, Yuyu Zhou, Jiejun Huang and Huan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Chengbin Deng

43 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

2019 289 citations Zhe Zhu, Yuyu Zhou et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chengbin Deng United States	21	1.2k	1.1k	530	501	372	46	2.3k
Tim Van de Voorde Belgium	25	1.2k 1.0×	698 0.6×	400 0.8×	368 0.7×	360 1.0×	112	2.1k
Thomas Kemper Italy	28	1.6k 1.3×	733 0.7×	520 1.0×	251 0.5×	429 1.2×	69	3.0k
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani Denmark	32	2.1k 1.8×	621 0.6×	540 1.0×	383 0.8×	663 1.8×	85	3.3k
Manchun Li China	33	2.1k 1.7×	621 0.6×	428 0.8×	575 1.1×	605 1.6×	131	3.1k
Qianqian Yang China	17	631 0.5×	866 0.8×	735 1.4×	538 1.1×	410 1.1×	32	2.1k
Kangning Huang China	18	1.6k 1.3×	706 0.6×	549 1.0×	641 1.3×	313 0.8×	41	2.5k
Zhongchang Sun China	25	857 0.7×	534 0.5×	280 0.5×	202 0.4×	290 0.8×	96	1.6k
Michael Wurm Germany	31	1.7k 1.4×	606 0.5×	579 1.1×	277 0.6×	342 0.9×	135	3.1k
Qingming Zhan China	26	975 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	483 0.9×	897 1.8×	190 0.5×	93	2.3k
Chuanrong Zhang United States	30	1.3k 1.1×	831 0.7×	294 0.6×	1.1k 2.1×	252 0.7×	87	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Chengbin Deng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chengbin Deng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chengbin Deng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chengbin Deng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chengbin Deng 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 Chengbin Deng. Chengbin Deng 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

Hu, Tao, et al.. (2025). FAIR principles in workflows: A GIScience workflow management system for reproducible and replicable studies. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 138. 104477–104477. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Mingwei, Ning Cao, Chengbin Deng, et al.. (2025). Study on alkali modification of fly ash to enhance carbon sequestration efficiency and microstructural evolution. Results in Engineering. 28. 107605–107605.

Wang, Chenghao, Chengbin Deng, Janet Reyna, et al.. (2024). CHUWD-H v1.0: a comprehensive historical hourly weather database for U.S. urban energy system modeling. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1383–1383. 3 indexed citations

Deng, Chengbin, et al.. (2024). Analysing hurricane-induced power outage using VIIRS/DNB time series: comparisons of three automated detection approaches. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 46(4). 1676–1695.

Shi, Yufei, et al.. (2024). FBS-TGCN: a temporal graph-convolutional-network model for spatiotemporal prediction of spam messages from fake base stations. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 38(4). 751–777. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yong, et al.. (2023). Data-driven approaches and model-based methods for detecting and locating leaks in water distribution systems: a literature review. Neural Computing and Applications. 35(16). 11611–11623. 21 indexed citations

Deng, Chengbin, et al.. (2023). Critical Disaster Indicators (CDIs): Deriving the Duration, Damage Degree, and Recovery Level from Nighttime Light Image Time Series. Remote Sensing. 15(23). 5471–5471. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Yaoping, et al.. (2023). Positive impact of urbanization on vegetation growth has been continuously strengthening in arid regions of China. Environmental Research Letters. 18(12). 124011–124011. 12 indexed citations

Huang, Xiao, Zhenlong Li, Yuqin Jiang, et al.. (2021). The characteristics of multi-source mobility datasets and how they reveal the luxury nature of social distancing in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Digital Earth. 14(4). 424–442. 75 indexed citations

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Wang, Huan, Jiejun Huang, Han Zhou, Chengbin Deng, & Chuanglin Fang. (2020). Analysis of sustainable utilization of water resources based on the improved water resources ecological footprint model: A case study of Hubei Province, China. Journal of Environmental Management. 262. 110331–110331. 139 indexed citations

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Zhu, Zhe, Yuyu Zhou, Karen C. Seto, et al.. (2019). Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment. 228. 164–182. 289 indexed citations breakdown →

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Deng, Chengbin, et al.. (2018). Use of smart meter readings and nighttime light images to track pixel-level electricity consumption. Remote Sensing Letters. 10(3). 205–213. 12 indexed citations

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Xu, Yongming, Hung Chak Ho, Man Sing Wong, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of machine learning techniques with multiple remote sensing datasets in estimating monthly concentrations of ground-level PM2.5. Environmental Pollution. 242(Pt B). 1417–1426. 147 indexed citations

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Xu, Ronghua, Seyed Yahya Nikouei, Yu Chen, et al.. (2018). Real-Time Human Objects Tracking for Smart Surveillance at the Edge. 1–6. 76 indexed citations

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Ye, Xinyue, et al.. (2016). Mapping Above-Ground Biomass by Integrating Optical and SAR Imagery: A Case Study of Xixi National Wetland Park, China. Remote Sensing. 8(8). 647–647. 16 indexed citations

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Wu, Qiusheng, Chengbin Deng, & Zuoqi Chen. (2016). Automated delineation of karst sinkholes from LiDAR-derived digital elevation models. Geomorphology. 266. 1–10. 81 indexed citations

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Huang, Wei & Chengbin Deng. (2015). A geographic approach to carbon accounting of Wisconsin. Journal of Maps. 12(2). 324–333. 2 indexed citations

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Deng, Chengbin, et al.. (2015). Viewing urban decay from the sky: A multi-scale analysis of residential vacancy in a shrinking U.S. city. Landscape and Urban Planning. 141. 88–99. 75 indexed citations

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Huang, Wei, Chengbin Deng, & Michael Day. (2013). Differentiating tower karst (fenglin) and cockpit karst (fengcong) using DEM contour, slope, and centroid. Environmental Earth Sciences. 25 indexed citations

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Deng, Chengbin & Changshan Wu. (2013). Estimating very high resolution urban surface temperature using a spectral unmixing and thermal mixing approach. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 23. 155–164. 37 indexed citations

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