Zhifeng Liu

9.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
111 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Zhifeng Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhifeng Liu has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Environmental Engineering and 25 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Zhifeng Liu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (53 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (21 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (20 papers). Zhifeng Liu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (53 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (21 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (20 papers). Zhifeng Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Zhifeng Liu's co-authors include Chunyang He, Jianguo Wu, Qingxu Huang, Brett A. Bryan, Qun Ma, Xinhao Pan, Qiaofeng Zhang, Zihang Fang, Jingwei Li and Yang Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Zhifeng Liu

105 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions

2021 1.1k citations Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu et al. profile →
China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

2018 1.1k citations Jianguo Wu, Chunyang He et al. profile →
Extracting the dynamics of urban expansion in China using DMSP-OLS nighttime light data from 1992 to 2008

2012 629 citations Zhifeng Liu, Chunyang He et al. profile →
Urban expansion dynamics and natural habitat loss in China: a multiscale landscape perspective

2014 397 citations Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu et al. profile →
Grassland ecosystem services: a systematic review of research advances and future directions

2020 254 citations Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu et al. profile →
How do different types and landscape attributes of urban parks affect visitors' positive emotions?

2022 147 citations Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhifeng Liu China	36	4.3k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	980	111	7.0k
Qingxu Huang China	37	4.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	929 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	442 0.5×	94	6.0k
Xun Liang China	24	4.6k 1.1×	949 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	375 0.4×	58	5.7k
Xiangzheng Deng China	42	5.6k 1.3×	981 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	829 0.7×	888 0.9×	153	7.7k
Burak Güneralp United States	29	6.7k 1.5×	2.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	2.6k 2.1×	525 0.5×	67	9.9k
Mehmet Çetin Türkiye	60	2.2k 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	649 0.7×	175	8.3k
Nancy E. Golubiewski New Zealand	12	4.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.8×	363 0.4×	21	6.6k
Shuangcheng Li China	39	4.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	964 0.8×	451 0.5×	128	6.2k
Zuoqi Chen China	42	4.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	293 0.3×	104	6.3k
Xiangzheng Deng China	44	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.5×	938 0.8×	836 0.7×	766 0.8×	196	7.6k
Robert I. McDonald United States	44	3.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.7×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	85	8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhifeng Liu

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Bai, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Delineation of future urban growth boundaries on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau by integrating socioeconomic development and ecosystem services conservation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(4). 100282–100282.

Huang, Jinlu, et al.. (2025). Contamination and source-specific health risk assessment of soil heavy metals in the middle and upper reaches of the Heihe River Basin of China. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 47(4). 92–92. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Keer, Keith W. Oleson, Lei Zhao, et al.. (2025). Urban Land Expansion Amplifies Surface Warming More in Dry Climate than in Wet Climate: A Global Sensitivity Study. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(4). 2 indexed citations

Liu, Zhifeng, et al.. (2025). Inter-basin water transfer and water security: A landscape sustainability science perspective. Journal of Environmental Management. 390. 126326–126326. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Linchun, et al.. (2025). Exploring the characteristics of “Demolition for Green” and its impact on urban thermal environments: An empirical study of Beijing, China. Sustainable Cities and Society. 130. 106576–106576. 4 indexed citations

Cui, Wenquan, et al.. (2025). Potential of a novel magnetic gangue material for remediating wastewater and field co-polluted by microplastics and heavy metals. Separation and Purification Technology. 368. 133030–133030. 1 indexed citations

Guan, Dongjie, et al.. (2024). Influencing factors and the establishment of a basin ecological compensation mechanism from the perspective of water conservation: A case study of the upper Yangtze River in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 456. 142332–142332. 19 indexed citations

Zhai, Wei, Linchun Zhang, Di Xu, et al.. (2024). Urban heatwave, green spaces, and mental health: A review based on environmental health risk assessment framework. The Science of The Total Environment. 948. 174816–174816. 9 indexed citations

Fang, Xuening, Qun Ma, Zhifeng Liu, & Jian Wu. (2024). Landscape sustainability and land sustainability: A bibliometric analysis. Land Use Policy. 147. 107374–107374. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhen, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Variation of Soil Erosion Characteristics in the Qinghai Lake Basin Based on the InVEST Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(6). 4728–4728. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Kelong, et al.. (2022). Short-term impacts of trampling on selected soil and vegetation properties of alpine grassland in Qilian Mountain National Park,China. Global Ecology and Conservation. 36. e02148–e02148. 8 indexed citations

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Wei, Jianhua, et al.. (2022). A sustainable approach to repurpose discarded air filter for extended use in oil/water separation. Desalination and Water Treatment. 265. 18–26. 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Qingxu, Han Zhang, Jasper van Vliet, et al.. (2021). Patterns and Distributions of Urban Expansion in Global Watersheds. Earth s Future. 9(8). 45 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhifeng, et al.. (2020). Research Progress of Groundwater Storage Changes Monitoring in China Based on GRACE Satellite Data. Diqiu kexue jinzhan. 35(6). 643. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhifeng, et al.. (2019). Test and Calculation Situation Analysis of Thermal Conductivity of Frozen Soil. 36(2). 101–115. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Da, et al.. (2019). Modeling urban expansion in the transnational area of Changbai Mountain: A scenario analysis based on the zoned Land Use Scenario Dynamics-urban model. Sustainable Cities and Society. 50. 101622–101622. 28 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhifeng, et al.. (2016). Are the drylands in northern China sustainable? A perspective from ecological footprint dynamics from 1990 to 2010. The Science of The Total Environment. 553. 223–231. 54 indexed citations

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He, Chunyang, Qun Ma, Zhifeng Liu, & Qiaofeng Zhang. (2013). Modeling the spatiotemporal dynamics of electric power consumption in Mainland China using saturation-corrected DMSP/OLS nighttime stable light data. International Journal of Digital Earth. 7(12). 993–1014. 108 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhifeng. (2010). The Design of the Greeting Robot Based on AT89S52.

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Liu, Zhifeng. (2010). Design of an Automatic Picker for Tennis Balls Based on Remote Control Technology. 1 indexed citations

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