Xiaocong Xu

6.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
51 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Xiaocong Xu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaocong Xu has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Environmental Engineering and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Xiaocong Xu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (23 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (7 papers). Xiaocong Xu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (23 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (7 papers). Xiaocong Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Xiaocong Xu's co-authors include Xia Li, Yimin Chen, Xiaoping Liu, Fengsong Pei, Shuanjin Wang, Xun Liang, Shaoying Li, Jinpei Ou, Guohua Hu and Guangzhao Chen 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

Xiaocong Xu

48 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

A future land use simulation model (FLUS) for simulating ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2020 2020 2018 2017 400 800 1.2k
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. A future land use simulation model (FLUS) for simulating multiple land use scenarios by coupling human and natural effects
    2017 1.3k citations Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →
  2. Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways
    2020 632 citations Guangzhao Chen, Xia Li et al. profile →
  3. High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
    2020 616 citations Xiaoping Liu, Yinghuai Huang et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  4. High-resolution multi-temporal mapping of global urban land using Landsat images based on the Google Earth Engine Platform
    2018 497 citations Xiaoping Liu, Guohua Hu et al. profile →
  5. A New Global Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Product at a 1-km Resolution for 2010 to 2100 Based on Human–Environment Interactions
    2017 330 citations Xia Li, Guangzhao Chen 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
Xiaocong Xu China 22 3.5k 1.1k 965 910 873 51 4.7k
Lina Tang China 33 2.2k 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 730 0.8× 704 0.8× 146 4.4k
Fengsong Pei China 17 3.0k 0.8× 735 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 616 0.7× 613 0.7× 25 3.5k
Zengxiang Zhang China 26 4.2k 1.2× 977 0.9× 1.6k 1.7× 728 0.8× 1.4k 1.6× 89 5.6k
Changshan Wu United States 32 2.9k 0.8× 2.1k 1.8× 1.2k 1.2× 829 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 89 4.9k
Wenhui Kuang China 35 5.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.7× 1.6k 1.6× 1.5k 1.6× 1.5k 1.7× 102 6.5k
Jasper van Vliet Netherlands 37 3.6k 1.0× 797 0.7× 808 0.8× 637 0.7× 492 0.6× 84 4.9k
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani Denmark 32 2.1k 0.6× 621 0.5× 663 0.7× 383 0.4× 540 0.6× 85 3.3k
Qingxu Huang China 37 4.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 929 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 709 0.8× 94 6.0k
David Potere United States 11 2.0k 0.6× 794 0.7× 632 0.7× 614 0.7× 496 0.6× 18 3.0k
Annemarie Schneider United States 19 4.5k 1.3× 1.9k 1.6× 2.2k 2.3× 831 0.9× 1.7k 2.0× 24 6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaocong Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaocong Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaocong Xu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Xia, et al.. (2025). Interplay between aridity changes and urban expansion across Chinese cities. Applied Geography. 176. 103514–103514. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Changjiang, Xiaoping Liu, Fengsong Pei, et al.. (2025). Non-negligible large impact of potential forestation on livestock production in China. Geography and sustainability. 6(4). 100270–100270. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Yaotong, Peng Zhu, Xing Li, et al.. (2025). Dynamics of China's forest carbon storage: the first 30 m annual aboveground biomass mapping from 1985 to 2023. Earth system science data. 17(12). 6993–7018.
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Liang, C., et al.. (2025). GenFusion: Crafting future urban building layouts via diffusion model and genetic algorithm. 1(1). 100015–100015. 1 indexed citations
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Bao, Zhigang, et al.. (2025). A leave-one-out approach to approximate message passing. The Annals of Applied Probability. 35(4).
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Bao, Zhigang & Xiaocong Xu. (2025). Extreme eigenvalues of log-concave ensemble. Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques. 61(1). 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocong, et al.. (2024). Exploring urban building space provision and inequality: A three-dimensional perspective on Chinese cities toward sustainable development goals. Sustainable Cities and Society. 102. 105202–105202. 12 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocong, et al.. (2024). A three-dimensional future land use simulation (FLUS-3D) model for simulating the 3D urban dynamics under the shared socio-economic pathways. Landscape and Urban Planning. 250. 105135–105135. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, et al.. (2024). Projecting the future fine-resolution carbon dioxide emissions under the shared socioeconomic pathways for carbon peak evaluation. Applied Energy. 365. 123240–123240. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Xuecao, Xiaoping Liu, Weilin Liao, et al.. (2024). 3D-GloBFP: the first global three-dimensional building footprint dataset. Earth system science data. 16(11). 5357–5374. 45 indexed citations
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Bao, Zhigang, et al.. (2024). Spectral statistics of sample block correlation matrices. The Annals of Statistics. 52(5). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Xiaocong Xu, Qian Shi, et al.. (2023). Future Increase in Aridity Drives Abrupt Biodiversity Loss Among Terrestrial Vertebrate Species. Earth s Future. 11(4). 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Xiaocong, et al.. (2021). 全球2000年—2015年30 m分辨率逐年土地覆盖制图. 25(9). 1896–1916. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Yinghuai Huang, Xiaocong Xu, et al.. (2020). High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015. Nature Sustainability. 3(7). 564–570. 616 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Xiaocong, Yuanying Zhang, & Yimin Chen. (2020). Projecting China's future water footprint under the shared socio-economic pathways. Journal of Environmental Management. 260. 110102–110102. 43 indexed citations
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Liu, Penghua, Xiaoping Liu, Mengxi Liu, et al.. (2019). Building Footprint Extraction from High-Resolution Images via Spatial Residual Inception Convolutional Neural Network. Remote Sensing. 11(7). 830–830. 168 indexed citations
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Chen, Siyu, Jianping Huang, Nanxuan Jiang, et al.. (2017). Estimations of anthropogenic dust emissions at global scale from 2007 to 2010. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Xia, et al.. (2017). Experiences and issues of using cellular automata for assisting urban and regional planning in China. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 31(8). 1606–1629. 66 indexed citations

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