Haimeng Liu

5.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
94 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Haimeng Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Haimeng Liu has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 26 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Haimeng Liu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (21 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (16 papers). Haimeng Liu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (21 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (16 papers). Haimeng Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Haimeng Liu's co-authors include Chuanglin Fang, Guangdong Li, Xuegang Cui, Chao Bao, Zheye Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Fangzheng Li, Ruidong Zhao, Xiaofei Liu and Shuanjin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Haimeng Liu

89 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Exploring the causal relationship between urbanization and air pollution: Evidence from China

2022 169 citations Haimeng Liu et al. profile →
How does digitalization drive carbon emissions? The inverted U-shaped effect in China

2023 136 citations Ge Wu, Yu Cheng et al. Environmental Impact Assessment Review profile →
Conflict or Coordination? measuring the relationships between urbanization and vegetation cover in China

2023 93 citations Haimeng Liu et al. profile →
Evaluating human-nature relationships at a grid scale in China, 2000–2020

2025 15 citations Haimeng Liu, Xuecao Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Haimeng Liu China	33	1.7k	1.5k	1.1k	972	871	94	4.0k
Mingxing Chen China	32	2.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	829 0.7×	887 0.9×	896 1.0×	119	4.7k
Zhenbo Wang China	29	1.3k 0.8×	989 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	745 0.8×	726 0.8×	100	3.5k
Guangdong Li China	32	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	902 1.0×	63	4.4k
Peilei Fan United States	36	2.0k 1.2×	890 0.6×	991 0.9×	678 0.7×	756 0.9×	84	3.8k
Xiaowei Chuai China	34	2.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	755 0.7×	1.7k 1.8×	464 0.5×	96	4.2k
Haitao Ma China	21	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	591 0.5×	757 0.8×	551 0.6×	65	3.0k
Xianjin Huang China	39	2.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	459 0.4×	626 0.6×	379 0.4×	86	3.9k
Shobhakar Dhakal Thailand	33	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.8k 1.9×	791 0.9×	84	4.3k
Chunshan Zhou China	31	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	105	4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Haimeng Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Haimeng Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haimeng Liu

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

Tang, Danling, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the sustainability of human and natural systems: A novel perspective on conjugate mechanisms. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 112. 107792–107792. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Qin, et al.. (2024). Coupling Relationships and Driving Mechanisms of Water–Energy–Food in China from the Perspective of Supply and Demand Security. Land. 13(10). 1637–1637. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Haimeng, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Factor Price Change on China’s Cotton Production Pattern Evolution: Mediation and Spillover Effects. Agriculture. 14(7). 1145–1145. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xuejie, et al.. (2023). A Study of the Impact of COVID-19 on Urban Contact Networks in China Based on Population Flows. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 12(6). 252–252. 1 indexed citations

Geng, Mengqing, Xuecao Li, Haowei Mu, et al.. (2023). Human footprints in the Global South accelerate biomass carbon loss in ecologically sensitive regions. Global Change Biology. 29(20). 5881–5895. 15 indexed citations

Liu, Muxing, et al.. (2023). Geographical Distribution and Influencing Factors of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. Sustainability. 15(4). 3025–3025. 10 indexed citations

Wu, Ge, et al.. (2023). How does digitalization drive carbon emissions? The inverted U-shaped effect in China. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 102. 107203–107203. 136 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Haimeng, Yi Cheng, Zhifeng Liu, et al.. (2023). Conflict or Coordination? The Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Humans and Nature on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau. Earth s Future. 11(9). 53 indexed citations

Cheng, Yi, Hui Liu, Dongmei Chen, & Haimeng Liu. (2022). Human Activity Intensity and Its Spatial-Temporal Evolution in China’s Border Areas. Land. 11(7). 1089–1089. 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Haimeng, Chengxin Wang, Mi Zhang, & Shaobin Wang. (2022). Evaluating the effects of air pollution control policies in China using a difference-in-differences approach. The Science of The Total Environment. 845. 157333–157333. 62 indexed citations

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Fang, Chuanglin, et al.. (2021). Conjugate evaluation of sustainable carrying capacity of urban agglomeration and multi-scenario policy regulation. The Science of The Total Environment. 785. 147373–147373. 51 indexed citations

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Zeng, Gang, et al.. (2020). Towards more dispersion: the geographical evolution of China's development zones. Regional Studies Regional Science. 7(1). 495–498. 4 indexed citations

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Yuan, Huaxi, Yidai Feng, Jay Lee, & Haimeng Liu. (2020). The Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity of Financial Agglomeration on Green Development in China Cities Using GTWR Model. Sustainability. 12(16). 6660–6660. 23 indexed citations

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Miao, Yi, Haimeng Liu, Jinping Song, & Teqi Dai. (2020). Research Progress of Transportation Facilities Construction and Their Impact Assessment in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Diqiu kexue jinzhan. 35(3). 308–318. 8 indexed citations

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Zhao, Ruidong, Chuanglin Fang, & Haimeng Liu. (2020). Progress and prospect of urban resilience research. 地理科学进展. 39(10). 1717–1731. 60 indexed citations

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Liu, Haimeng, et al.. (2019). “一带一路”沿线国家政治-经济-社会风险综合评估及防控. 38(12). 2966–2984.

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Liu, Haimeng, et al.. (2019). 城镇化与生态环境“耦合魔方”的基本概念及框架. 74(8). 1489–1507. 2 indexed citations

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Fang, Chuanglin, Xuegang Cui, Guangdong Li, et al.. (2019). Modeling regional sustainable development scenarios using the Urbanization and Eco-environment Coupler: Case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 689. 820–830. 205 indexed citations

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Wu, Di, et al.. (2018). Analysis of factors related to non-sentinel lymph node metastasis in 296 sentinel lymph node-positive Chinese breast cancer patients. Cancer Biology and Medicine. 15(3). 282–282. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Haimeng, Chuanglin Fang, & Yufei Ren. (2016). Logistics industry and cross-border electric business of Sino-Kazakhstan cooperation demonstration zone in Silk Road Economic Belt. 39(5). 958. 3 indexed citations

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