Zhongchang Sun

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Zhongchang Sun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhongchang Sun has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Environmental Engineering and 22 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Zhongchang Sun's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (35 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (17 papers). Zhongchang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (35 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (17 papers). Zhongchang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Zhongchang Sun's co-authors include Huadong Guo, Cuizhen Wang, Wenjie Du, Huiping Jiang, Qiang Xing, Xinwu Li, Dong Liang, Guoyin Cai, Fang Chen and Ru Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Zhongchang Sun

88 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Measuring and evaluating SDG indicators with Big Earth Data

2022 108 citations Huadong Guo, Dong Liang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhongchang Sun China	25	857	534	290	280	204	96	1.6k
Chao Yang China	21	786 0.9×	378 0.7×	325 1.1×	260 0.9×	113 0.6×	91	1.5k
Christina Corbane Italy	24	973 1.1×	477 0.9×	473 1.6×	352 1.3×	438 2.1×	67	2.0k
Tingbao Xu Australia	20	1.0k 1.2×	504 0.9×	333 1.1×	323 1.2×	76 0.4×	42	1.9k
Aneta J. Florczyk Italy	20	1.1k 1.2×	305 0.6×	233 0.8×	312 1.1×	213 1.0×	43	1.7k
Xinli Ke China	23	1.2k 1.4×	338 0.6×	280 1.0×	270 1.0×	145 0.7×	60	1.7k
Tengyun Hu China	14	1.1k 1.3×	606 1.1×	293 1.0×	359 1.3×	156 0.8×	22	1.5k
Bin Ai China	21	1.5k 1.8×	317 0.6×	407 1.4×	471 1.7×	99 0.5×	47	2.0k
Amin Tayyebi United States	23	1.7k 2.0×	469 0.9×	532 1.8×	422 1.5×	134 0.7×	42	2.2k
Chengbin Deng United States	21	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 2.1×	372 1.3×	530 1.9×	314 1.5×	46	2.3k
Cláudia Maria de Almeida Brazil	17	885 1.0×	454 0.9×	625 2.2×	251 0.9×	221 1.1×	87	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhongchang Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhongchang Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Zhongchang, et al.. (2025). Flood Mapping and Assessment of Crop Damage Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing: A Case Study of the “7.27” Rainstorm in Hebei Province, China. Remote Sensing. 17(5). 904–904. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Chang, Xiaoying Ouyang, Jinxin Yang, et al.. (2025). Assessing the impact of urban block-scale landscape features on the diurnal cooling of green spaces using SDGSAT-1. Ecological Indicators. 178. 113937–113937. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Zhongchang, et al.. (2025). Wetland shrinking and dust pollution in Khuzestan Iran: insights from sentinel-5 and MODIS satellites. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 13626–13626. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Jining, et al.. (2025). Monthly monitoring of urban development and renewal at the block-level in China using Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 332. 115070–115070.

Huang, Lei, Jie Liu, Zhongchang Sun, et al.. (2024). Perceiving progress and imbalance of environmental SDG indicators in China using big data. International Journal of Digital Earth. 17(1). 3 indexed citations

Yan, Jining, et al.. (2024). High-resolution mapping of GDP using multi-scale feature fusion by integrating remote sensing and POI data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 129. 103812–103812. 8 indexed citations

Wan, Xiaohua, Wenjing Zhang, Dehui Qiu, et al.. (2024). MSTCA-Net: A Novel Impervious Surface Extraction Method Based on a Multistage Transformer. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 17945–17956.

Yan, Jining, et al.. (2024). Time-series land cover change detection using deep learning-based temporal semantic segmentation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 305. 114101–114101. 35 indexed citations

Ouyang, Xiaoying, et al.. (2024). Urban land surface temperature retrieval with high-spatial resolution SDGSAT-1 thermal infrared data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 312. 114320–114320. 10 indexed citations

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Chang, Yao, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive Assessment of Sustainable Development Goal 11 at the Sub-City Scale: A Case Study of Guilin City. Remote Sensing. 15(19). 4722–4722. 3 indexed citations

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Guo, Huadong, et al.. (2023). Patterns of Typical Chinese Urban Agglomerations Based on Complex Spatial Network Analysis. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 920–920. 6 indexed citations

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Cao, Min, Min Chen, Junze Zhang, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporal changes in the causal interactions among Sustainable Development Goals in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 42 indexed citations

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Wen, Jing, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Polycentric Structure on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from China. Applied Sciences. 13(10). 5928–5928. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Yuanxu, Dongqi Sun, Weihua Liu, et al.. (2022). Using a Remote-Sensing-Based Piecewise Retrieval Algorithm to Map Chlorophyll-a Concentration in a Highland River System. Remote Sensing. 14(23). 6119–6119. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Huiping, Huadong Guo, Zhongchang Sun, et al.. (2022). Projections of urban built-up area expansion and urbanization sustainability in China's cities through 2030. Journal of Cleaner Production. 367. 133086–133086. 63 indexed citations

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Yang, Wei, Yuanxu Ma, Siyuan Wang, et al.. (2022). Differential Impacts of Climatic and Land Use Changes on Habitat Suitability and Protected Area Adequacy across the Asian Elephant’s Range. Sustainability. 14(9). 4933–4933. 8 indexed citations

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Guo, Huadong, et al.. (2021). Big Earth Data Facilitates Sustainable Development Goals. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 36(8). 874–884. 6 indexed citations

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Gong, Chen, et al.. (2019). Classification of Hainan island natural forests based on multi-source remote sensing data. China Scientific Data. 4(2). 21.86101/csdata.2018.0091.zh–21.86101/csdata.2018.0091.zh. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhongchang, Mekonnen Gebremichael, Jonas Ardö, & H.A.R. de Bruin. (2011). Mapping daily evapotranspiration and dryness index in the East African highlands using MODIS and SEVIRI data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(1). 163–170. 22 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhongchang, Xiushan Lu, & Maoyi Tian. (2009). Research and implementation of 3D modeling algorithm for mine roadway. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica. 38(3). 1 indexed citations

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