Litai Chen

636 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 507 citations indexed

About

Litai Chen is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Marketing and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Litai Chen has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 507 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 1 paper in Marketing and 1 paper in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Litai Chen's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (3 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers) and Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (1 paper). Litai Chen is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (3 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers) and Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (1 paper). Litai Chen collaborates with scholars based in China. Litai Chen's co-authors include Jinlin Li, Jiawen He, Chen Ying, Chuanwang Sun, Yuan Tian and Ying Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Cleaner Production and Ecological Indicators.

In The Last Decade

Litai Chen

5 papers receiving 500 citations

Hit Papers

Digital economy, technological innovation, and green econ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300
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.

  1. Digital economy, technological innovation, and green economic efficiency—Empirical evidence from 277 cities in China
    2021 303 citations Jinlin Li, Litai Chen et al. Managerial and Decision Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Litai Chen China 5 387 91 85 74 58 6 507
Xuhui Ding China 15 399 1.0× 140 1.5× 71 0.8× 57 0.8× 47 0.8× 36 570
Guangchun Yang China 7 291 0.8× 140 1.5× 44 0.5× 61 0.8× 94 1.6× 7 478
Maogang Tang China 11 413 1.1× 94 1.0× 130 1.5× 79 1.1× 17 0.3× 19 552
Yan Bu China 9 214 0.6× 105 1.2× 37 0.4× 44 0.6× 29 0.5× 20 365
Ge Wu China 11 322 0.8× 109 1.2× 46 0.5× 130 1.8× 51 0.9× 38 561
Qianjiao Xie China 12 472 1.2× 202 2.2× 90 1.1× 118 1.6× 23 0.4× 14 660
Ziyuan Sun China 10 328 0.8× 108 1.2× 110 1.3× 61 0.8× 17 0.3× 19 540
Haiqian Ke China 11 420 1.1× 142 1.6× 66 0.8× 104 1.4× 11 0.2× 18 506

Countries citing papers authored by Litai Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Litai Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Litai Chen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Litai Chen. The network helps show where Litai Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Litai Chen

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

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Chen, Litai, et al.. (2026). System dynamics modelling for improving regional logistics integration: A case study of western China. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 104. 102417–102417.
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Yuan, Ying, et al.. (2023). Do agricultural technical efficiency and technical progress drive agricultural carbon productivity? based on spatial spillovers and threshold effects. Environment Development and Sustainability. 27(3). 7701–7725. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Jinlin, Litai Chen, Chen Ying, & Jiawen He. (2021). Digital economy, technological innovation, and green economic efficiency—Empirical evidence from 277 cities in China. Managerial and Decision Economics. 43(3). 616–629. 303 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Chuanwang, et al.. (2018). New evidence for the impact of financial agglomeration on urbanization from a spatial econometrics analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production. 200. 65–73. 80 indexed citations
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Sun, Chuanwang, Litai Chen, & Yuan Tian. (2018). Study on the urban state carrying capacity for unbalanced sustainable development regions: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Ecological Indicators. 89. 150–158. 107 indexed citations

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