Xiaobin Cai

2.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Xiaobin Cai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaobin Cai has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Water Science and Technology and 20 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Xiaobin Cai's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (19 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (9 papers). Xiaobin Cai is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (19 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (9 papers). Xiaobin Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Xiaobin Cai's co-authors include Lian Feng, Chuanmin Hu, Xiaoling Chen, Wenxia Gan, Liqiao Tian, Xuelei Wang, Xuejiao Hou, Luke Gibson, Junguo Liu and Jing Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Xiaobin Cai

54 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Assessment of inundation changes of Poyang Lake using MODIS observations between 2000 and 2010

2012 456 citations Lian Feng, Xiaobin Cai et al. profile →
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade

2022 360 citations Xuejiao Hou, Lian Feng et al. profile →
Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

2022 194 citations Xuehui Pi, Lian Feng et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Xiaobin Cai	998	872	673	423	419	56	2.0k
Jiahu Jiang	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	877 1.3×	359 0.8×	380 0.9×	93	2.5k
Cláudio Clemente Faria Barbosa	759 0.8×	844 1.0×	675 1.0×	974 2.3×	350 0.8×	87	2.3k
Jing Yao	1.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	697 1.0×	159 0.4×	272 0.6×	51	1.9k
Xiankun Yang	795 0.8×	663 0.8×	456 0.7×	419 1.0×	184 0.4×	74	1.8k
Deborah Lawrence	1.5k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	633 0.9×	427 1.0×	303 0.7×	52	2.9k
Charles Verpoorter	851 0.9×	616 0.7×	694 1.0×	978 2.3×	306 0.7×	20	2.3k
Xijun Lai	942 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	528 0.8×	125 0.3×	372 0.9×	90	1.9k
Rongrong Wan	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	757 1.1×	131 0.3×	427 1.0×	88	2.1k
Jerad Bales	851 0.9×	748 0.9×	485 0.7×	276 0.7×	288 0.7×	62	1.7k
Sébastien Lamontagne	495 0.5×	707 0.8×	613 0.9×	152 0.4×	555 1.3×	69	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaobin Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaobin Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaobin Cai

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tang, Linling, et al.. (2025). The role of wetland vegetation and water connectivity in shaping waterbird populations under human disturbance. Ecological Indicators. 178. 114014–114014.

Foody, Giles M., et al.. (2024). DeepWaterFraction: A globally applicable, self-training deep learning approach for percent surface water area estimation from Landsat mission imagery. Journal of Hydrology. 638. 131512–131512. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Zihao, et al.. (2024). A New Nanoplatform Under NIR Released ROS Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy and Low Temperature Photothermal Therapy for Antibacterial and Wound Repair. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 19. 7509–7527. 3 indexed citations

Cai, Xiaobin, et al.. (2024). Remote Sensing of River Discharge From Medium‐Resolution Satellite Imagery Based on Deep Learning. Water Resources Research. 60(9). 2 indexed citations

Chen, Fang, et al.. (2024). GRDL: A New Global Reservoir Area‐Storage‐Depth Data Set Derived Through Deep Learning‐Based Bathymetry Reconstruction. Water Resources Research. 60(1). 12 indexed citations

Tian, Liqiao, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporal variations of aerosol optical depth over Ukraine under the Russia-Ukraine war. Atmospheric Environment. 314. 120114–120114. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Chao, et al.. (2023). Aboveground biomass estimation of wetland vegetation at the species level using unoccupied aerial vehicle RGB imagery. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1181887–1181887. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Xinchi, Lian Feng, Wei Qi, et al.. (2022). Continuous Loss of Global Lake Ice Across Two Centuries Revealed by Satellite Observations and Numerical Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(12). 20 indexed citations

Pi, Xuehui, Lian Feng, Yang Xu, et al.. (2022). Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5777–5777. 194 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Liang, Xuelei Wang, Xiaobin Cai, Chao Yang, & Xiaorong Lu. (2021). Seasonal Variations of Daytime Land Surface Temperature and Their Underlying Drivers over Wuhan, China. Remote Sensing. 13(2). 323–323. 61 indexed citations

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Feng, Lian, Sen Li, Jida Wang, et al.. (2021). The Dynamics of Hongjian Nur, the Largest Desert Freshwater Lake in China, during 1990–2017. Remote Sensing. 13(14). 2690–2690. 3 indexed citations

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Dai, Yanhui, Lian Feng, Xuejiao Hou, et al.. (2019). Policy-driven changes in enclosure fisheries of large lakes in the Yangtze Plain: Evidence from satellite imagery. The Science of The Total Environment. 688. 1286–1297. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Jialin, Xiaobin Cai, Xiaoling Chen, Zhan Zhang, & Linling Tang. (2019). Classification of Forest Vegetation Type Using Fused NDVI Time Series Data Based on STNLFFM. 3 indexed citations

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Cai, Xiaobin, Lian Feng, Xuejiao Hou, & Xiaoling Chen. (2016). Remote Sensing of the Water Storage Dynamics of Large Lakes and Reservoirs in the Yangtze River Basin from 2000 to 2014. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36405–36405. 87 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ting, Xuan Ban, Xuelei Wang, et al.. (2016). Analysis of nutrient transport and ecological response in Honghu Lake, China by using a mathematical model. The Science of The Total Environment. 575. 418–428. 42 indexed citations

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Cai, Xiaobin & Wei Ji. (2009). Wetland hydrologic application of satellite altimetry – A case study in the Poyang Lake watershed. Progress in Natural Science Materials International. 19(12). 1781–1787. 19 indexed citations

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Cai, Xiaobin, Xiaoling Chen, Tao Wang, & Zhongyi Wu. (2006). Remote Sensing Expert Classification Method Based on Patch Spatial Relationship. Wuhan Daxue xuebao. Xinxi kexue ban. 2 indexed citations

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Cai, Xiaobin. (2006). Design of a New Image Filter Based on Rough Set. Computer Engineering and Science. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaoling, et al.. (2005). Detection and evaluation of vegetation change and urbanization in the central China. 1. 230–233. 5 indexed citations

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Gao, Qiusheng, Shaolin Peng, Peiqiang Zhao, et al.. (2003). Explanation of vegetation succession in subtropical southern China based on ecophysiological characteristics of plant species. Tree Physiology. 23(9). 641–648. 17 indexed citations

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