Dan Liu

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Dan Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Liu has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Dan Liu's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers). Dan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers). Dan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Dan Liu's co-authors include Shilong Piao, Tao Wang, Weiwei Ma, Hai Qi, Yutong Zhao, Wenping Yuan, Xiaopeng Ma, Dan Luo, Changming Shih and Heping Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Journal of Chemical Physics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Dan Liu

146 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Liu China	31	1.0k	559	470	376	306	161	3.1k
Hong Jiang United States	39	995 1.0×	694 1.2×	252 0.5×	200 0.5×	186 0.6×	128	6.2k
Chunmei Wang China	26	557 0.6×	355 0.6×	195 0.4×	274 0.7×	189 0.6×	198	3.2k
Michael Thiel Switzerland	36	1.2k 1.2×	731 1.3×	392 0.8×	185 0.5×	717 2.3×	200	5.3k
Mingyue Liu China	29	571 0.6×	769 1.4×	199 0.4×	233 0.6×	294 1.0×	95	2.6k
Bo Xiao China	42	370 0.4×	324 0.6×	164 0.3×	261 0.7×	164 0.5×	259	5.3k
Yu Zhang China	41	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	238 0.5×	390 1.0×	1.4k 4.7×	304	6.5k
Ulrike Grömping Germany	14	885 0.9×	719 1.3×	364 0.8×	217 0.6×	366 1.2×	40	4.2k
Lin Liu China	39	1.4k 1.4×	737 1.3×	690 1.5×	268 0.7×	815 2.7×	239	5.5k
Haidong Li China	28	441 0.4×	554 1.0×	312 0.7×	155 0.4×	354 1.2×	124	2.6k
Seyed Abbas Hosseini Iran	25	343 0.3×	381 0.7×	173 0.4×	221 0.6×	247 0.8×	163	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Liu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Dan. (2025). Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) in China.

Jin, Jianjun, et al.. (2025). How do farmers' cognition and social networks affect the adoption behavior of straw-returning technology? Evidence from the black soil region of Northeast China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 219. 124282–124282.

Liu, Dan, Wei Xiong, Xiaowei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Hydrogeochemistry and indicators of flowback and produced water from wells that are hydraulically fractured with recycled wastewater: A case study of the Changning gas field in the Sichuan Basin. Applied Geochemistry. 162. 105897–105897.

Liu, Dan, Xuan Wang, Zhongjing Wang, Jie Zhu, & Congcong Li. (2024). Integrated nonstationary and uncertain analysis of coupled relationship of hydrological connectivity and water level in a highly fragmented wetland. Journal of Environmental Management. 360. 121137–121137. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Yichen, Songbai Hong, Dan Liu, & Shilong Piao. (2023). Susceptibility of vegetation low-growth to climate extremes on Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 331. 109323–109323. 75 indexed citations

Jin, Jianjun, et al.. (2023). Exploring the effects of livelihood capital on clean cooking of rural households in the Tibetan region of China. Energy and Buildings. 290. 113098–113098. 11 indexed citations

Lu, Wenting, Xianguang Kong, Xinyu Li, et al.. (2023). A Novel Method of Correlation Analysis Between Ground Subsidence and Tunnelling Parameters Based on Model Fusion. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 56(4). 3037–3054. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xuan, et al.. (2023). An integrated connectivity diagnostics and dependency analysis framework for supporting water replenishment management. Journal of Hydrology. 620. 129442–129442. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Dan, et al.. (2023). Embryonic thermosensitivity and hatchling morphology differ among three species of crocodilians farm-raised in China. Aquaculture. 571. 739460–739460. 3 indexed citations

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He, Tianxing, Rui Zhou, Qun Ma, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the effects of urban development intensity on the surface urban heat island across building climate zones. Applied Geography. 158. 103052–103052. 22 indexed citations

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Tian, Yongjun, Caihong Fu, Akihiko Yatsu, et al.. (2023). Long‐term variability in the fish assemblage around Japan over the last century and early warning signals of regime shifts. Fish and Fisheries. 24(4). 675–694. 6 indexed citations

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Jin, Jianjun, et al.. (2023). How do livelihood capital affect farmers' energy-saving behaviors: Evidence from China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 414. 137769–137769. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Denghong, et al.. (2022). Lithium Mining Industry Innovation and Disruptive Technology under the Goal of Carbon Neutrality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Dan, et al.. (2022). Fish Face Identification Based on Rotated Object Detection: Dataset and Exploration. Fishes. 7(5). 219–219. 16 indexed citations

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Wen, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2021). Identification of CO2 leakage from geological storage based on maize spectral characteristic indexes. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 112. 103342–103342. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Qing, et al.. (2016). Productivity and N and P nutrition of the Phragmites australis community in typical wetlands in Tianjin and their relationships with environmental factors.. Shengtai yu nongcun huanjing xuebao. 32(1). 60–67. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Junjie, et al.. (2016). Particle size composition of sediment and nitrogen distribution in the water level fluctuating zone of tributaries of the Three Gorges Reservoir as affected by dry-wet alternation.. Acta Pedologica Sinica. 53(3). 602–611. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Dan. (2010). Design and Realization of Community Network Office System based on ASP.NET and AJAX.

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Liu, Dan. (2004). Status of Solid Waste Pollution in the Section from Geermu to Lhasa of Qinghai-Tibet Highway and Its Control Measures. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Dan. (2003). A realization method of instant messaging based on web. Jisuanji gongcheng yu sheji. 3 indexed citations

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