Qian Sun

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Qian Sun is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Qian Sun has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 15 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Qian Sun's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (38 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (13 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (11 papers). Qian Sun is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (38 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (13 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (11 papers). Qian Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Qian Sun's co-authors include Jun Hu, Zhiwei Li, Jianjun Zhu, Xiaoli Ding, Lei Zhang, Jihong Liu, Liming Jiang, Xiaohong Chen, Lin Bai and Guoliang Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Water Resources Research and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Qian Sun

47 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.

  1. Resolving three-dimensional surface displacements from InSAR measurements: A review
    2014 348 citations Jun Hu, Zhiwei 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
Qian Sun China 21 1.2k 609 602 286 265 54 1.6k
Giovanni Zeni Italy 19 1.0k 0.9× 486 0.8× 609 1.0× 448 1.6× 260 1.0× 53 1.6k
Manuela Bonano Italy 24 1.2k 1.0× 420 0.7× 519 0.9× 401 1.4× 336 1.3× 83 1.7k
Yngvar Larsen Norway 22 652 0.5× 649 1.1× 522 0.9× 246 0.9× 192 0.7× 59 1.5k
Alex Hay‐Man Ng Australia 23 1.3k 1.1× 423 0.7× 472 0.8× 163 0.6× 404 1.5× 80 1.7k
Diego Reale Italy 23 1.5k 1.3× 389 0.6× 518 0.9× 204 0.7× 507 1.9× 84 2.0k
Andrew K. Gabriel United States 4 1.6k 1.4× 712 1.2× 610 1.0× 317 1.1× 544 2.1× 19 2.0k
Wu Zhu China 22 728 0.6× 550 0.9× 680 1.1× 163 0.6× 194 0.7× 94 1.4k
Pietro Milillo United States 27 994 0.8× 663 1.1× 675 1.1× 442 1.5× 222 0.8× 71 2.1k
B. Crippa Italy 16 1.7k 1.4× 667 1.1× 755 1.3× 174 0.6× 520 2.0× 65 2.0k
Karsten Spaans United Kingdom 12 905 0.8× 412 0.7× 474 0.8× 519 1.8× 206 0.8× 23 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Qian Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qian Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qian Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qian Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qian Sun 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 Qian Sun. Qian Sun 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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Zhang, Xing, et al.. (2025). Long-time surface deformation in Beijing, China for three decades by multi-sensor, multi-track and multi-temporal InSAR seamless connection. Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk. 16(1). 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Qian, et al.. (2025). PNG: an adaptive local-global hybrid framework for unsupervised material surface defect detection. Expert Systems with Applications. 293. 128711–128711.
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Sun, Qian, et al.. (2025). Monitoring of Cropland Non-Agriculturalization Based on Google Earth Engine and Multi-Source Data. Applied Sciences. 15(3). 1474–1474. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Jihong, Jun Hu, Zhiwei Li, et al.. (2023). Dynamically estimating deformations with wrapped InSAR based on sequential adjustment. Journal of Geodesy. 97(5). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Jihong, Jun Hu, Roland Bürgmann, et al.. (2021). A Strain‐Model Based InSAR Time Series Method and Its Application to The Geysers Geothermal Field, California. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(8). 19 indexed citations
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Sun, Qian, et al.. (2021). Analysis of Surface Deformation in East Dongting Lake Based on 2016‐2019 Sentinel‐1A Dataset. Journal of Sensors. 2021(1). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Jihong, Jun Hu, Zhiwei Li, et al.. (2021). Dynamic Estimation of Multi-Dimensional Deformation Time Series From InSAR Based on Kalman Filter and Strain Model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–16. 12 indexed citations
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Sun, Qian. (2020). Resent Situation and Cultivation Strategy of Network Media Literacy of “Micro-blog and WeChat -Era” Youth Generation. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1533(4). 42054–42054. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhipeng, et al.. (2018). Spatial-temporal Correlation Analysis of Ionospheric Delay in China based on iGMAS. Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation ... International Technical Meeting/Proceedings of the ... International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation. 771–789. 1 indexed citations
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Du, Yanan, Lei Zhang, Guangcai Feng, Zhong Lu, & Qian Sun. (2016). On the Accuracy of Topographic Residuals Retrieved by MTInSAR. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(2). 1053–1065. 41 indexed citations
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Sun, Qian, Lei Zhang, Xiaoli Ding, et al.. (2014). Slope deformation prior to Zhouqu, China landslide from InSAR time series analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment. 156. 45–57. 172 indexed citations
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Hu, Jun, Zhiwei Li, Xiaoli Ding, Jianjun Zhu, & Qian Sun. (2012). Spatial–temporal surface deformation of Los Angeles over 2003–2007 from weighted least squares DInSAR. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 21. 484–492. 23 indexed citations
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Hu, Jun, Zhiwei Li, Qian Sun, Jianjun Zhu, & Xiaoli Ding. (2012). Three-Dimensional Surface Displacements From InSAR and GPS Measurements With Variance Component Estimation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 9(4). 754–758. 67 indexed citations
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Sun, Qian & Min Wu. (2011). A Double Key-Sharing Based False Data Filtering Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks. 4307. 509–516. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Qian. (2009). On the Territory,Natural Environment and Economic Distribution of the Bohai State in Tang Dynasty. 1 indexed citations

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