Linshan Yang

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Linshan Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Linshan Yang has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 39 papers in Water Science and Technology and 29 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Linshan Yang's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (37 papers), Hydrological Forecasting Using AI (19 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers). Linshan Yang is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (37 papers), Hydrological Forecasting Using AI (19 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers). Linshan Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Canada. Linshan Yang's co-authors include Qi Feng, Zhenliang Yin, Xiaohu Wen, Ravinesh C. Deo, Meng Zhu, Jutao Zhang, Jianhua Si, Yongge Li, Jan Adamowski and Afshin Ghahramani and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Linshan Yang

73 papers receiving 2.1k 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 role of land use change in affecting ecosystem services and the ecological security pattern of the Hexi Regions, Northwest China

2022 231 citations Yongge Li, Meng Zhu et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Linshan Yang China	26	1.3k	964	766	410	326	76	2.2k
Zhenliang Yin China	29	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	754 1.0×	497 1.2×	167 0.5×	70	2.0k
Arash Malekian Iran	27	1.4k 1.1×	946 1.0×	957 1.2×	224 0.5×	268 0.8×	100	2.4k
Shengqi Jian China	18	1.0k 0.8×	866 0.9×	774 1.0×	326 0.8×	200 0.6×	69	1.7k
Jianhua Si China	28	1.3k 1.0×	877 0.9×	691 0.9×	584 1.4×	355 1.1×	132	2.3k
A. K. Gosain India	19	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	424 1.0×	153 0.5×	80	2.1k
Thanh Duc Dang Vietnam	26	896 0.7×	982 1.0×	588 0.8×	210 0.5×	427 1.3×	63	2.1k
Zhijia Li China	28	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	949 1.2×	732 1.8×	163 0.5×	141	2.6k
Weihong Liao China	22	743 0.6×	877 0.9×	431 0.6×	284 0.7×	212 0.7×	73	1.7k
Michaela Bray United Kingdom	19	1.0k 0.8×	558 0.6×	508 0.7×	589 1.4×	302 0.9×	32	1.6k
P. Hosseinzadeh Talaee Iran	27	2.5k 1.9×	1.1k 1.1×	738 1.0×	521 1.3×	163 0.5×	40	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Linshan Yang

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Yang, Linshan, et al.. (2025). Recent snow water storage changes and its effects on streamflow variation in alpine basins of Qilian Mountains. Journal of Environmental Management. 381. 125251–125251.

Yang, Linshan, et al.. (2025). Divergent effect of the freeze–thaw process on soil moisture dynamics in an alpine region of the northeast Qinghai-Tibet plateau. CATENA. 258. 109288–109288. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Linshan, et al.. (2025). Association of Obesity-Related Indices with Rapid Kidney Function Decline and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Study from a Large Longitudinal Cohort in China. PubMed. 18(5). 445–458. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Linshan, Wei‐Ming He, Xiaoping Zou, et al.. (2025). A probabilistic approach to enhance drought modelling in alpine regions: Transition from meteorological to hydrological droughts. Journal of Environmental Management. 390. 126297–126297.

Song, Yu, et al.. (2024). Revealing spatiotemporal heterogeneity of water conservation and its drivers: Enlightenment to water ecology protection and restoration. Journal of Environmental Management. 370. 122517–122517. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Linshan, et al.. (2024). Coupled PLUS and SWAT Model Assessment of Streamflow Response to Climate Change and Human Interventions in Arid Alpine Regions: A Case Study of the Zamu River, China. Land. 13(12). 2166–2166. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Linshan, et al.. (2024). A deep learning-based hybrid approach for multi-time-ahead streamflow prediction in an arid region of Northwest China. Hydrology research. 55(2). 180–204. 15 indexed citations

Yang, Xiaomei, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Artificial Restoration of Alpine Grasslands in the Qilian Mountains on Vegetation, Soil Bacteria, and Soil Fungal Community Diversity. Microorganisms. 12(5). 854–854. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Linshan, et al.. (2024). Effects of Climate Change and Human Activities on Streamflow in Arid Alpine Water Source Regions: A Case Study of the Shiyang River, China. Land. 13(11). 1961–1961.

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Yang, Linshan, Qi Feng, Tingting Ning, et al.. (2023). Attributing the streamflow variation by incorporating glacier mass balance and frozen ground into the Budyko framework in alpine rivers. Journal of Hydrology. 628. 130438–130438. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaomei, Qi Feng, Meng Zhu, et al.. (2023). Changes in Nutrient-Regulated Soil Microbial Communities in Soils Concomitant with Grassland Restoration in the Alpine Mining Region of the Qilian Mountains. Agronomy. 13(12). 3052–3052. 6 indexed citations

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Yin, Xinwei, Qi Feng, Wei Liu, et al.. (2023). Assessment and mechanism analysis of plant salt tolerance regulates soil moisture dynamics and controls root zone salinity and sodicity in seasonally irrigated agroecosystems. Journal of Hydrology. 617. 129138–129138. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Linshan, et al.. (2023). Can the introduction of stock index futures stabilize the volatility of the stock market? Evidence from the Chinese stock market. International Review of Economics & Finance. 85. 44–58. 3 indexed citations

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Ahmed, A. A. Masrur, Ravinesh C. Deo, Afshin Ghahramani, et al.. (2022). New double decomposition deep learning methods for river water level forecasting. The Science of The Total Environment. 831. 154722–154722. 51 indexed citations

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Li, Yongge, Wei Liu, Feng Qi, et al.. (2022). Effects of land use and land cover change on soil organic carbon storage in the Hexi regions, Northwest China. Journal of Environmental Management. 312. 114911–114911. 80 indexed citations

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Shi, Qi, Qi Feng, Heping Shu, et al.. (2022). Redistribution effect of irrigation on shallow groundwater recharge source contributions in an arid agricultural region. The Science of The Total Environment. 865. 161106–161106. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Linshan, Qi Feng, Jan Adamowski, et al.. (2020). The role of climate change and vegetation greening on the variation of terrestrial evapotranspiration in northwest China's Qilian Mountains. The Science of The Total Environment. 759. 143532–143532. 90 indexed citations

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Yang, Linshan, Qi Feng, Jan Adamowski, et al.. (2020). Causality of climate, food production and conflict over the last two millennia in the Hexi Corridor, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 713. 136587–136587. 29 indexed citations

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Yang, Linshan, Qi Feng, Ravinesh C. Deo, et al.. (2019). Regional hydrology heterogeneity and the response to climate and land surface changes in arid alpine basin, northwest China. CATENA. 187. 104345–104345. 51 indexed citations

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Yin, Zhenliang, Qi Feng, Linshan Yang, et al.. (2017). Long Term Quantification of Climate and Land Cover Change Impacts on Streamflow in an Alpine River Catchment, Northwestern China. Sustainability. 9(7). 1278–1278. 22 indexed citations

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