Hongyan Liu

18.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
393 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Hongyan Liu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongyan Liu has authored 393 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 197 papers in Atmospheric Science, 129 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 104 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Hongyan Liu's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (117 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (100 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (91 papers). Hongyan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (117 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (100 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (91 papers). Hongyan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Hongyan Liu's co-authors include Xiuchen Wu, Shilong Piao, Yi Yin, Philippe Ciais, Jingyun Fang, Pierre Friedlingstein, Yao Huang, Zehao Shen, Zhaoliang Song and Kun Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Hongyan Liu

379 papers receiving 12.8k 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.

The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

2010 2.8k citations Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere

2017 313 citations Xiuchen Wu, Hongyan Liu et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Effect of straw returning on soil organic carbon in rice–wheat rotation system: A review

2020 247 citations Hongyan Liu et al. profile →
Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems

2023 124 citations Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
Identification of novel therapeutic targets for chronic kidney disease and kidney function by integrating multi-omics proteome with transcriptome

2024 37 citations Hongyan Liu et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Hongyan Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongyan Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongyan Liu

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Exploring the climate signal in the variation of winter wheat quality records in the North China Plain 2025 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim, Yoichiro Kato, Hongyan Liu, Kaicun Wang	1
2	Divergent response of grassland aboveground net primary productivity and precipitation utilization efficiency to altered precipitation patterns by process-based model 2025 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·Cheng Chen, Lu Wu, Hongyan Liu, Boyi Liang, Xinrong Zhu, (unknown)	0
3	The seasonal temperature conundrum for the Holocene 2025 ·Science Advances ·Zhengyu Liu, Jun Cheng, (unknown), (unknown), Hongyan Liu, Haibin Wu, Jiang Zhu, Shucheng Xie	0
4	Evaluation of annual production and economic benefits of tropical rice-crayfish coculture system in China 2024 ·Agricultural Systems ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Guoping Pan, (unknown), Hongyan Liu, (unknown)	5
5	Millennial changes and cooling trends in land surface warm-season temperatures during the Holocene 2024 ·Science Bulletin ·(unknown), Hongyan Liu, Hongya Wang, Shucheng Xie, Huan Yang, (unknown), Zeyu Zhang, (unknown), Boyi Liang	3
6	Uppermost global tree elevations are primarily limited by low temperature or insufficient moisture 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), Zehao Shen, Tao Wang, George P. Malanson, Josep Peñuelas, Xiaoyi Wang, Xiangwu Chen, Eryuan Liang, Hongyan Liu, (unknown), Lingxiao Ying, (unknown), Shilong Piao	11
7	Will large-scale forestation lead to a soil water deficit crisis in China's drylands? 2024 ·Science Bulletin ·(unknown), Hongyan Liu, Boyi Liang, Liang Shi, Lu Wu, Jing Cao	34
8	Enhanced Drought Exposure Increasingly Threatens More Forests Than Observed 2024 ·Earth s Future ·Chongyang Xu, Hongyan Liu, Philippe Ciais, Henrik Hartmann, J. Julio Camarero, Xiuchen Wu, William M. Hammond, Craig D. Allen, Fahu Chen	4
9	Highway traffic planning and management from the perspective of sustainable development 2024 ·Hongyan Liu, Weifeng Yue, (unknown)	0
10	Retrogradation inhibition of wheat starch with wheat oligopeptides 2023 ·Food Chemistry ·(unknown), Xuedong Wang, Hongyan Liu, Shensheng Xiao, Wenping Ding, (unknown), Yang Fu	29
11	Limited driving of elevated CO₂ on vegetation greening over global drylands 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Guo‐Yue Niu, Zhuguo Ma, Hongyan Liu, Dabo Guan, Xin Zhou, Juan Zhou	5
12	Transitional responses of tree growth to climate warming at the southernmost margin of high latitudinal permafrost distribution 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Liang Shi, Hongyan Liu, Lu Wang, (unknown), Honglin He, Boyi Liang, Jing Cao	6
13	Trace and rare earth elements as the source and transport indicators of different topsoil end-members in the desert peripheral regions of China 2023 ·CATENA ·(unknown), Hongyan Liu, Hongya Wang, (unknown), (unknown)	5
14	Soil properties and anthropogenic influences control the distribution of soil organic carbon in grasslands of northern China 2023 ·Land Degradation and Development ·Xiaodong Zhang, Zhaoliang Song, (unknown), Yuntao Wu, Lukas Van Zwieten, Shaobo Sun, Wenying Wang, Hongyan Liu, Yidong Wang, Hailong Wang	4
15	Achieving Sustainable Earth Futures in the Anthropocene by Including Local Communities in Critical Zone Science 2023 ·Earth s Future ·Larissa A. Naylor, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Ying Zheng, (unknown), Sophie M. Green, David M. Oliver, Hongyan Liu, Jian Peng, (unknown), Gan‐Lin Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, (unknown), Susan Waldron, Paul D. Hallett	16
16	Decoupled Asian monsoon intensity and precipitation during glacial-interglacial transitions on the Chinese Loess Plateau 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Hongyan Liu, Huan Yang, Hongya Wang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Weihang Liu	24
17	Will drought exacerbate the decline in the sustainability of plantation forests relative to natural forests? 2022 ·Land Degradation and Development ·(unknown), Hongyan Liu, Shushi Peng, Jingyu Dai, Chongyang Xu, (unknown), Liang Shi, (unknown), Yiran Niu, Boyi Liang, Feng Liu	4
18	Mechanisms Controlling Carbon Sinks in Semi‐Arid Mountain Ecosystems 2022 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Weichao Guo, Mohammad Safeeq, Hongyan Liu, Xiuchen Wu, Guotao Cui, Qin Ma, Michael L. Goulden, Mats Lindeskog, Roger C. Bales	12
19	"Effect of Atmospheric Depositionon Cadmium Accumulation in Soils: A Review" 2021 ·Hongyan Liu	2
20	Precipitation Gradient Drives Divergent Relationship between Non-Structural Carbohydrates and Water Availability in Pinus tabulaeformis of Northern China 2021 ·Forests ·(unknown), Henrik Hartmann, (unknown), Hongyan Liu, Fangzhong Shi, Kailiang Yu, Xiaoyan Li, Zongshan Li, Pei Wang, Craig D. Allen, Xiuchen Wu	13

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