Hanfa Xing

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 879 citations indexed

About

Hanfa Xing is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hanfa Xing has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 879 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Transportation and 8 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Hanfa Xing's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (11 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (8 papers). Hanfa Xing is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (11 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (8 papers). Hanfa Xing collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Netherlands. Hanfa Xing's co-authors include Yuan Meng, Jinwei Dong, Zhichao Li, Ping Fu, Jianghao Wang, Nicholas Hamm, Wenkai Liu, Dongyang Hou, Man Sing Wong and Kaixuan Fan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hanfa Xing

34 papers receiving 855 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 seasonal effects of urban morphology on land surface temperature in urban functional zones

2024 78 citations Wenkai Liu, Zhangzhi Tan et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hanfa Xing China	16	471	287	226	200	143	35	879
Jialyu He China	10	449 1.0×	285 1.0×	79 0.3×	81 0.4×	111 0.8×	12	714
Yuan Meng China	13	344 0.7×	249 0.9×	86 0.4×	105 0.5×	74 0.5×	35	638
Jorge E. Patiño Colombia	13	499 1.1×	159 0.6×	133 0.6×	156 0.8×	130 0.9×	27	828
Ke Mai China	7	529 1.1×	478 1.7×	68 0.3×	73 0.4×	99 0.7×	11	841
Cidália C. Fonte Portugal	16	443 0.9×	107 0.4×	349 1.5×	126 0.6×	198 1.4×	53	964
Ferri Stefano Italy	10	531 1.1×	117 0.4×	161 0.7×	75 0.4×	156 1.1×	24	768
Yatao Zhang China	12	402 0.9×	321 1.1×	76 0.3×	84 0.4×	59 0.4×	21	653
Franz Schug Germany	13	602 1.3×	106 0.4×	344 1.5×	171 0.9×	131 0.9×	24	978
Johannes Uhl United States	19	416 0.9×	90 0.3×	197 0.9×	45 0.2×	78 0.5×	56	961
Hongzan Jiao China	18	248 0.5×	239 0.8×	46 0.2×	81 0.4×	110 0.8×	46	776

Countries citing papers authored by Hanfa Xing

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hanfa Xing

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hanfa Xing

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

Xing, Hanfa, et al.. (2025). Parcel-Based Cropland Change Detection Through Boundary Extraction Using a Feature Difference Enhanced Network. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 27128–27141.

Cai, Yanbin, et al.. (2025). Revealing the impact patterns of urban morphology on land surface temperature in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China. Cities. 165. 106147–106147. 3 indexed citations

Hu, Sheng, et al.. (2024). Identifying urban villages: an attention-based deep learning approach that integrates remote sensing and street-level images. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 39(6). 1247–1269. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Wenkai, et al.. (2024). Exploring the seasonal effects of urban morphology on land surface temperature in urban functional zones. Sustainable Cities and Society. 103. 105268–105268. 78 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Wenkai, et al.. (2024). Integrating street view imagery and taxi trajectory for identifying urban function of street space. Geo-spatial Information Science. 28(3). 1085–1107. 11 indexed citations

Xing, Hanfa, et al.. (2022). Convolution-Transformer Adaptive Fusion Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification. Applied Sciences. 13(1). 492–492. 9 indexed citations

Li, Bin, et al.. (2022). Exploring the Effects of Roadside Vegetation on the Urban Thermal Environment Using Street View Images. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(3). 1272–1272. 15 indexed citations

Meng, Yuan, Man Sing Wong, Hanfa Xing, et al.. (2021). Effects of urban functional fragmentation on nitrogen dioxide (NO2) variation with anthropogenic-emission restriction in China. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 11908–11908. 7 indexed citations

Dong, Jinwei, Nicholas Hamm, Zhichao Li, et al.. (2021). Integrating remote sensing and geospatial big data for urban land use mapping: A review. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 103. 102514–102514. 143 indexed citations

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Meng, Yuan, Man Sing Wong, Hanfa Xing, Mei‐Po Kwan, & Rui Zhu. (2021). Yearly and Daily Relationship Assessment between Air Pollution and Early-Stage COVID-19 Incidence: Evidence from 231 Countries and Regions. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 10(6). 401–401. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Xianglong, et al.. (2020). Regional differences in socioeconomic trends: The spatiotemporal evolution from individual cities to a megacity region over a long time series. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0244084–e0244084. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Guang, Yaolong Zhao, Hanfa Xing, et al.. (2020). Understanding the changes in spatial fairness of urban greenery using time-series remote sensing images: A case study of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay. The Science of The Total Environment. 715. 136763–136763. 50 indexed citations

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Liu, Yang, et al.. (2019). Inferring Spatial Distribution Patterns in Web Maps for Land Cover Mapping. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 119(2). 311–330. 1 indexed citations

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Meng, Yuan & Hanfa Xing. (2019). Exploring the relationship between landscape characteristics and urban vibrancy: A case study using morphology and review data. Cities. 95. 102389–102389. 113 indexed citations

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Xing, Hanfa, Yuan Meng, & Yan Shi. (2018). A dynamic human activity‐driven model for mixed land use evaluation using social media data. Transactions in GIS. 22(5). 1130–1151. 19 indexed citations

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Xing, Hanfa, et al.. (2017). Employing Crowdsourced Geographic Information to Classify Land Cover with Spatial Clustering and Topic Model. Remote Sensing. 9(6). 602–602. 17 indexed citations

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Meng, Yuan, Dongyang Hou, & Hanfa Xing. (2017). Rapid Detection of Land Cover Changes Using Crowdsourced Geographic Information: A Case Study of Beijing, China. Sustainability. 9(9). 1547–1547. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaoguang, et al.. (2016). A Spatio-Temporal VGI Model Considering Trust-Related Information. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 5(2). 10–10. 22 indexed citations

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Xing, Hanfa, Jun Chen, & Xiaoguang Zhou. (2015). A Geoweb-Based Tagging System for Borderlands Data Acquisition. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 4(3). 1530–1548. 10 indexed citations

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Xing, Hanfa, et al.. (2010). An mixed access control method based on trust and role. 40. 552–555. 1 indexed citations

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