Xin Li

39.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
1.1k papers, 26.7k citations indexed

About

Xin Li is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Li has authored 1.1k papers receiving a total of 26.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 393 papers in Atmospheric Science, 320 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 198 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xin Li's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (164 papers), Climate change and permafrost (124 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (102 papers). Xin Li is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (164 papers), Climate change and permafrost (124 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (102 papers). Xin Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xin Li's co-authors include Guodong Cheng, Rui Jin, Youhua Ran, Kun Yang, Tao Che, Chunlin Huang, Ling Lü, Gaofeng Zhu, Mingguo Ma and Yingying Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Xin Li

1.0k papers receiving 26.0k 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.

The first high-resolution meteorological forcing dataset for land process studies over China

2020 1.0k citations Yingying Chen, Xin Li et al. profile →
Heihe Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (HiWATER): Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design

2013 719 citations Xin Li, Guodong Cheng et al. profile →
Integrated study of the water–ecosystem–economy in the Heihe River Basin

2014 455 citations Guodong Cheng, Xin Li et al. profile →
Climate warming over the past half century has led to thermal degradation of permafrost on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

2018 265 citations Youhua Ran, Xin Li et al. profile →
Characteristic, changes and impacts of permafrost on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

2019 238 citations Xin Li, Guodong Cheng et al. profile →
Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau

2020 207 citations Xin Li, Guodong Cheng et al. profile →
New high-resolution estimates of the permafrost thermal state and hydrothermal conditions over the Northern Hemisphere

2022 135 citations Youhua Ran, Xin Li et al. profile →
Big Data in Earth system science and progress towards a digital twin

2023 135 citations Xin Li, Min Feng et al. profile →
TPHiPr: a long-term (1979–2020) high-accuracy precipitation dataset (1∕30°, daily) for the Third Pole region based on high-resolution atmospheric modeling and dense observations

2023 126 citations Xin Li, Yingying Chen et al. profile →
Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback

2023 87 citations Xin Li et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Xin Li	10.7k	9.9k	5.8k	4.5k	3.5k	1.1k	26.7k
Marc F. P. Bierkens	8.3k 0.8×	9.8k 1.0×	6.1k 1.1×	12.2k 2.7×	2.1k 0.6×	296	25.8k
Deliang Chen	15.4k 1.4×	17.9k 1.8×	3.4k 0.6×	4.6k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	692	27.9k
Sonia I. Seneviratne	17.7k 1.6×	30.9k 3.1×	8.3k 1.4×	7.6k 1.7×	3.4k 1.0×	331	41.3k
Qingyun Duan	9.5k 0.9×	15.8k 1.6×	6.8k 1.2×	12.8k 2.8×	1.7k 0.5×	326	26.9k
Yaning Chen	6.9k 0.6×	11.3k 1.1×	2.8k 0.5×	6.9k 1.5×	2.9k 0.8×	558	19.8k
Dahe Qin	15.1k 1.4×	16.0k 1.6×	2.6k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	4.9k 1.4×	299	31.7k
I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe	4.8k 0.4×	11.9k 1.2×	5.8k 1.0×	9.3k 2.1×	6.2k 1.8×	262	24.8k
Wolfgang Wagner	15.3k 1.4×	7.0k 0.7×	18.3k 3.2×	4.6k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	523	32.4k
Peijun Shi	4.3k 0.4×	10.2k 1.0×	2.5k 0.4×	2.2k 0.5×	3.4k 1.0×	455	16.9k
Vijay P. Singh	3.7k 0.3×	15.6k 1.6×	5.0k 0.9×	10.8k 2.4×	2.0k 0.6×	573	23.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Li

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

Li, Xin, Huadong Guo, Guodong Cheng, et al.. (2025). Polar regions are critical in achieving global sustainable development goals. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3879–3879. 3 indexed citations

