Zhen Qian

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 789 citations indexed

About

Zhen Qian is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Qian has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 789 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhen Qian's work include Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (6 papers). Zhen Qian is often cited by papers focused on Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (6 papers). Zhen Qian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Zhen Qian's co-authors include Rui Zhu, Jinyue Yan, Min Chen, Kai Zhang, Teng Zhong, Zhixin Zhang, Guonian Lü, Fan Zhang, Chen Feng and Yang Yue and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Qian

39 papers receiving 763 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.

  1. Carbon mitigation potential afforded by rooftop photovoltaic in China
    2023 159 citations Zhixin Zhang, Min Chen et al. profile →

Peers

Zhen Qian
Caleb Robinson United States
Zhiling Guo Japan
Rui Cao China
Adrian Albert United States
Zhifeng Guo China
Ali Movahedi United States
Liang Cheng China
Jin Fan China
Tengfei Bao China
Wenkai Liu China
Caleb Robinson United States
Zhen Qian
Citations per year, relative to Zhen Qian Zhen Qian (= 1×) peers Caleb Robinson

Countries citing papers authored by Zhen Qian

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhen Qian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhen Qian

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhen Qian. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhen 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 Zhen Qian. Zhen Qian 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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Qiao, Zhi, et al.. (2025). Hyperbolic vision language representation learning on chest radiology images. Health Information Science and Systems. 13(1). 27–27.
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Xu, Min, Weichao Xue, Zhen Qian, et al.. (2025). A Carrier-Free Recyclable Rh/Terpyridine Catalyst for Alkene Hydroformylation: Homogeneous Catalysis and Heterogeneous Separation. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 64(3). 1488–1496. 2 indexed citations
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Cheng, Weiming, et al.. (2024). A global catalog of Martian impact craters with actual boundaries and degradation states. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 131. 103952–103952. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Min, et al.. (2024). An urban building use identification framework based on integrated remote sensing and social sensing data with spatial constraints. Geo-spatial Information Science. 28(5). 2205–2229. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhixin, et al.. (2024). Assessment of Rooftop Photovoltaic Potential Considering Building Functions. Remote Sensing. 16(16). 2993–2993. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Rui, Mei‐Po Kwan, A.T.D. Perera, et al.. (2023). GIScience can facilitate the development of solar cities for energy transition. Advances in Applied Energy. 10. 100129–100129. 31 indexed citations
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Zhu, Zhiyi, Min Chen, Zhen Qian, et al.. (2023). Documentation strategy for facilitating the reproducibility of geo-simulation experiments. Environmental Modelling & Software. 163. 105687–105687. 7 indexed citations
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Cheng, Weiming, et al.. (2023). Boundary Delineator for Martian Crater Instances with Geographic Information and Deep Learning. Remote Sensing. 15(16). 4036–4036. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhixin, Zhen Qian, Teng Zhong, et al.. (2022). Vectorized rooftop area data for 90 cities in China. Scientific Data. 9(1). 66–66. 117 indexed citations
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Qian, Zhen, Min Chen, Yang Yue, et al.. (2022). Vectorized dataset of roadside noise barriers in China using street view imagery. Earth system science data. 14(9). 4057–4076. 16 indexed citations
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Qian, Zhen, Xintao Liu, Fei Tao, & Tong Zhou. (2020). Identification of Urban Functional Areas by Coupling Satellite Images and Taxi GPS Trajectories. Remote Sensing. 12(15). 2449–2449. 44 indexed citations
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Ma, Wei, et al.. (2019). Predicting Occupancy of Parking Spaces in Transportation Networks: A Deep Learning Approach with Multi-Source Spatio-Temporal Data. Transportation Research Board 98th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations
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Qian, Zhen, et al.. (2018). Understanding and Predicting Roadway Travel Time with Spatio-temporal Features of Network Traffic Flow, Weather Conditions and Incidents. Transportation Research Board 97th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Xin, et al.. (2016). An enriched environment enhances synaptic plasticity and cognition post-stroke. Zhonghua wuli yixue zazhi. 38(9). 647–651. 1 indexed citations
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Qian, Zhen, Kan Wang, Yung-Hang Chang, et al.. (2016). 3-D PRINTING OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE-MIMICKING AORTIC ROOT USING A NOVEL META-MATERIAL TECHNIQUE: POTENTIAL CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 67(13). 7–7. 2 indexed citations
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Feng, Chen, et al.. (2014). Road Traffic Congestion Monitoring in Social Media with Hinge-Loss Markov Random Fields. 80–89. 79 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoxu, Ting Chen, Shaoting Zhang, et al.. (2014). Meshless deformable models for 3D cardiac motion and strain analysis from tagged MRI. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 33(1). 146–160. 8 indexed citations
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Kulp, Scott, Mingchen Gao, Shaoting Zhang, et al.. (2011). Using High Resolution Cardiac CT Data to Model and Visualize Patient-Specific Interactions between Trabeculae and Blood Flow. Lecture notes in computer science. 14(Pt 1). 468–475. 22 indexed citations
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Pasternack, Robert M., Zhen Qian, Jingyi Zheng, Dimitris Metaxas, & Nada N. Boustany. (2009). Highly sensitive size discrimination of sub-micron objects using optical Fourier processing based on two-dimensional Gabor filters. Optics Express. 17(14). 12001–12001. 10 indexed citations

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