Yangfen Chen

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 846 citations indexed

About

Yangfen Chen is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics and Econometrics and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Yangfen Chen has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 846 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 7 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Yangfen Chen's work include Rural development and sustainability (7 papers), Global Trade and Competitiveness (5 papers) and Global trade and economics (5 papers). Yangfen Chen is often cited by papers focused on Rural development and sustainability (7 papers), Global Trade and Competitiveness (5 papers) and Global trade and economics (5 papers). Yangfen Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Yangfen Chen's co-authors include Yansui Liu, Hualou Long, Yu Liu, Xiande Li, Guogang Wang, Yurui Li, Jieyong Wang, Shihai Wang, Yu Hong and Lijuan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Yangfen Chen

36 papers receiving 824 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

The process and driving forces of rural hollowing in China under rapid urbanization

2010 380 citations Yansui Liu, Yangfen Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yangfen Chen China	14	378	308	156	141	109	40	846
Kunqiu Chen China	12	377 1.0×	256 0.8×	207 1.3×	131 0.9×	155 1.4×	20	799
Yasi Tian China	15	469 1.2×	245 0.8×	80 0.5×	128 0.9×	81 0.7×	22	700
Liuwen Liao China	12	294 0.8×	172 0.6×	194 1.2×	82 0.6×	87 0.8×	17	653
Weifeng Qiao China	14	403 1.1×	232 0.8×	83 0.5×	105 0.7×	50 0.5×	31	627
Evy Mettepenningen Belgium	11	385 1.0×	422 1.4×	288 1.8×	61 0.4×	68 0.6×	24	1.0k
Kei Otsuki Netherlands	15	228 0.6×	180 0.6×	58 0.4×	143 1.0×	108 1.0×	49	794
Rong Tan China	21	423 1.1×	214 0.7×	201 1.3×	181 1.3×	307 2.8×	56	1.0k
Lulu Qu China	11	539 1.4×	209 0.7×	151 1.0×	82 0.6×	84 0.8×	27	809
Jipeng Zhang China	10	490 1.3×	99 0.3×	227 1.5×	66 0.5×	91 0.8×	25	908
Guanghui Jiang China	14	549 1.5×	350 1.1×	60 0.4×	158 1.1×	335 3.1×	42	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yangfen Chen

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Yangfen Chen's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Yangfen Chen with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yangfen Chen more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Yangfen Chen

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yangfen Chen. 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 Yangfen Chen. The network helps show where Yangfen Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yangfen Chen

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2025). The differential effect of tariffs and non-tariff changes on agricultural exports: evidence from China’s RTAs. China Agricultural Economic Review. 17(4). 679–696.

Lin, Q.G., et al.. (2025). Strengthening Food Security Within the Sustainable Development Goals Framework: A Study Based on Bibliometric Analysis and BERTopic Mining. Sustainable Development. 33(6). 8431–8448.

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2024). Can agricultural trade openness facilitate agricultural carbon reduction? Evidence from Chinese provincial data. Journal of Cleaner Production. 441. 140877–140877. 18 indexed citations

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2024). Who gains, who loses? – The impact of the belt and road initiative on bilateral agricultural trade. China Economic Review. 88. 102284–102284. 6 indexed citations

Zeng, Jinghui, Yangfen Chen, & Yingying Zheng. (2024). Designing the multimedia system for improving promotion of college students’ psychological capital. Heliyon. 10(3). e25362–e25362. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2024). Machinery Adoption and Its Effect on Maize Productivity among Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya: Evidence from the Chisel Harrow Tillage Practice. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 5(1). 1–18. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Shao-wen, et al.. (2024). Impact of RCEP implementation on agricultural sector in regional countries: a global value chain perspective. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 2 indexed citations

Khan, Humayun, et al.. (2024). Does the China–Pakistan free trade agreement benefit the vegetable exports of Pakistan? A gravity estimation. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 8. 8 indexed citations

Li, Xin, et al.. (2023). Optimization of Digital Information Management of Financial Services Based on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Financial Environment. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 35(3). 1–17. 5 indexed citations

10.

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2023). Global Patterns of Agricultural Investment and Food Security: Evidence from the fDi Markets Database. Foods. 12(9). 1827–1827. 5 indexed citations

11.

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the effectiveness of China’s agricultural modernization based on international comparison and influencing factors. 资源科学. 44(10). 1994–2005. 1 indexed citations

12.

Chen, Yangfen, Jieyong Wang, Fengrong Zhang, et al.. (2021). New patterns of globalization and food security. 自然资源学报. 36(6). 1362–1362. 32 indexed citations

13.

Chen, Yangfen & Jieyong Wang. (2021). China's food security situation and strategy under the background of opening-up. 自然资源学报. 36(6). 1616–1616. 3 indexed citations

14.

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2021). Global Food Security under COVID-19: Comparison and Enlightenment of Policy Responses in Different Countries. Foods. 10(11). 2850–2850. 22 indexed citations

15.

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2020). Evolution pattern of USA's overseas investment in agriculture and its influencing factors: Concurrent discussion on agricultural cooperation in the Belt and Road region. 自然资源学报. 35(3). 654–654. 1 indexed citations

16.

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

17.

Chen, Yangfen, et al.. (2018). Can China’s Agricultural FDI in Developing Countries Achieve a Win-Win Goal?—Enlightenment from the Literature. Sustainability. 11(1). 41–41. 26 indexed citations

18.

Chen, Yangfen. (2012). Comprehensive measure and partition of rural hollowing in China. Geographical Research. 31 indexed citations

19.

Chen, Yangfen. (2012). The Temporal and Spatial Change of Economic Development at County Level in Shandong Province. Economic Geography. 2 indexed citations

20.

Liu, Yansui, et al.. (2010). Construction and application of land use classification system on village scale: A case study of Paizi Village, Lun zhen, Yucheng City, Shandong Province. Geographical Research. 29(5). 883–890. 3 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact