Yi Lian

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 821 citations indexed

About

Yi Lian is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Lian has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 821 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Yi Lian's work include Climate variability and models (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (10 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (7 papers). Yi Lian is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (10 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (7 papers). Yi Lian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yi Lian's co-authors include Zongting Gao, Baizhu Shen, Renguang Wu, Li Sun, Song Yang, Hui Chen, Fangbin Qian, Yunfeng Shang, Zhongda Lin and Riyu Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yi Lian

42 papers receiving 806 citations

Hit Papers

The impacts of energy resource and tourism on green growt... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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. The impacts of energy resource and tourism on green growth: Evidence from Asian economies
    2023 131 citations Yunfeng Shang, Yi Lian et al. Resources Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yi Lian China 14 532 477 201 107 51 43 821
Kelly E. McCusker United States 14 798 1.5× 748 1.6× 110 0.5× 126 1.2× 115 2.3× 21 1.2k
Inga J. Smith New Zealand 20 238 0.4× 607 1.3× 137 0.7× 71 0.7× 55 1.1× 46 1.2k
Mingxing Li China 18 516 1.0× 327 0.7× 127 0.6× 93 0.9× 53 1.0× 43 1.0k
Nadine Mengis Germany 15 371 0.7× 134 0.3× 76 0.4× 219 2.0× 85 1.7× 33 618
Iris Grossmann United States 13 179 0.3× 185 0.4× 78 0.4× 28 0.3× 47 0.9× 26 510
Femke J. M. M. Nijsse United Kingdom 10 256 0.5× 158 0.3× 47 0.2× 72 0.7× 85 1.7× 20 509
Dan Bernie United Kingdom 19 755 1.4× 479 1.0× 426 2.1× 167 1.6× 92 1.8× 35 1.1k
Xiaojuan Zhang China 14 543 1.0× 165 0.3× 28 0.1× 107 1.0× 44 0.9× 37 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Lian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Lian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yi Lian. 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 Yi Lian. The network helps show where Yi Lian may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Lian

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yi Lian. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yi Lian 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 Yi Lian. Yi Lian 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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Wang, Guanbo, Sean McGrath, & Yi Lian. (2025). CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses. Research Synthesis Methods. 16(2). 425–440. 1 indexed citations
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Bueh, Cholaw, et al.. (2025). Quasi-Biweekly Oscillation of Northeast China Cold Vortex Frequency in the Warm Season. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 42(7). 1301–1315.
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Lian, Yi, et al.. (2025). Assessing storm surge compound disasters risk: A case study of the coastal area of Qingdao. Ocean & Coastal Management. 262. 107593–107593. 1 indexed citations
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Lian, Yi, et al.. (2025). Analysis and comparison of the trends in burden of low back pain in China and worldwide from 1990 to 2021. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition. 44(1). 39–39. 2 indexed citations
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Lian, Yi, Robert W. Platt, Rui Wang, et al.. (2024). Structured learning in time‐dependent Cox models. Statistics in Medicine. 43(17). 3164–3183. 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Guoxia, et al.. (2024). Environmental and economic analysis of the transformation of paper mill sludge treatment technologies in China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(26). 38251–38264. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Han-Qiao, et al.. (2024). Comparative life cycle assessment of landfill sludge treatment technologies in China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(28). 41208–41220. 4 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hailong, Guoxia Wei, Yuwen Zhu, et al.. (2024). Sustainable Papermaking in China: Assessing Provincial Economic and Environmental Performance of Pulping Technologies. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(11). 4517–4529. 25 indexed citations
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Chen, Shi, Zhongda Lin, Yi Lian, et al.. (2023). Summer Onset in Northern East Asia: Feature, Mechanism and Variability. Atmosphere. 14(1). 187–187. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaodong, et al.. (2023). Effect of micro-arc oxidation on antimicrobial properties and biocompatibility of biomedical Ti-xFe alloys. Surface and Coatings Technology. 476. 130174–130174. 11 indexed citations
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Lian, Yi, et al.. (2023). Predicting the Potential Stopover Sites of Ciconia Boyciana during Migration in China. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 406. 3002–3002. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Haixiao, et al.. (2023). Regional Atmospheric CO2 Response to Ecosystem CO2 Budgets in China. Remote Sensing. 15(13). 3320–3320. 4 indexed citations
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Shang, Yunfeng, Yi Lian, Hui Chen, & Fangbin Qian. (2023). The impacts of energy resource and tourism on green growth: Evidence from Asian economies. Resources Policy. 81. 103359–103359. 131 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Haixiao, et al.. (2022). Quantitative comparison of the delignification performance of lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment technologies for enzymatic saccharification. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(9). 22929–22940. 6 indexed citations
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Lian, Yi, et al.. (2022). Lymphography method based on time-autocorrelated optical coherence tomography. Biomedical Optics Express. 13(10). 5390–5390. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Lu, et al.. (2021). Comparison of dental pulp periodontal therapy and conventional simple periodontal therapy as treatment modalities for severe periodontitis. World Journal of Clinical Cases. 9(33). 10098–10105. 1 indexed citations
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Zheng, Xiaohui, Yi Lian, & Qiguang Wang. (2018). The long-range correlation and evolution law of centennial-scale temperatures in Northeast China. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0198238–e0198238. 3 indexed citations
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Shen, Baizhu, et al.. (2011). An investigation into 2009 summer low temperature in Northeast China and its association with prophase changes of the air-sea system. Acta Meteorologica Sinica. 4 indexed citations
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Lian, Yi. (2008). The Harmonic Analysis of Cold Vortex of the North-East China in Early Summer. Journal of Jilin University. 1 indexed citations

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