Ya‐Yen Sun

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Ya‐Yen Sun is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ya‐Yen Sun has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 24 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 17 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Ya‐Yen Sun's work include Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (20 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (15 papers). Ya‐Yen Sun is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (20 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (15 papers). Ya‐Yen Sun collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Taiwan and United Kingdom. Ya‐Yen Sun's co-authors include Manfred Lenzen, Futu Faturay, Arunima Malik, Arne Geschke, Stefan Gößling, James Higham, Pei‐Chun Lin, Pavlína Látková, Donald L. Drakeman and Marius Mayer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ya‐Yen Sun

68 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

The carbon footprint of global tourism

2018 1.0k citations Manfred Lenzen, Ya‐Yen Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ya‐Yen Sun Australia	25	1.2k	988	557	550	465	70	2.9k
Kevin X. Li China	38	557 0.5×	794 0.8×	945 1.7×	729 1.3×	379 0.8×	126	4.4k
Futu Faturay Australia	10	597 0.5×	522 0.5×	314 0.6×	235 0.4×	287 0.6×	14	1.5k
Carlo Aall Norway	27	1.1k 0.9×	322 0.3×	229 0.4×	269 0.5×	288 0.6×	58	2.3k
Дора Маринова Australia	29	374 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	468 0.8×	139 0.3×	274 0.6×	199	3.1k
Petri Tapio Finland	28	612 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	253 0.5×	139 0.3×	67	3.1k
Siqi Zheng China	42	873 0.7×	3.0k 3.1×	407 0.7×	1.8k 3.3×	363 0.8×	162	6.2k
Viachaslau Filimonau United Kingdom	40	2.2k 1.8×	566 0.6×	226 0.4×	381 0.7×	1.6k 3.4×	150	5.1k
Jaume Rosselló Spain	31	2.4k 2.0×	1.1k 1.1×	95 0.2×	1.0k 1.8×	310 0.7×	77	3.3k
Jiuchang Wei China	29	983 0.8×	719 0.7×	191 0.3×	154 0.3×	770 1.7×	135	3.2k
Godwell Nhamo South Africa	29	811 0.7×	605 0.6×	136 0.2×	188 0.3×	191 0.4×	158	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ya‐Yen Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ya‐Yen Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ya‐Yen Sun. 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 Ya‐Yen Sun. The network helps show where Ya‐Yen Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ya‐Yen Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lin, Sen, et al.. (2025). Terrain-aware slime mold networks: From biological self-organization principles to liquid-cooled thermal management systems. Materials & Design. 260. 114954–114954.

Pan, Junjie, et al.. (2025). Microbially synthesized nanomaterials: Advances and applications in biomedicine. 2(1). 100019–100019. 5 indexed citations

Guo, Di, Quan Liu, Yuxuan Song, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide identification, evolution and expression analysis of the <i>PP2C</i> gene family in ice plant. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 0–0.

Sun, Ya‐Yen, Futu Faturay, Manfred Lenzen, Stefan Gößling, & James Higham. (2024). Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10384–10384. 51 indexed citations

Font, Xavier, Yu Xiong, Susanne Becken, et al.. (2024). Using the Blockchain to Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Visitor Economy. Sustainability. 16(10). 4000–4000. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Ya‐Yen, et al.. (2024). Wish You Were Here? The Economic Impact of the Tourism Shutdown from Australia’s 2019-20 ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires. Econstor (Econstor). 8(1). 107–127. 2 indexed citations

Fry, Jacob, Arne Geschke, Manfred Lenzen, et al.. (2021). Creating multi‐scale nested MRIO tables for linking localized impacts to global consumption drivers. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 26(1). 281–293. 15 indexed citations

Demeter, C. Stephan, Pei‐Chun Lin, Ya‐Yen Sun, & Sara Dolničar. (2021). Assessing the carbon footprint of tourism businesses using environmentally extended input-output analysis. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 30(1). 128–144. 21 indexed citations

Sun, Ya‐Yen, et al.. (2021). Who are vulnerable in a tourism crisis? A tourism employment vulnerability analysis for the COVID-19 management. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 49. 304–308. 31 indexed citations

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Lenzen, Manfred, Mengyu Li, Arunima Malik, et al.. (2020). Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0235654–e0235654. 237 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen, Pei‐Chun Lin, & James Higham. (2020). Managing tourism emissions through optimizing the tourism demand mix: Concept and analysis. Tourism Management. 81. 104161–104161. 71 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen & Donald L. Drakeman. (2020). Measuring the carbon footprint of wine tourism and cellar door sales. Journal of Cleaner Production. 266. 121937–121937. 35 indexed citations

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Faturay, Futu, Ya‐Yen Sun, Erik Dietzenbacher, et al.. (2019). Using virtual laboratories for disaster analysis – a case study of Taiwan. Economic Systems Research. 32(1). 58–83. 19 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen, et al.. (2018). The Decomposition Analysis of Tourism Water Footprint in Taiwan: Revealing Decision-Relevant Information. Journal of Travel Research. 58(4). 695–708. 25 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen. (2018). Global Value Chains and National Tourism Carbon Competitiveness. Journal of Travel Research. 58(5). 808–823. 29 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen. (2016). Decomposition of tourism greenhouse gas emissions: Revealing the dynamics between tourism economic growth, technological efficiency, and carbon emissions. Tourism Management. 55. 326–336. 129 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen & Megha Budruk. (2015). The moderating effect of nationality on crowding perception, its antecedents, and coping behaviours: A study of an urban heritage site in Taiwan. Current Issues in Tourism. 20(12). 1246–1264. 40 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen & Kam‐Fai Wong. (2014). Stability of Input—Output Coefficients by Capacity Utilization for Short-Term Tourism Demand Fluctuation. Tourism Economics. 20(3). 509–526. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen, et al.. (2013). Working Hour Changes and Leisure Time Institutionalization Process in Taiwan. 16(1). 27–48. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Ya‐Yen & Kam‐Fai Wong. (2010). AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN JOB ESTIMATION: A NONLINEAR JOBS-TO-SALES RATIO WITH RESPECT TO CAPACITY UTILIZATION. Economic Systems Research. 22(4). 427–446. 5 indexed citations

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