Jun Yang

16.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
208 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Jun Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun Yang has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 34 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jun Yang's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (43 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (33 papers) and Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques (26 papers). Jun Yang is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (43 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (33 papers) and Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques (26 papers). Jun Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Jun Yang's co-authors include Peng Gong, Joe R. McBride, Jinxing Zhou, Qian Yu, Xuecao Li, Conghong Huang, Tengyun Hu, Xuesong Mei, Zhenyuan Sun and Bing Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Jun Yang

196 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

  1. Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018
    2019 819 citations Peng Gong, Xuecao Li et al. profile →
  2. The urban forest in Beijing and its role in air pollution reduction
    2004 539 citations Jun Yang, Joe R. McBride et al. profile →
  3. Quantifying air pollution removal by green roofs in Chicago
    2008 516 citations Jun Yang, Peng Gong et al. profile →
  4. The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies
    2013 411 citations Jun Yang, Peng Gong et al. profile →
  5. Mapping major land cover dynamics in Beijing using all Landsat images in Google Earth Engine
    2017 357 citations Huabing Huang, Nicholas Clinton et al. profile →
  6. Mapping Urban Land Use by Using Landsat Images and Open Social Data
    2016 327 citations Jun Yang, Xuecao Li et al. Remote Sensing profile →
  7. A 30 m annual cropland dataset of China from 1986 to 2021
    2024 46 citations Ying Tu, Shengbiao Wu et al. Earth system science data profile →

Peers

Jun Yang
Toshihiko Masui Japan
Stefano Schiavon United States
Yoshiki Yamagata Japan
Steven P. Hamburg United States
Lei Wang China
Zhifeng Liu China
Roberto Zecchin Italy
Mehmet Çetin Türkiye
Katherine Calvin United States
Chunyang He China
Toshihiko Masui Japan
Jun Yang
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Countries citing papers authored by Jun Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jun Yang

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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
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Yang, Jun, et al.. (2024). A review of methods for quantifying urban ecosystem services. Landscape and Urban Planning. 253. 105215–105215. 19 indexed citations
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Tu, Ying, Shengbiao Wu, Бин Чэн, et al.. (2024). A 30 m annual cropland dataset of China from 1986 to 2021. Earth system science data. 16(5). 2297–2316. 46 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kwan, Mei‐Po, et al.. (2023). A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 104. 102004–102004. 16 indexed citations
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Yu, Yuanchun, Yue He, Xiaoniu Xu, et al.. (2023). The impacts of nitrogen addition on the active carbon pools in forest soils along an urban–rural gradient. CATENA. 236. 107769–107769. 4 indexed citations
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Feng, Zemin, et al.. (2023). Tracking the historical urban development by classifying Landsat MSS data with training samples migrated across time and space. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 2487–2502. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Gaochao, Guowei Wu, & Jun Yang. (2022). The restorative effects of short-term exposure to nature in immersive virtual environments (IVEs) as evidenced by participants' brain activities. Journal of Environmental Management. 326(Pt B). 116830–116830. 34 indexed citations
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Wang, Yong, Guang J. Zhang, Peng Gong, et al.. (2021). Winter Warming in North America Induced by Urbanization in China. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(22). 6 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, Jinxing Zhou, Jing Jin, & Qixiang Sun. (2020). The Stakeholders’ Views on Planting Trees to Control Schistosomiasis in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(3). 939–939. 4 indexed citations
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Dai, Guanghui, Jun Yang, Conghong Huang, et al.. (2017). The Effects of Climate Change on the Development of Tree Plantations for Biodiesel Production in China. Forests. 8(6). 207–207. 9 indexed citations
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Zhou, Changchun, et al.. (2015). Marine debris surveys on four beaches in Rizhao City of China. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, Frank A. La Sorte, Petr Pyšek, et al.. (2015). The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world's cities is scale dependent. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24(12). 1413–1423. 51 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, Xuesong Mei, Bin Feng, et al.. (2014). Experiments and simulation of thermal behaviors of the dual-drive servo feed system. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 28(1). 76–87. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Congcong, Jie Wang, Luanyun Hu, et al.. (2014). A Circa 2010 Thirty Meter Resolution Forest Map for China. Remote Sensing. 6(6). 5325–5343. 48 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jinxing, Wei Yuan, Jun Yang, et al.. (2011). Carbon budget and its response to environmental factors in young and mature poplar plantations along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China. Journal of Food Agriculture & Environment. 9. 818–825. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Changhong, et al.. (2009). Uso de teléfonos móviles en un sistema de notificación de emergencia para la vigilancia de las enfermedades infecciosas tras el terremoto de Sichuan en China. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 87(8). 619–623. 1 indexed citations

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