Jay Gao

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
141 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Jay Gao is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jay Gao has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Ecology, 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 47 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Jay Gao's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (39 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (29 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (21 papers). Jay Gao is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (39 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (29 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (21 papers). Jay Gao collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, China and Australia. Jay Gao's co-authors include Yong Zha, Shaoxiang Ni, Yansui Liu, Fenghe Wang, Xilai Li, Gary Brierley, Tingting Xu, Yun Yang, Yan Qiao and Giovanni Coco and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Jay Gao

137 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Use of normalized difference built-up index in automatically mapping urban areas from TM imagery

2003 2.0k citations Jay Gao et al. profile →
A comprehensive review of the development of land use regression approaches for modeling spatiotemporal variations of ambient air pollution: A perspective from 2011 to 2023

2024 56 citations Xuying Ma, Bin Zou et al. Environment International profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jay Gao New Zealand	37	3.0k	2.4k	2.0k	1.6k	925	141	6.8k
Xiao‐Peng Song United States	38	4.3k 1.4×	3.1k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	654 0.7×	80	7.5k
V. K. Dadhwal India	43	4.0k 1.3×	2.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	865 0.9×	341	7.5k
Heiko Balzter United Kingdom	41	3.1k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	551 0.6×	182	6.4k
Dafang Zhuang China	37	3.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	683 0.7×	151	7.1k
Nicholas Clinton United States	37	3.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	356 0.4×	64	5.5k
Aqil Tariq United States	45	2.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	571 0.6×	229	5.6k
Claudia Kuenzer Germany	61	4.9k 1.6×	4.2k 1.8×	2.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.7×	1.1k 1.2×	210	11.3k
Yuanwei Qin United States	45	6.3k 2.1×	5.2k 2.2×	2.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	644 0.7×	112	9.3k
Conghe Song United States	47	5.5k 1.8×	3.7k 1.6×	3.2k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	446 0.5×	132	8.6k
Zongming Wang China	52	4.3k 1.4×	4.8k 2.0×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	905 1.0×	286	8.6k

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Ma, Xuying, Lídia Morawska, Bin Zou, et al.. (2025). Towards compliance with the 2021 WHO air quality guidelines: A comparative analysis of PM2.5 trends in australia and china. Environment International. 198. 109378–109378. 3 indexed citations

Gao, Jay, et al.. (2024). Analysis of the spatial heterogeneity of glacier melting in Tibet Autonomous Region and its influential factors using the K-means and XGBoost-SHAP algorithms. Environmental Modelling & Software. 182. 106194–106194. 13 indexed citations

Gao, Jay. (2024). Quantitative Remote Sensing. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Xuying, Bin Zou, Jun Deng, et al.. (2024). A comprehensive review of the development of land use regression approaches for modeling spatiotemporal variations of ambient air pollution: A perspective from 2011 to 2023. Environment International. 183. 108430–108430. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

Shi, Yan, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Variability of Alpine Meadow Aboveground Biomass and Sustainable Grazing in Light of Climate Warming. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 90. 64–77. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Yicong, et al.. (2022). Health assessment of plantations based on LiDAR canopy spatial structure parameters. International Journal of Digital Earth. 15(1). 712–729. 16 indexed citations

Brierley, Gary, Xilai Li, Kirstie Fryirs, et al.. (2022). Degradation and recovery of alpine meadow catenas in the source zone of the Yellow River, Western China. Journal of Mountain Science. 19(9). 2487–2505. 8 indexed citations

Li, Xilai, et al.. (2021). Influences of pika and simulated grazing disturbances on bare patches of alpine meadow in the Yellow River Source Zone. Journal of Mountain Science. 18(5). 1307–1320. 10 indexed citations

Gao, Jay, et al.. (2021). Phenology-based delineation of irrigated and rain-fed paddy fields with Sentinel-2 imagery in Google Earth Engine. Geo-spatial Information Science. 24(4). 695–710. 18 indexed citations

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Xu, Tingting & Jay Gao. (2021). Controlled urban sprawl in Auckland, New Zealand and its impacts on the natural environment and housing affordability. 1(1). 7 indexed citations

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Shi, Yan, et al.. (2021). Improved Estimation of Aboveground Biomass of Disturbed Grassland through Including Bare Ground and Grazing Intensity. Remote Sensing. 13(11). 2105–2105. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Xilai, et al.. (2021). The evolution of hummock–depression micro‐topography in an alpine marshy wetland in Sanjiangyuan as inferred from vegetation and soil characteristics. Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 3901–3916. 11 indexed citations

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Gao, Jay, et al.. (2021). Effects of the hummock–depression microhabitat on plant communities of alpine marshy meadows in the Yellow River Source Zone, China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 15(1). 111–128. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Xuying, Ian Longley, Jay Gao, & Jennifer Salmond. (2020). Evaluating the Effect of Ambient Concentrations, Route Choices, and Environmental (in)Justice on Students’ Dose of Ambient NO₂ While Walking to School at Population Scales. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(20). 12908–12919. 17 indexed citations

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Ma, Xuying, et al.. (2019). A site-optimised multi-scale GIS based land use regression model for simulating local scale patterns in air pollution. The Science of The Total Environment. 685. 134–149. 48 indexed citations

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Li, Xilai, Jay Gao, & Jing Zhang. (2018). A topographic perspective on the distribution of degraded meadows and their changes on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau, West China. Land Degradation and Development. 29(6). 1574–1582. 22 indexed citations

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Yang, Juan, Jay Gao, Alan Cheung, et al.. (2013). Vegetation and sediment characteristics in an expanding mangrove forest in New Zealand. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 134. 11–18. 35 indexed citations

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Gao, Jay. (2002). Integration of GPS with remote sensing and GIS: Reality and prospect. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 68(5). 447–454. 30 indexed citations

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Gao, Jay. (2001). Non-differential GPS as an alternative source of planimetric control for rectifying satellite imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 67(1). 49–56. 11 indexed citations

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Gao, Jay, et al.. (1997). The role of spatial resolution in quantifying SSC from airborne remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 63(3). 267–271. 4 indexed citations

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