Jiayi Ren

1.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
23 papers, 856 citations indexed

About

Jiayi Ren is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiayi Ren has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 856 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Environmental Engineering, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Jiayi Ren's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (21 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (9 papers). Jiayi Ren is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (21 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (9 papers). Jiayi Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Jiayi Ren's co-authors include Jianhong Xia, Jun Yang, Xiangming Xiao, Xueming Li, Wenbo Yu, Dongqi Sun, Cui Jin, Yang Chen, Yuqing Zhang and Shaohua Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Environmental Modelling & Software.

In The Last Decade

Jiayi Ren

22 papers receiving 843 citations

Hit Papers

Understanding land surface temperature impact factors bas... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2022 2022 50 100 150 200
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. Understanding land surface temperature impact factors based on local climate zones
    2021 244 citations Jun Yang, Jiayi Ren et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →
  2. Relationship between urban spatial form and seasonal land surface temperature under different grid scales
    2022 181 citations Jun Yang, Wenbo Yu et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →
  3. Exploring thermal comfort of urban buildings based on local climate zones
    2022 142 citations Jiayi Ren, Jun Yang et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers

Jiayi Ren
Dongrui Han China
Guifeng Han China
Pir Mohammad India
Zongyao Sun China
Youpeng Lu China
Ruilin Qiao China
Fengning Hu China
Dongrui Han China
Jiayi Ren
Citations per year, relative to Jiayi Ren Jiayi Ren (= 1×) peers Dongrui Han

Countries citing papers authored by Jiayi Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jiayi Ren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jiayi Ren

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Jun, Jiayi Ren, Felix Creutzig, et al.. (2025). Continuous assessment of the factors driving the urban surface thermal environment in 1,469 cities worldwide. 2(9). 100463–100463. 5 indexed citations
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Cui, Ying, Jun Yang, Jiayi Ren, et al.. (2025). Contribution of Suburban Land Use Landscape Characteristics to Urban Heat Island Intensity at Varying Gradients in Shenyang. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 18411–18422. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, et al.. (2025). Cooler urban spaces? Analysis and optimization of heat-exposed landscape morphology from the perspective of local climate zones. Sustainable Cities and Society. 130. 106630–106630. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Hong, Jun Yang, Wenbo Yu, et al.. (2025). Investigating the effect of urban form on land surface temperature at block and grid scales based on XGBoost-SHAP. Environmental Modelling & Software. 195. 106738–106738. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinyue, et al.. (2025). Building a climate-adaptative city: A study on the optimization of thermal vulnerability. Journal of Cleaner Production. 490. 144768–144768. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, et al.. (2025). Enhancing urban resilience: mitigating compound risk through multi-scenario land use optimization. Transportmetrica B Transport Dynamics. 13(1). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zihao, et al.. (2025). Matrix stiffness enhances viability, migration, invasion and invadopodia formation of oral cancer cells via PI3K/AKT pathway in vitro. European journal of medical research. 30(1). 413–413. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, Jiayi Ren, Wenbo Yu, et al.. (2024). Towards ecological civilization: Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and drivers of ecological quality transitions in China (2001–2020). Applied Geography. 173. 103439–103439. 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, et al.. (2024). XGBoost-Based Analysis of the Relationship Between Urban 2-D/3-D Morphology and Seasonal Gradient Land Surface Temperature. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 4109–4124. 43 indexed citations
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Ren, Jiayi, Jun Yang, Wenbo Yu, et al.. (2024). Mapping of Local Climate Zones and Heat Hazard Assessment from a Historical-Future Perspective. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 12622–12636. 11 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, et al.. (2024). Influence of 2-D/3-D Urban Morphology on Diurnal Land Surface Temperature From the Perspective of Functional Zones. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 17036–17051. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, et al.. (2024). Shared insights for heat health risk adaptation in metropolitan areas of developing countries. iScience. 27(5). 109728–109728. 21 indexed citations
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Ren, Jiayi, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal evolution of surface urban heat islands: Concerns regarding summer heat wave periods. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 34(6). 1065–1082. 6 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, Jiayi Ren, Zhenchao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Identifying localized heat zones in urban heat islands from a hill and saddle perspective. Sustainable Cities and Society. 118. 106028–106028. 17 indexed citations
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Yu, Wenbo, Jun Yang, Dongqi Sun, et al.. (2024). How urban heat island magnifies hot day exposure: Global unevenness derived from differences in built landscape. The Science of The Total Environment. 945. 174043–174043. 20 indexed citations
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Ren, Jiayi, Jun Yang, Wenbo Yu, et al.. (2024). Investigating the attribution of urban thermal environment changes under background climate and anthropogenic exploitation scenarios. Sustainable Cities and Society. 107. 105466–105466. 30 indexed citations
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Yu, Wenbo, Jun Yang, Nan Cong, et al.. (2023). Attribution of Urban Diurnal Thermal Environmental Change: Importance of Global–Local Effects. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 16. 8087–8101. 17 indexed citations
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Ren, Jiayi, et al.. (2022). Regional thermal environment changes: Integration of satellite data and land use/land cover. iScience. 26(2). 105820–105820. 63 indexed citations
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Ren, Jiayi, Jun Yang, Yuqing Zhang, et al.. (2022). Exploring thermal comfort of urban buildings based on local climate zones. Journal of Cleaner Production. 340. 130744–130744. 142 indexed citations breakdown →

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