Yang Ju

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 860 citations indexed

About

Yang Ju is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Ju has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 860 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 12 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yang Ju's work include Urban Green Space and Health (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers). Yang Ju is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers). Yang Ju collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Brazil. Yang Ju's co-authors include Iryna Dronova, Chuan Ding, Bin Yu, Daniel A. Rodrı́guez, Xinyu Cao, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Nélson Gouveia, Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, Josiah L. Kephart and Ya Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Yang Ju

51 papers receiving 843 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.

City-level impact of extreme temperatures and mortality in Latin America

2022 116 citations Josiah L. Kephart, Brisa N. Sánchez et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Ju China	17	287	211	161	152	95	53	860
Guoqiang Shen China	18	286 1.0×	633 3.0×	202 1.3×	307 2.0×	234 2.5×	70	1.3k
Francisco Escobar Spain	17	217 0.8×	355 1.7×	233 1.4×	71 0.5×	114 1.2×	44	1.2k
Dohyung Kim United States	15	99 0.3×	336 1.6×	160 1.0×	182 1.2×	34 0.4×	48	961
Limin Wang China	19	354 1.2×	177 0.8×	43 0.3×	178 1.2×	38 0.4×	64	1.3k
Qu Cheng China	13	77 0.3×	127 0.6×	48 0.3×	66 0.4×	10 0.1×	37	694
Zheng Cao China	19	292 1.0×	256 1.2×	66 0.4×	216 1.4×	28 0.3×	50	805
Mohamed Hilal France	12	83 0.3×	260 1.2×	68 0.4×	86 0.6×	66 0.7×	43	721
Bin Meng China	16	231 0.8×	221 1.0×	215 1.3×	141 0.9×	56 0.6×	46	988
Chengsheng Jiang United States	21	520 1.8×	155 0.7×	132 0.8×	92 0.6×	15 0.2×	44	1.1k
Frank Osei Netherlands	16	126 0.4×	149 0.7×	20 0.1×	132 0.9×	13 0.1×	48	724

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Ju

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Ju

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Ju

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

All Works

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Du, Huilin, Wenfeng Zhan, Bing‐Bing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Exacerbated heat stress induced by urban browning in the Global South. Nature Cities. 2(2). 157–169. 11 indexed citations

Cushing, Lara, et al.. (2025). Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9711–9711.

Xu, Lei, Jinwei Dong, Quanmin Zhu, et al.. (2025). Integrated health surveillance and early warning systems in China under the One Health perspective: progress and challenges. PubMed. 4. 100132–100132.

Ju, Yang, et al.. (2025). 100-m resolution Age-Stratified Population Estimation from the 2020 China Census by Township (ASPECT). Scientific Data. 12(1). 1058–1058. 1 indexed citations

Bakhtsiyarava, Maryia, Mika Moran, Yang Ju, et al.. (2024). Potential drivers of urban green space availability in Latin American cities. Nature Cities. 1(12). 842–852. 14 indexed citations

Li, Xinyu, et al.. (2024). Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 (DPP4) Exacerbates Osteoarthritis Progression in an Enzyme‐Independent Manner. Advanced Science. 12(6). e2410525–e2410525. 3 indexed citations

Arunachalam, Saravanan, Brisa N. Sánchez, Leah H. Schinasi, et al.. (2024). Projected changes in heatwaves over Central and South America using high-resolution regional climate simulations. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 23145–23145. 9 indexed citations

Schinasi, Leah H., Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, Brisa N. Sánchez, et al.. (2023). Greenness and excess deaths from heat in 323 Latin American cities: Do associations vary according to climate zone or green space configuration?. Environment International. 180. 108230–108230. 13 indexed citations

Ju, Yang, et al.. (2023). Recent greening may curb urban warming in Latin American cities of better economic conditions. Landscape and Urban Planning. 240. 104896–104896. 12 indexed citations

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Bakhtsiyarava, Maryia, Leah H. Schinasi, Brisa N. Sánchez, et al.. (2022). Modification of temperature-related human mortality by area-level socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in Latin American cities. Social Science & Medicine. 317. 115526–115526. 17 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang, Mika Moran, Xize Wang, et al.. (2021). Latin American cities with higher socioeconomic status are greening from a lower baseline: evidence from the SALURBAL project. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104052–104052. 20 indexed citations

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Moran, Mika, Usama Bilal, Iryna Dronova, et al.. (2021). The equigenic effect of greenness on the association between education with life expectancy and mortality in 28 large Latin American cities. Health & Place. 72. 102703–102703. 28 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang, Maria Helena Franco Morais, Iryna Dronova, et al.. (2021). Disentangling associations between vegetation greenness and dengue in a Latin American city: Findings and challenges. Landscape and Urban Planning. 216. 104255–104255. 23 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang. (2016). Fast algorithm for building Delaunay triangulation based on grid division. Cehui kexue. 2 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang. (2015). Effects of Nitrogen Level and High Temperature Treatment on Yield,SPAD Value,and Soluble Sugar Content of Early Rice Ganxin 203. ACTA AGRICULTURAE UNIVERSITATIS JIANGXIENSIS. 1 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang. (2015). Mechanism Design and Stability Analysis on Unilateral Opening of Natural Gas Market. Huadong jingji guanli. 1 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang. (2015). Analysis of the Progress of Chinese Classic Garden Heritage Protection and Early Warning. Chengshi fazhan yanjiu. 1 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang. (2014). Affiliation of prior experience,marketization,and entrepreneurial speed. Guanli kexue xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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Ju, Yang, et al.. (2010). A New Method Based on Local Integral Bispectra and SVM for Radio Transmitter Individual Identification. 2. 65–68. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Tianping, et al.. (2005). Transmission of Schistosoma japonicum by humans and domestic animals in the Yangtze River valley, Anhui province, China. Acta Tropica. 96(2-3). 198–204. 82 indexed citations

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