Yi Liu

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Yi Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Liu has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 93 papers in Atmospheric Science and 12 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yi Liu's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (72 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (68 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (62 papers). Yi Liu is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (72 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (68 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (62 papers). Yi Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yi Liu's co-authors include Dongxu Yang, Zhaonan Cai, Jing Wang, Liang Feng, Kenneth J. Voss, Paul I. Palmer, Shuangxi Fang, Jintao Wang, Aiqin Wang and Yian Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yi Liu

144 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data

2020 442 citations Liang Feng, Paul I. Palmer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Liu China	29	2.1k	1.8k	427	410	257	152	3.4k
Liang Feng China	31	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	237 0.6×	355 0.9×	130 0.5×	98	3.4k
S. R. Arnold United Kingdom	40	3.0k 1.4×	3.2k 1.8×	1.4k 3.3×	599 1.5×	129 0.5×	139	5.4k
Fang Li China	33	2.7k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	460 1.1×	245 0.6×	115 0.4×	163	4.3k
Øivind Hodnebrog Norway	29	2.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	486 1.1×	302 0.7×	200 0.8×	68	3.1k
Yun Li China	31	1.3k 0.6×	988 0.5×	286 0.7×	274 0.7×	152 0.6×	127	2.8k
Junfeng Wang China	39	979 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 4.0×	646 1.6×	145 0.6×	182	4.4k
Yu Liu China	39	3.8k 1.8×	3.7k 2.0×	225 0.5×	375 0.9×	181 0.7×	252	5.6k
Prabir K. Patra Japan	40	4.0k 1.9×	3.1k 1.7×	366 0.9×	392 1.0×	65 0.3×	181	5.1k
Qi Yuan China	34	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	1.6k 3.7×	1.1k 2.6×	377 1.5×	122	3.7k
Hartmut Graßl Germany	33	2.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	244 0.6×	478 1.2×	315 1.2×	127	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yi Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yi 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 Yi Liu. Yi 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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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Dongxu, Yi Liu, Minqiang Zhou, et al.. (2025). Theoretical Potential of TanSat-2 to Quantify China’s CH4 Emissions. Remote Sensing. 17(13). 2321–2321. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Tonghui, et al.. (2025). UAVs’ Flight Dynamics Is All You Need for Wind Speed and Direction Measurement in Air. Drones. 9(7). 466–466.

Yang, Dongxu, Liang Feng, Yi Liu, et al.. (2025). Towards the Optimization of TanSat-2: Assessment of a Large-Swath Methane Measurement. Remote Sensing. 17(3). 543–543. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Yi, et al.. (2024). Mechanism and quantitative criterion of free vibration characteristics of hydraulic systems using the water hammer reflection coefficient. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 133. 107959–107959. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Yi, Dan‐Dan Huang, Zhizhuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Modulating organic functional groups in stimuli-responsive luminescent antimony chlorides. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(30). 11426–11432. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Yunqing, Hui Xu, Meng Qi, et al.. (2023). Accident scenarios screening for integrated energy supply stations. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 51. 1038–1054. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, et al.. (2023). Multi-objective optimization and exergoeconomic analysis of solar and geothermal-based power and cooling system using zeotropic mixtures as the working fluid. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 175. 495–515. 2 indexed citations

Mao, Ran, et al.. (2023). Self-catalytic decomplexation of Cu−TEPA and simultaneous recovery of Cu by an electrochemical ozone production system using heterojunction Ni-Sb-SnO2 anode. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 132967–132967. 16 indexed citations

Wang, Hongping, et al.. (2022). Experimental study of the dispersion of cough-generated droplets from a person going up- or downstairs. AIP Advances. 12(1). 15002–15002. 7 indexed citations

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Cai, Zhaonan, Kang Sun, Dongxu Yang, et al.. (2022). On-Orbit Characterization of TanSat Instrument Line Shape Using Observed Solar Spectra. Remote Sensing. 14(14). 3334–3334. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinqiang, Xue Wu, Jianchun Bian, et al.. (2020). Aerosol variations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 94068–94068. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xun, Jane Liu, Han Han, et al.. (2020). Satellite-Observed Variations and Trends in Carbon Monoxide over Asia and Their Sensitivities to Biomass Burning. Remote Sensing. 12(5). 830–830. 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuli, Mengchu Tao, Jinqiang Zhang, et al.. (2020). Long-term variations in ozone levels in the troposphere and lower stratosphere over Beijing: observations and model simulations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(21). 13343–13354. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hua, Zhili Wang, Yi Liu, et al.. (2019). The Development of an Atmospheric Aerosol/Chemistry‐Climate Model, BCC_AGCM_CUACE2.0, and Simulated Effective Radiative Forcing of Nitrate Aerosols. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(11). 3816–3835. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Yi, et al.. (2016). Tropospheric Ozone Products Retrieved from GOME-2. Yaogan jishu yu yingyong. 31(2). 316–323. 1 indexed citations

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Tian, Xiangjun, Zhenghui Xie, Yi Liu, et al.. (2014). A joint data assimilation system (Tan-Tracker) to simultaneously estimate surface CO ₂ fluxes and 3-D atmospheric CO ₂ concentrations from observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(23). 13281–13293. 43 indexed citations

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Liu, Yi, et al.. (2013). [The application of Simodont system in dental education in the Netherlands].. PubMed. 22(2). 237–9. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Tao, et al.. (2013). Last Glacial Maximum Sea Surface Temperatures: A Model-Data Comparison. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 6(5). 233–239. 5 indexed citations

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Lu, Chunhui, Yi Liu, & Chuanxi Liu. (2011). Middle Atmosphere Response to ENSO Events in Northern Hemisphere Winter by the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 49(2). 95–111. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kang‐Da, Xin Zhao, Yi Liu, et al.. (2011). Foldamer‐Tuned Switching Kinetics and Metastability of [2]Rotaxanes. Angewandte Chemie. 123(42). 10040–10044. 18 indexed citations

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