Ninghui Pan

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ninghui Pan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Pollution and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ninghui Pan has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Pollution and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ninghui Pan's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers), Heavy metals in environment (5 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (4 papers). Ninghui Pan is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers), Heavy metals in environment (5 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (4 papers). Ninghui Pan collaborates with scholars based in China. Ninghui Pan's co-authors include Qingyu Guan, Yanyan Yang, Jinkuo Lin, Haiping Luo, Rui Zhao, Chuanqi Xu, Liqin Yang, Feifei Wang, Qingzheng Wang and Feifei Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

Ninghui Pan

20 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Source apportionment of heavy metals in agricultural soil based on PMF: A case study in Hexi Corridor, northwest China

2017 476 citations Qingyu Guan, Feifei Wang et al. Chemosphere profile →
Spatial Differentiation and Driving Mechanisms in Ecosystem Service Value of Arid Region：A case study in the middle and lower reaches of Shule River Basin, NW China

2021 156 citations Ninghui Pan, Qingyu Guan 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
Ninghui Pan China	15	846	496	446	426	289	20	1.6k
Jinkuo Lin China	16	708 0.8×	403 0.8×	499 1.1×	441 1.0×	240 0.8×	19	1.6k
Lijia Guo China	14	869 1.0×	314 0.6×	275 0.6×	606 1.4×	380 1.3×	15	1.5k
Keke Fan China	13	604 0.7×	239 0.5×	307 0.7×	233 0.5×	241 0.8×	19	1.2k
Cong Men China	23	1.2k 1.4×	399 0.8×	319 0.7×	791 1.9×	471 1.6×	45	2.2k
Mehdi Maanan Morocco	19	466 0.6×	261 0.5×	341 0.8×	198 0.5×	100 0.3×	57	1.3k
Bendahhou Zourarah Morocco	19	655 0.8×	296 0.6×	197 0.4×	224 0.5×	121 0.4×	46	1.3k
Guitao Shi China	22	1.1k 1.3×	287 0.6×	162 0.4×	783 1.8×	475 1.6×	92	1.9k
Jianshu Lv China	20	1.1k 1.3×	736 1.5×	155 0.3×	337 0.8×	383 1.3×	32	1.5k
Huading Shi China	20	820 1.0×	360 0.7×	102 0.2×	296 0.7×	166 0.6×	76	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ninghui Pan

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

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Du, Qinqin, Qingzheng Wang, Qingyu Guan, et al.. (2025). Ecological carrying capacity evaluation from the perspective of social-ecological coupling in the Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Gondwana Research. 141. 26–39. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Wenmin, et al.. (2025). Assessment of ecological asset quality and its drivers in Agro-pastoral Ecotone of China. Ecological Indicators. 170. 113072–113072. 2 indexed citations

Li, Jie, et al.. (2024). Mutual Causality Between Urban Transport Superiority Degree and Urban Land Use Efficiency: Insights from County Cities in Gansu Province Under the Belt and Road Initiative. Land. 13(11). 1787–1787. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jie, et al.. (2024). Coupled zoning and spatial heterogeneity of human activities and natural endowments based on self-organizing map and random forest: A case study of the agro-pastoral ecotone in Gansu, China. Ecological Informatics. 82. 102686–102686. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Yunfan, et al.. (2023). Projection of landscape ecological risk and exploration of terrain effects in the Qilian Mountains, China. Land Degradation and Development. 34(15). 4575–4593. 14 indexed citations

Pan, Ninghui, Qinqin Du, Qingyu Guan, et al.. (2022). Ecological security assessment and pattern construction in arid and semi-arid areas: A case study of the Hexi Region, NW China. Ecological Indicators. 138. 108797–108797. 80 indexed citations

Du, Qinqin, Yunfan Sun, Qingyu Guan, et al.. (2022). Vulnerability of grassland ecosystems to climate change in the Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Journal of Hydrology. 612. 128305–128305. 46 indexed citations

Sun, Yunfan, Qingyu Guan, Qingzheng Wang, et al.. (2021). Quantitative assessment of the impact of climatic factors on phenological changes in the Qilian Mountains, China. Forest Ecology and Management. 499. 119594–119594. 25 indexed citations

Pan, Ninghui, Qingyu Guan, Qingzheng Wang, et al.. (2021). Spatial Differentiation and Driving Mechanisms in Ecosystem Service Value of Arid Region：A case study in the middle and lower reaches of Shule River Basin, NW China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 319. 128718–128718. 156 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Feifei, Qingyu Guan, Jing Tian, et al.. (2020). Contamination characteristics, source apportionment, and health risk assessment of heavy metals in agricultural soil in the Hexi Corridor. CATENA. 191. 104573–104573. 176 indexed citations

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Luo, Haiping, Qingyu Guan, Ninghui Pan, et al.. (2020). Using composite fingerprints to quantify the potential dust source contributions in northwest China. The Science of The Total Environment. 742. 140560–140560. 37 indexed citations

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Lin, Jinkuo, Qingyu Guan, Ninghui Pan, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal variations and driving factors of the potential wind erosion rate in the Hexi region, PR China. Land Degradation and Development. 32(1). 139–157. 29 indexed citations

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Guan, Qingyu, Rui Zhao, Feifei Wang, et al.. (2019). Prediction of heavy metals in soils of an arid area based on multi-spectral data. Journal of Environmental Management. 243. 137–143. 59 indexed citations

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Zhao, Rui, Qingyu Guan, Haiping Luo, et al.. (2019). Fuzzy synthetic evaluation and health risk assessment quantification of heavy metals in Zhangye agricultural soil from the perspective of sources. The Science of The Total Environment. 697. 134126–134126. 95 indexed citations

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Guan, Qingyu, Haiping Luo, Ninghui Pan, et al.. (2019). Contribution of dust in northern China to PM10 concentrations over the Hexi corridor. The Science of The Total Environment. 660. 947–958. 42 indexed citations

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Guan, Qingyu, Rui Zhao, Ninghui Pan, et al.. (2019). Source apportionment of heavy metals in farmland soil of Wuwei, China: Comparison of three receptor models. Journal of Cleaner Production. 237. 117792–117792. 170 indexed citations

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Guan, Qingyu, Yanyan Yang, Haiping Luo, et al.. (2019). Transport pathways of PM10 during the spring in northwest China and its characteristics of potential dust sources. Journal of Cleaner Production. 237. 117746–117746. 27 indexed citations

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Liu, Zeyu, Qingyu Guan, Haiping Luo, et al.. (2019). Development of land use regression model and health risk assessment for NO2 in different functional areas: A case study of Xi'an, China. Atmospheric Environment. 213. 515–525. 33 indexed citations

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Guan, Qingyu, Liqin Yang, Ninghui Pan, et al.. (2018). Greening and Browning of the Hexi Corridor in Northwest China: Spatial Patterns and Responses to Climatic Variability and Anthropogenic Drivers. Remote Sensing. 10(8). 1270–1270. 72 indexed citations

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Guan, Qingyu, Feifei Wang, Chuanqi Xu, et al.. (2017). Source apportionment of heavy metals in agricultural soil based on PMF: A case study in Hexi Corridor, northwest China. Chemosphere. 193. 189–197. 476 indexed citations breakdown →

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