Miaogen Shen

12.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
120 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Miaogen Shen is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Miaogen Shen has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Ecology, 80 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 42 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Miaogen Shen's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (88 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (50 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers). Miaogen Shen is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (88 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (50 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers). Miaogen Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Miaogen Shen's co-authors include Shilong Piao, Jin Chen, Xiaolin Zhu, Nan Cong, Yanhong Tang, Yongshuo H. Fu, Gengxin Zhang, Ivan A. Janssens, Anping Chen and Ruyin Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Miaogen Shen

113 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges

2019 1.3k citations Shilong Piao, Yongshuo H. Fu et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

2015 473 citations Miaogen Shen, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature

2015 463 citations Shilong Piao, Yongshuo H. Fu et al. profile →
Precipitation impacts on vegetation spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

2015 434 citations Miaogen Shen, Shilong Piao et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Influences of temperature and precipitation before the growing season on spring phenology in grasslands of the central and eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

2011 373 citations Miaogen Shen, Yanhong Tang et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →
Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology during the last decade on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

2014 364 citations Miaogen Shen, Shiping Wang et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →
An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

2022 142 citations Eryuan Liang, Yongshuo H. Fu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miaogen Shen China	45	5.4k	5.2k	2.3k	2.2k	1.5k	120	8.5k
Mirco Migliavacca Germany	56	8.0k 1.5×	5.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	204	11.2k
Xiaoyang Zhang United States	52	7.0k 1.3×	7.7k 1.5×	2.7k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	3.5k 2.4×	179	11.3k
Yongshuo H. Fu China	55	6.8k 1.3×	5.9k 1.1×	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	171	10.6k
Kamel Didan United States	22	5.7k 1.0×	7.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	3.1k 2.1×	50	9.4k
Bradley C. Reed United States	25	5.3k 1.0×	5.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	42	8.4k
B. H. Braswell United States	44	5.7k 1.1×	4.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	69	9.1k
Tomoaki Miura United States	23	5.0k 0.9×	6.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	3.2k 2.2×	85	8.8k
Nicolas Viovy France	49	8.7k 1.6×	3.8k 0.7×	895 0.4×	3.6k 1.6×	1.2k 0.8×	154	11.5k
Scott V. Ollinger United States	45	4.7k 0.9×	4.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	105	9.8k
Youngryel Ryu South Korea	44	6.2k 1.1×	5.2k 1.0×	954 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	2.3k 1.5×	119	8.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miaogen Shen

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

Shen, Miaogen, Lin Qi, Li Zhang, et al.. (2025). Dual-Responsive Hybrid Microgels Enabling Phase Inversion in Pickering Emulsions. Polymers. 17(20). 2762–2762.

Wu, Shiyuan, Miaogen Shen, Bo Fang, et al.. (2025). Emerging evidence for delaying effect of winter warming on green-up onset in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 369. 110586–110586.

Wang, Weiyi, Ruyin Cao, Licong Liu, et al.. (2025). An Improved Spatiotemporal Savitzky–Golay (iSTSG) Method to Improve the Quality of Vegetation Index Time-Series Data on the Google Earth Engine. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–17.

Shen, Miaogen, Nan Jiang, Ruyin Cao, et al.. (2024). Challenges in remote sensing of vegetation phenology. PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). 2(2). 100070–100070. 19 indexed citations

An, Shuai, Xiaoqiu Chen, Xuhui Wang, et al.. (2024). Long-term species-level observations indicate the critical role of soil moisture in regulating China's grassland productivity relative to phenological and climatic factors. The Science of The Total Environment. 929. 172553–172553. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Wei, Miaogen Shen, Eryuan Liang, et al.. (2024). Winter greening on the Tibetan Plateau induced by climate warming over 2000-2021. Forest Ecology and Management. 558. 121796–121796. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Ruyin, Licong Liu, Xiaolin Zhu, et al.. (2024). A spatiotemporal shape model fitting method for within-season crop phenology detection. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 217. 179–198. 10 indexed citations

Shen, Miaogen, et al.. (2023). Daytime warming strengthened delaying effect of precipitation on end of the vegetation growing season on the Tibetan Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 892. 164382–164382. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Licong, Jin Chen, Miaogen Shen, et al.. (2023). A remote sensing method for mapping alpine grasslines based on graph‐cut. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17005–e17005. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Shihua, Ying‐Ping Wang, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2022). Deficiencies of Phenology Models in Simulating Spatial and Temporal Variations in Temperate Spring Leaf Phenology. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(3). 10 indexed citations

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Shen, Miaogen, Nan Jiang, Dailiang Peng, et al.. (2020). Can changes in autumn phenology facilitate earlier green-up date of northern vegetation?. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 291. 108077–108077. 56 indexed citations

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Chen, Xuehong, Wenqing Wang, Jin Chen, et al.. (2020). Does any phenological event defined by remote sensing deserve particular attention? An examination of spring phenology of winter wheat in Northern China. Ecological Indicators. 116. 106456–106456. 28 indexed citations

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Huang, Qingxu, Ziwen Liu, Chunyang He, et al.. (2020). The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications. Environmental Research Letters. 15(8). 84037–84037. 103 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, Dailiang Peng, Miaogen Shen, et al.. (2020). Contrasting Effects of Temperature and Precipitation on Vegetation Greenness along Elevation Gradients of the Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing. 12(17). 2751–2751. 37 indexed citations

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Tian, Jiaqi, Xiaolin Zhu, Jin Wu, Miaogen Shen, & Jin Chen. (2020). Coarse-Resolution Satellite Images Overestimate Urbanization Effects on Vegetation Spring Phenology. Remote Sensing. 12(1). 117–117. 41 indexed citations

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Chen, Yang, Ruyin Cao, Jin Chen, et al.. (2020). A New Cross-Fusion Method to Automatically Determine the Optimal Input Image Pairs for NDVI Spatiotemporal Data Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 58(7). 5179–5194. 34 indexed citations

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Yang, Wei, Hideki Kobayashi, Cong Wang, et al.. (2019). A semi-analytical snow-free vegetation index for improving estimation of plant phenology in tundra and grassland ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment. 228. 31–44. 53 indexed citations

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Wu, Chaoyang, Xiaoyue Wang, Huanjiong Wang, et al.. (2019). Author Correction: Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming. Nature Climate Change. 9(2). 177–177. 2 indexed citations

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Cao, Ruyin, Yang Chen, Miaogen Shen, et al.. (2018). A simple method to improve the quality of NDVI time-series data by integrating spatiotemporal information with the Savitzky-Golay filter. Remote Sensing of Environment. 217. 244–257. 239 indexed citations

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Wu, Chaoyang, Xiaoyue Wang, Huanjiong Wang, et al.. (2018). Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming. Nature Climate Change. 8(12). 1092–1096. 196 indexed citations

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