Hong Yang

10.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
228 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Hong Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Hong Yang has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 52 papers in Ecology and 51 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Hong Yang's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (49 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (19 papers). Hong Yang is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (49 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (19 papers). Hong Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Hong Yang's co-authors include Jim Wright, Xianjin Huang, Julian R. Thompson, Robert Bain, Jamie Bartram, Ryan Cronk, Tom Slaymaker, Mingguo Ma, Taiyang Zhong and Xiaowei Chuai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Hong Yang

212 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

  1. Carbon emissions from land-use change and management in China between 1990 and 2010
    2016 454 citations Hong Yang et al. profile →
  2. Fecal Contamination of Drinking-Water in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    2014 440 citations Robert Bain, Ryan Cronk et al. profile →
  3. Global assessment of exposure to faecal contamination through drinking water based on a systematic review
    2014 343 citations Robert Bain, Ryan Cronk et al. Tropical Medicine & International Health profile →
  4. Effects of land use and cover change (LUCC) on terrestrial carbon stocks in China between 2000 and 2018
    2022 185 citations Hong Yang et al. profile →
  5. Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China
    2023 81 citations Long Li, Xianjin Huang et al. Applied Geography profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Hong Yang 2.7k 1.6k 1.5k 1.3k 919 228 7.7k
Martina Flörke 3.8k 1.4× 1.3k 0.8× 6.7k 4.5× 1.9k 1.4× 641 0.7× 114 11.1k
Stephen B. Weisberg 1.7k 0.6× 2.1k 1.3× 2.9k 2.0× 971 0.7× 2.1k 2.3× 169 9.2k
Stefan Siebert 4.8k 1.8× 2.7k 1.7× 4.9k 3.3× 2.5k 1.8× 680 0.7× 125 15.0k
Olli Varis 1.9k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 3.1k 2.1× 1.1k 0.8× 213 0.2× 209 7.9k
Matti Kummu 5.2k 1.9× 3.5k 2.2× 6.5k 4.4× 2.1k 1.6× 448 0.5× 212 15.4k
Zhang 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 538 0.6× 1.8k 11.9k
Joseph Alcamo 3.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 3.3k 2.2× 1.4k 1.0× 293 0.3× 86 8.4k
Yao Huang 5.4k 2.0× 3.4k 2.2× 1.6k 1.1× 1.8k 1.4× 189 0.2× 273 15.4k
Peng Li 1.9k 0.7× 2.8k 1.7× 2.2k 1.5× 1.3k 0.9× 239 0.3× 602 10.7k
Nathaniel D. Mueller 2.6k 1.0× 2.7k 1.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 100 0.1× 99 13.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Hong Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hong Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hong Yang

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All Works

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Xu, Yuting, et al.. (2025). The Influence of Rural Land Transfer on Rural Households’ Income: A Case Study in Anhui Province, China. Land. 14(2). 294–294. 1 indexed citations
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Qiu, Guanglong, Ping Yang, Hong Yang, et al.. (2025). Conversion of earthen aquaculture ponds to integrated mangrove-aquaculture systems significantly reduced the emissions of CH4 and N2O. Journal of Hydrology. 652. 132692–132692. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Hong, et al.. (2025). Key industrial sectors and their evolutionary trends in China's embodied carbon emission network. Alexandria Engineering Journal. 123. 249–260. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Ping, Yongxin Lin, Hong Yang, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal distributions of dissolved N2O concentration, diffusive N2O flux and relevant functional genes along a coastal creek in southeastern China. Journal of Hydrology. 637. 131331–131331. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Ping, Linhai Zhang, Chuan Tong, et al.. (2024). Variable responses of mineral-bound soil organic carbon to land cover change in southern China’s coastal wetlands. CATENA. 242. 108129–108129. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhengxian, Yun Li, Yi Liu, et al.. (2024). River ecosystem health assessment in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A novel hybrid method based on artificial intelligence and multi-source data fusion. Expert Systems with Applications. 251. 124078–124078. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Qiong, Xin Li, Junjie Mao, et al.. (2024). Efficiently enhancing stability for a low concentration HCHO degradation using hexagonal prism MnCe-MOFs catalysts. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 328. 130027–130027.
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Yang, Ping, Kam W. Tang, Hong Yang, et al.. (2024). Plastic liners as a simple and effective approach to reduce CH4 and N2O emissions from aquaculture ponds. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 375. 109191–109191. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Lan, Kun Shan, Yi Yang, et al.. (2024). Employing hybrid deep learning for near-real-time forecasts of sensor-based algal parameters in a Microcystis bloom-dominated lake. The Science of The Total Environment. 922. 171009–171009. 12 indexed citations
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Zhang, Linhai, Ping Yang, Chuan Tong, et al.. (2023). Seasonal variations in source-sink balance of CO2 in subtropical earthen aquaculture ponds: Implications for carbon emission management. Journal of Hydrology. 626. 130330–130330. 8 indexed citations
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Xue, Bing, Bin Han, Hongqing Li, et al.. (2023). Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science. AMBIO. 52(12). 1895–1909. 44 indexed citations
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Li, Long, Xianjin Huang, Dafang Wu, & Hong Yang. (2023). Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China. Applied Geography. 154. 102946–102946. 81 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Defu, et al.. (2023). Enhanced removal efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus from swine wastewater using MgO modified pig manure biochar. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(1). 111793–111793. 21 indexed citations
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Hong, Yan, Linhai Zhang, Ping Yang, et al.. (2023). Responses of coastal sediment organic and inorganic carbon to habitat modification across a wide latitudinal range in southeastern China. CATENA. 225. 107034–107034. 10 indexed citations
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Tan, Lishan, Linhai Zhang, Ping Yang, et al.. (2023). Effects of conversion of coastal marshes to aquaculture ponds on sediment anaerobic CO2 production and emission in a subtropical estuary of China. Journal of Environmental Management. 338. 117813–117813. 19 indexed citations
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Bain, Robert, Ryan Cronk, Rifat Hossain, et al.. (2014). Global assessment of exposure to faecal contamination through drinking water based on a systematic review. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 19(8). 917–927. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

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