Yuanwei Qin

12.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
112 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Yuanwei Qin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuanwei Qin has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 71 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yuanwei Qin's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (64 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (45 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (25 papers). Yuanwei Qin is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (64 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (45 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (25 papers). Yuanwei Qin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Yuanwei Qin's co-authors include Xiangming Xiao, Jinwei Dong, Geli Zhang, Russell Doughty, Berrien Moore, Zhenhua Zou, Yao Zhang, Michael A. Menarguez, Xiaocui Wu and Çhandrashekhar Biradar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yuanwei Qin

108 papers receiving 9.1k 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.

Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of land-use changes in China since the late 1980s

2014 1.5k citations Jiyuan Liu, Wenhui Kuang et al. profile →
Mapping paddy rice planting area in northeastern Asia with Landsat 8 images, phenology-based algorithm and Google Earth Engine

2016 616 citations Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao et al. profile →
A global moderate resolution dataset of gross primary production of vegetation for 2000–2016

2017 421 citations Yao Zhang, Xiangming Xiao et al. profile →
A mangrove forest map of China in 2015: Analysis of time series Landsat 7/8 and Sentinel-1A imagery in Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform

2017 344 citations Bangqian Chen, Xiangping Li et al. profile →
Mapping cropping intensity in China using time series Landsat and Sentinel-2 images and Google Earth Engine

2019 272 citations Xiangming Xiao, Yuanwei Qin et al. profile →
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

2021 222 citations Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao et al. profile →
Mapping coastal wetlands of China using time series Landsat images in 2018 and Google Earth Engine

2020 217 citations Xinxin Wang, Zhenhua Zou et al. profile →
Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration

2021 211 citations Xinxin Wang, Xiangming Xiao et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Post-2020 biodiversity framework challenged by cropland expansion in protected areas

2023 86 citations Jinwei Dong, Yuanwei Qin et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuanwei Qin United States	45	6.3k	5.2k	2.3k	2.1k	992	112	9.3k
Simon Ilyushchenko United States	5	5.1k 0.8×	4.6k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	991 1.0×	6	9.7k
Mike Dixon United States	8	5.0k 0.8×	4.4k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	10	9.5k
Xiang Gao China	28	5.8k 0.9×	6.4k 1.2×	3.5k 1.5×	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	112	10.7k
Jiyuan Liu China	41	7.1k 1.1×	4.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	929 0.9×	201	10.2k
Claudia Kuenzer Germany	61	4.9k 0.8×	4.2k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	210	11.3k
Kamel Didan United States	22	5.7k 0.9×	7.0k 1.3×	3.1k 1.4×	1.7k 0.8×	733 0.7×	50	9.4k
Brian Wardlow United States	42	5.6k 0.9×	4.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	961 1.0×	109	8.8k
Geli Zhang China	36	3.9k 0.6×	4.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	611 0.6×	86	6.3k
Jinwei Dong China	65	8.2k 1.3×	7.5k 1.4×	3.4k 1.5×	3.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	275	13.6k
Zongming Wang China	52	4.3k 0.7×	4.8k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	888 0.9×	286	8.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuanwei Qin

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

Zhang, Chenchen, Xiangming Xiao, Xinxin Wang, et al.. (2025). Climate-induced losses of surface water and total water storage in Northeast Asia. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Hu, Ying, Fangli Wei, Bojie Fu, et al.. (2024). Divergent patterns of rainfall regimes in dry and humid areas of China. Journal of Hydrology. 636. 131243–131243. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Jie, Xiangming Xiao, Yuanwei Qin, et al.. (2024). Annual maps of forest and evergreen forest in the contiguous United States during 2015–2017 from analyses of PALSAR-2 and Landsat images. Earth system science data. 16(10). 4619–4639. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Chenchen, Xiangming Xiao, Xinxin Wang, et al.. (2023). Mapping wetlands in Northeast China by using knowledge-based algorithms and microwave (PALSAR-2, Sentinel-1), optical (Sentinel-2, Landsat), and thermal (MODIS) images. Journal of Environmental Management. 349. 119618–119618. 7 indexed citations

Xia, Xiaosheng, Jiangzhou Xia, Xiuzhi Chen, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing Long‐Term Forest Cover in China by Fusing National Forest Inventory and 20 Land Use and Land Cover Data Sets. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(4). 30 indexed citations

Li, Han, Fu Xu, Zhichao Li, et al.. (2021). Forest Changes by Precipitation Zones in Northern China after the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program in China. Remote Sensing. 13(4). 543–543. 21 indexed citations

Wang, Xinxin, Xiangming Xiao, Xiao Xu, et al.. (2021). Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration. Nature Sustainability. 4(12). 1076–1083. 211 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Geli, Xiangming Xiao, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2021). Reply to: “Correlation between paddy rice growth and satellite-observed methane column abundance does not imply causation”. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Geli, Xiangming Xiao, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2020). Fingerprint of rice paddies in spatial–temporal dynamics of atmospheric methane concentration in monsoon Asia. Nature Communications. 11(1). 554–554. 98 indexed citations

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Qin, Yuanwei, Xiangming Xiao, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2019). Improved estimates of forest cover and loss in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000–2017. Nature Sustainability. 2(8). 764–772. 87 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hui, Fu Xu, Jinwei Dong, et al.. (2019). Tracking Reforestation in the Loess Plateau, China after the “Grain for Green” Project through Integrating PALSAR and Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing. 11(22). 2685–2685. 22 indexed citations

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Kou, Weili, Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao, et al.. (2018). Expansion dynamics of deciduous rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, China during 2000–2010. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 55(6). 905–925. 37 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhiqi, Jinwei Dong, Yuanwei Qin, et al.. (2018). Integrated Analyses of PALSAR and Landsat Imagery Reveal More Agroforests in a Typical Agricultural Production Region, North China Plain. Remote Sensing. 10(9). 1323–1323. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Yao, Xiangping Li, Jun Ma, et al.. (2017). Multi-scale assessments of forest fragmentation in China. Biodiversity Science. 25(4). 372–381. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhiqi, Jinwei Dong, Jiyuan Liu, et al.. (2017). Accuracy Assessment and Inter-Comparison of Eight Medium Resolution Forest Products on the Loess Plateau, China. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 6(5). 152–152. 27 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yan, Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao, et al.. (2017). Open Surface Water Mapping Algorithms: A Comparison of Water-Related Spectral Indices and Sensors. Water. 9(4). 256–256. 200 indexed citations

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Wang, Jie, Xiangming Xiao, Yuanwei Qin, et al.. (2015). Mapping paddy rice planting area in wheat-rice double-cropped areas through integration of Landsat-8 OLI, MODIS and PALSAR images. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 10088–10088. 74 indexed citations

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Qin, Yuanwei, et al.. (2009). Restoration and reutilization evaluation of coastal saline-alkaline degraded lands in Yellow River Delta.. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 25(11). 306–311. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Baihong, et al.. (2009). A study of remote sensing detection of salt-affected coastal land degradation in the Yellow River Delta.. ACTA AGRICULTURAE UNIVERSITATIS JIANGXIENSIS. 31(6). 1166–1171. 3 indexed citations

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Qin, Yuanwei, et al.. (2009). Winter wheat yield estimation based on high and moderate resolution remote sensing data at county level.. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 25(7). 118–123. 4 indexed citations

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