Shuqing Zhao

12.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
113 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Shuqing Zhao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Shuqing Zhao has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Environmental Engineering and 33 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Shuqing Zhao's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (62 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (35 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (30 papers). Shuqing Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (62 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (35 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (30 papers). Shuqing Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Romania. Shuqing Zhao's co-authors include Decheng Zhou, Shuguang Liu, Liangxia Zhang, Changhui Peng, Chao Zhu, Jingyun Fang, Yongqiang Liu, Ge Sun, Anping Chen and Longjun Ci and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Shuqing Zhao

109 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

The footprint of urban heat island effect in China

2015 1.5k citations Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao et al. profile →
Changes in Forest Biomass Carbon Storage in China Between 1949 and 1998

2001 1.3k citations Jingyun Fang, Shuqing Zhao et al. profile →
Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

2014 738 citations Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Rapid loss of lakes on the Mongolian Plateau

2015 475 citations Shengli Tao, Jingyun Fang et al. profile →
Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: Processes, data, models, and challenges

2011 407 citations Shuguang Liu, Shuqing Zhao et al. profile →
Prevalent vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment

2016 304 citations Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shuqing Zhao China	42	5.9k	3.3k	2.4k	2.0k	1.7k	113	10.0k
Diane E. Pataki United States	58	9.3k 1.6×	3.4k 1.0×	3.5k 1.5×	2.2k 1.1×	3.4k 2.0×	136	14.1k
Marc L. Imhoff United States	39	5.2k 0.9×	4.5k 1.4×	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	78	8.7k
Roberto Zecchin Italy	12	5.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	2.1k 1.1×	3.8k 2.2×	28	13.4k
Chunyang He China	56	8.6k 1.5×	2.7k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	191	12.5k
Quansheng Ge China	55	5.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.5×	805 0.3×	2.8k 1.4×	3.4k 2.0×	393	10.5k
John M. Briggs United States	37	6.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	5.3k 2.7×	1.0k 0.6×	82	12.3k
Steven P. Hamburg United States	47	4.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	797 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	129	8.3k
David J. Nowak United States	64	8.8k 1.5×	7.0k 2.2×	10.2k 4.2×	2.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	213	16.6k
Jian Liu China	52	1.9k 0.3×	963 0.3×	974 0.4×	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	605	11.7k
Zhang China	38	2.6k 0.4×	1.1k 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k	11.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Shuqing Zhao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shuqing Zhao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shuqing Zhao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shen, Pengke, Shuqing Zhao, Zhiyu Xu, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive Evidence That Detecting Urban Signals in Large‐Scale Warming Is Highly Uncertain. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(5). 1 indexed citations

Xu, Zhiyu, Shuqing Zhao, Pengke Shen, Wenping Yuan, & Shuguang Liu. (2025). The value of small urban green spaces in mitigating urban heat: a fine-grained nationwide analysis. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 373. 110739–110739.

Healey, John R., Marielle N. Smith, Taimoor Hassan Farooq, et al.. (2024). Vegetation growth responses to climate change: A cross‐scale analysis of biological memory and time lags using tree ring and satellite data. Global Change Biology. 30(7). e17441–e17441. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Shuguang, Shuqing Zhao, Shuailong Feng, et al.. (2023). Temporal dynamics of ecosystem, inherent, and underlying water use efficiencies of forests, grasslands, and croplands and their responses to climate change. Carbon Balance and Management. 18(1). 13–13. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Chen & Shuqing Zhao. (2022). A building height dataset across China in 2017 estimated by the spatially-informed approach. Scientific Data. 9(1). 76–76. 41 indexed citations

Zhu, Jianxiao, Chuankuan Wang, Zhou Zhang, et al.. (2020). Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight permanent forest plots in China. Biogeosciences. 17(3). 715–726. 18 indexed citations

Zhu, Jianxiao, Chuankuan Wang, Zhou Zhang, et al.. (2019). Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight typical forests in China. 1 indexed citations

Tao, Shengli, Jingyun Fang, Suhui Ma, et al.. (2019). Changes in China’s lakes: climate and human impacts. National Science Review. 7(1). 132–140. 163 indexed citations

Yuan, Wenping, Shuguang Liu, Wei Liu, et al.. (2018). Opportunistic Market‐Driven Regional Shifts of Cropping Practices Reduce Food Production Capacity of China. Earth s Future. 6(4). 634–642. 21 indexed citations

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Wu, Wenjia, Shuqing Zhao, & Geoffrey M. Henebry. (2018). Drivers of urban expansion over the past three decades: a comparative study of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shijiazhuang. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 191(1). 34–34. 28 indexed citations

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Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, Liangxia Zhang, & Chao Zhu. (2014). Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers. Remote Sensing of Environment. 152. 51–61. 738 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Decheng, et al.. (2013). A meta-analysis on the impacts of partial cutting on forest structure and carbon storage. Biogeosciences. 10(6). 3691–3703. 88 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, Shuqing Zhao, & Decheng Zhou. (2012). [Organic carbon storage in urban built-up areas of China in 1997-2006].. PubMed. 23(5). 1195–202. 12 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, et al.. (2011). The Changes in China's Forests: An Analysis Using the Forest Identity. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e20778–e20778. 33 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, et al.. (2010). A spatial resolution threshold of land cover in estimating terrestrial carbon sequestration in four counties in Georgia and Alabama, USA. Biogeosciences. 7(1). 71–80. 16 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, et al.. (2009). A spatial resolution threshold of land cover in estimating regional terrestrial carbon sequestration. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, et al.. (2009). Ignoring detailed fast-changing dynamics of land use overestimates regional terrestrial carbon sequestration. Biogeosciences. 6(8). 1647–1654. 18 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, Baoshan Cui, Lina Gao, & Jie Liu. (2007). Effects of highway construction on soil quality in the Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region in Yunnan Province. Chinese Science Bulletin. 52(S2). 192–202. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Jie, Baoshan Cui, Shikui Dong, Juan Wang, & Shuqing Zhao. (2007). The changes of community components and their horizontal patterns caused by highway construction in the Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region. Chinese Science Bulletin. 52(S2). 213–224. 6 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shuqing, Jingyun Fang, Zhiyao Tang, & Shilong Piao. (2001). Spatio-temporal patterns of land use and land cover changes in Honghu Lake Region, Hubei Province,China. Journal of Applied Ecology. 12(5). 721–725. 1 indexed citations

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