Lei Gao

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
203 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Lei Gao is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Gao has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Environmental Engineering, 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Lei Gao's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers), Water resources management and optimization (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (11 papers). Lei Gao is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers), Water resources management and optimization (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (11 papers). Lei Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Lei Gao's co-authors include Brett A. Bryan, Atakelty Hailu, Jeffery D. Connor, Yanqiong Ye, Hai Ren, Jianguo Wu, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Xiufeng Sun, Yun Chen and Ang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lei Gao

186 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

2018 1.1k citations Brett A. Bryan, Lei Gao et al. profile →
A review of algorithms for filtering the 3D point cloud

2017 303 citations Lei Gao et al. profile →
Finding pathways to national-scale land-sector sustainability

2017 271 citations Lei Gao, Brett A. Bryan profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Lei Gao	1.7k	886	631	611	501	203	4.9k
Tao Pei	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	780 1.2×	631 1.0×	505 1.0×	236	6.5k
Gilberto Câmara	2.0k 1.1×	645 0.7×	414 0.7×	1.2k 2.0×	402 0.8×	146	4.9k
Nengcheng Chen	3.0k 1.8×	2.0k 2.2×	1.1k 1.7×	670 1.1×	336 0.7×	306	6.8k
Qingfeng Guan	2.6k 1.5×	864 1.0×	217 0.3×	859 1.4×	263 0.5×	185	5.3k
Min Chen	1.2k 0.7×	856 1.0×	585 0.9×	264 0.4×	183 0.4×	270	4.7k
Shaowen Wang	1.0k 0.6×	611 0.7×	282 0.4×	944 1.5×	278 0.6×	223	5.6k
Alexis Comber	2.3k 1.3×	783 0.9×	247 0.4×	1.4k 2.3×	362 0.7×	148	5.4k
Weidong Li	1.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.9×	168 0.3×	585 1.0×	451 0.9×	179	4.8k
Brian Alan Johnson	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.5×	250 0.4×	1.8k 2.9×	173 0.3×	132	5.6k
Xiao Huang	1.5k 0.8×	692 0.8×	161 0.3×	727 1.2×	301 0.6×	289	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Gao

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

Wang, Yuxin, et al.. (2025). Enhanced electroencephalogram signal classification: A hybrid convolutional neural network with attention-based feature selection. Brain Research. 1851. 149484–149484. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Xiaohong, et al.. (2025). Enhanced bearing fault diagnosis under strong noise: A deep residual network with combined attention mechanisms. Knowledge-Based Systems. 330. 114678–114678.

Gao, Lei. (2024). Accelerate progress towards sustainable development goals: Insights from China. Science Bulletin. 69(5). 574–577.

Janssen, Stijn, et al.. (2024). Optimizing NO2 monitoring network using a background map for spatial heterogeneity stratification. Atmospheric Environment. 333. 120639–120639. 1 indexed citations

Li, Zhi, Yaning Chen, Lei Gao, et al.. (2024). Future soil moisture will slowdown the advancement of ecosystem productivity in the Northern Hemisphere. Science Bulletin. 70(3). 347–350. 3 indexed citations

Wei, Bing, et al.. (2024). Bio-inspired deep neural local acuity and focus learning for visual image recognition. Neural Networks. 181. 106712–106712. 2 indexed citations

Shao, Xiaoyan, et al.. (2024). Remaining useful life prediction method for Degradation–Shock dependence: Case of a subsea hydraulic control system. Ocean Engineering. 299. 117339–117339. 6 indexed citations

Li, Jianwei, et al.. (2023). Quantitative diagnosis of PEMFC membrane humidity with a vector-distance based characteristic mapping approach. Applied Energy. 335. 120610–120610. 26 indexed citations

Gibbs, Matthew S., Lei Gao, Klaus Joehnk, et al.. (2023). Using hydraulics to evaluate ecological benefits, risks, and trade‐offs from engineered flooding. Hydrological Processes. 37(11). 8 indexed citations

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Cao, Jixing, et al.. (2023). Continuous crack detection using the combination of dynamic mode decomposition and connected component-based filtering method. Structures. 49. 640–654. 7 indexed citations

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Cai, Baoping, et al.. (2023). Dynamic risk assessment methodology of operation process for deepwater oil and gas equipment. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 239. 109538–109538. 21 indexed citations

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Moallemi, Enayat A., Edoardo Bertone, Sibel Eker, et al.. (2021). A review of systems modelling for local sustainability. Environmental Research Letters. 16(11). 113004–113004. 37 indexed citations

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Yang, Jinying, et al.. (2021). Bio-inspired heuristic dynamic programming for high-precision real-time flow control in a multi-tributary river system. Knowledge-Based Systems. 230. 107381–107381. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Ang, Lei Gao, Shi Chen, et al.. (2021). Financial inclusion may limit sustainable development under economic globalization and climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 54049–54049. 21 indexed citations

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Gao, Lei, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, & Ruihong Huang. (2019). Modeling Document-level Causal Structures for Event Causal Relation Identification. 1808–1817. 54 indexed citations

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Liu, Rui, Yun Chen, Jianping Wu, et al.. (2018). Mapping spatial accessibility of public transportation network in an urban area – A case study of Shanghai Hongqiao Transportation Hub. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 59. 478–495. 49 indexed citations

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Zhou, Mingwei, D. J. Barrett, Yun Chen, et al.. (2013). A scenario model for mine water management under extreme climate variability. Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. 2 indexed citations

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Gao, Lei, D. J. Barrett, Yun Chen, et al.. (2013). Secure mine water use with compliant discharge. Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. 3 indexed citations

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Gao, Lei, et al.. (2011). Identifying preferred management option of recreational fishing by combining an integrated agent-based simulation model and the AHP-TOPSIS evaluation method. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Gang, et al.. (2001). Exploiting pattern and sustainable development of marginal lands in the Three Gorge Reservoir Areas.. PubMed. 13(2). 173–9. 2 indexed citations

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