Minghong Tan

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Minghong Tan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Minghong Tan has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Environmental Engineering and 15 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Minghong Tan's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (35 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (9 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (8 papers). Minghong Tan is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (35 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (9 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (8 papers). Minghong Tan collaborates with scholars based in China, Austria and Australia. Minghong Tan's co-authors include Xiubin Li, Liangjie Xin, Changhe Lu, Xiubin Li, Hui Xie, Yahui Wang, Peilin Wu, Xue Wang, Min Jiang and Yuanyuan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Physics Letters and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Minghong Tan

79 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Urban land expansion and arable land loss in China—a case... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 100 200 300 400 500
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. Urban land expansion and arable land loss in China—a case study of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region
    2004 518 citations Minghong Tan, Xiubin Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Minghong Tan China 34 1.8k 476 459 454 454 86 3.0k
Yinkang Zhou China 33 2.2k 1.2× 372 0.8× 623 1.4× 306 0.7× 446 1.0× 142 3.2k
Lin Zhen China 31 2.9k 1.6× 404 0.8× 1000 2.2× 526 1.2× 325 0.7× 149 4.4k
Xiaobin Jin China 30 1.6k 0.9× 252 0.5× 492 1.1× 203 0.4× 353 0.8× 125 2.4k
Muye Gan China 29 1.8k 1.0× 657 1.4× 737 1.6× 526 1.2× 245 0.5× 57 2.7k
Christine Fürst Germany 30 2.7k 1.5× 310 0.7× 610 1.3× 582 1.3× 188 0.4× 127 3.6k
Guoming Du China 19 1.6k 0.9× 389 0.8× 868 1.9× 196 0.4× 680 1.5× 105 2.5k
Zhiming Feng China 31 1.6k 0.9× 594 1.2× 1.0k 2.2× 158 0.3× 359 0.8× 161 3.2k
Jeffery D. Connor Australia 31 1.9k 1.0× 353 0.7× 560 1.2× 224 0.5× 193 0.4× 107 3.7k
E. Koomen Netherlands 29 2.1k 1.2× 378 0.8× 378 0.8× 461 1.0× 300 0.7× 116 3.1k
Pere Serra Spain 23 2.0k 1.1× 268 0.6× 532 1.2× 306 0.7× 309 0.7× 76 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Minghong Tan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Minghong Tan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Minghong Tan

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

All Works

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Liu, Zhuo, Tianjiao Feng, Wei Wei, et al.. (2025). The effect of vegetation restoration on soil organic carbon mineralization in bibliometric analysis and a review. Ecological Frontiers. 45(6). 1546–1556. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yunxi, Xue Wang, Minghong Tan, Fuyao Zhang, & Xiubin Li. (2025). Impact of spatial transfer of farmland on the food-water-GHG nexus in China during 2000–2020. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 221. 108390–108390. 2 indexed citations
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Tan, Minghong, et al.. (2025). China’s urban vertical growth substantially influences global food security. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Zhang, Fuyao, et al.. (2025). CMIP6-driven 10 km super-resolution daily climate projections with PET estimates in China. Scientific Data. 12(1). 720–720.
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Liu, Yunxi, Fuyao Zhang, Xue Wang, Minghong Tan, & Xiubin Li. (2025). Farmland abandonment in Pakistan: patterns, influencing factors and cascading effects on food production. Journal of Cleaner Production. 535. 147127–147127.
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Tan, Minghong, et al.. (2025). Estimation of unplanned water use based on system dynamics model in arid areas. Agricultural Water Management. 312. 109448–109448. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Minghong, et al.. (2024). Impact of cropland spatial shift on carbon footprint of agricultural inputs for grain production in China, 1990–2018. Energy Policy. 195. 114402–114402. 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Xue, Chengchao Zuo, Karl‐Heinz Erb, et al.. (2024). Tracing agricultural land carbon loss through transregional food consumption for fairness of responsibility allocation. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 206. 107662–107662. 5 indexed citations
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Tan, Minghong, et al.. (2024). Rising South, shrinking North: Paradoxically increased unevenness in the global urban economic system. Habitat International. 156. 103254–103254. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Xue, et al.. (2024). Temporal and spatial variations of land carbon loss caused by animal-sourced foods consumption in China and the driving factors. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 109. 107644–107644. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yahui, Xiubin Li, Liangjie Xin, & Minghong Tan. (2020). Spatial differentiation of social security function of cultivated land assets: Comparison of different agricultural regions. 地理科学进展. 39(9). 1473–1484. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Xue, Liangjie Xin, Minghong Tan, Xiubin Li, & Jiayue Wang. (2020). Impact of spatiotemporal change of cultivated land on food-water relations in China during 1990–2015. The Science of The Total Environment. 716. 137119–137119. 54 indexed citations
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Wang, Yahui, Xiubin Li, Liangjie Xin, & Minghong Tan. (2019). Farmland marginalization and its drivers in mountainous areas of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 719. 135132–135132. 94 indexed citations
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Tan, Minghong, et al.. (2018). Increase in economic efficiency of water use caused by crop structure adjustment in arid areas. Journal of Environmental Management. 230. 386–391. 42 indexed citations
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Ye, Yang, et al.. (2013). Platinum concentrations in urban airborne particles from Shanghai, China. Global NEST Journal. 10(2). 169–173. 3 indexed citations
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Akram, Waheed, et al.. (2010). Characterization and source identification of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere of downtown Shanghai using mu-SXRF and ICP-MS. Nuclear Science and Techniques. 21(4). 197–203. 2 indexed citations
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Bour, Dave, S. Corzine, Jia Zhu, et al.. (2004). Self-aligned, buried heterostructure AlInGaAs laser diodesby micro-selective-area epitaxy. Applied Physics Letters. 85(12). 2184–2186. 3 indexed citations
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Tan, Minghong, et al.. (2000). Bird observations in Belum Forest Reserve, Perak, Peninsular Malaysia.. 54(3). 259–265. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Minghong. (1994). Where East Meets West, There is Now China. 1 indexed citations

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