Lifan Chen

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Lifan Chen is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lifan Chen has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Ecology, 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Lifan Chen's work include Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (3 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers). Lifan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (3 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers). Lifan Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Lifan Chen's co-authors include Bing Xu, Sen Zhou, Yongmei Lu, Xiaoxu Wu, Бин Чэн, Bo Huang, Ryo Michishita, Huaiyu Tian, Xiaoxu Wu and Ming Lü and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Journal of Hydrology and Environment International.

In The Last Decade

Lifan Chen

9 papers receiving 988 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.

Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation

2015 664 citations Xiaoxu Wu, Yongmei Lu et al. Environment International profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lifan Chen China	7	247	236	217	190	189	10	1.0k
Xiaoxu Wu China	13	322 1.3×	294 1.2×	113 0.5×	204 1.1×	222 1.2×	28	1.1k
Qu Cheng China	13	77 0.3×	127 0.5×	136 0.6×	157 0.8×	154 0.8×	37	694
Colin Robertson Canada	22	69 0.3×	335 1.4×	304 1.4×	166 0.9×	118 0.6×	69	1.3k
Elizabeth A. J. Cook Kenya	23	171 0.7×	303 1.3×	332 1.5×	298 1.6×	414 2.2×	78	1.7k
Jieping Zhou China	18	155 0.6×	240 1.0×	99 0.5×	50 0.3×	118 0.6×	33	856
John H. Lowry Fiji	17	180 0.7×	311 1.3×	169 0.8×	91 0.5×	139 0.7×	45	1.0k
Louisa R. Beck United States	13	83 0.3×	189 0.8×	230 1.1×	678 3.6×	474 2.5×	13	1.6k
Eva M. De Clercq Belgium	23	251 1.0×	191 0.8×	92 0.4×	526 2.8×	454 2.4×	77	1.5k
Yoshifumi Masago Japan	23	194 0.8×	517 2.2×	150 0.7×	151 0.8×	682 3.6×	60	1.9k
Dohyung Kim United States	15	99 0.4×	336 1.4×	255 1.2×	102 0.5×	28 0.1×	48	961

Countries citing papers authored by Lifan Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lifan Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lifan Chen

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Chen, Lifan, Wenhui Xu, Zijiang Zhou, et al.. (2025). A new global land–ocean merged surface temperature dataset since the 1850s: the CMA-GMST dataset. Climate Dynamics. 63(4).

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Chen, Lifan, et al.. (2024). Gas tube effect: A transport mode of deeply buried volatile DNAPLs to shallow strata. Journal of Hydrology. 630. 130696–130696. 1 indexed citations

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Чэн, Бин, Lifan Chen, Bo Huang, Ryo Michishita, & Bing Xu. (2018). Dynamic monitoring of the Poyang Lake wetland by integrating Landsat and MODIS observations. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 139. 75–87. 121 indexed citations

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Чэн, Бин, Lifan Chen, Ming Lü, & Bing Xu. (2017). Wetland mapping by fusing fine spatial and hyperspectral resolution images. Ecological Modelling. 353. 95–106. 14 indexed citations

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Чэн, Бин, Bo Huang, Lifan Chen, & Bing Xu. (2016). Spatially and Temporally Weighted Regression: A Novel Method to Produce Continuous Cloud-Free Landsat Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(1). 27–37. 111 indexed citations

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Chen, Lifan, et al.. (2016). Impact of weather conditions on ringing intensity in Suichuan avian passage, China. Environmental Earth Sciences. 75(12). 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaoxu, Yongmei Lu, Sen Zhou, Lifan Chen, & Bing Xu. (2015). Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation. Environment International. 86. 14–23. 664 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Lifan, Ryo Michishita, & Bing Xu. (2014). Abrupt spatiotemporal land and water changes and their potential drivers in Poyang Lake, 2000–2012. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 98. 85–93. 45 indexed citations

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Michishita, Ryo, Lifan Chen, Jin Chen, Xiaolin Zhu, & Bing Xu. (2014). Spatiotemporal reflectance blending in a wetland environment. International Journal of Digital Earth. 8(5). 364–382. 12 indexed citations

10.

Wu, Xiaoxu, Huaiyu Tian, Sen Zhou, Lifan Chen, & Bing Xu. (2013). Impact of global change on transmission of human infectious diseases. Science China Earth Sciences. 57(2). 189–203. 63 indexed citations

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