Jun Yang

10.3k total citations · 11 hit papers
288 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Jun Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun Yang has authored 288 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 82 papers in Environmental Engineering and 63 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Jun Yang's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (78 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (71 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (43 papers). Jun Yang is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (78 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (71 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (43 papers). Jun Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Jun Yang's co-authors include Xiangming Xiao, Jianhong Xia, Xueming Li, Cui Jin, Andong Guo, Dongqi Sun, Jiayi Ren, Quansheng Ge, Wei Sun and Yichen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jun Yang

265 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

Influences of urban spatial form on urban heat island eff... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2019 2020 2019 2021 100 200 300
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. Influences of urban spatial form on urban heat island effects at the community level in China
    2019 303 citations Jun Yang, Xiangming Xiao et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →
  2. Local climate zone ventilation and urban land surface temperatures: Towards a performance-based and wind-sensitive planning proposal in megacities
    2019 280 citations Jun Yang, Xiangming Xiao et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →
  3. Optimizing local climate zones to mitigate urban heat island effect in human settlements
    2020 270 citations Jun Yang, Xiangming Xiao et al. profile →
  4. Analysis of the environmental behavior of farmers for non-point source pollution control and management: An integration of the theory of planned behavior and the protection motivation theory
    2019 265 citations Jun Yang et al. profile →
  5. Effects of rural revitalization on rural tourism
    2021 256 citations Jun Yang, Ming‐Hsiang Chen et al. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management profile →
  6. 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 →
  7. Influence of urban morphological characteristics on thermal environment
    2021 231 citations Jun Yang, Dongqi Sun et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →
  8. 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 →
  9. Contribution of urban functional zones to the spatial distribution of urban thermal environment
    2022 177 citations Jun Yang, Xiangming Xiao et al. Building and Environment profile →
  10. Exploring thermal comfort of urban buildings based on local climate zones
    2022 142 citations Jiayi Ren, Jun Yang et al. profile →
  11. Cropland abandonment in China: Patterns, drivers, and implications for food security
    2023 107 citations Jun Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jun Yang China 49 3.7k 3.3k 2.6k 1.4k 808 288 8.1k
Jianhong Xia Australia 39 2.5k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 795 0.6× 786 1.0× 162 5.4k
Lee Chapman United Kingdom 41 2.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.4× 1.4k 0.5× 939 0.7× 816 1.0× 132 5.4k
Weiqi Zhou China 57 6.4k 1.7× 7.0k 2.1× 6.9k 2.6× 2.1k 1.5× 678 0.8× 236 12.5k
Bao‐Jie He China 56 4.8k 1.3× 2.0k 0.6× 2.9k 1.1× 781 0.6× 3.2k 4.0× 199 9.0k
Yuyu Zhou United States 64 7.0k 1.9× 8.8k 2.6× 3.7k 1.4× 2.7k 1.9× 1.7k 2.1× 272 15.3k
Yanxu Liu China 63 3.2k 0.9× 10.7k 3.2× 3.7k 1.4× 1.9k 1.4× 494 0.6× 263 14.7k
Man Sing Wong Hong Kong 44 2.9k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 745 0.9× 262 6.5k
Jian Peng China 69 4.2k 1.1× 11.5k 3.4× 4.8k 1.8× 2.2k 1.5× 751 0.9× 331 16.3k
Yuji Murayama Japan 49 3.6k 1.0× 5.2k 1.6× 2.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 599 0.7× 201 8.3k
Xuecao Li China 51 3.4k 0.9× 6.6k 2.0× 1.8k 0.7× 2.0k 1.4× 573 0.7× 177 9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jun Yang

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Jun Yang's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Jun Yang with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Jun Yang more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Jun Yang

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jun Yang. 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 Jun Yang. The network helps show where Jun Yang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jun Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jun Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jun Yang 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 Jun Yang. Jun Yang 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
1.
2.
Yang, Hu, Yan Ge, Jun Yang, et al.. (2025). Thermal exposure across age groups: Social, spatial, and temporal inequalities in Nanjing, China. Sustainable Cities and Society. 124. 106282–106282. 6 indexed citations
3.
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
4.
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
5.
Zou, Qiyue, et al.. (2024). Variation in community heat vulnerability for Shenyang City under local climate zone perspective. Building and Environment. 267. 112242–112242. 19 indexed citations
6.
Li, Xueming, M. Gao, Hang Li, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal evolution and obstacle diagnosis of human settlements based on the “production-living-ecological” functions. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 31022–31022. 3 indexed citations
7.
Luan, Weixin, et al.. (2024). Balanced and imbalanced: global population spatial mobility and economic patterns in coastal and interior areas. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11(1). 3 indexed citations
8.
Zhao, Yanyan, Tongshan Wang, Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). Climatic-hydrologic influence on redox condition in the Cryogenian interglacial Nanhua Basin: Insights from the Datangpo Formation in the northwestern Yangtze Block, South China. Precambrian Research. 412. 107557–107557. 3 indexed citations
9.
Wang, Xinyue, et al.. (2024). Spatial effect of urban morphology on land surface tempature from the perspective of local climate zone. Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment. 36. 101324–101324. 6 indexed citations
10.
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
11.
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
12.
Su, Weiguang, et al.. (2023). Effect of slag composition on corrosion resistance of high chromia refractory bricks for industrial entrained-flow gasifier. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering. 62. 139–149. 5 indexed citations
13.
Deng, Xiaowei, et al.. (2023). Smart cooperative control scheme for large-scale wind farms based on a double-layer machine learning framework. Energy Conversion and Management. 285. 116949–116949. 10 indexed citations
14.
Yang, Jun, et al.. (2023). Optimal allocation of local climate zones based on heat vulnerability perspective. Sustainable Cities and Society. 99. 104981–104981. 58 indexed citations
15.
Yang, Jun, et al.. (2023). Fine allocation of sectoral carbon emissions at block scale and contribution of functional zones. Ecological Informatics. 78. 102293–102293. 19 indexed citations
16.
Tian, Shenzhen, et al.. (2023). Flow space reveals the urban network structure and development mode of cities in Liaoning, China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 14 indexed citations
17.
Yang, Jun & Xiaodan Zheng. (2023). The Spatiotemporal Distribution Characteristics and Driving Factors of Carbon Emissions in the Chinese Construction Industry. Buildings. 13(11). 2808–2808. 4 indexed citations
18.
Yang, Jun, et al.. (2023). An investigation on plastic deformation and nanomechanical properties of Cu 60 Zr 40 / Ni 80 P 20 amorphous nanolaminates. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering. 238(3). 1088–1095. 2 indexed citations
19.
Banzhaf, Ellen, Steven G. Anderson, Anne Jensen, et al.. (2022). Urban-Rural Dependencies and Opportunities to Design Nature-Based Solutions for Resilience in Europe and China. Land. 11(4). 480–480. 21 indexed citations
20.
Yang, Jun, et al.. (2021). Effects of rural revitalization on rural tourism. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 47. 35–45. 256 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jianhong Xia Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Lee Chapman Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Weiqi Zhou Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Bao‐Jie He Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Yuyu Zhou Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Yanxu Liu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Man Sing Wong Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jian Peng Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Yuji Murayama Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Xuecao Li
Rankless by CCL
2026