Yanlan Liu

3.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
28 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yanlan Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanlan Liu has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yanlan Liu's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (4 papers). Yanlan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (4 papers). Yanlan Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yanlan Liu's co-authors include Kelong Ai, Lehui Lu, Mukesh Kumar, Gabriel G. Katul, Alexandra G. Konings, Huimin Lei, Amilcare Porporato, Xue Feng, Meng Zhao and A Geruo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yanlan Liu

27 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Hydrogen-Bonding Recognition-Induced Color Change of Gold Nanoparticles for Visual Detection of Melamine in Raw Milk and Infant Formula

2009 505 citations Yanlan Liu et al. profile →
Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

2022 199 citations Yao Zhang, Pierre Gentine et al. Nature Communications profile →
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

2021 196 citations Z. A. Mekonnen, W. J. Riley et al. profile →
Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts

2022 143 citations Meng Zhao, A Geruo et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanlan Liu United States	17	950	475	370	327	325	28	2.0k
MA Bari Bangladesh	21	551 0.6×	124 0.3×	102 0.3×	312 1.0×	99 0.3×	131	1.8k
Yishan Lin China	15	438 0.5×	124 0.3×	271 0.7×	87 0.3×	68 0.2×	42	1.3k
Karyn Le Ménach France	39	184 0.2×	441 0.9×	337 0.9×	116 0.4×	72 0.2×	78	3.2k
Yugo Shimizu Japan	26	639 0.7×	462 1.0×	480 1.3×	317 1.0×	41 0.1×	83	2.1k
F. Orgaz Spain	38	2.2k 2.3×	188 0.4×	402 1.1×	180 0.6×	172 0.5×	97	4.4k
Camilla Teixeira Canada	33	344 0.4×	839 1.8×	254 0.7×	90 0.3×	154 0.5×	49	3.4k
Ken G. Drouillard Canada	36	388 0.4×	306 0.6×	1.1k 3.0×	109 0.3×	53 0.2×	150	4.2k
Sara Villa Italy	32	152 0.2×	397 0.8×	260 0.7×	135 0.4×	102 0.3×	87	2.3k
Sascha Usenko United States	23	204 0.2×	355 0.7×	208 0.6×	93 0.3×	88 0.3×	58	2.1k
Jie Wei China	20	274 0.3×	219 0.5×	242 0.7×	239 0.7×	92 0.3×	77	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanlan Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanlan Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanlan Liu

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

All Works

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Liang, Juan Boo, et al.. (2025). Modeling optimal nitrogen application rate and placement for maximizing wheat yield in a semi-arid environment using APSIM. Agricultural Water Management. 321. 109896–109896.

Li, Yang, Michael A. Wulder, Zhe Zhu, et al.. (2024). DRMAT: A multivariate algorithm for detecting breakpoints in multispectral time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114402–114402. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Yanlan, Jennifer A. Holm, Charles D. Koven, et al.. (2024). Large Divergence of Projected High Latitude Vegetation Composition and Productivity Due To Functional Trait Uncertainty. Earth s Future. 12(8). 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Mukesh, et al.. (2024). Structural Constraints in Current Stomatal Conductance Models Preclude Accurate Prediction of Evapotranspiration. Water Resources Research. 60(8). 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Yue, Jonathan Wang, Logan T. Berner, et al.. (2024). Warming and disturbances affect Arctic-boreal vegetation resilience across northwestern North America. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(12). 2265–2276. 12 indexed citations

Hu, Tongxi, Xuesong Zhang, Gil Bohrer, et al.. (2023). Crop yield prediction via explainable AI and interpretable machine learning: Dangers of black box models for evaluating climate change impacts on crop yield. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 336. 109458–109458. 53 indexed citations

Liu, Yanlan, W. J. Riley, Trevor F. Keenan, et al.. (2022). Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3843–3843. 14 indexed citations

Zhao, Meng, A Geruo, Yanlan Liu, & Alexandra G. Konings. (2022). Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts. Nature Climate Change. 12(11). 1024–1030. 143 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Yao, Pierre Gentine, Xiangzhong Luo, et al.. (2022). Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4875–4875. 199 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bai, Yan, Yanlan Liu, Lara M. Kueppers, et al.. (2022). Hydraulic Sensitivity and Stomatal Regulation of Two Desert Riparian Species. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(10). 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanlan, Natan Holtzman, & Alexandra G. Konings. (2021). Global ecosystem-scale plant hydraulic traits retrieved using model–data fusion. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(5). 2399–2417. 48 indexed citations

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Li, Yang, Yanlan Liu, Gil Bohrer, et al.. (2021). Impacts of forest loss on local climate across the conterminous United States: Evidence from satellite time-series observations. The Science of The Total Environment. 802. 149651–149651. 33 indexed citations

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Yi, Cuiping, et al.. (2021). Effect of Lactobacillus plantarum fermentation on the volatile flavors of mung beans. LWT. 146. 111434–111434. 100 indexed citations

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Bai, Yan, Yanlan Liu, Lara M. Kueppers, et al.. (2021). The coupled effect of soil and atmospheric constraints on the vulnerability and water use of two desert riparian ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 311. 108701–108701. 11 indexed citations

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Kulmatiski, Andrew, Kailiang Yu, D. S. Mackay, et al.. (2019). Forecasting semi‐arid biome shifts in the Anthropocene. New Phytologist. 226(2). 351–361. 6 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanlan, Mukesh Kumar, Gabriel G. Katul, & Amilcare Porporato. (2019). Reduced resilience as an early warning signal of forest mortality. Nature Climate Change. 9(11). 880–885. 132 indexed citations

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Mrad, Assaad, et al.. (2019). A Dynamic Optimality Principle for Water Use Strategies Explains Isohydric to Anisohydric Plant Responses to Drought. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2. 45 indexed citations

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Liu, Yong, et al.. (2018). Fenton-like oxidation of 4-chlorophenol using H2O2 in situ generated by Zn-Fe-CNTs composite. Journal of Environmental Management. 214. 252–260. 25 indexed citations

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Wang, Dongdong, Yanlan Liu, & Mukesh Kumar. (2018). Using nested discretization for a detailed yet computationally efficient simulation of local hydrology in a distributed hydrologic model. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5785–5785. 18 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanlan & Mukesh Kumar. (2016). Role of meteorological controls on interannual variations in wet‐period characteristics of wetlands. Water Resources Research. 52(7). 5056–5074. 22 indexed citations

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