Sen Cao

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 865 citations indexed

About

Sen Cao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sen Cao has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sen Cao's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers). Sen Cao is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers). Sen Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Sen Cao's co-authors include Arturo Sánchez‐Azofeifa, Anzhou Zhao, Anbing Zhang, Xianfeng Liu, Zaichun Zhu, Muyi Li, Ranga B. Myneni, Shilong Piao, Zhe Wang and Jianhong Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

In The Last Decade

Sen Cao

43 papers receiving 854 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.

Spatiotemporally consistent global dataset of the GIMMS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (PKU GIMMS NDVI) from 1982 to 2022

2023 111 citations Muyi Li, Sen Cao et al. Earth system science data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sen Cao China	15	506	358	155	148	99	44	865
Jiawei Xu China	11	403 0.8×	381 1.1×	147 0.9×	196 1.3×	84 0.8×	42	777
A. Santamaría-Artigas United States	11	496 1.0×	253 0.7×	196 1.3×	240 1.6×	76 0.8×	24	779
Amy Hudson United States	9	489 1.0×	416 1.2×	162 1.0×	206 1.4×	74 0.7×	23	778
Olaf Menzer United States	9	731 1.4×	317 0.9×	104 0.7×	202 1.4×	98 1.0×	13	878
Dong Yan China	16	578 1.1×	494 1.4×	236 1.5×	171 1.2×	73 0.7×	33	974
Ke Huang China	14	540 1.1×	338 0.9×	62 0.4×	217 1.5×	134 1.4×	39	773
Hamed Gholizadeh United States	15	351 0.7×	437 1.2×	111 0.7×	90 0.6×	139 1.4×	38	768
Weidong Man China	18	578 1.1×	674 1.9×	203 1.3×	119 0.8×	78 0.8×	58	1.2k
Gabriel Pereira Brazil	19	676 1.3×	339 0.9×	177 1.1×	391 2.6×	66 0.7×	101	1.0k
Jianbo Tan China	15	372 0.7×	264 0.7×	138 0.9×	92 0.6×	37 0.4×	35	589

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sen Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sen Cao

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zheng, Yaoyao, Zaichun Zhu, Sen Cao, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Direct Impact of Typhoons on Vegetation Canopy Structure and Photosynthesis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Sen, et al.. (2025). Land Use Change Forcing Data Undermine the Modeling of China's Greening Efforts. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(5). 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Anzhou, et al.. (2025). Characteristics of propagation from meteorological to hydrological drought under natural conditions in the Haihe River Basin of China: Time, probability, and threshold. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 59. 102359–102359.

Chen, Jiana, Zaichun Zhu, Sen Cao, et al.. (2024). Scientific land greening under climate change: Theory, modeling, and challenges. Advances in Climate Change Research. 15(5). 894–913. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Dechang, Jian Gao, Sen Cao, et al.. (2024). Distributed UAV Swarm Augmented Wideband Spectrum Sensing Using Nyquist Folding Receiver. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(10). 14171–14184. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Zaichun, Anping Chen, Zhaoqi Wang, et al.. (2024). Changes in leaf and root carbon allocation of global vegetation simulated by the optimally integrated ecosystem models. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 362. 110366–110366. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Zaichun, et al.. (2024). A global dataset of the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation for 1982–2022. Scientific Data. 11(1). 707–707. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Sen, Muyi Li, Zaichun Zhu, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporally consistent global dataset of the GIMMS leaf area index (GIMMS LAI4g) from 1982 to 2020. Earth system science data. 15(11). 4877–4899. 63 indexed citations

Chen, Yue, Zaichun Zhu, Muyi Li, et al.. (2023). The direct and indirect effects of the environmental factors on global terrestrial gross primary productivity over the past four decades. Environmental Research Letters. 19(1). 14052–14052. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Muyi, Sen Cao, Zaichun Zhu, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporally consistent global dataset of the GIMMS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (PKU GIMMS NDVI) from 1982 to 2022. Earth system science data. 15(9). 4181–4203. 111 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Xiaoyi, Sen Cao, Lingjie Kong, et al.. (2023). Recent progress of M-N-C single atom electrocatalysts for carbon dioxide reduction reaction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 100045–100045. 12 indexed citations

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Feng, Tian, et al.. (2023). Satellite-observed increasing coupling between vegetation productivity and greenness in the semiarid Loess Plateau of China is not captured by process-based models. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167664–167664. 9 indexed citations

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Cao, Sen, et al.. (2022). Wideband spectrum sensing using step-sampling based on the multi-path nyquist folding receiver. Defence Technology. 31. 523–536. 3 indexed citations

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Yan, Han, Rui Wang, Ning Ji, et al.. (2022). Preparation, Shelf, and Eating Quality of Ready-to-Eat “Guichang” Kiwifruit: Regulation by Ethylene and 1-MCP. Frontiers in Chemistry. 10. 934032–934032. 8 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhao, Heng Wang, Lang Gong, et al.. (2022). A Triplex PCR Method for Distinguishing the Wild-Type African Swine Fever Virus From the Deletion Strains by Detecting the Gene Insertion. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 9. 921907–921907. 7 indexed citations

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Cao, Sen, et al.. (2020). Evaluating the utility of various drought indices to monitor meteorological drought in Tropical Dry Forests. International Journal of Biometeorology. 64(4). 701–711. 34 indexed citations

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Hu, Mingzhen, Lei Jin, Yuanyuan Zhu, et al.. (2019). Self-limiting growth of ligand-free ultrasmall bimetallic nanoparticles on carbon through under temperature reduction for highly efficient methanol electrooxidation and selective hydrogenation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 264. 118553–118553. 26 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenbo, et al.. (2018). Effect of Deforestation on Land Surface Temperature: A Case of Freetown and Bo Town in Sierra Leone. 5232–5235. 2 indexed citations

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Cao, Sen, et al.. (2018). Mapping Urban Land Cover Using Multiple Criteria Spectral Mixture Analysis: A Case Study in Chengdu, China. 2701–2704. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Anzhou, Anbing Zhang, Xianfeng Liu, & Sen Cao. (2017). Spatiotemporal changes of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and response to climate extremes and ecological restoration in the Loess Plateau, China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 132(1-2). 555–567. 62 indexed citations

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