Decheng Zhou

7.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
58 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Decheng Zhou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Decheng Zhou has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Environmental Engineering and 17 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Decheng Zhou's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (30 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (25 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (16 papers). Decheng Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (30 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (25 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (16 papers). Decheng Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Romania. Decheng Zhou's co-authors include Liangxia Zhang, Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, Ge Sun, Chao Zhu, Yongqiang Liu, Stefania Bonafoni, Jingfeng Xiao, Steve Frolking and Rui Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Decheng Zhou

58 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The footprint of urban heat island effect in China

2015 1.5k citations Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

2018 743 citations Decheng Zhou, Jingfeng Xiao et al. Remote Sensing profile →
Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

2014 738 citations Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Prevalent vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment

2016 304 citations Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu et al. profile →
Evolution of light use efficiency models: Improvement, uncertainties, and implications

2022 137 citations Decheng Zhou, Liangxia Zhang et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Decheng Zhou China	32	3.4k	3.3k	2.1k	1.4k	857	58	6.1k
Xin Cao China	31	3.1k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	985 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.9k 2.3×	135	5.5k
Shuqing Zhao China	42	5.9k 1.7×	3.3k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 2.3×	113	10.0k
Liangxia Zhang China	21	2.0k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	797 0.6×	531 0.6×	39	4.0k
Weifeng Li China	30	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	811 0.6×	504 0.6×	92	4.4k
Xiaoyan Wang China	32	1.3k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	489 0.6×	120	4.3k
Yongqiang Liu China	47	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	695 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	950 1.1×	275	9.5k
Qiusheng Wu United States	40	2.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	421 0.2×	819 0.6×	1.5k 1.8×	97	5.4k
Linlin Lu China	35	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	452 0.2×	672 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	119	3.4k
Viney P. Aneja United States	43	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 1.0×	3.2k 2.4×	499 0.6×	176	6.5k
Jie Cheng China	36	2.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	204 0.1×	2.0k 1.4×	798 0.9×	210	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Decheng Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Decheng Zhou

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

Wen, Hao, et al.. (2025). Urbanization mitigates the intensification of summer wet heatwaves in China from 1970 to 2020. Urban Climate. 61. 102476–102476. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Yiping, Guoyi Zhou, L. A. Bruijnzeel, et al.. (2024). Rising rainfall intensity induces spatially divergent hydrological changes within a large river basin. Nature Communications. 15(1). 823–823. 35 indexed citations

Zhou, Decheng, et al.. (2023). Rural agriculture largely reduces the urban heating effects in China: A tale of the three most developed urban agglomerations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 331. 109343–109343. 9 indexed citations

Zhou, Decheng, Shanlei Sun, Yu Li, Liangxia Zhang, & Lin Huang. (2022). A multi-perspective study of atmospheric urban heat island effect in China based on national meteorological observations: Facts and uncertainties. The Science of The Total Environment. 854. 158638–158638. 42 indexed citations

Li, Yu, et al.. (2021). [Spatiotemporal Variations in Atmospheric Urban Heat Island Effects and Their Driving Factors in 84 Major Chinese Cities].. PubMed. 42(10). 5037–5045. 13 indexed citations

Zhou, Decheng, et al.. (2021). An integrated assessment on the warming effects of urbanization and agriculture in highly developed urban agglomerations of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 804. 150119–150119. 23 indexed citations

Chang, Yue, Jingfeng Xiao, Xuxiang Li, et al.. (2020). Exploring diurnal cycles of surface urban heat island intensity in Boston with land surface temperature data derived from GOES-R geostationary satellites. The Science of The Total Environment. 763. 144224–144224. 60 indexed citations

Liu, Yongqiang, Lu Hao, Decheng Zhou, et al.. (2019). Identifying a transition climate zone in an arid river basin using the evaporative stress index. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 19(10). 2281–2294. 10 indexed citations

Zhou, Decheng, Jingfeng Xiao, Stefania Bonafoni, et al.. (2018). Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives. Remote Sensing. 11(1). 48–48. 743 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Decheng, Stefania Bonafoni, Liangxia Zhang, & Ranghui Wang. (2018). Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect in a highly populated urban agglomeration area in East China. The Science of The Total Environment. 628-629. 415–429. 207 indexed citations

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Zhang, Libo, Yongqiang Liu, Lu Hao, et al.. (2018). Identifying a Transition Climate Zone in an Arid River Basin using a Hydrological Drought Index. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Duan, Kai, Ge Sun, Steven G. McNulty, et al.. (2017). Future shift of the relative roles of precipitation and temperature in controlling annual runoff in the conterminous United States. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(11). 5517–5529. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Jinxun, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Zhiliang Zhu, et al.. (2016). Estimating carbon sequestration in the piedmont ecoregion of the United States from 1971 to 2010. Carbon Balance and Management. 11(1). 10–10. 14 indexed citations

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Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Liangxia Zhang, Ge Sun, & Yongqiang Liu. (2015). The footprint of urban heat island effect in China. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11160–11160. 1471 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Decheng, Liangxia Zhang, Lu Hao, et al.. (2015). Spatiotemporal trends of urban heat island effect along the urban development intensity gradient in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 544. 617–626. 186 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, Decheng Zhou, & Shuguang Liu. (2015). Data concurrency is required for estimating urban heat island intensity. Environmental Pollution. 208(Pt A). 118–124. 44 indexed citations

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Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, Liangxia Zhang, & Chao Zhu. (2014). Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers. Remote Sensing of Environment. 152. 51–61. 738 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, & Liangxia Zhang. (2014). Spatiotemporal trends of terrestrial vegetation activity along the urban development intensity gradient in China's 32 major cities. The Science of The Total Environment. 488-489. 136–145. 116 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, et al.. (2013). Organic Carbon Storage in China's Urban Areas. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e71975–e71975. 49 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, Shuqing Zhao, & Decheng Zhou. (2012). [Organic carbon storage in urban built-up areas of China in 1997-2006].. PubMed. 23(5). 1195–202. 12 indexed citations

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