Ji Chen

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ji Chen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ji Chen has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Water Science and Technology and 22 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ji Chen's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (20 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (16 papers). Ji Chen is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (20 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (16 papers). Ji Chen collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Ji Chen's co-authors include Yiping Wu, Liqun Sun, Qinglan Li, Dian Huang, Jun Xia, Gangsheng Wang, Haiyun Shi, Tiejian Li, Jun Niu and S. Thomas Ng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ji Chen

73 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ji Chen Hong Kong	28	1.4k	1.3k	699	412	265	75	2.6k
Siao Sun China	29	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.4×	433 1.1×	374 1.4×	85	4.2k
Weiwei Shao China	21	1.3k 0.9×	745 0.6×	827 1.2×	352 0.9×	115 0.4×	98	1.9k
Martina Zeleňáková Slovakia	26	850 0.6×	761 0.6×	763 1.1×	164 0.4×	185 0.7×	251	2.4k
Weili Duan China	34	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	768 1.1×	832 2.0×	410 1.5×	142	3.7k
Shaofeng Jia China	28	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	981 1.4×	846 2.1×	446 1.7×	127	3.3k
Benjamin L. Ruddell United States	36	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 2.0×	251 0.6×	372 1.4×	104	3.8k
Manolis Grillakis Greece	29	1.6k 1.1×	993 0.8×	452 0.6×	643 1.6×	283 1.1×	70	2.5k
Francisco Meza Chile	28	1.1k 0.8×	813 0.6×	276 0.4×	310 0.8×	294 1.1×	88	2.6k
José I. Barredo Italy	20	2.6k 1.8×	581 0.5×	294 0.4×	745 1.8×	314 1.2×	45	3.2k
Yong Zhao China	37	2.0k 1.5×	2.0k 1.6×	965 1.4×	437 1.1×	543 2.0×	260	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ji Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ji Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ji Chen

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Yue, et al.. (2025). Wearable Technologies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Older Adults: Systematic Scoping Review and Evidence Map. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e69077–e69077. 2 indexed citations

Ng, S. Thomas, et al.. (2024). Incorporating carbon capture and storage in decarbonizing China's cement sector. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 209. 115098–115098. 9 indexed citations

Yang, Yuzhong, Qingbai Wu, Xiaoyan Guo, et al.. (2024). First comprehensive stable isotope dataset of diverse water units in a permafrost-dominated catchment on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Earth system science data. 16(8). 3755–3770. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Haochen, Yao Gao, Robert L. Wilby, et al.. (2024). Urbanization Further Intensifies Short‐Duration Rainfall Extremes in a Warmer Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(5). 18 indexed citations

Ng, S. Thomas, et al.. (2024). Design for Circular Manufacturing and Assembly (DfCMA): Synergising Circularity and Modularity in the Building Construction Industry. Sustainability. 16(21). 9192–9192. 4 indexed citations

Guo, Kaihua, et al.. (2023). Prediction of water film depth on grooved airport runway induced by intense rainfall and wind. Construction and Building Materials. 407. 133623–133623. 1 indexed citations

Antwi-Afari, Prince, S. Thomas Ng, & Ji Chen. (2023). Determining the optimal partition system of a modular building from a circular economy perspective: A multicriteria decision-making process. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 185. 113601–113601. 18 indexed citations

Tian, Yong, Michele Lancia, Ji Chen, et al.. (2023). Complex Effects of Tides on Coastal Groundwater Revealed by High‐Resolution Integrated Flow Modeling. Water Resources Research. 59(10). 7 indexed citations

Liu, Suning, Ji Chen, Jiaye Li, et al.. (2023). Building a large dam: identifying the relationship between catchment area and slope using the confidence ellipse approach. Geoscience Letters. 10(1). 1 indexed citations

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Ng, S. Thomas, et al.. (2023). More intensive use and lifetime extension can enable net-zero emissions in China’s cement cycle. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 198. 107144–107144. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2023). Impacts of environmental factors and freshwater discharges from multiple river outlets on estuarine salinity variation in rainy season: A case study of the Pearl River Estuary in China. Journal of Hydrology. 623. 129784–129784. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2022). High-resolution mapping of wildfire drivers in California based on machine learning. The Science of The Total Environment. 833. 155155–155155. 24 indexed citations

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Li, Qinglan, et al.. (2021). The Spatial Characteristics of Hourly Rainfall Induced by Tropical Cyclones Along the South China Coast. Earth and Space Science. 8(11). 9 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fubo, Yiping Wu, Bellie Sivakumar, et al.. (2018). Climatic and hydrologic controls on net primary production in a semiarid loess watershed. Journal of Hydrology. 568. 803–815. 57 indexed citations

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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2018). Exploration of severities of rainfall and runoff extremes in ungauged catchments: A case study of Lai Chi Wo in Hong Kong, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 634. 640–649. 25 indexed citations

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Chen, Ji, Jingyi Zhao, Kun Li, & Yu Sheng. (2016). Discussion on applying an analytical method to optimize the anti-freeze design parameters for underground water pipelines in seasonally frozen areas. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions. 8(6). 467–476. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Ji, et al.. (2013). An enhanced Topmodel for a headwater catchment in Hong Kong. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Yiping & Ji Chen. (2013). Analyzing the Water Budget and Hydrological Characteristics and Responses to Land Use in a Monsoonal Climate River Basin in South China. Environmental Management. 51(6). 1174–1186. 28 indexed citations

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Chen, Ji & Yiping Wu. (2008). Exploring hydrological process features of the East River (Dongjiang) basin in South China using VIC and SWAT. IAHS-AISH publication. 116–123. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Ji. (2001). Influence of Climate Variability on Terrestrial Hydrology in North America. PhDT. 5003. 2 indexed citations

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