Xin Lan

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Xin Lan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Lan has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Xin Lan's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (41 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (20 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (17 papers). Xin Lan is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (41 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (20 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (17 papers). Xin Lan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Xin Lan's co-authors include R. W. Talbot, David Lyon, Yong Deng, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, Steven P. Hamburg, Robert C. Harriss, Ramón A. Alvarez, Scott C. Herndon, Tara I. Yacovitch and P. B. Shepson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Xin Lan

85 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020

2022 163 citations Shushi Peng, Xin Lin et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xin Lan United States	23	1.3k	702	347	269	224	90	2.1k
Xiaoli Liu China	28	632 0.5×	343 0.5×	585 1.7×	367 1.4×	924 4.1×	132	3.3k
Zhong Li Canada	33	1.0k 0.8×	629 0.9×	187 0.5×	849 3.2×	513 2.3×	126	3.4k
Grant Allen United Kingdom	29	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 2.0×	122 0.4×	298 1.1×	81 0.4×	113	2.3k
Tao Chen China	30	930 0.7×	640 0.9×	136 0.4×	318 1.2×	33 0.1×	155	3.0k
Hao Chen China	26	618 0.5×	718 1.0×	36 0.1×	293 1.1×	480 2.1×	171	2.8k
Richard Camilli United States	23	771 0.6×	204 0.3×	191 0.6×	105 0.4×	533 2.4×	61	3.1k
Guang Liu China	23	263 0.2×	715 1.0×	75 0.2×	267 1.0×	63 0.3×	182	3.0k
Pengfei Li China	29	541 0.4×	276 0.4×	103 0.3×	297 1.1×	56 0.3×	138	2.5k
Zhijie Zhang China	23	562 0.4×	282 0.4×	75 0.2×	401 1.5×	32 0.1×	90	2.1k
Kai Zhang China	36	3.0k 2.3×	3.1k 4.4×	85 0.2×	259 1.0×	60 0.3×	191	4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xin Lan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xin Lan

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xin Lan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xin Lan. The network helps show where Xin Lan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Lan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xin Lan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xin Lan 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 Xin Lan. Xin Lan 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

Liu, Zhiyong, et al.. (2025). Disproportionate increase of flood-exposed population in Chinese cities under urban expansion and climate variation. Ecological Indicators. 172. 113314–113314. 2 indexed citations

Michel, Sylvia, Xin Lan, Pieter P. Tans, et al.. (2025). Microbial driver of 2006–2023 CH ₄ growth indicated by trends in atmospheric δD–CH ₄ and δ ¹³ C–CH ₄. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(50). e2516543122–e2516543122. 1 indexed citations

Li, Fang, et al.. (2024). PCET: Patch Confidence-Enhanced Transformer with efficient spectral–spatial features for hyperspectral image classification. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104308–104308. 1 indexed citations

Lan, Xin, et al.. (2024). Semi-arid rather than arid regions of China deserve the priority in drought mitigation efforts. Journal of Hydrology. 641. 131791–131791. 11 indexed citations

Lan, Xin, et al.. (2024). Flow Characteristics Analysis of Load Rejection Transition Process in Pumped Storage Unit Based on Cavitation Model. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics. 17(9). 1 indexed citations

Michel, Sylvia, Xin Lan, J. B. Miller, et al.. (2024). Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2411212121–e2411212121. 11 indexed citations

Lan, Xin. (2024). EVALUATION METHOD FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN LOW CARBON ECOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION BASED ON SUPER-EFFICIENCY DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (SE-DEA) MODEL. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal. 23(12). 2455–2466. 1 indexed citations

Janardanan, Rajesh, Shamil Maksyutov, Fenjuan Wang, et al.. (2024). Country-level methane emissions and their sectoral trends during 2009–2020 estimated by high-resolution inversion of GOSAT and surface observations. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 34007–34007. 13 indexed citations

Park, Sunyoung, Pallav Purohit, Xin Lan, et al.. (2024). A global re-analysis of regionally resolved emissions and atmospheric mole fractions of SF ₆ for the period 2005–2021. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(21). 12465–12493. 1 indexed citations

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Nevison, C. D., Xin Lan, Doug Worthy, & Hanqin Tian. (2023). Top-down constraints on N2O emissions from Canada. Atmospheric Environment. 313. 120075–120075. 3 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Qianlai, Mingyang Guo, John M. Mélack, et al.. (2023). Current and Future Global Lake Methane Emissions: A Process‐Based Modeling Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(3). 15 indexed citations

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Berchet, Antoine, Isabelle Pison, Marielle Saunois, et al.. (2023). Estimating methane emissions in the Arctic nations using surface observations from 2008 to 2019. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(11). 6457–6485. 6 indexed citations

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Cai, Huayang, et al.. (2023). Detecting human interventions by spatial dependence of extreme water levels using a high dimensional conditional probability approach over the Pearl River Delta. Journal of Hydrology. 622. 129681–129681. 10 indexed citations

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Tsuruta, Aki, Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Tomi Karppinen, et al.. (2023). CH4 Fluxes Derived from Assimilation of TROPOMI XCH4 in CarbonTracker Europe-CH4: Evaluation of Seasonality and Spatial Distribution in the Northern High Latitudes. Remote Sensing. 15(6). 1620–1620. 12 indexed citations

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Nevison, C. D., Xin Lan, & Stephen M. Ogle. (2023). Remote Sensing Soil Freeze‐Thaw Status and North American N ₂ O Emissions From a Regional Inversion. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(7). 5 indexed citations

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Nisbet, Euan G., Martin Manning, E. J. Dlugokencky, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric Methane: Comparison Between Methane's Record in 2006–2022 and During Glacial Terminations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(8). 47 indexed citations

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Peng, Shushi, Xin Lin, Rona L. Thompson, et al.. (2022). Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020. Nature. 612(7940). 477–482. 163 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sheng, Jian‐Xiong, Rachel Tunnicliffe, Anita L. Ganesan, et al.. (2021). Sustained methane emissions from China after 2012 despite declining coal production and rice-cultivated area. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104018–104018. 32 indexed citations

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Lan, Xin, Sourish Basu, Stefan Schwietzke, et al.. (2021). Improved Constraints on Global Methane Emissions and Sinks Using δ¹³C‐CH₄. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(6). e2021GB007000–e2021GB007000. 73 indexed citations

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Lazzarotto, Cícera R., Nikolay Malinin, Yichao Li, et al.. (2020). CHANGE-seq reveals genetic and epigenetic effects on CRISPR–Cas9 genome-wide activity. Nature Biotechnology. 38(11). 1317–1327. 161 indexed citations

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