Ru An

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Ru An is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ru An has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Ecology, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ru An's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (25 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (13 papers). Ru An is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (25 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (13 papers). Ru An collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Ghana. Ru An's co-authors include Jianlong Li, Chengcheng Gang, Chaobin Zhang, Zhaoqi Wang, Yizhao Chen, Ying Zhang, Qisheng He, Huayi Wu, Hanwei Xu and Xiaoji Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Ru An

58 papers receiving 1.5k 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. Vegetation dynamics and its driving forces from climate change and human activities in the Three-River Source Region, China from 1982 to 2012
    2016 288 citations Ying Zhang, Chaobin Zhang et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ru An China 21 675 662 450 331 225 64 1.5k
Mateo Gašparović Croatia 24 493 0.7× 696 1.1× 722 1.6× 234 0.7× 145 0.6× 83 1.7k
Amr Abd‐Elrahman United States 30 798 1.2× 992 1.5× 876 1.9× 231 0.7× 132 0.6× 84 2.4k
Justin Morgenroth New Zealand 27 948 1.4× 663 1.0× 962 2.1× 218 0.7× 130 0.6× 79 2.2k
Ni Huang China 26 1.0k 1.5× 1.1k 1.6× 677 1.5× 327 1.0× 131 0.6× 69 1.9k
Uğur Avdan Türkiye 23 963 1.4× 501 0.8× 1.2k 2.7× 368 1.1× 163 0.7× 76 2.1k
Manuel Á. Aguilar Spain 27 728 1.1× 950 1.4× 1.0k 2.2× 345 1.0× 170 0.8× 93 2.3k
Fernando J. Aguilar Spain 28 752 1.1× 987 1.5× 1.1k 2.4× 364 1.1× 184 0.8× 95 2.4k
Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey United States 28 1.1k 1.7× 1.3k 2.0× 1.1k 2.4× 384 1.2× 178 0.8× 73 2.4k
Veraldo Liesenberg Brazil 25 539 0.8× 1.3k 2.0× 1.1k 2.5× 158 0.5× 128 0.6× 105 2.3k
Peter Scarth Australia 21 716 1.1× 990 1.5× 760 1.7× 207 0.6× 114 0.5× 67 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ru An

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ru An

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ru An

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

All Works

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An, Ru, et al.. (2024). Research Progress of New Generation of Aluminum–Lithium Alloys Alloying. Advanced Engineering Materials. 26(12). 8 indexed citations
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An, Ru, et al.. (2023). Mapping Alpine Grassland Fraction Coverage Using Zhuhai-1 OHS Imagery in the Three River Headwaters Region, China. Remote Sensing. 15(9). 2289–2289. 5 indexed citations
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Miao, Jun, et al.. (2023). Substantial Reduction in Vegetation Photosynthesis Capacity during Compound Droughts in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China. Remote Sensing. 15(20). 4943–4943. 2 indexed citations
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An, Ru, et al.. (2020). Shape Adaptive Neighborhood Information-Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification. Remote Sensing. 12(18). 2976–2976. 9 indexed citations
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An, Ru, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal Change of Urban Sprawl Patterns in Bamako District in Mali Based on Time Series Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 4–4. 22 indexed citations
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An, Ru, et al.. (2019). Urban change detection by aerial remote sensing using combining features of pixel-depth-object. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuehong, Yong Ge, Ru An, & Yu Chen. (2018). Super-Resolution Mapping of Impervious Surfaces from Remotely Sensed Imagery with Points-of-Interest. Remote Sensing. 10(2). 242–242. 28 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ying, Chaobin Zhang, Zhao‐Qi Wang, et al.. (2017). Quantitative assessment of relative roles of climate change and human activities on grassland net primary productivity in the Three-River Source Region, China.. Acta Pratacultural Science. 26(5). 1–14. 12 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ying, Chaobin Zhang, Zhaoqi Wang, et al.. (2016). Vegetation dynamics and its driving forces from climate change and human activities in the Three-River Source Region, China from 1982 to 2012. The Science of The Total Environment. 563-564. 210–220. 288 indexed citations breakdown →
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An, Ru, et al.. (2015). ANN Based High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Wetland Classification. 180–183. 3 indexed citations
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An, Ru, Danping Jiang, Xiaoxue Li, Zhe Wang, & Jonathan Arthur Quaye‐Ballard. (2014). Using Hyperspectral Data to Determine Spectral Characteristics of Grassland Vegetation in Central and Eastern Parts of Three-river Source. Yaogan jishu yu yingyong. 29(2). 202–211. 3 indexed citations
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An, Ru, et al.. (2013). Estimation of chlorophyll-a concentration of caseⅡwaters from hyperspectral remote sensing data in NDCI method. Journal of Lake Sciences. 25(3). 437–444. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Haiyan, Quanqin Shao, & Ru An. (2013). Study on Land Use/Cover Changes in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from 1980s to 2005. Geo-information Science. 15(2). 225–225. 2 indexed citations
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An, Ru, et al.. (2011). Wetland information extraction for typical headwater region of Yellow River based on object-oriented approach. Journal of Hohai University. 39(4). 355–360. 1 indexed citations
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An, Ru. (2009). Improved fast corner detection algorithm based on FAST. Infrared and Laser Engineering. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Hao, et al.. (2009). Extracting road networks with the aid of log gabor filters. 40. 2–583.
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An, Ru & Huilin Wang. (2005). A Fast Image Matching Approach Based on Scale-space Representation of Image and a Novel Robust Hausdorff Distance.

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