Junfu Fan

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Junfu Fan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Junfu Fan has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Junfu Fan's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (15 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (13 papers). Junfu Fan is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (15 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (13 papers). Junfu Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Junfu Fan's co-authors include Chenghu Zhou, Ting Ma, Susan Haynie, Tao Pei, Yuke Zhou, Bing Guo, Fei Yang, Yuefeng Lu, Tao Xu and Weitao Cong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Junfu Fan

57 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Quantitative estimation of urbanization dynamics using time series of DMSP/OLS nighttime light data: A comparative case study from China's cities

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Junfu Fan China	17	850	285	283	235	177	68	1.5k
Lei Ma China	20	700 0.8×	317 1.1×	228 0.8×	43 0.2×	233 1.3×	71	1.3k
Shengbiao Wu China	28	1.0k 1.2×	930 3.3×	887 3.1×	101 0.4×	436 2.5×	90	2.3k
Vasileios Syrris Italy	20	1.0k 1.2×	386 1.4×	371 1.3×	215 0.9×	321 1.8×	43	1.8k
Baolei Zhang China	18	601 0.7×	280 1.0×	299 1.1×	44 0.2×	130 0.7×	94	1.1k
Wieke Heldens Germany	16	720 0.8×	282 1.0×	474 1.7×	160 0.7×	350 2.0×	46	1.5k
Yuehong Chen China	24	456 0.5×	437 1.5×	324 1.1×	209 0.9×	313 1.8×	74	1.5k
Guohua Hu China	20	1.5k 1.8×	420 1.5×	570 2.0×	284 1.2×	395 2.2×	51	2.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Junfu Fan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fan, Junfu, Shiliang Liu, Wanting Wang, et al.. (2025). “Nature-society-economy” drivers and their impact trend on the spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem services in the Upper Yangtze River. Ecological Frontiers. 45(4). 817–828. 2 indexed citations

Teng, Xin, et al.. (2025). CLM-UNet: A Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation Method Incorporating Attention Mechanism. IEEE Access. 13. 104966–104976. 1 indexed citations

Fan, Junfu, Shiliang Liu, Wanting Wang, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the ecological network dynamics associated with ecological restoration projects: A case study in Southwest China. Global Ecology and Conservation. 62. e03744–e03744.

Fan, Junfu, Shiliang Liu, Wanting Wang, et al.. (2025). Identifying driving mechanisms and relationships between supply and demand of ecosystem services based on structural equation model in the upstream segment of the Yangtze River. Journal of Environmental Management. 393. 127093–127093. 2 indexed citations

Han, Liusheng, Xiangyu Wang, Dan Li, et al.. (2024). A Novel Approach to Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Fruit Trees Using Phenological Characteristics. Agronomy. 14(1). 150–150. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Qingyun, et al.. (2024). A spatiotemporal comprehensive constraint interpolation method for missing values in monthly composite Suomi-NPP VIIRS Cloud Mask images. International Journal of Digital Earth. 17(1).

Fan, Junfu, et al.. (2024). Multicore Parallelized Spatial Overlay Analysis Algorithm Using Vector Polygon Shape Complexity Index Optimization. Applied Sciences. 14(5). 2006–2006.

Zhu, Junjie, Jie Wang, Tianpeng Xu, et al.. (2024). FGF21 ameliorates septic liver injury by restraining proinflammatory macrophages activation through the autophagy/HIF-1α axis. Journal of Advanced Research. 69. 477–494. 10 indexed citations

Han, Liusheng, et al.. (2023). The Factors Affecting the Quality of the Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index (TVDI) and the Spatial–Temporal Variations in Drought from 2011 to 2020 in Regions Affected by Climate Change. Sustainability. 15(14). 11350–11350. 10 indexed citations

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Guo, Bing, Yifeng Liu, Junfu Fan, et al.. (2023). The salinization process and its response to the combined processes of climate change–human activity in the Yellow River Delta between 1984 and 2022. CATENA. 231. 107301–107301. 44 indexed citations

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Fan, Junfu, et al.. (2023). Building Change Detection with Deep Learning by Fusing Spectral and Texture Features of Multisource Remote Sensing Images: A GF-1 and Sentinel 2B Data Case. Remote Sensing. 15(9). 2351–2351. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Yi‐Ming, Xixi Chen, Junfu Fan, et al.. (2023). FGF18 alleviates hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury via the USP16-mediated KEAP1/Nrf2 signaling pathway in male mice. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6107–6107. 36 indexed citations

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Fan, Junfu, et al.. (2023). Comparison of 4 vector polygon clipping algorithms in the spatial overlay analysis of GIS using simple feature model. 12110. 8–8. 1 indexed citations

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Ren, Zhoupeng, et al.. (2023). Positive Effect Observed on Reducing Criteria Pollutant Emissions Provided by Provisional Local Regulations during the 2022 Winter Olympics. Atmosphere. 14(12). 1774–1774. 2 indexed citations

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Fan, Junfu, Xixi Chen, Santie Li, et al.. (2022). CK2 blockade alleviates liver fibrosis by suppressing activation of hepatic stellate cells via the Hedgehog pathway. British Journal of Pharmacology. 180(1). 44–61. 6 indexed citations

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Sun, Jia, Chao Niu, Peng Chen, et al.. (2022). FGF13-Sensitive Alteration of Parkin Safeguards Mitochondrial Homeostasis in Endothelium of Diabetic Nephropathy. Diabetes. 72(1). 97–111. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Hongwei, Bing Guo, Junfu Fan, et al.. (2021). A novel remote sensing ecological vulnerability index on large scale: A case study of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor region. Ecological Indicators. 129. 107955–107955. 74 indexed citations

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Fan, Junfu. (2016). Parallel Algorithms for Polygon Overlapping. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Fan, Junfu, et al.. (2015). RaPC:A Rasterization-based Polygon Clipping Algorithm and Its Error Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Fan, Junfu. (2002). The application of the ecological succession principle on the land reclaimation In the open coal mines. Coal Mining Technology. 2 indexed citations

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