Yuguo Qian

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yuguo Qian is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuguo Qian has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 34 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yuguo Qian's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (38 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (29 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (28 papers). Yuguo Qian is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (38 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (29 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (28 papers). Yuguo Qian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Belgium. Yuguo Qian's co-authors include Weiqi Zhou, Lijian Han, Weifeng Li, Jingli Yan, Wenjuan Yu, Steward T. A. Pickett, Zhong Zheng, Jia Wang, Xiaoma Li and Weifeng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yuguo Qian

63 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Comparing Machine Learning Classifiers for Object-Based Land Cover Classification Using Very High Resolution Imagery

2014 313 citations Yuguo Qian, Weiqi Zhou et al. Remote Sensing profile →
Linking urbanization and air quality together: A review and a perspective on the future sustainable urban development

2022 203 citations Lijian Han, Weiqi Zhou et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuguo Qian China	28	1.8k	1.6k	1.6k	560	534	63	3.1k
Lijian Han China	26	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	521 0.9×	647 1.2×	83	2.9k
Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy Bangladesh	32	2.0k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	848 0.5×	558 1.0×	712 1.3×	109	3.2k
Ganlin Huang China	24	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	231 0.4×	665 1.2×	53	3.1k
Weifeng Li China	30	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	2.3k 1.4×	504 0.9×	811 1.5×	92	4.4k
Cui Jin China	31	2.6k 1.5×	2.1k 1.3×	1.0k 0.6×	1.7k 3.1×	1.1k 2.1×	62	4.4k
Manjula Ranagalage Sri Lanka	27	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	759 0.5×	512 0.9×	460 0.9×	62	2.5k
Xiaobing Li China	34	1.4k 0.8×	981 0.6×	893 0.6×	756 1.4×	890 1.7×	176	3.2k
Xiaoma Li China	21	2.3k 1.3×	2.8k 1.7×	2.0k 1.3×	326 0.6×	780 1.5×	42	4.1k
Kangning Huang China	18	1.6k 0.9×	706 0.4×	641 0.4×	313 0.6×	549 1.0×	41	2.5k
Hidefumi Imura Japan	20	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	761 0.5×	281 0.5×	241 0.5×	104	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuguo Qian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuguo Qian

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

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Han, Lijian, Weiqi Zhou, Weifeng Li, & Yuguo Qian. (2024). Global synergy of carbon and pollution emissions among countries with different income levels and development stages. The Science of The Total Environment. 922. 171322–171322. 6 indexed citations

Qian, Yuguo, Yuhan Zhao, Lin Tang, et al.. (2024). Short-term effects of air pollutants and meteorological factors on outpatients with allergic airway disease in Ningbo, China, 2015–2021. Public Health. 236. 52–59. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jia, Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett, & Yuguo Qian. (2024). A scaling law for predicting urban trees canopy cooling efficiency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(46). e2401210121–e2401210121. 21 indexed citations

Jin, Shiqi, Yuguo Qian, Weiqi Zhou, Wenjuan Yu, & Lijian Han. (2024). A temporal gradient approach reveals similar infrastructure composition but marked density differences along the gradient in new and old built-up areas. Landscape Ecology. 39(12). 2 indexed citations

Liu, Wen, Qi Feng, Bernard A. Engel, et al.. (2023). A probabilistic assessment of urban flood risk and impacts of future climate change. Journal of Hydrology. 618. 129267–129267. 63 indexed citations

Cao, Jie, et al.. (2023). Extreme heat events in mainland China from 1981 to 2015: Spatial patterns, temporal trends, and urbanization impacts. Sustainable Cities and Society. 100. 104999–104999. 34 indexed citations

Qin, Haiming, et al.. (2023). First Experience with Zhuhai-1 Hyperspectral Data for Urban Dominant Tree Species Classification in Shenzhen, China. Remote Sensing. 15(12). 3179–3179. 14 indexed citations

Cui, Bowen, Chaofan Xian, Baolong Han, et al.. (2023). High-resolution emission inventory of biogenic volatile organic compounds for rapidly urbanizing areas: A case of Shenzhen megacity, China. Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119754–119754. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Wen, Yuguo Qian, Lei Yao, et al.. (2021). Identifying city-scale potential and priority areas for retrofitting green roofs and assessing their runoff reduction effectiveness in urban functional zones. Journal of Cleaner Production. 332. 130064–130064. 28 indexed citations

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Zhou, Weiqi, Wenjuan Yu, Yuguo Qian, et al.. (2021). Beyond city expansion: multi-scale environmental impacts of urban megaregion formation in China. National Science Review. 9(1). nwab107–nwab107. 128 indexed citations

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Yu, Wenjuan, et al.. (2021). Quantifying Urban Vegetation Dynamics from a Process Perspective Using Temporally Dense Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing. 13(16). 3217–3217. 10 indexed citations

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Qian, Yuguo, Weiqi Zhou, Wenjuan Yu, et al.. (2020). Integrating Backdating and Transfer Learning in an Object-Based Framework for High Resolution Image Classification and Change Analysis. Remote Sensing. 12(24). 4094–4094. 13 indexed citations

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Han, Lijian, Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett, Weifeng Li, & Yuguo Qian. (2019). Risks and Causes of Population Exposure to Cumulative Fine Particulate (PM2.5) Pollution in China. Earth s Future. 7(6). 615–622. 17 indexed citations

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Zheng, Zhong, Weiqi Zhou, Jingli Yan, et al.. (2019). The higher, the cooler? Effects of building height on land surface temperatures in residential areas of Beijing. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 110. 149–156. 111 indexed citations

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Qian, Yuguo, et al.. (2019). Urban mapping needs up-to-date approaches to provide diverse perspectives of current urbanization: A novel attempt to map urban areas with nighttime light data. Landscape and Urban Planning. 195. 103709–103709. 73 indexed citations

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Li, Weifeng, Weiqi Zhou, Lijian Han, & Yuguo Qian. (2018). Uneven urban-region sprawl of China’s megaregions and the spatial relevancy in a multi-scale approach. Ecological Indicators. 97. 194–203. 13 indexed citations

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Huang, Ganlin, Weiqi Zhou, Yuguo Qian, & Brendan Fisher. (2018). Breathing the same air? Socioeconomic disparities in PM2.5 exposure and the potential benefits from air filtration. The Science of The Total Environment. 657. 619–626. 56 indexed citations

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Zheng, Zhong, et al.. (2017). Sixty-Year Changes in Residential Landscapes in Beijing: A Perspective from Both the Horizontal (2D) and Vertical (3D) Dimensions. Remote Sensing. 9(10). 992–992. 41 indexed citations

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Yu, Wenjuan, Weiqi Zhou, Yuguo Qian, & Jingli Yan. (2016). A new approach for land cover classification and change analysis: Integrating backdating and an object-based method. Remote Sensing of Environment. 177. 37–47. 155 indexed citations

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Zhou, Weiqi, Yuguo Qian, Xiaoma Li, Weifeng Li, & Lijian Han. (2013). Relationships between land cover and the surface urban heat island: seasonal variability and effects of spatial and thematic resolution of land cover data on predicting land surface temperatures. Landscape Ecology. 29(1). 153–167. 312 indexed citations

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