Hanqin Tian

62.3k total citations · 15 hit papers
335 papers, 21.4k citations indexed

About

Hanqin Tian is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hanqin Tian has authored 335 papers receiving a total of 21.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 224 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 79 papers in Ecology and 75 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Hanqin Tian's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (129 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (80 papers) and Climate variability and models (78 papers). Hanqin Tian is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (129 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (80 papers) and Climate variability and models (78 papers). Hanqin Tian collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Hanqin Tian's co-authors include Chaoqun Lü, Shufen Pan, Mingliang Liu, Guangsheng Chen, Jerry M. Melillo, Wei Ren, Xiaofeng Xu, Jia Yang, Chi Zhang and Kamaljit Banger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hanqin Tian

324 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Spatial and temporal patterns of China's cropland during 1990–2000: An analysis based on Landsat TM data

2005 859 citations Hanqin Tian et al. profile →
Pattern and variation of C:N:P ratios in China’s soils: a synthesis of observational data

2009 691 citations Hanqin Tian, Guangsheng Chen et al. profile →
Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO₂, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models

2001 632 citations Stephen Sitch, Hanqin Tian et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for agriculture production in the past half century: shifted hot spots and nutrient imbalance

2017 522 citations Chaoqun Lü, Hanqin Tian Earth system science data profile →
Spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen deposition in China: Synthesis of observational data

2007 516 citations Chaoqun Lü, Hanqin Tian profile →
Forty years of reform and opening up: China’s progress toward a sustainable path

2019 313 citations Hanqin Tian et al. Science Advances profile →
Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

2018 313 citations Michael O’Sullivan, Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion

2019 277 citations Prabir K. Patra, Hanqin Tian et al. profile →
Economic losses due to ozone impacts on human health, forest productivity and crop yield across China

2019 258 citations Hanqin Tian et al. profile →
Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980

2022 223 citations Zhen Yu, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications profile →
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction

2021 216 citations Yongzhe Chen, Xiaoming Feng et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

2021 200 citations Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications profile →
Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions

2022 117 citations Hanqin Tian, Bojie Fu et al. profile →
Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management

2024 56 citations Zhen Yu, Shirong Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Elevated CO2 levels promote both carbon and nitrogen cycling in global forests

2024 43 citations Zihao Bian, Naiqing Pan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hanqin Tian United States	78	12.0k	6.2k	4.5k	4.5k	2.6k	335	21.4k
David Schimel United States	81	13.0k 1.1×	8.8k 1.4×	5.0k 1.1×	6.2k 1.4×	2.5k 1.0×	227	23.2k
Guirui Yu China	87	14.9k 1.2×	9.1k 1.5×	5.2k 1.2×	8.6k 1.9×	3.3k 1.2×	803	29.2k
Estéban G. Jobbágy Argentina	61	8.8k 0.7×	6.5k 1.1×	3.0k 0.7×	7.8k 1.7×	2.1k 0.8×	216	20.3k
Mark A. Sutton United Kingdom	67	5.5k 0.5×	5.9k 1.0×	6.5k 1.4×	5.9k 1.3×	2.3k 0.9×	289	25.5k
Steve Frolking United States	71	8.0k 0.7×	9.8k 1.6×	5.8k 1.3×	4.3k 1.0×	3.7k 1.4×	217	19.9k
Berrien Moore United States	56	11.3k 0.9×	7.5k 1.2×	4.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.4×	2.9k 1.1×	132	17.5k
Christopher J. Kucharik United States	54	12.0k 1.0×	6.7k 1.1×	2.3k 0.5×	2.8k 0.6×	3.4k 1.3×	157	21.8k
Shushi Peng China	59	10.8k 0.9×	5.0k 0.8×	4.7k 1.0×	2.4k 0.5×	3.0k 1.1×	189	17.1k
Jan Willem Erisman Netherlands	63	5.7k 0.5×	6.6k 1.1×	6.3k 1.4×	6.7k 1.5×	2.7k 1.0×	296	27.8k
Benjamin Poulter United States	58	12.4k 1.0×	4.8k 0.8×	5.2k 1.1×	1.6k 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	231	17.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hanqin Tian

