Qingfeng Guan

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
185 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Qingfeng Guan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Media Technology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingfeng Guan has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Media Technology and 33 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Qingfeng Guan's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (54 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (37 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (28 papers). Qingfeng Guan is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (54 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (37 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (28 papers). Qingfeng Guan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Qingfeng Guan's co-authors include Keith Clarke, Xun Liang, Yao Yao, Shishi Liu, Bingyu Wang, Qiqi Zhu, Yao Yao, Yanfei Zhong, Deren Li and Liangpei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Qingfeng Guan

172 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Understanding the drivers of sustainable land expansion using a patch-generating land use simulation (PLUS) model: A case study in Wuhan, China

2020 1.1k citations Xun Liang, Qingfeng Guan et al. Computers Environment and Urban Systems profile →
A human-machine adversarial scoring framework for urban perception assessment using street-view images

2019 297 citations Yao Yao, Zehao Yuan et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →
Land-Use/Land-Cover change detection based on a Siamese global learning framework for high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery

2021 212 citations Qiqi Zhu, Weihuan Deng et al. profile →
A Global Context-aware and Batch-independent Network for road extraction from VHR satellite imagery

2021 212 citations Qiqi Zhu, Qingfeng Guan et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Qingfeng Guan	2.6k	864	862	859	741	185	5.3k
Xiao Huang	1.5k 0.6×	692 0.8×	697 0.8×	727 0.8×	389 0.5×	289	4.9k
Daniel L. Civco	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	534 0.7×	80	4.8k
Alexis Comber	2.3k 0.9×	783 0.9×	666 0.8×	1.4k 1.6×	683 0.9×	148	5.4k
Yifang Ban	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	1.8k 2.1×	1.4k 1.6×	323 0.4×	182	5.2k
Hannes Taubenböck	4.5k 1.7×	1.8k 2.1×	1.9k 2.2×	1.0k 1.2×	875 1.2×	314	7.8k
Xiaocong Xu	3.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	300 0.3×	965 1.1×	910 1.2×	51	4.7k
Shihong Du	1.6k 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	2.3k 2.6×	673 0.8×	461 0.6×	138	4.7k
Weidong Li	1.7k 0.6×	1.7k 2.0×	405 0.5×	585 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	179	4.8k
Martino Pesaresi	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	2.5k 2.9×	1.0k 1.2×	366 0.5×	141	6.2k
Yong Ge	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	981 1.1×	1.5k 1.8×	376 0.5×	199	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qingfeng Guan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liang, Xun, Junlong Huang, & Qingfeng Guan. (2025). Unveiling land competition through interaction networks: A consistency-based mining and simulation model that integrates inhibiting effects of land uses. Landscape and Urban Planning. 263. 105458–105458. 5 indexed citations

Yao, Yao, et al.. (2025). Explainable Mapping of the Irregular Land Use Parcel With a Data Fusion Deep-Learning Model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–15. 2 indexed citations

Yao, Yao, Ying Jiang, Linlong Li, et al.. (2024). Applicability and sensitivity analysis of vector cellular automata model for land cover change. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 109. 102090–102090. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Geospatial large language model trained with a simulated environment for generating tool-use chains autonomously. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104312–104312. 8 indexed citations

Liang, Xun, et al.. (2024). Balancing simulation performance and computational intensity of CA models for large-scale land-use change simulations. Environmental Modelling & Software. 185. 106293–106293. 6 indexed citations

Zhu, Qiqi, et al.. (2024). From Intra-Distinctiveness to Inter-Invariance: A Cycle-Resemblance Few-Shot Transformation Network for Cross-Domain Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–16. 2 indexed citations

Deng, Zhitao, et al.. (2024). Urban perception by using eye movement data on street view images. Transactions in GIS. 28(5). 1021–1042. 5 indexed citations

Luo, Peng, et al.. (2024). DCAI-CLUD: a data-centric framework for the construction of land-use datasets. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 38(11). 2379–2402. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Yifan, et al.. (2024). MapGPT: an autonomous framework for mapping by integrating large language model and cartographic tools. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 51(6). 717–743. 30 indexed citations

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Yao, Yao, et al.. (2023). Extracting the pickpocketing information implied in the built environment by treating it as the anomalies. Cities. 143. 104575–104575. 10 indexed citations

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Yao, Yao, et al.. (2023). Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis. Cities. 138. 104361–104361. 20 indexed citations

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Yao, Yao, Jianfeng Zhou, Qingfeng Guan, et al.. (2023). Estimating China’s poverty reduction efficiency by integrating multi-source geospatial data and deep learning techniques. Geo-spatial Information Science. 27(4). 1000–1016. 8 indexed citations

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Yao, Yao, et al.. (2022). Assessing myocardial infarction severity from the urban environment perspective in Wuhan, China. Journal of Environmental Management. 317. 115438–115438. 17 indexed citations

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Zheng, Chenglong, Yao Yao, Xiaotong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Analyzing the correlation between visual space and residents' psychology in Wuhan, China using street-view images and deep-learning technique. City and Environment Interactions. 11. 100069–100069. 109 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xiaolin, et al.. (2021). cuFSDAF: An Enhanced Flexible Spatiotemporal Data Fusion Algorithm Parallelized Using Graphics Processing Units. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–16. 47 indexed citations

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Yao, Yao, Yi Lü, Qingfeng Guan, & Ruoyu Wang. (2021). Can parkland mitigate mental health burden imposed by the COVID-19? A national study in China. Urban forestry & urban greening. 67. 127451–127451. 25 indexed citations

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Guan, Qingfeng, et al.. (2021). Under the Dome: A 3D Urban Texture Model and Its Relationship with Urban Land Surface Temperature. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112(5). 1369–1389. 16 indexed citations

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Yao, Yao, Zehao Yuan, Penghua Liu, et al.. (2019). A human-machine adversarial scoring framework for urban perception assessment using street-view images. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 33(12). 2363–2384. 297 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guan, Qingfeng, et al.. (2015). A hybrid parallel cellular automata model for urban growth simulation over GPU/CPU heterogeneous architectures. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 30(3). 494–514. 59 indexed citations

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Adler, Peter B., Janneke HilleRisLambers, Phaedon Kyriakidis, Qingfeng Guan, & Jonathan M. Levine. (2006). Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on the coexistence of prairie grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(34). 12793–12798. 238 indexed citations

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