Yuan Zeng

10.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
130 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Yuan Zeng is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuan Zeng has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 47 papers in Ecology and 40 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yuan Zeng's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (48 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (38 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (23 papers). Yuan Zeng is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (48 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (38 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (23 papers). Yuan Zeng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Yuan Zeng's co-authors include Bingfang Wu, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Xiaoming Feng, Zhenzhong Zeng, Xiaohui Jiang, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Yue Li and Shuai Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yuan Zeng

122 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

2016 1.6k citations Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü et al. profile →
Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

2016 1.3k citations Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng et al. Science profile →
Assessing the soil erosion control service of ecosystems change in the Loess Plateau of China

2011 742 citations Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü et al. profile →
A Policy-Driven Large Scale Ecological Restoration: Quantifying Ecosystem Services Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

2012 544 citations Yihe Lü, Bojie Fu et al. profile →
How ecological restoration alters ecosystem services: an analysis of carbon sequestration in China's Loess Plateau

2013 392 citations Bojie Fu, Yuan Zeng et al. profile →
National wetland mapping in China: A new product resulting from object-based and hierarchical classification of Landsat 8 OLI images

2020 315 citations Dehua Mao, Yuan Zeng et al. profile →
China's wetlands loss to urban expansion

2018 305 citations Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang et al. Land Degradation and Development profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Yuan Zeng

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuan Zeng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuan Zeng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuan Zeng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuan Zeng 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 Yuan Zeng. Yuan Zeng 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	Reduced Precipitation Frequency Decreases the Stability of the Soil Organic Carbon Pool by Altering Microbial Communities in Degraded Grasslands 2025 ·Agronomy ·Junda Chen, (unknown), Yuan Zeng, Meimei Huang, Xuechen Yang, Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso, Wei Sun, Tianxue Yang	0
2	Can Stereoscopic Density Replace Planar Density for Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation? A Case Study Using Airborne LiDAR and Landsat Data in Daxing’anling, China 2025 ·Remote Sensing ·Xuan Mu, Dan Zhao, Zhaoju Zheng, Cong Xu, (unknown), Ping Zhao, Xiaomin Li, Yong Pang, Yujin Zhao, (unknown), Yuan Zeng, Bingfang Wu	1
3	Electron beam irradiation induced structural transformation in TEM study 2025 ·Journal of Physics D Applied Physics ·Yuan Zeng, Zhihong Zhang, Huanyu Ye, Hongmei Qiu, Rongming Wang	1
4	Urban anthropogenic heat index derived from satellite data 2023 ·International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·(unknown), Bo Huang, Zhaoju Zheng, Ranhao Sun, Deyong Hu, Yuan Zeng	13
5	ZIF-8@ZIF-67 derived Fe–CoS2/CNT carbon polyhedron for enhanced electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction 2023 ·International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ·Weixin Li, (unknown), Xianghui Zeng, Cheng Gong, (unknown), Dongming Li, Yuan Zeng, Xinmiao Wang, Xinyu Pan, (unknown), Lei Zhao	17
6	Assessing the Impact of Soil on Species Diversity Estimation Based on UAV Imaging Spectroscopy in a Natural Alpine Steppe 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·Cong Xu, Yuan Zeng, Zhaoju Zheng, Dan Zhao, (unknown), Zonghan Ma, Bingfang Wu	15
7	Joule-heatable bird-nest-bioinspired/carbon nanotubes-modified sepiolite porous ceramics: An efficient, sturdy, and continuous strategy for oil recovery 2021 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Zhong Huang, Jun Zhang, Saisai Li, Gaoqian Yuan, Faliang Li, Yuan Zeng, Lei Han, Quanli Jia, Haijun Zhang, Shaowei Zhang	34
8	Human Activity Intensity Assessment by Remote Sensing in the Water Source Area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China 2019 ·Sustainability ·Wenwen Gao, Yuan Zeng, Yü Liu, Bingfang Wu	11
9	Low-Temperature High-Efficiency Preparation of TiB2 Micro-Platelets via Boro/Carbothermal Reduction in Microwave Heated Molten Salt 2019 ·Materials ·Jie Liu, Jianghao Liu, Yuan Zeng, Haijun Zhang, Zhi Li	19
10	A spatial dataset of ecosystem services in China (2010) 2018 ·China Scientific Data ·Lu Zhang, Yiyong Xiao, Hua Zheng, Weihua Xu, Fei Lü, Ling Jiang, Enming Rao, (unknown), Bingfang Wu, Yuan Zeng, Zhiyun Ouyang	8
11	Land degradation and restoration in the arid and semiarid zones of China: Quantified evidence and implications from satellites 2018 ·Land Degradation and Development ·Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang, Bingfang Wu, Yuan Zeng, Ling Luo, Bai Zhang	127
12	China's wetlands loss to urban expansion breakdown → 2018 ·Land Degradation and Development ·Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang, Jianguo Wu, Bingfang Wu, Yuan Zeng, Kaishan Song, Kunpeng Yi, Ling Luo	305
13	A Method of Auxiliary Planning for Intelligent Substation Access System Based on Security Region 2017 ·Energy and Power Engineering ·Yi Gao, (unknown), (unknown), Yuan Zeng, Yang Yang, Yingying Liu, Shengwei Li	0
14	Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital breakdown → 2016 ·Science ·Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng, Yi Xiao, Stephen Polasky, Jianguo Liu, Weihua Xu, Qiao Wang, Lu Zhang, Yang Xiao, Enming Rao, Ling Jiang, Fei Lu, Xiaoke Wang, Guangbin Yang, (unknown), Bingfang Wu, Yuan Zeng, Wu Yang, Gretchen C. Daily	1318
15	The Optimal Leaf Biochemical Selection for Mapping Species Diversity Based on Imaging Spectroscopy 2016 ·Remote Sensing ·Yujin Zhao, Yuan Zeng, Dan Zhao, Bingfang Wu, Qianjun Zhao	17
16	Millimeter wave receive beamforming with one-bit quantization 2016 ·Journal of Communications and Information Networks ·(unknown), Zhiqiang Wang, Zhihang Zhang, Yuan Zeng, (unknown)	1
17	Assessing and Correcting Topographic Effects on Forest Canopy Height Retrieval Using Airborne LiDAR Data 2015 ·Sensors ·(unknown), Dan Zhao, Yuan Zeng, Yujin Zhao, Bingfang Wu, Jianjun Zhu	30
18	[Assessment of the impacts of soil erosion on water environment based on the integration of soil erosion process and landscape pattern]. 2013 ·PubMed ·Yü Liu, Bingfang Wu, Yuan Zeng, (unknown)	2
19	[Spatio-temporal variations of vegetation cover in northern Shaanxi Province under the background of ecological restoration]. 2010 ·PubMed ·Lang Wang, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Yuan Zeng	5
20	Forest canopy BRDF simulation using Monte Carlo method 2006 ·Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ·Jianxi Huang, Bingfang Wu, Yuan Zeng, Yichen Tian	1

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