Ying Qu

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ying Qu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ying Qu has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ying Qu's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (19 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers) and Climate variability and models (12 papers). Ying Qu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (19 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers) and Climate variability and models (12 papers). Ying Qu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Ying Qu's co-authors include Shunlin Liang, Chunying Chen, Qiang Liu, Yuliang Zhao, Suhong Liu, Neal R. Swerdlow, Martin Weber, Gregory A. Light, David Braff and Yufeng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ying Qu

97 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.

A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies

2013 428 citations Shunlin Liang, Zhiqiang Xiao et al. profile →
China's vegetation restoration programs accelerated vegetation greening on the Loess Plateau

2024 49 citations Xianlei Fan, Ying Qu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ying Qu China	27	939	779	624	548	508	101	3.4k
Qian Cui China	42	299 0.3×	485 0.6×	485 0.8×	274 0.5×	268 0.5×	271	5.9k
Yongqin Zhang China	31	697 0.7×	184 0.2×	189 0.3×	691 1.3×	338 0.7×	127	3.8k
Hideyuki Shimizu Japan	36	730 0.8×	274 0.4×	404 0.6×	368 0.7×	157 0.3×	153	4.5k
Yafeng Zhang China	32	767 0.8×	642 0.8×	278 0.4×	310 0.6×	441 0.9×	126	3.2k
Ming Ying China	38	1.2k 1.3×	541 0.7×	1.7k 2.7×	154 0.3×	933 1.8×	268	6.3k
Virginia K. Walker Canada	50	517 0.6×	800 1.0×	966 1.5×	2.7k 4.9×	278 0.5×	184	7.3k
S. Alonso Argentina	30	1.1k 1.2×	235 0.3×	858 1.4×	102 0.2×	246 0.5×	148	3.2k
J. E. Thompson United States	40	490 0.5×	189 0.2×	648 1.0×	491 0.9×	420 0.8×	243	5.6k
Tae‐Wan Kim South Korea	36	369 0.4×	620 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	374 0.7×	186 0.4×	175	5.5k
Wei‐Chun Chin United States	34	186 0.2×	896 1.2×	206 0.3×	449 0.8×	675 1.3×	89	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ying Qu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ying Qu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ying Qu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fan, Xianlei, Yunqiang Wang, Ying Qu, & Edith Bai. (2025). Effects of vegetation restoration on soil organic carbon on the Loess Plateau, China using a combined remote sensing and process-based modeling approach. Geoderma. 456. 117260–117260. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Guozhi, Guo‐Chang Fan, Ying Qu, et al.. (2025). A thermosensitive hydrogel with synergistic stromal targeting and antitumor immunity modulation for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy. Materials Today Bio. 32. 101882–101882.

Qu, Ying, et al.. (2025). Integrative analysis of mitochondrial-related gene profiling identifies prognostic clusters and drug resistance mechanisms in low-grade glioma. Discover Oncology. 16(1). 465–465. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Wenji, Haiming Chen, Liman Ma, et al.. (2025). Gene expressions of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa harboring RND efflux pumps on chromosome and involving a novel integron on a plasmid. Microbial Pathogenesis. 203. 107512–107512. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Ziwei, et al.. (2025). A Radiative Transfer Model-Driven Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Snow Surface Albedo Over the Greenland Ice Sheet. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–18.

Ma, Liman, Wenji Wang, Ying Qu, & Dongguo Wang. (2023). Characterization of the two tandem repeats for the KPC-2 core structures on a plasmid from hospital-derived Klebsiella pneumoniae. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12049–12049. 2 indexed citations

Qu, Ying, et al.. (2023). Snow and land cover induced surface albedo changes in Northeast China during recent decades. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 152(1-2). 649–661. 1 indexed citations

Jevrejeva, Svetlana, et al.. (2023). Thermosteric and dynamic sea level under solar geoengineering. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Qu, Ying, Svetlana Jevrejeva, & Shijin Wang. (2023). Unraveling Regional Patterns of Sea Level Acceleration over the China Seas. Remote Sensing. 15(18). 4448–4448. 4 indexed citations

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Qu, Ying, Klaus Langer, Yuliang Zhao, et al.. (2016). Comparison of cellular effects of starch-coated SPIONs and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) matrix nanoparticles on human monocytes. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 11. 5221–5236. 26 indexed citations

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Hu, Dakang, Yang Liu, Xiangyang Li, & Ying Qu. (2015). In vitro expression of Streptococcus pneumoniae ply gene in human monocytes and pneumocytes. European journal of medical research. 20(1). 52–52. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Yufeng, Jiating Zhao, Ying Qu, et al.. (2015). Synchrotron radiation techniques for nanotoxicology. Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine. 11(6). 1531–1549. 28 indexed citations

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Xiao, Zhiqiang, et al.. (2014). Dual Ensemble Kalman Filter assimilation method for estimating time series LAI. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 18(1). 27–44. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jin, Dakang Hu, Dongguo Wang, et al.. (2013). Effects of clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae on THP-1 human monocytic cells. Molecular Medicine Reports. 8(5). 1570–1574. 4 indexed citations

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Liang, Shunlin, et al.. (2012). Mapping spatially-temporally continuous shortwave albedo for global land surface from MODIS data. 8 indexed citations

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Meng, Li, Rui Chen, Chen-Zhong Li, et al.. (2012). Inhibitory effects of multiwall carbon nanotubes with high iron impurity on viability and neuronal differentiation in cultured PC12 cells. Toxicology. 313(1). 49–58. 48 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lin‐Bao, et al.. (2011). Comparative study of the DNA damage in three tissues of blue mussel(Mytilus edulis) after exposure to three typical POPs. Haiyang kexue. 35(2). 32–37. 1 indexed citations

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Lao, Fang, Wei Li, Dong Han, et al.. (2009). Fullerene derivatives protect endothelial cells against NO-induced damage. Nanotechnology. 20(22). 225103–225103. 67 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, Fang Jiao, Yang Qiu, et al.. (2009). Immunostimulatory properties and enhanced TNF- α mediated cellular immunity for tumor therapy by C₆₀(OH)₂₀nanoparticles. Nanotechnology. 20(41). 415102–415102. 96 indexed citations

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Qu, Ying, et al.. (1995). Theoretical Study on Cold-Air Damping of the Qinling Mountains.. 68–69.

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