Zhifeng Yan

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Zhifeng Yan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhifeng Yan has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhifeng Yan's work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers). Zhifeng Yan is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers). Zhifeng Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Zhifeng Yan's co-authors include Si‐Liang Li, Chongxuan Liu, Vanessa Bailey, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Cong‐Qiang Liu, Fu‐Jun Yue, Cai Li, Jun Zhong and Zhongjun Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Zhifeng Yan

91 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Monitoring phycocyanin in global inland waters by remote ... 2025 2026 2025 10 20 30
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. Monitoring phycocyanin in global inland waters by remote sensing: Progress and future developments
    2025 30 citations Chong Fang, Kaishan Song et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhifeng Yan China 22 487 369 326 280 259 102 2.0k
Yukun Hu China 21 285 0.6× 365 1.0× 360 1.1× 119 0.4× 66 0.3× 96 1.6k
Zhen Wang China 30 577 1.2× 437 1.2× 276 0.8× 80 0.3× 81 0.3× 205 3.1k
Xueyan Liu China 39 318 0.7× 415 1.1× 772 2.4× 108 0.4× 303 1.2× 181 4.8k
Timothy J. Sullivan United States 29 725 1.5× 219 0.6× 525 1.6× 67 0.2× 252 1.0× 119 3.4k
Amitava Chatterjee United States 32 808 1.7× 1.1k 2.9× 410 1.3× 438 1.6× 67 0.3× 171 3.4k
Kathleen F. Lambert United States 18 234 0.5× 218 0.6× 678 2.1× 61 0.2× 153 0.6× 30 2.8k
Tony Hall Australia 24 195 0.4× 367 1.0× 228 0.7× 41 0.1× 141 0.5× 77 2.5k
Mengni Zhang China 24 291 0.6× 363 1.0× 158 0.5× 233 0.8× 46 0.2× 89 1.9k
Jie Zhou China 34 1.5k 3.1× 201 0.5× 315 1.0× 191 0.7× 37 0.1× 130 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhifeng Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhifeng Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhifeng Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhifeng Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhifeng Yan 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 Zhifeng Yan. Zhifeng Yan 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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Liu, Xin, Fu‐Jun Yue, Li Li, et al.. (2025). Chronic nitrogen legacy in the aquifers of China. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 6 indexed citations
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Shi, Weiwei, Hongxiang Fan, Qingqing Sun, et al.. (2025). Estimating CO2 and CH4 fluxes from reservoirs: Model development and site-level study. Journal of Hydrology. 654. 132794–132794. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Chunmei, Zhifeng Yan, Hang Wen, et al.. (2025). Earth Critical Zone science and global change research. Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version). 70(32). 5483–5497.
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Audet, Joachim, Chris Evans, Sarian Kosten, et al.. (2025). The Importance of Ditches and Canals in Global Inland Water CO2 and N2O Budgets. Global Change Biology. 31(3). e70079–e70079. 6 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhifeng, Jinshi Jian, Shushi Peng, et al.. (2025). Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements. Global Change Biology. 31(4). e70194–e70194. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhifeng, Chong Fang, Kaishan Song, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal variation in biomass abundance of different algal species in Lake Hulun using machine learning and Sentinel-3 images. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 2739–2739. 5 indexed citations
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Yan, Sha, et al.. (2025). Global patterns and driving factors of the carbon accumulation rate in coastal wetlands. Earth-Science Reviews. 269. 105199–105199. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Guirui, Zhi Chen, Tiejun Wang, et al.. (2024). Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Controls Interannual Variability of Net Primary Production in the Bohai Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(11). 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhifeng, Runxia Gu, Haotian Ma, et al.. (2024). A dual-targeting approach with anti-IL10R CAR-T cells engineered to release anti-CD33 bispecific antibody in enhancing killing effect on acute myeloid leukemia cells. Cellular Oncology. 47(5). 1879–1895. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifan, Lin Fu, Rui-Xin Zhang, et al.. (2023). High-performance Mo2C/MWCNT electrocatalyst for MOR: Comparison with MoO2/MWCNT and MoO3/MWCNT. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(83). 32408–32419. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Nan, et al.. (2023). Risk factors of lymph node metastasis in patients with type II endometrial carcinoma: a retrospective signle-center study. European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhifeng, Siyue Li, Sophie Comer‐Warner, et al.. (2023). Agricultural ditches are hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions controlled by nutrient input. Water Research. 242. 120271–120271. 37 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhifeng, et al.. (2023). Research on failure behavior of 18CrNiMo7-6 steel. Engineering Failure Analysis. 150. 107306–107306. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Nan, Dong Tong, Wenjing Shi, et al.. (2023). Carbon dot decorated Co3O4 nanozymes responsive to the NIR-II window for mild photothermal-enhanced nanocatalytic therapy. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 11(27). 6372–6382. 13 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhifeng, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the effect of acute ammonia toxicity in a freshwater ecological environment on the growth and hematological functioning of Clarias gariepinus. Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology—AQUA. 71(3). 464–477.
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Li, Si‐Liang, Xin Liu, Fu‐Jun Yue, et al.. (2022). Nitrogen dynamics in the Critical Zones of China. Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment. 46(6). 869–888. 28 indexed citations
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Li, Si‐Liang, et al.. (2020). Understanding nutrient allocation based on leaf nitrogen isotopes and elemental ratios in the karst region of Southwest China. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 294. 106864–106864. 17 indexed citations

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