Yanbo Qu

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Yanbo Qu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanbo Qu has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 17 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Yanbo Qu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (45 papers), Rural development and sustainability (29 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (17 papers). Yanbo Qu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (45 papers), Rural development and sustainability (29 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (17 papers). Yanbo Qu collaborates with scholars based in China, Austria and Japan. Yanbo Qu's co-authors include Guanghui Jiang, Wenqiu Ma, Guanghui Jiang, Lingyun Zhan, Dingyang Zhou, Yaya Tian, Tao Zhou, Ruijuan Zhang, Qingqing Zhang and Qinglei Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management and Desalination.

In The Last Decade

Yanbo Qu

59 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spatial path to achieve urban-rural integration development − analytical framework for coupling the linkage and coordination of urban-rural system functions

2023 52 citations Lingyun Zhan, Shaojun Wang et al. Habitat International profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanbo Qu China	23	1.3k	639	336	295	214	65	1.8k
Wenqiu Ma China	22	1.2k 0.9×	655 1.0×	357 1.1×	206 0.7×	176 0.8×	47	1.7k
Xuesong Kong China	24	1.4k 1.1×	433 0.7×	296 0.9×	320 1.1×	212 1.0×	65	2.0k
Ren Yang China	21	1.2k 0.9×	525 0.8×	273 0.8×	477 1.6×	140 0.7×	51	2.1k
Guanghui Jiang China	27	1.7k 1.4×	660 1.0×	388 1.2×	471 1.6×	253 1.2×	69	2.4k
Chao Ye China	18	820 0.7×	300 0.5×	284 0.8×	544 1.8×	115 0.5×	46	1.9k
Jinlong Gao China	22	743 0.6×	249 0.4×	300 0.9×	431 1.5×	96 0.4×	49	1.4k
Dingyang Zhou China	22	973 0.8×	215 0.3×	122 0.4×	316 1.1×	175 0.8×	42	1.4k
Margherita Carlucci Italy	23	1.3k 1.0×	171 0.3×	472 1.4×	683 2.3×	290 1.4×	64	2.1k
Shasha Lu China	18	881 0.7×	162 0.3×	171 0.5×	444 1.5×	135 0.6×	34	1.6k
Xiaoping Shi China	24	588 0.5×	580 0.9×	101 0.3×	300 1.0×	272 1.3×	77	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanbo Qu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yanbo Qu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yanbo Qu 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 Yanbo Qu. Yanbo Qu 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

Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2025). Unlocking rural resources for revitalization: Examining the process and impact of compensated use of rural residential land through a social-ecological system framework. Habitat International. 166. 103581–103581. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Guanghui, et al.. (2025). Connect and grow: Spatial correlation network and risk regulation pattern of rural settlement health. Land Use Policy. 162. 107906–107906.

Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2024). Interactive transition of cultivated land and construction land during china's urbanization: A coordinated analytical framework of explicit and implicit forms. Land Use Policy. 138. 107049–107049. 30 indexed citations

Han, Lu, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Differentiation of Land Ecological Security and Optimization Based on GeoSOS-FLUS Model: A Case Study of the Yellow River Delta in China Toward Sustainability. Land. 13(11). 1870–1870. 3 indexed citations

Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2024). A study on regional differences and convergence of nursing human resource levels in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: an empirical study. BMC Nursing. 23(1). 781–781.

Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2024). Cultural Ecosystem Services in Land Use/Land Cover Change: A Literature Review and Prospects for Future Research. Land. 13(12). 2027–2027. 2 indexed citations

Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2024). Digital Twin Technology of Human–Machine Integration in Cross-Belt Sorting System. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 37(1). 7 indexed citations

Ma, Wenqiu, Guanghui Jiang, Tao Zhou, & Yanbo Qu. (2023). Do decaying rural communities have an incentive to maintain large-scale farming? A comparative analysis of farming systems for peri-urban agriculture in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 397. 136590–136590. 12 indexed citations

Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2023). Does the rural housing land system reform model meeting the needs of farmers improve the welfare of farmers?. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 90. 101757–101757. 7 indexed citations

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Qu, Yanbo, Meijing Wu, Lingyun Zhan, & Ran Shang. (2023). Multifunctional Evolution and Allocation Optimization of Rural Residential Land in China. Land. 12(2). 339–339. 5 indexed citations

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Zhan, Lingyun, et al.. (2023). Spatial path to achieve urban-rural integration development − analytical framework for coupling the linkage and coordination of urban-rural system functions. Habitat International. 142. 102953–102953. 52 indexed citations breakdown →

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Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2022). Research on Hollow Village Governance Based on Action Network: Mode, Mechanism and Countermeasures—Comparison of Different Patterns in Plain Agricultural Areas of China. Land. 11(6). 792–792. 13 indexed citations

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Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2022). Research on multi-dimensional decomposition and conduction path of territory spatial pattern at the municipal level. 自然资源学报. 37(11). 2803–2803. 5 indexed citations

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Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2021). Spatial pattern and coordination optimization mode of multifunction of rural settlements. 自然资源学报. 36(3). 659–659. 9 indexed citations

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Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2021). Archetype analysis of rural homestead withdrawal patterns based on the framework of “diagnosis-design-outcome”. 资源科学. 43(7). 1293–1306. 3 indexed citations

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Qu, Yanbo, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal characteristics and formation mechanism of rural residential land transition from the perspective of human-land relationship. 资源科学. 42(4). 672–684. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Ren, Qi Wen, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2019). Discussions and thoughts of the path to China's rural revitalization in the new era: Notes of the young rural geography scholars. 自然资源学报. 34(4). 890–890. 21 indexed citations

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Jiang, Guanghui, et al.. (2015). Approach of land use zone for capital farmland protection based on spatial agglomeration pattern and boundaries modification. Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao. 31(23). 229. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Liming, et al.. (2014). Planning methodology of agricultural landscape and its application in ecological conservation development area.. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 30(18). 286–293. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Guanghui, et al.. (2013). Zoning approach of suitable areas for high quality capital farmland construction. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 2013(10). 8 indexed citations

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