Yan Zhu

28.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
651 papers, 16.2k citations indexed

About

Yan Zhu is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Zhu has authored 651 papers receiving a total of 16.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 296 papers in Plant Science, 250 papers in Ecology and 134 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yan Zhu's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (232 papers), Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement (120 papers) and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (71 papers). Yan Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (232 papers), Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement (120 papers) and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (71 papers). Yan Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yan Zhu's co-authors include Weixing Cao, Yongchao Tian, Xia Yao, Tao Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, Hengbiao Zheng, Qiang Cao, Liang Tang, Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim and Jinzhong Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yan Zhu

618 papers receiving 15.9k 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.

Developing a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based model for predicting water table depth in agricultural areas

2018 583 citations Yan Zhu, Jinzhong Yang et al. profile →
Predicting grain yield in rice using multi-temporal vegetation indices from UAV-based multispectral and digital imagery

2017 498 citations Xia Yao, Tao Cheng et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
A Wheat Spike Detection Method in UAV Images Based on Improved YOLOv5

2021 167 citations Xia Yao, Yongchao Tian et al. profile →
Spatiotemporal co-optimization of agricultural management practices towards climate-smart crop production

2024 61 citations Liujun Xiao, Shengli Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Zhu China	62	8.9k	8.2k	4.4k	3.0k	2.2k	651	16.2k
Weixing Cao China	77	14.7k 1.6×	8.0k 1.0×	3.3k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	710	20.6k
Guijun Yang China	58	6.2k 0.7×	7.9k 1.0×	4.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	442	12.1k
Craig S. T. Daughtry United States	58	4.8k 0.5×	9.0k 1.1×	5.3k 1.2×	4.7k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	232	13.0k
Kaiyu Guan United States	56	3.0k 0.3×	4.2k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	5.2k 1.7×	477 0.2×	184	10.2k
Pablo J. Zarco‐Tejada Spain	72	9.9k 1.1×	15.3k 1.9×	6.9k 1.6×	7.7k 2.6×	2.4k 1.1×	208	20.7k
J. L. Araus Spain	75	15.0k 1.7×	4.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.3×	3.3k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	362	19.4k
Jerry L. Hatfield United States	68	8.7k 1.0×	5.2k 0.6×	3.3k 0.8×	6.8k 2.3×	387 0.2×	365	21.4k
Mark N. Merzlyak Russia	40	7.5k 0.8×	10.1k 1.2×	3.8k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	77	14.8k
Anatoly A. Gitelson United States	90	14.4k 1.6×	24.4k 3.0×	9.6k 2.2×	10.8k 3.6×	4.4k 2.0×	203	35.2k
Frédéric Baret France	75	11.1k 1.2×	21.9k 2.7×	12.6k 2.9×	11.5k 3.8×	2.2k 1.0×	262	27.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Zhu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Ke, Qi Xie, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao, & Jun Ni. (2025). Effective Multi-Species weed detection in complex wheat fields using Multi-Modal and Multi-View image fusion. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 230. 109924–109924. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Dong, Bin Ding, Peng Xia, et al.. (2025). Design and implementation of a high-throughput field phenotyping robot for acquiring multisensor data in wheat. Plant Phenomics. 7(2). 100014–100014. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Haoran, Weiguo Yu, Hengbiao Zheng, et al.. (2025). SIDEST: A sample-free framework for crop field boundary delineation by integrating super-resolution image reconstruction and dual edge-corrected Segment Anything model. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 230. 109897–109897. 7 indexed citations

Li, Dong, Yapeng Wu, Katja Berger, et al.. (2024). Estimating canopy nitrogen content by coupling PROSAIL-PRO with a nitrogen allocation model. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 135. 104280–104280. 5 indexed citations

Zhu, Yan, et al.. (2024). Evaluation and application of a multi-scale numerical model for determining subsurface drainage system design criteria in arid agriculture areas. CATENA. 248. 108568–108568. 1 indexed citations

Cammarano, Davide, Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim, Xiaojun Liu, et al.. (2024). Investigating data-driven approaches to optimize nitrogen recommendations for winter wheat. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 220. 108857–108857. 5 indexed citations

Xiao, Liujun, Xia Yao, Tao Cheng, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal change of winter wheat yield and its quantitative responses to compound frost-dry events – An example of the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China from 2001 to 2020. The Science of The Total Environment. 940. 173531–173531. 13 indexed citations

Zhao, Ben, Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim, G. Lemaire, et al.. (2024). Can the allometric relationship between saturated water accumulation and dry mass be used to diagnose the water status of winter wheat?. Field Crops Research. 315. 109474–109474. 2 indexed citations

Li, Shuang, et al.. (2024). A 3D SPH framework for simulating landslide dam breaches by coupling erosion and side slope failure. Computers and Geotechnics. 175. 106699–106699. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qi, et al.. (2024). Coupling coordination evaluation of ecology and economy and development optimization at town-scale. Journal of Cleaner Production. 447. 141581–141581. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Yapeng, Weiguo Yu, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Accurate estimation of grain number per panicle in winter wheat by synergistic use of UAV imagery and meteorological data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104320–104320. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Shouyang Liu, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2023). RSARE: A physically-based vegetation index for estimating wheat green LAI to mitigate the impact of leaf chlorophyll content and residue-soil background. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 200. 138–152. 31 indexed citations

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He, Hang, Fen Wang, Yan Zhu, et al.. (2023). Effect of yeast peptide dietary supplementation on nutrient digestibility, growth performance, and blood metabolites in geese. South African Journal of Animal Science. 52(5). 667–673. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Shengli, et al.. (2023). Grassland vegetation decline is exacerbated by drought and can be mitigated by soil improvement in Inner Mongolia, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168464–168464. 12 indexed citations

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Ni, Xiaolin, et al.. (2023). Modifiable pathways for longevity: A Mendelian randomization analysis. Clinical Nutrition. 42(6). 1041–1047. 6 indexed citations

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Yu, Weiguo, Dong Li, Hengbiao Zheng, et al.. (2023). Improved prediction of rice yield at field and county levels by synergistic use of SAR, optical and meteorological data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 342. 109729–109729. 24 indexed citations

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He, Ping, Hengbiao Zheng, Xia Yao, et al.. (2023). Estimating wheat grain yield by assimilating phenology and LAI with the WheatGrow model based on theoretical uncertainty of remotely sensed observation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 339. 109574–109574. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Peng, Yongqing Wang, Hengbiao Zheng, et al.. (2023). Comparison of two novel methods for counting wheat ears in the field with terrestrial LiDAR. Plant Methods. 19(1). 134–134. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Yuhao, Yan Zhu, Yuanyuan Zhu, et al.. (2019). Abnormalities in FGF family members and their roles in modulating depression‐related molecules. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(1). 140–150. 11 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yan, Yuanyuan Zha, Juxiu Tong, & Jinzhong Yang. (2011). Method of coupling 1-D unsaturated flow with 3-D saturated flow on large scale. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14 indexed citations

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