Ziying Zou

777 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 532 citations indexed

About

Ziying Zou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Ziying Zou has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 532 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Ziying Zou's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers). Ziying Zou is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers). Ziying Zou collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Ziying Zou's co-authors include Changsu Song, Yi Xiao, Zhiyun Ouyang, Xuexiao Zou, Jianguo Liu, Ian J. Bateman, Mary Ruckelshaus, Yang Xiao, Weihua Xu and Gretchen C. Daily and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ziying Zou

17 papers receiving 513 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.

  1. Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making
    2020 342 citations Zhiyun Ouyang, Changsu Song et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ziying Zou China 8 364 128 97 89 76 18 532
Weiwei Zheng China 9 556 1.5× 112 0.9× 118 1.2× 107 1.2× 103 1.4× 14 691
Enrico Celio Switzerland 13 347 1.0× 73 0.6× 68 0.7× 86 1.0× 83 1.1× 21 506
Yuanjie Deng China 13 287 0.8× 155 1.2× 65 0.7× 46 0.5× 41 0.5× 38 515
Lanping Tang China 8 298 0.8× 63 0.5× 85 0.9× 53 0.6× 62 0.8× 9 378
Changsu Song China 5 369 1.0× 126 1.0× 88 0.9× 98 1.1× 50 0.7× 7 451
Pilar Vizcaino Italy 8 371 1.0× 78 0.6× 69 0.7× 57 0.6× 259 3.4× 9 525
Sonia Delphin United States 5 283 0.8× 50 0.4× 48 0.5× 33 0.4× 126 1.7× 8 371
Muhammad Ziaul Hoque Bangladesh 13 342 0.9× 32 0.3× 104 1.1× 67 0.8× 34 0.4× 48 679

Countries citing papers authored by Ziying Zou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ziying Zou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ziying Zou

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Li, Peng, et al.. (2025). The Widely Increasing Sensitivity of Vegetation Productivity to Phenology in Northern Middle and High Latitudes. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(4). 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Zelin, Cong Liu, Ziying Zou, et al.. (2025). Integrating territorial pattern changes into the relationship between carbon sequestration and water yield in the Yangtze River Basin, China. Carbon Balance and Management. 20(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Guo, Jingwen, Tong Li, Tong Wu, et al.. (2024). Drought and warming interaction cause substantial economic losses in the carbon market potential of China's northern grasslands. The Science of The Total Environment. 953. 176182–176182. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Mingxia, Xiaolu Zhou, Zelin Liu, et al.. (2024). Dynamic carbon allocation trade‐off: A robust approach to model tree biomass allometry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(5). 886–899. 7 indexed citations
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Cong, Liu, Changhui Peng, Xiaolu Zhou, et al.. (2024). Applications of structural equation modeling in plant functional trait research. Environmental Reviews. 32(4). 525–538. 1 indexed citations
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Bai, Wei, Cicheng Zhang, Xiong Xiao, et al.. (2024). Characteristics of Meteorological Drought Evolution in the Yangtze River Basin. Water. 16(23). 3391–3391. 2 indexed citations
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Zou, Ziying, et al.. (2024). Assembly processes and co-occurrence of bacterial communities in tree rhizosphere under Pb-Zn contamination. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 476. 135135–135135.
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Li, Peng, Xiaolu Zhou, Zelin Liu, et al.. (2024). Shifts in Plant Phenology Significantly Affect the Carbon Allocation in Different Plant Organs. Ecology Letters. 27(11). e70024–e70024. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Tong, Changhui Peng, Xiaolu Zhou, et al.. (2024). Phenolic compounds weaken the impact of drought on soil enzyme activity in global wetlands. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1372866–1372866. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, S. Y., Jiayi Tang, Xiaolu Zhou, et al.. (2023). Research progress, challenges, and prospects of PM2.5 concentration estimation using satellite data. Environmental Reviews. 31(4). 605–631. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Mingxia, Xiaolu Zhou, Changhui Peng, et al.. (2023). Developing allometric equations to estimate forest biomass for tree species categories based on phylogenetic relationships. Forest Ecosystems. 10. 100130–100130. 7 indexed citations
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Zhu, S. Y., Jiayi Tang, Xiaolu Zhou, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of urban landscape forms on PM 2.5 in China from 2001 to 2020. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(1). 3417–3434. 15 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ji, Zelin Liu, Yu Shi, & Ziying Zou. (2022). Spatial Response of Ecosystem Service Value to Urbanization in Fragile Vegetation Areas Based on Terrain Gradient. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(22). 15286–15286. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ji, Yu Shi, Chaofan Xian, Lu Zhang, & Ziying Zou. (2022). How urbanization affect the ecosystem health of Tibet based on terrain gradients: a case study of Shannan, China. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. 8(1). 12 indexed citations
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Zou, Ziying & Xuexiao Zou. (2021). Geographical and Ecological Differences in Pepper Cultivation and Consumption in China. Frontiers in Nutrition. 8. 718517–718517. 59 indexed citations
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Zou, Ziying, Tong Wu, Yi Xiao, et al.. (2020). Valuing natural capital amidst rapid urbanization: assessing the gross ecosystem product (GEP) of China’s ‘Chang-Zhu-Tan’ megacity. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 124019–124019. 50 indexed citations
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Ouyang, Zhiyun, Changsu Song, Hua Zheng, et al.. (2020). Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 14593–14601. 342 indexed citations breakdown →

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