Zihan Kan

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Zihan Kan is a scholar working on Transportation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Zihan Kan has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Transportation, 15 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 12 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Zihan Kan's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (21 papers), Transportation Planning and Optimization (17 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (16 papers). Zihan Kan is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (21 papers), Transportation Planning and Optimization (17 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (16 papers). Zihan Kan collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Zihan Kan's co-authors include Mei‐Po Kwan, Dong Liu, Luliang Tang, Jianwei Huang, Qingquan Li, Man Sing Wong, Chang Ren, Xue Yang, Xia Zhang and Yang Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Zihan Kan

64 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Analysis of urban green space accessibility and distribut... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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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. Analysis of urban green space accessibility and distribution inequity in the City of Chicago
    2021 159 citations Dong Liu, Mei‐Po Kwan et al. Urban forestry & urban greening profile →

Peers

Zihan Kan
Yuhao Kang United States
Yanqing Xu China
Yeran Sun United Kingdom
Fu Ren China
Yuan Liang China
Liu Liu China
Páulo Ribeiro Portugal
Markus Schläpfer United States
Yuhao Kang United States
Zihan Kan
Citations per year, relative to Zihan Kan Zihan Kan (= 1×) peers Yuhao Kang

Countries citing papers authored by Zihan Kan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zihan Kan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zihan Kan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zihan Kan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zihan Kan 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 Zihan Kan. Zihan Kan 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, Dong, et al.. (2025). Integrated transit service status assessment using smart transit card big data under the x-minute city framework. Journal of Transport Geography. 125. 104189–104189. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Mingming, Benfeng Yin, Ye Tao, et al.. (2025). The development of biological soil crusts shifts the drivers of soil multifunctionality in drylands. CATENA. 258. 109238–109238. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Dong, Jing Huang, David D. Fang, et al.. (2025). Assessment of the 15-minute park accessibility accounting for fine-grained 3D pedestrian network and subjective quality perception among the public housing residents. Urban forestry & urban greening. 114. 129165–129165.
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Su, Lixian, Zihan Kan, & Mei‐Po Kwan. (2025). Exploring the factors behind the discrepancy between two-dimensional and three-dimensional indicators of greenspace exposure. Ecological Indicators. 175. 113584–113584.
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Tang, Luliang, Zihan Kan, Yang Xue, et al.. (2024). An adaptive OD flow clustering method to identify heterogeneous urban mobility trends. Journal of Transport Geography. 123. 104080–104080. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Dong, et al.. (2024). Development of a Chrono‐Urbanism Status Composite Index under the 5/10/15‐Minute City Concept Using Social Media Big Data. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 115(4). 554–570. 12 indexed citations
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Kan, Zihan, Dong Liu, Xue Yang, & Jinhyung Lee. (2024). Measuring exposure and contribution of different types of activity travels to traffic congestion using GPS trajectory data. Journal of Transport Geography. 117. 103896–103896. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Dong, Zihan Kan, Mei‐Po Kwan, & Luliang Tang. (2024). Space–Time Analysis of Refueling Patterns of Alternative Fuel Vehicles Using GPS Trajectory Data and Machine Learning. Transactions in GIS. 28(8). 2639–2651. 1 indexed citations
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Kan, Zihan, Mei‐Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai, Yang Liu, & Dong Liu. (2023). Nonstationary relationships among individuals’ concurrent exposures to noise, air pollution and greenspace: A mobility-based study using GPS and mobile sensing data. Health & Place. 83. 103115–103115. 40 indexed citations
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Tang, Luliang, Zilong Zhao, Xue Yang, et al.. (2022). Road crowd-sensing with high spatio-temporal resolution in big data era. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Huang, Jianwei, et al.. (2022). Field Evaluation and Calibration of Low-Cost Air Pollution Sensors for Environmental Exposure Research. Sensors. 22(6). 2381–2381. 30 indexed citations
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Kan, Zihan, et al.. (2022). The Impacts of Housing Characteristics and Built-Environment Features on Mental Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(9). 5143–5143. 28 indexed citations
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Liu, Dong, Mei‐Po Kwan, & Zihan Kan. (2022). Assessment of Doubly Disadvantaged Neighborhoods by Healthy Living Environment Exposure. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 16(2). 689–702. 3 indexed citations
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Wong, Man Sing, Mei‐Po Kwan, Janet E. Nichol, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 Infection and Mortality: Association with PM2.5 Concentration and Population Density—An Exploratory Study. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 10(3). 123–123. 16 indexed citations
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Kan, Zihan, et al.. (2018). Fine-grained analysis of traffic congestions at the turning level using GPS traces. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Tang, Luliang, Zihan Kan, Qian Duan, & Qingquan Li. (2017). A Space-time Path Supported Estimation Approach for Vehicles' Fuel-consumption and Emissions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Huihui, et al.. (2016). Vehicles' Refueling Activity Modeling and Space-time Distribution Analysis. Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping. 29. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Xue, et al.. (2016). Traffic Lane Numbers Detection Based on the Naive Bayesian Classification. Zhongguo gonglu xuebao. 29(3). 116. 3 indexed citations
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Tang, Luliang, et al.. (2015). A Method of Spatio-temporal Trajectory Fusion and Road Network Generation Based on Cognitive Law. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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