Qiang Ren

737 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 520 citations indexed

About

Qiang Ren is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Qiang Ren has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 520 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 4 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Qiang Ren's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers). Qiang Ren is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers). Qiang Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Qiang Ren's co-authors include Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, Da Zhang, Peijun Shi, Burak Güneralp, Tao Qi, Yuyu Zhou, Rui Zhao, Dan Yin and Jubo Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Environmental Management, Resources Conservation and Recycling and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Qiang Ren

18 papers receiving 510 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands

2022 194 citations Qiang Ren, Chunyang He et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers

Qiang Ren

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HTM

ECOLO

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Junlong Huang China

Le Yin China

Francesc Coll Spain

Yuehan Dou China

Edyta Woźniak Poland

Xin Fan China

Timothy W. Foresman United States

Milan Shrestha United States

Sipei Pan China

David A. Eitelberg Netherlands

Junlong Huang China

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341 ×0.8

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137 ×0.8

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154 ×1.2

ECOLO

39 ×0.4

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33 ×0.6

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Citations per year, relative to Qiang Ren Qiang Ren (= 1×) peers Junlong Huang

Countries citing papers authored by Qiang Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qiang Ren

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qiang Ren

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

All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Qi, Tao, Chunyang He, Qiang Ren, Yida Wang, & Shengpeng Cao. (2025). Dual effects on vegetation caused by urban expansion in global drylands: Insights from the enhanced vegetation disturbance index. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 222. 108438–108438. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive estimation and spatiotemporal differentiation of marine fishery carbon sinks in China's coastal provinces. Ocean & Coastal Management. 269. 107846–107846. 1 indexed citations

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Qi, Tao, Chunyang He, Qiang Ren, & Zihang Fang. (2025). Climate change will make increasing people less comfortable: Insights from the weather preference index. Journal of Environmental Management. 393. 126949–126949. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Yu, et al.. (2025). Optimizing global protected areas to address future land use threats to biodiversity. Land Use Policy. 154. 107560–107560. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Qingxu, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban sprawl in China from 2000 to 2020. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 61(1). 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Mingzhe, Qiang Ren, Cheng Liu, et al.. (2024). Urban land expanded closer to protected areas in China: a three decade investigation over 2622 protected areas. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. 31(5). 578–592. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Yichen, et al.. (2023). Relationships between urban expansion and socioenvironmental indicators across multiple scales of watersheds: a case study among watersheds running through China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(30). 75752–75767. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiayu, et al.. (2023). The effect of grain size on the relationship between urbanization and bird diversity. Applied Geography. 162. 103154–103154. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Da, et al.. (2023). Impacts of future urban expansion on natural habitats will intensify in China: scenario analysis with the improved LUSD-urban model. Landscape Ecology. 38(10). 2547–2567. 4 indexed citations

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Ren, Qiang, et al.. (2023). Assessing direct and indirect impacts of human activities on natural habitats in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 2000 to 2020. Ecological Indicators. 157. 111217–111217. 19 indexed citations

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Qi, Tao, et al.. (2023). Impacts of urban expansion on vegetation in drylands: A multiscale analysis based on the vegetation disturbance index. Ecological Indicators. 147. 109984–109984. 19 indexed citations

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Ren, Qiang, Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, et al.. (2022). Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands. Nature Sustainability. 5(10). 869–878. 194 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ren, Qiang, et al.. (2022). Impacts of global urban expansion on natural habitats undermine the 2050 vision for biodiversity. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 190. 106834–106834. 55 indexed citations

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Huang, Qingxu, Han Zhang, Jasper van Vliet, et al.. (2021). Patterns and Distributions of Urban Expansion in Global Watersheds. Earth s Future. 9(8). 45 indexed citations

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Huang, Qingxu, Dan Yin, Chunyang He, et al.. (2020). Linking ecosystem services and subjective well-being in rapidly urbanizing watersheds: Insights from a multilevel linear model. Ecosystem Services. 43. 101106–101106. 74 indexed citations

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Zhu, Lei, et al.. (2020). Identifying urban haze islands and extracting their spatial features. Ecological Indicators. 115. 106385–106385. 17 indexed citations

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Ren, Qiang, Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, & Yuyu Zhou. (2018). Urbanization Impacts on Vegetation Phenology in China. Remote Sensing. 10(12). 1905–1905. 34 indexed citations

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Ren, Qiang, et al.. (2018). The poverty dynamics in rural China during 2000–2014: A multi-scale analysis based on the poverty gap index. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 28(10). 1427–1443. 27 indexed citations

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