Haitao Yang

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 885 citations indexed

About

Haitao Yang is a scholar working on Ecology, Applied Mathematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Haitao Yang has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 885 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Applied Mathematics and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Haitao Yang's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (17 papers), Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (10 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (8 papers). Haitao Yang is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (17 papers), Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (10 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (8 papers). Haitao Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Haitao Yang's co-authors include Limin Feng, Jianping Ge, Tianming Wang, Pu Mou, Yu Guan, Bing Xie, Guojing Zhao, James L. Smith, Yinan Gong and Liang Zou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Haitao Yang

46 papers receiving 865 citations

Hit Papers

Carbon storage through China’s planted forest expansion 2024 2026 2025 2024 20 40 60
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.

  1. Carbon storage through China’s planted forest expansion
    2024 63 citations Haitao Yang, Shengli Tao et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Haitao Yang China 18 506 150 124 117 97 50 885
Ephraim M. Hanks United States 20 491 1.0× 42 0.3× 145 1.2× 210 1.8× 150 1.5× 46 1.1k
Limin Feng China 21 842 1.7× 159 1.1× 129 1.0× 222 1.9× 178 1.8× 54 1.2k
Bogdan Cristescu Canada 17 601 1.2× 75 0.5× 62 0.5× 95 0.8× 104 1.1× 55 713
Jianzhang Ma China 21 659 1.3× 287 1.9× 133 1.1× 199 1.7× 211 2.2× 121 1.2k
Laura Finnegan Canada 19 487 1.0× 187 1.2× 115 0.9× 61 0.5× 131 1.4× 49 908
Guangshun Jiang China 21 850 1.7× 183 1.2× 126 1.0× 316 2.7× 185 1.9× 103 1.3k
Trevor J. Hefley United States 20 551 1.1× 53 0.4× 216 1.7× 406 3.5× 94 1.0× 71 1.3k
Frank L. Miller United States 20 614 1.2× 50 0.3× 32 0.3× 81 0.7× 93 1.0× 84 1.1k
Eric R. Dougherty United States 14 427 0.8× 43 0.3× 112 0.9× 168 1.4× 142 1.5× 21 910
Ivar Mysterud Norway 16 729 1.4× 153 1.0× 139 1.1× 175 1.5× 133 1.4× 47 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Haitao Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Haitao Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haitao Yang

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Wangfei, Haitao Yang, Yuling Chen, et al.. (2025). A LiDAR-based framework for visualizing and quantifying forest void space: an intrinsic component of forest ecosystems. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 143. 104845–104845.
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Zhang, Yixuan, Haitao Yang, Yu Ren, et al.. (2025). China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yixuan, Kai Cheng, Yuling Chen, et al.. (2025). Spatio-temporal dynamics of future aboveground carbon stocks in natural forests of China. Forest Ecosystems. 13. 100293–100293. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Haitao, Yanjun Su, Baoguo Li, & Qinghua Guo. (2025). Synchronizing 3D LiDAR-based reconstruction of animals and environment for in situ ecosystem characterization. 1(2). 100019–100019. 3 indexed citations
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Guan, Yu, et al.. (2024). The comparison of gut microbiota between wild and captive Asian badgers (Meles leucurus) under different seasons. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 18199–18199. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Haitao, Shengli Tao, Yanjun Su, et al.. (2024). Carbon storage through China’s planted forest expansion. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4106–4106. 63 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ren, Yu, Hongcan Guan, Haitao Yang, et al.. (2024). Discovering and measuring giant trees through the integration of multi‐platform lidar data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(10). 1889–1905. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jinrui, et al.. (2023). Predator-mediated diversity of stream fish assemblages in a boreal river basin, China. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 561–561. 2 indexed citations
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Gong, Yinan, Guojing Zhao, Ning Wang, et al.. (2021). Prevalence of Varied Coat Coloration in a Yellow-Throated Marten (Martes flavigula) Population. Animals. 11(10). 2838–2838. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Haitao, Yan Wang, Qiankun Yang, et al.. (2021). A Rapid and Sensitive Detection Method for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using Visualized Recombinase Polymerase Amplification and Lateral Flow Strip Technology. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 11. 698929–698929. 24 indexed citations
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Wang, Tianming, et al.. (2020). An introduction to Long-term Tiger-Leopard Observation Network based on camera traps in Northeast China. Biodiversity Science. 28(9). 1059–1066. 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Haitao, et al.. (2018). Bubbling solutions for an anisotropic planar elliptic problem with exponential nonlinearity. Nonlinear Analysis. 174. 141–168. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Haitao, Xiaodan Zhao, Tianming Wang, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal patterns of Amur leopards in northeast China: Influence of tigers, prey, and humans. Mammalian Biology. 92. 120–128. 41 indexed citations
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Feng, Limin, Brian D. Gerber, Dale G. Miquelle, et al.. (2018). Transboundary cooperation improves endangered species monitoring and conservation actions: A case study of the global population of Amur leopards. Conservation Letters. 11(5). 47 indexed citations
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Sun, Leping, Wei Wang, Qing-Biao Hong, et al.. (2017). An integrated environmental improvement of marshlands: impact on control and elimination of schistosomiasis in marshland regions along the Yangtze River, China. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 6(1). 72–72. 22 indexed citations
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Ge, Jianping, et al.. (2014). Camera traps reveal Amur tiger breeding in NE China. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Haitao, et al.. (2013). Construction of Nodal Bubbling Solutions for the Weighted Sinh-Poisson Equation. Abstract and Applied Analysis. 2013. 1–16.

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