Xiaoping Liu

14.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
138 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Xiaoping Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoping Liu has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Transportation and 28 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Xiaoping Liu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (54 papers), Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (22 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (22 papers). Xiaoping Liu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (54 papers), Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (22 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (22 papers). Xiaoping Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xiaoping Liu's co-authors include Xia Li, Yimin Chen, Shaoying Li, Jinpei Ou, Xiaocong Xu, Shaojian Wang, Fengsong Pei, Xun Liang, Bin Ai and Shuanjin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoping Liu

135 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

A future land use simulation model (FLUS) for simulating ... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2017 2018 2021 2018 2016 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. High-resolution multi-temporal mapping of global urban land using Landsat images based on the Google Earth Engine Platform
    2018 497 citations Xiaoping Liu, Yimin Chen et al. profile →
  3. A Deeply Supervised Attention Metric-Based Network and an Open Aerial Image Dataset for Remote Sensing Change Detection
    2021 490 citations Qian Shi, Mengxi Liu et al. profile →
  4. Delineating multi-scenario urban growth boundaries with a CA-based FLUS model and morphological method
    2018 409 citations Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →
  5. Sensing spatial distribution of urban land use by integrating points-of-interest and Google Word2Vec model
    2016 390 citations Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →
  6. Examining the impacts of socioeconomic factors, urban form, and transportation networks on CO2 emissions in China’s megacities
    2016 371 citations Shaojian Wang, Xiaoping Liu et al. profile →
  7. 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, Xiaoping Liu et al. profile →
  8. Classifying urban land use by integrating remote sensing and social media data
    2017 297 citations Xiaoping Liu, Jialyu He et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 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 58 7.4k 2.5k 2.2k 2.1k 2.0k 138 11.7k
Chunyang He China 56 8.6k 1.2× 1.3k 0.5× 2.7k 1.2× 2.0k 0.9× 2.7k 1.3× 191 12.5k
Yaolin Liu China 61 4.3k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 2.5k 1.1× 1.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 357 11.1k
Yimin Chen China 42 6.0k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 224 9.8k
Chenghu Zhou China 58 5.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 3.4k 1.5× 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 424 12.8k
Yuyu Zhou United States 64 8.8k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 7.0k 3.1× 2.7k 1.3× 3.7k 1.9× 272 15.3k
Xuecao Li China 51 6.6k 0.9× 876 0.4× 3.4k 1.5× 2.0k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 177 9.9k
Hannes Taubenböck Germany 46 4.5k 0.6× 1.0k 0.4× 1.8k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 875 0.4× 314 7.8k
Jianping Wu China 51 5.4k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 2.7k 1.2× 969 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 343 9.4k
Weiqi Zhou China 57 7.0k 0.9× 1.0k 0.4× 6.4k 2.9× 2.1k 1.0× 6.9k 3.5× 236 12.5k
Yuji Murayama Japan 49 5.2k 0.7× 592 0.2× 3.6k 1.6× 1.6k 0.7× 2.6k 1.3× 201 8.3k

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, 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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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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Chen, Zhenhao, et al.. (2024). CEDAnet: Individual Tree Segmentation in Dense Orchard via Context Enhancement and Density Prior. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 7040–7051. 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yupeng, Xucai Zhang, Jinpei Ou, & Xiaoping Liu. (2024). Identifying building function using multisource data: A case study of China's three major urban agglomerations. Sustainable Cities and Society. 108. 105498–105498. 16 indexed citations
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Liang, Junyi, Shaojian Wang, Jieyu Wang, et al.. (2023). Agricultural HANPP Embodied in Consumption: Tracing Pressure on Ecosystems Based on an MRIO Analysis. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(37). 13838–13850. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xucai, et al.. (2022). Inferring building function: A novel geo-aware neural network supporting building-level function classification. Sustainable Cities and Society. 89. 104349–104349. 18 indexed citations
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Shi, Qian, Mengxi Liu, Xiaoping Liu, et al.. (2019). Domain Adaption for Fine-Grained Urban Village Extraction From Satellite Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 17(8). 1430–1434. 73 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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Deng, Xingdong, Penghua Liu, Xiaoping Liu, et al.. (2019). Geospatial Big Data: New Paradigm of Remote Sensing Applications. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 12(10). 3841–3851. 39 indexed citations
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Ye, Tingting, Naizhuo Zhao, Zutao Ouyang, et al.. (2018). Improved population mapping for China using remotely sensed and points-of-interest data within a random forests model. The Science of The Total Environment. 658. 936–946. 222 indexed citations
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Yao, Yao, Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li, et al.. (2017). Simulating urban land-use changes at a large scale by integrating dynamic land parcel subdivision and vector-based cellular automata. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 31(12). 2452–2479. 103 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Ning Niu, Xingjian Liu, et al.. (2017). Characterizing mixed-use buildings based on multi-source big data. 32(4). 738–756. 60 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Jialyu He, Yao Yao, et al.. (2017). Classifying urban land use by integrating remote sensing and social media data. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 31(8). 1675–1696. 297 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Xuecao, Le Yu, Xiaoping Liu, & Peng Gong. (2016). Forecasting global urban expansion and its effect on terrestrial net primary productivity. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping, Xia Li, Zhangzhi Tan, & Yimin Chen. (2011). Zoning farmland protection under spatial constraints by integrating remote sensing, GIS and artificial immune systems. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 25(11). 1829–1848. 41 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping. (2010). On the Desire Discourses of Literature in the 1990s and the Happiness Philosophy of Taoism. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping. (2008). Research on the Corporation Ecological Compensation Mechanism Based on Resource Flow Analysis. Journal of Wuhan University of Technology-Mater Sci Ed. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoping. (2005). The Watermill(Shuinianwei) Management of Buddhist Temple in Tang Dynasty. 1 indexed citations

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