Jianming Niu

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Jianming Niu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jianming Niu has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jianming Niu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers). Jianming Niu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers). Jianming Niu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Jianming Niu's co-authors include Jianguo Wu, Zhifeng Liu, N. D. Crossman, Ang Li, Chunyang He, Hai Ren, Xiangzheng Deng, Brett A. Bryan, Yanqiong Ye and Xiufeng Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Jianming Niu

32 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

China’s response to a national land-system sustainability... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency
    2018 1.1k citations Brett A. Bryan, Lei Gao et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jianming Niu China 15 970 497 340 296 199 35 1.7k
Guodong Han China 13 801 0.8× 456 0.9× 271 0.8× 331 1.1× 162 0.8× 33 1.4k
Anne-Gäelle Ausseil New Zealand 23 689 0.7× 352 0.7× 245 0.7× 278 0.9× 97 0.5× 59 1.5k
Xiufeng Sun China 6 933 1.0× 357 0.7× 236 0.7× 221 0.7× 147 0.7× 9 1.4k
Viviana Zalles United States 9 993 1.0× 651 1.3× 190 0.6× 171 0.6× 207 1.0× 15 1.7k
Duanyang Xu China 22 637 0.7× 571 1.1× 277 0.8× 317 1.1× 175 0.9× 54 1.4k
Žiga Malek Netherlands 21 876 0.9× 285 0.6× 306 0.9× 212 0.7× 101 0.5× 46 1.6k
Changjia Li China 20 665 0.7× 523 1.1× 218 0.6× 493 1.7× 243 1.2× 51 1.4k
Florian Zabel Germany 20 752 0.8× 434 0.9× 202 0.6× 254 0.9× 138 0.7× 36 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jianming Niu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jianming Niu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jianming Niu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jianming Niu. The network helps show where Jianming Niu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jianming Niu

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

All Works

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Jiang, Jianqiao, Yun Xie, Yiwen Chen, et al.. (2025). Exploring the effect of inoculation strategies with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus paracasei SMN-LBK on chemical, flavor and metabolic profiles of prune wine. Food Research International. 217. 116867–116867. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Chunyan, Fangfang Wang, Jianming Niu, et al.. (2025). Identification of core microorganisms and source tracking of microbial communities in traditional Kazakh cheese during spontaneous fermentation. Food Bioscience. 71. 107259–107259.
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Shen, Beibei, Haoxin Li, Yadong Wang, et al.. (2024). Past dynamics and future prediction of the impacts of land use cover change and climate change on landscape ecological risk across the Mongolian plateau. Journal of Environmental Management. 355. 120365–120365. 23 indexed citations
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Xie, Yun, Jianqiao Jiang, Yiwen Chen, et al.. (2024). Influence of different geographical origins and bottle storage times on the chemical composition, antioxidant activity and sensory properties of Cabernet Sauvignon wine. Food Chemistry X. 24. 101978–101978. 1 indexed citations
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Han, Peng, et al.. (2022). A new approach for the classification of grassland utilization in Inner Mongolia -- based on ecological sites and state-and-transition models. Ecological Indicators. 137. 108733–108733. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuqing, et al.. (2020). Exogenous Silicon Enhanced Salt Resistance by Maintaining K+/Na+ Homeostasis and Antioxidant Performance in Alfalfa Leaves. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 1183–1183. 50 indexed citations
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Bryan, Brett A., Lei Gao, Yanqiong Ye, et al.. (2018). China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency. Nature. 559(7713). 193–204. 1075 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhao, Xining, et al.. (2015). Special Issue: Restoration and sustainable use of desertified lands.. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions. 7(1). 1–110. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Jianguo, Alexander Buyantuev, Jianming Niu, et al.. (2014). Plant species diversity is correlated with climatic factors differently at the community and the functional group levels: A case study of desert steppe in Inner Mongolia, China. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 150(1). 121–123. 6 indexed citations
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Han, Fang, Qing Zhang, Alexander Buyantuev, et al.. (2014). Effects of climate change on phenology and primary productivity in the desert steppe of Inner Mongolia. Journal of Arid Land. 7(2). 251–263. 37 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qing, et al.. (2014). Effect of mining landscape history on local species diversity: a case study of the Yimin open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. Biodiversity Science. 22(2). 117–117. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Pengtao, et al.. (2013). Spatial Distribution and Evolution of Climatic Aridity in Desert Steppe in Inner Mongolia in Recent 50 Years. Arid Zone Research. 30(3). 449–456. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qing, et al.. (2013). Relationship of ecosystem primary productivity to species diversity and functional group diversity: evidence from Stipa breviflora grassland in Nei Mongol. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 37(7). 620–630. 6 indexed citations
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Niu, Jianming. (2001). Climate-based digital simulation on spatial istribution of vegetation-a case study in Inner Mongolia. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 21(7). 1064–1071. 1 indexed citations

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