Yude Pan

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
80 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Yude Pan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yude Pan has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yude Pan's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (36 papers), Forest ecology and management (26 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (19 papers). Yude Pan is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (36 papers), Forest ecology and management (26 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (19 papers). Yude Pan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yude Pan's co-authors include Richard A. Birdsey, Oliver L. Phillips, Robert B. Jackson, Jingyun Fang, Liming He, Jerry M. Melillo, Tianxiang Luo, John Hom, Jing M. Chen and Chengjun Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yude Pan

77 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests

2013 656 citations Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey et al. profile →
Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

2015 648 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Jeffrey A. Hicke et al. New Phytologist profile →
The enduring world forest carbon sink

2024 202 citations Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yude Pan United States	32	3.6k	2.0k	1.5k	986	802	80	5.1k
Pierre Y. Bernier Canada	43	3.8k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	737 0.9×	143	5.6k
Jennifer C. Jenkins United States	25	3.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	504 0.5×	1.0k 1.3×	40	4.9k
Anja Rammig Germany	38	4.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	494 0.6×	116	6.2k
G. Stinson Canada	24	3.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	649 0.7×	766 1.0×	33	4.3k
Michael J. Apps Canada	36	3.9k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	839 1.0×	74	5.8k
Miles R. Silman United States	34	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	852 0.9×	967 1.2×	69	5.0k
John Grace United Kingdom	38	4.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	763 1.0×	95	6.7k
Heidi Asbjornsen United States	40	3.2k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	350 0.4×	129	5.3k
Alexander Knohl Germany	42	5.7k 1.6×	1.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.5×	1.9k 2.0×	759 0.9×	142	7.6k
Ted R. Feldpausch United Kingdom	29	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	504 0.5×	700 0.9×	77	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yude Pan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yude Pan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yude Pan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xiaosong, Graciela Metternicht, Alan Grainger, et al.. (2025). Land productivity declines in the GGW while human contributions to restoration far outweighing degradation. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 34948–34948. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Yude, Richard A. Birdsey, Oliver L. Phillips, et al.. (2024). The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature. 631(8021). 563–569. 202 indexed citations breakdown →

Pan, Yude, Robert B. Jackson, David Y. Hollinger, et al.. (2022). Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(3). 315–323. 29 indexed citations

Zhang, Lin, Yang Liu, Wei Shen, et al.. (2022). Enhanced leaf turnover and nitrogen recycling sustain CO2 fertilization effect on tree-ring growth. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(9). 1271–1278. 20 indexed citations

Zhu, Jianxiao, Chuankuan Wang, Zhou Zhang, et al.. (2020). Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight permanent forest plots in China. Biogeosciences. 17(3). 715–726. 18 indexed citations

Zhu, Jianxiao, Chuankuan Wang, Zhou Zhang, et al.. (2019). Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight typical forests in China. 1 indexed citations

Ballantyne, Ashley P., William K. Smith, William R. L. Anderegg, et al.. (2017). Accelerating net terrestrial carbon uptake during the warming hiatus due to reduced respiration. Nature Climate Change. 7(2). 148–152. 158 indexed citations

Li, Peijun, Jieshun Zhu, Zhaodi Guo, et al.. (2016). The relative contributions of forest growth and areal expansion to forest biomass carbon. Biogeosciences. 13(2). 375–388. 39 indexed citations

Anderegg, William R. L., Jeffrey A. Hicke, Rosie A. Fisher, et al.. (2015). Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate. New Phytologist. 208(3). 674–683. 648 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kauppi, Pekka E., Richard A. Birdsey, Yude Pan, et al.. (2015). Effects of land management on large trees and carbon stocks. Biogeosciences. 12(3). 855–862. 22 indexed citations

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Guo, Zhaodi, et al.. (2014). Increasing biomass carbon stocks in trees outside forests in China over the last three decades. Biogeosciences. 11(15). 4115–4122. 27 indexed citations

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Deng, Feng, Jing M. Chen, Yude Pan, et al.. (2013). Forest stand age information improves an inverse North American carbon flux estimate. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fangmin, Jing M. Chen, Yude Pan, et al.. (2012). Attributing carbon changes in conterminous U.S. forests to disturbance and non‐disturbance factors from 1901 to 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(G2). 120 indexed citations

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Mariotti, Annarita, Yude Pan, Ning Zeng, & Andrea Alessandri. (2012). Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 2 indexed citations

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Pan, Yude, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, et al.. (2011). A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests. Science. 333(6045). 988–993. 8 indexed citations

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Pan, Yude, et al.. (2011). Attributing carbon sinks in conterminous US forests to disturbance and non-disturbance factors from 1901 to 2010. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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He, Liming, et al.. (2010). Relationships between net primary productivity and forest stand age derived from Forest Inventory and Analysis data and remote sensing imagery. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 3 indexed citations

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Birdsey, Richard A., Jennifer C. Jenkins, Mark Johnston, et al.. (2007). North American forests. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 15(3). 236–9. 19 indexed citations

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Pan, Yude, John Hom, Jennifer C. Jenkins, & Richard A. Birdsey. (2004). Importance of Foliar Nitrogen Concentration to Predict Forest Productivity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Forest Science. 50(3). 279–289. 28 indexed citations

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Luo, Tianxiang, Ji Luo, & Yude Pan. (2004). Leaf traits and associated ecosystem characteristics across subtropical and timberline forests in the Gongga Mountains, Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Oecologia. 142(2). 261–273. 60 indexed citations

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