Dong Yan

856 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 613 citations indexed

About

Dong Yan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dong Yan has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 613 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dong Yan's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (3 papers). Dong Yan is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (3 papers). Dong Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Dong Yan's co-authors include William K. Smith, D. J. Moore, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Xian Wang, John F. Knowles, Julia C. Yang, Natasha MacBean and Mallory L. Barnes and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and International Journal of Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Dong Yan

21 papers receiving 606 citations

Hit Papers

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and functio... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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. Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities
    2019 274 citations William K. Smith, Matthew P. Dannenberg 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Dong Yan China 11 362 293 130 105 92 25 613
Wenping Kang China 13 396 1.1× 312 1.1× 111 0.9× 159 1.5× 65 0.7× 28 708
Deyong Yu China 11 390 1.1× 203 0.7× 94 0.7× 91 0.9× 57 0.6× 24 525
Gaëlle Viennois France 11 247 0.7× 302 1.0× 192 1.5× 58 0.6× 32 0.3× 19 638
Katherine L. Martin United States 14 486 1.3× 230 0.8× 64 0.5× 79 0.8× 180 2.0× 37 705
D. S. Montoya United States 4 473 1.3× 225 0.8× 47 0.4× 94 0.9× 171 1.9× 6 614
Wenping Yuan China 3 548 1.5× 311 1.1× 105 0.8× 88 0.8× 156 1.7× 4 717
Qun Guo China 9 373 1.0× 242 0.8× 35 0.3× 86 0.8× 50 0.5× 17 508
S. N. Burrows United States 9 627 1.7× 445 1.5× 204 1.6× 190 1.8× 80 0.9× 11 796
Chris Daly United States 9 353 1.0× 133 0.5× 138 1.1× 156 1.5× 253 2.8× 15 627
H. Jaime Hernández Chile 8 288 0.8× 199 0.7× 87 0.7× 48 0.5× 34 0.4× 17 511

Countries citing papers authored by Dong Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dong Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dong Yan

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

All Works

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Sun, Huaiwei, Dong Yan, Jie Xue, et al.. (2021). Projections of thermal growing season indices over China under global warming of 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C. The Science of The Total Environment. 781. 146774–146774. 11 indexed citations
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Dannenberg, Matthew P., Xian Wang, Dong Yan, & William K. Smith. (2020). Phenological Characteristics of Global Ecosystems Based on Optical, Fluorescence, and Microwave Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 12(4). 671–671. 19 indexed citations
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Dong, Yifan, et al.. (2020). Spatial distribution of water and wind erosion and their influence on the soil quality at the agropastoral ecotone of North China. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 8(3). 253–265. 27 indexed citations
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Peng, Weiwei, et al.. (2019). Reduced empathic pain processing in patients with somatoform pain disorder: Evidence from behavioral and neurophysiological measures. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 139. 40–47. 31 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong, Russell L. Scott, D. J. Moore, Joel A. Biederman, & William K. Smith. (2019). Understanding the relationship between vegetation greenness and productivity across dryland ecosystems through the integration of PhenoCam, satellite, and eddy covariance data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 223. 50–62. 81 indexed citations
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Fan, Jianrong, et al.. (2018). Characterizing the responses of vegetation to climate change in the Tibet Plateau using remote sensing data. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 12(1). 1–1. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiang, et al.. (2016). Effects of Clipping and Fertilizing N on the Relationship between Diversity and Productivity of Leymus Chinensis Meadow. 24(4). 914. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Yan, et al.. (2016). Characteristics and Reasons of Local Chang of Precipitation over Shaanxi during 1960-2012. Gaoyuan qixiang. 35(4). 1050–1059. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong & Kirsten M. de Beurs. (2016). Mapping the distributions of C3 and C4 grasses in the mixed-grass prairies of southwest Oklahoma using the Random Forest classification algorithm. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 47. 125–138. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Yang, et al.. (2013). Characteristics of rainfall erosivity based on tropical rainfall measuring mission data in Tibet, China. Journal of Mountain Science. 10(6). 1008–1017. 22 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong, Kirsten M. de Beurs, & Jianrong Fan. (2013). The Impacts of Weather and Conservation Programs on Vegetation Dynamics in China’s Loess Plateau. Land. 2(4). 573–594. 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong. (2010). Characteristics of Water-temperature of Rice Field Crab "Panshan mode". Anhui nongye kexue. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong, et al.. (2010). Water-temperature characteristics of rice-field-crab "Panshan mode".. Agricultural Science and Technology Hunan. 11(4). 152–155. 6 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong, et al.. (2008). Cause analysis of gully erosion in Yuanmou basin of Jinshajiang valley. Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences. 13(3). 343–349. 7 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong. (2003). A Study of Acquisition of Receptive and Productive Knowledge of Highly Familiar Polysemous Words. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Dong. (2001). Spray Sowing in Desertization Area Eroded by Wind at the Northern Foot of Yinshan Mountains.
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Yan, Dong, et al.. (2000). Studies on the developmental threshold and effective accumulated temperature of Prodenia litura Fabricius.. Yunnan Nongye Daxue xuebao. 15(1). 21–23. 2 indexed citations

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