Wenfeng Chi

4.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Wenfeng Chi is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenfeng Chi has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Wenfeng Chi's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (9 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers). Wenfeng Chi is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (9 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers). Wenfeng Chi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Belgium. Wenfeng Chi's co-authors include Wenhui Kuang, Ning Jia, Shuwen Zhang, Shixin Wu, Rendong Li, Jiyuan Liu, Changzhen Yan, Xinliang Xu, Jiyuan Liu and Dongsheng Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Climate and Landscape and Urban Planning.

In The Last Decade

Wenfeng Chi

33 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of l... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2018 2015 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of land-use changes in China since the late 1980s
    2014 1.5k citations Wenhui Kuang, Wenfeng Chi et al. profile →
  2. Spatiotemporal patterns and characteristics of land-use change in China during 2010–2015
    2018 628 citations Wenhui Kuang, Guoming Du et al. profile →
  3. The rapid and massive urban and industrial land expansions in China between 1990 and 2010: A CLUD-based analysis of their trajectories, patterns, and drivers
    2015 358 citations Wenhui Kuang, Jiyuan Liu et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wenfeng Chi China 18 2.9k 996 951 896 716 37 3.8k
Changzhen Yan China 22 3.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.6× 1.1k 1.1× 641 0.7× 435 0.6× 56 4.1k
Zengxiang Zhang China 26 4.2k 1.5× 1.6k 1.6× 1.4k 1.5× 977 1.1× 728 1.0× 89 5.6k
Deyong Yu China 30 2.4k 0.8× 987 1.0× 442 0.5× 662 0.7× 628 0.9× 56 3.6k
Yuemin Yue China 26 2.3k 0.8× 1.5k 1.5× 758 0.8× 690 0.8× 251 0.4× 78 3.9k
Xiaoyong Bai China 37 1.5k 0.5× 926 0.9× 799 0.8× 800 0.9× 240 0.3× 104 3.4k
Wenhui Kuang China 35 5.0k 1.7× 1.6k 1.6× 1.5k 1.5× 2.0k 2.2× 1.5k 2.1× 102 6.5k
Gudina Legese Feyisa Ethiopia 22 2.4k 0.8× 725 0.7× 452 0.5× 1.4k 1.6× 742 1.0× 61 3.5k
Taejin Park United States 24 3.9k 1.3× 2.6k 2.6× 1.3k 1.4× 1.2k 1.3× 241 0.3× 64 5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Wenfeng Chi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenfeng Chi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wenfeng Chi. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wenfeng Chi. The network helps show where Wenfeng Chi may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenfeng Chi

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

All Works

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Zhang, Jingfang, Fanhao Meng, Min Luo, et al.. (2025). Grazing strategy shifts mitigate the negative effects of drought on grassland productivity in Inner Mongolia. Ecological Indicators. 178. 114098–114098.
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Fang, Lijing, et al.. (2025). Chemical attribution and health risk assessment of groundwater in the southern Mongolian Plateau driven by coal mining. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 31. 101537–101537.
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Zhang, Jingfang, Fanhao Meng, Min Luo, et al.. (2025). Investigating spatiotemporal variability of drought and its impact on grassland GPP in Inner Mongolia. Journal of Arid Environments. 230. 105425–105425. 1 indexed citations
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Chi, Wenfeng, et al.. (2024). Temporal and Spatial Variation Characteristics of the Ecosystem in the Inner Mongolia Section of the Yellow River Basin. Atmosphere. 15(7). 827–827. 1 indexed citations
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Du, Xiongfeng, et al.. (2022). Soil Microbial Communities in Desert Grassland around Rare Earth Mine: Diversity, Variation, and Response Patterns. Sustainability. 14(23). 15629–15629. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhengjia, Yansui Liu, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2022). Patterns and causes of winter wheat and summer maize rotation area change over the North China Plain. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44056–44056. 11 indexed citations
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Chi, Wenfeng, et al.. (2022). Examining Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Ecological Quality in the Pan-Third Pole Region in the Past 20 Years. Remote Sensing. 14(21). 5473–5473. 2 indexed citations
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Yin, Zherui, Wenhui Kuang, Yuhai Bao, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the Dynamic Changes of Urban Land and Its Fractional Covers in Africa from 2000–2020 Using Time Series of Remotely Sensed Images on the Big Data Platform. Remote Sensing. 13(21). 4288–4288. 11 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2020). Ecological and environmental consequences of ecological projects in the Beijing–Tianjin sand source region. Ecological Indicators. 112. 106111–106111. 51 indexed citations
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Kuang, Wenhui, Guoming Du, Dengsheng Lu, et al.. (2020). Global observation of urban expansion and land-cover dynamics using satellite big-data. Science Bulletin. 66(4). 297–300. 66 indexed citations
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Chi, Wenfeng, et al.. (2019). Study on Dynamic Remote Sensing Monitoring of LUCC and Soilwind Erosion Intensity in the Beijing-Tianjin Sandstorm Source Control Project Region. Yaogan jishu yu yingyong. 33(5). 965–974. 6 indexed citations
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Chi, Wenfeng, Yuanyuan Zhao, Wenhui Kuang, & Honglin He. (2019). Impacts of anthropogenic land use/cover changes on soil wind erosion in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 668. 204–215. 154 indexed citations
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Zhang, Haiyan, Jiangwen Fan, Wei Cao, et al.. (2018). Response of wind erosion dynamics to climate change and human activity in Inner Mongolia, China during 1990 to 2015. The Science of The Total Environment. 639. 1038–1050. 147 indexed citations
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Pan, Tao, Dengsheng Lu, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2017). Urban Land-Cover Dynamics in Arid China Based on High-Resolution Urban Land Mapping Products. Remote Sensing. 9(7). 730–730. 19 indexed citations
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Kuang, Wenhui, Jiyuan Liu, Jinwei Dong, Wenfeng Chi, & Chi Zhang. (2015). The rapid and massive urban and industrial land expansions in China between 1990 and 2010: A CLUD-based analysis of their trajectories, patterns, and drivers. Landscape and Urban Planning. 145. 21–33. 358 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kuang, Wenhui, Yinyin Dou, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2014). Quantifying the heat flux regulation of metropolitan land use/land cover components by coupling remote sensing modeling with in situ measurement. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 120(1). 113–130. 96 indexed citations
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Kuang, Wenhui, Wenfeng Chi, Dengsheng Lu, & Yinyin Dou. (2014). A comparative analysis of megacity expansions in China and the U.S.: Patterns, rates and driving forces. Landscape and Urban Planning. 132. 121–135. 212 indexed citations

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