Wanxu Chen

4.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
106 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Wanxu Chen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wanxu Chen has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 30 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Wanxu Chen's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (90 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (29 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (27 papers). Wanxu Chen is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (90 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (29 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (27 papers). Wanxu Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Wanxu Chen's co-authors include Jie Zeng, Guangqing Chi, Jiangfeng Li, Tianci Gu, Sipei Pan, Jiaojiao Bian, Liyan Yang, Jiale Liang, Ning Xu and Lizhe Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Wanxu Chen

99 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Identifying the impacts of natural and human factors on ecosystem service in the Yangtze and Yellow River Basins

2021 323 citations Wanxu Chen et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Urbanization and ecosystem services: The multi-scale spatial spillover effects and spatial variations

2022 131 citations Wanxu Chen et al. Land Use Policy profile →
Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Traditional Villages in China

2022 84 citations Jiaojiao Bian, Wanxu Chen et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health profile →
Spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of traditional villages in the Yangtze River Basin: a Geodetector model

2023 71 citations Wanxu Chen, Liyan Yang et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Wanxu Chen	2.7k	783	774	748	408	106	3.5k
E. Koomen	2.1k 0.8×	527 0.7×	461 0.6×	378 0.5×	378 0.9×	116	3.1k
Jiangfeng Li	1.9k 0.7×	497 0.6×	412 0.5×	536 0.7×	265 0.6×	86	2.9k
Xianjin Huang	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	459 0.6×	358 0.5×	626 1.5×	86	3.9k
Anna M. Hersperger	2.9k 1.1×	401 0.5×	653 0.8×	766 1.0×	314 0.8×	95	4.2k
Yinkang Zhou	2.2k 0.8×	434 0.6×	306 0.4×	623 0.8×	372 0.9×	142	3.2k
Zihan Xu	2.1k 0.8×	438 0.6×	765 1.0×	637 0.9×	664 1.6×	60	3.0k
Yang Bai	2.7k 1.0×	510 0.7×	666 0.9×	885 1.2×	332 0.8×	87	3.6k
Pere Serra	2.0k 0.7×	587 0.7×	306 0.4×	532 0.7×	268 0.7×	76	2.9k
Lin Zhen	2.9k 1.1×	583 0.7×	526 0.7×	1000 1.3×	404 1.0×	149	4.4k
Darla K. Munroe	2.2k 0.8×	378 0.5×	294 0.4×	548 0.7×	323 0.8×	61	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wanxu Chen

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

Chen, Wanxu, et al.. (2025). Decoding the formation mechanisms of rural settlements expansion patterns in transitional China. Land Use Policy. 154. 107561–107561. 5 indexed citations

Wu, Jiahui, et al.. (2025). Can urban compactness improve ecosystem services: Evidence from Chinese urban agglomerations. Ecological Indicators. 170. 113075–113075.

Yang, Liyan, et al.. (2025). Declining Urban–Rural Population Densities: How Do They Affect Natural Habitat?. Land Degradation and Development. 36(6). 1939–1951. 1 indexed citations

Liang, Jiale, Sipei Pan, Nan Xia, Wanxu Chen, & Manchun Li. (2024). Threshold response of the agricultural modernization to the open crop straw burning CO2 emission in China's nine major agricultural zones. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 368. 109005–109005. 10 indexed citations

Pan, Sipei, et al.. (2024). Uphill or downhill? Cropland use change and its drivers from the perspective of slope spectrum. Journal of Mountain Science. 21(2). 484–499. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Wanxu, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem health in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China: Regional differences and driving forces. Ecological Indicators. 166. 112422–112422. 10 indexed citations

Zeng, Jie, et al.. (2024). How does cultivated land fragmentation affect soil erosion: Evidence from the Yangtze River Basin in China. Journal of Environmental Management. 360. 121020–121020. 14 indexed citations

Yang, Liyan, Wanxu Chen, Chuanglin Fang, & Jie Zeng. (2024). How does the coordinated development of population urbanization and land urbanization affect residents' living standards? Empirical evidence from China. Cities. 149. 104922–104922. 32 indexed citations

Chen, Wanxu, et al.. (2024). Ecological restoration zoning of territorial space in China: An ecosystem health perspective. Journal of Environmental Management. 364. 121371–121371. 38 indexed citations

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Chen, Wanxu, et al.. (2023). Untangling the increasing elevation of cropland in China from 1980 to 2020. Geography and sustainability. 4(4). 281–293. 16 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jie, et al.. (2023). Ecological management zoning based on the supply-demand relationship of ecosystem services in China. Applied Geography. 155. 102959–102959. 47 indexed citations

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Chen, Wanxu, Tianci Gu, Chuanglin Fang, et al.. (2023). Simulating the impact of urban expansion on ecosystem services in Chinese urban agglomerations: A multi-scenario perspective. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 103. 107275–107275. 58 indexed citations

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Yang, Liyan, Sipei Pan, Wanxu Chen, et al.. (2023). Spatially non-stationary response of habitat quality to land use activities in World's protected areas over 20 years. Journal of Cleaner Production. 419. 138245–138245. 29 indexed citations

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Chen, Wanxu, Guanzheng Wang, Liyan Yang, et al.. (2023). Spillover effects of urbanization on carbon emissions: A global view from 2000 to 2019. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 102. 107182–107182. 34 indexed citations

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Chen, Wanxu, et al.. (2023). Identifying the driving forces of global ecosystem services balance, 2000–2020. Journal of Cleaner Production. 426. 139019–139019. 24 indexed citations

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Chen, Wanxu, Tianci Gu, Chuanglin Fang, & Jie Zeng. (2023). Global urban low-carbon transitions: Multiscale relationship between urban land and carbon emissions. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 100. 107076–107076. 57 indexed citations

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Xu, Ning, et al.. (2023). Impact of digital input on enterprise green productivity: Micro evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry. Journal of Cleaner Production. 414. 137272–137272. 72 indexed citations

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Yang, Liyan, et al.. (2023). Identifying the impact of global human activities expansion on natural habitats. Journal of Cleaner Production. 434. 140247–140247. 29 indexed citations

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Yang, Liyan, Sipei Pan, Wanxu Chen, et al.. (2023). Assessing the conservation effectiveness of theWorld’s protected areas: A habitat quality and human activities perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production. 431. 139772–139772. 15 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jie, et al.. (2023). Impacts of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services Value in the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(6). 5069–5069. 6 indexed citations

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