Yanjun Shen

10.5k citations

201 papers · 8.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Water Science and Technology top 0.2%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 92
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 54
- Climate variability and models 32
Water Science and Technology 88
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies 62
- Environmental and Agricultural Sciences 18

Co-authors: Yaning Chen (15 shared papers)Changming Liu (16 shared papers)Hongyong Sun (11 shared papers)Yongqiang Zhang (12 shared papers)Yucui Zhang (25 shared papers)Ying Guo (11 shared papers)Taikan Oki (9 shared papers)Hongwei Pei (20 shared papers)
Journals: Agricultural Water Management (16 papers)Hydrological Processes (11 papers)Journal of Hydrology (11 papers)Journal of Geographical Sciences (7 papers)Hydrological Sciences Journal (5 papers)
Partner nations: China Japan United States

In The Last Decade

Yanjun Shen

189 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health 2024 · 196 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Communications
2014 Remote Sensing of Environment
2005 Landscape and Urban Planning

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Yanjun Shen, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Evaluating urban expansion and land use change in Shijiazhuang, China, by using GIS and remote sensing Landscape and Urban Planning ·Jieying Xiao, Yanjun Shen, Jingfeng Ge, Ryutaro Tateishi, Changyuan Tang, Yanqing Liang, Zhiying Huang Hit paper breakdown →	2005	577
2	An integrated model for the assessment of global water resources – Part 1: Model description and input meteorological forcing Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Naota Hanasaki, Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki, Koichiro Masuda, Ken Motoya, Naoki Shirakawa, Yanjun Shen, Keiji Tanaka	2008	417
3	Drought and flood monitoring for a large karst plateau in Southwest China using extended GRACE data Remote Sensing of Environment ·Di Long, Yanjun Shen, Alexander Y. Sun, Yang Hong, Laurent Longuevergne, Yuting Yang, Bin Li, Lu Chen Hit paper breakdown →	2014	375
4	Effects of irrigation on water balance, yield and WUE of winter wheat in the North China Plain Agricultural Water Management ·Hongyong Sun, Changming Liu, Xiying Zhang, Yanjun Shen, Yongqiang Zhang	2006	337
5	An integrated model for the assessment of global water resources – Part 2: Applications and assessments Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Naota Hanasaki, Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki, Koichiro Masuda, Ken Motoya, Naoki Shirakawa, Yanjun Shen, Keiji Tanaka	2008	312
6	Effect of soil water deficit on evapotranspiration, crop yield, and water use efficiency in the North China Plain Agricultural Water Management ·Yongqiang Zhang, Eloise Kendy, Qiang Yu, Changming Liu, Yanjun Shen, Hongyong Sun	2003	282
7	Effect of precipitation change on water balance and WUE of the winter wheat–summer maize rotation in the North China Plain Agricultural Water Management ·Hongyong Sun, Yanjun Shen, Qiang Yu, G. N. Flerchinger, Yongqiang Zhang, Changming Liu, Xiying Zhang	2009	259
8	Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health Nature Communications ·Xiaolin Yang, Jinran Xiong, Taisheng Du, Xiaotang Ju, Yantai Gan, Sien Li, Longlong Xia, Yanjun Shen, Steven Pacenka, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Shaozhong Kang, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl Hit paper breakdown →	2024	196
9	Estimation of regional irrigation water requirement and water supply risk in the arid region of Northwestern China 1989–2010 Agricultural Water Management ·Yanjun Shen, Shuo Li, Yaning Chen, Yongqing Qi, Shuowei Zhang	2013	191
10	Evaluation of the FAO AquaCrop model for winter wheat on the North China Plain under deficit irrigation from field experiment to regional yield simulation Agricultural Water Management ·M. Anjum Iqbal, Yanjun Shen, Ružica Stričević, Hongwei Pei, Hongyong Sun, Ebrahim Amırı, Ángel Penas, Sara del Río	2014	186
11	Development of topsoil grain size index for monitoring desertification in arid land using remote sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing ·Jun Xiao, Yanjun Shen, Ryosuke Tateishi, W. Bayaer	2006	169
12	Detection of human‐induced evapotranspiration using GRACE satellite observations in the Haihe River basin of China Geophysical Research Letters ·Yun Pan, Chong Zhang, Huili Gong, Pat J.‐F. Yeh, Yanjun Shen, Ying Guo, Zhiyong Huang, Xiaojuan Li	2016	161
13	Wastewater irrigation: past, present, and future Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water ·Yucui Zhang, Yanjun Shen	2017	159
14	Projection of future world water resources under SRES scenarios: water withdrawal / Projection des ressources en eau mondiales futures selon les scénarios du RSSE: prélèvement d'eau Hydrological Sciences Journal ·Yanjun Shen, Taikan Oki, Nobuyuki Utsumi, Shinjiro Kanae, Naota Hanasaki	2008	140
15	Spatial and temporal trends of climate change in Xinjiang, China Journal of Geographical Sciences ·Qihu Li, Yaning Chen, Yanjun Shen, Xingong Li, Jianhua Xu	2011	133
16	Agricultural water supply/demand changes under projected future climate change in the arid region of northwestern China Journal of Hydrology ·Ying Guo, Yanjun Shen	2016	123
17	Evapotranspiration and its partitioning in an irrigated winter wheat field: A combined isotopic and micrometeorologic approach Journal of Hydrology ·Yucui Zhang, Yanjun Shen, Hongyong Sun, John B. Gates	2011	116
18	Analysis of changing pan evaporation in the arid region of Northwest China Water Resources Research ·Zhi Li, Yaning Chen, Yanjun Shen, Yongbo Liu, Shuhua Zhang	2013	109
19	Global perspective on hydrology, water balance, and water resources management in arid basins Hydrological Processes ·Yanjun Shen, Yaning Chen	2009	109
20	Energy/water budgets and productivity of the typical croplands irrigated with groundwater and surface water in the North China Plain Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Yanjun Shen, Yucui Zhang, Bridget R. Scanlon, Huimin Lei, Dawen Yang, Fan Yang	2013	98

About Yanjun Shen

Yanjun Shen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Atmospheric Science, having authored 201 papers that have together received 8.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (62 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (54 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (22 papers), Irrigation Practices and Water Management (21 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (19 papers), Water resources management and optimization (19 papers) and Environmental and Agricultural Sciences (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Water Science and Technology (2.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.8k citations), Soil Science (1.7k citations), Environmental Engineering (1.3k citations) and Geochemistry and Petrology (518 citations). Yanjun Shen has collaborated with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Frequent co-authors include Yaning Chen, Changming Liu, Hongyong Sun, Yongqiang Zhang, Yucui Zhang, Ying Guo, Taikan Oki, Hongwei Pei, Shinjiro Kanae and Naota Hanasaki. Their work appears in journals such as Agricultural Water Management, Hydrological Processes, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Geographical Sciences and Hydrological Sciences Journal.

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