Ren Li

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ren Li is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ren Li has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Atmospheric Science, 17 papers in Environmental Engineering and 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ren Li's work include Climate change and permafrost (81 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (77 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (31 papers). Ren Li is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (81 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (77 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (31 papers). Ren Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Ren Li's co-authors include Tonghua Wu, Lin Zhao, Xiaodong Wu, Guojie Hu, Xiaofan Zhu, Qiangqiang Pang, Changwei Xie, Defu Zou, Yongping Qiao and Yao Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ren Li

97 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Changing climate and the permafrost environment on the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) plateau

2020 219 citations Lin Zhao, Defu Zou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ren Li China	31	2.1k	452	410	335	290	107	2.8k
Yongping Qiao China	28	2.3k 1.1×	422 0.9×	421 1.0×	293 0.9×	255 0.9×	79	2.6k
Xiaofan Zhu China	31	1.9k 0.9×	590 1.3×	350 0.9×	233 0.7×	272 0.9×	93	2.4k
Qiangqiang Pang China	24	2.2k 1.1×	258 0.6×	343 0.8×	203 0.6×	270 0.9×	42	2.6k
Yu Sheng China	35	3.1k 1.5×	399 0.9×	360 0.9×	482 1.4×	436 1.5×	121	3.9k
Rensheng Chen China	26	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 2.3×	351 0.9×	108 0.3×	116 0.4×	173	2.6k
Lianyou Liu China	28	737 0.3×	791 1.8×	188 0.5×	207 0.6×	236 0.8×	102	2.0k
Jennifer D. Watts United States	22	998 0.5×	863 1.9×	420 1.0×	99 0.3×	88 0.3×	53	2.0k
Yi Song China	22	504 0.2×	1.1k 2.5×	243 0.6×	139 0.4×	189 0.7×	53	2.0k
Yongzhi Liu China	28	2.3k 1.1×	105 0.2×	142 0.3×	339 1.0×	343 1.2×	106	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ren Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cai, Weiwei, Ren Li, Li Zhang, Yutong Liu, & Wenjiao Yang. (2025). Simulation of water resources in ungauged region- case study in Nam Ou River Basin, Laos. Ecological Indicators. 171. 113173–113173.

Du, Erji, Lin Zhao, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2025). A Soil Refractive Index (SRI) Model Characterizing the Functional Relationship Between Soil Moisture Content and Permittivity. Water. 17(3). 399–399. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Yao, Guangyue Liu, Defu Zou, et al.. (2025). Mapping Mountain Permafrost via GPR-Augmented Machine Learning in the Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 17(12). 2015–2015. 2 indexed citations

Li, Ren, Tonghua Wu, Jimin Yao, et al.. (2025). Physical Parameterization Sensitivity of Noah-MP for Hydrothermal Simulation Within the Active Layer on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Land. 14(2). 247–247.

Ma, Junjie, Ren Li, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of the Interaction between Freeze–Thaw Process and Surface Energy Budget on the Permafrost Region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Land. 13(10). 1609–1609. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Xiaoyan, Xiaodong Wu, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2023). Spatial-temporal variation in XCH4 during 2009–2021 and its driving factors across the land of the Northern Hemisphere. Atmospheric Research. 291. 106811–106811. 3 indexed citations

Ma, Junjie, Ren Li, Hongchao Liu, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of CLM5.0 for simulating surface energy budget and soil hydrothermal regime in permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 332. 109380–109380. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Wenhao, Ren Li, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Patterns and Regional Differences in Soil Thermal Conductivity on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 1168–1168. 9 indexed citations

Li, Ren, Tonghua Wu, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the Impact of Soil Enthalpy upon the Thawing Process of the Active Layer in Permafrost Regions of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau Using CLM5.0. Remote Sensing. 15(1). 249–249. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Yadong, Xiaodong Wu, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2022). Soil Texture and Its Relationship with Environmental Factors on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 14(15). 3797–3797. 20 indexed citations

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Hu, Guojie, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2022). Continued Warming of the Permafrost Regions Over the Northern Hemisphere Under Future Climate Change. Earth s Future. 10(9). 23 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) Plateau, China. Earth system science data. 13(8). 4207–4218. 126 indexed citations

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Wang, Dong, Tonghua Wu, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2021). A 1 km resolution soil organic carbon dataset for frozen ground in the Third Pole. Earth system science data. 13(7). 3453–3465. 52 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xiaofan, Tonghua Wu, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). Non‐Negligible Contribution to Seasonally Thawing Depth of Active Layer From Extreme Warming Events in the Tanggula Permafrost Region of Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(17). 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenhui, Changwei Xie, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2020). Rapid expansion of lakes in the endorheic basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau since 2000 and its potential drivers. CATENA. 197. 104942–104942. 57 indexed citations

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Du, Yizhen, Ren Li, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of 11 soil thermal conductivity schemes for the permafrost region of the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. CATENA. 193. 104608–104608. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Ren, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2018). Soil thermal conductivity and its influencing factors at the Tanggula permafrost region on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 264. 235–246. 77 indexed citations

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Li, Ren, et al.. (2018). Prediction for spatial distribution of soil organic matter based on random forest model in cultivated area.. Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis. 30(7). 1211–1217. 2 indexed citations

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Du, Erji, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2016). The relationship between the ground surface layer permittivity and active-layer thawing depth in a Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau permafrost area. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 126. 55–60. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Ren, et al.. (2006). Application of Lidar in Sandstorm Observation——Analysis of dust events of Beijing and Hohhot in spring of 2004. Zhongguo shamo. 2 indexed citations

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