Yaolin Liu

15.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
357 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Yaolin Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaolin Liu has authored 357 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 70 papers in Environmental Engineering and 61 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yaolin Liu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (108 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (45 papers) and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (39 papers). Yaolin Liu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (108 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (45 papers) and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (39 papers). Yaolin Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yaolin Liu's co-authors include Yiyun Chen, Limin Jiao, Guofeng Wu, Baoxia Mi, Shiyuan Hu, Deyi Li, LI Deren, Xuesong Kong, Yongsheng Hong and Yanfang Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yaolin Liu

338 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 200 400 600
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.

  1. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University
    2006 665 citations Yaolin Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yaolin Liu China 61 4.3k 2.5k 1.7k 1.5k 1.4k 357 11.1k
Chenghu Zhou China 58 5.4k 1.2× 3.4k 1.3× 1.9k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 424 12.8k
Jianping Wu China 51 5.4k 1.3× 2.7k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 675 0.5× 343 9.4k
Bo Huang China 66 5.0k 1.2× 3.3k 1.3× 2.2k 1.3× 1.8k 1.2× 657 0.5× 433 15.1k
Yimin Chen China 42 6.0k 1.4× 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 438 0.3× 224 9.8k
Alfred Stein Netherlands 58 3.7k 0.9× 4.3k 1.7× 2.9k 1.7× 458 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 476 13.0k
Ming Xu China 72 4.5k 1.0× 4.6k 1.8× 1.3k 0.8× 828 0.5× 442 0.3× 440 17.9k
Бин Чэн China 48 3.4k 0.8× 2.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 723 0.5× 948 0.7× 220 11.1k
Linda See Austria 57 4.8k 1.1× 3.7k 1.5× 2.5k 1.5× 546 0.4× 497 0.4× 259 10.9k
Wenzhong Shi Hong Kong 55 2.4k 0.5× 2.8k 1.1× 2.2k 1.3× 766 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 535 12.5k
Keith Clarke United States 53 9.6k 2.2× 2.3k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 1.2k 0.8× 334 0.2× 192 13.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yaolin Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yaolin Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yaolin Liu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yaolin Liu. The network helps show where Yaolin Liu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yaolin Liu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Yiyun, et al.. (2025). Mapping soil organic carbon in fragmented agricultural landscapes: The efficacy and interpretability of multi-category remote sensing variables. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 24(11). 4395–4414. 1 indexed citations
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Tong, Zhaomin, et al.. (2025). What is the quality of urban expansion under different expansion patterns? A study of Chinese cities. Cities. 168. 106409–106409. 1 indexed citations
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Lian, Xihong, Wei Liu, Zejin Liu, et al.. (2025). Tree shortages in informal settlements across African cities. Nature Cities. 2(11). 1049–1059.
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Yuan, Han, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing urban vegetation evolution in China using multimodal deep learning and 30-years Landsat archive. Urban forestry & urban greening. 103. 128582–128582. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Huiting, Hongxin Zhang, Zhaomin Tong, et al.. (2024). Enhancing flood-response commuting resilience via driving mechanism investigation: New evidence from Wuhan, China. Travel Behaviour and Society. 35. 100743–100743. 2 indexed citations
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Lian, Xihong, Limin Jiao, Zejin Liu, et al.. (2024). A detection of street trees and green space: Understanding contribution of urban trees to climate change mitigation. Urban forestry & urban greening. 102. 128561–128561. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Liye, et al.. (2024). Exploring the non-linear relations between the cropland expansion and driving factors in China. Regional Environmental Change. 24(4). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaolin, et al.. (2024). Multi-scenario flexibility assessment of power systems considering renewable energy output uncertainty. Frontiers in Energy Research. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ziyi, Zhaomin Tong, Liting Zhang, & Yaolin Liu. (2023). What are the dominant factors and optimal driving threshold for the synergy and tradeoff between ecosystem services, from a nonlinear coupling perspective?. Journal of Cleaner Production. 422. 138609–138609. 28 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lin, et al.. (2023). How road network transformation may be associated with reduced carbon emissions: An exploratory analysis of 19 major Chinese cities. Sustainable Cities and Society. 95. 104575–104575. 30 indexed citations
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Chen, Huiting, Hongxin Zhang, Sung‐Gheel Jang, et al.. (2023). Road criticality assessment to improve commutes during floods. Journal of Environmental Management. 349. 119592–119592. 7 indexed citations
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Hong, Yongsheng, Jonathan Sanderman, Tomislav Hengl, et al.. (2023). Potential of globally distributed topsoil mid-infrared spectral library for organic carbon estimation. CATENA. 235. 107628–107628. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Huiting, Sung‐Gheel Jang, Zhang Yan, & Yaolin Liu. (2023). Clean energy for all? Mapping inequity potential in the clean energy transition in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. 108. 103400–103400. 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaolin, et al.. (2022). Recent advance and challenge in geospatial big data mining. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaolin, Xiaojian Wei, Peiling Li, & Qingling Li. (2016). Sensitivity of correlation structure of class- and landscape-level metrics in three diverse regions. Ecological Indicators. 64. 9–19. 26 indexed citations
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He, Jianhua, et al.. (2015). A Field Source-strength Method for Interaction Scenario in Network Space of Metropolitan. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaolin. (2008). A New Land Price Evaluation Method Based on Cloud Model. Wuhan Daxue xuebao. Xinxi kexue ban. 2 indexed citations
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Tang, Xinming, Yaolin Liu, Jixian Zhang, & Wolfgang Kainz. (2007). Advances in Spatio-Temporal Analysis: in ISPRS Book Series, Vol. 5.
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Liu, Yaolin, et al.. (2006). Design and Development of System Based on Visual Interactive Spatial Data Mining. Wuhan Daxue xuebao. Xinxi kexue ban. 3 indexed citations

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