Yongshuo H. Fu

14.9k total citations · 14 hit papers
171 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Yongshuo H. Fu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongshuo H. Fu has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 102 papers in Ecology and 41 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yongshuo H. Fu's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (99 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (94 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (39 papers). Yongshuo H. Fu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (99 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (94 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (39 papers). Yongshuo H. Fu collaborates with scholars based in China, Belgium and United States. Yongshuo H. Fu's co-authors include Shilong Piao, Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas, Yann Vitasse, Miaogen Shen, Qiang Liu, Anping Chen, Philippe Ciais, Mengtian Huang and Fanghua Hao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yongshuo H. Fu

162 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

Plant phenology and global climate change: Current prog... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2019 2015 2015 2016 2015 400 800 1.2k
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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. Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges
    2019 1.3k citations Shilong Piao, Qiang Liu et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  2. Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding
    2015 730 citations Yongshuo H. Fu, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
  3. Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature
    2015 463 citations Shilong Piao, Yongshuo H. Fu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Delayed autumn phenology in the Northern Hemisphere is related to change in both climate and spring phenology
    2016 387 citations Yongshuo H. Fu, Zaichun Zhu et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  5. Temperature, precipitation, and insolation effects on autumn vegetation phenology in temperate China
    2015 373 citations Yongshuo H. Fu, Mengtian Huang et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  6. Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost
    2018 261 citations Qiang Liu, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Integrated phenology and climate in rice yields prediction using machine learning methods
    2020 210 citations Yahui Guo, Yongshuo H. Fu et al. Ecological Indicators profile →
  8. Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts
    2022 163 citations Zengchao Hao, Fanghua Hao et al. profile →
  9. Disentangling the effects of vapor pressure deficit on northern terrestrial vegetation productivity
    2023 143 citations Yongshuo H. Fu, Wenping Yuan et al. profile →
  10. An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas
    2022 142 citations Shan Gao, Eryuan Liang et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  11. Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence
    2022 127 citations Chaoyang Wu, Jie Peng et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  12. Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice
    2023 83 citations Constantin M. Zohner, Yann Vitasse et al. profile →
  13. Comparison of different machine learning algorithms for predicting maize grain yield using UAV-based hyperspectral images
    2023 82 citations Yahui Guo, Xuan Zhang et al. profile →
  14. Planted Forests in China Have Higher Drought Risk Than Natural Forests
    2025 13 citations Josep Peñuelas, Yongshuo H. Fu et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yongshuo H. Fu China 55 6.8k 5.9k 2.7k 2.3k 2.1k 171 10.6k
Miaogen Shen China 45 5.4k 0.8× 5.2k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 912 0.4× 120 8.5k
Mark D. Schwartz United States 42 4.1k 0.6× 3.9k 0.7× 2.9k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 93 8.1k
Mirco Migliavacca Germany 56 8.0k 1.2× 5.4k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 2.4k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 204 11.2k
Trevor F. Keenan United States 60 10.6k 1.6× 5.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 3.7k 1.6× 3.0k 1.4× 151 14.2k
Xiaoyang Zhang United States 52 7.0k 1.0× 7.7k 1.3× 2.7k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 179 11.3k
Jeffrey A. Hicke United States 44 7.5k 1.1× 6.1k 1.0× 733 0.3× 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 89 11.1k
Roberta E. Martin United States 57 4.1k 0.6× 6.4k 1.1× 2.1k 0.8× 939 0.4× 2.1k 1.0× 147 10.4k
Laerte Guimarães Ferreira Brazil 34 6.1k 0.9× 7.5k 1.3× 1.1k 0.4× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 126 11.3k
Nicolas Viovy France 49 8.7k 1.3× 3.8k 0.6× 895 0.3× 3.6k 1.5× 1.5k 0.7× 154 11.5k
