Ge Sun

21.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
334 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Ge Sun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ge Sun has authored 334 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 228 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 200 papers in Water Science and Technology and 81 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ge Sun's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (192 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (165 papers) and Climate variability and models (44 papers). Ge Sun is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (192 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (165 papers) and Climate variability and models (44 papers). Ge Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Ge Sun's co-authors include Steven G. McNulty, Yongqiang Liu, Decheng Zhou, Liangxia Zhang, Asko Noormets, Shuqing Zhao, Devendra M. Amatya, Peter V. Caldwell, Jiquan Chen and Jean‐Christophe Domec and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Ge Sun

318 papers receiving 15.2k 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.

The footprint of urban heat island effect in China

2015 1.5k citations Ge Sun et al. profile →
A Policy-Driven Large Scale Ecological Restoration: Quantifying Ecosystem Services Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

2012 544 citations Ge Sun et al. profile →
Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: Browning or greening?

2017 292 citations Ge Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ge Sun United States	65	10.3k	6.2k	3.6k	3.0k	2.5k	334	15.8k
Yaning Chen China	73	11.3k 1.1×	6.9k 1.1×	2.9k 0.8×	6.9k 2.3×	1.4k 0.6×	558	19.8k
Shushi Peng China	59	10.8k 1.0×	2.3k 0.4×	5.0k 1.4×	4.7k 1.6×	2.4k 1.0×	189	17.1k
Charles J Vörösmarty United States	46	8.3k 0.8×	7.8k 1.3×	5.9k 1.7×	5.1k 1.7×	2.2k 0.9×	82	20.6k
Zhenzhong Zeng China	48	8.7k 0.8×	2.7k 0.4×	3.8k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	180	12.7k
Lu Zhang China	77	14.4k 1.4×	13.5k 2.2×	2.9k 0.8×	3.5k 1.2×	5.1k 2.0×	525	23.5k
John M. Mélack United States	80	9.0k 0.9×	5.9k 1.0×	9.6k 2.7×	4.8k 1.6×	2.2k 0.9×	343	25.2k
Richard Betts United Kingdom	59	15.6k 1.5×	2.6k 0.4×	4.0k 1.1×	7.2k 2.5×	1.8k 0.7×	165	23.9k
Joshua B. Fisher United States	61	11.1k 1.1×	3.1k 0.5×	4.0k 1.1×	3.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	223	15.4k
Yongqiang Zhang China	65	9.9k 1.0×	7.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	421	15.0k
Hanqin Tian United States	78	12.0k 1.2×	2.4k 0.4×	6.2k 1.7×	4.5k 1.5×	4.5k 1.8×	335	21.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ge Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ge Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ge Sun

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

de, Joan M. Montes, Ge Sun, Zhongyang Wang, et al.. (2025). IEC-Independent Coupling between Water Uptake and Ionic Conductivity in Anion-Conducting Polymer Films. Macromolecules. 58(12). 6134–6148. 1 indexed citations

Duarte, Henrique F., Ge Sun, Maricar Aguilos, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Community Land Model (CLM5) for Quantifying Energy, Water, and Carbon Balances in Loblolly and Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Southeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(11).

Wang, Zhongyang, Kai Wang, Ge Sun, et al.. (2025). Role of Crosslinking and Backbone Segmental Dynamics on Ion Transport in Hydrated Anion‐Conducting Polyelectrolytes. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(52).

Wang, Zhongyang, Ge Sun, Nicholas H. C. Lewis, et al.. (2025). Water-mediated ion transport in an anion exchange membrane. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1099–1099. 13 indexed citations

Sun, Shanlei, Yi Liu, Ge Sun, et al.. (2025). Global changes in potential evapotranspiration (1992–2020) and associated drivers: Shuttleworth-Wallace model-based analysis. Journal of Hydrology. 660. 133435–133435.

Mitra, Bhaskar, Kevan J. Minick, Michael Gavazzi, et al.. (2024). Toward spectrally truthful models for gap-filling soil respiration and methane fluxes. A case study in coastal forested wetlands in North Carolina. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 353. 110038–110038.

Zhang, Jiehao, Yulong Zhang, Matthew P. Dannenberg, et al.. (2024). Eco-hydrological recovery following large vegetation disturbances from a mega earthquake on the eastern Tibetan plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 651. 132595–132595. 2 indexed citations

Aguilos, Maricar, Ge Sun, Ning Liu, et al.. (2024). Energy availability and leaf area dominate control of ecosystem evapotranspiration in the southeastern U.S.. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 349. 109960–109960. 9 indexed citations

Duan, Kai, Shen Qu, Ning Liu, et al.. (2023). Evolving efficiency of inter-basin water transfers in regional water stress alleviation. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 191. 106878–106878. 19 indexed citations

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Sun, Ge, Xiaohua Wei, Lu Hao, et al.. (2023). Forest hydrology modeling tools for watershed management: A review. Forest Ecology and Management. 530. 120755–120755. 37 indexed citations

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Bian, Zihao, Ge Sun, Steven G. McNulty, Shufen Pan, & Hanqin Tian. (2023). Understanding the Shift of Drivers of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Based on Regional Process‐Based Modeling in the Mississippi River Basin During the Past Century. Water Resources Research. 59(8). 6 indexed citations

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Sun, Ge, et al.. (2022). Potential long term water yield impacts from pine plantation management strategies in the southeastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management. 522. 120454–120454. 7 indexed citations

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Miao, Guofang, Asko Noormets, Michael Gavazzi, et al.. (2022). Beyond carbon flux partitioning: Carbon allocation and nonstructural carbon dynamics inferred from continuous fluxes. Ecological Applications. 32(7). e2655–e2655. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Ge, Cheng Li, Haoliang Lu, et al.. (2020). Effects of urbanization on Water Yield, Ecosystem Productivity, and Micro-Climate: Case studies in the United States and China. 2 indexed citations

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Mitra, Bhaskar, Guofang Miao, Kevan J. Minick, et al.. (2019). Disentangling the Effects of Temperature, Moisture, and Substrate Availability on Soil CO₂ Efflux. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(7). 2060–2075. 29 indexed citations

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Hallema, Dennis W., A. M. Kinoshita, Deborah A. Martin, et al.. (2019). Fire, forests and city water supply. 70(1). 58–66. 2 indexed citations

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Bhattarai, Nishan, Kaniska Mallick, N. A. Brunsell, Ge Sun, & Meha Jain. (2018). Regional evapotranspiration from an image-based implementation of the Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC1.2) model and its validation across an aridity gradient in the conterminous US. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(4). 2311–2341. 48 indexed citations

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Sanchez, Georgina M., Jordan W. Smith, Adam Terando, Ge Sun, & Ross K. Meentemeyer. (2018). Spatial Patterns of Development Drive Water Use. Water Resources Research. 54(3). 1633–1649. 25 indexed citations

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Yang, Yun, Martha C. Anderson, Feng Gao, et al.. (2017). Daily Landsat-scale evapotranspiration estimation over a forested landscape in North Carolina, USA, using multi-satellite data fusion. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(2). 1017–1037. 81 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiquan, Garik Gutman, Geoffrey M. Henebry, et al.. (2013). Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. 42 indexed citations

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