Le Yu

19.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
302 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Le Yu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Le Yu has authored 302 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 140 papers in Ecology and 80 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Le Yu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (111 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (100 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (41 papers). Le Yu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (111 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (100 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (41 papers). Le Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Le Yu's co-authors include Peng Gong, Haohuan Fu, Weijia Li, Xuecao Li, Dailiang Peng, Jie Wang, Yidi Xu, Eun‐Jung Holden, Yuanyuan Zhao and Hui Lü and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Le Yu

287 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Deep Learning Based Oil Palm Tree Detection and Counting for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

2016 338 citations Haohuan Fu, Le Yu et al. profile →
Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity

2019 293 citations Xiaoping Liu, Le Yu et al. profile →
Quantization of the coupling mechanism between eco-environmental quality and urbanization from multisource remote sensing data

2021 195 citations Le Yu, Yuyu Zhou et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine

2021 178 citations Qiang Zhao, Le Yu et al. profile →
Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields

2022 121 citations Le Yu et al. profile →
A 30 m annual cropland dataset of China from 1986 to 2021

2024 46 citations Ying Tu, Shengbiao Wu et al. Earth system science data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Le Yu China	53	4.8k	4.2k	2.6k	1.8k	1.3k	302	9.9k
Jungho Im South Korea	49	4.7k 1.0×	3.8k 0.9×	4.0k 1.6×	3.5k 1.9×	2.1k 1.6×	216	10.8k
John Rogan United States	39	3.7k 0.8×	3.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	122	7.4k
Stefan Dech Germany	56	5.2k 1.1×	4.2k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	2.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	292	10.3k
Maggi Kelly United States	50	3.7k 0.8×	4.9k 1.2×	3.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	156	9.9k
Simon Ilyushchenko United States	5	5.1k 1.1×	4.6k 1.1×	2.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	641 0.5×	6	9.7k
Xiaolin Zhu China	45	3.9k 0.8×	5.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	2.3k 1.8×	160	9.5k
Kun Tan China	52	3.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	2.6k 1.4×	2.0k 1.5×	267	13.0k
Zhe Zhu United States	41	6.7k 1.4×	7.4k 1.7×	3.7k 1.5×	2.6k 1.4×	2.6k 2.0×	114	12.0k
Patrick Hostert Germany	67	8.4k 1.8×	7.8k 1.8×	3.8k 1.5×	2.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.5×	201	14.6k
Linda See Austria	57	4.8k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	3.7k 1.5×	1.4k 0.7×	614 0.5×	259	10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Le Yu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Jiyao, Le Yu, Lei Zhao, Haohuan Fu, & Peng Gong. (2025). Asymmetric influence of urban morphology changes on land surface temperature between daytime and nighttime. Sustainable Cities and Society. 124. 106307–106307. 4 indexed citations

Liang, Jinsong, Weisi Wang, Le Yu, et al.. (2025). Halogen Modulation: Novel Fluoropyridylphenylurea Derivatives as Potent Molluscicides Unveiling Snail‐Killing Mechanisms. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 20(7). e202401374–e202401374.

Du, Zhenrong, Le Yu, Xiaolei Liu, et al.. (2025). Annual global grided livestock mapping from 1961 to 2021. Earth system science data. 17(10). 5543–5556.

Zhao, Jiyao, Le Yu, Lei Zhao, Haohuan Fu, & Peng Gong. (2025). Significant contribution of urban morphological diversity to urban surface thermal heterogeneity. Urban Climate. 61. 102383–102383. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Tao, Le Yu, Xin Chen, et al.. (2024). Utilizing nighttime light datasets to uncover the spatial patterns of county-level relative poverty-returning risk in China and its alleviating factors. Journal of Cleaner Production. 448. 141682–141682. 10 indexed citations

Zhao, Hong, Xiaoyi Wang, Jinfeng Xu, et al.. (2024). Bamboo classification based on GEDI, time-series Sentinel-2 images and whale-optimized, dual-channel DenseNet: A case study in Zhejiang province, China. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 209. 312–323. 5 indexed citations

Yu, Le, et al.. (2024). Land system science and its contributions to sustainable development goals: A systematic review. Land Use Policy. 143. 107221–107221. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Chunxiao, et al.. (2024). Exploration of improvement schemes for simulating LST in Beijing, China over multiple years based on LCZ. Urban Climate. 59. 102275–102275. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Hongchi, Dailiang Peng, Bing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Mapping annual 10-m soybean cropland with spatiotemporal sample migration. Scientific Data. 11(1). 439–439. 11 indexed citations

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Liu, Tao, Le Yu, Jianguo Liu, et al.. (2024). Unveiling interprovincial geographic patterns of 5A-level tourism cultural ecosystem service flows and tourist preferences in China's metacoupled systems. Applied Geography. 172. 103432–103432. 8 indexed citations

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Tu, Ying, Shengbiao Wu, Бин Чэн, et al.. (2024). A 30 m annual cropland dataset of China from 1986 to 2021. Earth system science data. 16(5). 2297–2316. 46 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Fumin, Dailiang Peng, Xiaoyang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Combining shape and crop models to detect soybean growth stages. Remote Sensing of Environment. 298. 113827–113827. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Chengxiu, et al.. (2023). Limited environmental and yield benefits of intercropping practices in smallholder fields: Evidence from multi-source data. Field Crops Research. 299. 108974–108974. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Chengxiu, et al.. (2023). Slum and urban deprivation in compacted and peri-urban neighborhoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainable Cities and Society. 99. 104863–104863. 22 indexed citations

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Du, Zhenrong, Le Yu, Xin Chen, et al.. (2023). Land use/cover and land degradation across the Eurasian steppe: Dynamics, patterns and driving factors. The Science of The Total Environment. 909. 168593–168593. 35 indexed citations

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Wu, Hui, Shiming Fang, Le Yu, et al.. (2023). Limited co-benefits of protected areas in southwest China under current climate change and human modification. Journal of Environmental Management. 330. 117190–117190. 15 indexed citations

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Lü, Hui, et al.. (2023). Assessment of SMAP and AMSR2 freeze/thaw products over Russia using in situ measurements. Remote Sensing Letters. 14(2). 176–185. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Yidi, Le Yu, Feng Zhao, et al.. (2018). Tracking annual cropland changes from 1984 to 2016 using time-series Landsat images with a change-detection and post-classification approach: Experiments from three sites in Africa. Remote Sensing of Environment. 218. 13–31. 91 indexed citations

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Peng, Dailiang, Helin Zhang, Le Yu, et al.. (2018). Assessing spectral indices to estimate the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by the vegetation canopy. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(22). 8022–8040. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Xuecao, Hui Lü, Yuyu Zhou, et al.. (2017). Exploring the performance of spatio-temporal assimilation in an urban cellular automata model. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 31(11). 2195–2215. 5 indexed citations

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