Ren Yang

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Ren Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Ren Yang has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 11 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Ren Yang's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers), Rural development and sustainability (17 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (11 papers). Ren Yang is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers), Rural development and sustainability (17 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (11 papers). Ren Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Greece and New Zealand. Ren Yang's co-authors include Hualou Long, Qian Xu, Yuxiang Dong, Qian Xu, Yansui Liu, Qian Xu, Jieyong Wang, Yuheng Li, Jay Gao and Jing Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Ren Yang

49 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

  1. Spatial distribution characteristics and optimized reconstruction analysis of China’s rural settlements during the process of rapid urbanization
    2016 246 citations Ren Yang, Hualou Long et al. Journal of Rural Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ren Yang China 21 1.2k 525 477 343 306 51 2.1k
Guanghui Jiang China 27 1.7k 1.5× 660 1.3× 471 1.0× 191 0.6× 336 1.1× 69 2.4k
Xuesong Kong China 24 1.4k 1.2× 433 0.8× 320 0.7× 164 0.5× 233 0.8× 65 2.0k
Chao Ye China 18 820 0.7× 300 0.6× 544 1.1× 204 0.6× 276 0.9× 46 1.9k
Yanbo Qu China 23 1.3k 1.1× 639 1.2× 295 0.6× 115 0.3× 148 0.5× 65 1.8k
E. Koomen Netherlands 29 2.1k 1.8× 200 0.4× 527 1.1× 378 1.1× 461 1.5× 116 3.1k
Shuangshuang Tu China 25 1.9k 1.6× 1.2k 2.3× 558 1.2× 235 0.7× 190 0.6× 42 3.4k
Dazhuan Ge China 23 1.5k 1.3× 1.0k 1.9× 375 0.8× 139 0.4× 145 0.5× 43 2.6k
Xinhai Lu China 25 1.2k 1.0× 202 0.4× 1.1k 2.2× 400 1.2× 176 0.6× 105 2.3k
Xianjin Huang China 39 2.1k 1.8× 439 0.8× 1.2k 2.6× 626 1.8× 459 1.5× 86 3.9k
Shasha Lu China 18 881 0.8× 162 0.3× 444 0.9× 225 0.7× 196 0.6× 34 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ren Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ren Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ren Yang

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

All Works

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Xu, Qian, et al.. (2023). Spatial Trade-Offs and Synergies between Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China. Land. 13(1). 32–32. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Ren, et al.. (2023). Functional evolution and spatial transformation of typical urban agriculture in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. 自然资源学报. 38(8). 1968–1968. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Ren, et al.. (2021). Spatial mismatch evolution of global population and food and its influencing factors. 自然资源学报. 36(6). 1381–1381. 6 indexed citations
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Ge, Dazhuan, Hualou Long, Weifeng Qiao, et al.. (2020). Effects of rural–urban migration on agricultural transformation: A case of Yucheng City, China. Journal of Rural Studies. 76. 85–95. 124 indexed citations
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Yang, Ren, Qi Wen, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2019). Discussions and thoughts of the path to China's rural revitalization in the new era: Notes of the young rural geography scholars. 自然资源学报. 34(4). 890–890. 21 indexed citations
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Xu, Qian & Ren Yang. (2019). The sequential collaborative relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions in the rapid urbanization of the Pearl River Delta. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(29). 30130–30144. 22 indexed citations
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Yang, Ren, et al.. (2019). Spatial pattern and influencing factors of rural multifunctionality at county level in China. 地理科学进展. 38(9). 1316–1328. 25 indexed citations
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Zhou, Chaobo, et al.. (2018). Urban Agglomeration Niche Measurement and Spatial-temporal Differences – Take the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration as an Example. Ekoloji. 27(106). 363–369. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Qian, Yuxiang Dong, & Ren Yang. (2018). Influence of the geographic proximity of city features on the spatial variation of urban carbon sinks: A case study on the Pearl River Delta. Environmental Pollution. 243(Pt A). 354–363. 16 indexed citations
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Xu, Qian, Yuxiang Dong, & Ren Yang. (2018). Influence of land urbanization on carbon sequestration of urban vegetation: A temporal cooperativity analysis in Guangzhou as an example. The Science of The Total Environment. 635. 26–34. 64 indexed citations
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Xu, Qian, Yuxiang Dong, & Ren Yang. (2017). Influence of different geographical factors on carbon sink functions in the Pearl River Delta. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 110–110. 29 indexed citations
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Yang, Ren, et al.. (2016). Spatial characteristics of urban land use intensity level and optimization strategies analysis for China. 30(10). 58. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Ren, et al.. (2015). Spatio-temporal characteristics of rural settlements and land use in the Bohai Rim of China. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 25(5). 559–572. 103 indexed citations
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Guo, Liying, Ren Yang, & Daolong Wang. (2012). A study on the spatial difference of farmland nitrogen nutrient budget in the Bohai Rim region, China. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 22(4). 761–768. 10 indexed citations

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