Yuhong Tian

8.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
82 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Yuhong Tian is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuhong Tian has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Ecology and 30 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yuhong Tian's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (33 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (24 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers). Yuhong Tian is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (33 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (24 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers). Yuhong Tian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yuhong Tian's co-authors include Ranga B. Myneni, Liming Zhou, Yuri Knyazikhin, Robert E. Dickinson, C.Y. Jim, Robert K. Kaufmann, J. L. Privette, Compton J. Tucker, M. A. Friedl and Alexander Lotsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Yuhong Tian

77 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

2002 1.6k citations Ranga B. Myneni, Yuri Knyazikhin et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

2004 725 citations Liming Zhou, Robert E. Dickinson et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuhong Tian China	36	4.4k	2.9k	2.5k	1.8k	913	82	6.5k
Lahouari Bounoua United States	30	5.1k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	2.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	715 0.8×	78	7.2k
Conghe Song United States	47	5.5k 1.2×	3.7k 1.2×	3.2k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	455 0.5×	132	8.6k
Gensuo Jia China	40	3.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	2.5k 1.3×	277 0.3×	150	6.2k
Bin Zhao China	40	2.7k 0.6×	3.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	849 0.5×	681 0.7×	143	5.9k
Chi Chen China	25	4.4k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	588 0.6×	42	6.2k
Taejin Park United States	24	3.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	530 0.6×	64	5.5k
Zaichun Zhu China	34	5.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	928 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	580 0.6×	79	6.5k
Sujong Jeong South Korea	36	3.5k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	807 0.3×	1.7k 0.9×	442 0.5×	119	5.0k
Geli Zhang China	36	3.9k 0.9×	4.0k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	894 1.0×	86	6.3k
B. H. Braswell United States	44	5.7k 1.3×	4.4k 1.5×	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	69	9.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuhong Tian

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuhong Tian

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Fiore, Arlene M., Alexandra Karambelas, Paul J. Miller, et al.. (2025). Insights Into Summertime Surface Ozone Formation From Diurnal Variations in Formaldehyde and Nitrogen Dioxide Along a Transect Through New York City. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(9).

Zhang, Bingwei, Philippe Ciais, Yiqi Luo, et al.. (2025). Higher Sensitivity of Deep Soil Root Productivity to Precipitation Changes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(9).

Tian, Yuhong, et al.. (2025). Natural Products for Regulation of Autoimmune Diseases: Chemical Diversity, Pharmacology, and Therapeutic Applications. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 22(12). e02362–e02362.

Tian, Yuhong, et al.. (2023). Assessing Spatial Accessibility of Community Hospitals for the Elderly in Beijing, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(1). 890–890. 10 indexed citations

Tian, Yuhong, et al.. (2023). Discussion on How to Improve Food Safety and Quality. 1(1).

Tian, Yuhong, et al.. (2022). Effects of Public Transport Accessibility and Property Attributes on Housing Prices in Polycentric Beijing. Sustainability. 14(22). 14743–14743. 13 indexed citations

Tian, Yuhong, et al.. (2020). Analyzing Meteorological and Chemical Conditions for Two High Ozone Events Over the New York City and Long Island Region. 5537–5540. 1 indexed citations

Tian, Yuhong, et al.. (2020). Spatial Distribution of Surface Soil Organic Carbon Density and Related Factors along an Urbanization Gradient in Beijing. Journal of Resources and Ecology. 11(5). 508–508. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Xu, Hongyan Liu, Shuang Qiu, et al.. (2017). An Improved Estimation of Regional Fractional Woody/Herbaceous Cover Using Combined Satellite Data and High-Quality Training Samples. Remote Sensing. 9(1). 32–32. 16 indexed citations

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Zhou, Liming, Yuhong Tian, Somnath Baidya Roy, Yongjiu Dai, & Haishan Chen. (2012). Diurnal and seasonal variations of wind farm impacts on land surface temperature over western Texas. Climate Dynamics. 41(2). 307–326. 53 indexed citations

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Tian, Yuhong. (2011). Competition between growth of herb and shrub in slope protection with plant community. Journal of Northeast Normal University. 3 indexed citations

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Yu, Yunyue, Dan Tarpley, J. L. Privette, et al.. (2011). Validation of GOES-R Satellite Land Surface Temperature Algorithm Using SURFRAD Ground Measurements and Statistical Estimates of Error Properties. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 50(3). 704–713. 70 indexed citations

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Jiang, Le, Felix Kogan, Wei Guo, et al.. (2010). Real‐time weekly global green vegetation fraction derived from advanced very high resolution radiometer‐based NOAA operational global vegetation index (GVI) system. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115(D11). 67 indexed citations

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Tian, Yuhong, Cheng‐Zhi Zou, Kenneth E. Mitchell, et al.. (2008). Improvements of numerical weather predictions using a new AVHRR green vegetation fraction dataset. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7085. 70850N–70850N. 2 indexed citations

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Dickinson, Robert E., et al.. (2008). Dynamics of leaf area for climate and weather models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 113(D16). 13 indexed citations

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Huang, Dong, Yuri Knyazikhin, Robert E. Dickinson, et al.. (2006). Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing and model applications. Remote Sensing of Environment. 106(1). 106–122. 128 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenbo, et al.. (2006). Crop Growth Monitoring Based on the MODIS Data. 1000. 1362–1365. 2 indexed citations

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Lotsch, Alexander, Yuhong Tian, M. A. Friedl, & Ranga B. Myneni. (2003). Land cover mapping in support of LAI and FPAR retrievals from EOS-MODIS and MISR: Classification methods and sensitivities to errors. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 24(10). 1997–2016. 79 indexed citations

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Tian, Yuhong, Yujie Wang, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2002). Radiative transfer based scaling of LAI retrievals from reflectance data of different resolutions. Remote Sensing of Environment. 84(1). 143–159. 104 indexed citations

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Myneni, Ranga B., Yuri Knyazikhin, Yuhong Tian, et al.. (1999). MODIS Leaf Area Index (LAI) And Fraction Of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Absorbed By Vegetation (FPAR) Product. 125 indexed citations

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