Zihan Xu

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Zihan Xu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Zihan Xu has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Environmental Engineering and 11 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Zihan Xu's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (36 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (22 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (8 papers). Zihan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (36 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (22 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (8 papers). Zihan Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Czechia and United States. Zihan Xu's co-authors include Jian Peng, Yanxu Liu, Hejie Wei, Xiaobin Dong, Jianquan Dong, Xuechao Wang, Zimo Zhang, Jian Wu, Jeroen Meersmans and Sijing Qiu and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Zihan Xu

57 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Ecosystem services supply and demand response to urbanization: A case study of the Pearl River Delta, China

2021 160 citations Zimo Zhang, Jian Peng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zihan Xu China	31	2.1k	765	664	637	438	60	3.0k
Minghong Tan China	34	1.8k 0.9×	454 0.6×	476 0.7×	459 0.7×	239 0.5×	86	3.0k
Zhonghao Zhang China	29	1.4k 0.7×	618 0.8×	359 0.5×	418 0.7×	254 0.6×	74	2.6k
Jinyan Zhan China	33	2.7k 1.3×	580 0.8×	861 1.3×	636 1.0×	872 2.0×	150	4.2k
Muye Gan China	29	1.8k 0.9×	526 0.7×	657 1.0×	737 1.2×	317 0.7×	57	2.7k
Jinpei Ou China	22	2.3k 1.1×	825 1.1×	844 1.3×	519 0.8×	516 1.2×	32	3.1k
Jixi Gao China	28	1.5k 0.7×	438 0.6×	563 0.8×	840 1.3×	206 0.5×	163	3.0k
Xianjin Huang China	27	1.2k 0.6×	350 0.5×	632 1.0×	503 0.8×	742 1.7×	83	2.6k
Yang Bai China	28	2.7k 1.3×	666 0.9×	332 0.5×	885 1.4×	510 1.2×	87	3.6k
Xibao Xu China	27	1.7k 0.8×	354 0.5×	296 0.4×	785 1.2×	292 0.7×	43	2.5k
Gaodi Xie China	38	3.0k 1.4×	994 1.3×	1.2k 1.8×	860 1.4×	671 1.5×	139	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zihan Xu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Jianli, Zihan Xu, Dandan Liu, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal evolution of decommissioned photovoltaic distribution and integrated energy-economic-environmental-social sustainable benefit assessment in China. Applied Energy. 384. 125459–125459. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Ying, Zihan Xu, Chenglian Feng, et al.. (2025). Predicting the Site-Specific Toxicity of Metals to Fishes Using a New Machine Learning-Based Approach. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(29). 14881–14891. 1 indexed citations

Peng, Jian, Tao Hu, Dongmei Xu, et al.. (2025). Land ecology for achieving China’s ecological civilization: key issues and frontier topics. Science Bulletin. 70(12). 1910–1914. 4 indexed citations

Li, Xin, et al.. (2025). Optimal share repurchase decision model for retailers under supply chain collaboration. International Review of Financial Analysis. 103. 104235–104235. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Zihan, Zhongyang Yu, Ying Zheng, & Guowei Wang. (2025). Perception of campus landscape tree cultural and regulating service demand based on stakeholder preferences. Ecological Frontiers. 45(6). 1641–1651.

Zhang, Yibin, Jian Jiang, Yong Wang, et al.. (2024). Development of a hybrid rhodamine-hydrazine NIR fluorescent probe for sensitive detection and imaging of peroxynitrite in necrotizing enterocolitis model. Bioorganic Chemistry. 152. 107729–107729. 15 indexed citations

Peng, Jian, Xiaoyu Wang, Huining Zheng, & Zihan Xu. (2023). Applying production-possibility frontier based ecosystem services trade-off to identify optimal scenarios of Grain-for-Green Program. Landscape and Urban Planning. 242. 104956–104956. 28 indexed citations

Wang, Yupeng, Zihan Xu, Shuying Yu, et al.. (2023). Exploring watershed ecological risk bundles based on ecosystem services: A case study of Shanxi Province, China. Environmental Research. 245. 118040–118040. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Yibin, et al.. (2023). Novel design of near-infrared fluorescent sensors for the detection of Hg2+ in living cells and real water samples. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 304. 123258–123258. 13 indexed citations

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Yu, Shuying, et al.. (2023). Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages. Habitat International. 136. 102783–102783. 30 indexed citations

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Xu, Zihan, et al.. (2023). Distinguishing the effects of land use policies on ecosystem services and their trade-offs based on multi-scenario simulations. Applied Geography. 151. 102864–102864. 56 indexed citations

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Xu, Zihan, Ying Wang, Fengchang Wu, et al.. (2022). Sturgeons Are Biodiversity Priorities Needing Special Protection from Chemicals and Waste. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(14). 9847–9850. 9 indexed citations

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Zheng, Huining, Jian Peng, Sijing Qiu, et al.. (2022). Distinguishing the impacts of land use change in intensity and type on ecosystem services trade-offs. Journal of Environmental Management. 316. 115206–115206. 69 indexed citations

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Wang, Xuechao, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Yutao Wang, et al.. (2020). Water-Energy-Carbon Emissions nexus analysis of China: An environmental input-output model-based approach. Applied Energy. 261. 114431–114431. 153 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, Ruilin Qiao, Yanxu Liu, et al.. (2020). A wavelet coherence approach to prioritizing influencing factors of land surface temperature and associated research scales. Remote Sensing of Environment. 246. 111866–111866. 51 indexed citations

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Wang, Xuechao, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Xiaobin Dong, et al.. (2019). Air pollution terrain nexus: A review considering energy generation and consumption. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 105. 71–85. 162 indexed citations

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Xu, Zihan, et al.. (2019). Predicting and comparing chronic water quality criteria from physicochemical properties of transition metals. Chemosphere. 244. 125465–125465. 3 indexed citations

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Wei, Hejie, Zihan Xu, Huiming Liu, et al.. (2018). Evaluation on dynamic change and interrelations of ecosystem services in a typical mountain-oasis-desert region. Ecological Indicators. 93. 917–929. 34 indexed citations

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Lu, Nachuan, Hejie Wei, Weiguo Fan, et al.. (2018). Multiple influences of land transfer in the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Ecological Indicators. 90. 101–111. 33 indexed citations

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Xu, Zihan, Weiguo Fan, Hejie Wei, et al.. (2018). Evaluation and simulation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services based on a carbon flow model: A case study of the Manas River Basin of Xinjiang, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 652. 117–133. 81 indexed citations

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