Jinfeng Chang

12.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
105 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Jinfeng Chang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jinfeng Chang has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Jinfeng Chang's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (19 papers). Jinfeng Chang is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (19 papers). Jinfeng Chang collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Jinfeng Chang's co-authors include Philippe Ciais, Shushi Peng, Peter Havlík, Michael Obersteiner, Mario Herrero, Nicolas Viovy, Hanqin Tian, Daniel S. Goll, Chao Yue and Wei Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jinfeng Chang

98 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment

2021 218 citations Hao Zhao, Jinfeng Chang et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

2021 200 citations Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications profile →
Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields

2022 121 citations Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
Spatiotemporal co-optimization of agricultural management practices towards climate-smart crop production

2024 61 citations Liujun Xiao, Jinfeng Chang et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jinfeng Chang China	34	1.2k	887	602	509	508	105	3.1k
Jia Yang United States	33	1.6k 1.3×	952 1.1×	616 1.0×	420 0.8×	562 1.1×	85	3.1k
Lutz Merbold Switzerland	34	2.1k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	678 1.1×	370 0.7×	655 1.3×	108	3.4k
Fei Lu China	28	2.2k 1.8×	1.1k 1.2×	829 1.4×	532 1.0×	327 0.6×	67	4.0k
Yunfan Wan China	33	989 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	991 1.6×	250 0.5×	469 0.9×	73	2.9k
Johan Stendahl Sweden	24	1.3k 1.1×	804 0.9×	859 1.4×	501 1.0×	226 0.4×	60	3.1k
Nicolas Vuichard France	34	2.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.4×	1.2k 2.0×	365 0.7×	794 1.6×	77	3.7k
Xia Zhao China	24	996 0.8×	896 1.0×	1.1k 1.9×	294 0.6×	511 1.0×	41	3.1k
Huifeng Hu China	34	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	1.5k 2.5×	424 0.8×	581 1.1×	97	4.2k
Robert J. Zomer China	23	1.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	943 1.6×	506 1.0×	480 0.9×	44	4.4k
R.J. Harper Australia	28	1.6k 1.3×	924 1.0×	925 1.5×	491 1.0×	258 0.5×	104	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Jinfeng Chang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jinfeng Chang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jinfeng Chang

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Asseng, Senthold, Matthew Tom Harrison, Liang Tang, et al.. (2025). Rice yield stability and its determinants across different rice-cropping systems in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 364. 110452–110452. 7 indexed citations

Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Lei Zhu, et al.. (2024). Forest aging limits future carbon sink in China. One Earth. 7(5). 822–834. 30 indexed citations

Xi, Yi, Chunjing Qiu, Yuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Assessment of a tiling energy budget approach in a land surface model, ORCHIDEE-MICT (r8205). Geoscientific model development. 17(12). 4727–4754. 1 indexed citations

Ding, Lei, Zhenwang Li, Kang Xu, et al.. (2023). A water stress factor based on normalized difference water index substantially improved the accuracy of light use efficiency model for arid and semi-arid grasslands. Journal of Environmental Management. 349. 119566–119566. 7 indexed citations

Ren, Ming, Chen Huang, Yazhen Wu, et al.. (2023). Enhanced food system efficiency is the key to China’s 2060 carbon neutrality target. Nature Food. 4(7). 552–564. 53 indexed citations

Guo, Xiaowei, Xiali Mao, Yu Wu, et al.. (2022). A field incubation approach to evaluate the depth dependence of soil biogeochemical responses to climate change. Global Change Biology. 29(3). 909–920. 7 indexed citations

Helama, Samuli, Matthew Tom Harrison, C. Alan Rotz, et al.. (2022). Use, calibration and verification of agroecological models for boreal environments: A review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 14–30. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuzhong, Daniel J. Jacob, Xiao Lu, et al.. (2021). Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(5). 3643–3666. 101 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuzhong, Xiao Lu, Joannes D. Maasakkers, et al.. (2021). Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hao, Jinfeng Chang, Peter Havlík, et al.. (2021). China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment. Nature Sustainability. 4(12). 1042–1051. 218 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chang, Jinfeng, Peter Havlík, David Leclère, et al.. (2021). Reconciling regional nitrogen boundaries with global food security. Nature Food. 2(9). 700–711. 92 indexed citations

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Chang, Jinfeng, Shushi Peng, Yi Yin, et al.. (2021). The Key Role of Production Efficiency Changes in Livestock Methane Emission Mitigation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 52 indexed citations

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Shi, Hao, Hanqin Tian, Naiqing Pan, et al.. (2021). Saturation of Global Terrestrial Carbon Sink Under a High Warming Scenario. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(10). 22 indexed citations

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Gädeke, Anne, Moritz Langer, Julia Boike, et al.. (2021). Climate change reduces winter overland travel across the Pan-Arctic even under low-end global warming scenarios. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 24049–24049. 23 indexed citations

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Chang, Jinfeng, Philippe Ciais, Thomas Gasser, et al.. (2021). Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands. Nature Communications. 12(1). 118–118. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goll, Daniel S., Philippe Ciais, Thorben Amann, et al.. (2021). Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock. Nature Geoscience. 14(8). 545–549. 118 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhaoqi, Jinfeng Chang, Shushi Peng, et al.. (2019). Changes in productivity and carbon storage of grasslands in China under future global warming scenarios of 1.5°C and 2°C. Journal of Plant Ecology. 12(5). 804–814. 20 indexed citations

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Yue, Chao, Philippe Ciais, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, et al.. (2018). Representing anthropogenic gross land use change, wood harvest, and forest age dynamics in a global vegetation model ORCHIDEE-MICT v8.4.2. Geoscientific model development. 11(1). 409–428. 43 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Chao Yue, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). ORCHIDEE-MICT-BIOENERGY: an attempt to represent the production of lignocellulosic crops for bioenergy in a global vegetation model. Geoscientific model development. 11(6). 2249–2272. 19 indexed citations

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Zhu, Dan, Philippe Ciais, Jinfeng Chang, et al.. (2018). The large mean body size of mammalian herbivores explains the productivity paradox during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(4). 640–649. 44 indexed citations

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