Lian Feng

10.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
189 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Lian Feng is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lian Feng has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 74 papers in Oceanography and 51 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Lian Feng's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (71 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (35 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers). Lian Feng is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (71 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (35 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers). Lian Feng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Lian Feng's co-authors include Chuanmin Hu, Xiaoling Chen, Xuejiao Hou, Liqiao Tian, Xiaoling Chen, Xingxing Han, Yi Zheng, Xiaobin Cai, Zhongping Lee and Junguo Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lian Feng

181 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Assessment of inundation changes of Poyang Lake using MODIS observations between 2000 and 2010

2012 456 citations Lian Feng, Chuanmin Hu et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade

2022 360 citations Lian Feng, Yanhui Dai et al. profile →
Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century

2023 339 citations Yanhui Dai, Shangbo Yang et al. Nature profile →
Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

2022 194 citations Lian Feng, Yang Xu et al. profile →
Fertilizer management for global ammonia emission reduction

2024 97 citations Yi Zheng, Zhenzhong Zeng et al. Nature profile →
Harmful algal blooms in inland waters

2024 67 citations Lian Feng, Chunmiao Zheng et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
Global trends and regime state shifts of lacustrine aquatic vegetation

2025 25 citations Yunlin Zhang, Lian Feng et al. profile →
Changes in global fluvial sediment concentrations and fluxes between 1985 and 2020

2025 17 citations Edward Park, Chunmiao Zheng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lian Feng China	46	3.1k	2.7k	2.5k	2.1k	1.5k	189	7.5k
Kaishan Song China	54	3.3k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.6×	1.5k 1.0×	289	9.3k
Hongtao Duan China	53	4.8k 1.5×	2.2k 0.8×	3.1k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	3.1k 2.1×	301	10.0k
Ronghua Ma China	52	4.9k 1.6×	1.9k 0.7×	3.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	2.8k 1.9×	243	8.8k
Richard P. Stumpf United States	48	4.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	2.6k 1.8×	138	7.9k
Nima Pahlevan United States	28	2.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	74	4.8k
Kun� Shi China	51	5.2k 1.7×	1.3k 0.5×	3.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	3.9k 2.6×	232	8.5k
George B. Arhonditsis Canada	45	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	2.9k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	3.6k 2.4×	203	7.4k
Paul C. Hanson United States	44	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	2.4k 1.6×	119	6.3k
Y. Jun Xu United States	41	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	997 0.7×	267	5.5k
Craig A. Stow United States	49	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.9×	164	7.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lian Feng

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

Woolway, R. Iestyn, et al.. (2025). Subsurface heatwaves in lakes. Nature Climate Change. 15(5). 554–559. 5 indexed citations

Woolway, R. Iestyn, Yunlin Zhang, Eleanor Jennings, et al.. (2025). Extreme and compound events in lakes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(9). 593–611. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Yang, Lian Feng, Hongwei Fang, et al.. (2024). Global mapping of human-transformed dike-pond systems. Remote Sensing of Environment. 313. 114354–114354. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Zhongzhen, et al.. (2024). The structural and spatial evolution of the China Railway Express network. Research in Transportation Economics. 103. 101414–101414. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xinchi & Lian Feng. (2024). Patterns and Trends in Northern Hemisphere River Ice Phenology from 2000 to 2021. Remote Sensing of Environment. 313. 114346–114346. 2 indexed citations

Park, Edward, et al.. (2024). Severe decline in extent and seasonality of the Mekong plume after 2000. Journal of Hydrology. 643. 132026–132026. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Jing, et al.. (2024). Improving future agricultural sustainability by optimizing crop distributions in China. PNAS Nexus. 4(1). pgae562–pgae562.

Xiong, Xiang, et al.. (2024). Species pool and local assembly processes drive β diversity of ammonia‐oxidizing and denitrifying microbial communities in rivers along a latitudinal gradient. Molecular Ecology. 33(19). e17516–e17516. 1 indexed citations

Yuen, Kai Wan, Edward Park, Dung Duc Tran, et al.. (2024). Extent of illegal sand mining in the Mekong Delta. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 33 indexed citations

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Li, Xudong, Zhongzhen Yang, & Lian Feng. (2023). Optimizing On-Demand Bus Services for Remote Areas. Sustainability. 15(9). 7264–7264. 2 indexed citations

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Dai, Yanhui, Shangbo Yang, Dan Zhao, et al.. (2023). Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century. Nature. 615(7951). 280–284. 339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tang, Chuan, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the Water Quality Impacts of Intensive Farming in China: A Satellite Data Approach. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhongzhen, et al.. (2023). Optimization of river container port-access transport based on the innovatively designed electric ship in the Yangtze River Delta. Ocean & Coastal Management. 248. 106976–106976. 3 indexed citations

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Fan, Linfeng, Liqun Sun, Zhenzhong Zeng, et al.. (2023). Higher burn severity stimulates postfire vegetation and carbon recovery in California. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 342. 109750–109750. 2 indexed citations

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Feng, Lian, et al.. (2022). Trends in River Total Suspended Sediments Driven by Dams and Soil Erosion: A Comparison Between the Yangtze and Mekong Rivers. Water Resources Research. 58(10). 25 indexed citations

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Wang, Jun, Yan Tong, Lian Feng, et al.. (2021). Satellite‐Observed Decreases in Water Turbidity in the Pearl River Estuary: Potential Linkage With Sea‐Level Rise. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(4). 21 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhidong, et al.. (2021). Recovery of an endorheic lake after a decade of conservation efforts: Mediating the water conflict between agriculture and ecosystems. Agricultural Water Management. 256. 107107–107107. 17 indexed citations

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Feng, Lian, Junguo Liu, Tarig Ali, et al.. (2019). Impacts of the decreased freeze-up period on primary production in Qinghai Lake. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 83. 101915–101915. 8 indexed citations

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Feng, Lian, et al.. (2017). Comparison of the Cross-calibration Methods between Image-based and RTM-BRDF for GF-1 Images. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Feng, Lian, et al.. (2010). Diseases and insect pests area monitoring for winter wheat based on HJ-CCD imagery.. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 26(7). 213–219. 2 indexed citations

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