Pei Leng

4.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
115 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Pei Leng is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Pei Leng has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Environmental Engineering, 75 papers in Atmospheric Science and 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Pei Leng's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (46 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (44 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (43 papers). Pei Leng is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (46 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (44 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (43 papers). Pei Leng collaborates with scholars based in China, France and Germany. Pei Leng's co-authors include Zhao-Liang Li, Si‐Bo Duan, Maofang Gao, Hua Wu, Guofei Shang, Xia Zhang, Xiaoning Song, Wei Zhao, Chenghu Zhou and Fang-Cheng Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Pei Leng

107 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Validation of Collection 6 MODIS land surface temperature... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2022 2021 2023 100 200 300
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. Validation of Collection 6 MODIS land surface temperature product using in situ measurements
    2019 332 citations Si‐Bo Duan, Zhao-Liang Li et al. profile →
  2. Satellite Remote Sensing of Global Land Surface Temperature: Definition, Methods, Products, and Applications
    2022 327 citations Zhao‐Liang Li, Hua Wu et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
  3. Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future
    2021 189 citations Zhao-Liang Li, Pei Leng et al. profile →
  4. Biophysical impacts of earth greening can substantially mitigate regional land surface temperature warming
    2023 118 citations Yitao Li, Zhao-Liang Li et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pei Leng China 26 2.3k 1.8k 1.1k 447 272 115 3.0k
Ronglin Tang China 28 2.0k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 2.3k 2.1× 480 1.1× 190 0.7× 112 3.4k
Si‐Bo Duan China 35 3.0k 1.3× 2.4k 1.3× 1.4k 1.3× 726 1.6× 269 1.0× 134 4.0k
Yunyue Yu United States 32 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.6× 1.0k 2.3× 152 0.6× 79 3.3k
César Coll Spain 33 2.9k 1.3× 2.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 595 1.3× 232 0.9× 95 3.8k
Kebiao Mao China 26 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 280 0.6× 109 0.4× 82 2.1k
Dongdong Wang United States 33 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 1.0× 1.9k 1.8× 801 1.8× 94 0.3× 96 3.3k
Aliihsan Şekertekin Türkiye 27 1.2k 0.5× 576 0.3× 886 0.8× 433 1.0× 343 1.3× 67 1.9k
Zhao‐Liang Li China 17 1.1k 0.5× 716 0.4× 785 0.7× 255 0.6× 120 0.4× 38 1.6k
Jordi Cristóbal Spain 16 1.5k 0.7× 917 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 493 1.1× 401 1.5× 41 2.2k
Donglian Sun United States 27 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.2× 335 0.7× 171 0.6× 72 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pei Leng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pei Leng

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leng, Pei, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal variability and dominant driving factors of satellite observed global soil moisture from 2001 to 2020. Journal of Hydrology. 654. 132848–132848. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Yitao, Jun Ge, Hua Wu, et al.. (2025). Amplified local cooling effect of forestation in warming Europe. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8412–8412.
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Zhai, Shixian, Pei Leng, Chunfeng Ma, et al.. (2025). SMCR: A first satellite-derived all-weather daily/1-km Soil Moisture Climatological Record (1980–2023). Scientific Data. 13(1). 115–115.
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Gao, Yuxin, Pei Leng, Jing Li, et al.. (2024). Identification of irrigation events using Bayesian statistics-based change detection and soil moisture measurements. Agricultural Water Management. 302. 108999–108999. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Zhao-Liang, Xiangyang Liu, Enyu Zhao, et al.. (2024). Reflections on developments and opportunities of thermal infrared remote sensing. 2(4). 100104–100104. 3 indexed citations
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Song, Xiaoning, et al.. (2024). An Enhanced Saline Soil Dielectric Constant Model Used for Remote Sensing Soil Moisture and Salinity Retrieval. Remote Sensing. 16(3). 452–452. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiangyang, Zhao-Liang Li, Yitao Li, et al.. (2023). Local temperature responses to actual land cover changes present significant latitudinal variability and asymmetry. Science Bulletin. 68(22). 2849–2861. 40 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shibo, et al.. (2023). Crop type mapping with temporal sample migration. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 45(19-20). 7014–7032. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Zhao‐Liang, Hua Wu, Si‐Bo Duan, et al.. (2022). Satellite Remote Sensing of Global Land Surface Temperature: Definition, Methods, Products, and Applications. Reviews of Geophysics. 61(1). 327 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leng, Pei, et al.. (2021). A Method for Downscaling Satellite Soil Moisture Based on Land Surface Temperature and Net Surface Shortwave Radiation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Ru, Si‐Bo Duan, Xiaoguang Jiang, et al.. (2021). Land Surface Temperature Retrieval From Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Data Over Urban Areas Considering Geometry Effect: Method and Application. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–16. 37 indexed citations
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Peng, Jian, et al.. (2018). Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Optical/Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(9). 5433–5442. 18 indexed citations
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Chen, Ru, et al.. (2018). A method for surface soil moisture estimation based on the DTR-FVC space. 35(6). 771. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Shifeng, et al.. (2016). Global Sensitivity Analysis of Parameters in the PROSAIL Model Based on Modified Sobol's Method. Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping. 33. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Zhao-Liang, Si‐Bo Duan, Hua Wu, et al.. (2016). Review of methods for land surface temperature derived from thermal infrared remotely sensed data. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 20(5). 899–920. 60 indexed citations
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Song, Xiaoning, et al.. (2015). UAV imagery data processing for emergency response based on PhotoScan Pro. Guotu ziyuan yaogan. 27(4). 179–182. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Xinhui, Xiaoning Song, & Pei Leng. (2011). Remote Sensing Estimation of Evapotranspiration Quantity and Analysis of Space-time Structure over Shiyang River Basin. Guotu ziyuan yaogan. 23(3). 117–122. 4 indexed citations
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