Kai Yan

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kai Yan is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Yan has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Ecology, 46 papers in Environmental Engineering and 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kai Yan's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (63 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers). Kai Yan is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (63 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (30 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers). Kai Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Kai Yan's co-authors include Ranga B. Myneni, Guangjian Yan, Yuri Knyazikhin, Taejin Park, Chi Chen, Zhao Liu, Bin Yang, Chi Wai Li, Yelu Zeng and Ramakrishna Nemani and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Kai Yan

98 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Evaluating the saturation effect of vegetation indices in forests using 3D radiative transfer simulations and satellite observations

2023 94 citations Si Gao, Kai Yan et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Yan China	28	1.5k	1.1k	916	497	382	105	2.4k
Xihan Mu China	28	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	736 1.5×	561 1.5×	111	3.0k
Manuel Campos‐Taberner Spain	22	1.3k 0.8×	901 0.8×	673 0.7×	366 0.7×	433 1.1×	49	2.0k
Dalei Hao United States	25	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	629 0.7×	575 1.2×	249 0.7×	84	2.0k
B. Franch United States	24	2.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.5×	757 1.5×	392 1.0×	67	3.3k
David A.J. Ripley United States	3	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	600 1.2×	314 0.8×	5	2.4k
Xiaowen Li China	29	2.2k 1.5×	1.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.8×	639 1.3×	302 0.8×	100	3.3k
Maxim Shoshany Israel	27	998 0.7×	843 0.7×	706 0.8×	384 0.8×	269 0.7×	100	2.2k
Alexander Damm Switzerland	35	2.3k 1.6×	2.4k 2.1×	793 0.9×	583 1.2×	758 2.0×	94	3.6k
A. Bannari Canada	18	1.6k 1.0×	740 0.7×	994 1.1×	355 0.7×	441 1.2×	61	2.4k
Jinshui Zhang China	19	994 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	447 0.5×	471 0.9×	259 0.7×	81	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Yan

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Yaoyao, Xihan Mu, Tim R. McVicar, et al.. (2025). Using an improved radiative transfer model to estimate leaf area index, fractional vegetation cover and leaf inclination angle from Himawari-8 geostationary satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 318. 114595–114595. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Wude, Kai Yan, Wenyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Multimodal fusion of low-field NMR and hyperspectral data for pork freshness detection. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 148. 108186–108186.

Tan, Jun, et al.. (2025). Lightweight UAV Landing Model Based on Visual Positioning. Sensors. 25(3). 884–884. 3 indexed citations

Zeng, Yelu, Anne Gobin, Jianxi Huang, et al.. (2025). Normalized Solar-Induced Fluorescence Responds Earlier Than Vegetation Indices to the 2019 North China Plain Drought. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–13.

Ma, Xuanlong, Wei Yang, Kai Yan, et al.. (2025). Global Upscaling of Gross Primary Productivity Using a Simple and Robust Modeling Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–13. 2 indexed citations

Pu, Jiabin, Kai Yan, Samapriya Roy, et al.. (2024). Sensor-independent LAI/FPAR CDR: reconstructing a global sensor-independent climate data record of MODIS and VIIRS LAI/FPAR from 2000 to 2022. Earth system science data. 16(1). 15–34. 20 indexed citations

Qi, Jianbo, et al.. (2024). Estimation of canopy photon recollision probability from airborne laser scanning. Remote Sensing of Environment. 311. 114264–114264. 9 indexed citations

Yan, Kai, Z. Fan, Kun Jia, et al.. (2024). Toward a Novel Method for General On-Orbit Earth Surface Anomaly Detection Leveraging Large Vision Models and Lightweight Priors. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–21. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Xingjian, Kai Yan, Jinxiu Liu, et al.. (2024). An Insight Into the Internal Consistency of MODIS Global Leaf Area Index Products. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–16. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Tong, et al.. (2023). Global vegetation greenness interannual variability and its evolvement in recent decades. Environmental Research Communications. 5(5). 51011–51011. 4 indexed citations

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Pu, Jiabin, Kai Yan, Si Gao, et al.. (2023). Improving the MODIS LAI compositing using prior time-series information. Remote Sensing of Environment. 287. 113493–113493. 11 indexed citations

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Gao, Si, Kai Yan, Xuanlong Ma, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the saturation effect of vegetation indices in forests using 3D radiative transfer simulations and satellite observations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 295. 113665–113665. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Xinli, Yaoyao Chen, Xihan Mu, et al.. (2023). Correction for the Sun-Angle Effect on the NDVI Based on Path Length. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–17. 1 indexed citations

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Yan, Guangjian, Hailan Jiang, Kai Yan, et al.. (2021). Review of optical multi-angle quantitative remote sensing. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 25(1). 83–108. 8 indexed citations

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Yan, Kai, Guangjian Yan, Hongliang Fang, et al.. (2021). A Bibliometric Visualization Review of the MODIS LAI/FPAR Products from 1995 to 2020. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2021. 29 indexed citations

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Zeng, Yelu, Jing Li, Qinhuo Liu, et al.. (2019). A Radiative Transfer Model for Patchy Landscapes Based on Stochastic Radiative Transfer Theory. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 58(4). 2571–2589. 5 indexed citations

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Song, Wanjuan, Yuri Knyazikhin, Guoyong Wen, et al.. (2018). Implications of Whole-Disc DSCOVR EPIC Spectral Observations for Estimating Earth’s Spectral Reflectivity Based on Low-Earth-Orbiting and Geostationary Observations. Remote Sensing. 10(10). 1594–1594. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Linyuan, Xihan Mu, Craig Macfarlane, et al.. (2018). A half-Gaussian fitting method for estimating fractional vegetation cover of corn crops using unmanned aerial vehicle images. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 262. 379–390. 43 indexed citations

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Yan, Guangjian, Kai Yan, Xihan Mu, et al.. (2018). Temporal Extrapolation of Daily Downward Shortwave Radiation Over Cloud-Free Rugged Terrains. Part 1: Analysis of Topographic Effects. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(11). 6375–6394. 43 indexed citations

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Yan, Kai, Taejin Park, Guangjian Yan, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR Product Collection 6. Part 1: Consistency and Improvements. Remote Sensing. 8(5). 359–359. 179 indexed citations

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