Yi Song

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yi Song is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Song has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yi Song's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers) and Climate variability and models (8 papers). Yi Song is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers) and Climate variability and models (8 papers). Yi Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yi Song's co-authors include Weiyu Shi, Kaibo Wang, Yiping Chen, Yishan Lin, Xinhua He, Mingguo Ma, Long Jin, Haibo Wang, Yunqiang Wang and Xufeng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Yi Song

53 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Balancing green and grain trade

2015 758 citations Kaibo Wang, Weiyu Shi 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 Song China	22	1.1k	648	518	504	433	53	2.0k
Guangjie Luo China	25	1.2k 1.0×	595 0.9×	439 0.8×	497 1.0×	427 1.0×	94	2.4k
Mingyang Zhang China	24	1.1k 0.9×	797 1.2×	361 0.7×	407 0.8×	325 0.8×	82	2.2k
Zhongbao Xin China	20	572 0.5×	660 1.0×	709 1.4×	329 0.7×	410 0.9×	48	1.6k
Jiaqiang Lei China	28	1.2k 1.0×	659 1.0×	777 1.5×	709 1.4×	285 0.7×	184	2.7k
Jinzhi Ding China	23	920 0.8×	730 1.1×	721 1.4×	894 1.8×	195 0.5×	54	2.2k
Luhua Wu China	27	1.2k 1.0×	628 1.0×	371 0.7×	605 1.2×	393 0.9×	59	2.3k
Baoqing Zhang China	26	1.7k 1.5×	406 0.6×	479 0.9×	540 1.1×	1.0k 2.3×	53	2.4k
John D. Stednick United States	19	915 0.8×	699 1.1×	437 0.8×	240 0.5×	652 1.5×	51	1.8k
Sinkyu Kang South Korea	23	1.2k 1.1×	780 1.2×	320 0.6×	574 1.1×	230 0.5×	73	2.0k
Penélope Serrano-Ortíz Spain	28	1.9k 1.6×	745 1.1×	383 0.7×	628 1.2×	264 0.6×	65	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Song

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Song

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Song

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

Song, Yi, Thomas J. Algeo, Carlton E. Brett, Zhanhong Liu, & Shucheng Xie. (2025). Molecular indicators of microbial community change linked to salinity variation and terrestrial inputs during the Ordovician-Silurian transition (East-Central USA). Chemical Geology. 681. 122724–122724. 3 indexed citations

Song, Yi, et al.. (2024). Permeability property study on slag-based geopolymers early-curing in corrosive environments: Effects of full pore distribution, pore throat size, and connectivity. Construction and Building Materials. 458. 139711–139711. 3 indexed citations

Jin, Zhao, et al.. (2024). Detection of tree destruction induced by heavy rainfall in the afforested loess catchment of China. CATENA. 248. 108573–108573. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, Pingping Zhang, Yi Song, et al.. (2024). The structure and development of Loess Critical Zone and its soil carbon cycle. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 6 indexed citations

Song, Yi, Yunqiang Wang, Long Jin, et al.. (2022). Quantitative contribution of the Grain for Green Program to vegetation greening and its spatiotemporal variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Land Degradation and Development. 33(11). 1878–1891. 24 indexed citations

Song, Yi, et al.. (2021). Experimental Study on the Comprehensive Identification and Improvement of Dispersive Soil in Western Jilin Province, China. Geofluids. 2021. 1–14. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Yunqiang, Yali Zhao, Pingping Zhang, et al.. (2020). Assessing the value of electrical resistivity derived soil water content: Insights from a case study in the Critical Zone of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 589. 125132–125132. 21 indexed citations

Tong, Yongping, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal variations in deep soil moisture and its response to land-use shifts in the Wind–Water Erosion Crisscross Region in the Critical Zone of the Loess Plateau (2011–2015), China. CATENA. 193. 104643–104643. 29 indexed citations

Jin, Zhao, et al.. (2019). Spatial variation and soil nitrogen potential hotspots in a mixed land cover catchment on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science. 16(6). 1353–1366. 4 indexed citations

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Song, Yi, Long Jin, & Haibo Wang. (2018). Vegetation Changes along the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Engineering Corridor Since 2000 Induced by Climate Change and Human Activities. Remote Sensing. 10(1). 95–95. 77 indexed citations

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Song, Yi, Long Jin, Gaofeng Zhu, & Mingguo Ma. (2016). Parameter estimation for a simple two-source evapotranspiration model using Bayesian inference and its application to remotely sensed estimations of latent heat flux at the regional scale. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 230-231. 20–32. 16 indexed citations

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Song, Yi & Yongqiang Yu. (2015). Impacts of External Forcing on the Decadal Climate Variability in CMIP5 Simulations*. Journal of Climate. 28(13). 5389–5405. 10 indexed citations

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Lin, Pengfei, Yi Song, Yongqiang Yu, & Hailong Liu. (2014). An abrupt slowdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during 1915–1935 induced by solar forcing in a coupled GCM. 1 indexed citations

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Song, Yi, Long Jin, & Jinzhao Zhang. (2013). In-situ study on cooling characteristics of two-phase closed thermosyphon embankment of Qinghai–Tibet Highway in permafrost regions. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 93. 12–19. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Haibo, Mingguo Ma, Xufeng Wang, et al.. (2012). Seasonal variation of vegetation productivity over an alpine meadow in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in China: modeling the interactions of vegetation productivity, phenology, and the soil freeze–thaw process. Ecological Research. 28(2). 271–282. 17 indexed citations

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Jin, Zhao, Buli Cui, Yi Song, et al.. (2012). How Many Check Dams Do We Need To Build on the Loess Plateau?. Environmental Science & Technology. 46(16). 8527–8528. 74 indexed citations

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Wang, Xufeng, Mingguo Ma, Guanghui Huang, et al.. (2011). Vegetation primary production estimation at maize and alpine meadow over the Heihe River Basin, China. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 17. 94–101. 59 indexed citations

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Song, Yi, Jiemin Wang, Kun Yang, et al.. (2011). A revised surface resistance parameterisation for estimating latent heat flux from remotely sensed data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 17. 76–84. 26 indexed citations

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Song, Yi, Mingguo Ma, & Frank Veroustraete. (2010). Comparison and conversion of AVHRR GIMMS and SPOT VEGETATION NDVI data in China. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 31(9). 2377–2392. 48 indexed citations

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Song, Yi, et al.. (1998). Enhanced radioimmunotherapeutic efficacy of a monoclonal antibody cocktail against SMMC-7721 human hepatocellular carcinoma. Cell Research. 8(3). 241–247. 3 indexed citations

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