Fengqin Yan

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Fengqin Yan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Fengqin Yan has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Fengqin Yan's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (39 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (13 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (11 papers). Fengqin Yan is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (39 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (13 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (11 papers). Fengqin Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Fengqin Yan's co-authors include Shuwen Zhang, Lingxue Yu, Fenzhen Su, Chaobin Yang, Jiuchun Yang, Kun Bu, Xuege Wang, Liping Chang, Tingxiang Liu and Ye Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Fengqin Yan

66 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

COVID-19: Challenges to GIS with Big Data

2020 350 citations Fenzhen Su, Fengqin Yan et al. Geography and sustainability profile →
Monitoring of ecological security patterns based on long-term land use changes in Langsa Bay, Indonesia

2025 15 citations Fengqin Yan, Vincent Lyne et al. International Journal of Digital Earth profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fengqin Yan China	22	1.1k	557	489	359	315	71	1.9k
Yaochen Qin China	32	1.3k 1.2×	672 1.2×	772 1.6×	379 1.1×	388 1.2×	142	2.7k
Alessandro Sorichetta United Kingdom	28	1.3k 1.2×	473 0.8×	176 0.4×	239 0.7×	226 0.7×	72	2.6k
Fenzhen Su China	24	913 0.8×	445 0.8×	738 1.5×	115 0.3×	309 1.0×	149	2.4k
Arijit Das India	30	1.7k 1.6×	966 1.7×	398 0.8×	843 2.3×	356 1.1×	124	2.7k
Zhang Tin China	8	1.1k 1.0×	370 0.7×	372 0.8×	349 1.0×	338 1.1×	29	2.2k
Yunyan Du China	24	896 0.8×	377 0.7×	214 0.4×	396 1.1×	206 0.7×	102	2.8k
Sérgio Freire Italy	31	1.6k 1.5×	410 0.7×	275 0.6×	284 0.8×	342 1.1×	90	2.7k
Juanle Wang China	22	774 0.7×	312 0.6×	502 1.0×	74 0.2×	296 0.9×	148	2.1k
Han Xiao China	24	656 0.6×	390 0.7×	173 0.4×	530 1.5×	703 2.2×	74	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fengqin Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fengqin Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fengqin 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 Fengqin Yan. Fengqin 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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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Fengqin, et al.. (2026). Quantitative assessment of coastal zone scene changes and drivers in the coastal zone of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. International Journal of Digital Earth. 19(1).

Li, Ting, Quanlong Feng, Bowen Niu, et al.. (2024). Mapping urban villages based on point-of-interest data and a deep learning approach. Cities. 156. 105549–105549. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Lingxue, Ye Liu, Fengqin Yan, et al.. (2024). Phenological control of vegetation biophysical feedbacks to the regional climate. Geography and sustainability. 6(1). 100202–100202. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Chaobin, et al.. (2024). Comparing the Evolution of Land Surface Temperature and Driving Factors between Three Different Urban Agglomerations in China. Sustainability. 16(2). 486–486. 3 indexed citations

Yan, Fengqin, Xuege Wang, Chong Huang, et al.. (2023). Sea Reclamation in Mainland China: Process, Pattern, and Management. Land Use Policy. 127. 106555–106555. 44 indexed citations

Yu, Lingxue, Ye Liu, Xuan Li, et al.. (2023). Vegetation-induced asymmetric diurnal land surface temperatures changes across global climate zones. The Science of The Total Environment. 896. 165255–165255. 16 indexed citations

Yu, Lingxue, Xuan Li, Kun Bu, et al.. (2023). Increased background precipitation masks the moisture deficit caused by crop greening in Northeast China. Journal of Hydrology. 623. 129857–129857. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Ying, Zhi Ding, Yanan Chen, et al.. (2023). Restored vegetation is more resistant to extreme drought events than natural vegetation in Southwest China. The Science of The Total Environment. 866. 161250–161250. 32 indexed citations

Liu, Jinlian, Fengqin Yan, Shiwei Liu, et al.. (2023). Future variation of land surface temperature in the Yangtze River Basin based on CMIP6 model. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 2776–2796. 9 indexed citations

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Pan, Tingting, Yu Zhang, Fengqin Yan, & Fenzhen Su. (2023). Collaborative Optimal Allocation of Urban Land Guide by Land Ecological Suitability: A Case Study of Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. Land. 12(4). 754–754. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Jinlian, Fengqin Yan, Shiwei Liu, et al.. (2023). Feedback and contribution of vegetation, air temperature and precipitation to land surface temperature in the Yangtze River Basin considering statistical analysis. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 2941–2961. 4 indexed citations

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Yu, Lingxue, et al.. (2023). Climate Change Impacts on Agroecosystems in China: Processes, Mechanisms and Prospects. Chinese Geographical Science. 33(4). 583–600. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiuchun, et al.. (2022). Evaluating Ecosystem Services and Trade-Offs Based on Land-Use Simulation: A Case Study in the Farming–Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China. Land. 11(7). 1115–1115. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiuchun, et al.. (2021). Simulating Land-Use Changes and Predicting Maize Potential Yields in Northeast China for 2050. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(3). 938–938. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yubo, Jiuchun Yang, Dongyan Wang, et al.. (2021). An Integrated CNN Model for Reconstructing and Predicting Land Use/Cover Change: A Case Study of the Baicheng Area, Northeast China. Remote Sensing. 13(23). 4846–4846. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingxiang, Lingxue Yu, Kun Bu, et al.. (2021). Thermal and moisture response to land surface changes across different ecosystems over Heilong-Amur River Basin. The Science of The Total Environment. 818. 151799–151799. 13 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yifei & Fengqin Yan. (2021). Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Sparse Superpixel Graph. Remote Sensing. 13(18). 3592–3592. 5 indexed citations

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Guan, Cong, Lingxue Yu, Fengqin Yan, & Shuwen Zhang. (2020). Teleconnections between Snow Cover Change over Siberia and Crop Growth in Northeast China. Sustainability. 12(18). 7632–7632. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Jing, Lingxue Yu, Fengqin Yan, & Shuwen Zhang. (2020). Ecosystem Service Loss in Response to Agricultural Expansion in the Small Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China: Process, Driver and Management. Sustainability. 12(6). 2430–2430. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Chaobin, Fengqin Yan, & Shuwen Zhang. (2020). Comparison of land surface and air temperatures for quantifying summer and winter urban heat island in a snow climate city. Journal of Environmental Management. 265. 110563–110563. 90 indexed citations

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