Hongfei Zhao

962 total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 595 citations indexed

About

Hongfei Zhao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongfei Zhao has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 595 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Hongfei Zhao's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (7 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers). Hongfei Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (7 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers). Hongfei Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Egypt. Hongfei Zhao's co-authors include Hongming He, Qiangqiang Yuan, Claudio O. Delang, Hongzhang Xu, Jie Zhou, Ali Mokhtar, Bolin Zhang, Jie Li, Linwei Yue and Liupeng Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hongfei Zhao

41 papers receiving 587 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.

Forest fire size amplifies postfire land surface warming

2024 42 citations Jie Zhao, Chao Yue et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hongfei Zhao China	16	201	132	113	110	85	52	595
Yongguang Hu China	17	273 1.4×	95 0.7×	118 1.0×	144 1.3×	84 1.0×	68	1.0k
Zui Tao China	15	121 0.6×	85 0.6×	106 0.9×	92 0.8×	38 0.4×	79	643
Lili Zhangzhong China	14	100 0.5×	70 0.5×	58 0.5×	257 2.3×	171 2.0×	28	647
Jiyue Li China	15	259 1.3×	84 0.6×	95 0.8×	59 0.5×	92 1.1×	94	682
Hongchen Li China	14	239 1.2×	93 0.7×	85 0.8×	108 1.0×	344 4.0×	50	744
Tiecheng Bai China	15	108 0.5×	80 0.6×	174 1.5×	109 1.0×	39 0.5×	45	526
Wengang Zheng China	14	93 0.5×	65 0.5×	57 0.5×	227 2.1×	116 1.4×	57	687
Jie Xue China	11	197 1.0×	64 0.5×	146 1.3×	136 1.2×	30 0.4×	23	522
S Pazhanivelan India	11	132 0.7×	90 0.7×	252 2.2×	107 1.0×	52 0.6×	84	821

Countries citing papers authored by Hongfei Zhao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongfei Zhao

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hongfei Zhao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hongfei Zhao. The network helps show where Hongfei Zhao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongfei Zhao

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

Fang, Nufang, et al.. (2025). Settlement adaptation and social evolution under mid-holocene environmental duress in the Yellow River Basin. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 679. 113280–113280.

Zhao, Hongfei, Zhuoya Zhang, Xin Zhou, et al.. (2025). Quantitative reconstruction of soil erosion process in a crater lake catchment during the Holocene, Southwest China. CATENA. 250. 108758–108758.

Jiang, Shiwei, Xin Zhou, Zhibo Li, et al.. (2025). Collapse of prehistoric cultures in central-eastern China linked to the El Niño-like states during the 4.2 ka event. Global and Planetary Change. 248. 104772–104772. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Xin, et al.. (2025). Historical shifts in mercury deposition in northeastern China: From vegetation to human activity. Environmental Pollution. 374. 126290–126290.

Zhou, Xin, Hongfei Zhao, Yiyan Chen, et al.. (2025). High-Resolution Reconstruction of Total Organic Carbon Content in Lake Sediments Using Hyperspectral Imaging. Remote Sensing. 17(4). 706–706.

Wang, Xiaoling, et al.. (2025). Nitrification and tRNA-dependent cytokinin biosynthesis by heterotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria enhance ryegrass regrowth. Plant and Soil. 516(2). 1471–1487.

Ikeda, Yoichi, et al.. (2024). Search for Significant Short-Range Ordering in Medium-Entropy Alloys Tr-Co-Ni (Tr = Cr, Mn, and Fe). MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS. 65(9). 995–1000.

Zhao, Jie, Chao Yue, Jiaming Wang, et al.. (2024). Forest fire size amplifies postfire land surface warming. Nature. 633(8031). 828–834. 42 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Hongfei, et al.. (2024). Vegetation Restoration Increases the Drought Risk on the Loess Plateau. Plants. 13(19). 2735–2735. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongfei, Xin Zhou, Linhai Yang, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing the late Quaternary soil erosion and dust deposition dynamics in the southern Loess Plateau: Insights from Lake Luyanghu sedimentary records. Quaternary Science Reviews. 346. 109000–109000.

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Khan, Siffat Ullah, et al.. (2023). Adaptive Sliding Mode Control with an Extended Disturbance Observer for a Quadcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: A Finite-Time Convergent Approach. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Fu, Lili, Adriana Nowak, Hongfei Zhao, & Bolin Zhang. (2022). Relationship between Microbial Composition of Sourdough and Texture, Volatile Compounds of Chinese Steamed Bread. Foods. 11(13). 1908–1908. 14 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongfei, Jie Zhou, Qianli Sun, et al.. (2021). Analysis of relationship between soil erosion and lake deposition during the Holocene in Xingyun Lake, southwestern China. The Holocene. 31(9). 1391–1400. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Yuzhen, Yuzhen Li, Longhui Li, et al.. (2020). Process refinement contributed more than parameter optimization to improve the CoLM's performance in simulating the carbon and water fluxes in a grassland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 291. 108067–108067. 10 indexed citations

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Ma, Donghao, et al.. (2019). Characteristics of water vapor flux of riverside wetland ecosystem in cold regions and its influence analysis. Journal of Environmental Biology. 40(3(SI)). 548–555. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongfei, et al.. (2019). Multi-pipe Routing in Bundles for Aero-engine using MOPSO. DEStech Transactions on Environment Energy and Earth Science. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weiming, et al.. (2019). A study on product assembly and disassembly time prediction methodology based on virtual maintenance. Assembly Automation. 39(4). 566–580. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhen, Yuqing Zhang, Keyu Fa, et al.. (2018). Desert soil bacteria deposit atmospheric carbon dioxide in carbonate precipitates. CATENA. 170. 64–72. 31 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongfei, et al.. (2018). Vegetation Restoration and Its Environmental Effects on the Loess Plateau. Sustainability. 10(12). 4676–4676. 35 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongfei, et al.. (2012). Design of Virtual Assembly Operation Evaluation System Based on EON Platform. 1 indexed citations

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