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Canadell, Josep G., Benjamin Poulter, Ana Bastos, et al.. (2025). From global to national GHG budgets: the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes-3 (RECCAP3). National Science Review. 12(4). nwaf037–nwaf037. 3 indexed citations

Li, Dongfeng, Ting Zhang, Jim Best, et al.. (2025). Human alterations to global riverine phosphorus fluxes to the ocean. Science Advances. 11(50). eady5884–eady5884. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Lei, Shuqi Xiao, Ruoya Ma, et al.. (2025). Historical Changes in Fertilizer-Induced Soil Nitrogen Losses from Upland Grain Crops and Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(50). 27291–27304. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Zhen, Shirong Liu, Jingjing Liang, et al.. (2024). Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3154–3154. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

Friedrichs, Marjorie A. M., Raymond G. Najjar, Maria Herrmann, et al.. (2023). Impacts and uncertainties of climate-induced changes in watershed inputs on estuarine hypoxia. Biogeosciences. 20(10). 1937–1961. 11 indexed citations

Shi, Hao, Hanqin Tian, Naiqing Pan, et al.. (2021). Saturation of Global Terrestrial Carbon Sink Under a High Warming Scenario. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(10). 22 indexed citations

Chen, Yongzhe, Xiaoming Feng, Hanqin Tian, et al.. (2021). Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction. Global Change Biology. 27(22). 5848–5864. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

Winkler, Alexander J., Ranga B. Myneni, Alexis Hannart, et al.. (2021). Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO ₂. Biogeosciences. 18(17). 4985–5010. 78 indexed citations

O’Sullivan, Michael, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2019). Changes in terrestrial carbon fluxes, stocks, and residence times over recent decades using TRENDY DGVMs. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17763. 2 indexed citations

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Chang, Jinfeng, Shushi Peng, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2019). Revisiting enteric methane emissions from domestic ruminants and their δ13CCH4 source signature. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3420–3420. 87 indexed citations

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Xu, Rongting, Hanqin Tian, Shufen Pan, et al.. (2018). Global ammonia emissions from synthetic nitrogen fertilizer applications in agricultural systems: Empirical and process‐based estimates and uncertainty. Global Change Biology. 25(1). 314–326. 183 indexed citations

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Hessl, Amy, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Casey Jelsema, et al.. (2018). Past and future drought in Mongolia. Science Advances. 4(3). e1701832–e1701832. 123 indexed citations

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Chen, Guangsheng, Shufen Pan, Daniel J. Hayes, & Hanqin Tian. (2017). Spatial and temporal patterns of plantation forests in the United States since the 1930s: an annual and gridded data set for regional Earth system modeling. Earth system science data. 9(2). 545–556. 14 indexed citations

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Lü, Chaoqun & Hanqin Tian. (2017). Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for agriculture production in the past half century: shifted hot spots and nutrient imbalance. Earth system science data. 9(1). 181–192. 522 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Bowen, Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lü, et al.. (2017). Manure nitrogen production and application in cropland and rangeland during1860–2014: A 5-minute gridded global data set for Earth system modeling. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Rongting, Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lü, et al.. (2017). Preindustrial nitrous oxide emissions from the land biosphere estimated by using a global biogeochemistry model. Climate of the past. 13(7). 977–990. 22 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bowen, Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lü, et al.. (2017). Global manure nitrogen production and application in cropland during 1860–2014: a 5 arcmin gridded global dataset for Earth system modeling. Earth system science data. 9(2). 667–678. 139 indexed citations

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Calle, Leonardo, Josep G. Canadell, Prabir K. Patra, et al.. (2016). Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009. Environmental Research Letters. 11(7). 74011–74011. 34 indexed citations

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Tian, Hanqin, Jianxin Yang, Steven E. Lohrenz, et al.. (2016). Anthropogenic and climatic controls on carbon and nitrogen exports from Mississippi river basin to Gulf of Mexico during 1800 - 2100: Implications for hypoxia and ocean acidification. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Tian, Hanqin, et al.. (1993). Response of the biosphere to the changing global environment: Evidence from historic record of biotic metabolism. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2(16). 94–94. 1 indexed citations

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