Chunyang He

16.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
191 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Chunyang He is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Chunyang He has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 56 papers in Atmospheric Science and 48 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Chunyang He's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (103 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (41 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (39 papers). Chunyang He is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (103 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (41 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (39 papers). Chunyang He collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Chunyang He's co-authors include Zhifeng Liu, Qingxu Huang, Jianguo Wu, Peijun Shi, Qun Ma, Qiaofeng Zhang, Brett A. Bryan, Da Zhang, Zihang Fang and Yang Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Chunyang He

184 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

Future global urban water scar... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2021 2018 2012 2014 2015 250 500 750 1000
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. Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions
    2021 1.1k citations Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency
    2018 1.1k citations Brett A. Bryan, Chunyang He et al. profile →
  3. Extracting the dynamics of urban expansion in China using DMSP-OLS nighttime light data from 1992 to 2008
    2012 629 citations Zhifeng Liu, Chunyang He et al. profile →
  4. Urban expansion dynamics and natural habitat loss in China: a multiscale landscape perspective
    2014 397 citations Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  5. Assessing the potential impacts of urban expansion on regional carbon storage by linking the LUSD-urban and InVEST models
    2015 328 citations Chunyang He, Da Zhang et al. profile →
  6. Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light Observations: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives
    2019 248 citations Chunyang He et al. profile →
  7. Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands
    2022 194 citations Qiang Ren, Chunyang He et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chunyang He China 56 8.6k 2.7k 2.7k 2.3k 2.0k 191 12.5k
Peijun Shi China 69 10.2k 1.2× 2.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 3.4k 1.5× 4.3k 2.2× 455 16.9k
Yuyu Zhou United States 64 8.8k 1.0× 7.0k 2.6× 3.7k 1.4× 2.6k 1.1× 2.7k 1.4× 272 15.3k
Xiaoping Liu China 58 7.4k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 2.0k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 138 11.7k
Xuecao Li China 51 6.6k 0.8× 3.4k 1.3× 1.8k 0.7× 2.9k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 177 9.9k
Burak Güneralp United States 29 6.7k 0.8× 2.0k 0.7× 2.6k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 67 9.9k
Jian Peng China 69 11.5k 1.3× 4.2k 1.6× 4.8k 1.8× 4.5k 2.0× 2.2k 1.1× 331 16.3k
Yanxu Liu China 63 10.7k 1.3× 3.2k 1.2× 3.7k 1.4× 4.3k 1.9× 1.9k 1.0× 263 14.7k
Marina Alberti United States 36 5.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.7× 2.2k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 506 0.3× 72 10.1k
Yuji Murayama Japan 49 5.2k 0.6× 3.6k 1.4× 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.8× 201 8.3k
Weiqi Zhou China 57 7.0k 0.8× 6.4k 2.4× 6.9k 2.6× 1.8k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 236 12.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chunyang He

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All Works

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Qi, Tao, Chunyang He, Qiang Ren, Yida Wang, & Shengpeng Cao. (2025). Dual effects on vegetation caused by urban expansion in global drylands: Insights from the enhanced vegetation disturbance index. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 222. 108438–108438. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Qingxu, et al.. (2024). A bibliographic review of the relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being. Environment Development and Sustainability. 27(11). 25965–25992. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Penghui, Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, Yida Wang, & Xiaoyu Duan. (2024). Metacoupling flow of embodied carbon in resource-based cities: A case study of Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos-Yulin urban agglomeration in China. Energy. 313. 134041–134041. 5 indexed citations
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He, Chunyang, et al.. (2023). The supply and demand of water-related ecosystem services in the Asian water tower and its downstream area. The Science of The Total Environment. 887. 164205–164205. 15 indexed citations
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Li, Yan, Ru Xu, Kun Yang, et al.. (2022). Contribution of Tibetan Plateau ecosystems to local and remote precipitation through moisture recycling. Global Change Biology. 29(3). 702–718. 30 indexed citations
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Chen, Shiyin, Qingxu Huang, Raya Muttarak, et al.. (2022). Updating global urbanization projections under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Scientific Data. 9(1). 137–137. 42 indexed citations
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Ren, Qiang, Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, et al.. (2022). Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands. Nature Sustainability. 5(10). 869–878. 194 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yin, Dan, Qingxu Huang, Chunyang He, et al.. (2022). The varying roles of ecosystem services in poverty alleviation among rural households in urbanizing watersheds. Landscape Ecology. 37(6). 1673–1692. 21 indexed citations
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Huang, Qingxu, Han Zhang, Jasper van Vliet, et al.. (2021). Patterns and Distributions of Urban Expansion in Global Watersheds. Earth s Future. 9(8). 45 indexed citations
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Yue, Huanbi, Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, Dan Yin, & Brett A. Bryan. (2020). Stronger policy required to substantially reduce deaths from PM2.5 pollution in China. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1462–1462. 312 indexed citations
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Huang, Qingxu, Dan Yin, Chunyang He, et al.. (2020). Linking ecosystem services and subjective well-being in rapidly urbanizing watersheds: Insights from a multilevel linear model. Ecosystem Services. 43. 101106–101106. 74 indexed citations
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Huang, Qingxu, et al.. (2019). The growth mode of built-up land in floodplains and its impacts on flood vulnerability. The Science of The Total Environment. 700. 134462–134462. 38 indexed citations
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Chen, Shiyin, Qingxu Huang, Zi-Wen Liu, et al.. (2019). Assessing the Regional Sustainability of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration from 2000 to 2015 Using the Human Sustainable Development Index. Sustainability. 11(11). 3160–3160. 17 indexed citations
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Dou, Yinyin, et al.. (2018). Rapid Population Growth throughout Asia’s Earthquake-Prone Areas: A Multiscale Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(9). 1893–1893. 12 indexed citations
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He, Chunyang, Qun Ma, Zhifeng Liu, & Qiaofeng Zhang. (2013). Modeling the spatiotemporal dynamics of electric power consumption in Mainland China using saturation-corrected DMSP/OLS nighttime stable light data. International Journal of Digital Earth. 7(12). 993–1014. 108 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jinshui, Chunyang He, Yaozhong Pan, & Jing Li. (2006). The High Spatial Resolution RS Image Classification Based on SVM Method with the Multi-Source Data. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 0(1). 49–57. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Jin, et al.. (2001). Sub-pixel Model for Vegetation Fraction Estimation based on Land Cover Classification. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 0(6). 416–422. 20 indexed citations

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