Zhanghua Xu

622 total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 446 citations indexed

About

Zhanghua Xu is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhanghua Xu has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 446 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Zhanghua Xu's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (11 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers). Zhanghua Xu is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (11 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers). Zhanghua Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Malaysia and United States. Zhanghua Xu's co-authors include Qianfeng Wang, Yue Zeng, Jingyu Zeng, Rongrong Zhang, Wei Shui, Junyu Qi, Xiaoping Wu, Xuesong Zhang, Xiong Yao and Zenglu Li and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Frontiers in Plant Science.

In The Last Decade

Zhanghua Xu

34 papers receiving 438 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A multi-scale daily SPEI dataset for drought characterization at observation stations over mainland China from 1961 to 2018

2021 161 citations Qianfeng Wang, Jingyu Zeng et al. Earth system science data profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhanghua Xu China	11	256	166	95	93	78	40	446
Chaoya Dang China	12	354 1.4×	204 1.2×	129 1.4×	68 0.7×	111 1.4×	30	547
Malak Henchiri China	12	335 1.3×	200 1.2×	72 0.8×	56 0.6×	105 1.3×	22	486
Gao Lin China	8	187 0.7×	252 1.5×	151 1.6×	71 0.8×	95 1.2×	28	434
Zalán Tobak Hungary	11	134 0.5×	121 0.7×	162 1.7×	50 0.5×	66 0.8×	30	363
Jai Singh Parihar India	13	191 0.7×	223 1.3×	159 1.7×	89 1.0×	115 1.5×	24	477
M. V. R. Seshasai India	10	216 0.8×	116 0.7×	65 0.7×	59 0.6×	112 1.4×	26	332
Boudewijn van Leeuwen Hungary	10	141 0.6×	104 0.6×	159 1.7×	41 0.4×	77 1.0×	30	346
Abhishek Chakraborty India	11	221 0.9×	126 0.8×	91 1.0×	57 0.6×	96 1.2×	28	391
Onur Şatır Türkiye	9	238 0.9×	142 0.9×	90 0.9×	95 1.0×	39 0.5×	22	429
Muhammad Amin Pakistan	9	202 0.8×	101 0.6×	124 1.3×	57 0.6×	79 1.0×	27	361

Countries citing papers authored by Zhanghua Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhanghua Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhanghua Xu

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

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Yao, Xiong, et al.. (2025). How to quantify the improvement effect of the park on urban eco-environmental quality? Remote sensing-based multisource data analysis. Sustainable Cities and Society. 131. 106694–106694.

Meng, Fanyu, et al.. (2025). LAI Mapping of Winter Moso Bamboo Forests Using Zhuhai-1 Hyperspectral Images and a PSO-SVM Model. Forests. 16(3). 464–464.

Liu, Wenyu, et al.. (2025). Spatial distribution and driving factors of carbon emission in a furnace city using Luojia1–01 nighttime data and optimal parameters-based geodetector. Urban Climate. 61. 102462–102462. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, et al.. (2025). A novel method for detecting brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål) early infestation using dual-temporal hyperspectral images. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1680474–1680474.

Xu, Zhanghua, et al.. (2025). Monitoring Moso bamboo ( Phyllostachys pubescens ) forests damage caused by Pantana phyllostachysae Chao considering phenological differences between on-year and off-year using UAV hyperspectral images. Geo-spatial Information Science. 28(6). 2690–2708. 2 indexed citations

Li, Haitao, Zhanghua Xu, Yifan Li, et al.. (2025). Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Estimation and Spatial Scale Effect of Leaf Area Index in Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) Forests Under the Stress of Pantana phyllostachysae Chao. Forests. 16(4). 575–575.

Ju, Weimin, et al.. (2024). A Novel Method for Mapping Moso Bamboo Forests Using Remote Sensing Data With the Consideration of Phenological Status. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–18. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Zhanghua, et al.. (2024). Changing Relationship between Specific Leaf Area and Leaf Matter Dry Content of Moso Bamboo Phyllostachys pubescens syn. edulis (Poales: Poaceae) under the Stress of Pantana phyllostachysae (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae). Forests. 15(3). 540–540. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Zhanghua, Zhenbang Hao, Lin Wang, et al.. (2023). Mapping of bamboo forest bright and shadow areas using optical and SAR satellite data in Google Earth Engine. Geocarto International. 38(1). 8 indexed citations

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Li, Yifan, Zhanghua Xu, Zhenbang Hao, et al.. (2023). A comparative study of the performances of joint RFE with machine learning algorithms for extracting Moso bamboo ( Phyllostachys pubescens ) forest based on UAV hyperspectral images. Geocarto International. 38(1). 10 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhanghua, Bin Li, Huafeng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Changing Relationships between Water Content and Spectral Features in Moso Bamboo Leaves under Pantana phyllostachysae Chao Stress. Forests. 14(4). 702–702. 8 indexed citations

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Luo, Min, et al.. (2022). Salt-tolerant plant moderates the effect of salinity on soil organic carbon mineralization in a subtropical tidal wetland. The Science of The Total Environment. 837. 155855–155855. 17 indexed citations

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Yao, Xiong, et al.. (2022). Investigating the effects of urban morphological factors on seasonal land surface temperature in a “Furnace city” from a block perspective. Sustainable Cities and Society. 86. 104165–104165. 47 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhanghua, et al.. (2022). Changing Relationships between Nitrogen Content and Leaf Spectral Characteristics of Moso Bamboo Leaves under Pantana phyllostachysae Chao Stress. Forests. 13(11). 1752–1752. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Qianfeng, Jingyu Zeng, Junyu Qi, et al.. (2021). A multi-scale daily SPEI dataset for drought characterization at observation stations over mainland China from 1961 to 2018. Earth system science data. 13(2). 331–341. 161 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Kai, et al.. (2020). Hyperspectral Estimation Method of Chlorophyll Content in MOSO Bamboo under Pests Stress. Guangpuxue yu guangpu fenxi. 40(8). 2578. 5 indexed citations

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Tang, Jia, Jingyu Zeng, Rongrong Zhang, et al.. (2020). Self-adapting extraction of cropland phenological transitions of rotation agroecosystems using dynamically fused NDVI images. International Journal of Biometeorology. 64(8). 1273–1283. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhanghua. (2013). Estimation of leaf area index of Pinus massoniana forest by using canopy density and HJ-1 multi-spectral data. Zhiwu ziyuan yu huanjing. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Kunyong, et al.. (2012). Algorithm and Application Analysis of Film-Based & Class-Oriented for Bamboo Forest Information Extraction. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni. 51(1). 89. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Kunyong, et al.. (2010). Study on the wind-prevention and sand-fixation benefit of the coastal shelterbelt forest based on remote sensing technology.. Nanjing Linye Daxue xuebao. 34(1). 80–84. 1 indexed citations

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