Nan Cong

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Nan Cong is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Cong has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 51 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Nan Cong's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (34 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (31 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 papers). Nan Cong is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (34 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (31 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 papers). Nan Cong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Nan Cong's co-authors include Shilong Piao, Miaogen Shen, Gengxin Zhang, Shiping Wang, Xuhui Wang, Yongshuo H. Fu, Yangjian Zhang, Ivan A. Janssens, Weidong Kong and Xiaoqiu Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Nan Cong

78 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Precipitation impacts on vegetation spring phenology on t... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2015 2014 100 200 300 400
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. Precipitation impacts on vegetation spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau
    2015 434 citations Miaogen Shen, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
  2. Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology during the last decade on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
    2014 364 citations Miaogen Shen, Nan Cong et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nan Cong China 25 2.3k 2.3k 1.1k 814 517 79 3.5k
Seth M. Munson United States 32 1.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 386 0.3× 578 0.7× 252 0.5× 105 3.2k
Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi India 18 2.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 230 0.2× 672 0.8× 406 0.8× 48 3.2k
Chengcheng Gang China 26 2.0k 0.9× 1.4k 0.6× 223 0.2× 500 0.6× 260 0.5× 41 2.8k
Stefan Erasmi Germany 31 1.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 252 0.2× 517 0.6× 940 1.8× 88 3.6k
Juntao Zhu China 32 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 248 0.2× 741 0.9× 275 0.5× 120 3.0k
Caren C. Dymond Canada 21 2.8k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 263 0.2× 494 0.6× 680 1.3× 42 3.9k
Lara M. Kueppers United States 35 2.5k 1.1× 759 0.3× 303 0.3× 1.2k 1.5× 456 0.9× 86 3.6k
Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur United States 31 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 271 0.2× 492 0.6× 311 0.6× 65 2.7k
James A. Lutz United States 43 4.6k 2.0× 2.5k 1.1× 483 0.4× 928 1.1× 907 1.8× 146 6.1k
David L. Spittlehouse Canada 27 2.5k 1.1× 844 0.4× 382 0.3× 988 1.2× 276 0.5× 51 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Nan Cong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nan Cong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Cong

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Nan, Shikang Liu, Zhiwei Li, et al.. (2025). The impact of channel sinuosity and hydrodynamics on fish-habitat suitability in high-gradient meandering rivers. Ecological Engineering. 215. 107586–107586. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yihang, Nan Cong, Yu Zhong, et al.. (2025). Impacts of cascade dam construction on riparian vegetation in an alpine region. Journal of Hydrology. 652. 132665–132665. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Lingfei, Wenjuan Sun, Haiyang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Grazing exclusion jeopardizes plant biodiversity effect but enhances dryness effect on multifunctionality in arid grasslands. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 363. 108883–108883. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yangjian, et al.. (2024). Grazing affects ecosystem traits by regulating plateau pika activities at the landscape scale. The Science of The Total Environment. 946. 174356–174356. 2 indexed citations
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Ren, Jiayi, Jun Yang, Wenbo Yu, et al.. (2024). Mapping of Local Climate Zones and Heat Hazard Assessment from a Historical-Future Perspective. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 12622–12636. 11 indexed citations
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Tao, Jian, et al.. (2024). Divergent climatic effects on forest greenness modulated by temperature and precipitation gradients in the Yellow River Basin, China. Ecological Indicators. 158. 111553–111553. 1 indexed citations
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Meng, Fandong, Andrew J. Felton, Jiafu Mao, et al.. (2024). Consistent time allocation fraction to vegetation green-up versus senescence across northern ecosystems despite recent climate change. Science Advances. 10(23). eadn2487–eadn2487. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Mengjie, et al.. (2023). Much faster warming-tracking rate of the latitudinal forest line in North America than that in Eurasia under the early 21st century's warming. Global and Planetary Change. 230. 104263–104263. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qi, et al.. (2023). Increased productivity of temperate vegetation in the preceding year drives early spring phenology in the subsequent year in northern China. The Science of The Total Environment. 903. 166676–166676. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenming, et al.. (2023). Forebay entrainment risk effects on two fish species in the Williston Reservoir. Ecological Modelling. 487. 110571–110571. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tao, Danfeng Wang, Mingjie Xu, et al.. (2023). Analysis of the optimal photosynthetic environment for an alpine meadow ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 341. 109651–109651. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Wenbo, Jun Yang, Nan Cong, et al.. (2023). Attribution of Urban Diurnal Thermal Environmental Change: Importance of Global–Local Effects. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 16. 8087–8101. 17 indexed citations
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Wu, Wenqi, et al.. (2023). Life cycle assessment and carbon reduction potential prediction of electric vehicles batteries. The Science of The Total Environment. 903. 166620–166620. 25 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2023). Modeling Ecological Resilience of Alpine Forest under Climate Change in Western Sichuan. Forests. 14(9). 1769–1769. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tao, Mingjie Xu, Nan Cong, et al.. (2023). Drought-induced resource use efficiency responses in an alpine meadow ecosystem of northern Tibet. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 342. 109745–109745. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Jian, Nan Cong, Jiaxing Zu, et al.. (2019). Longer conserved alpine forests ecosystem exhibits higher stability to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Plant Ecology. 12(4). 645–652. 7 indexed citations
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Cong, Nan, Miaogen Shen, & Shilong Piao. (2016). Spatial variations in responses of vegetation autumn phenology to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Plant Ecology. rtw084–rtw084. 76 indexed citations
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Cong, Nan. (2013). NDVI-Based Spatial-Temporal Change in Grassland Growth of China from 1982 to 2010. Beijing Daxue xuebao. Ziran kexue ban. 2 indexed citations

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