Yichun Xie

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
131 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Yichun Xie is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichun Xie has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Ecology and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yichun Xie's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (51 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (17 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (14 papers). Yichun Xie is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (51 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (17 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (14 papers). Yichun Xie collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Yichun Xie's co-authors include Michael Batty, Zongyao Sha, Mei Yu, Zhanli Sun, Yongfei Bai, Guangjin Tian, Hai Lan, Yaobin Liu, Frank J. Costa and Kang Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yichun Xie

124 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Remote sensing imagery in vegetation mapping: a review

2008 997 citations Yichun Xie, Zongyao Sha et al. Journal of Plant Ecology profile →
The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management

2022 180 citations Zongyao Sha, Yongfei Bai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yichun Xie United States	36	2.9k	1.6k	868	856	818	131	5.4k
Jasper van Vliet Netherlands	37	3.6k 1.3×	808 0.5×	420 0.5×	492 0.6×	797 1.0×	84	4.9k
Xiaocong Xu China	22	3.5k 1.2×	965 0.6×	416 0.5×	873 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	51	4.7k
Lina Tang China	33	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	266 0.3×	704 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	146	4.4k
Alexis Comber United Kingdom	38	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	272 0.3×	603 0.7×	783 1.0×	148	5.4k
Michail Fragkias United States	19	3.5k 1.2×	821 0.5×	582 0.7×	595 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	28	5.4k
Feng Li China	46	3.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	388 0.4×	545 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	374	9.0k
Alexey Voinov Netherlands	46	3.2k 1.1×	883 0.5×	368 0.4×	349 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	178	8.4k
Jürgen P. Kropp Germany	39	2.2k 0.8×	668 0.4×	554 0.6×	647 0.8×	1.8k 2.1×	128	6.2k
Gilberto Câmara Brazil	34	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	233 0.3×	428 0.5×	645 0.8×	146	4.9k
Anthony Gar‐On Yeh Hong Kong	37	3.6k 1.2×	755 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	1.2k 1.4×	555 0.7×	92	6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yichun Xie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yichun Xie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yichun Xie

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

Xie, Yichun, Juying Li, Amina Salamova, & Guomao Zheng. (2025). Occurrence of Current-Use Pesticides in Paired Indoor Dust, Drinking Water, and Urine Samples from the United States: Risk Prioritization and Health Implications. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(25). 12507–12519. 7 indexed citations

Xie, Yichun, et al.. (2025). Assessing relative contributions of climate and socio-environmental factors to ecosystem health through space–time interpretable machine learning. Ecological Indicators. 178. 114087–114087.

Qin, Kun, Yan Gong, Gang Li, et al.. (2025). Reform and Practice of the Data Acquisition and Preprocessing Course in Digital Intelligence Education. 2(1).

Lan, Hai, Kathleen Stewart, Zongyao Sha, Yichun Xie, & Shujuan Chang. (2022). Data Gap Filling Using Cloud-Based Distributed Markov Chain Cellular Automata Framework for Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis: Inner Mongolia as a Case Study. Remote Sensing. 14(3). 445–445. 7 indexed citations

Sha, Zongyao, et al.. (2022). Assessing the Potential of Vegetation Carbon Uptake from Optimal Land Management in the Greater Guangzhou Area. Land. 11(11). 1878–1878. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Zhongyu, et al.. (2021). UAVs as remote sensing platforms in plant ecology: review of applications and challenges. Journal of Plant Ecology. 14(6). 1003–1023. 74 indexed citations

Deng, Yingbin, et al.. (2021). Exploring the Impacts and Temporal Variations of Different Building Roof Types on Surface Urban Heat Island. Remote Sensing. 13(14). 2840–2840. 10 indexed citations

Cheng, Wei, Xiaolan Li, Yue Zhou, et al.. (2021). Polystyrene microplastics induce hepatotoxicity and disrupt lipid metabolism in the liver organoids. The Science of The Total Environment. 806(Pt 1). 150328–150328. 223 indexed citations

Xie, Yichun, et al.. (2021). Examining ecosystem deterioration using a total socioenvironmental system approach. The Science of The Total Environment. 784. 147171–147171. 8 indexed citations

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Crooks, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Simulating Urban Shrinkage in Detroit via Agent-Based Modeling. Sustainability. 13(4). 2283–2283. 6 indexed citations

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Sha, Zongyao, Yongfei Bai, Hai Lan, et al.. (2020). Can more carbon be captured by grasslands? A case study of Inner Mongolia, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 723. 138085–138085. 31 indexed citations

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Xie, Yichun, et al.. (2019). Out of the Classroom and into History: Mobile Historical GIS and Community-Engaged Teaching.. Digital Commons - Michigan Tech (Michigan Technological University). 53(1). 11–35. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Shuang, Yichun Xie, Zewei Yang, Yiwen Lu, & Hongsheng Li. (2019). Examining winter fallow farmland from space and geography: a case study in Guizhou, China. Journal of Spatial Science. 66(1). 163–178. 3 indexed citations

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Sha, Zongyao, Yichun Xie, Xicheng Tan, et al.. (2017). Assessing the impacts of human activities and climate variations on grassland productivity by partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Journal of Arid Land. 9(4). 473–488. 28 indexed citations

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Xie, Yichun. (2016). Modeling Grassland Ecosystem Responses to Coupled Climate and Socioeconomic Influences in Multi-Spatial-And-Temporal Scales. Journal of Environmental Informatics. 36 indexed citations

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Xie, Yichun, et al.. (2014). Linking climate change education through the integration of a kite-borne remote sensing system. Journal of Technology and Science Education. 4(3). 4 indexed citations

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Xie, Yichun, Zongyao Sha, & Mei Yu. (2008). Remote sensing imagery in vegetation mapping: a review. Journal of Plant Ecology. 1(1). 9–23. 997 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xie, Yichun, Michael Batty, & Kang Zhao. (2005). Simulating emergent urban form: desakota in China. UCL Discovery (University College London). 11 indexed citations

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Xie, Yichun. (1996). A Generalized Model for Cellular Urban Dynamics. Geographical Analysis. 28(4). 350–373. 80 indexed citations

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Xie, Yichun & Frank J. Costa. (1991). THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC REFORMS ON THE URBAN ECONOMY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. The Professional Geographer. 43(3). 318–335. 15 indexed citations

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