Yanjun Shen

10.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
201 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Yanjun Shen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanjun Shen has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 88 papers in Water Science and Technology and 35 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yanjun Shen's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (62 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (54 papers) and Climate variability and models (32 papers). Yanjun Shen is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (62 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (54 papers) and Climate variability and models (32 papers). Yanjun Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Yanjun Shen's co-authors include Yaning Chen, Changming Liu, Hongyong Sun, Yongqiang Zhang, Yucui Zhang, Ying Guo, Taikan Oki, Hongwei Pei, Shinjiro Kanae and Naota Hanasaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yanjun Shen

189 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Evaluating urban expansion and land use change in Shijiazhuang, China, by using GIS and remote sensing

2005 577 citations Yanjun Shen, Jingfeng Ge et al. profile →
Drought and flood monitoring for a large karst plateau in Southwest China using extended GRACE data

2014 375 citations Di Long, Yanjun Shen et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health

2024 196 citations Yanjun Shen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanjun Shen China	48	3.8k	2.8k	1.7k	1.4k	1.3k	201	8.0k
Guoyong Leng China	50	6.6k 1.7×	3.7k 1.3×	744 0.4×	837 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	189	9.0k
Qi Feng China	51	4.2k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	684 0.5×	2.5k 1.9×	406	9.7k
Fanghua Hao China	55	4.7k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	674 0.5×	968 0.7×	190	8.8k
Sibyll Schaphoff Germany	39	3.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	782 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	764 0.6×	80	6.9k
Prasanna H. Gowda United States	42	3.8k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	296	7.0k
Changming Liu China	59	8.1k 2.1×	6.8k 2.4×	2.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	2.7k 2.0×	320	13.6k
Lutz Breuer Germany	49	3.2k 0.8×	3.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	461 0.3×	1.8k 1.4×	255	7.7k
Mukand S. Babel Thailand	50	3.6k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	799 0.5×	488 0.3×	1.6k 1.2×	205	6.8k
Quanfa Zhang China	56	2.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	947 0.7×	928 0.7×	269	9.6k
Bingfang Wu China	49	7.7k 2.0×	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	2.3k 1.7×	376	12.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanjun Shen

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Xu, Yi, Thomas Guillaume, Luca Bragazza, et al.. (2025). Long-term diversified cropping promotes wheat yield and sustainability across contrasting climates: Evidence from China and Switzerland. Field Crops Research. 322. 109764–109764. 3 indexed citations

Li, Yulong, et al.. (2025). Spatial-temporal evolution and driving factors of water-energy-food-ecology coordinated development in the Tarim River Basin. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 58. 102288–102288. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Yi, Rong Jia, Xinjie Chen, et al.. (2024). Optimizing nitrogen fertilization and irrigation strategies to balance agroecosystem services in the wheat-maize double cropping system: A 21-year field study. Field Crops Research. 322. 109706–109706. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Heping, et al.. (2024). Variation of nitrate sources affected by precipitation with different intensities in groundwater in the piedmont plain area of alluvial-pluvial fan. Journal of Environmental Management. 367. 121885–121885. 8 indexed citations

Bian, Jiang, Xiaolong Hu, Liangsheng Shi, et al.. (2024). Evapotranspiration partitioning by integrating eddy covariance, micro-lysimeter and unmanned aerial vehicle observations: A case study in the North China Plain. Agricultural Water Management. 295. 108735–108735. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Shiqin, Matthias Sprenger, Shoucai Wei, et al.. (2023). Seasonal recharge mechanism of the upper shallow groundwater in a long-term wastewater leakage and irrigation region of an alluvial aquifer. Journal of Hydrology. 629. 130424–130424. 4 indexed citations

Zheng, Huan, Lanlan Guo, Bin He, et al.. (2023). The Great Climate Mitigation Potential of Cropland Ecosystem Management in China. Earth s Future. 11(9). 6 indexed citations

Xiao, Dengpan, Huizi Bai, Jianzhao Tang, et al.. (2022). The Prediction of Wheat Yield in the North China Plain by Coupling Crop Model with Machine Learning Algorithms. Agriculture. 13(1). 99–99. 20 indexed citations

Li, Congcong, Yongqiang Zhang, Yanjun Shen, Dongdong Kong, & Xinyao Zhou. (2020). LUCC‐Driven Changes in Gross Primary Production and Actual Evapotranspiration in Northern China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(6). 60 indexed citations

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Yang, Wei, et al.. (2019). Interactions among the Phenological Events of Winter Wheat in the North China Plain-Based on Field Data and Improved MODIS Estimation. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 2976–2976. 12 indexed citations

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Shen, Yanjun, Yanjun Shen, Manfred Fink, Sven Kralisch, & Alexander Brenning. (2018). Unraveling the Hydrology of the Glacierized Kaidu Basin by Integrating Multisource Data in the Tianshan Mountains, Northwestern China. Water Resources Research. 54(1). 557–580. 22 indexed citations

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Manevski, Kiril, Christen Duus Børgesen, Xiaoxin Li, et al.. (2018). Modelling agro-environmental variables under data availability limitations and scenario managements in an alluvial region of the North China Plain. Environmental Modelling & Software. 111. 94–107. 10 indexed citations

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Pei, Hongwei, Yanjun Shen, & Changming Liu. (2015). [Nitrogen and water cycling of typical cropland in the North China Plain].. PubMed. 26(1). 283–96. 11 indexed citations

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Xu, Shiguang, Zheng Niu, Yanjun Shen, & Da Kuang. (2014). A Research into the Characters of CMORPH Remote Sensing Precipitation Error in China. Yaogan jishu yu yingyong. 29(2). 189–194. 5 indexed citations

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Long, Di, Yanjun Shen, Alexander Y. Sun, et al.. (2014). Drought and flood monitoring for a large karst plateau in Southwest China using extended GRACE data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 155. 145–160. 375 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yu, Jingjing, Yanjun Shen, Pan Yang, Ping Zhao, & Zhou Zijiang. (2013). Improvement of Satellite based Precipitation Estimates over China Based on Probability Density Function Matching Method. 24(5). 544–553. 18 indexed citations

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Shen, Yanjun. (2011). REPLY TO "DISCUSSION ON‘RESEARCH ON CHARACTERISTICS OF ROCK DEFORMATION CAUSED BY EXCAVATION DISTURBANCE BASED ON HOEK-BROWN CRITERION’". Chinese journal of rock mechanics and engineering. 3 indexed citations

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Yu, Jianwei, Yang Pan, & Yanjun Shen. (2010). Bias Adjustment of high spatial/temporal resolution Satellite Precipitation Estimation relying on Gauge-Based precipitation over China. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010.

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Lei, Huimin, et al.. (2007). Energy and water fluxes in the Yellow River irrigation region. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 47(6). 801–804. 1 indexed citations

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Ge, Jingfeng, et al.. (2007). Evaluating urbanization and its impacts on local hydrological environment change in Shijiazhuang, China, using remote sensing.. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 316(1). 261–268. 2 indexed citations

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