Xidong Chen

3.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Xidong Chen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xidong Chen has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xidong Chen's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (25 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (23 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers). Xidong Chen is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (25 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (23 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers). Xidong Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xidong Chen's co-authors include Liangyun Liu, Yuan Gao, Shuai Xie, Xiao Zhang, Mi Jun, Xiao Zhang, Tingting Zhao, Wendi Liu, Bing Zhang and Wubiao Duan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xidong Chen

55 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product with fine classifica... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2024 2023 200 400 600
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. GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product with fine classification system at 30 m using time-series Landsat imagery
    2021 715 citations Xiao Zhang, Liangyun Liu et al. Earth system science data profile →
  2. GLC_FCS30D: the first global 30 m land-cover dynamics monitoring product with a fine classification system for the period from 1985 to 2022 generated using dense-time-series Landsat imagery and the continuous change-detection method
    2024 135 citations Xiao Zhang, Tingting Zhao et al. Earth system science data profile →
  3. GWL_FCS30: a global 30 m wetland map with a fine classification system using multi-sourced and time-series remote sensing imagery in 2020
    2023 103 citations Xiao Zhang, Liangyun Liu et al. Earth system science data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xidong Chen China 21 1.3k 1.1k 604 562 287 60 2.5k
Xufeng Wang China 35 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 584 1.0× 1.1k 1.9× 421 1.5× 141 3.5k
Shixin Wu China 20 2.7k 2.0× 1.1k 1.0× 628 1.0× 922 1.6× 178 0.6× 51 4.0k
Zengyuan Li China 30 817 0.6× 1.4k 1.3× 1.6k 2.6× 417 0.7× 135 0.5× 274 2.9k
Xiaojun Li China 36 998 0.7× 589 0.5× 1.2k 2.0× 925 1.6× 192 0.7× 129 4.6k
Wenjuan Li China 30 798 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 643 1.1× 337 0.6× 176 0.6× 134 2.8k
Qun Ma China 28 1.8k 1.3× 484 0.4× 719 1.2× 307 0.5× 107 0.4× 146 3.3k
Pengfei Li China 29 541 0.4× 577 0.5× 297 0.5× 276 0.5× 73 0.3× 138 2.5k
H. S. Lim Malaysia 20 782 0.6× 198 0.2× 793 1.3× 460 0.8× 120 0.4× 199 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Xidong Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xidong Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xidong Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xidong Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xidong Chen 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 Xidong Chen. Xidong Chen 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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Zhang, Xiao, Liangyun Liu, Tingting Zhao, et al.. (2025). GLC_FCS10: a global 10 m land-cover dataset with a fine classification system from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time-series data in Google Earth Engine. Earth system science data. 17(8). 4039–4062. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiao, Liangyun Liu, Tingting Zhao, et al.. (2024). Global annual wetland dataset at 30 m with a fine classification system from 2000 to 2022. Scientific Data. 11(1). 310–310. 27 indexed citations
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Ren, Yu, Bo Zhang, Xidong Chen, & Xiangjun Liu. (2023). Analysis of spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanisms of land desertification in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 909. 168429–168429. 29 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiao, Liangyun Liu, Tingting Zhao, et al.. (2023). GWL_FCS30: a global 30 m wetland map with a fine classification system using multi-sourced and time-series remote sensing imagery in 2020. Earth system science data. 15(1). 265–293. 103 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Liangyun, et al.. (2023). Automated Mapping of Global 30-m Tidal Flats Using Time-Series Landsat Imagery: Algorithm and Products. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 14 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiao, Liangyun Liu, Tingting Zhao, et al.. (2022). GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform. Earth system science data. 14(4). 1831–1856. 129 indexed citations
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Chen, Xidong, Liangyun Liu, Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2022). Long-term water clarity patterns of lakes across China using Landsat series imagery from 1985 to 2020. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(13). 3517–3536. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Liangyun, et al.. (2021). ValLAI_Crop, a validation dataset for coarse-resolution satellite LAI products over Chinese cropland. Scientific Data. 8(1). 243–243. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiao, Liangyun Liu, Xidong Chen, et al.. (2021). GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product with fine classification system at 30 m using time-series Landsat imagery. Earth system science data. 13(6). 2753–2776. 715 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Liangyun, Xiao Zhang, Yuan Gao, et al.. (2021). Finer-Resolution Mapping of Global Land Cover: Recent Developments, Consistency Analysis, and Prospects. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2021. 137 indexed citations
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Chen, Xidong, Liangyun Liu, Xiao Zhang, Shuai Xie, & Liping Lei. (2020). A Novel Water Change Tracking Algorithm for Dynamic Mapping of Inland Water Using Time-Series Remote Sensing Imagery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 13. 1661–1674. 8 indexed citations
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Gao, Yuan, Liangyun Liu, Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2020). Consistency Analysis and Accuracy Assessment of Three Global 30-m Land-Cover Products over the European Union using the LUCAS Dataset. Remote Sensing. 12(21). 3479–3479. 79 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiao, Liangyun Liu, Changshan Wu, et al.. (2020). Development of a global 30 m impervious surface map using multisource and multitemporal remote sensing datasets with the Google Earth Engine platform. Earth system science data. 12(3). 1625–1648. 222 indexed citations
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Chen, Siyuan, Liangyun Liu, Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2019). Retrieval of the Fraction of Radiation Absorbed by Photosynthetic Components (FAPARgreen) for Forest Using a Triple-Source Leaf-Wood-Soil Layer Approach. Remote Sensing. 11(21). 2471–2471. 12 indexed citations
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Xie, Shuai, et al.. (2019). Automatic Land-Cover Mapping using Landsat Time-Series Data based on Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 3023–3023. 120 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiao, Liangyun Liu, Xidong Chen, Shuai Xie, & Yuan Gao. (2019). Fine Land-Cover Mapping in China Using Landsat Datacube and an Operational SPECLib-Based Approach. Remote Sensing. 11(9). 1056–1056. 86 indexed citations
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Xie, Shuai, Liangyun Liu, Xiao Zhang, & Xidong Chen. (2018). Annual land-cover mapping based on multi-temporal cloud-contaminated landsat images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 40(10). 3855–3877. 16 indexed citations
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Chen, Xidong, et al.. (2017). Atomic-Step-Induced Local Nonequilibrium Effects on Surface Oxidation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(41). 22846–22853. 12 indexed citations

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