Sien Li

6.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
161 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sien Li is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sien Li has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 99 papers in Soil Science and 75 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sien Li's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (104 papers), Irrigation Practices and Water Management (87 papers) and Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (32 papers). Sien Li is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (104 papers), Irrigation Practices and Water Management (87 papers) and Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (32 papers). Sien Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Sien Li's co-authors include Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Ling Tong, Risheng Ding, Fusheng Li, Xinmei Hao, Lu Zhang, Shujing Qin, Hongna Lu and Xiaolin Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sien Li

154 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Improving agricultural water productivity to ensure food security in China under changing environment: From research to practice

2016 587 citations Shaozhong Kang, Xinmei Hao et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →
Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health

2024 196 citations Taisheng Du, Sien Li et al. profile →
Review on Drip Irrigation: Impact on Crop Yield, Quality, and Water Productivity in China

2023 94 citations Junliang Fan, Sien Li et al. Water profile →
Impacts of Global Climate Change on Agricultural Production: A Comprehensive Review

2024 76 citations Sien Li, Haichao Yu et al. Agronomy profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Sien Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sien Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sien Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sien Li 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 Sien Li. Sien Li 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Soil organic carbon improvement for mitigating crop yield losses under global warming 2025 ·European Journal of Agronomy ·Qinsi He, Linchao Li, Yu Shi, Puyu Feng, Ke Liu, (unknown), De Li Liu, Zikui Wang, Matthew Tom Harrison, Sien Li, Qiang Yu, Kadambot H. M. Siddique	0
2	Effects of Irrigation Interval and Irrigation Level on Growth, Photosynthesis, Fruit Yield, Quality, and Water-Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Drip-Fertigated Greenhouse Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.) 2025 ·Agronomy ·Hongxin Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Zhenqi Liao, Zhentao Bai, Sien Li, Fucang Zhang, Junliang Fan	0
3	Greenhouse gas emissions and crop-specific emission factors of eight upland crops based on a six-year field experiment in the North China Plain 2024 ·Sustainable Production and Consumption ·Xiaolin Yang, Sien Li, Taisheng Du, Shaozhong Kang, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl	3
4	Influence of film color, mulching ratio and soil–mulch contact degree on heat transfer in Northwest China 2024 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), (unknown), Xiaomin Mao, Sien Li, (unknown), Jiangang Che	5
5	Surface energy fluxes in a drip-irrigated agroecosystem: Unique advection effect of oasis 2024 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Haichao Yu, T. Yang, Sien Li, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Yuexin Wang, Haochong Chen, Hui Guo	3
6	Reinforcement learning-based assimilation of the WOFOST crop model 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Haochong Chen, (unknown), Jian Kang, Danni Yang, (unknown), Xiang Ao, Sien Li	1
7	A Review on the Optimization of Irrigation Schedules for Farmlands Based on a Simulation–Optimization Model 2024 ·Water ·(unknown), (unknown), Sien Li, Yongkai Luo, Y. Bai	8
8	CAMELE: Collocation-Analyzed Multi-source Ensembled Land Evapotranspiration Data 2024 ·Earth system science data ·Changming Li, Ziwei Liu, Wencong Yang, Zhuoyi Tu, (unknown), Sien Li, Hanbo Yang	14
9	Assessment of Meteorological Drought in a Changing Environment: An Example in the Upper Yangtze River 2024 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Hanbo Yang, Ziwei Liu, Changming Li, Sien Li, Yaokui Cui, Dawen Yang	1
10	Driving Factors and Numerical Simulation of Evapotranspiration of a Typical Cabbage Agroecosystem in the Shiyang River Basin, Northwest China 2024 ·Agriculture ·T. Yang, Haichao Yu, Sien Li, (unknown), Xiang Ao, Haochong Chen, (unknown), (unknown)	1
11	Modelling water/heat transfer and crop growth under film mulching condition in a seed–maize field 2023 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), Xiaomin Mao, Manoj K. Shukla, Sien Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Y. Bai, (unknown)	11
12	Comparison of Differences in Actual Cropland Evapotranspiration under Two Irrigation Methods Using Satellite-Based Model 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·Yi Liu, Samuel Ortega-Farías, Yunfei Fan, Yu Hou, Sufen Wang, (unknown), Sien Li, Fei Tian	0
13	Stomatal aperture dynamics coupling mechanically passive and ionically active mechanisms 2023 ·Plant Cell & Environment ·(unknown), Sien Li, Dan Hu	2
14	Does biochar addition improve soil physicochemical properties, bacterial community and alfalfa growth for saline soils? 2023 ·Land Degradation and Development ·Yang Chen, (unknown), Xinmei Hao, Ling Tong, Sien Li, Shaozhong Kang	11
15	Modeling China's terrestrial ecosystem gross primary productivity with BEPS model: Parameter sensitivity analysis and model calibration 2023 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), Mousong Wu, Wenxin Zhang, Weimin Ju, Torbern Tagesson, Wei He, Songhan Wang, Jun Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Tingting Zhu, Xiaorong Wang, Youhua Ran, Sien Li, Chunyu Wang, Fei Jiang	9
16	Revisiting the Pan Evaporation Trend in China During 1988–2017 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Hanbo Yang, Sien Li, Ziwei Liu, Yongqiang Cao, Dawen Yang	7
17	Drip irrigation improves spring wheat water productivity by reducing leaf area while increasing yield 2022 ·European Journal of Agronomy ·Danni Yang, Sien Li, Mousong Wu, Hanbo Yang, Wenxin Zhang, Ji Chen, Chunyu Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Yunxuan Zhang	20
18	Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Crop Coefficient of Chinese Cabbage Using Eddy Covariance in Northwest China 2021 ·Water ·(unknown), Sien Li, Hongshuo Wang, Chunyu Wang, Yunxuan Zhang, Danni Yang	8
19	Simulating kernel number under different water regimes using the Water-Flowering Model in hybrid maize seed production 2018 ·Agricultural Water Management ·Jintao Wang, Shaozhong Kang, Xiaotao Zhang, Taisheng Du, Ling Tong, Risheng Ding, Sien Li	12
20	Preliminary Research on Vineyard's Water-carbon Flux Coupling in Arid Northwestern China 2010 ·Journal of Irrigation and Drainage ·Sien Li	1

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