Xiaojun Yao

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Xiaojun Yao is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaojun Yao has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Atmospheric Science, 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Xiaojun Yao's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (70 papers), Climate change and permafrost (52 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (39 papers). Xiaojun Yao is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (70 papers), Climate change and permafrost (52 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (39 papers). Xiaojun Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and Switzerland. Xiaojun Yao's co-authors include Shiyin Liu, Wanqin Guo, Meiping Sun, Junli Xu, Junfeng Wei, Zongli Jiang, Weijia Bao, Lizong Wu, Qiao Liu and Donghui Shangguan and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Xiaojun Yao

85 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

The second Chinese glacier inventory: data, methods and r... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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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. The second Chinese glacier inventory: data, methods and results
    2015 498 citations Wanqin Guo, Shiyin Liu 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
Xiaojun Yao China 22 1.4k 363 280 222 185 94 1.7k
Wanqin Guo China 26 2.3k 1.6× 394 1.1× 303 1.1× 439 2.0× 363 2.0× 66 2.6k
Adina Racoviteanu United States 17 2.2k 1.5× 271 0.7× 272 1.0× 374 1.7× 316 1.7× 37 2.4k
L. H. Pitcher United States 19 710 0.5× 343 0.9× 139 0.5× 169 0.8× 226 1.2× 38 1.1k
Yong Nie China 17 1.4k 1.0× 415 1.1× 258 0.9× 393 1.8× 248 1.3× 47 1.8k
Junfeng Wei China 21 1.7k 1.2× 265 0.7× 177 0.6× 267 1.2× 336 1.8× 53 1.9k
Nico Mölg Switzerland 15 1.9k 1.4× 222 0.6× 130 0.5× 340 1.5× 432 2.3× 21 2.1k
Jan Kropáček Germany 18 804 0.6× 251 0.7× 150 0.5× 185 0.8× 105 0.6× 41 1.1k
Stanislav Kutuzov Russia 19 1.4k 1.0× 310 0.9× 99 0.4× 204 0.9× 234 1.3× 63 1.6k
Michael Schirmer Germany 19 1.3k 0.9× 333 0.9× 398 1.4× 474 2.1× 151 0.8× 49 1.6k
Shelley MacDonell Chile 22 1.0k 0.7× 231 0.6× 230 0.8× 167 0.8× 110 0.6× 59 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaojun Yao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaojun Yao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaojun Yao

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

All Works

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Zhu, Yu, Shiyin Liu, Junfeng Wei, et al.. (2025). Glacier-level and gridded mass change in river sources in the eastern Tibetan Plateau region (ETPR) from the 1970s to 2000. Earth system science data. 17(5). 1851–1871. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaojun, et al.. (2024). Spatial and temporal changes of glaciers and glacial lakes in the Northern Tianshan Mountains over the past 30 years. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 34(9). 1857–1880. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Meiping, Guoyu Wang, Xiaojun Yao, et al.. (2023). Simulation and Reconstruction of Runoff in the High-Cold Mountains Area Based on Multiple Machine Learning Models. Water. 15(18). 3222–3222. 5 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaojun, et al.. (2023). Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. ˜The œcryosphere. 17(2). 591–616. 13 indexed citations
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Li, Jiawei, et al.. (2023). A Review of Karakoram Glacier Anomalies in High Mountains Asia. Water. 15(18). 3215–3215. 9 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaojun, et al.. (2023). Surging Glaciers in High Mountain Asia between 1986 and 2021. Remote Sensing. 15(18). 4595–4595. 13 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaojun, et al.. (2023). Glacier Change in the West Kunlun Main Peak Area from 2000 to 2020. Remote Sensing. 15(17). 4236–4236. 3 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaojun, et al.. (2023). Inventory of Glacial Lake in the Southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Derived from Sentinel-1 SAR Image and Sentinel-2 MSI Image. Remote Sensing. 15(21). 5142–5142. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dahong, et al.. (2022). A new global dataset of mountain glacier centerlines and lengths. Earth system science data. 14(9). 3889–3913. 8 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaojun, et al.. (2022). Glacier extraction based on high-spatial-resolution remote-sensing images using a deep-learning approach with attention mechanism. ˜The œcryosphere. 16(10). 4273–4289. 17 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaojun, et al.. (2021). Glacier changes in the Qaidam Basin from 1977 to 2018. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions. 12(6). 491–502. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dahong, Xiaojun Yao, Shiyin Liu, et al.. (2021). A new automatic approach for extracting glacier centerlines based on Euclidean allocation. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(4). 1955–1973. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhilan, Meiping Sun, Xiaojun Yao, Lei Zhang, & Hao Zhang. (2021). Spatiotemporal Variations of Water Vapor Content and Its Relationship with Meteorological Elements in the Third Pole. Water. 13(13). 1856–1856. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dahong, Xiaojun Yao, Shiyin Liu, et al.. (2020). A new automatic approach for extracting glacier centerlines. 1 indexed citations
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Qi, Miaomiao, et al.. (2018). A dataset of lake ice phenology in Qinghai Lake from 2000 to 2018. China Scientific Data. 3(4). 21.86101.1/csdata.2018.0045.zh–21.86101.1/csdata.2018.0045.zh. 3 indexed citations
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Guo, Wanqin, et al.. (2014). Glacier Change of China during the Last 50 Years As Revealed By Glacier Inventories. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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