Pu Yan

811 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 514 citations indexed

About

Pu Yan is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Pu Yan has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 514 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 6 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Pu Yan's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant and animal studies (10 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers). Pu Yan is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant and animal studies (10 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers). Pu Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Spain. Pu Yan's co-authors include Nianpeng He, Li Xu, Guirui Yu, Mingxu Li, Congcong Liu, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Ying Li, Jianhua Zhu, Ang Li and Chunwang Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Pu Yan

20 papers receiving 507 citations

Hit Papers

Planted Forests in China Have Higher Drought Risk Than Na... 2025 2026 2025 4 8 12
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. Planted Forests in China Have Higher Drought Risk Than Natural Forests
    2025 13 citations Longlong Ma, Jun Ma et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pu Yan China 12 238 185 108 94 72 20 514
Michael G. Andreu United States 14 226 0.9× 121 0.7× 118 1.1× 108 1.1× 34 0.5× 83 513
Trevor Hobbs Australia 13 333 1.4× 215 1.2× 197 1.8× 29 0.3× 42 0.6× 18 649
Chunjiang Liu China 11 213 0.9× 215 1.2× 116 1.1× 129 1.4× 50 0.7× 20 495
Asghar Fallah Iran 11 151 0.6× 184 1.0× 158 1.5× 93 1.0× 44 0.6× 81 482
Klaus Hennenberg Germany 14 260 1.1× 286 1.5× 131 1.2× 91 1.0× 103 1.4× 26 606
Jaconette Mirck Germany 12 268 1.1× 158 0.9× 121 1.1× 147 1.6× 93 1.3× 21 686
Xiaotao Huang China 15 236 1.0× 90 0.5× 178 1.6× 73 0.8× 51 0.7× 42 584
Eddie Bevilacqua United States 15 448 1.9× 289 1.6× 106 1.0× 111 1.2× 26 0.4× 46 717
Éder Pereira Miguel Brazil 13 288 1.2× 265 1.4× 157 1.5× 69 0.7× 31 0.4× 76 630
Ioannis Spanos Greece 14 256 1.1× 159 0.9× 91 0.8× 107 1.1× 29 0.4× 36 575

Countries citing papers authored by Pu Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pu Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pu Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pu Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pu Yan 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 Pu Yan. Pu Yan 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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Ma, Longlong, Jun Ma, Pu Yan, et al.. (2025). Planted Forests in China Have Higher Drought Risk Than Natural Forests. Global Change Biology. 31(2). e70055–e70055. 13 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yan, Pu, Nianpeng He, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, et al.. (2025). Plant Acquisitive Strategies Promote Resistance and Temporal Stability of Semiarid Grasslands. Ecology Letters. 28(4). e70110–e70110. 2 indexed citations
3.
Yan, Pu, et al.. (2023). Functional diversity and soil nutrients regulate the interannual variability in gross primary productivity. Journal of Ecology. 111(5). 1094–1106. 7 indexed citations
4.
Yan, Pu, Nianpeng He, Kailiang Yu, Li Xu, & Koenraad Van Meerbeek. (2023). Integrating multiple plant functional traits to predict ecosystem productivity. Communications Biology. 6(1). 239–239. 19 indexed citations
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Yan, Pu, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, et al.. (2023). The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function. Global Change Biology. 29(16). 4569–4585. 51 indexed citations
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Hou, Jihua, Qiuyue Li, Pu Yan, et al.. (2022). Universal rule and regional variation of vegetation height assembly of typical grasslands in China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 16(1). 1 indexed citations
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He, Nianpeng, Pu Yan, Congcong Liu, et al.. (2022). Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits. Trends in Plant Science. 28(1). 43–53. 51 indexed citations
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Wang, Jianming, Mingxu Li, Li Xu, et al.. (2022). Divergent Abiotic Stressors Drive Grassland Community Assembly of Tibet and Mongolia Plateau. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 715730–715730. 4 indexed citations
9.
Zhang, Jiahui, Lars O. Hedin, Mingxu Li, et al.. (2022). Leaf N:P ratio does not predict productivity trends across natural terrestrial ecosystems. Ecology. 103(11). e3789–e3789. 11 indexed citations
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Yan, Pu, Mingxu Li, Guirui Yu, Yi Qi, & Nianpeng He. (2022). Plant community traits associated with nitrogen can predict spatial variability in productivity. Ecological Indicators. 140. 109001–109001. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yao, Nianpeng He, Mingxu Li, Pu Yan, & Guirui Yu. (2021). Community chlorophyll quantity determines the spatial variation of grassland productivity. The Science of The Total Environment. 801. 149567–149567. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Congcong, Ying Li, Li Xu, et al.. (2021). Stomatal Arrangement Pattern: A New Direction to Explore Plant Adaptation and Evolution. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 655255–655255. 22 indexed citations
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He, Nianpeng, Mingxu Li, Li Xu, et al.. (2021). Carbon sequestration of Chinese forests from 2010 to 2060: spatiotemporal dynamics and its regulatory strategies. Science Bulletin. 67(8). 836–843. 127 indexed citations
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Liu, Congcong, Ying Li, Pu Yan, & Nianpeng He. (2021). How to Improve the Predictions of Plant Functional Traits on Ecosystem Functioning?. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 622260–622260. 51 indexed citations
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Yin, Wang, Mingxu Li, Li Xu, et al.. (2020). Differential response of abundant and rare bacterial subcommunities to abiotic and biotic gradients across temperate deserts. The Science of The Total Environment. 763. 142942–142942. 19 indexed citations
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Li, Qiuyue, Jihua Hou, Pu Yan, et al.. (2020). Regional response of grassland productivity to changing environment conditions influenced by limiting factors. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0240238–e0240238. 13 indexed citations
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Yan, Pu, Chunwang Xiao, Li Xu, et al.. (2020). Biomass energy in China's terrestrial ecosystems: Insights into the nation's sustainable energy supply. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 127. 109857–109857. 72 indexed citations
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Yan, Pu, Li Xu, & Nianpeng He. (2018). Variation in the calorific values of different plants organs in China. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0199762–e0199762. 16 indexed citations
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Liu, Dayou, et al.. (2008). Development of a multiobjective GA for advanced planning and scheduling problem. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 42(9-10). 974–992. 15 indexed citations
20.
Yan, Pu, et al.. (2007). Genetic Algorithm with Local Search for Advanced Planning and Scheduling. 17. 781–785. 3 indexed citations

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