Huilin Du

937 total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 666 citations indexed

About

Huilin Du is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Huilin Du has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 666 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Environmental Engineering, 21 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 13 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Huilin Du's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (30 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (19 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (12 papers). Huilin Du is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (30 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (19 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (12 papers). Huilin Du collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Huilin Du's co-authors include Zihan Liu, Wenfeng Zhan, Fan Huang, Long Li, Chunli Wang, Jiufeng Li, Shiqi Miao, Lu Jiang, Shasha Wang and Sida Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Huilin Du

29 papers receiving 653 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review

2023 105 citations Fan Huang, Sida Jiang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Huilin Du China	14	522	286	271	214	88	35	666
Neville Bofinger Australia	10	187 0.4×	95 0.3×	542 2.0×	361 1.7×	55 0.6×	16	714
Mengmeng Li China	12	302 0.6×	189 0.7×	145 0.5×	234 1.1×	8 0.1×	28	529
Shihong Yang China	5	240 0.5×	197 0.7×	189 0.7×	89 0.4×	36 0.4×	6	358
Lisa Ernle Germany	11	145 0.3×	86 0.3×	285 1.1×	176 0.8×	12 0.1×	19	454
Meiya Wang China	8	185 0.4×	345 1.2×	124 0.5×	106 0.5×	15 0.2×	12	529
Zhi Cai China	8	427 0.8×	288 1.0×	280 1.0×	135 0.6×	39 0.4×	14	534
Sascha Nehr Germany	14	243 0.5×	187 0.7×	422 1.6×	716 3.3×	7 0.1×	29	855
Irina Nikolova United Kingdom	11	152 0.3×	42 0.1×	267 1.0×	228 1.1×	29 0.3×	20	391
S. Konopacki United States	11	694 1.3×	140 0.5×	258 1.0×	74 0.3×	64 0.7×	18	809
Diana Rembges Italy	13	86 0.2×	187 0.7×	191 0.7×	290 1.4×	5 0.1×	18	569

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Huilin Du

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Li, Jiarui, Shasha Wang, Wenfeng Zhan, et al.. (2025). Patterns and drivers of surface cooling effect of urban trees across global cities. The Science of The Total Environment. 967. 178811–178811. 1 indexed citations

Zhan, Wenfeng, Huilin Du, Chenguang Wang, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive assessments of a diagnostic equation for estimating diurnally maximum canopy urban heat island intensity. Building and Environment. 271. 112618–112618.

Zhan, Wenfeng, Huilin Du, Zihan Liu, et al.. (2025). Harnessing Satellite Data Alone for Mapping Global Thermal Anisotropy. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(8). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Shasha, Wenfeng Zhan, Bing‐Bing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Dual impact of global urban overheating on mortality. Nature Climate Change. 15(5). 497–504. 11 indexed citations

Du, Huilin, Wenfeng Zhan, Bing‐Bing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Exacerbated heat stress induced by urban browning in the Global South. Nature Cities. 2(2). 157–169. 11 indexed citations

Zhan, Wenfeng, Long Li, TC Chakraborty, et al.. (2025). Recent Widespread Deceleration of Global Surface Urban Heat Islands Unveiled by Satellites. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(12).

Du, Huilin, et al.. (2025). A universal yet easy-to-use data-driven method for angular normalization of directional land surface temperatures acquired from polar orbiters across global cities. Remote Sensing of Environment. 328. 114840–114840.

Du, Huilin, et al.. (2025). ESTSformer: Efficient spatio-temporal spiking transformer. Neural Networks. 191. 107786–107786. 1 indexed citations

Zhan, Wenfeng, Lu Jiang, Guanwen Chen, et al.. (2025). On the hotspot-Sun angular offset in urban thermal anisotropy. Remote Sensing of Environment. 328. 114864–114864.

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Liu, Zihan, Wenfeng Zhan, Yanlan Wu, et al.. (2025). Assessment of instantaneous sampling on quantifying satellite-derived surface urban heat islands: Biases and driving factors. Remote Sensing of Environment. 318. 114608–114608. 2 indexed citations

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Zhan, Wenfeng, Chunli Wang, Shasha Wang, et al.. (2024). Fraction-dependent variations in cooling efficiency of urban trees across global cities. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 216. 229–239. 6 indexed citations

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Du, Huilin, et al.. (2024). Efficient Automatic Modulation Classification in Nonterrestrial Networks With SNN-Based Transformer. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(3). 2562–2573. 3 indexed citations

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Du, Huilin, Wenfeng Zhan, Zihan Liu, et al.. (2023). Global mapping of urban thermal anisotropy reveals substantial potential biases for remotely sensed urban climates. Science Bulletin. 68(16). 1809–1818. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Chunli, et al.. (2023). Regulation of urban morphology on thermal environment across global cities. Sustainable Cities and Society. 97. 104749–104749. 34 indexed citations

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Zhan, Wenfeng, Huilin Du, Shasha Wang, et al.. (2023). Urban-rural gradient in vegetation phenology changes of over 1500 cities across China jointly regulated by urbanization and climate change. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 205. 367–384. 20 indexed citations

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Dong, Pan, Wenfeng Zhan, Chenguang Wang, et al.. (2023). Simple yet efficient downscaling of land surface temperatures by suitably integrating kernel- and fusion-based methods. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 205. 317–333. 13 indexed citations

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Du, Huilin, Wenfeng Zhan, James Voogt, et al.. (2023). Contrasting Trends and Drivers of Global Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(15). 40 indexed citations

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Wang, Chenguang, Wenfeng Zhan, Long Li, et al.. (2023). Urban heat islands characterized by six thermal indicators. Building and Environment. 244. 110820–110820. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Long, Wenfeng Zhan, Huilin Du, et al.. (2022). Long‐Term and Fine‐Scale Surface Urban Heat Island Dynamics Revealed by Landsat Data Since the 1980s: A Comparison of Four Megacities in China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(5). 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Chunli, Wenfeng Zhan, Xue Liu, et al.. (2022). Strong Modulation of Human‐Activity‐Induced Weekend Effect in Urban Heat Island by Surface Morphology and Weather Conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(17). 2 indexed citations

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