Jun Zhai

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jun Zhai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun Zhai has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jun Zhai's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (38 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (12 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (11 papers). Jun Zhai is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (38 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (12 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (11 papers). Jun Zhai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Jun Zhai's co-authors include Jiyuan Liu, Wenyi Sun, Quanqin Shao, Lin Huang, Peng Hou, Yixin Zhang, Guosong Zhao, Jiyuan Liu, Jinwei Dong and Xiangming Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Jun Zhai

58 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Assessing the effects of land use and topography on soil ... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 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. Assessing the effects of land use and topography on soil erosion on the Loess Plateau in China
    2014 383 citations Wenyi Sun, Jiyuan Liu et al. profile →

Peers

Jun Zhai
Jiuchun Yang China
Yuanhong Deng China
Qiang Feng China
Hui Yue China
Chunhong Zhao China
Qingzheng Wang China
Tim Brewer United Kingdom
Nilanjana Das Chatterjee India
Zhongbao Xin China
Jiuchun Yang China
Jun Zhai
Citations per year, relative to Jun Zhai Jun Zhai (= 1×) peers Jiuchun Yang

Countries citing papers authored by Jun Zhai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jun Zhai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jun Zhai

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

All Works

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Zhang, Yangjun, et al.. (2025). Experimental research on the performance response of gas stoves under different gas pressures. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 67. 105847–105847.
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Liang, Jingjing, Xiaoying Jin, Lin Yang, et al.. (2025). Expansion of thermokarst lakes along the Mo’he county section of National Highway G111 in Northeast China during 1989–2020. Advances in Climate Change Research. 16(5). 1044–1057.
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Shang, Rong, Xudong Lin, Jing M. Chen, et al.. (2025). China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 2022. Earth system science data. 17(7). 3219–3241. 3 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yue, et al.. (2024). Bridging beauty and biodiversity: Coupling diversity and aesthetics through optimized plant communities in urban riverfront landscapes. The Science of The Total Environment. 950. 175278–175278. 7 indexed citations
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Wu, Hao, et al.. (2024). The comprehensive effects of future multi‐scenario land use change and climate change on water conservation in Northwest China. Land Degradation and Development. 35(12). 3844–3854. 2 indexed citations
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Jiang, Jinbao, et al.. (2023). High-Spatial-Resolution NDVI Reconstruction with GA-ANN. Sensors. 23(4). 2040–2040. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Lan, et al.. (2023). Assessing grassland cultural ecosystem services supply and demand for promoting the sustainable realization of grassland cultural values. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169255–169255. 25 indexed citations
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Lin, Beiduo, et al.. (2023). Landscape management and planning as a spatial organization method connecting CES supply-demand assessment and sustainable tourism development. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. 44. 100705–100705. 2 indexed citations
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Meng, Ziqi, Jinwei Dong, Jun Zhai, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness in protected areas at resisting development pressures in China. Applied Geography. 141. 102682–102682. 17 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yixin, et al.. (2021). Home Garden With Eco-Healing Functions Benefiting Mental Health and Biodiversity During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Public Health. 9. 740187–740187. 25 indexed citations
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Zhou, Hui, Fu Xu, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2019). Tracking Reforestation in the Loess Plateau, China after the “Grain for Green” Project through Integrating PALSAR and Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing. 11(22). 2685–2685. 22 indexed citations
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Zhao, Guosong, Jinwei Dong, Yaoping Cui, et al.. (2018). Evapotranspiration-dominated biogeophysical warming effect of urbanization in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China. Climate Dynamics. 52(1-2). 1231–1245. 43 indexed citations
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Zhao, Guosong, Jinwei Dong, Jiyuan Liu, et al.. (2017). Different Patterns in Daytime and Nighttime Thermal Effects of Urbanization in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration. Remote Sensing. 9(2). 121–121. 35 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhiqi, Jinwei Dong, Jiyuan Liu, et al.. (2017). Accuracy Assessment and Inter-Comparison of Eight Medium Resolution Forest Products on the Loess Plateau, China. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 6(5). 152–152. 27 indexed citations
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Lei, Yanbin, Tandong Yao, Broxton W. Bird, et al.. (2012). Coherent lake growth on the central Tibetan Plateau since the 1970s: characterization and attribution. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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