Qiu, Xiaolan, et al.. (2025). A novel airborne TomoSAR 3-D focusing method for accurate ice thickness and glacier volume estimation. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 220. 593–607. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Quan, et al.. (2024). LILRB4 Checkpoint for Immunotherapy: Structure, Mechanism and Disease Targets. Biomolecules. 14(2). 187–187. 10 indexed citations

He, Zhibin, Yong Hou, Ying Li, et al.. (2024). Increased methane production associated with community shifts towards Methanocella in paddy soils with the presence of nanoplastics. Microbiome. 12(1). 259–259. 5 indexed citations

Li, Xin, Zhifang Zhang, Ying‐Jie Zhu, et al.. (2024). Distribution and key influential factors of comammox in drained and waterlogged soils of zoige plateau peatland. Environmental Research. 265. 120456–120456.

Zhou, Yanzhao, Heping Liu, Matthias Sühring, & Xin Li. (2024). Implications of energy balance non-closure on carbon dioxide flux uncertainties: Insights from large eddy simulations in convective boundary layers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 358. 110211–110211.

Wang, Zikang, et al.. (2024). Integrated reinforcement and imitation learning for tower crane lift path planning. Automation in Construction. 165. 105568–105568. 11 indexed citations

Chen, Wei, et al.. (2024). Butyryl group distribution modulates the structure and properties of butyrylated maize starch focused on amylose contents. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 265(Pt 2). 130794–130794. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Yingzheng, Donghai Zheng, Yushan Zhou, et al.. (2024). Glacier mass change and evolution of Petrov Lake in the Ak-Shyirak massif, central Tien Shan, from 1973 to 2023 using multisource satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114437–114437. 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qian, Xin Li, Guangyuan Chen, et al.. (2024). Hydrophobic nanosheet silicalite-1 zeolite for iodine and methyl iodide capture. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 472. 134496–134496. 35 indexed citations

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Liu, Junmei, Fang Geng, Xin Li, et al.. (2024). Ultrasound-assisted improvement of thawing quality of Tibetan pork by inhibiting oxidation. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry. 110. 107029–107029. 7 indexed citations

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Jia, Yun-Fei, et al.. (2024). A prediction model of erosion rate under erosion-tension coupling for engine blade. Wear. 560-561. 205621–205621. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Feng, Xiaowei Nie, Chunfeng Ma, et al.. (2023). Data assimilation method for improving the global spatiotemporal predictions of epidemic dynamics yielded by an ensemble Kalman filter and Metropolis–Hastings sampling. Nonlinear Dynamics. 111(16). 15573–15589. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xin, et al.. (2023). Analysis for the Development of Marine Renewable Energy Industry in China. Advances in Engineering Technology Research. 7(1). 272–272. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xin, et al.. (2023). Bias correction and projection of temperature over the altitudes of the Upper Indus Basin under CMIP6 climate scenarios from 1985 to 2100. Journal of Water and Climate Change. 14(7). 2490–2514. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Xin, Yang Yu, Jian Cheng, & Junsheng Cheng. (2023). Robustness Imbalanced Convex Hull-based Classification for Bevel Gearbox Fault Diagnosis. Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 59(8). 32–32.

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Wei, Houzhen, Rui Xu, Linjian Ma, et al.. (2023). Effects of water saturation and salinity on particle crushing of single coral sand. Powder Technology. 426. 118666–118666. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Tingyang, Xiangbin Lin, Zhehua Zhang, et al.. (2023). Photothermal‐Enhanced Uranium Extraction from Seawater: A Biomass Solar Thermal Collector with 3D Ion‐Transport Networks. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(19). 91 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, Xiong Xiong, Kehuan Wang, et al.. (2023). The effects of land use on water quality of alpine rivers: A case study in Qilian Mountain, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 875. 162696–162696. 32 indexed citations

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Li, Xin, Guodong Cheng, & Ling Lü. (2005). Spatial Analysis of Air Temperature in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 37(2). 246–252. 51 indexed citations

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