Ren‐Min Yang

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

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Ren‐Min Yang is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ren‐Min Yang has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Soil Science, 23 papers in Environmental Engineering and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ren‐Min Yang's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (22 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (19 papers). Ren‐Min Yang is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (22 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (19 papers). Ren‐Min Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Ren‐Min Yang's co-authors include Gan‐Lin Zhang, Chao Li, Fan Yang, Yu-Guo Zhao, Feng Liu, Wenwen Guo, Fei Yang, Yuanyuan Lü, Fei Yang and Min Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Ren‐Min Yang

41 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Comparison of boosted regression tree and random forest models for mapping topsoil organic carbon concentration in an alpine ecosystem

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ren‐Min Yang China	18	594	576	465	234	219	42	1.3k
Bradley A. Miller United States	20	764 1.3×	548 1.0×	339 0.7×	153 0.7×	164 0.7×	47	1.5k
Frauke Barthold Germany	14	531 0.9×	614 1.1×	347 0.7×	241 1.0×	136 0.6×	17	1.2k
Colby Brungard United States	16	857 1.4×	432 0.8×	337 0.7×	230 1.0×	102 0.5×	35	1.3k
D.S. Yu China	14	423 0.7×	732 1.3×	310 0.7×	274 1.2×	131 0.6×	22	1.2k
Qiubing Wang China	17	427 0.7×	413 0.7×	268 0.6×	201 0.9×	108 0.5×	64	924
Travis Nauman United States	18	553 0.9×	381 0.7×	425 0.9×	426 1.8×	153 0.7×	38	1.3k
Erika Michéli Hungary	20	503 0.8×	731 1.3×	234 0.5×	144 0.6×	106 0.5×	97	1.5k
Hongfen Teng China	16	368 0.6×	511 0.9×	336 0.7×	256 1.1×	158 0.7×	27	1.0k
Norair Toomanian Iran	17	855 1.4×	378 0.7×	263 0.6×	150 0.6×	78 0.4×	38	1.2k
Elpı́dio Inácio Fernandes Filho Brazil	20	293 0.5×	403 0.7×	498 1.1×	174 0.7×	302 1.4×	101	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Ren‐Min, et al.. (2025). Health risk zoning and governance of cultivated land based on health gain–loss assessment of cultivated land requisition and compensation and ecological vulnerability evaluation. Journal of Cleaner Production. 529. 146774–146774.

Yan, Sha, et al.. (2025). Global patterns and driving factors of the carbon accumulation rate in coastal wetlands. Earth-Science Reviews. 269. 105199–105199. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Ren‐Min & Laiming Huang. (2024). Monitoring soil organic carbon under coastal restoration using time series Sentinel‐1. Land Degradation and Development. 35(8). 2913–2925. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Ren‐Min, Laiming Huang, & Feng Liu. (2023). Evaluation and mapping soil organic carbon in seasonally frozen ground on the Tibetan Plateau. CATENA. 235. 107631–107631. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Ren‐Min, et al.. (2023). Understanding drivers of the spatial variability of soil organic carbon in China's terrestrial ecosystems. Land Degradation and Development. 35(1). 308–320. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Ren‐Min, Lian Liu, Xin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Exploring the likely relationship between soil carbon change and environmental controls using nonrevisited temporal data sets: Mapping soil carbon dynamics across China. The Science of The Total Environment. 800. 149312–149312. 8 indexed citations

Yang, Ren‐Min, Lian Liu, Xin Zhang, et al.. (2021). The effectiveness of digital soil mapping with temporal variables in modeling soil organic carbon changes. Geoderma. 405. 115407–115407. 46 indexed citations

Yang, Ren‐Min & Fan Yang. (2020). Impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on soil inorganic carbon in coastal wetlands in China. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 84(3). 844–855. 12 indexed citations

Yang, Ren‐Min. (2019). Mechanisms of soil organic carbon storage response to Spartina alterniflora invasion and climate change. The Science of The Total Environment. 690. 7–15. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren‐Min & Wenwen Guo. (2019). Using time-series Sentinel-1 data for soil prediction on invaded coastal wetlands. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 191(7). 462–462. 38 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren‐Min & Wenwen Guo. (2019). Using Sentinel-1 Imagery for Soil Salinity Prediction Under the Condition of Coastal Restoration. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 12(5). 1482–1488. 14 indexed citations

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Yang, Fan, Laiming Huang, Ren‐Min Yang, et al.. (2018). Vertical distribution and storage of soil organic and inorganic carbon in a typical inland river basin, Northwest China. Journal of Arid Land. 10(2). 183–201. 16 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren‐Min, et al.. (2018). A preliminary soil security assessment of agricultural land in middle‐eastern China. Soil Use and Management. 34(4). 584–596. 9 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren‐Min & Wenwen Guo. (2018). Exotic Spartina alterniflora Enhances the Soil Functions of a Coastal Ecosystem. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 82(4). 901–909. 38 indexed citations

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Zhi, Junjun, Gan‐Lin Zhang, Ren‐Min Yang, et al.. (2017). An Insight into Machine Learning Algorithms to Map the Occurrence of the Soil Mattic Horizon in the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Pedosphere. 28(5). 739–750. 8 indexed citations

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Zhi, Junjun, Gan‐Lin Zhang, Fei Yang, et al.. (2017). Predicting mattic epipedons in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau using Random Forest. Geoderma Regional. 10. 1–10. 39 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren‐Min, Fan Yang, Fei Yang, et al.. (2017). Pedogenic knowledge-aided modelling of soil inorganic carbon stocks in an alpine environment. The Science of The Total Environment. 599-600. 1445–1453. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren‐Min, Gan‐Lin Zhang, Fei Yang, et al.. (2016). Precise estimation of soil organic carbon stocks in the northeast Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 21842–21842. 61 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren‐Min, David G. Rossiter, Feng Liu, et al.. (2015). Predictive Mapping of Topsoil Organic Carbon in an Alpine Environment Aided by Landsat TM. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0139042–e0139042. 38 indexed citations

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Liu, Feng, David G. Rossiter, Xiaodong Song, et al.. (2015). A similarity-based method for three-dimensional prediction of soil organic matter concentration. Geoderma. 263. 254–263. 29 indexed citations

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