Yue Li

14.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
199 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Yue Li is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yue Li has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 72 papers in Ecology and 62 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yue Li's work include Climate variability and models (37 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (30 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (16 papers). Yue Li is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (37 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (30 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (16 papers). Yue Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Yue Li's co-authors include Shilong Piao, Zhenzhong Zeng, Philippe Ciais, Shushi Peng, Ranga B. Myneni, Anping Chen, Bojie Fu, Xiaohui Jiang, Xiaoming Feng and Yihe Lü 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

Yue Li

190 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sust... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2016 2014 2015 2015 2018 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits
    2016 1.6k citations Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  2. Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years
    2014 708 citations Shilong Piao, Yue Li et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  3. Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth
    2015 473 citations Shilong Piao, Liming Zhou et al. profile →
  4. Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature
    2015 463 citations Shilong Piao, Anping Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China
    2018 410 citations Yue Li, Shilong Piao et al. Science Advances profile →
  6. Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades
    2017 390 citations Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
  7. Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
    2020 362 citations Xu Lian, Shilong Piao et al. Science Advances profile →
  8. The impact of the 2009/2010 drought on vegetation growth and terrestrial carbon balance in Southwest China
    2019 290 citations Yue Li, Anping Chen et al. profile →
  9. Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests
    2022 121 citations Yue Li, David M. Lawrence et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Yue Li
Tao Wang China
Thomas W. Giambelluca United States
Marcos Heil Costa Brazil
Zhenzhong Zeng China
Katharine Hayhoe United States
Govindasamy Bala India
Alexis Berg United States
Steven K. Rose United States
Claudia Kuenzer Germany
Nicolas Viovy France
Tao Wang China
Yue Li
Citations per year, relative to Yue Li Yue Li (= 1×) peers Tao Wang

Countries citing papers authored by Yue Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yue Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yue Li. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yue Li. The network helps show where Yue Li may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yue Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yue Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yue Li 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 Yue Li. Yue Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yuan, Xiaoling, et al.. (2025). The spatiotemporal evolution of green development in western China under the main functional planning of national land space. Ecological Indicators. 177. 113752–113752. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yue, Gang Tang, Eleanor O’Rourke, et al.. (2025). CMIP7 Data Request: Land and Land Ice Priorities and Opportunities. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Qiming, et al.. (2024). Current progress in subseasonal-to-decadal prediction based on machine learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 24. 100201–100201. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Ping, Jie Zhang, Yan Liu, et al.. (2024). Sediment source-to-sink patterns along the southeast China coast during the late Quaternary: New insights from sediment geochemistry and OSL ages in Ningde Bay. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 656. 112577–112577.
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Chen, Chi, Yang Li, Xuhui Wang, et al.. (2024). Biophysical effects of croplands on land surface temperature. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10901–10901. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). Wildfire‐induced increases in photosynthesis in boreal forest ecosystems of North America. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17151–e17151. 11 indexed citations
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Gao, Peng, et al.. (2023). Effects of combustion temperature on the optical properties of brown carbon from biomass burning. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 137. 302–309. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Yue, Yougui Song, Xinzhou Li, et al.. (2023). Disentangling variations of dust concentration in Greenland ice cores over the last glaciation: An overview of current knowledge and new initiative. Earth-Science Reviews. 242. 104451–104451. 10 indexed citations
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Xu, Bo, Haofei Yu, Zongbo Shi, et al.. (2023). Knowledge-guided machine learning reveals pivotal drivers for gas-to-particle conversion of atmospheric nitrate. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 19. 100333–100333. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Shaopeng, Pu Jia, Xiang Liu, et al.. (2021). Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment. Ecology Letters. 25(4). 778–789. 63 indexed citations
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Li, Maomao, et al.. (2020). Impact of sub-watershed characteristics and changes on sediment DOM quantity and quality over Jiaozhou Bay. Ecological Indicators. 118. 106777–106777. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Maomao, Fanlong Kong, Yue Li, Junlong Zhang, & Min Xi. (2020). Ecological indication based on source, content, and structure characteristics of dissolved organic matter in surface sediment from Dagu River estuary, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(36). 45499–45512. 16 indexed citations
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Li, Yue, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, et al.. (2018). Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China. Science Advances. 4(5). eaar4182–eaar4182. 410 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xi, Min, et al.. (2016). Growth Dynamics and Empirical Formula for Biomass Evalution of Aboveground Part of Phragmites australis in Jiaozhou BayWetlands. 14(6). 824. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Lei, et al.. (2015). [Response of Phytoplankton Functional Groups to Eutrophication in Summer at Xiaoguan Reservoir].. PubMed. 36(12). 4436–43. 1 indexed citations

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