Xin Lin

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Xin Lin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Lin has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xin Lin's work include Climate variability and models (30 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (23 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers). Xin Lin is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (30 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (23 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers). Xin Lin collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Xin Lin's co-authors include Richard H. Johnson, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao, David A. Randall, Aiguo Dai, Kuolin Hsu, Shushi Peng, Laura D. Fowler, Arthur Y. Hou and Anping Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xin Lin

73 papers receiving 2.9k 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 →
Record-high CO ₂ emissions from boreal fires in 2021

2023 148 citations Bo Zheng, Philippe Ciais et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xin Lin China	28	2.3k	1.9k	450	396	228	76	3.0k
Grégoire Broquet France	33	3.3k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	471 1.0×	617 1.6×	603 2.6×	105	4.0k
Junjie Liu United States	34	2.9k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	478 1.1×	301 0.8×	225 1.0×	143	3.6k
Robert O. Green United States	19	1.3k 0.6×	757 0.4×	671 1.5×	456 1.2×	149 0.7×	49	2.2k
Dongdong Wang United States	33	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	801 1.8×	1.2k 3.1×	85 0.4×	96	3.3k
Jinyang Du China	28	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.3×	520 1.2×	1.9k 4.7×	172 0.8×	111	3.8k
Hamed Alemohammad United States	17	1.3k 0.6×	809 0.4×	530 1.2×	801 2.0×	93 0.4×	54	2.3k
Fabienne Maignan France	34	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 2.5×	641 1.6×	134 0.6×	94	3.7k
Thomas Friborg Denmark	35	2.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	1.7k 3.7×	451 1.1×	135 0.6×	72	4.1k
Sónia Jerez Spain	32	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	213 0.5×	363 0.9×	132 0.6×	68	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xin Lin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xin Lin

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xin Lin. 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 Lin. The network helps show where Xin Lin may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Lin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xin Lin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xin Lin 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 Lin. Xin Lin 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, Gang, Lu Shen, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2025). Trends in the seasonal amplitude of atmospheric methane. Nature. 641(8063). 660–665. 3 indexed citations

Lombardozzi, Danica, William R. Wieder, G. Keppel‐Aleks, et al.. (2025). Agricultural fertilization significantly enhances amplitude of land-atmosphere CO2 exchange. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1742–1742. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Pengyu, et al.. (2024). Defending against similarity shift attack for EaaS via adaptive multi-target watermarking. Information Sciences. 678. 120893–120893.

Peng, Shushi, et al.. (2024). Underestimation of Methane Emissions From the Sudd Wetland: Unraveling the Impact of Wetland Extent Dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(16). 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Bo, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Chevallier, et al.. (2023). Record-high CO ₂ emissions from boreal fires in 2021. Science. 379(6635). 912–917. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

Peng, Shushi, Clément Giron, Gang Liu, et al.. (2023). High-resolution assessment of coal mining methane emissions by satellite in Shanxi, China. iScience. 26(12). 108375–108375. 14 indexed citations

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 →

Li, Chenxin, Xin Lin, Yijin Mao, et al.. (2021). Domain generalization on medical imaging classification using episodic training with task augmentation. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 141. 105144–105144. 59 indexed citations

Liu, Gang, Shushi Peng, Xin Lin, et al.. (2021). Recent Slowdown of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions in China Driven by Stabilized Coal Production. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 8(9). 739–746. 49 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin, et al.. (2020). Forest fire monitoring using airborne optical full spectrum remote sensing data. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 24(10). 1280–1292. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin, et al.. (2020). Leveraging the signature of heterotrophic respiration on atmospheric CO ₂ for model benchmarking. Biogeosciences. 17(5). 1293–1308. 11 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yuanhong, Marielle Saunois, Philippe Bousquet, et al.. (2020). Influences of hydroxyl radicals (OH) on top-down estimates of the global and regional methane budgets. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(15). 9525–9546. 31 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin, Philippe Ciais, Philippe Bousquet, et al.. (2018). Simulating CH ₄ and CO ₂ over South and East Asia using the zoomed chemistry transport model LMDz-INCA. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(13). 9475–9497. 18 indexed citations

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Peng, Shushi, Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Inventory of methane emissions from livestock in China from 1980 to 2013. Atmospheric Environment. 184. 69–76. 41 indexed citations

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Peng, Shushi, Shilong Piao, Philippe Bousquet, et al.. (2016). Inventory of anthropogenic methane emissions in mainland China from 1980 to 2010. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(22). 14545–14562. 143 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin. (2012). On the Prospect of Underground Coal Gasification in China from Low-Carbon Economy. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin. (2009). Alpine Timberline Dynamics in Relation to Climatic Variability in the Northern Daxing'an Mountains. Journal of Mountain Science. 4 indexed citations

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LIU, Chuang, et al.. (2006). Preliminary comparison of MODIS-NDVI and MODIS-EVI in Eastern Asia. Wuhan Daxue xuebao. Xinxi kexue ban. 31(5). 14 indexed citations

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Zhou, Y., A. Y. Hou, William K. M. Lau, et al.. (2006). Using High-Resolution Satellite Observations for Evaluation of Cloud and Precipitation Statistics from Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations. Part I: South China Sea Monsoon Experiment. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Xin. (1997). Multiscale Variability Associated with the Intraseasonal Oscillation Over the Western Pacific Warm Pool. Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University). 2473. 1 indexed citations

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