Shirao Liu

659 total citations
22 papers, 475 citations indexed

About

Shirao Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Shirao Liu has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 475 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Environmental Engineering and 7 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Shirao Liu's work include Impact of Light on Environment and Health (14 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers). Shirao Liu is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Light on Environment and Health (14 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers). Shirao Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Montenegro and Hong Kong. Shirao Liu's co-authors include Kaifang Shi, Yizhen Wu, Zhijian Chang, Yuanzheng Cui, Zuoqi Chen, Chuanlong Li, Jingwei Shen, Guifen Liu, Linyi Li and Chang Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Shirao Liu

20 papers receiving 467 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shirao Liu China 12 341 153 145 138 74 22 475
Yizhen Wu China 16 404 1.2× 211 1.4× 166 1.1× 181 1.3× 112 1.5× 28 591
Xingjian Qian China 3 387 1.1× 143 0.9× 119 0.8× 121 0.9× 100 1.4× 3 563
Yanlin Yue China 7 298 0.9× 116 0.8× 125 0.9× 127 0.9× 119 1.6× 10 471
Yasuyo Makido United States 9 216 0.6× 137 0.9× 250 1.7× 192 1.4× 66 0.9× 19 547
Jingnan Huang China 5 401 1.2× 136 0.9× 131 0.9× 158 1.1× 81 1.1× 13 569
Shenzhen Tian China 9 198 0.6× 89 0.6× 136 0.9× 128 0.9× 36 0.5× 26 339
Saurav Chakraborty India 9 270 0.8× 65 0.4× 89 0.6× 108 0.8× 76 1.0× 12 365
Yingxue Rao China 9 217 0.6× 61 0.4× 67 0.5× 104 0.8× 60 0.8× 15 334

Countries citing papers authored by Shirao Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shirao Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shirao Liu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Shirao, et al.. (2025). Urbanization is projected to increase local surface temperature by 2100. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Geng, Mengqing, et al.. (2025). An efficient method for aurora and noise reduction with a harmonized nighttime light dataset. Remote Sensing of Environment. 328. 114891–114891. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Tuo, Shirao Liu, Xuecao Li, et al.. (2024). Urbanization induced Urban Canopy Parameters enhance the heatwave intensity: A case study of Beijing. Sustainable Cities and Society. 119. 106089–106089. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Yizhen, Kaifang Shi, Yuanzheng Cui, Shirao Liu, & Lili Liu. (2023). Differentiated effects of morphological and functional polycentric urban spatial structure on carbon emissions in China: an empirical analysis from remotely sensed nighttime light approach. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 532–551. 27 indexed citations
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Shi, Kaifang, Guifen Liu, Liang Zhou, et al.. (2023). Satellite remote sensing data reveal increased slope climbing of urban land expansion worldwide. Landscape and Urban Planning. 235. 104755–104755. 25 indexed citations
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Liu, Shirao, et al.. (2023). Satellite Remotely Sensed Nighttime Lights Reveal Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 20. 1–5. 8 indexed citations
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Shi, Kaifang, Yuanzheng Cui, Shirao Liu, & Yizhen Wu. (2023). Global Urban Land Expansion Tends To Be Slope Climbing: A Remotely Sensed Nighttime Light Approach. Earth s Future. 11(4). 33 indexed citations
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Shi, Kaifang, Yizhen Wu, Shirao Liu, et al.. (2023). Mapping and evaluating global urban entities (2000–2020): A novel perspective to delineate urban entities based on consistent nighttime light data. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 60(1). 38 indexed citations
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Shi, Kaifang, Yizhen Wu, & Shirao Liu. (2022). Slope climbing of urban expansion worldwide: Spatiotemporal characteristics, driving factors and implications for food security. Journal of Environmental Management. 324. 116337–116337. 18 indexed citations
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Liu, Shirao, Kaifang Shi, Yizhen Wu, & Yuanzheng Cui. (2022). Suburban greening and suburbanization changing surface urban heat island intensity in China. Building and Environment. 228. 109906–109906. 27 indexed citations
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Liu, Shirao, Jingwei Shen, Guifen Liu, Yizhen Wu, & Kaifang Shi. (2022). Exploring the effect of urban spatial development pattern on carbon dioxide emissions in China: A socioeconomic density distribution approach based on remotely sensed nighttime light data. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 96. 101847–101847. 32 indexed citations
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Liu, Shirao, Kaifang Shi, & Yizhen Wu. (2022). Identifying and evaluating suburbs in China from 2012 to 2020 based on SNPP–VIIRS nighttime light remotely sensed data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 114. 103041–103041. 20 indexed citations
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Liu, Shirao, Kaifang Shi, Yizhen Wu, & Zhijian Chang. (2021). Remotely sensed nighttime lights reveal China's urbanization process restricted by haze pollution. Building and Environment. 206. 108350–108350. 17 indexed citations
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Shi, Kaifang, Yizhen Wu, & Shirao Liu. (2021). Does China's City-Size Distribution Present a Flat Distribution Trend? A Socioeconomic and Spatial Size Analysis From DMSP-OLS Nighttime Light Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 5171–5179. 7 indexed citations
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Wu, Yizhen, Kaifang Shi, Zuoqi Chen, Shirao Liu, & Zhijian Chang. (2021). Developing Improved Time-Series DMSP-OLS-Like Data (1992–2019) in China by Integrating DMSP-OLS and SNPP-VIIRS. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–14. 91 indexed citations
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Shi, Kaifang, Jingwei Shen, Yizhen Wu, Shirao Liu, & Linyi Li. (2021). Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data. International Journal of Digital Earth. 14(11). 1514–1527. 32 indexed citations
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Wu, Yizhen, Chuanlong Li, Kaifang Shi, Shirao Liu, & Zhijian Chang. (2021). Exploring the effect of urban sprawl on carbon dioxide emissions: An urban sprawl model analysis from remotely sensed nighttime light data. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 93. 106731–106731. 72 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hui, Kehua Su, Chenchen Li, et al.. (2018). Mesh Parameterization: a Viewpoint from Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces. Eurographics. 25–28. 1 indexed citations

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