Keyan Fang

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Keyan Fang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Keyan Fang has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Atmospheric Science, 121 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 23 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Keyan Fang's work include Tree-ring climate responses (107 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (91 papers) and Climate variability and models (56 papers). Keyan Fang is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (107 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (91 papers) and Climate variability and models (56 papers). Keyan Fang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Keyan Fang's co-authors include Xiaohua Gou, Fahu Chen, Jinbao Li, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Edward R. Cook, Nicole Davi, Feifei Zhou, Deliang Chen, Zhipeng Dong and Zhengtang Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Keyan Fang

126 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point

2020 223 citations Hans W. Linderholm, Keyan Fang et al. profile →

Peers

Keyan Fang

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Scott St. George United States

E. R. Cook United States

Anthony M. Fowler New Zealand

Chunming Shi China

Mariano Masiokas Argentina

David Sauchyn Canada

Dan J. Smith Canada

N. C. Pepin United Kingdom

Sloan Coats United States

Hiroaki Kawase Japan

Scott St. George United States

Keyan Fang

1.6k ×0.6

GPC

1.6k ×0.6

AS

410 ×0.7

NLC

318 ×1.4

ECOLO

237 ×1.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Keyan Fang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keyan Fang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keyan Fang

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wang, Xiaochun, et al.. (2025). Tree rings: decoding forest carbon-climate nexus. Journal of Forestry Research. 36(1).

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Fang, Keyan, Jing M. Chen, Sergio Rossi, et al.. (2025). Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

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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, Min, Xin Jia, Lijun Zhu, et al.. (2025). The Spring-Autumn and Warring States period coldness (400–350 BCE) contributed to the social unrest evidenced from coffin tree rings in southeastern China. Quaternary Science Reviews. 369. 109617–109617.

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Zhou, Feifei, Keyan Fang, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, et al.. (2024). ENSO weakens the co-variability between the spring persistent rains and Asian summer monsoon: Evidences from tree-ring data in southeastern China. Journal of Hydrology. 634. 131080–131080. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yingjun, et al.. (2024). Tree-Ring-Based Hydroclimatic Variability in the Southeast Coastal Region of China. Forests. 15(10). 1813–1813. 1 indexed citations

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Baba, Naoko, et al.. (2024). Geomatics Applied to Update the Geological Map of the Benoue Upstream Watershed (BUW). 12(4). 87–95.

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Yao, Qichao, Lamei Shi, Zhou Wang, et al.. (2024). Research on Wildfire and Soil Water: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1990 to 2023. Fire. 7(12). 434–434. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Feifei, Zhipeng Dong, Keyan Fang, et al.. (2024). Summer heat induced the decline of Pinus taiwanensis forests at its southern limit in humid Subtropical China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 350. 109974–109974. 3 indexed citations

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He, Bin, Deliang Chen, Hans W. Chen, et al.. (2024). Increasing Sensitivity of Tree Radial Growth to Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(16). 5 indexed citations

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Treydte, Kerstin, Matthias Saurer, Keyan Fang, et al.. (2024). Contrasting water-use strategies to climate warming in white birch and larch in a boreal permafrost region. Tree Physiology. 44(6). 5 indexed citations

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Fang, Keyan, et al.. (2023). Drought variations in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau region since 1704 and their link to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 630. 111813–111813. 6 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xiaoen, Keyan Fang, Feng Chen, Martín A. Hadad, & Fidel A. Roig. (2023). Reconstructed Jing River streamflow from western China: A 399-year perspective for hydrological changes in the Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 621. 129573–129573. 33 indexed citations

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Xi, Qi, Paolo Cherubini, Kerstin Treydte, et al.. (2023). Growth responses to climate warming and their physiological mechanisms differ between mature and young larch trees in a boreal permafrost region. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 343. 109765–109765. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Chongqing, Feifei Zhou, Shixiong Jiang, et al.. (2023). Weakened western Pacific teleconnection pattern caused a decrease in spring persistent rainfall in north of 26°N over Southeast China. International Journal of Climatology. 43(9). 4337–4346.

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Gong, Xiao Ying, Wei Ting, Keyan Fang, et al.. (2022). Overestimated gains in water‐use efficiency by global forests. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4923–4934. 27 indexed citations

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Gou, Xiaohua, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Zhen Li, et al.. (2021). Spatial synchrony in δ18O time-series from a tree-ring network are driven by synchronous hydroclimate variability in the transitional zone of the Asian summer monsoon. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 311. 108687–108687. 7 indexed citations

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Fang, Keyan, et al.. (2017). Reconstruction of soil erosion rates from exposed roots in southeast China. Asian Geographer. 34(2). 91–105. 2 indexed citations

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Shi, Feng, Quansheng Ge, Yang Bai, et al.. (2015). A Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Spatial and Temporal Variations in Asian Summer Temperatures Over the Last Millennium. zvestiya of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus). 2015. 2 indexed citations

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Fang, Keyan, et al.. (2014). [Research advances in dendrochronology].. PubMed. 25(7). 1879–88. 2 indexed citations

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