Lei Cheng

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
209 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Lei Cheng is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Cheng has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Water Science and Technology, 114 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 34 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lei Cheng's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (92 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (46 papers). Lei Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (92 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (46 papers). Lei Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Lei Cheng's co-authors include Lu Zhang, Pan Liu, Bo Ming, Ying‐Ping Wang, Pan Liu, Shilong Piao, Zhenzhong Zeng, Mengtian Huang, Xiaoying Shi and Jiafu Mao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Lei Cheng

186 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Cheng China	41	3.6k	3.0k	993	982	969	209	6.1k
Denghua Yan China	37	2.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	635 0.7×	263	5.3k
Vladimir Smakhtin Sri Lanka	32	2.9k 0.8×	4.0k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	480 0.5×	855 0.9×	97	6.5k
Nathalie Voisin United States	36	2.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	672 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	481 0.5×	109	4.7k
Yuefei Huang China	41	2.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	957 1.0×	558 0.6×	912 0.9×	147	5.1k
Sharad K. Jain India	39	3.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	2.1k 2.1×	1.1k 1.1×	637 0.7×	155	5.7k
Mukand S. Babel Thailand	50	3.6k 1.0×	3.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	536 0.6×	205	6.8k
Ali Torabi Haghighi Finland	36	2.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	613 0.6×	531 0.5×	206	4.8k
Xuesong Zhang United States	47	2.8k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	781 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	216	6.9k
Luís Garrote Spain	34	2.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	655 0.7×	368 0.4×	547 0.6×	149	5.4k
Yi Zheng China	41	1.6k 0.4×	2.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	514 0.5×	556 0.6×	166	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Cheng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lei Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lei Cheng 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 Lei Cheng. Lei Cheng 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

Zhang, Lu, et al.. (2025). Reversed trends in pan and actual evaporation in China during 1960–2019. Journal of Hydrology. 653. 132810–132810.

Li, Yanli, et al.. (2025). Unveiling Surface Water Quality and Key Influencing Factors in China Using a Machine Learning Approach. Sustainability. 17(20). 9205–9205.

Li, Qu, et al.. (2024). Investigating the influences of wind function parameterization on evaporation estimation using the generalized complementary principle. Journal of Hydrology. 634. 131097–131097. 3 indexed citations

Cheng, Lei. (2024). Political governance and firm performance in China: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Journal of Financial Stability. 76. 101348–101348. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Lei, et al.. (2024). Evolution of long-term global drought during past 70 years based on estimated evaporation using the generalized complementary relationship. Journal of Hydrology. 650. 132532–132532. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Lei, et al.. (2024). Reservoir dominated spatio-temporal changes of the surface water area in the Yangtze River Basin during past three decades. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 55. 101948–101948. 7 indexed citations

Ma, Xiao, Jie Huang, Mengping Long, et al.. (2024). CellSAM: Advancing Pathologic Image Cell Segmentation via Asymmetric Large‐Scale Vision Model Feature Distillation Aggregation Network. Microscopy Research and Technique. 88(2). 501–515. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Qian, Pan Liu, Bo Ming, et al.. (2024). Synchronizing short-, mid-, and long-term operations of hydro-wind-photovoltaic complementary systems. Energy. 305. 132309–132309. 3 indexed citations

Xiong, Jinghua, Abhishek Abhishek, Chong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Comparing evaporation from water balance framework and multiple models on a global scale. Journal of Hydrology. 643. 131924–131924.

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Zhang, Wenqing, et al.. (2024). Intensified response of extreme precipitation to rising temperature over the Tibetan Plateau from CMIP6 multi-model ensembles. Journal of Hydrology. 637. 131397–131397. 10 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lei, et al.. (2023). Virtual power plant optimal operation considering renewable energy uncertainty. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2588(1). 12008–12008.

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Yang, Tong, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of a Ni(OH)2@Cu2Se hetero-nanocage by ion exchange for advanced glucose sensing in serum and beverages. Food Chemistry. 419. 136024–136024. 8 indexed citations

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Cheng, Qian, Pan Liu, Maoyuan Feng, et al.. (2023). Complementary operation with wind and photovoltaic power induces the decrease in hydropower efficiency. Applied Energy. 339. 121006–121006. 32 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lei, et al.. (2022). Investigating the spatial variability of water security risk and its driving mechanisms in China using machine learning. Journal of Cleaner Production. 362. 132303–132303. 12 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lei, et al.. (2022). Security Constrained Unit Commitment Based on Modified Line Outage Distribution Factors. IEEE Access. 10. 25258–25266. 8 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lei, Pan Liu, Shujing Qin, et al.. (2021). An Analytical Baseflow Coefficient Curve for Depicting the Spatial Variability of Mean Annual Catchment Baseflow. Water Resources Research. 57(8). 27 indexed citations

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Li, Rongrong, et al.. (2020). Investigating the downstream sediment load change by an index coupling effective rainfall information with reservoir sediment trapping capacity. Journal of Hydrology. 590. 125200–125200. 13 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lei, Pan Liu, Lu Zhang, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of baseflow modelling structure in monthly water balance models using 443 Australian catchments. Journal of Hydrology. 591. 125572–125572. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Hao, Liu Liu, Qiankun Niu, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal Variation of Drought and Associated Multi-Scale Response to Climate Change over the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China. Remote Sensing. 11(13). 1596–1596. 40 indexed citations

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Zhang, Junlong, Yongqiang Zhang, Jinxi Song, et al.. (2017). Comparing hydrological modelling, linear and multilevel regression approaches for predicting baseflow index for 596 catchments across Australia. 7 indexed citations

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