Quan Shen

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 733 citations indexed

About

Quan Shen is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Quan Shen has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 733 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 5 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Quan Shen's work include Landslides and related hazards (5 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (4 papers) and Tree Root and Stability Studies (4 papers). Quan Shen is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (5 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (4 papers) and Tree Root and Stability Studies (4 papers). Quan Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Quan Shen's co-authors include Ahmad Khan, Xiao‐Peng Song, Peter Potapov, Amy Pickens, Alexandra Tyukavina, Viviana Zalles, Matthew C. Hansen, Svetlana Turubanova, Taro Uchimura and Gonghui Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Sensors and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Quan Shen

17 papers receiving 706 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century

2021 564 citations Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Quan Shen China	8	347	225	167	116	109	19	733
Daniele de Rigo Italy	12	453 1.3×	222 1.0×	96 0.6×	80 0.7×	84 0.8×	37	783
Enrique González-Sosa Mexico	14	318 0.9×	163 0.7×	87 0.5×	123 1.1×	224 2.1×	35	731
Xiaotao Huang China	15	236 0.7×	178 0.8×	196 1.2×	79 0.7×	68 0.6×	42	584
Baorui Chen China	17	263 0.8×	396 1.8×	83 0.5×	174 1.5×	159 1.5×	52	956
Azade Deljoueı Iran	15	273 0.8×	273 1.2×	75 0.4×	62 0.5×	166 1.5×	30	634
Zhouyuan Li China	18	289 0.8×	192 0.9×	55 0.3×	74 0.6×	112 1.0×	46	927
Zhongjie Shi China	20	661 1.9×	266 1.2×	98 0.6×	267 2.3×	112 1.0×	56	1.0k
Yongming Lin China	13	138 0.4×	138 0.6×	150 0.9×	143 1.2×	68 0.6×	39	601
Mehrdad Zarafshar Iran	13	264 0.8×	102 0.5×	148 0.9×	60 0.5×	43 0.4×	42	680

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Quan Shen

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19 of 19 papers shown

Shen, Quan, et al.. (2025). Experimental Study of Influence of Plant Roots on Dynamic Characteristics of Clay. Applied Sciences. 15(2). 495–495.

Li, Zhaochao, et al.. (2025). Study on shallow steel utility tunnels under strike-slip fault conditions: Analytical and numerical approaches. Structures. 79. 109536–109536. 1 indexed citations

Hurtt, G. C., Lei Ma, Elliott Campbell, et al.. (2024). Beyond MRV: combining remote sensing and ecosystem modeling for geospatial monitoring and attribution of forest carbon fluxes over Maryland, USA. Environmental Research Letters. 19(12). 124058–124058.

Wu, Ping‐Hsun, et al.. (2024). Research progress in mechanized and intelligentized pollination technologies for fruit and vegetable crops. International journal of agricultural and biological engineering. 17(6). 11–21. 7 indexed citations

Ma, Lei, G. C. Hurtt, Hao Tang, et al.. (2023). Spatial heterogeneity of global forest aboveground carbon stocks and fluxes constrained by spaceborne lidar data and mechanistic modeling. Global Change Biology. 29(12). 3378–3394. 23 indexed citations

Ma, Lei, G. C. Hurtt, Hao Tang, et al.. (2021). High-resolution forest carbon modelling for climate mitigation planning over the RGGI region, USA. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 45014–45014. 14 indexed citations

Potapov, Peter, Svetlana Turubanova, Matthew C. Hansen, et al.. (2021). Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century. Nature Food. 3(1). 19–28. 564 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Ye, et al.. (2021). Automatic Detection of Display Defects for Smart Meters based on Deep Learning. Journal of Computing and Information Technology. 28(4). 241–254. 3 indexed citations

Hurtt, G. C., et al.. (2020). High-resolution Monitoring of Forest Carbon Sequestration to Meet Climate Goals. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Tao, Kun Zhou, Jun Wei, et al.. (2020). Excavation influence of triangular-distribution tunnels for wind pavilion group of a metro station. Journal of Central South University. 27(12). 3852–3874. 6 indexed citations

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Uchimura, Taro, et al.. (2020). Predicting the sliding behavior of rotational landslides based on the tilting measurement of the slope surface. Engineering Geology. 269. 105554–105554. 35 indexed citations

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Tan, Junkun, et al.. (2020). Investigation on Surface Tilting in the Failure Process of Shallow Landslides. Sensors. 20(9). 2662–2662. 12 indexed citations

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Uchimura, Taro, Gonghui Wang, Quan Shen, et al.. (2019). A new prediction method for the occurrence of landslides based on the time history of tilting of the slope surface. Landslides. 17(2). 301–312. 30 indexed citations

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Uchimura, Taro, et al.. (2019). A relationship between displacement and tilting angle of the slope surface in shallow landslides. Landslides. 16(6). 1243–1251. 27 indexed citations

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Shen, Quan, et al.. (2018). Stability Analysis for the Expansive Soil Slope Considering the Influence of Cracks Based on the Upper Bound Method. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 189. 22014–22014. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Guolin, et al.. (2016). Numerical analysis of stratum deformation induced by tunnel boring machine construction for metro. JOURNAL OF SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. 33(4). 377–377. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Guolin, et al.. (2015). NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON AMPLIFICATION COEFFICIENT OF ACCELERATION OF RETAINING STRUCTURES OF BEDROCK AND OVERBURDEN LAYER SLOPES. 34(2). 374–381. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiang, et al.. (2015). Research on Yangzhou Goose breeding system based on RFID. 1224–1227. 2 indexed citations

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Shen, Quan. (2004). Information preservation (IP) method in simulation of internal rarefied gas flows in MEMS. 中国科学院力学研究所. 1 indexed citations

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