Longwu Liang

2.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
40 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Longwu Liang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Longwu Liang has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Transportation and 11 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Longwu Liang's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (14 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers). Longwu Liang is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (14 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers). Longwu Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Africa. Longwu Liang's co-authors include Zhenbo Wang, Jiaxin Li, Xinming Wang, Mingxing Chen, Xian Yue, Xinyue Luo, Liangkan Chen, Jiaxin Li, Luofan Dong and Faming Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Longwu Liang

39 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

The effect of urbanization on environmental pollution in rapidly developing urban agglomerations

2019 561 citations Longwu Liang, Zhenbo Wang et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Spatiotemporal differentiation and the factors influencing urbanization and ecological environment synergistic effects within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration

2019 257 citations Zhenbo Wang, Longwu Liang et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →
Exploration of coupling effects in the Economy–Society–Environment system in urban areas: Case study of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

2021 171 citations Longwu Liang, Liangkan Chen et al. profile →
Changes pattern in the population and economic gravity centers since the Reform and Opening up in China: The widening gaps between the South and North

2021 149 citations Longwu Liang, Xian Yue et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Longwu Liang China	19	733	705	513	498	360	40	1.9k
Hongou Zhang China	22	913 1.2×	846 1.2×	491 1.0×	703 1.4×	400 1.1×	94	2.1k
Shukui Tan China	25	883 1.2×	616 0.9×	286 0.6×	458 0.9×	229 0.6×	68	2.0k
Jie Fan China	25	800 1.1×	588 0.8×	342 0.7×	433 0.9×	271 0.8×	129	2.2k
Peter J. Marcotullio United States	25	1.0k 1.4×	343 0.5×	503 1.0×	507 1.0×	259 0.7×	62	2.1k
Longyu Shi China	23	558 0.8×	504 0.7×	363 0.7×	577 1.2×	226 0.6×	80	1.9k
Xingliang Guan China	16	710 1.0×	630 0.9×	268 0.5×	391 0.8×	263 0.7×	21	1.6k
Xinmin Zhang China	25	888 1.2×	513 0.7×	450 0.9×	689 1.4×	136 0.4×	109	2.1k
Yabo Zhao China	16	596 0.8×	618 0.9×	279 0.5×	399 0.8×	265 0.7×	47	1.4k
Qianqian Liu China	16	416 0.6×	794 1.1×	375 0.7×	463 0.9×	240 0.7×	63	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Longwu Liang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Longwu Liang

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

Chen, Mingxing, Liangkan Chen, Michael E. Meadows, et al.. (2025). Unveiling disparate urban–rural relations in China through catchment area mapping. Science Bulletin. 70(15). 2525–2534. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Yuan, et al.. (2025). Comparative study of embodied carbon emissions from building sector of megacities in East Asia. Sustainable Cities and Society. 130. 106602–106602.

Liang, Longwu, Mingxing Chen, Xiaoping Zhang, & Mingxing Sun. (2023). Understanding changes in household carbon footprint during rapid urbanization in China. Energy Policy. 185. 113928–113928. 4 indexed citations

Guo, Shasha, et al.. (2023). Exploring Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of PM2.5 Concentrations Based on Random Forest Model: Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration, China. Atmosphere. 14(2). 381–381. 11 indexed citations

Liang, Longwu, Mingxing Chen, & Xiaoping Zhang. (2023). Measuring inequality of household carbon footprints between income groups and across consumption categories in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 418. 138075–138075. 13 indexed citations

Sun, Siao, et al.. (2022). Global pattern and drivers of water scarcity research: a combined bibliometric and geographic detector study. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 194(8). 523–523. 20 indexed citations

Chen, Mingxing, Xian Yue, Yaohuan Huang, et al.. (2022). Fine-scale population spatialization data of China in 2018 based on real location-based big data. Scientific Data. 9(1). 624–624. 13 indexed citations

Liang, Longwu, Mingxing Chen, & Dapeng Huang. (2022). Spatiotemporal change and non-stationarity of air temperature in China from 1959 to 2018. Sustainable Cities and Society. 87. 104227–104227. 6 indexed citations

Liang, Longwu & Zhenbo Wang. (2021). Control Models and Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Air Pollution in the Rapidly Developing Urban Agglomerations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(11). 6177–6177. 8 indexed citations

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Dai, Lu, Caiquan Bai, & Longwu Liang. (2021). Spatial spillover effect of the red tourism policy on public online attention in China: An empirical study based on semantic analysis and spatial econometric model. 自然资源学报. 36(11). 2778–2778. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Xujing, et al.. (2020). The pattern and mechanism of air pollution in developed coastal areas of China: From the perspective of urban agglomeration. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0237863–e0237863. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhenbo, et al.. (2020). Rural tourism industry revitalization path based on the analysis of lock-in effects. 地理科学进展. 39(6). 1037–1046. 6 indexed citations

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Liang, Longwu, et al.. (2020). Synergy effects and it’s influencing factors of China’s high technological innovation and regional economy. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0231335–e0231335. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2020). Spatial-temporal pattern evolution and driving factors of China's energy efficiency under low-carbon economy. The Science of The Total Environment. 739. 140197–140197. 94 indexed citations

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Song, Zhouying, Yang Yu, Longwu Liang, & Zhenbo Wang. (2019). Transformation of China’s economic development pattern and its environmental effects. 资源科学. 41(10). 1886–1896. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhenbo, Jiaxin Li, & Longwu Liang. (2019). Spatio-temporal evolution of ozone pollution and its influencing factors in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration. Environmental Pollution. 256. 113419–113419. 96 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhenbo, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal differentiation and the factors influencing urbanization and ecological environment synergistic effects within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. Journal of Environmental Management. 243. 227–239. 257 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liang, Longwu, et al.. (2017). 中国城市PM2.5时空分布的动态比较分析. 资源科学. 39(1). 136–146. 3 indexed citations

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Shi, Jianbo, Longwu Liang, Chun‐Gang Yuan, B. He, & G Jiang. (2005). Methylmercury and Total Mercury in Sediments Collected from the East China Sea. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 74(5). 980–987. 37 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2005). Assessment of PCBs and PCDD/Fs Along the Chinese Bohai Sea Coastline Using Mollusks as Bioindicators. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 49(2). 178–185. 37 indexed citations

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