Xiankun Yang

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Xiankun Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiankun Yang has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Water Science and Technology and 19 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Xiankun Yang's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (24 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (14 papers). Xiankun Yang is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (24 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (14 papers). Xiankun Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Hong Kong. Xiankun Yang's co-authors include Xixi Lu, Lishan Ran, Edward Park, Shaoda Liu, Nufang Fang, Lin Lin, Li Chen, Dongfeng Li, Paolo Tarolli and Zhongbao Xin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Xiankun Yang

67 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Substantial decrease in CO2 emissions from Chinese inland... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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. Substantial decrease in CO2 emissions from Chinese inland waters due to global change
    2021 157 citations Lishan Ran, Xiankun Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiankun Yang China 22 795 663 456 419 392 74 1.8k
Xiaobin Cai China 20 998 1.3× 872 1.3× 673 1.5× 423 1.0× 253 0.6× 56 2.0k
Jr‐Chuan Huang Taiwan 30 660 0.8× 614 0.9× 340 0.7× 335 0.8× 714 1.8× 107 2.4k
Jianzhong Lu China 21 733 0.9× 562 0.8× 330 0.7× 232 0.6× 184 0.5× 78 1.3k
Jerad Bales United States 17 851 1.1× 748 1.1× 485 1.1× 276 0.7× 339 0.9× 62 1.7k
Jiahu Jiang China 23 1.3k 1.6× 1.3k 2.0× 877 1.9× 359 0.9× 403 1.0× 93 2.5k
Junli Li China 23 1.0k 1.3× 631 1.0× 378 0.8× 241 0.6× 877 2.2× 97 2.2k
Yunliang Li China 30 1.4k 1.8× 1.5k 2.3× 907 2.0× 313 0.7× 246 0.6× 101 2.8k
Cláudio Clemente Faria Barbosa Brazil 27 759 1.0× 844 1.3× 675 1.5× 974 2.3× 227 0.6× 87 2.3k
Xijun Lai China 23 942 1.2× 1.2k 1.8× 528 1.2× 125 0.3× 165 0.4× 90 1.9k
Changsen Zhao China 21 513 0.6× 721 1.1× 390 0.9× 116 0.3× 140 0.4× 63 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiankun Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiankun Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xiankun Yang. 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 Xiankun Yang. The network helps show where Xiankun Yang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiankun Yang

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

All Works

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Shen, Jianfa, Dakang Wang, Yingpin Yang, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of the Coupling Coordination Degree Between PM2.5 and Urbanization Level: A Case in Guangdong Province. Sustainability. 17(15). 6751–6751.
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Mao, Keming, Dakang Wang, Wenxin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Retrieval of Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in Fishponds in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning. Remote Sensing. 17(13). 2277–2277. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiankun, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Changes in Extreme Precipitation in China’s Pearl River Basin during 1951–2015. Water. 15(14). 2634–2634. 5 indexed citations
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Fang, Nufang, Yi Zeng, Lishan Ran, et al.. (2023). Substantial role of check dams in sediment trapping and carbon sequestration on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 23 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenxin, et al.. (2022). Retrieval of Suspended Sediment Concentrations in the Pearl River Estuary Using Multi-Source Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing. 14(16). 3896–3896. 22 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiankun, et al.. (2022). An Integrated Model of Summer and Winter for Chlorophyll-a Retrieval in the Pearl River Estuary Based on Hyperspectral Data. Remote Sensing. 14(9). 2270–2270. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenxin, et al.. (2022). Use of a MODIS Satellite-Based Aridity Index to Monitor Drought Conditions in the Pearl River Basin from 2001 to 2021. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 11(11). 541–541. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Jinnian, et al.. (2022). Pixel Representation Augmented through Cross-Attention for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery Segmentation. Remote Sensing. 14(21). 5415–5415. 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiankun, et al.. (2022). Mapping Soil Erosion Dynamics (1990–2020) in the Pearl River Basin. Remote Sensing. 14(23). 5949–5949. 23 indexed citations
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Ran, Lishan, et al.. (2021). Magnitude and drivers of CO2 and CH4 emissions from an arid/semiarid river catchment on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 598. 126260–126260. 29 indexed citations
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Park, Edward, Éder Renato Merino, Quinn W. Lewis, Eric O. Lindsey, & Xiankun Yang. (2020). A Pathway to the Automated Global Assessment of Water Level in Reservoirs with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Remote Sensing. 12(8). 1353–1353. 11 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiankun, et al.. (2020). Effects of Urbanization on Regional Extreme-Temperature Changes in China, 1960–2016. Sustainability. 12(16). 6560–6560. 21 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiankun, et al.. (2019). Impact of Land Cover Types on Riverine CO2 Outgassing in the Yellow River Source Region. Water. 11(11). 2243–2243. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiankun, Xixi Lu, Lishan Ran, & Paolo Tarolli. (2019). Geomorphometric Assessment of the Impacts of Dam Construction on River Disconnectivity and Flow Regulation in the Yangtze Basin. Sustainability. 11(12). 3427–3427. 22 indexed citations

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