Xiaoping Liu

20.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
511 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Xiaoping Liu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoping Liu has authored 511 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Molecular Biology, 99 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 57 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaoping Liu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (78 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (38 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (32 papers). Xiaoping Liu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (78 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (38 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (32 papers). Xiaoping Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xiaoping Liu's co-authors include Xia Li, Luonan Chen, Zhibao Dong, Xuecao Li, Guangzhao Chen, Weilin Liao, Peng Gong, Xunming Wang, Kangning Huang and Qingfeng Yi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoping Liu

488 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) b... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2020 2019 2019 2022 250 500 750
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. Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018
    2019 819 citations Peng Gong, Xuecao Li et al. profile →
  2. High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
    2020 616 citations Xiaoping Liu, Xiaocong Xu et al. profile →
  3. Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity
    2019 293 citations Xiaoping Liu, Fengsong Pei et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?
    2019 288 citations Dan Li, Weilin Liao et al. profile →
  5. Global impacts of future urban expansion on terrestrial vertebrate diversity
    2022 285 citations Guangdong Li, Chuanglin Fang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050
    2019 279 citations Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
  7. Alzheimer's‐like signaling in brains of COVID‐19 patients
    2022 133 citations Xiaoping Liu et al. profile →
  8. Global land projection based on plant functional types with a 1-km resolution under socio-climatic scenarios
    2022 120 citations Guangzhao Chen, Xia Li 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
Xiaoping Liu China 64 5.2k 2.9k 2.8k 2.0k 1.7k 511 15.3k
Jinfeng Wang China 62 5.2k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 2.8k 1.0× 2.7k 1.4× 2.1k 1.2× 757 19.5k
Xiaoyan Li China 69 4.7k 0.9× 3.0k 1.0× 1.9k 0.7× 629 0.3× 3.0k 1.8× 778 20.9k
Gang Li China 75 3.5k 0.7× 3.6k 1.2× 2.8k 1.0× 625 0.3× 618 0.4× 891 21.9k
Hao Wang China 77 8.4k 1.6× 1.2k 0.4× 4.6k 1.6× 1.2k 0.6× 2.7k 1.6× 1.8k 31.3k
Andy Liaw United States 18 3.1k 0.6× 3.8k 1.3× 2.7k 0.9× 503 0.3× 1.0k 0.6× 32 21.2k
Jun Li China 84 3.0k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.7× 15.7k 8.0× 8.5k 5.0× 976 30.8k
Chunmiao Zheng China 74 2.9k 0.6× 748 0.3× 7.4k 2.6× 2.0k 1.0× 1.6k 0.9× 526 22.6k
Hailong Wang China 105 1.0k 0.2× 4.1k 1.4× 1.3k 0.5× 3.7k 1.9× 726 0.4× 1.0k 43.5k
Anping Chen China 64 11.7k 2.2× 1.5k 0.5× 2.4k 0.8× 702 0.4× 4.1k 2.4× 219 19.5k
Matthew C. Wiener United States 15 2.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.8× 2.0k 0.7× 385 0.2× 768 0.5× 26 15.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoping Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaoping Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoping Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaoping Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaoping Liu 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 Xiaoping Liu. Xiaoping Liu 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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Wu, Tunhua, Xi Chen, Ning Tan, et al.. (2025). Dissolved oxygen prediction in the Dianchi River basin with explainable artificial intelligence based on physical prior knowledge. Environmental Modelling & Software. 188. 106412–106412. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Yi, et al.. (2025). Deconvolution and inference of spatial communication through optimization algorithm for spatial transcriptomics. Communications Biology. 8(1). 235–235. 4 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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Liu, Xiaoping, et al.. (2024). An enhanced manifold alignment method for fault diagnosis of liquid-cooled plate based on manifold distance features. Measurement. 242. 116303–116303. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing emerging technology discovery in nanomedicine by integrating innovative sentences using BERT and NLDA. Journal of Data and Information Science. 9(4). 155–195. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Xuecao, Wenting Cao, Jinxiu Liu, et al.. (2023). Characterizing annual dynamics of urban form at the horizontal and vertical dimensions using long-term Landsat time series data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 203. 199–210. 24 indexed citations
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Shi, Xiaojun, et al.. (2023). Case report: Child chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis with rapid progressive scoliosis-an association with disease?. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 11. 1076443–1076443.
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Wang, Xueliang, Yaping Yan, Xiaodan Liu, et al.. (2023). Genetic variants in m5C modification core genes are associated with the risk of Chinese pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A five-center case–control study. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 1082525–1082525. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Dashan, Alan D. Ziegler, Xiaoping Liu, et al.. (2022). Influence of urbanization on hourly extreme precipitation over China. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44010–44010. 35 indexed citations
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Li, Guangdong, Chuanglin Fang, Yingjie Li, et al.. (2022). Global impacts of future urban expansion on terrestrial vertebrate diversity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1628–1628. 285 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Xiaoping, Fengsong Pei, Youyue Wen, et al.. (2019). Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5558–5558. 293 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ou, Jinpei, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of Luojia 1-01 nighttime light imagery for impervious surface detection: A comparison with NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 81. 1–12. 71 indexed citations
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Liao, Weilin, Xiaoping Liu, Dan Li, et al.. (2018). Stronger Contributions of Urbanization to Heat Wave Trends in Wet Climates. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(20). 147 indexed citations
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Zhang, Huanling, Yanyan Li, Xiaoping Liu, et al.. (2018). ImmTAC/Anti‐PD‐1 antibody combination to enhance killing of cancer cells by reversing regulatory T‐cell‐mediated immunosuppression. Immunology. 155(2). 238–250. 11 indexed citations
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Lin, De‐Chen, Anand Mayakonda, Huy Q. Dinh, et al.. (2017). Genomic and Epigenomic Heterogeneity of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 77(9). 2255–2265. 148 indexed citations
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Yin, Feifei, Zheng Zhu, Xiaoping Liu, et al.. (2015). The Complete Genome of a New Betabaculovirus from Clostera anastomosis. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132792–e0132792. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, et al.. (2008). Effect of variable heat treatment modes on microstructures in Fe-Cr-B cast iron alloy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 28–31. 17 indexed citations
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Li, Xia & Xiaoping Liu. (2006). Estimating Mangrove Wetland Biomass Using Radar Remote Sensing. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 11 indexed citations

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