Eryuan Liang

10.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
185 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Eryuan Liang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Eryuan Liang has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 147 papers in Atmospheric Science and 76 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Eryuan Liang's work include Tree-ring climate responses (142 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (133 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (62 papers). Eryuan Liang is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (142 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (133 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (62 papers). Eryuan Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, Spain and United States. Eryuan Liang's co-authors include Dieter Eckstein, Xuemei Shao, J. Julio Camarero, Yafeng Wang, Haifeng Zhu, Sergio Rossi, Binod Dawadi, Xiaoming Lu, Xiaoxia Li and X. Shao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Eryuan Liang

176 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit 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.

An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

2022 142 citations Shan Gao, Eryuan Liang et al. profile →
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence

2022 127 citations Chaoyang Wu, Jie Peng et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion

2022 111 citations Xiaoyi Wang, Tao Wang et al. profile →
Nature-based Solutions can help restore degraded grasslands and increase carbon sequestration in the Tibetan Plateau

2024 52 citations Jian Sun, Yingxin Wang et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →

Peers

Eryuan Liang

GPC

NLC

ECOLO

Achim Bräuning Germany

Neil Pederson United States

Emília Gutiérrez Spain

Martín de Luis Spain

Henri D. Grissino‐Mayer United States

M. Vennetier France

Alison K. Macalady United States

Marco Carrer Italy

Akkın Semerci Türkiye

Н.А. Демидова Russia

Achim Bräuning Germany

Eryuan Liang

5.1k ×0.9

GPC

5.5k ×1.0

2.4k ×0.8

NLC

646 ×0.7

ECOLO

523 ×1.0

Citations per year, relative to Eryuan Liang Eryuan Liang (= 1×) peers Achim Bräuning

Countries citing papers authored by Eryuan Liang

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Eryuan Liang's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Eryuan Liang with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Eryuan Liang more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Eryuan Liang

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Eryuan Liang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Eryuan Liang. The network helps show where Eryuan Liang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eryuan Liang

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Tiancai, et al.. (2025). Short-term grazing exclusion is more conducive to the rate of soil organic carbon stock in alpine grassland of the Tibetan Plateau. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 395. 109955–109955.

Huang, Ru, Hong Yin, Haifeng Zhu, et al.. (2025). A late summer temperature reconstruction based on tree-ring maximum latewood density since AD 1246 on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews. 355. 109266–109266. 1 indexed citations

Sigdel, Shalik Ram, et al.. (2025). Declining growth resilience to drought of alpine juniper shrub along an east–west precipitation gradient in the central Himalayas. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 367. 110515–110515. 2 indexed citations

Xu-Ri, Xu-Ri, et al.. (2025). Effects of cultivation on soil carbon and nitrogen along an altitudinal gradient in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Forest Ecology and Management. 584. 122577–122577. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Wei, Miaogen Shen, Eryuan Liang, et al.. (2024). Winter greening on the Tibetan Plateau induced by climate warming over 2000-2021. Forest Ecology and Management. 558. 121796–121796. 3 indexed citations

Liang, Eryuan, et al.. (2024). Transcriptomic Analysis Under Drought and Salt Stress Provides Insight into Genes Putatively Involved in Ginsenoside Biosynthesis in Panax japonicus Meyer. Biochemical Genetics. 63(3). 2698–2715. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Jian, Yingxin Wang, Tien Ming Lee, et al.. (2024). Nature-based Solutions can help restore degraded grasslands and increase carbon sequestration in the Tibetan Plateau. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 52 indexed citations breakdown →

Shen, Zehao, Tao Wang, George P. Malanson, et al.. (2024). Uppermost global tree elevations are primarily limited by low temperature or insufficient moisture. Global Change Biology. 30(4). e17260–e17260. 11 indexed citations

Camarero, J. Julio, et al.. (2023). Forest Resilience in the Himalayas Inferred From Tree Growth After Earthquake Disturbances. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(9). 2 indexed citations

10.

Sun, Le, Jian Sun, Youjun Chen, et al.. (2023). Plant community traits and functions mediate the biomass trade-off of alpine grasslands along precipitation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Plant Ecology. 16(5). 10 indexed citations

11.

Zhang, Jianxiang, et al.. (2023). Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services and their threshold effects in the largest tableland of the Loess Plateau. Global Ecology and Conservation. 48. e02706–e02706. 14 indexed citations

12.

Wu, Chaoyang, Jie Peng, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2022). Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence. Nature Climate Change. 12(10). 943–949. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

13.

Zhang, Jingtian, Xiaoxia Li, Ping Ren, et al.. (2022). Terminal bud size, spring and summer temperatures regulate the timing of height-growth cessation of Smith fir on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 316. 108883–108883. 4 indexed citations

14.

Sigdel, Shalik Ram, Eryuan Liang, Maan Bahadur Rokaya, et al.. (2022). Functional traits of a plant species fingerprint ecosystem productivity along broad elevational gradients in the Himalayas. Functional Ecology. 37(2). 383–394. 22 indexed citations

15.

Sigdel, Shalik Ram, Eryuan Liang, Flurin Babst, et al.. (2022). Species richness is a strong driver of forest biomass along broad bioclimatic gradients in the Himalayas. Ecosphere. 13(6). 14 indexed citations

16.

Wells, Heather, Michael Letko, Gorka Lasso, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veab007–veab007. 49 indexed citations

17.

Shen, Miaogen, Nan Jiang, Dailiang Peng, et al.. (2020). Can changes in autumn phenology facilitate earlier green-up date of northern vegetation?. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 291. 108077–108077. 56 indexed citations

18.

Ren, Ping, Emanuele Ziaco, Sergio Rossi, et al.. (2019). Growth rate rather than growing season length determines wood biomass in dry environments. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 271. 46–53. 62 indexed citations

19.

Sigdel, Shalik Ram, Binod Dawadi, J. Julio Camarero, Eryuan Liang, & Steven W. Leavitt. (2018). Moisture-Limited Tree Growth for a Subtropical Himalayan Conifer Forest in Western Nepal. Forests. 9(6). 340–340. 38 indexed citations

20.

Liu, Bo, Eryuan Liang, Kang Liu, & J. Julio Camarero. (2018). Species- and Elevation-Dependent Growth Responses to Climate Warming of Mountain Forests in the Qinling Mountains, Central China. Forests. 9(5). 248–248. 30 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact