M. Sun

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

M. Sun is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Sun has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Environmental Engineering, 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in M. Sun's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (4 papers), Forest ecology and management (2 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (2 papers). M. Sun is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (4 papers), Forest ecology and management (2 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (2 papers). M. Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. M. Sun's co-authors include Alessandro Baccini, S. J. Goetz, N. Laporte, Pieter S. A. Beck, R. A. Houghton, J. L. Hackler, M. A. Friedl, Wayne Walker, Damien Sulla‐Menashe and Ralph Dubayah and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Nature Climate Change and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

M. Sun

6 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

2012 1.3k citations Alessandro Baccini, S. J. Goetz et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Sun United States	4	980	739	689	585	163	7	1.6k
N. Laporte United States	11	1.2k 1.3×	841 1.1×	879 1.3×	616 1.1×	202 1.2×	16	2.1k
Silvia Petrova United States	6	1.4k 1.4×	865 1.2×	815 1.2×	820 1.4×	185 1.1×	10	2.3k
Marc K. Steininger United States	17	1.1k 1.1×	469 0.6×	823 1.2×	413 0.7×	182 1.1×	24	1.7k
Mary Farina United States	9	1.3k 1.3×	419 0.6×	491 0.7×	459 0.8×	192 1.2×	14	1.9k
Yifan Yu United States	14	834 0.9×	618 0.8×	574 0.8×	529 0.9×	62 0.4×	24	1.4k
S. Samanta United States	8	1.3k 1.3×	542 0.7×	562 0.8×	545 0.9×	159 1.0×	10	1.7k
Paulo Maurı́cio Lima de Alencastro Graça Brazil	27	1.2k 1.2×	414 0.6×	601 0.9×	442 0.8×	147 0.9×	69	1.9k
Izaya Numata United States	22	1.1k 1.1×	466 0.6×	969 1.4×	364 0.6×	71 0.4×	45	1.7k
Eliakimu Zahabu Tanzania	25	899 0.9×	674 0.9×	557 0.8×	751 1.3×	102 0.6×	58	1.7k
Ulrich Walz Germany	18	1.6k 1.6×	220 0.3×	612 0.9×	389 0.7×	175 1.1×	57	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by M. Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by M. Sun. 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 M. Sun. The network helps show where M. Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Sun

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Li, Juan & M. Sun. (2025). Dynamic Analysis of China’s Urban Economic Spatial Network and Its Multidimensional Impact on Building Carbon Emissions. Mathematics. 13(21). 3415–3415.

2.

Li, Juan, M. Sun, & Lixin Tian. (2025). Carbon emissions and regional differences of Chinese urban buildings under multi-dimensional key influencing factor identification. Environment Development and Sustainability. 2 indexed citations

3.

Sun, M., Teck Guan Lim, David Ho, et al.. (2024). 77-GHz FOWLP MIMO AiP for Compact High-Resolution Radar With Horizontally and Vertically Long- and Medium-Range Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology. 14(4). 537–546. 2 indexed citations

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Baccini, Alessandro, S. J. Goetz, Wayne Walker, et al.. (2012). Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps. Nature Climate Change. 2(3). 182–185. 1259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baccini, Alessandro, et al.. (2011). Reply to Comment on ‘A first map of tropical Africa’s above-ground biomass derived from satellite imagery’. Environmental Research Letters. 6(4). 49002–49002. 6 indexed citations

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Goetz, S. J., M. Sun, Alessandro Baccini, & Pieter S. A. Beck. (2010). Synergistic use of spaceborne lidar and optical imagery for assessing forest disturbance: An Alaska case study. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115(G2). 42 indexed citations

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Baccini, Alessandro, et al.. (2008). A first map of tropical Africa’s above-ground biomass derived from satellite imagery. Environmental Research Letters. 3(4). 45011–45011. 324 indexed citations

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