Liangxia Zhang

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
39 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Liangxia Zhang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liangxia Zhang has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Liangxia Zhang's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Liangxia Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Liangxia Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Liangxia Zhang's co-authors include Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao, Ge Sun, Yongqiang Liu, Shuguang Liu, Chao Zhu, Jiangwen Fan, Ranghui Wang, Zhongmin Hu and Stefania Bonafoni and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Liangxia Zhang

37 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

The footprint of urban heat island effect in China

2015 1.5k citations Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

2014 738 citations Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Evolution of light use efficiency models: Improvement, uncertainties, and implications

2022 137 citations Yanyan Pei, Jinwei Dong et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liangxia Zhang China	21	2.1k	2.0k	1.3k	797	531	39	4.0k
Decheng Zhou China	32	3.3k 1.6×	3.4k 1.7×	2.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.7×	857 1.6×	58	6.1k
Xiaoyan Wang China	32	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 2.0×	489 0.9×	120	4.3k
Zhe Wang China	33	664 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.8×	248 0.5×	201	3.9k
Lin Zhu China	36	776 0.4×	571 0.3×	889 0.7×	597 0.7×	540 1.0×	254	5.2k
Jianjun Li China	43	780 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.8×	2.8k 3.5×	240 0.5×	240	5.1k
Qun Ma China	28	719 0.3×	1.8k 0.9×	754 0.6×	307 0.4×	484 0.9×	146	3.3k
Junfeng Wang China	39	646 0.3×	979 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	1.9k 2.3×	201 0.4×	182	4.4k
Hui Chen China	34	728 0.3×	695 0.3×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 2.1×	201 0.4×	226	4.2k
Ting Zhang China	46	829 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	3.2k 2.4×	2.7k 3.4×	251 0.5×	220	6.0k
Daizhou Zhang China	42	745 0.4×	2.8k 1.4×	2.7k 2.1×	4.2k 5.3×	236 0.4×	226	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Liangxia Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liangxia Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liangxia Zhang

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

Wen, Hao, et al.. (2025). Urbanization mitigates the intensification of summer wet heatwaves in China from 1970 to 2020. Urban Climate. 61. 102476–102476. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Liangxia, Yue Xiao, Decheng Zhou, Jiangwen Fan, & Yuzhe Li. (2023). [Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Vegetation Restoration in Typical Grasslands of China].. PubMed. 44(5). 2694–2703. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Decheng, Shanlei Sun, Yu Li, Liangxia Zhang, & Lin Huang. (2022). A multi-perspective study of atmospheric urban heat island effect in China based on national meteorological observations: Facts and uncertainties. The Science of The Total Environment. 854. 158638–158638. 42 indexed citations

Pei, Yanyan, Jinwei Dong, Yao Zhang, et al.. (2022). Evolution of light use efficiency models: Improvement, uncertainties, and implications. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 317. 108905–108905. 137 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhou, Decheng, Jingfeng Xiao, Steve Frolking, Liangxia Zhang, & Guoyi Zhou. (2022). Urbanization Contributes Little to Global Warming but Substantially Intensifies Local and Regional Land Surface Warming. Earth s Future. 10(5). 84 indexed citations

Zhou, Decheng, et al.. (2021). An integrated assessment on the warming effects of urbanization and agriculture in highly developed urban agglomerations of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 804. 150119–150119. 23 indexed citations

Zhang, Liangxia, Decheng Zhou, Jiangwen Fan, et al.. (2019). Contrasting the Performance of Eight Satellite-Based GPP Models in Water-Limited and Temperature-Limited Grassland Ecosystems. Remote Sensing. 11(11). 1333–1333. 36 indexed citations

Zhou, Decheng, Stefania Bonafoni, Liangxia Zhang, & Ranghui Wang. (2018). Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect in a highly populated urban agglomeration area in East China. The Science of The Total Environment. 628-629. 415–429. 207 indexed citations

Duan, Kai, Ge Sun, Steven G. McNulty, et al.. (2017). Future shift of the relative roles of precipitation and temperature in controlling annual runoff in the conterminous United States. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(11). 5517–5529. 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liangxia, Jiangwen Fan, Decheng Zhou, & Haiyan Zhang. (2017). Ecological Protection and Restoration Program Reduced Grazing Pressure in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 70(5). 540–548. 54 indexed citations

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Zhou, Decheng, Liangxia Zhang, Dan Li, Dian Huang, & Chao Zhu. (2016). Climate–vegetation control on the diurnal and seasonal variations of surface urban heat islands in China. Environmental Research Letters. 11(7). 74009–74009. 151 indexed citations

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Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Liangxia Zhang, Ge Sun, & Yongqiang Liu. (2015). The footprint of urban heat island effect in China. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11160–11160. 1471 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Decheng, Liangxia Zhang, Lu Hao, et al.. (2015). Spatiotemporal trends of urban heat island effect along the urban development intensity gradient in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 544. 617–626. 186 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liangxia, Decheng Zhou, Jiangwen Fan, & Zhongmin Hu. (2015). Comparison of four light use efficiency models for estimating terrestrial gross primary production. Ecological Modelling. 300. 30–39. 89 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liangxia, et al.. (2014). [Impact of the Beijing and Tianjin Sand Source Control Project on the grassland soil organic carbon storage: a case study of Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China].. PubMed. 25(2). 374–80. 7 indexed citations

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Fan, Jiangwen, Liangxia Zhang, Wenyan Zhang, & Huaping Zhong. (2014). Plant root N and P levels and their relationship to geographical and climate factors in a Chinese grassland transect. 23(5). 69–76. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liangxia, et al.. (2014). Advancements of the Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency at Regional Scale. Diqiu kexue jinzhan. 29(6). 691–699. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, Liangxia Zhang, & Chao Zhu. (2014). Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers. Remote Sensing of Environment. 152. 51–61. 738 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, & Liangxia Zhang. (2014). Spatiotemporal trends of terrestrial vegetation activity along the urban development intensity gradient in China's 32 major cities. The Science of The Total Environment. 488-489. 136–145. 116 indexed citations

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Cui, Xiangzhi, Zile Hua, Chenyang Wei, et al.. (2012). An In Situ Carbonization–Replication Method to Synthesize Mesostructured WO₃/C Composite as Nonprecious‐Metal Anode Catalyst in PEMFC. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 8(2). 429–436. 10 indexed citations

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