Ranhao Sun

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Ranhao Sun is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Ranhao Sun has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Environmental Engineering, 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 41 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Ranhao Sun's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (41 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (36 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (33 papers). Ranhao Sun is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (41 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (36 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (33 papers). Ranhao Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Ranhao Sun's co-authors include Liding Chen, Ailian Chen, Xian Cheng, Muqi Xiong, Yihe Lü, Lei Yao, Zhaowu Yu, Yongcai Jing, Xiaobai Yao and Henrik Vejre and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ranhao Sun

108 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban vegetation during extreme heat

2024 80 citations Zhaowu Yu, Ranhao Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ranhao Sun China	35	2.3k	2.1k	1.9k	589	589	111	4.1k
Gaodi Xie China	38	1.2k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	994 0.5×	366 0.6×	621 1.1×	139	4.6k
Gudina Legese Feyisa Ethiopia	22	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	742 0.4×	452 0.8×	767 1.3×	61	3.5k
Xiaoling Chen China	19	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	696 0.4×	617 1.0×	639 1.1×	60	3.0k
C.M.J. Jacobs Netherlands	28	1.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	567 0.3×	741 1.3×	250 0.4×	91	2.9k
Henrik Vejre Denmark	26	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	334 0.6×	85 0.1×	56	3.5k
Simone Fatichi Switzerland	52	2.6k 1.2×	5.5k 2.6×	1.2k 0.7×	2.7k 4.5×	2.5k 4.2×	156	8.5k
Gensuo Jia China	40	1.8k 0.8×	3.4k 1.6×	680 0.4×	2.5k 4.2×	399 0.7×	150	6.2k
Rui Yao China	32	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.8×	275 0.5×	84	3.7k
Perrine Hamel United States	30	1.5k 0.7×	2.8k 1.3×	745 0.4×	160 0.3×	1.3k 2.1×	88	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ranhao Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ranhao Sun

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ranhao Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sun, Long, et al.. (2025). Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China. Applied Geography. 176. 103511–103511. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, Hongbin He, Song Leng, et al.. (2025). Declining subjective well-being disparities concurrent with urbanization in China. National Science Review. 12(10). nwaf362–nwaf362. 1 indexed citations

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Leng, Song, et al.. (2025). Global aging exacerbates heat exposure risk across diverse socioeconomic pathways. Geography and sustainability. 6(5). 100318–100318. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Jiayan, et al.. (2024). The climate backgrounds of urban migrants affect thermal response. Building and Environment. 250. 111212–111212. 3 indexed citations

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Leng, Song, et al.. (2024). Interannual variability and spatial diversification of global urban tree cooling effects. Environment International. 192. 109044–109044. 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, Hongbin He, Yongcai Jing, et al.. (2024). Global Wind Erosion Reduction Driven by Changing Climate and Land Use. Earth s Future. 12(10). 7 indexed citations

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Li, Jiayan, et al.. (2024). Human extreme heat protective behaviours: the effects of physical risks, psychological perception, and public measures. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11(1). 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, et al.. (2023). A supply-demand model of vegetation cooling for urban heatwave mitigation. Urban Climate. 52. 101699–101699. 12 indexed citations

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He, Hongbin, et al.. (2023). Urban landscape and climate affect residents’ sentiments based on big data. Applied Geography. 152. 102902–102902. 14 indexed citations

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Huang, Bo, et al.. (2023). Urban anthropogenic heat index derived from satellite data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 118. 103261–103261. 13 indexed citations

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Xiong, Muqi, et al.. (2023). Temporal variability of global potential water erosion based on an improved USLE model. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 12(1). 1–12. 15 indexed citations

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He, Hongbin, et al.. (2023). A Chinese soil conservation dataset preventing soil water erosion from 1992 to 2019. Scientific Data. 10(1). 319–319. 50 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, et al.. (2022). Assessing the accuracy of large-scale rainfall erosivity estimation based on climate zones and rainfall patterns. CATENA. 217. 106508–106508. 8 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xian, et al.. (2015). [Potential ecological risks assessment of heavy metals in the reservoir sediment of the western Haihe River basin].. PubMed. 26(5). 1495–500. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xian, et al.. (2014). [Ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments in the southern and central Haihe River Basin].. PubMed. 35(10). 3740–7. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, et al.. (2014). [Health assessment of river ecosystem in Haihe River Basin, China].. PubMed. 35(10). 3692–701. 6 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, et al.. (2013). [Regionalization of the freshwater eco-regions in the Haihe River Basin of China].. PubMed. 34(2). 509–16. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Fen, Ranhao Sun, & Liding Chen. (2012). [Recreational attraction of urban park wetlands in Beijing].. PubMed. 23(8). 2093–9. 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, et al.. (2012). [Applicability of traditional landscape metrics in evaluating urban heat island effect].. PubMed. 23(8). 2077–86. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Ranhao, et al.. (2005). AN ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC CHANGE OF THE LANDSCAPE PATTERN AND DIVERSITY IN FUZHOU. Tropical Geography. 1 indexed citations

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