Weifeng Li

5.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
92 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Weifeng Li is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Weifeng Li has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 27 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Weifeng Li's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (23 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (16 papers). Weifeng Li is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (23 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (16 papers). Weifeng Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Weifeng Li's co-authors include Weiqi Zhou, Lijian Han, Yuguo Qian, Lijian Han, Steward T. A. Pickett, Li Li, Wenjuan Yu, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jiali Wang and Qiuwen Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

Weifeng Li

88 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Impact of urbanization level on urban air quality: A case of fine particles (PM 2.5 ) in Chinese cities

2014 472 citations Lijian Han, Weiqi Zhou et al. Environmental Pollution profile →
A multiscale analysis of urbanization effects on ecosystem services supply in an urban megaregion

2019 335 citations Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Comparing Machine Learning Classifiers for Object-Based Land Cover Classification Using Very High Resolution Imagery

2014 313 citations Yuguo Qian, Weiqi Zhou et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weifeng Li China	30	2.3k	2.1k	1.8k	811	512	92	4.4k
Ronald C. Estoque Japan	35	1.9k 0.8×	3.1k 1.5×	2.4k 1.4×	858 1.1×	158 0.3×	67	4.8k
Lijian Han China	26	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	647 0.8×	199 0.4×	83	2.9k
Salman Qureshi Germany	34	1.9k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	548 0.7×	228 0.4×	97	3.9k
Zutao Ouyang China	43	1.4k 0.6×	3.2k 1.5×	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	379 0.7×	140	6.1k
Xiaolu Zhou China	38	1.0k 0.5×	2.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	954 1.2×	616 1.2×	142	5.4k
Yuguo Qian China	28	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	534 0.7×	205 0.4×	63	3.1k
Limin Jiao China	37	1.2k 0.5×	2.6k 1.3×	1.0k 0.6×	641 0.8×	788 1.5×	103	3.9k
Zuoqi Chen China	42	1.0k 0.5×	4.1k 2.0×	1.6k 0.9×	807 1.0×	1.6k 3.1×	104	6.3k
Qingxu Huang China	37	1.4k 0.6×	4.3k 2.1×	1.2k 0.6×	709 0.9×	764 1.5×	94	6.0k
Xiaocong Xu China	22	910 0.4×	3.5k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	873 1.1×	488 1.0×	51	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Weifeng Li

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weifeng Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weifeng Li

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

Guo, Huagui, et al.. (2025). How does greenness contribute to reducing lung cancer risks associated with particulate matter exposure?. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 16(6). 102500–102500.

Xie, Jun, Dongyan Zhang, Tao Cheng, et al.. (2025). Coupling crop growth models and machine learning for scalable winter wheat yield estimation across major wheat regions in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 372. 110687–110687. 6 indexed citations

Han, Lijian, Weiqi Zhou, Weifeng Li, & Yuguo Qian. (2024). Global synergy of carbon and pollution emissions among countries with different income levels and development stages. The Science of The Total Environment. 922. 171322–171322. 6 indexed citations

Ma, Jinfeng, Hua Zheng, Ruonan Li, et al.. (2024). VIC-Borg: Multiobjective automatic calibration toolkit for VIC model. SoftwareX. 27. 101798–101798. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Dongyan, Tao Cheng, Weifeng Li, et al.. (2023). Enhancing wheat Fusarium head blight detection using rotation Yolo wheat detection network and simple spatial attention network. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 211. 107968–107968. 36 indexed citations

Li, Weifeng, et al.. (2023). Future climate change and urban growth together affect surface runoff in a large-scale urban agglomeration. Sustainable Cities and Society. 99. 104970–104970. 15 indexed citations

Ma, Jinfeng, Hua Zheng, Ruonan Li, et al.. (2023). PyVecContour: A Python toolkit for vectorized isosurface mapping. SoftwareX. 21. 101317–101317.

Ma, Jinfeng, Hua Zheng, Ruonan Li, et al.. (2023). A Hadoop cloud-based surrogate modelling framework for approximating complex hydrological models. Journal of Hydroinformatics. 25(2). 511–525. 2 indexed citations

Mao, Jingqiao, et al.. (2023). An Integrated Framework for Remote Sensing Assessment of the Trophic State of Large Lakes. Remote Sensing. 15(17). 4238–4238. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Weiqi, Wenjuan Yu, Yuguo Qian, et al.. (2021). Beyond city expansion: multi-scale environmental impacts of urban megaregion formation in China. National Science Review. 9(1). nwab107–nwab107. 128 indexed citations

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Han, Lijian, Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett, Weifeng Li, & Yuguo Qian. (2019). Risks and Causes of Population Exposure to Cumulative Fine Particulate (PM2.5) Pollution in China. Earth s Future. 7(6). 615–622. 17 indexed citations

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Xi, Guo, Hongyi Li, Huimin Yu, et al.. (2018). Drivers of spatio-temporal changes in paddy soil pH in Jiangxi Province, China from 1980 to 2010. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2702–2702. 68 indexed citations

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Zhou, Weiqi, Jing Wang, Yuguo Qian, et al.. (2018). The rapid but “invisible” changes in urban greenspace: A comparative study of nine Chinese cities. The Science of The Total Environment. 627. 1572–1584. 109 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiang, Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett, Weifeng Li, & Lijian Han. (2016). Spatial-Temporal Variations of Water Quality and Its Relationship to Land Use and Land Cover in Beijing, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13(5). 449–449. 50 indexed citations

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Pan, Qisheng & Weifeng Li. (2016). Smart Growth and Sustainable Development. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 3 indexed citations

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Han, Lijian, Weiqi Zhou, & Weifeng Li. (2015). Increasing impact of urban fine particles (PM2.5) on areas surrounding Chinese cities. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12467–12467. 100 indexed citations

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Han, Lijian, Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett, Weifeng Li, & Li Li. (2015). An optimum city size? The scaling relationship for urban population and fine particulate (PM 2.5 ) concentration. Environmental Pollution. 208(Pt A). 96–101. 98 indexed citations

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Xiao, Rongbo, Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng, et al.. (2007). Spatial pattern of impervious surfaces and their impacts on land surface temperature in Beijing, China. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 19(2). 250–256. 220 indexed citations

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Li, Weifeng, et al.. (2006). Spectral properties and energy transfer in PbWO₄co-doped with Cr³⁺and F⁻. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 18(26). 6065–6070. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Weifeng, Hongwei Huang, & Xiqi Feng. (2005). The effects of Nd impurity on the optical, dielectric and electrical properties of PbWO₄ single crystals. physica status solidi (a). 202(13). 2531–2536. 7 indexed citations

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