S. R. Saleska United States 60 8.1k 1.2× 5.1k 0.9× 717 0.3× 3.2k 1.4× 1.9k 0.9× 164 12.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yongshuo H. Fu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongshuo H. Fu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guo, Yahui, Wei Zhou, Yongshuo H. Fu, et al.. (2025). SegNeXt-RCMSCA: An improved SegNeXt network for detecting winter wheat lodging from UAS RGB images. Smart Agricultural Technology. 12. 101230–101230. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yihang, Nan Cong, Yu Zhong, et al.. (2025). Impacts of cascade dam construction on riparian vegetation in an alpine region. Journal of Hydrology. 652. 132665–132665. 5 indexed citations
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Xie, Shubin, Jie Peng, Ying Sun, et al.. (2025). The Increased Effect of Spring Leaf Unfolding on Autumn Senescence in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(12). 1 indexed citations
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Guo, Yahui, Yongshuo H. Fu, Shouzhi Chen, et al.. (2024). Predicting grain yield of maize using a new multispectral-based canopy volumetric vegetation index. Ecological Indicators. 166. 112295–112295. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xuan, et al.. (2024). A deep data fusion-based reconstruction of water index time series for intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams monitoring. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 220. 339–353. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Tao, Jinzhi Ding, Xiaoyi Wang, et al.. (2024). No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Ecology. 112(8). 1774–1786. 4 indexed citations
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Tang, Jing, et al.. (2024). Air and Surface Temperatures Differently Drive Terrestrial Carbon and Water Cycles in the High Latitudes. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(19). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuxin, et al.. (2023). Larger responses of trees’ leaf senescence to cooling than warming: Results from a climate manipulation experiment. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 339. 109568–109568. 9 indexed citations
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Sun, Cheng, et al.. (2023). Different trends of vegetation activity over northern extratropics during two multidecadal warming periods in the 20th century. Global and Planetary Change. 227. 104181–104181. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Dailiang, Jing M. Chen, Ranga B. Myneni, et al.. (2023). Climate-driven land surface phenology advance is overestimated due to ignoring land cover changes. Environmental Research Letters. 18(4). 44045–44045. 12 indexed citations
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Fu, Yongshuo H., et al.. (2022). Soil moisture determines the effects of climate warming on spring phenology in grasslands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 323. 109039–109039. 33 indexed citations
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Chen, Shouzhi, Yongshuo H. Fu, Zhaofei Wu, et al.. (2022). Informing the SWAT model with remote sensing detected vegetation phenology for improved modeling of ecohydrological processes. Journal of Hydrology. 616. 128817–128817. 44 indexed citations
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Gao, Shan, Eryuan Liang, Ruishun Liu, et al.. (2022). An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(4). 397–404. 142 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Zhaofei, Shuxin Wang, Yongshuo H. Fu, et al.. (2022). Spatial Difference of Interactive Effect Between Temperature and Daylength on Ginkgo Budburst. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 887226–887226. 4 indexed citations
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Fu, Yongshuo H., Xuan Zhang, Shilong Piao, et al.. (2019). Daylength helps temperate deciduous trees to leaf‐out at the optimal time. Global Change Biology. 25(7). 2410–2418. 96 indexed citations
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Wu, Chaoyang, Xiaoyue Wang, Huanjiong Wang, et al.. (2019). Author Correction: Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming. Nature Climate Change. 9(2). 177–177. 2 indexed citations
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Fu, Yongshuo H., Shilong Piao, Xuancheng Zhou, et al.. (2019). Short photoperiod reduces the temperature sensitivity of leaf‐out in saplings of Fagus sylvatica but not in horse chestnut. Global Change Biology. 25(5). 1696–1703. 72 indexed citations
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Fu, Yongshuo H., Xiaojun Geng, Fanghua Hao, et al.. (2019). Shortened temperature‐relevant period of spring leaf‐out in temperate‐zone trees. Global Change Biology. 25(12). 4282–4290. 21 indexed citations
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Liu, Qiang, Shilong Piao, Ivan A. Janssens, et al.. (2018). Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost. Nature Communications. 9(1). 426–426. 261 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Qiang, Yongshuo H. Fu, Zaichun Zhu, et al.. (2017). Delayed autumn phenology in the Northern Hemisphere is related to change in both climate and spring phenology. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4322. 5 indexed citations

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