Yanfang Liu

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Yanfang Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanfang Liu has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Ecology and 19 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Yanfang Liu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (52 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (17 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (16 papers). Yanfang Liu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (52 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (17 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (16 papers). Yanfang Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yanfang Liu's co-authors include Yaolin Liu, Yiyun Chen, Yi Liu, Guangxia Zhang, Lijun Xing, Yiheng Wang, Qingsong He, Xuesong Kong, Chaohui Yin and Yang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Yanfang Liu

110 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

On the spatial relationship between ecosystem services an... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200 250
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. On the spatial relationship between ecosystem services and urbanization: A case study in Wuhan, China
    2018 293 citations Yan Zhang, Yanfang Liu et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanfang Liu China 26 1.5k 606 533 464 429 121 2.9k
Zhonghao Zhang China 29 1.4k 1.0× 618 1.0× 336 0.6× 418 0.9× 359 0.8× 74 2.6k
Chen Zeng China 26 1.1k 0.8× 334 0.6× 451 0.8× 327 0.7× 380 0.9× 72 2.0k
E. Koomen Netherlands 29 2.1k 1.4× 461 0.8× 496 0.9× 378 0.8× 378 0.9× 116 3.1k
Jinpei Ou China 22 2.3k 1.5× 825 1.4× 681 1.3× 519 1.1× 844 2.0× 32 3.1k
Sérgio Freire Italy 31 1.6k 1.1× 284 0.5× 725 1.4× 275 0.6× 410 1.0× 90 2.7k
Hashem Dadashpoor Iran 23 1.3k 0.9× 383 0.6× 460 0.9× 255 0.5× 229 0.5× 72 2.1k
Taiyang Zhong China 31 1.4k 1.0× 695 1.1× 219 0.4× 326 0.7× 684 1.6× 84 3.3k
Steven Broekx Belgium 31 906 0.6× 532 0.9× 651 1.2× 267 0.6× 259 0.6× 62 2.6k
Carlo Lavalle Italy 28 2.2k 1.5× 443 0.7× 426 0.8× 323 0.7× 433 1.0× 132 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanfang Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanfang Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yanfang Liu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yanfang Liu. The network helps show where Yanfang Liu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanfang Liu

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

All Works

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Li, Zaixing, Qi Liu, Yanfang Liu, et al.. (2025). Synergistic nitrogen removal through sulfate reduction and sulfur autotrophic denitrification driven by sustained-release carbon source in sulfate-rich wastewater. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(5). 118171–118171.
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Liu, Yanfang, Yuan Chen, Dongbin Xiu, & Guannan Zhang. (2025). A Training-Free Conditional Diffusion Model for Learning Stochastic Dynamical Systems. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 47(5). C1144–C1171.
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Wang, Nannan, et al.. (2024). A multi-objective optimization framework for regional land-use allocation: Fully utilizing terrestrial vegetation to mitigate carbon emissions. Journal of Cleaner Production. 479. 144058–144058. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Dan, Zhaomin Tong, Yaolin Liu, et al.. (2024). A conceptual framework for constructing and evaluating directed ecological networks: Evidence from Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 106. 107464–107464. 17 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guangxia, et al.. (2023). Unraveling the supply-service relationship between high-speed railway and conventional railway: A temporal perspective. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Liye, et al.. (2022). Optimizing distribution of urban land on the basis of urban land use intensity at prefectural city scale in mainland China. Land Use Policy. 115. 106037–106037. 25 indexed citations
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Liang, Yue, Jieying Wang, Yanfang Liu, et al.. (2021). Unique genes carried by abundant species enhance CH4 emissions during the growing season at the Tibetan Plateau. Soil Ecology Letters. 6(2). 1 indexed citations
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Hong, Yongsheng, Songchao Chen, Yiyun Chen, et al.. (2020). Comparing laboratory and airborne hyperspectral data for the estimation and mapping of topsoil organic carbon: Feature selection coupled with random forest. Soil and Tillage Research. 199. 104589–104589. 97 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, Yanfang Liu, Yanfang Liu, et al.. (2020). Exploring Spatially Non-Stationary and Scale-Dependent Responses of Ecosystem Services to Urbanization in Wuhan, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(9). 2989–2989. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yang, Yanfang Liu, Yanfang Liu, et al.. (2019). Spatial Patterns and Driving Forces of Conflicts among the Three Land Management Red Lines in China: A Case Study of the Wuhan Urban Development Area. Sustainability. 11(7). 2025–2025. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lei, Gui Jin, Xiaojian Wei, et al.. (2019). Multiscale analysis of patch and landscape characteristics of forest fragmentation in Liaoning Province, China. Regional Environmental Change. 19(4). 1175–1186. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaolin, et al.. (2019). Job Accessibility from a Multiple Commuting Circles Perspective Using Baidu Location Data: A Case Study of Wuhan, China. Sustainability. 11(23). 6696–6696. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Yanfang, et al.. (2018). Accuracy of the Demirjian and Willems methods of dental age estimation for children from central southern China. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 133(2). 593–601. 25 indexed citations
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Liu, Yanfang, et al.. (2017). Scale effect on spatial patterns of ecosystem services and associations among them in semi-arid area: A case study in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 598. 297–306. 142 indexed citations
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Guo, Kai, et al.. (2016). Risk assessment of land ecology on a regional scale: Application of the relative risk model to the mining city of Daye, China. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal. 23(3). 550–574. 16 indexed citations
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Tan, Ronghui, et al.. (2014). Urban growth and its determinants across the Wuhan urban agglomeration, central China. Habitat International. 44. 268–281. 122 indexed citations

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