Xufeng Fei

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Xufeng Fei is a scholar working on Pollution, Artificial Intelligence and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Xufeng Fei has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Pollution, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Xufeng Fei's work include Heavy metals in environment (17 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (13 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Xufeng Fei is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (17 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (13 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Xufeng Fei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xufeng Fei's co-authors include Rui Xiao, Xiaonan Lv, Zhouqiao Ren, Zhaohan Lou, Zhonghao Zhang, George Christakos, Qingxiang Meng, Yansheng Li, Jiaping Wu and Qingmin Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xufeng Fei

34 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Source analysis and source-oriented risk assessment of heavy metal pollution in agricultural soils of different cultivated land qualities

2022 185 citations Xufeng Fei, Zhaohan Lou et al. profile →
Analyzing “economy-society-environment” sustainability from the perspective of urban spatial structure: A case study of the Yangtze River delta urban agglomeration

2023 99 citations Rui Xiao, Xufeng Fei et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →

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Xufeng Fei

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Jinkuo Lin China

Ninghui Pan China

Usha Natesan India

Jianshu Lv China

Luoping Zhang China

Minzhou Zhong China

Lijia Guo China

Tao Yu China

Mehdi Maanan Morocco

Jinkuo Lin China

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499 ×1.2

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403 ×1.0

441 ×1.2

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xufeng Fei

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xufeng Fei

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fei, Xufeng, et al.. (2025). Estimating the spatial distribution and exploring the factors influencing cultivated land quality through a hybrid random forest and Bayesian maximum entropy model. Environmental Research. 285(Pt 2). 122386–122386. 1 indexed citations

Xiang, Mingtao, Zhaohan Lou, Zhouqiao Ren, et al.. (2025). Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics and driving mechanisms of toxic metal pollution in soil using a hybrid machine learning-based model. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(3). 116644–116644. 1 indexed citations

Fei, Xufeng, et al.. (2024). Different “nongrain” activities affect the accumulation of heavy metals and their source-oriented health risks on cultivated lands. Environmental Research. 251(Pt 2). 118642–118642. 2 indexed citations

Fei, Xufeng, et al.. (2024). Source-oriented stochastic health risk assessment of toxic metals in soil via a hybrid model and Monte Carlo simulation. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 286. 117209–117209. 3 indexed citations

Chang, Xueli, et al.. (2024). Travel Characteristics of Urban Residents Based on Taxi Trajectories in China: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Wuhan. Sustainability. 16(7). 2694–2694.

Meng, Qingxiang, et al.. (2023). Scale optimization of urban agglomerations based on the connection strength between cities under the framework of sustainable development. Environment Development and Sustainability. 26(8). 20209–20232.

Fei, Xufeng, Zhaohan Lou, Xiaonan Lv, Zhouqiao Ren, & Rui Xiao. (2023). Pollution threshold assessment and risk area delineation of heavy metals in soils through the finite mixture distribution model and Bayesian maximum entropy theory. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 452. 131231–131231. 33 indexed citations

Fei, Xufeng, et al.. (2023). Processing toxic metal source proxies appropriately for better spatial heterogeneity source apportionment. The Science of The Total Environment. 898. 165516–165516. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Zixuan, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Spatial–Temporal Variation in Cultivated Land Quality and Influential Factors in the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River from 2017 to 2020. Land. 12(2). 322–322. 3 indexed citations

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Xiao, Rui, et al.. (2023). Analyzing “economy-society-environment” sustainability from the perspective of urban spatial structure: A case study of the Yangtze River delta urban agglomeration. Sustainable Cities and Society. 96. 104691–104691. 99 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Na, et al.. (2020). Identifying the sources and spatial patterns of potentially toxic trace elements (PTEs) in Shanghai suburb soils using global and local regression models. Environmental Pollution. 264. 114171–114171. 22 indexed citations

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Fei, Xufeng, George Christakos, Rui Xiao, et al.. (2019). Improved heavy metal mapping and pollution source apportionment in Shanghai City soils using auxiliary information. The Science of The Total Environment. 661. 168–177. 117 indexed citations

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Fei, Xufeng, Zhaohan Lou, George Christakos, et al.. (2018). The association between heavy metal soil pollution and stomach cancer: a case study in Hangzhou City, China. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 40(6). 2481–2490. 58 indexed citations

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Fei, Xufeng, Zhaohan Lou, George Christakos, et al.. (2017). Contribution of industrial density and socioeconomic status to the spatial distribution of thyroid cancer risk in Hangzhou, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 613-614. 679–686. 16 indexed citations

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Lou, Zhaohan, Xufeng Fei, George Christakos, Jianbo Yan, & Jiaping Wu. (2017). Improving Spatiotemporal Breast Cancer Assessment and Prediction in Hangzhou City, China. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 3188–3188. 4 indexed citations

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Fei, Xufeng, Zhaohan Lou, George Christakos, et al.. (2016). A Geographic Analysis about the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Breast Cancer in Hangzhou from 2008 to 2012. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147866–e0147866. 13 indexed citations

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Xiao, Rui, et al.. (2016). Soil Landscape Pattern Changes in Response to Rural Anthropogenic Activity across Tiaoxi Watershed, China. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0166224–e0166224. 10 indexed citations

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Fei, Xufeng, George Christakos, Zhaohan Lou, et al.. (2016). Spatiotemporal Co-existence of Female Thyroid and Breast Cancers in Hangzhou, China. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 28524–28524. 8 indexed citations

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Huang, Yijian, et al.. (2015). [Hierarchical regionalization for spatial epidemiology: a case study of thyroid cancer incidence in Yiwu, Zhejiang].. PubMed. 36(10). 1142–7.

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Fei, Xufeng, Jiaping Wu, Zhe Kong, & George Christakos. (2015). Urban-Rural Disparity of Breast Cancer and Socioeconomic Risk Factors in China. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117572–e0117572. 53 indexed citations

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