Keyu Qin

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 896 citations indexed

About

Keyu Qin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Keyu Qin has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 896 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Keyu Qin's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers). Keyu Qin is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers). Keyu Qin collaborates with scholars based in China and Japan. Keyu Qin's co-authors include Jingya Liu, Xiaonan Yang, Gaodi Xie, Liang Li, Haijun Huang, Fan Zhang, Feng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Yu Xiao and Yangyang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Keyu Qin

36 papers receiving 878 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.

Coupling coordination degree spatial analysis and driving factor between socio-economic and eco-environment in northern China

2022 142 citations Liang Li, Fan Zhang et al. Ecological Indicators profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keyu Qin China	15	561	169	146	140	109	38	896
Xiaoshun Li China	15	439 0.8×	144 0.9×	80 0.5×	100 0.7×	102 0.9×	60	846
Xiaoxu Hu China	12	912 1.6×	116 0.7×	278 1.9×	125 0.9×	269 2.5×	35	1.2k
Guangyong Li China	17	455 0.8×	40 0.2×	153 1.0×	141 1.0×	65 0.6×	38	844
Åsa Jansson Sweden	14	403 0.7×	146 0.9×	109 0.7×	34 0.2×	132 1.2×	26	867
Bin Fu China	16	350 0.6×	52 0.3×	120 0.8×	129 0.9×	144 1.3×	67	989
Yu Tao China	17	880 1.6×	166 1.0×	378 2.6×	58 0.4×	363 3.3×	38	1.3k
Yujing Xie China	19	468 0.8×	69 0.4×	235 1.6×	205 1.5×	235 2.2×	41	1.0k
Yiwen Li China	18	497 0.9×	188 1.1×	83 0.6×	116 0.8×	34 0.3×	58	1.5k
Lingxia Wang China	18	423 0.8×	66 0.4×	212 1.5×	92 0.7×	81 0.7×	53	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keyu Qin

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Zhang, Mengyu, Honglin He, Li Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ecosystem engineering and global changes are increasingly enhancing China’s terrestrial carbon sinks. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 223. 108514–108514.

Zhang, Biao, Xiaoman Liu, Jie Xu, et al.. (2025). Long-term analysis of carbon sequestration in China’s tea plantations and its mitigation potential for carbon emissions during 1978–2020. Environmental Research Letters. 20(8). 84070–84070.

Liu, Jingya, Keyu Qin, & Gaodi Xie. (2024). The effects and influencing variables based on “supply‐direction‐demand” flow processing: Water provisioning services of Inner Mongolia's ecological shelters. Land Degradation and Development. 35(10). 3490–3505. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Mengyu, Honglin He, Li Zhang, et al.. (2024). Increased ecological land and atmospheric CO2 dominate the growth of ecosystem carbon sinks under the regulation of environmental conditions in national key ecological function zones in China. Journal of Environmental Management. 366. 121906–121906. 7 indexed citations

Xiao, Yu, Zhang Changshun, Lin Zhen, et al.. (2024). Wind erosion prevention and trans-boundary ecosystem service payments in the Hunshandake region. Journal of Cleaner Production. 475. 143664–143664. 2 indexed citations

Shi, Liang, Honglin He, Li Zhang, et al.. (2024). Stability of China's terrestrial ecosystems carbon sink during 2000-2020. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 212. 108007–108007. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Jingya, et al.. (2022). Is the ‘water tower’ reassuring? Viewing water security of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from the perspective of ecosystem services ‘supply-flow-demand’. Environmental Research Letters. 17(9). 94043–94043. 24 indexed citations

Zhang, Mengyu, Honglin He, Li Zhang, et al.. (2022). Increased forest coverage will induce more carbon fixation in vegetation than in soil during 2015–2060 in China based on CMIP6. Environmental Research Letters. 17(10). 105002–105002. 14 indexed citations

Li, Liang, Fan Zhang, Feng Wu, Yuxin Chen, & Keyu Qin. (2022). Coupling coordination degree spatial analysis and driving factor between socio-economic and eco-environment in northern China. Ecological Indicators. 135. 108555–108555. 142 indexed citations breakdown →

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He, Honglin, Li Zhang, Keyu Qin, et al.. (2022). High resistance of deciduous forests and high recovery rate of evergreen forests under moderate droughts in China. Ecological Indicators. 144. 109469–109469. 12 indexed citations

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Xie, Gaodi, et al.. (2021). The story of grain self‐sufficiency: China's food security and food for thought. Food and Energy Security. 11(1). 32 indexed citations

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Li, Liang, Fan Zhang, & Keyu Qin. (2021). Assessing the Vulnerability of Agricultural Systems to Drought in Kyrgyzstan. Water. 13(21). 3117–3117. 14 indexed citations

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Liu, Yilin, Xinyuan Zhang, Haijun Huang, et al.. (2021). Correlation Analysis between Land-Use/Cover Change and Coastal Subsidence in the Yellow River Delta, China: Reviewing the Past and Prospecting the Future. Remote Sensing. 13(22). 4563–4563. 7 indexed citations

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Fei, Rilong, et al.. (2020). Can technology R&D continuously improve green development level in the open economy? Empirical evidence from China’s industrial sector. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(27). 34052–34066. 19 indexed citations

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Zeng, Li, Jing Li, Keyu Qin, et al.. (2020). The total suitability of water yield and carbon sequestration under multi-scenario simulations in the Weihe watershed, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(18). 22461–22475. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Jingya, Keyu Qin, Lin Zhen, Yu Xiao, & Gaodi Xie. (2019). How to allocate interbasin water resources? A method based on water flow in water-deficient areas. Environmental Development. 34. 100460–100460. 13 indexed citations

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Qin, Keyu, et al.. (2018). Setting conservation priorities based on ecosystem services - A case study of the Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Region. The Science of The Total Environment. 650(Pt 2). 3062–3074. 79 indexed citations

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Li, Jing, et al.. (2017). Taking climate, land use, and social economy into estimation of carbon budget in the Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Region of China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 24(11). 10466–10480. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Jingya, Jing Li, Keyu Qin, et al.. (2017). Changes in land-uses and ecosystem services under multi-scenarios simulation. The Science of The Total Environment. 586. 522–526. 111 indexed citations

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Qin, Keyu, Jing Li, & Xiaonan Yang. (2015). Trade-Off and Synergy among Ecosystem Services in the Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Region of China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 12(11). 14094–14113. 57 indexed citations

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