Yangfan Li

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
161 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Yangfan Li is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Yangfan Li has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Yangfan Li's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (17 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (17 papers). Yangfan Li is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (17 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (17 papers). Yangfan Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yangfan Li's co-authors include Xiaodong Zhu, Yi Li, Yan Zhou, Xiang Sun, Hua Sheng, Jincai Zhao, Shijie Xie, Chuncheng Chen, Chaoyuan Deng and Wei Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yangfan Li

149 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Investigation of a coupling model of coordination between urbanization and the environment

2012 684 citations Yangfan Li, Yi Li et al. profile →
Photocatalytic C–C Coupling from Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Copper Oxide with Mixed-Valence Copper(I)/Copper(II)

2021 408 citations Shijie Xie, Yangfan Li et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yangfan Li China	38	1.5k	759	713	672	477	161	4.9k
Fu Chen China	56	1.4k 0.9×	877 1.2×	1.6k 2.2×	888 1.3×	577 1.2×	566	12.6k
Yunkai Li China	39	958 0.6×	442 0.6×	436 0.6×	410 0.6×	302 0.6×	288	5.6k
Lixiao Zhang China	47	787 0.5×	796 1.0×	396 0.6×	547 0.8×	504 1.1×	236	8.1k
Liangjie Wang China	39	1.4k 0.9×	449 0.6×	403 0.6×	946 1.4×	227 0.5×	146	4.5k
Yujie Liu China	41	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.9×	771 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	279 0.6×	285	6.8k
Ram Avtar Japan	43	2.3k 1.5×	522 0.7×	773 1.1×	472 0.7×	356 0.7×	248	7.2k
Lei Chen China	44	1.1k 0.7×	271 0.4×	609 0.9×	282 0.4×	856 1.8×	374	7.4k
Xin Zhang China	42	1.0k 0.7×	269 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	208 0.3×	197 0.4×	225	6.8k
Dan Hu China	42	862 0.6×	826 1.1×	284 0.4×	215 0.3×	356 0.7×	263	6.4k
David Reay United Kingdom	48	1.7k 1.2×	601 0.8×	2.6k 3.7×	445 0.7×	212 0.4×	161	10.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yangfan Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yangfan Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yangfan Li

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

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Chen, Weiwei, Yanyang Qin, C. L. Heng, et al.. (2025). Degradation of FeNC Electrocatalysts for Acidic and Alkaline Oxygen Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(39). 35730–35741. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yang, Meiying Wu, Haoqiang Wan, et al.. (2025). Enhancing GSDME-induced pyroptosis through low-dose doxorubicin/biflavonoid derivative co-loaded nanodisc in hepatocellular carcinoma. Drug Delivery. 32(1). 2587034–2587034.

Li, Zheng, et al.. (2024). Diverse restored mangrove stands enhance carbon storage compared to monospecific plantation: A meta-analysis. Forest Ecology and Management. 578. 122446–122446. 2 indexed citations

Li, Jifang, Hongxia Guo, Hongjia Song, et al.. (2024). Total ionizing dose effect on graphene field effect transistors. Journal of the Korean Physical Society. 84(12). 934–940.

Yang, Chun, Yangfan Li, Qiang Hu, et al.. (2024). Redevelopment of limonoid as potential pesticidal resource from non-edible wastes of the citrus industry: Combinatorial synthesis and insecticidal evaluation of limonin-derived oxime ethers with scaffold diversity. Industrial Crops and Products. 220. 119215–119215. 3 indexed citations

Li, Yangfan, et al.. (2024). Mixed CO adsorption modes induced by lattice strain to facilitate C-C coupling during electrochemical CO reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 361. 124627–124627. 3 indexed citations

Li, Yangfan, Fei Li, Gregory E. Webb, & Jitao Chen. (2024). Intense intrusion of low-oxygen waters into mid-Cambrian surface ocean carbonate factories. Chemical Geology. 669. 122360–122360. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yangfan, Shijie Xie, Qi Zhao, et al.. (2024). The Tandem Nitrate and CO₂ Reduction for Urea Electrosynthesis: Role of Surface N‐Intermediates in CO₂ Capture and Activation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(24). e202403980–e202403980. 65 indexed citations

Wang, Chao, et al.. (2023). Molecular dynamics study of graphene-coated reinforced tribomechanical properties: Hard versus soft substrates. Computational Materials Science. 226. 112209–112209. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Zhen Zhang, Nan Xu, & Yangfan Li. (2023). Fully automatic training sample collection for detecting multi-decadal inland/seaward urban sprawl. Remote Sensing of Environment. 298. 113801–113801. 14 indexed citations

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Liu, Junping, et al.. (2023). Optimization and numerical simulation of the internal flow field of water–pesticide integrated microsprinklers. Irrigation and Drainage. 72(2). 328–342. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Haozhe, Xiurong Hu, Jie Li, et al.. (2023). Complementing carbon tax with renewable energy investment to decarbonize the energy system in China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 189. 113997–113997. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhen, et al.. (2023). Monitoring of 35-Year Mangrove Wetland Change Dynamics and Agents in the Sundarbans Using Temporal Consistency Checking. Remote Sensing. 15(3). 625–625. 16 indexed citations

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Winther, Jan‐Gunnar, Minhan Dai, Alf Håkon Hoel, et al.. (2020). Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(11). 1451–1458. 126 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhengao, Peng Yu, Jiajia Zhou, et al.. (2020). Ultrafast and On-Demand Oil/Water Separation Membrane System Based on Conducting Polymer Nanotip Arrays. Nano Letters. 20(7). 4895–4900. 45 indexed citations

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Li, Yi, et al.. (2018). Realizing a new resilience paradigm on the basis of land-water-biodiversity nexus in a coastal city. Ocean & Coastal Management. 207. 104603–104603. 23 indexed citations

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Tsumori, Fujio, Simon A. Hunt, Toshiko Osada, et al.. (2016). Thin Films and Coatings. Journal of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy. 63(6). 372–373. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yangfan. (2010). Preliminary Study on the Comprehensive Evaluation of Green Landscape of New Countryside in Southern Jiangsu Province. Beijing Daxue xuebao. Ziran kexue ban.

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Wei, Ting, et al.. (2008). [Application of catastrophe progression method in assessing urban ecological security of Xiamen City, China].. PubMed. 19(7). 1522–8. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Yangfan, et al.. (2005). [Analysis on literature about syndrome differentiation and treatment of meridians in clinical acupuncture and moxibustion in recent 3 years].. PubMed. 25(1). 41–2. 1 indexed citations

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