Wenze Yang

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Wenze Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenze Yang has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wenze Yang's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (8 papers). Wenze Yang is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (8 papers). Wenze Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Finland. Wenze Yang's co-authors include Ranga B. Myneni, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ramakrishna Nemani, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Dong Huang, Wenge Ni‐Meister, Bin Tan, Alfredo Huete, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro and Wei Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Wenze Yang

36 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenze Yang United States	22	1.9k	1.9k	1.1k	567	515	36	3.0k
Aleixandre Verger Spain	28	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	995 0.9×	519 0.9×	588 1.1×	70	2.9k
Tristan Quaife United Kingdom	28	1.3k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	594 0.5×	349 0.6×	538 1.0×	83	2.6k
Joseph Glassy United States	15	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	424 0.7×	868 1.7×	21	3.2k
Frank Veroustraete Belgium	28	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	765 1.3×	718 1.4×	68	3.5k
Cédric Bacour France	25	2.6k 1.4×	2.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	993 1.8×	580 1.1×	44	3.5k
Lars L. Pierce United States	17	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	834 0.7×	491 0.9×	373 0.7×	24	2.2k
Sylvain G. Leblanc Canada	26	2.9k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.7×	976 1.7×	535 1.0×	65	3.6k
José Gómez‐Dans United Kingdom	18	2.0k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	647 0.6×	446 0.8×	542 1.1×	47	3.2k
David A.J. Ripley United States	3	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	314 0.6×	600 1.2×	5	2.4k
Yelu Zeng China	31	2.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	904 1.6×	608 1.2×	103	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Wenze Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenze Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenze Yang

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

Wu, Junjun, et al.. (2024). Approaching the emissivity of CMAS at high temperatures by convenient thermocouple-based infrared thermography. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 232. 125975–125975. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Wenze, Felix Kogan, Wei Guo, & Yong Chen. (2021). A novel re-compositing approach to create continuous and consistent cross-sensor/cross-production global NDVI datasets. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 42(16). 6023–6047. 13 indexed citations

Yang, Wenze, Huan Meng, Ralph Ferraro, & Yong Chen. (2020). Inter-Calibration of AMSU-A Window Channels. Remote Sensing. 12(18). 2988–2988. 3 indexed citations

Kogan, Felix, Wei Guo, & Wenze Yang. (2020). Near 40-year drought trend during 1981-2019 earth warming and food security. Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk. 11(1). 469–490. 21 indexed citations

Kogan, Felix, Wei Guo, & Wenze Yang. (2019). Drought and food security prediction from NOAA new generation of operational satellites. Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk. 10(1). 651–666. 144 indexed citations

Kogan, Felix, Wei Guo, Wenze Yang, & Shannon M. Harlan. (2018). Space-based vegetation health for wheat yield modeling and prediction in Australia. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 12(2). 1–1. 28 indexed citations

Ni‐Meister, Wenge, Wenze Yang, Shihyan Lee, Alan H. Strahler, & Feng Zhao. (2017). Validating modeled lidar waveforms in forest canopies with airborne laser scanning data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 204. 229–243. 17 indexed citations

Yang, Wenze, Viju O. John, Xuepeng Zhao, Hui Lü, & Kenneth R. Knapp. (2016). Satellite Climate Data Records: Development, Applications, and Societal Benefits. Remote Sensing. 8(4). 331–331. 23 indexed citations

Moradi, Isaac, et al.. (2012). Developing climate data records from microwave satellite data. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenze, et al.. (2012). Cross-Scan Asymmetry of AMSU-A Window Channels: Characterization, Correction, and Verification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 51(3). 1514–1530. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenze, Wenge Ni‐Meister, & Shihyan Lee. (2011). Assessment of the impacts of surface topography, off-nadir pointing and vegetation structure on vegetation lidar waveforms using an extended geometric optical and radiative transfer model. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(11). 2810–2822. 75 indexed citations

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Lee, Shihyan, Wenge Ni‐Meister, Wenze Yang, & Qi Chen. (2011). Physically based vertical vegetation structure retrieval from ICESat data: Validation using LVIS in White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(11). 2776–2785. 87 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenze, Wenge Ni‐Meister, Nancy Y. Kiang, et al.. (2010). A clumped-foliage canopy radiative transfer model for a Global Dynamic Terrestrial Ecosystem Model II: Comparison to measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150(7-8). 895–907. 35 indexed citations

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Garrigues, Sébastien, Roselyne Lacaze, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2008). Validation and intercomparison of global Leaf Area Index products derived from remote sensing data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 113(G2). 392 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenze, Dong Huang, Bin Tan, et al.. (2006). Analysis of leaf area index and fraction of PAR absorbed by vegetation products from the terra MODIS sensor: 2000-2005. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 44(7). 1829–1842. 132 indexed citations

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Shabanov, Nikolay V., Dong Huang, Wenze Yang, et al.. (2005). Analysis and optimization of the MODIS leaf area index algorithm retrievals over broadleaf forests. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 43(8). 1855–1865. 151 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenze. (1981). How to Optimally Support a Plate. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 48(1). 207–209. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenze & Chia‐Shun Yih. (1977). Stability of time-periodic flows in a circular pipe. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 82(3). 497–505. 24 indexed citations

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Lee, E. H., R. L. Mallett, T. C. T. Ting, & Wenze Yang. (1975). Dynamic analysis of structural deformation and metal forming. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 5(1). 69–82. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenze. (1974). Vibration of a Plate With Internal Constraints. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 41(4). 1072–1074. 7 indexed citations

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