Xiaoye Tong

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Xiaoye Tong is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoye Tong has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Xiaoye Tong's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (10 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers) and African Botany and Ecology Studies (7 papers). Xiaoye Tong is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (10 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers) and African Botany and Ecology Studies (7 papers). Xiaoye Tong collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, China and France. Xiaoye Tong's co-authors include Rasmus Fensholt, Martin Brandt, Feng Tian, Pierre Hiernaux, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Torbern Tagesson, Stefanie Herrmann, Wenmin Zhang, Wenmin Zhang and Philippe Ciais and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoye Tong

29 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Global area boom for greenhouse cultivation revealed by satellite mapping

2024 48 citations Xiaoye Tong, Xiaoxin Zhang et al. Nature Food profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoye Tong Denmark	17	606	509	332	207	148	30	1.1k
Pavel Propastin Germany	20	683 1.1×	564 1.1×	255 0.8×	150 0.7×	153 1.0×	38	1.1k
Indrani Kommareddy United States	8	814 1.3×	584 1.1×	312 0.9×	162 0.8×	132 0.9×	8	1.2k
Ricardo Dalagnol Brazil	21	839 1.4×	633 1.2×	533 1.6×	154 0.7×	322 2.2×	62	1.4k
Hammad Gilani Nepal	21	813 1.3×	607 1.2×	387 1.2×	142 0.7×	278 1.9×	44	1.4k
Marion Stellmes Germany	18	828 1.4×	641 1.3×	233 0.7×	134 0.6×	137 0.9×	36	1.2k
Yhasmin Mendes de Moura Brazil	17	679 1.1×	639 1.3×	320 1.0×	122 0.6×	191 1.3×	24	1.0k
Astrid Verhegghen Italy	13	522 0.9×	538 1.1×	260 0.8×	120 0.6×	56 0.4×	29	887
Alexey Egorov United States	8	776 1.3×	913 1.8×	476 1.4×	261 1.3×	164 1.1×	10	1.3k
J. Wallace Australia	17	549 0.9×	504 1.0×	315 0.9×	112 0.5×	156 1.1×	40	1.1k
Cletah Shoko South Africa	22	552 0.9×	620 1.2×	339 1.0×	98 0.5×	142 1.0×	65	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoye Tong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoye Tong

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Jingwei, Yuanqi Huang, Xiaoye Tong, et al.. (2025). Unexpected benefits of agricultural greenhouses in mitigating ozone pollution on crop yields in China. Atmospheric Environment. 360. 121438–121438.

Brandt, Martin, Ingmar Nitze, Xiaoye Tong, et al.. (2025). Large driftwood accumulations along arctic coastlines and rivers. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 32500–32500. 1 indexed citations

Feng, Luwei, Yumiao Wang, Rasmus Fensholt, et al.. (2025). Globally increased cropland soil exposure to climate extremes in recent decades. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4354–4354. 5 indexed citations

Tong, Xiaoye, et al.. (2025). Mapping forest-agroforest frontiers in the Peruvian Amazon with deep learning and PlanetScope satellite data. Ecological Informatics. 86. 103034–103034. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaoxin, Martin Brandt, Xiaoye Tong, et al.. (2025). A strong but uneven increase in urban tree cover in China over the recent decade. Nature Cities. 2(5). 460–469. 2 indexed citations

Dou, Yujie, Xiaoye Tong, Stéphanie Horion, et al.. (2024). The success of ecological engineering projects on vegetation restoration in China strongly depends on climatic conditions. The Science of The Total Environment. 915. 170041–170041. 18 indexed citations

Yin, Yuwei, Luwei Feng, Xiaoye Tong, et al.. (2024). A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types. Earth system science data. 16(7). 3307–3332. 8 indexed citations

Tong, Xiaoye, Xiaoxin Zhang, Rasmus Fensholt, et al.. (2024). Global area boom for greenhouse cultivation revealed by satellite mapping. Nature Food. 5(6). 513–523. 48 indexed citations breakdown →

Brandt, Martin, Florian Reiner, Ankit Kariryaa, et al.. (2024). Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over the past decade. Nature Sustainability. 7(7). 860–868. 28 indexed citations

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Elberling, Bo, Rasmus Fensholt, Per Ambus, et al.. (2023). High nitrous oxide emissions from temporary flooded depressions within croplands. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

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Brandt, Martin, Thomas Nord‐Larsen, Jérôme Chave, et al.. (2023). The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe. Science Advances. 9(37). eadh4097–eadh4097. 54 indexed citations

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Li, Sizhuo, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, et al.. (2023). Deep learning enables image-based tree counting, crown segmentation, and height prediction at national scale. PNAS Nexus. 2(4). pgad076–pgad076. 37 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Namrata, et al.. (2021). A 99-YEAR CHRONOLOGY OF BLUE PINE (PINUS WALLICHIANA) TREE-RINGS CONCERNING INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN THE CENTRAL HIMALAYAS OF NEPAL. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 19(5). 3519–3532. 2 indexed citations

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Tian, Feng, Zhanzhang Cai, Hongxiao Jin, et al.. (2021). Calibrating vegetation phenology from Sentinel-2 using eddy covariance, PhenoCam, and PEP725 networks across Europe. Remote Sensing of Environment. 260. 112456–112456. 95 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenmin, Martin Brandt, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2019). Ecosystem structural changes controlled by altered rainfall climatology in tropical savannas. Nature Communications. 10(1). 671–671. 61 indexed citations

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Tong, Xiaoye, Feng Tian, Martin Brandt, et al.. (2019). Trends of land surface phenology derived from passive microwave and optical remote sensing systems and associated drivers across the dry tropics 1992–2012. Remote Sensing of Environment. 232. 111307–111307. 55 indexed citations

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Tian, Feng, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Coupling of ecosystem-scale plant water storage and leaf phenology observed by satellite. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(9). 1428–1435. 141 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenmin, Martin Brandt, Xiaoye Tong, Qingjiu Tian, & Rasmus Fensholt. (2018). Impacts of the seasonal distribution of rainfall on vegetation productivity across the Sahel. Biogeosciences. 15(1). 319–330. 53 indexed citations

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Brandt, Martin, Kjeld Rasmussen, Pierre Hiernaux, et al.. (2018). Reduction of tree cover in West African woodlands and promotion in semi-arid farmlands. Nature Geoscience. 11(5). 328–333. 94 indexed citations

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Tong, Xiaoye, Martin Brandt, Pierre Hiernaux, et al.. (2017). Revisiting the coupling between NDVI trends and cropland changes in the Sahel drylands: A case study in western Niger. Remote Sensing of Environment. 191. 286–296. 66 indexed citations

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