Xu Lian

13.0k total citations · 11 hit papers
57 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Xu Lian is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Lian has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Xu Lian's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (38 papers), Climate variability and models (30 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers). Xu Lian is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (38 papers), Climate variability and models (30 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers). Xu Lian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Xu Lian's co-authors include Shilong Piao, Anping Chen, Philippe Ciais, Xuhui Wang, Ranga B. Myneni, Ivan A. Janssens, Shushi Peng, Tao Wang, Qiang Liu and Yongshuo H. Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Xu Lian

55 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening 2017 2026 2020 2023 2019 2019 2021 2018 2017 400 800 1.2k

Peers

Xu Lian
Comparison fields: 5 of 114
  • Global and Planetary Change 5.5k
  • Ecology 2.6k
  • Atmospheric Science 2.1k
  • Water Science and Technology 1.2k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 993
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Countries citing papers authored by Xu Lian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xu Lian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Lian

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xu Lian. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xu Lian 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 Xu Lian. Xu Lian 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
# Work Indexed citations
1 0
2 1
3 13
4 7
5 5
6 8
7 10
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Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport breakdown →
154
9
Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world breakdown →
482
10 23
11
Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought breakdown →
213
12 55
13
Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation breakdown →
362
14
Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost breakdown →
261
15
Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China breakdown →
410
16 276
17 48
18
Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades breakdown →
390
19 134
20
Localized Manufacture of Nuclear Power Equipment
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