Xi Yang

6.7k citations

109 papers · 4.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate variability and models
Ecology top 0.5%
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Papers in ⓘ

Ecological Modeling 15
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 14
Global and Planetary Change 67
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 44
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 13
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 11
- Climate variability and models 7

Co-authors: Jianwu Tang (9 shared papers)John F. Mustard (4 shared papers)Atticus Stovall (6 shared papers)Joseph A. Berry (13 shared papers)Yongguang Zhang (7 shared papers)Herman H. Shugart (2 shared papers)J. William Munger (2 shared papers)Ari Kornfeld (2 shared papers)
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (14 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (8 papers)Global Change Biology (4 papers)New Phytologist (3 papers)Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States China South Korea

In The Last Decade

Xi Yang

100 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Tree height explains mortality risk during an intense drought 2019 · 253 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Communications
2015 Geophysical Research Letters

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1	Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence that correlates with canopy photosynthesis on diurnal and seasonal scales in a temperate deciduous forest Geophysical Research Letters ·Xi Yang, Jianwu Tang, John F. Mustard, Jung‐Eun Lee, Micol Rossini, Joanna Joiner, J. William Munger, Ari Kornfeld, Andrew D. Richardson Hit paper breakdown →	2015	448
2	Emerging opportunities and challenges in phenology: a review Ecosphere ·Jianwu Tang, Christian Körner, Hiroyuki Muraoka, Shilong Piao, Miaogen Shen, Stephen J. Thackeray, Xi Yang	2016	275
3	Tree height explains mortality risk during an intense drought Nature Communications ·Atticus Stovall, Herman H. Shugart, Xi Yang Hit paper breakdown →	2019	253
4	Model-based analysis of the relationship between sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production for remote sensing applications Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yongguang Zhang, Luis Guanter, Joseph A. Berry, Christiaan van der Tol, Xi Yang, Jianwu Tang, Fangmin Zhang	2016	212
5	Application of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Images: A Meta-Analysis and a Systematic Literature Review Remote Sensing ·Qingxu Huang, Xi Yang, Bin Gao, Yang Yang, Yuanyuan Zhao	2014	194
6	Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is more strongly related to absorbed light than to photosynthesis at half-hourly resolution in a rice paddy Remote Sensing of Environment ·K. Yang, Youngryel Ryu, Benjamin Dechant, Joseph A. Berry, Yorum Hwang, Chongya Jiang, Minseok Kang, Jongmin Kim, Hyungsuk Kimm, Ari Kornfeld, Xi Yang	2018	182
7	Sun‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Photosynthesis, and Light Use Efficiency of a Soybean Field from Seasonally Continuous Measurements Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Guofang Miao, Kaiyu Guan, Xi Yang, Carl J. Bernacchi, Joseph A. Berry, Evan H. DeLucia, Jin Wu, Caitlin E. Moore, K. Meacham, Yaping Cai, Bin Peng, Hyungsuk Kimm, Michael D. Masters	2018	166
8	On the Covariation of Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photosynthesis Across Scales Geophysical Research Letters ·Troy S. Magney, Mallory L. Barnes, Xi Yang	2020	139
9	Chlorophyll fluorescence tracks seasonal variations of photosynthesis from leaf to canopy in a temperate forest Global Change Biology ·Hualei Yang, Xi Yang, Yongguang Zhang, Mary Heskel, Xiaoliang Lü, J. William Munger, Shucun Sun, Jianwu Tang	2016	139
10	Reduction of structural impacts and distinction of photosynthetic pathways in a global estimation of GPP from space-borne solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence Remote Sensing of Environment ·Zhaoying Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Albert Porcar‐Castell, Joanna Joiner, Luis Guanter, Xi Yang, Mirco Migliavacca, Weimin Ju, Zhigang Sun, Shiping Chen, David Martini, Qian Zhang, Zhaohui Li, James Cleverly, Hezhou Wang, Yves Goulas	2020	122
11	The energy requirements and carbon dioxide emissions of tourism industry of Western China: A case of Chengdu city Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·Jun Liu, Tingting Feng, Xi Yang	2011	122
12	Evaluating the utility of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence for drought monitoring by comparison with NDVI derived from wheat canopy The Science of The Total Environment ·Leizhen Liu, Xi Yang, Hongkui Zhou, Shasha Liu, Lei Zhou, Xiaohan Li, Jianhua Yang, Xinyi Han, Jian Wu	2018	119
13	Simulations of chlorophyll fluorescence incorporated into the Community Land Model version 4 Global Change Biology ·Jung‐Eun Lee, Joseph A. Berry, Christiaan van der Tol, Xi Yang, Luis Guanter, Alexander Damm, Ian Baker, Christian Frankenberg	2015	114
14	Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and its link to canopy photosynthesis in maize from continuous ground measurements Remote Sensing of Environment ·Zhaohui Li, Qian Zhang, Ji Li, Xi Yang, Yunfei Wu, Zhaoying Zhang, Songhan Wang, Hezhou Wang, Yongguang Zhang	2019	112
15	Earlier-Season Vegetation Has Greater Temperature Sensitivity of Spring Phenology in Northern Hemisphere PLoS ONE ·Miaogen Shen, Yanhong Tang, Jin Chen, Xi Yang, Cong Wang, Xiaoyong Cui, Yongping Yang, Lijian Han, Le Li, Jianhui Du, Gengxin Zhang, Nan Cong	2014	111
16	On the relationship between sub-daily instantaneous and daily total gross primary production: Implications for interpreting satellite-based SIF retrievals Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yao Zhang, Xiangming Xiao, Yongguang Zhang, Sebastian Wolf, Sha Zhou, Joanna Joiner, Luis Guanter, Manish Verma, Ying Sun, Xi Yang, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, Christopher M. Gough, Georg Wohlfahrt, Beniamino Gioli, Christiaan van der Tol, Yann Nouvellon, Magnus Lund, A. de Grandcourt	2017	110
17	Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence and short‐term photosynthetic response to drought Ecological Applications ·Levi T. Helm, Hanyu Shi, Manuel Lerdau, Xi Yang	2020	106
18	Seasonal variability of multiple leaf traits captured by leaf spectroscopy at two temperate deciduous forests Remote Sensing of Environment ·Xi Yang, Jianwu Tang, John F. Mustard, Jin Wu, Kaiguang Zhao, Shawn Serbin, Jung Eun Lee	2016	105
19	Seasonal variations of leaf and canopy properties tracked by ground-based NDVI imagery in a temperate forest Scientific Reports ·Hualei Yang, Xi Yang, Mary Heskel, Shucun Sun, Jianwu Tang	2017	90
20	Beyond leaf color: Comparing camera‐based phenological metrics with leaf biochemical, biophysical, and spectral properties throughout the growing season of a temperate deciduous forest Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Xi Yang, Jianwu Tang, John F. Mustard	2014	90

About Xi Yang

Xi Yang is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science, having authored 109 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (55 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (44 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (16 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (13 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (8 papers) and Climate variability and models (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (3.5k citations), Ecology (3.0k citations), Ecological Modeling (486 citations), Environmental Engineering (793 citations) and Atmospheric Science (653 citations). Xi Yang has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include Jianwu Tang, John F. Mustard, Atticus Stovall, Joseph A. Berry, Yongguang Zhang, Herman H. Shugart, J. William Munger, Ari Kornfeld, Joanna Joiner and Luis Guanter. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, New Phytologist and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

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