Yanqing Lian

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yanqing Lian is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanqing Lian has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Water Science and Technology, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 24 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yanqing Lian's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (40 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (16 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (15 papers). Yanqing Lian is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (40 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (16 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (15 papers). Yanqing Lian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and India. Yanqing Lian's co-authors include Xiaoqun Qin, Zhongcheng Jiang, Xiaohong Chen, Chengguang Lai, Zhaoli Wang, Xiaoqing Wu, Ruida Zhong, Zhaoyang Zeng, Hua Xie and Bingjun Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Pollution and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

Yanqing Lian

72 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Rocky desertification in Southwest China: Impacts, causes, and restoration

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yanqing Lian	1.6k	1.1k	697	667	575	81	3.1k
Chansheng He	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	597 0.9×	793 1.2×	1.1k 2.0×	109	3.5k
Zhanbin Li	886 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	456 0.7×	824 1.2×	1.1k 2.0×	171	3.1k
Guangjie Luo	1.2k 0.7×	427 0.4×	497 0.7×	595 0.9×	439 0.8×	94	2.4k
Xiaoyong Bai	1.5k 1.0×	459 0.4×	799 1.1×	926 1.4×	698 1.2×	104	3.4k
Guangyao Gao	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	625 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	1.7k 3.0×	114	3.7k
Aristeidis Koutroulis	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	836 1.2×	351 0.5×	352 0.6×	73	3.5k
Kathleen A. Lohse	992 0.6×	827 0.8×	576 0.8×	905 1.4×	846 1.5×	86	3.1k
Olivier Planchon	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	599 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	1.5k 2.7×	84	3.4k
Luhua Wu	1.2k 0.7×	393 0.4×	605 0.9×	628 0.9×	371 0.6×	59	2.3k
Daniele Bocchiola	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 2.0×	595 0.9×	472 0.8×	121	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanqing Lian

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanqing Lian

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wei, Wei, Yanqing Lian, Peng Yao, et al.. (2025). Drug resistance phenotypes of clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in the past 20 years in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 66(2). 107520–107520.

Li, Maomao, et al.. (2025). Evolution of particulate organic carbon fluxes in large river basins and their ecological driving mechanisms (1985–2021). Journal of Hydrology. 665. 134656–134656.

Wang, Zengliang, Yuanhua Liu, Michael P. Ward, et al.. (2025). Changing epidemiology of leptospirosis in China from 1955 to 2022. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 14(1). 17–17.

Zhang, Zezhong, et al.. (2025). A framework for large-scale analyses of ecosystem health and its driving factors in complex underlying basins. Ecological Indicators. 173. 113424–113424. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Kewen, et al.. (2025). Vegetation change mechanism and key driving factors in complex terrains, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 979. 179424–179424. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jun, Ren Yuan, Yanqing Lian, et al.. (2025). The Effects of Blue Light on Locomotion and Cognition in Early Adult Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 343(4). 511–520.

Mishra, Saurabh, et al.. (2024). Microplastics pollution in the Asian water tower: Source, environmental distribution and proposed mitigation strategy. Environmental Pollution. 356. 124247–124247. 10 indexed citations

Lian, Yanqing, Qingyun Duan, Zhu Liu, et al.. (2024). Coupled hydrologic and hydraulic modeling for a lowland river basin in China. Journal of Hydrology. 649. 132470–132470. 2 indexed citations

Li, Maomao, et al.. (2024). Mechanically and accurately calculate river width in vegetation areas by coupling Sentinel-1 and -2 imageries within land-water-mixed pixels. Journal of Hydrology. 643. 131913–131913. 3 indexed citations

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Mishra, Saurabh, et al.. (2024). Microplastics–biofilm in aquatic ecosystem: Formation, pollutants complexation, greenhouse gas emission and ecotoxicology. Journal of Environmental Management. 370. 122930–122930. 12 indexed citations

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Bao, Zhenxin, Jianyun Zhang, Jianyun Zhang, et al.. (2023). Changes in Headwater Streamflow from Impacts of Climate Change in the Tibetan Plateau. Engineering. 34. 133–142. 11 indexed citations

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Mishra, Saurabh, Cheng Liu, & Yanqing Lian. (2023). Response of biofilm–based systems for antibiotics removal from wastewater: Resource efficiency and process resiliency. Chemosphere. 340. 139878–139878. 5 indexed citations

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Wu, Yiping, Fubo Zhao, Jingyi Hu, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal features of pollutant loads in the Yan River Basin, a typical loess hilly and gully watershed in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geoscience Letters. 9(1). 5 indexed citations

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Lian, Yanqing, Lisha Zhen, Xi Chen, Yang Li, & Xiaona Li. (2022). Microbial biomarkers as indication of dynamic and heterogeneous urban water environments. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(49). 107304–107316. 1 indexed citations

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Hu, Jingyi, Yiping Wu, Lijing Wang, et al.. (2020). Impacts of land-use conversions on the water cycle in a typical watershed in the southern Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 593. 125741–125741. 88 indexed citations

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Kelly, Walton R., H. Vernon Knapp, Zhenxing Zhang, et al.. (2018). Water Supply Planning: Middle Illinois Assessment of Water Resources for Water Supply Final Report. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 2 indexed citations

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Tang, Xianzhe, Yuqin Shu, Yanqing Lian, Yaolong Zhao, & Yingchun Fu. (2018). A spatial assessment of urban waterlogging risk based on a Weighted Naïve Bayes classifier. The Science of The Total Environment. 630. 264–274. 97 indexed citations

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Lai, Chengguang, Ruida Zhong, Zhaoli Wang, et al.. (2018). Monitoring hydrological drought using long-term satellite-based precipitation data. The Science of The Total Environment. 649. 1198–1208. 131 indexed citations

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Li, Jun, Zhaoli Wang, Chengguang Lai, et al.. (2018). Response of net primary production to land use and land cover change in mainland China since the late 1980s. The Science of The Total Environment. 639. 237–247. 171 indexed citations

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Li, Lian, et al.. (2001). Maturation of the reconstructed oocytes by germinal vesicle transfer in rabbits and mice. Theriogenology. 56(5). 855–866. 6 indexed citations

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