Fan Huang

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Fan Huang is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Fan Huang has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Environmental Engineering, 30 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Fan Huang's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (47 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (28 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). Fan Huang is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (47 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (28 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). Fan Huang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Fan Huang's co-authors include Wenfeng Zhan, Jiameng Lai, Zihan Liu, Jinling Quan, Benjamin Bechtel, Long Li, Jiufeng Li, Falu Hong, James Voogt and Weimin Ju and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Fan Huang

50 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.

Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review

2023 105 citations Fan Huang, Sida Jiang 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						Papers	Cites
Fan Huang China	27	1.5k	840	765	764	264	54	1.8k
Jiameng Lai China	23	1.1k 0.7×	702 0.8×	542 0.7×	606 0.8×	204 0.8×	32	1.4k
Tamás Gál Hungary	22	1.7k 1.1×	743 0.9×	449 0.6×	903 1.2×	446 1.7×	52	1.8k
Dražen Skoković Spain	12	851 0.6×	626 0.7×	471 0.6×	277 0.4×	114 0.4×	28	1.2k
Natalie Theeuwes Netherlands	12	1.2k 0.8×	534 0.6×	265 0.3×	663 0.9×	387 1.5×	26	1.4k
M. Romaguera Spain	11	889 0.6×	555 0.7×	471 0.6×	236 0.3×	138 0.5×	18	1.2k
M. Stathopoulou Greece	9	685 0.4×	368 0.4×	298 0.4×	272 0.4×	185 0.7×	15	794
Deyong Hu China	20	596 0.4×	600 0.7×	363 0.5×	302 0.4×	91 0.3×	78	1.0k
Thomas Loridan United Kingdom	11	1.3k 0.8×	763 0.9×	685 0.9×	391 0.5×	283 1.1×	15	1.5k
Jan Geletič Czechia	20	1.2k 0.8×	502 0.6×	270 0.4×	801 1.0×	332 1.3×	50	1.4k
Darren Ghent United Kingdom	21	866 0.6×	732 0.9×	769 1.0×	148 0.2×	140 0.5×	53	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Fan Huang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fan Huang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fan Huang

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

Li, Chaoran, et al.. (2025). Marine microplastics fuel long-range transport of radioactive nuclides: A review. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 221. 118540–118540.

Zhan, Wenfeng, Huilin Du, Zihan Liu, et al.. (2025). Harnessing Satellite Data Alone for Mapping Global Thermal Anisotropy. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(8). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Shasha, Wenfeng Zhan, Bing‐Bing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Dual impact of global urban overheating on mortality. Nature Climate Change. 15(5). 497–504. 11 indexed citations

Jiang, Sida, Wenfeng Zhan, Long Li, et al.. (2024). Contrasting moist heat across local climate zones in heat and non-heat waves: Insights from 29 Chinese metropolises. Building and Environment. 253. 111328–111328. 6 indexed citations

Guo, Fei, Steven C. Clemens, Xiaojing Du, et al.. (2024). North Atlantic Influence on the Glacial Amplitude of East Asian Millennial-Scale Monsoon Variability. Journal of Climate. 37(15). 3903–3915.

Yong, Bin, Fan Huang, Weiqing Qi, et al.. (2024). Investigating twelve mainstream global precipitation datasets: Which one performs better on the Tibetan Plateau?. Journal of Hydrology. 633. 130947–130947. 22 indexed citations

Du, Huilin, Wenfeng Zhan, Zihan Liu, et al.. (2023). Global mapping of urban thermal anisotropy reveals substantial potential biases for remotely sensed urban climates. Science Bulletin. 68(16). 1809–1818. 26 indexed citations

Zhan, Wenfeng, Huilin Du, Shasha Wang, et al.. (2023). Urban-rural gradient in vegetation phenology changes of over 1500 cities across China jointly regulated by urbanization and climate change. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 205. 367–384. 20 indexed citations

Du, Huilin, Wenfeng Zhan, James Voogt, et al.. (2023). Contrasting Trends and Drivers of Global Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(15). 40 indexed citations

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Zhan, Wenfeng, Zihan Liu, Benjamin Bechtel, et al.. (2022). Urban‐Rural Gradient in Urban Heat Island Variations Responsive to Large‐Scale Human Activity Changes During Chinese New Year Holiday. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(21). 12 indexed citations

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Li, Long, Wenfeng Zhan, Huilin Du, et al.. (2022). Long‐Term and Fine‐Scale Surface Urban Heat Island Dynamics Revealed by Landsat Data Since the 1980s: A Comparison of Four Megacities in China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(5). 21 indexed citations

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Hong, Falu, Frank-M. Göttsche, Zihan Liu, et al.. (2022). A global dataset of spatiotemporally seamless daily mean land surface temperatures: generation, validation, and analysis. Earth system science data. 14(7). 3091–3113. 25 indexed citations

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Liu, Zihan, Jiameng Lai, Wenfeng Zhan, et al.. (2022). Urban Heat Islands Significantly Reduced by COVID‐19 Lockdown. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(2). 55 indexed citations

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Lai, Jiameng, Wenfeng Zhan, Jinling Quan, et al.. (2021). Reconciling Debates on the Controls on Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity: Effects of Scale and Sampling. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(19). 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Jike, Wenfeng Zhan, Shuanggen Jin, et al.. (2021). Separate and combined impacts of building and tree on urban thermal environment from two- and three-dimensional perspectives. Building and Environment. 194. 107650–107650. 60 indexed citations

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Dong, Pan, Lun Gao, Wenfeng Zhan, et al.. (2020). Global comparison of diverse scaling factors and regression models for downscaling Landsat-8 thermal data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 169. 44–56. 35 indexed citations

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Liu, Zihan, Wenfeng Zhan, Jiameng Lai, et al.. (2019). Balancing prediction accuracy and generalization ability: A hybrid framework for modelling the annual dynamics of satellite-derived land surface temperatures. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 151. 189–206. 56 indexed citations

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Huang, Fan, Wenfeng Zhan, Zhi‐Hua Wang, et al.. (2017). Positive or Negative? Urbanization‐Induced Variations in Diurnal Skin‐Surface Temperature Range Detected Using Satellite Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(24). 14 indexed citations

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Gao, Lun, Wenfeng Zhan, Fan Huang, et al.. (2017). Disaggregation of remotely sensed land surface temperature: A simple yet flexible index (SIFI) to assess method performances. Remote Sensing of Environment. 200. 206–219. 14 indexed citations

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Gao, Lun, Wenfeng Zhan, Fan Huang, et al.. (2016). Localization or Globalization? Determination of the Optimal Regression Window for Disaggregation of Land Surface Temperature. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(1). 477–490. 25 indexed citations

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