Zidong Li

1.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 770 citations indexed

About

Zidong Li is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Zidong Li has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 770 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 3 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Zidong Li's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 papers). Zidong Li is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 papers). Zidong Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Zidong Li's co-authors include Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Yaping Wang, Changjia Li, Wenxin Zhou, Lindsay C. Stringer, Hanqin Tian, Shiyin Chen and Philippe Ciais and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Journal of Hydrology and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Zidong Li

11 papers receiving 756 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.

Drivers and impacts of changes in China’s drylands

2021 523 citations Changjia Li, Bojie Fu et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions

2022 117 citations Nan Lü, Hanqin Tian et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zidong Li China	9	471	237	170	147	110	14	770
Wenxin Zhou China	8	409 0.9×	239 1.0×	178 1.0×	148 1.0×	99 0.9×	13	719
Christiane W. Runyan United States	10	494 1.0×	295 1.2×	262 1.5×	152 1.0×	177 1.6×	16	1.0k
Arden Burrell Australia	8	440 0.9×	296 1.2×	90 0.5×	110 0.7×	113 1.0×	12	689
Michael Cherlet Italy	14	545 1.2×	424 1.8×	175 1.0×	138 0.9×	81 0.7×	25	929
Xinjun Zheng China	13	419 0.9×	144 0.6×	204 1.2×	237 1.6×	92 0.8×	31	775
Andreas Fries Ecuador	14	294 0.6×	257 1.1×	244 1.4×	93 0.6×	143 1.3×	28	780
Lei Jiao China	17	590 1.3×	240 1.0×	357 2.1×	238 1.6×	197 1.8×	47	966
Rita Márcia da Silva Pinto Vieira Brazil	11	475 1.0×	315 1.3×	192 1.1×	74 0.5×	80 0.7×	20	913
Federico Frank Argentina	9	403 0.9×	177 0.7×	191 1.1×	73 0.5×	73 0.7×	13	812
Miguel L. Villarreal United States	19	538 1.1×	480 2.0×	108 0.6×	73 0.5×	151 1.4×	62	890

Countries citing papers authored by Zidong Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zidong Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zidong Li

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

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

Zhang, Zeyu, et al.. (2025). Decoupled Stability of Above‐ and Belowground Productivity Across Global Change Drivers. Global Change Biology. 32(1). e70668–e70668.

Wang, Shuai, et al.. (2025). The effects of increased evapotranspiration on precipitation in the Yellow River Basin. Journal of Hydrology. 664. 134453–134453.

Li, Zidong, Changjia Li, Dexin Gao, & Shuai Wang. (2023). Discrimination among Climate, Human Activities, and Ecosystem Functional-Induced Land Degradation in Southern Africa. Remote Sensing. 15(2). 403–403. 4 indexed citations

Li, Wuyan, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the thermal performance of an inclined solar chimney integrated with a phase change material. Energy and Buildings. 270. 112288–112288. 13 indexed citations

Lü, Nan, Hanqin Tian, Bojie Fu, et al.. (2022). Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions. Nature Climate Change. 12(9). 847–853. 117 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Peng, Shuai Wang, Yanxu Liu, et al.. (2022). Spatio-temporal patterns of oasis dynamics in China’s drylands between 1987 and 2017. Environmental Research Letters. 17(6). 64044–64044. 26 indexed citations

Gao, Dexin, Shuai Wang, Fangli Wei, et al.. (2022). The vulnerability of ecosystem structure in the semi-arid area revealed by the functional trait networks. Ecological Indicators. 139. 108894–108894. 13 indexed citations

Huang, Sheng, Wuyan Li, Jun Lü, et al.. (2022). Experimental Study on Thermal Performances of a Solar Chimney with and Without Pcm Under Different System Inclination Angles. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Li, Changjia, Bojie Fu, Shuai Wang, et al.. (2021). Drivers and impacts of changes in China’s drylands. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2(12). 858–873. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gao, Dexin, Shuai Wang, Zidong Li, et al.. (2021). Threshold of vapour–pressure deficit constraint on light use efficiency varied with soil water content. Ecohydrology. 15(5). 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Peng, Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, et al.. (2021). Ecological restoration intensifies evapotranspiration in the Kubuqi Desert. Ecological Engineering. 175. 106504–106504. 32 indexed citations

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Gao, Dexin, Shuai Wang, Lixin Wang, et al.. (2021). Enhanced coupling of light use efficiency and water use efficiency in arid and semi‐arid environments. Ecohydrology. 15(5). 7 indexed citations

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Li, Zidong, Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Yaping Wang, & Walter Musakwa. (2020). Detecting land degradation in Southern Africa using Time Series Segment and Residual Trend (TSS-RESTREND). Journal of Arid Environments. 184. 104314–104314. 15 indexed citations

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Kusumi, Junko, Zidong Li, Tomoyuki Kado, et al.. (2010). Multilocus patterns of nucleotide polymorphism and demographic change in Taxodium distichum (Cupressaceae) in the lower Mississippi River alluvial valley. American Journal of Botany. 97(11). 1848–1857. 9 indexed citations

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