Yaning Chen

25.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
558 papers, 19.8k citations indexed

About

Yaning Chen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaning Chen has authored 558 papers receiving a total of 19.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 299 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 224 papers in Water Science and Technology and 219 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yaning Chen's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (162 papers), Climate variability and models (150 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (131 papers). Yaning Chen is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (162 papers), Climate variability and models (150 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (131 papers). Yaning Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Belgium. Yaning Chen's co-authors include Zhi Li, Gonghuan Fang, Weihong Li, Haijun Deng, Baofu Li, Changchun Xu, Weihong Li, Huaijun Wang, Weili Duan and Yapeng Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Yaning Chen

539 papers receiving 19.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Comparing bias correction methods in downscaling meteorological variables for a hydrologic impact study in an arid area in China

2015 406 citations Gonghuan Fang, Yaning Chen et al. profile →
Influences of recent climate change and human activities on water storage variations in Central Asia

2016 239 citations Yaning Chen et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →
Have GRACE satellites overestimated groundwater depletion in the Northwest India Aquifer?

2016 231 citations Yaning Chen et al. profile →
Recent climate and hydrological changes in a mountain–basin system in Xinjiang, China

2022 208 citations Yaning Chen et al. profile →
Disentangling the effects of vapor pressure deficit on northern terrestrial vegetation productivity

2023 143 citations Ziqian Zhong, Bin He et al. profile →
Global energy use and carbon emissions from irrigated agriculture

2024 93 citations Weili Duan, Yaning 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
Yaning Chen China	73	11.3k	6.9k	6.9k	2.9k	2.8k	558	19.8k
Albert I. J. M. van Dijk Australia	66	11.3k 1.0×	6.1k 0.9×	6.6k 1.0×	3.3k 1.1×	4.8k 1.8×	224	18.0k
Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno Spain	66	17.5k 1.5×	8.9k 1.3×	7.1k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	296	23.5k
Amir AghaKouchak United States	83	18.1k 1.6×	9.0k 1.3×	6.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	2.9k 1.0×	295	24.6k
Tim R. McVicar Australia	69	15.7k 1.4×	5.9k 0.9×	7.9k 1.1×	4.9k 1.7×	4.9k 1.8×	228	23.5k
Justin Sheffield United States	77	20.0k 1.8×	8.5k 1.2×	9.6k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	4.3k 1.6×	225	27.4k
Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano Spain	82	25.1k 2.2×	9.6k 1.4×	7.1k 1.0×	3.5k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	334	30.5k
Hylke E. Beck United States	44	9.4k 0.8×	5.2k 0.7×	5.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	106	15.4k
Allison M. Thomson United States	38	13.0k 1.1×	6.2k 0.9×	3.0k 0.4×	3.2k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	79	22.3k
José A. Marengo Brazil	66	11.5k 1.0×	6.6k 1.0×	3.6k 0.5×	3.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	207	17.4k
Diego G. Miralles Belgium	63	14.7k 1.3×	7.8k 1.1×	6.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	4.3k 1.6×	165	19.5k

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Chen, Yaning, Weili Duan, Chuan Wang, et al.. (2025). Temporal and spatial changes of extreme precipitation and its related large-scale climate mechanisms in the arid region of Northwest China during 1961–2022. Journal of Hydrology. 658. 133182–133182. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Jiayou, et al.. (2025). Hybrid causal inference framework for long-chain drought propagation networks: Combining convergent cross-mapping and generalized random forest. Ecological Indicators. 178. 113939–113939.

Li, Zhi, Yaning Chen, Lei Gao, et al.. (2024). Future soil moisture will slowdown the advancement of ecosystem productivity in the Northern Hemisphere. Science Bulletin. 70(3). 347–350. 3 indexed citations

Xia, Zhenhua, Yaning Chen, Xueqi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Precipitation Changes on the Northern Slope of the Kunlun Mountains in the Past 42 Years. Water. 16(9). 1203–1203. 1 indexed citations

He, Bin, Lanlan Guo, Xing Yan, et al.. (2024). Global Forest Plantations Mapping and Biomass Carbon Estimation. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 11 indexed citations

Yang, Peng, Jun Xia, Heqing Huang, et al.. (2024). Drought propagation and its driving forces in central Asia under climate change. Journal of Hydrology. 636. 131260–131260. 19 indexed citations

Li, Yupeng, Yaning Chen, Gonghuan Fang, et al.. (2024). The dominant warming season shifted from winter to spring in the arid region of Northwest China. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 5 indexed citations

Chen, Yaning, et al.. (2023). The role of global installed wind energy in mitigating CO2 emission and temperature rising. Journal of Cleaner Production. 423. 138778–138778. 45 indexed citations

Zhang, Xueqi, Yaning Chen, Gonghuan Fang, et al.. (2023). Increasing multiscale variability in extreme precipitation under global warming in the Tienshan Mountains, Central Asia. Journal of Hydrology. 626. 130158–130158. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Xigang, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the Consistency of Vegetation Phenological Parameters in the Northern Hemisphere from 1982 to 2015. Remote Sensing. 15(10). 2559–2559. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Yaning, Dongsheng Liu, Xinyi Ding, & Hongwei Jiang. (2023). Variational encoding based on factorized temporal-channel fusion and feature fusion for interpretable remaining useful life prediction. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 59. 102316–102316. 18 indexed citations

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Zheng, Lilin, et al.. (2022). Increasing Streamflow in Poor Vegetated Mountain Basins Induced by Greening of Underlying Surface. Remote Sensing. 14(13). 3223–3223. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Jianhua, et al.. (2022). Temperature Contributes More than Precipitation to Runoff in the High Mountains of Northwest China. Remote Sensing. 14(16). 4015–4015. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, Peng, Shengqing Zhang, Jun Xia, et al.. (2022). Risk assessment of water resource shortages in the Aksu River basin of northwest China under climate change. Journal of Environmental Management. 305. 114394–114394. 31 indexed citations

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Zhou, Honghua, Yaning Chen, Chenggang Zhu, et al.. (2021). Warming Increases the Carbon Sequestration Capacity of Picea schrenkiana in the Tianshan Mountains, China. Forests. 12(8). 1066–1066. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Baofu, et al.. (2019). Quantitative assessment of the ecological effects of land use/cover change in the arid region of Northwest China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 191(11). 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Yaning, et al.. (2009). Photosynthesis of Populus euphratica and its response to elevated CO2 concentration in an arid environment. Progress in Natural Science Materials International. 19(4). 443–451. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Yaning, Yapeng Chen, Changchun Xu, et al.. (2009). Effects of ecological water conveyance on groundwater dynamics and riparian vegetation in the lower reaches of Tarim River, China. Hydrological Processes. 24(2). 170–177. 126 indexed citations

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Chen, Yaning, et al.. (2006). Characterization of photosynthesis of Populus euphratica grown in the arid region. Photosynthetica. 44(4). 622–626. 42 indexed citations

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Chen, Yaning, et al.. (2004). Physiological response of natural plants to the change of groundwater level in the lower reaches of Tarim River, Xinjiang*. Progress in Natural Science Materials International. 14(11). 975–983. 36 indexed citations

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