Ji Zhou

6.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
159 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Ji Zhou is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ji Zhou has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Environmental Engineering, 83 papers in Atmospheric Science and 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ji Zhou's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (82 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (41 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (39 papers). Ji Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (82 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (41 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (39 papers). Ji Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Ji Zhou's co-authors include Wenfeng Zhan, Xiaodong Zhang, Yunhao Chen, Shaomin Liu, Shunlin Liang, Ruyin Cao, Jinfei Wang, Jin Ma, Mingsong Li and Dongdong Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ji Zhou

145 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) Product Suite

2020 366 citations Shunlin Liang, Ji Zhou et al. profile →
Switchable Cavitation in Silicone Coatings for Energy‐Saving Cooling and Heating

2020 241 citations Huaixia Zhao, Qiangqiang Sun et al. Advanced Materials profile →
A practical reanalysis data and thermal infrared remote sensing data merging (RTM) method for reconstruction of a 1-km all-weather land surface temperature

2021 213 citations Xiaodong Zhang, Ji Zhou et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
TRIMS LST: a daily 1 km all-weather land surface temperature dataset for China's landmass and surrounding areas (2000–2022)

2024 52 citations Wenbin Tang, Ji Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ji Zhou China	36	2.7k	2.0k	1.7k	787	463	159	4.6k
Jie Wang China	34	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	2.6k 1.5×	2.3k 2.9×	358 0.8×	157	5.3k
Chao Zeng China	28	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	788 1.0×	122 0.3×	69	3.8k
Qiming Qin China	36	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 2.0×	148 0.3×	185	4.7k
Huazhong Ren China	35	3.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	508 1.1×	132	5.3k
Hua Wu China	32	4.5k 1.7×	3.2k 1.6×	2.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	668 1.4×	191	6.2k
Hongbo Su China	30	1.3k 0.5×	713 0.4×	1.6k 0.9×	625 0.8×	119 0.3×	178	3.2k
Xavier Briottet France	28	1.2k 0.5×	884 0.4×	779 0.5×	868 1.1×	179 0.4×	168	3.4k
Lei Ma China	27	1.3k 0.5×	997 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 2.1×	93 0.2×	88	4.4k
Prashanth Marpu United Arab Emirates	28	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	621 0.4×	574 0.7×	170 0.4×	119	3.8k
Jing Tian China	32	925 0.3×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	471 0.6×	74 0.2×	180	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ji Zhou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ji Zhou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ji Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ji Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ji Zhou 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 Zhou. Ji Zhou 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, Jingwei, Shaomin Liu, Lisheng Song, et al.. (2025). A Robust Framework for Improving Fine-Scale Evapotranspiration Estimation From UAV-Based Multispectral and Thermal Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–15. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Ji, et al.. (2025). A Time Series Method With Physically Guided Selection of Surface Indicators for Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature Swath Gap-Filling. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–15. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Weiyi, Ruyin Cao, Licong Liu, et al.. (2025). An Improved Spatiotemporal Savitzky–Golay (iSTSG) Method to Improve the Quality of Vegetation Index Time-Series Data on the Google Earth Engine. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–17.

Cao, Ruyin, Licong Liu, Xiaolin Zhu, et al.. (2024). A spatiotemporal shape model fitting method for within-season crop phenology detection. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 217. 179–198. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Tao, et al.. (2024). An Improved Adaptive Grid-Based Progressive Triangulated Irregular Network Densification Algorithm for Filtering Airborne LiDAR Data. Remote Sensing. 16(20). 3846–3846. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Ji, et al.. (2024). Night-Time Vessel Detection Based on Enhanced Dense Nested Attention Network. Remote Sensing. 16(6). 1038–1038. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Dandan, Leiqiu Hu, James Voogt, et al.. (2023). Simulation of urban thermal anisotropy at remote sensing pixel scales: Evaluating three schemes using GUTA-T over Toulouse city. Remote Sensing of Environment. 300. 113893–113893. 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Ji, Qiong Tian, Ayaz Ahmad, & Jiandong Huang. (2023). Exploring the resilience of supplementary cementitious materials-based concrete to elevated temperatures via modern computing techniques. Materials Today Communications. 38. 107894–107894. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Jin, Ji Zhou, Frank-Michael Göttsche, et al.. (2023). An atmospheric influence correction method for longwave radiation-based in-situ land surface temperature. Remote Sensing of Environment. 293. 113611–113611. 24 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ji, et al.. (2023). Retrieval of nighttime aerosol optical depth by simultaneous consideration of artificial and natural light sources. The Science of The Total Environment. 896. 166354–166354. 5 indexed citations

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Zhao, Huaixia, Qiangqiang Sun, Ji Zhou, Xu Deng, & Jiaxi Cui. (2020). Switchable Cavitation in Silicone Coatings for Energy‐Saving Cooling and Heating. Advanced Materials. 32(29). e2000870–e2000870. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Xiaodong, Ji Zhou, Shunlin Liang, et al.. (2020). Estimation of 1-km all-weather remotely sensed land surface temperature based on reconstructed spatial-seamless satellite passive microwave brightness temperature and thermal infrared data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 167. 321–344. 80 indexed citations

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Chen, Yang, Ruyin Cao, Jin Chen, et al.. (2020). A New Cross-Fusion Method to Automatically Determine the Optimal Input Image Pairs for NDVI Spatiotemporal Data Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 58(7). 5179–5194. 34 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaodong, Ji Zhou, & Lirong Ding. (2019). Generation of 1-km all-weather land surface temperature from satellite thermal infrared and passive microwave observations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 451.

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Cao, Ruyin, Yang Chen, Miaogen Shen, et al.. (2018). A simple method to improve the quality of NDVI time-series data by integrating spatiotemporal information with the Savitzky-Golay filter. Remote Sensing of Environment. 217. 244–257. 239 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ji, et al.. (2017). Review on Validation of Remotely Sensed Land Surface Temperature. Diqiu kexue jinzhan. 32(6). 615–629. 11 indexed citations

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Gao, Lun, Wenfeng Zhan, Fan Huang, et al.. (2017). Disaggregation of remotely sensed land surface temperature: A simple yet flexible index (SIFI) to assess method performances. Remote Sensing of Environment. 200. 206–219. 14 indexed citations

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Gao, Lun, Wenfeng Zhan, Fan Huang, et al.. (2016). Localization or Globalization? Determination of the Optimal Regression Window for Disaggregation of Land Surface Temperature. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(1). 477–490. 25 indexed citations

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Xiao-hua, Zhu, et al.. (2006). STUDY ON LAKE SURFACE AREA CHANGE OF MAJOR LAKES IN THE TAIHU BASIN DURING THE PAST 30 YEARS. Haiyang huzhao tongbao. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Shuzi, Ji Zhou, & Chenggang Li. (1995). International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing. 2620. 2 indexed citations

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