Erji Du

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
55 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Erji Du is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Erji Du has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Atmospheric Science, 11 papers in Environmental Engineering and 4 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Erji Du's work include Climate change and permafrost (48 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (43 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (20 papers). Erji Du is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (48 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (43 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (20 papers). Erji Du collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Erji Du's co-authors include Lin Zhao, Guojie Hu, Defu Zou, Yongping Qiao, Guangyue Liu, Tonghua Wu, Xiaodong Wu, Qiangqiang Pang, Yu Sheng and Yao Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Erji Du

46 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

A new map of permafrost distribution on the Tibetan Plateau

2017 671 citations Defu Zou, Lin Zhao et al. The cryosphere profile →
Changing climate and the permafrost environment on the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) plateau

2020 219 citations Lin Zhao, Defu Zou et al. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erji Du China	19	1.6k	254	196	173	149	55	1.8k
Jianzong Shi China	18	1.4k 0.9×	280 1.1×	147 0.8×	244 1.4×	192 1.3×	40	1.6k
Yanhui Qin China	15	1.1k 0.7×	187 0.7×	130 0.7×	157 0.9×	117 0.8×	29	1.3k
Qiangqiang Pang China	24	2.2k 1.4×	343 1.4×	270 1.4×	258 1.5×	203 1.4×	42	2.6k
Junming Hao China	19	928 0.6×	146 0.6×	197 1.0×	172 1.0×	120 0.8×	44	1.1k
Yongping Qiao China	28	2.3k 1.4×	421 1.7×	255 1.3×	422 2.4×	293 2.0×	79	2.6k
Xiaoqing Peng China	23	1.3k 0.8×	147 0.6×	136 0.7×	199 1.2×	71 0.5×	47	1.5k
Lanzhi Lü China	15	1.2k 0.8×	82 0.3×	134 0.7×	168 1.0×	74 0.5×	23	1.4k
Guoan Yin China	22	1.4k 0.8×	91 0.4×	380 1.9×	104 0.6×	196 1.3×	48	1.5k
Ji Chen China	12	933 0.6×	95 0.4×	146 0.7×	94 0.5×	92 0.6×	32	1.1k
Xiaoli Chang China	17	1.1k 0.7×	98 0.4×	109 0.6×	186 1.1×	66 0.4×	36	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erji Du

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

Cao, Yanping, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Drought and the Ecohydrological Response in Central Asia. Remote Sensing. 17(1). 166–166. 5 indexed citations

Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guangyue Liu, et al.. (2025). Spatial distribution of vegetation type in the Genhe River Basin based on multi-source data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 46(24). 9597–9621.

Du, Erji, Lin Zhao, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2025). A Soil Refractive Index (SRI) Model Characterizing the Functional Relationship Between Soil Moisture Content and Permittivity. Water. 17(3). 399–399. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Lin, Zhe Sun, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2025). The thermal state of permafrost under climate change on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (1980–2022): a case study of the West Kunlun. The cryosphere. 19(10). 4211–4236. 1 indexed citations

Zou, Defu, Lin Zhao, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2025). Permafrost temperature baseline at 15 m depth on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (2010–2019). Earth system science data. 17(4). 1731–1742. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Yao, Guangyue Liu, Defu Zou, et al.. (2025). Mapping Mountain Permafrost via GPR-Augmented Machine Learning in the Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 17(12). 2015–2015. 2 indexed citations

Du, Erji, Lingxiao Wang, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the soil water content of the permafrost active layer using InSAR deformation. Journal of Hydrology. 661. 133660–133660. 1 indexed citations

Xing, Zanpin, Lin Zhao, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, et al.. (2024). Retrieval of 1 km surface soil moisture from Sentinel-1 over bare soil and grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing of Environment. 318. 114563–114563. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Lin, Guojie Hu, Guangyue Liu, et al.. (2024). Investigation, Monitoring, and Simulation of Permafrost on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau: A Review. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 35(3). 412–422. 18 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Chong Wang, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Variations of Soil Temperature at 10 and 50 cm Depths in Permafrost Regions along the Qinghai-Tibet Engineering Corridor. Remote Sensing. 15(2). 455–455. 8 indexed citations

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Zou, Defu, Lin Zhao, Guangyue Liu, et al.. (2022). Vegetation Mapping in the Permafrost Region: A Case Study on the Central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 14(1). 232–232. 6 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Lingxiao Wang, Defu Zou, et al.. (2022). Retrieving Soil Moisture in the Permafrost Environment by Sentinel-1/2 Temporal Data on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 14(23). 5966–5966. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Guangyue, Lin Zhao, Changwei Xie, et al.. (2022). The Zonation of Mountain Frozen Ground under Aspect Adjustment Revealed by Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey—A Case Study of a Small Catchment in the Upper Reaches of the Yellow River, Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 14(10). 2450–2450. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Huayun, Lin Zhao, Lingxiao Wang, et al.. (2022). Characteristics of Freeze–Thaw Cycles in an Endorheic Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Based on SBAS-InSAR Technology. Remote Sensing. 14(13). 3168–3168. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhe, Lin Zhao, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2022). Numerical Simulation of Thaw Settlement and Permafrost Changes at Three Sites Along the Qinghai‐Tibet Engineering Corridor in a Warming Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(10). 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Lingxiao, Lin Zhao, Huayun Zhou, et al.. (2022). Permafrost Ground Ice Melting and Deformation Time Series Revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR in the Tanggula Mountain Region on the Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing. 14(4). 811–811. 21 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) Plateau, China. Earth system science data. 13(8). 4207–4218. 126 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Ren, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2018). Soil thermal conductivity and its influencing factors at the Tanggula permafrost region on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 264. 235–246. 77 indexed citations

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Du, Erji, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2016). The relationship between the ground surface layer permittivity and active-layer thawing depth in a Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau permafrost area. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 126. 55–60. 8 indexed citations

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