Lin Yang

6.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
165 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Lin Yang is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lin Yang has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Environmental Engineering, 32 papers in Soil Science and 28 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lin Yang's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (46 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (21 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (20 papers). Lin Yang is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (46 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (21 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (20 papers). Lin Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Lin Yang's co-authors include A‐Xing Zhu, Chenghu Zhou, Cheng‐Zhi Qin, Chiyuan Miao, Lei Zhang, Chong Huang, Bruce K. Wylie, Collin G. Homer, Feixue Shen and Alistair G.L. Borthwick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lin Yang

150 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Derivation of a tasselled cap transformation based on Landsat 7 at-satellite reflectance

2002 536 citations Lin Yang et al. profile →
Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world’s cities

2022 230 citations Lei Zhang, Lin Yang et al. profile →
Runoff changes in the major river basins of China and their responses to potential driving forces

2022 142 citations Lin Yang, Guangju Zhao et al. profile →
Carbon sequestration potential of tree planting in China

2024 39 citations Lin Yang, Chenghu Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lin Yang China	36	1.9k	1.7k	1.4k	1.1k	880	165	5.0k
Asim Biswas Canada	44	2.8k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.7×	707 0.8×	288	6.6k
Inakwu Odeh Australia	40	3.2k 1.6×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.7×	564 0.6×	82	6.2k
Dafang Zhuang China	37	1.4k 0.7×	3.6k 2.1×	2.5k 1.8×	464 0.4×	1.5k 1.7×	151	7.1k
Huili Gong China	44	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	334 0.3×	1.6k 1.8×	326	6.6k
Swapan Talukdar India	37	1.8k 0.9×	3.5k 2.1×	1.2k 0.8×	426 0.4×	789 0.9×	120	5.2k
V. K. Dadhwal India	43	1.9k 1.0×	4.0k 2.4×	2.7k 1.9×	620 0.6×	1.7k 1.9×	341	7.5k
Jianli Ding China	36	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	536 0.5×	704 0.8×	195	4.4k
George P. Petropoulos Greece	41	2.0k 1.0×	2.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	374 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	208	5.0k
Aqil Tariq United States	45	1.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.0×	226 0.2×	1.2k 1.3×	229	5.6k
Milan Kilibarda Serbia	16	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	835 0.6×	774 0.7×	655 0.7×	32	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Lin Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lin Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lin Yang

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Lin. (2025). Innovative applications and challenges of dobby slot machine algorithms in online gaming. ITM Web of Conferences. 73. 1023–1023. 1 indexed citations

Cui, Wei, et al.. (2025). A novel approach of generating pseudo revisited soil sample data based on environmental similarity for space-time soil organic carbon modelling. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 139. 104542–104542. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Lin, et al.. (2025). Causal-inference machine learning reveals the drivers of China's 2022 ozone rebound. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 24. 100524–100524. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, Lin Yang, Thomas W. Crowther, et al.. (2025). Mapping global distributions, environmental controls, and uncertainties of apparent topsoil and subsoil organic carbon turnover times. Earth system science data. 17(6). 2605–2623. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Lin, et al.. (2024). Data imbalance causes underestimation of high ozone pollution in machine learning models: A weighted support vector regression solution. Atmospheric Environment. 343. 120952–120952. 2 indexed citations

Mao, Guo, Lin Yang, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Hydrology, vegetation, and soil properties as key drivers of soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands: A high-resolution study. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 23. 100482–100482. 16 indexed citations

Tu, Min, Zhuang Li, Peng Wang, et al.. (2024). Potential Roles of the GRF Transcription Factors in Sorghum Internodes during Post-Reproductive Stages. Plants. 13(17). 2352–2352. 2 indexed citations

Tu, Min, Siyu Zhang, Guoli Wang, et al.. (2024). Characterization and Transcriptomic Analysis of Sorghum EIN/EIL Family and Identification of Their Roles in Internode Maturation. Plants. 13(18). 2615–2615.

Tian, Peng, Xiaojing Tian, Ren Geng, et al.. (2023). Response of soil erosion to vegetation restoration and terracing on the Loess Plateau. CATENA. 227. 107103–107103. 60 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin, et al.. (2023). Mission and Reliability Driven Fleet-Level Selective Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Two-Stage Method. Applied Sciences. 13(15). 8600–8600. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal causal convolutional network for forecasting hourly PM2.5 concentrations in Beijing, China. Computers & Geosciences. 155. 104869–104869. 60 indexed citations

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Zhu, A‐Xing, Miao Yamin, Tongxin Zhu, et al.. (2018). A comparative study of an expert knowledge-based model and two data-driven models for landslide susceptibility mapping. CATENA. 166. 317–327. 104 indexed citations

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Zhu, A‐Xing, Miao Yamin, Lin Yang, et al.. (2018). Comparison of the presence-only method and presence-absence method in landslide susceptibility mapping. CATENA. 171. 222–233. 85 indexed citations

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Smith, James A., et al.. (2017). Strange Floods: The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the US. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin, et al.. (2016). The intensity of sand drift activities in spring in the downstream of the Laoha River,China. 30(11). 179. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin. (2016). The spatial and temporal pattern of soil moisture in the west Liaohe river basin based on TVDI method and its influencing factors. Ganhanqu ziyuan yu huanjing. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin, et al.. (2016). Identification and Expression Analysis of Potassium Transporter Gene Family in Apple. Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 43(6). 1021. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin. (2009). Applications and Development of archaeological remote sensing Technology in China. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin. (2004). Remote sensing system for nanosatellite with CMOS imaging sensor. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin. (2000). The temporal and spatial distribution of the plague foci since 1840 in China. Geographical Research. 5 indexed citations

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