Kangning Huang

3.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
41 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Kangning Huang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kangning Huang has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 14 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kangning Huang's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (6 papers). Kangning Huang is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (6 papers). Kangning Huang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Kangning Huang's co-authors include Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, Yimin Chen, Xiaocong Xu, Karen C. Seto, Yuean Qiu, Jiye Leng, Xiaoping Liu, Guangzhao Chen and Xun Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Kangning Huang

36 papers receiving 2.4k 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. Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways
    2020 632 citations Guangzhao Chen, Xia Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
    2020 616 citations Xiaoping Liu, Yinghuai Huang et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  3. Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050
    2019 279 citations Kangning Huang, Xia Li et al. profile →
  4. Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions
    2025 16 citations Zhaowu Yu, Siheng Li et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kangning Huang China 18 1.6k 706 641 549 313 41 2.5k
Guohua Hu China 20 1.5k 1.0× 570 0.8× 440 0.7× 395 0.7× 420 1.3× 51 2.3k
Amin Tayyebi United States 23 1.7k 1.1× 469 0.7× 335 0.5× 422 0.8× 532 1.7× 42 2.2k
Chengbin Deng United States 21 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 1.6× 501 0.8× 530 1.0× 372 1.2× 46 2.3k
David Potere United States 11 2.0k 1.3× 794 1.1× 614 1.0× 496 0.9× 632 2.0× 18 3.0k
Manchun Li China 33 2.1k 1.3× 621 0.9× 575 0.9× 428 0.8× 605 1.9× 131 3.1k
Frank Canters Belgium 31 1.6k 1.0× 974 1.4× 575 0.9× 446 0.8× 644 2.1× 144 3.1k
Michele Munafò Italy 22 1.3k 0.8× 727 1.0× 623 1.0× 225 0.4× 377 1.2× 66 2.1k
Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy Bangladesh 32 2.0k 1.3× 1.7k 2.4× 848 1.3× 712 1.3× 558 1.8× 109 3.2k
Thomas Kemper Italy 28 1.6k 1.0× 733 1.0× 251 0.4× 520 0.9× 429 1.4× 69 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Kangning Huang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kangning Huang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kangning Huang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kangning Huang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kangning Huang 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 Kangning Huang. Kangning Huang 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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Yu, Zhaowu, Siheng Li, Wenjun Yang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(18). 9082–9092. 16 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Shasha, Wenfeng Zhan, Bing‐Bing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Dual impact of global urban overheating on mortality. Nature Climate Change. 15(5). 497–504. 11 indexed citations
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Du, Huilin, Wenfeng Zhan, Bing‐Bing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Exacerbated heat stress induced by urban browning in the Global South. Nature Cities. 2(2). 157–169. 11 indexed citations
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Pei, Yaolin, Gen Li, Weiming Tang, et al.. (2025). Unequal Effects of the Lockdown on Mental Health in Shanghai: The Moderating and Mediating Role of Neighborhood Environment and Online Social Connections. Journal of Community Psychology. 53(1). e23177–e23177. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Kangning, Brian Stone, ChengHe Guan, & Jiayong Liang. (2025). Declining urban density attenuates rising population exposure to surface heat extremes. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 13860–13860. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Xuecao, Xiaoping Liu, Xiaocong Xu, et al.. (2024). Mapping of individual building heights reveals the large gap of urban-rural living spaces in the contiguous US. 2(2). 100069–100069. 7 indexed citations
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Hu, Tangao, et al.. (2021). Long‐term monitoring and evaluation of land development in a reclamation area under rapid urbanization: A case‐study in Qiantang New District, China. Land Degradation and Development. 32(11). 3259–3271. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Yinghuai Huang, Xiaocong Xu, et al.. (2020). High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015. Nature Sustainability. 3(7). 564–570. 616 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Guangzhao, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, et al.. (2020). Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways. Nature Communications. 11(1). 632 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Yimin, et al.. (2020). High‐Resolution Gridded Population Projections for China Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Earth s Future. 8(6). 61 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Shuli Chen, Li Zhuo, Jun Li, & Kangning Huang. (2018). Multi-sensor image registration by combining local self-similarity matching and mutual information. Frontiers of Earth Science. 12(4). 779–790. 15 indexed citations
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Chen, Siyu, Jianping Huang, Nanxuan Jiang, et al.. (2017). Estimations of anthropogenic dust emissions at global scale from 2007 to 2010. 4 indexed citations
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Liang, Jiayong, Xiaoping Liu, Kangning Huang, et al.. (2013). Automatic Registration of Multisensor Images Using an Integrated Spatial and Mutual Information (SMI) Metric. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 52(1). 603–615. 80 indexed citations
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Huang, Kangning, Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li, Jiayong Liang, & Shenjing He. (2012). An improved artificial immune system for seeking the Pareto front of land-use allocation problem in large areas. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 27(5). 922–946. 74 indexed citations
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Li, Xia, et al.. (2010). The Implementation and Application of Geographical Simulation and Optimization Systems (GeoSOS). Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni. 49(4). 1. 6 indexed citations
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Yeh, Tien-Chiang, et al.. (2009). A Method of Upgrading a Hydrostatic Model to a Nonhydrostatic Model. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. 20(5). 727–727. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Kangning, et al.. (2007). MULTIPLE TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO HOT ROLLING PLANNING. Jisuanji yingyong yanjiu. 24(7). 43–46. 4 indexed citations

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