Yan Bai

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yan Bai is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Bai has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Oceanography, 21 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yan Bai's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (22 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (10 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (7 papers). Yan Bai is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (22 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (10 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (7 papers). Yan Bai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yan Bai's co-authors include William A. Masters, Derek Headey, Kalle Hirvonen, Xianqiang He, Steven Block, Jun Sun, Minhan Dai, Lin Wang, Shengli Guo and Yuanyuan Feng and has published in prestigious journals such as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Water Research and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yan Bai

64 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: a global ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: a global analysis
    2019 443 citations Yan Bai, William A. Masters et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yan Bai China 15 539 316 312 227 198 74 1.3k
E.J. Bakker Netherlands 16 141 0.3× 109 0.3× 71 0.2× 95 0.4× 116 0.6× 26 1.1k
Fang Zhang China 18 335 0.6× 189 0.6× 54 0.2× 14 0.1× 15 0.1× 72 1.2k
Brendan Power Australia 11 223 0.4× 49 0.2× 26 0.1× 50 0.2× 63 0.3× 29 909
Michael Gilbertson United States 22 339 0.6× 48 0.2× 52 0.2× 51 0.2× 29 0.1× 60 1.8k
Claire A. Miller United Kingdom 13 198 0.4× 235 0.7× 128 0.4× 27 0.1× 7 0.0× 52 800
Frank Davenport United States 17 145 0.3× 33 0.1× 20 0.1× 190 0.8× 20 0.1× 36 1.0k
Caroline Ochieng Sweden 17 340 0.6× 171 0.5× 14 0.0× 96 0.4× 15 0.1× 32 1.0k
Mark Gold United States 17 116 0.2× 49 0.2× 59 0.2× 179 0.8× 28 0.1× 43 1.6k
Cascade Tuholske United States 14 94 0.2× 26 0.1× 35 0.1× 48 0.2× 40 0.2× 30 575
Marcelo de Oliveira Lima Brazil 22 180 0.3× 48 0.2× 42 0.1× 93 0.4× 17 0.1× 76 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Bai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Bai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Bai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Bai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Bai 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 Yan Bai. Yan Bai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Bai, Yan, et al.. (2025). Environmental impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide. Nature Food. 6(12). 1176–1185.
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He, Pan, et al.. (2025). Rising temperatures increase added sugar intake disproportionately in disadvantaged groups in the USA. Nature Climate Change. 15(9). 963–970.
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Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2025). The Healthy Diet Basket is a valid global standard that highlights lack of access to healthy and sustainable diets. Nature Food. 6(6). 622–631. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Tao, Yan Bai, Mingyu Ma, et al.. (2024). Transcriptome analysis reveals the rapid defense responses in a disease-resistant brown seaweed against a bacterial pathogen. Aquaculture. 590. 741024–741024. 1 indexed citations
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He, Pan, Zhu Liu, Giovanni Baiocchi, et al.. (2024). Health–environment efficiency of diets shows nonlinear trends over 1990–2011. Nature Food. 5(2). 116–124. 17 indexed citations
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Bai, Yan & William A. Masters. (2024). Complex dynamics between food prices, income and dietary quality in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Food. 5(3). 196–197. 1 indexed citations
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Tian, Lei, Baoqing Zhang, Guosheng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the impact of large-scale afforestation on the atmospheric water cycle during rainy season over the Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 619. 129326–129326. 21 indexed citations
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Liu, Guolong, Jinjie Liu, Yan Bai, et al.. (2023). EWELD: A Large-Scale Industrial and Commercial Load Dataset in Extreme Weather Events. Scientific Data. 10(1). 615–615. 8 indexed citations
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Bai, Yan, Mengmeng Li, Ye Chen‐Izu, et al.. (2023). Polyphyllins in cancer therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies. Phytomedicine. 121. 155096–155096. 2 indexed citations
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Bai, Yan, et al.. (2022). Retail prices of nutritious food rose more in countries with higher COVID-19 case counts. Nature Food. 3(5). 325–330. 33 indexed citations
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He, Xianqiang, Xuan Zhang, Jia Liu, et al.. (2022). Experimental Study on Bottom-Up Detection of Underwater Targets Based on Polarization Imaging. Sensors. 22(8). 2827–2827. 8 indexed citations
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He, Xianqiang, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of Remote-Sensing Reflectance Products from Multiple Ocean Color Missions in Highly Turbid Water (Hangzhou Bay). Remote Sensing. 13(21). 4267–4267. 11 indexed citations
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Bai, Yan, Elena N. Naumova, & William A. Masters. (2020). Seasonality of diet costs reveals food system performance in East Africa. Science Advances. 6(49). 43 indexed citations
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Bai, Yan, et al.. (2017). Advances and prospects of high-yielding and simplified cotton cultivation technology in Xinjiang cotton-growing area.. Zhongguo nongye Kexue. 50(1). 38–50. 17 indexed citations
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Bai, Yan. (2004). Study on the Dew Condensation in the Marsh Ecosystem in Sanjiang Plain. Shidi kexue. 4 indexed citations
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Bai, Yan. (2000). Evolutional Trend of Water Resource in Liaohe River Catchment. Bulletin of Soil and Water Conservation. 1 indexed citations

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