Yunfei Chen

404 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 281 citations indexed

About

Yunfei Chen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunfei Chen has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 281 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Water Science and Technology and 6 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yunfei Chen's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (3 papers). Yunfei Chen is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (3 papers). Yunfei Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Yunfei Chen's co-authors include Xiuhua Liu, Ce Zheng, Yandong Ma, Yudong Lu, Wei Yan, Yi He, Hong Jiang, Vikas Kumar, Yi Hu and Cheng Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hydrology and Geoderma.

In The Last Decade

Yunfei Chen

16 papers receiving 273 citations

Hit Papers

NDVI-based vegetation dynamics and their responses to cli... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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. NDVI-based vegetation dynamics and their responses to climate change and human activities from 1982 to 2020: A case study in the Mu Us Sandy Land, China
    2022 148 citations Ce Zheng, Xiuhua Liu et al. Ecological Indicators profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yunfei Chen China 9 167 114 64 43 40 20 281
Haixia Miao China 5 394 2.4× 98 0.9× 98 1.5× 53 1.2× 190 4.8× 9 477
Zhenwu Xu China 9 233 1.4× 106 0.9× 70 1.1× 39 0.9× 126 3.1× 25 327
Scott J. Ketcheson Canada 13 108 0.6× 343 3.0× 111 1.7× 42 1.0× 58 1.4× 26 447
Zihan Jiang China 9 119 0.7× 120 1.1× 89 1.4× 60 1.4× 34 0.8× 15 380
Dorota Mirosław‐Świątek Poland 12 154 0.9× 219 1.9× 40 0.6× 43 1.0× 168 4.2× 46 380
Haibin Liang China 9 207 1.2× 80 0.7× 71 1.1× 39 0.9× 78 1.9× 15 326
Sylvain Jutras Canada 14 151 0.9× 183 1.6× 169 2.6× 72 1.7× 103 2.6× 44 458
Sean A. Hudson United States 7 166 1.0× 90 0.8× 50 0.8× 37 0.9× 78 1.9× 9 311
Elizabeth L. Cressey United Kingdom 9 171 1.0× 69 0.6× 59 0.9× 31 0.7× 24 0.6× 16 264
Mohammad M. Sohrabi United States 7 266 1.6× 72 0.6× 122 1.9× 65 1.5× 146 3.6× 12 394

Countries citing papers authored by Yunfei Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yunfei Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yunfei Chen. 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 Yunfei Chen. The network helps show where Yunfei Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yunfei Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yunfei Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yunfei Chen 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 Yunfei Chen. Yunfei Chen 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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Chen, Yunfei, Bin Wu, Hailiang Xu, et al.. (2025). Enhancing water use efficiency: Insights from hydrological variability encounter of multiple water sources and implications for terminal Lake management in arid regions. Ecological Indicators. 175. 113564–113564. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Bin, Fan Gao, Yunfei Chen, et al.. (2025). Dynamic simulation and key influencing factors of carbon storage in the water-depleted zones of an arid Inland River Basin: Insights from the Tarim River mainstream. Ecological Informatics. 90. 103286–103286. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunfei, Bin Wu, Fan Gao, et al.. (2025). Multiple temporal scale variation characteristics and driving factors of arid inland runoff: A case study of Urumqi River, China. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 58. 102298–102298. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunfei, Xiuhua Liu, Yandong Ma, et al.. (2024). Regulating and remolding of soil water flux by sparse shrubs in arid desert regions. CATENA. 245. 108285–108285. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunfei, et al.. (2024). Error analysis and correction for three-dimensional scaled physical experiments on landslide-induced impulse waves. Physics of Fluids. 36(8). 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunfei, et al.. (2023). Variability analysis and the conservation capacity of soil water storage under different vegetation types in arid regions. CATENA. 230. 107269–107269. 23 indexed citations
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Zheng, Ce, et al.. (2023). Water transfer mechanisms and vapor flow effects in seasonally frozen soils. Journal of Hydrology. 627. 130401–130401. 11 indexed citations
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Yueping, Yin, et al.. (2023). A 3D slice–based analytical calculation formula for the reservoir landslide velocity. Landslides. 20(10). 2095–2110. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunfei, et al.. (2023). Estimation of water budget components and its driving factors analysis in arid grassland. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167654–167654. 11 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunfei, et al.. (2022). Seasonal hydrological traits in Salix psammophila and its responses to soil moisture and meteorological factors in desert areas. Ecological Indicators. 136. 108626–108626. 16 indexed citations
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Zheng, Ce, Xiuhua Liu, Yudong Lu, et al.. (2022). NDVI-based vegetation dynamics and their responses to climate change and human activities from 1982 to 2020: A case study in the Mu Us Sandy Land, China. Ecological Indicators. 137. 108745–108745. 148 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Gang, Wenhao Jiang, Yunfei Chen, et al.. (2020). Effect of oil source on growth performance, antioxidant capacity, fatty acid composition and fillet quality of juvenile grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella). Aquaculture Nutrition. 26(4). 1186–1197. 21 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunfei, et al.. (2019). Spatial distribution and cause of salinization of shallow groundwater in plain terrain of the Yarkant River Basin, Xinjiang. Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao. 35(23). 135–143. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Furong, et al.. (2015). Effects of biochar on saline soil improvement and melon growth.. Shanghai nongye xuebao. 31(1). 54–58. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Cheng, Hong Jiang, Guomo Zhou, Shuang Yang, & Yunfei Chen. (2013). [Variation characteristics of CO2 flux in Phyllostachys edulis forest ecosystem in subtropical region of China].. PubMed. 24(10). 2717–24. 13 indexed citations
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Song, Xiaoping, Yajie Wang, Jingjing Cai, Songsheng Lu, & Yunfei Chen. (2012). Interaction of U(VI) with Na-attapulgite in the presence and absence of humic acid as a function of pH, ionic strength and temperature. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 295(1). 685–695. 8 indexed citations

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