Lei Zou

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Lei Zou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Zou has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 30 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Lei Zou's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (29 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (23 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (21 papers). Lei Zou is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (29 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (23 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (21 papers). Lei Zou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Lei Zou's co-authors include Nina Lam, Heng Cai, Yi Qiang, Jun Xia, Volodymyr Mihunov, Feiyu Wang, Ting Chen, Shuai Xiao, Bin Yang and Zhanqi Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Lei Zou

117 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Exploring the eco-efficiency of cultivated land utilization and its influencing factors in China's Yangtze River Economic Belt, 2001–2018

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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 Zou China	29	1.2k	788	477	396	341	125	2.7k
Anna Scolobig Switzerland	29	1.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.8×	331 0.7×	232 0.6×	125 0.4×	88	2.6k
Christian Kuhlicke Germany	26	2.2k 1.8×	2.2k 2.8×	480 1.0×	225 0.6×	127 0.4×	76	3.6k
Yi Qiang United States	19	809 0.7×	634 0.8×	270 0.6×	106 0.3×	121 0.4×	64	1.6k
Dennis J. Parker United Kingdom	26	1.5k 1.2×	835 1.1×	514 1.1×	357 0.9×	149 0.4×	61	2.0k
Kai Schröter Germany	32	2.4k 2.0×	539 0.7×	1.0k 2.1×	1.0k 2.5×	280 0.8×	92	2.9k
Philip Bubeck Germany	28	3.0k 2.5×	2.1k 2.6×	869 1.8×	535 1.4×	182 0.5×	59	3.9k
Zhenghong Tang United States	35	2.2k 1.8×	456 0.6×	675 1.4×	685 1.7×	666 2.0×	173	4.3k
Burrell E. Montz United States	21	932 0.8×	685 0.9×	271 0.6×	471 1.2×	124 0.4×	81	1.8k
Saini Yang China	24	930 0.8×	315 0.4×	450 0.9×	218 0.6×	168 0.5×	67	2.0k
Erin Coughlan de Perez Netherlands	25	1.6k 1.3×	476 0.6×	672 1.4×	533 1.3×	169 0.5×	65	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Zou

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lin, Youfang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing robust semi-supervised graph alignment via adaptive optimal transport. World Wide Web. 28(2).

Yu, Jiarui, et al.. (2024). Characterizing future changes in compound flood risk by capturing the dependence between rainfall and river flow: An application to the Yangtze River Basin, China. Journal of Hydrology. 635. 131175–131175. 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Ryan Zhenqi, Yingjie Hu, Lei Zou, Heng Cai, & Bing Zhou. (2024). Understanding the disparate impacts of the 2021 Texas winter storm and power outages through mobile phone location data and nighttime light images. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 103. 104339–104339. 11 indexed citations

Sang, Wenjiao, et al.. (2024). A new strategy for greenhouse gas emission reduction in the anaerobic/anoxic/oxic biological treatment process using exogenous N-acyl-homoserine lactones, a quorum-sensing signaling molecules. Water Science & Technology. 90(10). 2764–2783. 2 indexed citations

Newman, Galen, et al.. (2023). Associations between vacant urban lands and public health outcomes in growing and shrinking cities. Urban forestry & urban greening. 89. 128127–128127. 9 indexed citations

Xiao, Shuai, et al.. (2023). Assessment of the urban waterlogging resilience and identification of its driving factors: A case study of Wuhan City, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 866. 161321–161321. 60 indexed citations

Zou, Lei, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Water Conservation Function and Its Driving Factors in the Upper Yangtze River Basin. Remote Sensing. 15(21). 5246–5246. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Feiyu, Chesheng Zhan, & Lei Zou. (2023). Risk of Crop Yield Reduction in China under 1.5 °C and 2 °C Global Warming from CMIP6 Models. Foods. 12(2). 413–413. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Yin, Jun Xia, Fang Yang, et al.. (2023). Analysis of Drought Characteristic of Sichuan Province, Southwestern China. Water. 15(8). 1601–1601. 6 indexed citations

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Zou, Lei, et al.. (2023). Algorithmic uncertainties in geolocating social media data for disaster management. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 51(4). 565–582. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiao, Siqin Wang, Di Yang, et al.. (2023). Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data for Earth and Human Observations: A Review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 20 indexed citations

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Lam, Nina, Michelle A. Meyer, Margaret Reams, et al.. (2023). Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 3023–3044. 21 indexed citations

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Zou, Lei, et al.. (2023). The impact of social isolation on sleep disturbances – evidence from geospatial big data during COVID-19. Abstracts of the ICA. 6. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Zou, Lei, et al.. (2022). Inner Dynamic Detection and Prediction of Water Quality Based on CEEMDAN and GA-SVM Models. Remote Sensing. 14(7). 1714–1714. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Zheye, Nina Lam, Mingxuan Sun, et al.. (2022). A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Rescue Requests from Social Media. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 11(11). 570–570. 4 indexed citations

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Qian, Xuan, et al.. (2022). Optical turbulence in the atmospheric surface layer at the Ali Observatory, Tibet. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 510(4). 5179–5186. 8 indexed citations

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Qian, Xuan, et al.. (2021). Modelling of atmospheric optical turbulence with the Weather Research and Forecasting model at the Ali observatory, Tibet. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(1). 582–592. 16 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiao, Di Zhu, Fan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Sensing Population Distribution from Satellite Imagery Via Deep Learning:Model Selection, Neighboring Effects, and Systematic Biases. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 5137–5151. 22 indexed citations

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Lam, Nina, Y. Jun Xu, Kam‐biu Liu, et al.. (2018). Understanding the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System: Research Methods, Challenges, and Prospects. Water. 10(8). 1054–1054. 23 indexed citations

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Liu, Kam‐biu, Thomas A. Bianchette, Lei Zou, Yi Qiang, & Nina Lam. (2017). Contribution of recent hurricanes to wetland sedimentation in coastal Louisiana. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 12001. 2 indexed citations

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