Youhua Ran

5.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Youhua Ran is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Youhua Ran has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Atmospheric Science, 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Youhua Ran's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (39 papers), Climate change and permafrost (38 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (18 papers). Youhua Ran is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (39 papers), Climate change and permafrost (38 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (18 papers). Youhua Ran collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Youhua Ran's co-authors include Xin Li, Guodong Cheng, Rui Jin, Huijun Jin, Tao Che, Jianwen Guo, Shaomin Liu, Guodong Cheng, Xiaoli Hu and Hongyi Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Youhua Ran

71 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Heihe Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (HiWATER): Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design

2013 719 citations Xin Li, Guodong Cheng et al. profile →
Climate warming over the past half century has led to thermal degradation of permafrost on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

2018 265 citations Youhua Ran, Xin Li et al. profile →
Big Data in Earth system science and progress towards a digital twin

2023 135 citations Xin Li, Min Feng et al. profile →
New high-resolution estimates of the permafrost thermal state and hydrothermal conditions over the Northern Hemisphere

2022 135 citations Youhua Ran, Xin Li et al. Earth system science data profile →

Peers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Polar regions are critical in achieving global sustainable development goals 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Xin Li, Huadong Guo, Guodong Cheng, Xiaoyu Song, Youhua Ran, Min Feng, Tao Che, Xinwu Li, Lei Wang, Anmin Duan, Donghui Shangguan, Deliang Chen, Rui Jin, Jie Deng, Jianbin Su, (unknown)	3
2	TTOP model simulation of long-term (1981–2100) permafrost dynamics of the Tibetan Plateau 2025 ·Geoderma ·Yufeng Zhao, Yingying Yao, Huijun Jin, Xin Li, Bin Cao, Youhua Ran, (unknown), Chunmiao Zheng	0
3	Optimized Gross Primary Productivity Over the Croplands Within the BEPS Particle Filtering Data Assimilation System (BEPS_PF v1.0) 2025 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·(unknown), Mousong Wu, (unknown), W. Duan, Weimin Ju, Xiaorong Wang, Youhua Ran, Yongguang Zhang, Fei Jiang	2
4	A high-resolution (0.05°) global seamless continuity record (2002–2023) of near-surface soil freeze-thaw states via passive microwave and optical satellite data 2025 ·Earth system science data ·(unknown), Tianjie Zhao, Jingyao Zheng, Yu Bai, Youhua Ran, (unknown), Lingmei Jiang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jie Pan, Jiancheng Shi, Yuei‐An Liou	0
5	Recent progress and emerging frontiers in China’s cryosphere remote sensing research 2025 ·National Remote Sensing Bulletin ·Youhua Ran, Xin Li, Tao Che, Ming Feng, (unknown), Yushan Zhou, Fengming Hui, (unknown), Tingfeng Dou, Yu Li, Dong Zheng, Rui Jin	1
6	Sensitivity of Permafrost Degradation to Geological and Climatic Conditions 2024 ·Permafrost and Periglacial Processes ·Lei Guo, Youhua Ran, Xin Li, Huijun Jin, Guodong Cheng	3
7	Long‐Term Monitoring of the Annual Irrigated Cropland Extent in Fragmented and Heterogeneous Arid Landscapes Using Machine Learning and Landsat Imagery 2024 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), Youhua Ran, Min Feng, Guotao Dong, (unknown), Gaofeng Zhu, Yanyun Nian, Xin Li	5
8	The start of frozen dates over northern permafrost regions with the changing climate 2023 ·Global Change Biology ·Jialing Li, Chaoyang Wu, Josep Peñuelas, Youhua Ran, Yongguang Zhang	6
9	Modeling China's terrestrial ecosystem gross primary productivity with BEPS model: Parameter sensitivity analysis and model calibration 2023 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), Mousong Wu, Wenxin Zhang, Weimin Ju, Torbern Tagesson, Wei He, Songhan Wang, Jun Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Tingting Zhu, Xiaorong Wang, Youhua Ran, Sien Li, Chunyu Wang, Fei Jiang	9
10	An Overview of Vegetation Dynamics Revealed by Remote Sensing and Its Feedback to Regional and Global Climate 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·Xuejia Wang, Tinghai Ou, Wenxin Zhang, Youhua Ran	2
11	Global spatiotemporally continuous MODIS land surface temperature dataset 2022 ·Scientific Data ·(unknown), Tianjie Zhao, Jiancheng Shi, Youhua Ran, Jia Li, Dabin Ji, Huazhu Xue	68
12	Permafrost Early Deformation Signals before the Norilsk Oil Tank Collapse in Russia 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Yan Chen, Youhua Ran, Yunping Chen	2
13	Linking Critical Zone With Watershed Science: The Example of the Heihe River Basin 2022 ·Earth s Future ·Xin Li, Guodong Cheng, Bojie Fu, Jun Xia, Ling Zhang, Dawen Yang, Chunmiao Zheng, Shaomin Liu, Xiubin Li, Changqing Song, Shaozhong Kang, Xiaoyan Li, Tao Che, Yi Zheng, Yanzhao Zhou, Haibo Wang, Youhua Ran	28
14	New high-resolution estimates of the permafrost thermal state andhydrothermal conditions over the Northern Hemisphere 2021 ·University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu) ·Youhua Ran, Xin Li, Guodong Cheng, (unknown), Juha Aalto, Olli Karjalainen, Jan Hjort, Miska Luoto, Huijun Jin, Jaroslav Obu, Masahiro Hori, Qihao Yu, Xiaoli Chang	11
15	Identifying rock glacier in western China using deep learning and satellite data 2019 ·AGUFM ·Min Feng, Jiawei Xu, (unknown), Youhua Ran, (unknown)	2
16	A landscape management analysis framework and its preliminary application in Ejina Oasis, Northwest China 2019 ·Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions ·Youhua Ran, Yan Zhao	1
17	TanSat: a new star in global carbon monitoring from China 2019 ·Science Bulletin ·Youhua Ran, Xin Li	29
18	Hydrological Cycle in the Heihe River Basin and Its Implication for Water Resource Management in Endorheic Basins 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Xin Li, Guodong Cheng, Yingchun Ge, Hongyi Li, Feng Han, Xiaoli Hu, Wei Tian, Yong Tian, Xiaoduo Pan, Yanyun Nian, Yanlin Zhang, Youhua Ran, Yi Zheng, Bing Gao, Dawen Yang, Chunmiao Zheng, (unknown), Shaomin Liu, Ximing Cai	241
19	Evaluation of the permafrost stability degradation from 1980 to 2010 in China 2018 ·Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions ·Youhua Ran, Xin Li	4
20	Climate warming has led to the degradation of permafrost stability in the past half century over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 2017 ·Youhua Ran, Xin Li, Guodong Cheng	11

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