Lei Ji

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Lei Ji is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Ji has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Ecology, 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lei Ji's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (29 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers). Lei Ji is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (29 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers). Lei Ji collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Lei Ji's co-authors include Albert J. Peters, Bruce K. Wylie, Li Zhang, Kevin P. Gallo, Li Zhang, Andrés Viña, Elizabeth A. Walter‐Shea, Larry L. Tieszen, Daniel M. Howard and Michael J. Hayes and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lei Ji

74 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Assessing vegetation response to drought in the northern ... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2009 200 400 600
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.

  1. Assessing vegetation response to drought in the northern Great Plains using vegetation and drought indices
    2003 704 citations Lei Ji et al. profile →
  2. Analysis of Dynamic Thresholds for the Normalized Difference Water Index
    2009 630 citations Lei Ji, Li Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lei Ji United States 31 2.7k 2.1k 957 933 627 79 4.3k
Laurent Kergoat France 36 3.3k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.4× 658 1.0× 100 4.8k
Juan Pablo Guerschman Australia 32 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 946 1.0× 524 0.6× 628 1.0× 65 3.7k
Russell Doughty United States 37 3.0k 1.1× 2.7k 1.3× 1.0k 1.1× 840 0.9× 647 1.0× 85 5.1k
Baodong Xu China 25 2.4k 0.9× 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 830 0.9× 388 0.6× 88 3.8k
Kazuhito Ichii Japan 32 3.5k 1.3× 1.9k 0.9× 931 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 576 0.9× 93 4.5k
N. A. Brunsell United States 35 2.5k 0.9× 840 0.4× 1.3k 1.4× 963 1.0× 544 0.9× 110 4.0k
James Cleverly Australia 41 3.8k 1.4× 2.0k 1.0× 874 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.8× 100 4.9k
Xiang Zhao China 37 4.0k 1.5× 2.3k 1.1× 1.5k 1.6× 1.7k 1.8× 628 1.0× 169 5.8k
Matthias Forkel Germany 32 3.5k 1.3× 1.8k 0.8× 824 0.9× 1.5k 1.6× 287 0.5× 72 5.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Ji

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Ji

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

All Works

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Li, Jia, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen-rich covalent organic polymers for efficient solid phase extraction of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from water samples. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 100148–100148. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yecheng, Xinzhu Li, Lei Ji, et al.. (2024). Partial root zone irrigation and K application improves summer maize production and salt resistance in saline soil. Agricultural Water Management. 303. 109057–109057. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Jing, Lijuan Jia, P.C. Struik, et al.. (2024). Plant and soil responses to tillage practices change arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi populations during crop growth. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1394104–1394104. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiayue, Lu Li, Lei Ji, et al.. (2022). Divergent effects of grazing versus mowing on plant nutrients in typical steppe grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Journal of Plant Ecology. 16(1). 15 indexed citations
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Ji, Lei & Jesslyn F. Brown. (2022). Temporal Greenness Trends in Stable Natural Land Cover and Relationships with Climatic Variability across the Conterminous United States. Earth Interactions. 26(1). 66–83. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhen, Saheed Olaide Jimoh, Xiliang Li, et al.. (2020). Different responses of plant N and P resorption to overgrazing in three dominant species in a typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, China. PeerJ. 8. e9915–e9915. 11 indexed citations
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Ji, Lei, et al.. (2016). Soil Respiration in Semiarid Temperate Grasslands under Various Land Management. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147987–e0147987. 27 indexed citations
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Hu, Jing, Xiangyang Hou, Yong Ding, et al.. (2015). [Effects of mowing and grazing on soil nutrients and soil microbes in rhizosphere and bulk soil of Stipa grandis in a typical steppe].. PubMed. 26(11). 3482–8. 7 indexed citations
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Ji, Lei, et al.. (2014). Geostatistical estimation of signal-to-noise ratios for spectral vegetation indices. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 96. 20–27. 14 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li, et al.. (2014). The long-term trends (1982–2006) in vegetation greenness of the alpine ecosystem in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Earth Sciences. 72(6). 1827–1841. 54 indexed citations
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Li, Xiliang, et al.. (2014). Plastic responses of stem and leaf functional traits in Leymus chinensis to long-term grazing in a meadow steppe. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 38(5). 440–451. 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Kun, Li Zhang, Yubao Qiu, et al.. (2013). Snow effects on alpine vegetation in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Digital Earth. 8(1). 58–75. 56 indexed citations
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Ji, Lei, Li Zhang, Bruce K. Wylie, & Jennifer Rover. (2011). On the terminology of the spectral vegetation index (NIR − SWIR)/(NIR + SWIR). International Journal of Remote Sensing. 32(21). 6901–6909. 88 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li, Bruce K. Wylie, Thomas R. Loveland, & Lei Ji. (2005). COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GPP PRODUCTS ESTIMATED FROM AN EMPIRICAL MODEL AND MODIS. 1 indexed citations
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Gallo, Kevin P., et al.. (2004). Comparison of MODIS and AVHRR 16‐day normalized difference vegetation index composite data. Geophysical Research Letters. 31(7). 53 indexed citations

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