Zongming Wang

11.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
286 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Zongming Wang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zongming Wang has authored 286 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 141 papers in Ecology and 82 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Zongming Wang's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (98 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (69 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (68 papers). Zongming Wang is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (98 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (69 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (68 papers). Zongming Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Zongming Wang's co-authors include Dehua Mao, Mingming Jia, Kaishan Song, Chunying Ren, Bai Zhang, Dianwei Liu, Yuanzhi Zhang, Lin Li, Ling Luo and Yeqiao Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Zongming Wang

275 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

National wetland mapping ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2019 2021 2019 2023 100 200 300
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. National wetland mapping in China: A new product resulting from object-based and hierarchical classification of Landsat 8 OLI images
    2020 315 citations Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
  2. Diverse policies leading to contrasting impacts on land cover and ecosystem services in Northeast China
    2019 236 citations Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang et al. profile →
  3. Rapid, robust, and automated mapping of tidal flats in China using time series Sentinel-2 images and Google Earth Engine
    2021 217 citations Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  4. Rapid expansion of coastal aquaculture ponds in China from Landsat observations during 1984–2016
    2019 198 citations Ren Chunying, Zongming Wang et al. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation profile →
  5. Mapping global distribution of mangrove forests at 10-m resolution
    2023 173 citations Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang et al. Science Bulletin profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Zongming Wang 4.8k 4.3k 1.9k 1.1k 905 286 8.6k
V. K. Dadhwal 2.7k 0.6× 4.0k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 1.7k 1.5× 865 1.0× 341 7.5k
Jay Gao 2.4k 0.5× 3.0k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 1.6k 1.5× 925 1.0× 141 6.8k
Yuanwei Qin 5.2k 1.1× 6.3k 1.5× 2.3k 1.2× 2.1k 1.9× 644 0.7× 112 9.3k
Bin Zhao 3.4k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 849 0.8× 367 0.4× 143 5.9k
Zhiliang Zhu 7.6k 1.6× 7.2k 1.7× 2.5k 1.4× 2.5k 2.4× 968 1.1× 139 12.4k
Yuan Zeng 3.0k 0.6× 5.0k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 875 0.8× 887 1.0× 130 8.4k
Sarah E. Gergel 2.8k 0.6× 2.2k 0.5× 924 0.5× 638 0.6× 417 0.5× 110 6.1k
Dehua Mao 3.5k 0.7× 3.5k 0.8× 809 0.4× 824 0.8× 564 0.6× 137 5.8k
Baoshan Cui 4.1k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 562 0.3× 547 0.5× 641 0.7× 272 7.6k
Kaishan Song 3.4k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 892 0.8× 599 0.7× 289 9.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zongming Wang

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cheng, Lina, et al.. (2025). A robust and efficient approach to estimating the age of secondary mangrove forests employing time-series Landsat images and the CCDC model. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 143. 104789–104789.
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Zhen, Jianing, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, et al.. (2025). National mapping of wetland vegetation leaf area index in China using hybrid model with Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 232. 18–33.
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Mao, Dehua, Ming Wang, Xiangming Xiao, et al.. (2024). Identify and map coastal aquaculture ponds and their drainage and impoundment dynamics. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 134. 104246–104246. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Ming, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, et al.. (2024). Interannual changes of urban wetlands in China’s major cities from 1985 to 2022. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 209. 383–397. 21 indexed citations
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Jia, Mingming, Zuoqi Chen, Zongming Wang, et al.. (2024). Nighttime light in China's coastal zone: The type classification approach using SDGSAT-1 Glimmer Imager. Remote Sensing of Environment. 305. 114104–114104. 26 indexed citations
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Wang, Mingchang, et al.. (2024). Temperature related to the spatial heterogeneity of wetland soil total nitrogen content in a frozen zone. Soil and Tillage Research. 244. 106254–106254. 4 indexed citations
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Jia, Mingming, et al.. (2024). Evaluating Ecosystem Service Value Changes in Mangrove Forests in Guangxi, China, from 2016 to 2020. Remote Sensing. 16(3). 494–494. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Ming, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, et al.. (2023). Wetland mapping in East Asia by two-stage object-based Random Forest and hierarchical decision tree algorithms on Sentinel-1/2 images. Remote Sensing of Environment. 297. 113793–113793. 70 indexed citations
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Xiang, Hengxing, Jian Zhang, Dehua Mao, et al.. (2023). Optimizing ecological security patterns considering zonal vegetation distribution for regional sustainability. Ecological Engineering. 194. 107055–107055. 25 indexed citations
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Jia, Mingming, Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao, et al.. (2023). Mapping global distribution of mangrove forests at 10-m resolution. Science Bulletin. 68(12). 1306–1316. 173 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jia, Mingming, Rong Zhang, Zongming Wang, et al.. (2023). Monitoring the light pollution changes of China’s mangrove forests from 1992-2020 using nighttime light data. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Ming, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, et al.. (2022). Annual Wetland Mapping in Metropolis by Temporal Sample Migration and Random Forest Classification with Time Series Landsat Data and Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 14(13). 3191–3191. 26 indexed citations
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Li, Huiying, Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang, et al.. (2022). Invasion of Spartina alterniflora in the coastal zone of mainland China: Control achievements from 2015 to 2020 towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Environmental Management. 323. 116242–116242. 67 indexed citations
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Mao, Dehua, Dongyou Zhang, Zongming Wang, et al.. (2022). Mapping Phragmites australis Aboveground Biomass in the Momoge Wetland Ramsar Site Based on Sentinel-1/2 Images. Remote Sensing. 14(3). 694–694. 29 indexed citations
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Liu, Duanrui, Zongming Wang, Liping Sun, et al.. (2022). Comprehensive Analysis of N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) RNA Methylation Regulators and Tumour Microenvironment Cell Infiltration Involving Prognosis and Immunotherapy in Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinomas. Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2022. 1–17. 6 indexed citations
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Jia, Mingming, et al.. (2021). A Comparison of Gaofen-2 and Sentinel-2 Imagery for Mapping Mangrove Forests Using Object-Oriented Analysis and Random Forest. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 4185–4193. 31 indexed citations
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Qiu, Zhiqiang, Ling Luo, Dehua Mao, et al.. (2020). Using Multisource Geospatial Data to Identify Potential Wetland Rehabilitation Areas: A Pilot Study in China’s Sanjiang Plain. Water. 12(9). 2496–2496. 5 indexed citations
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Mao, Dehua, Mingyue Liu, Zongming Wang, et al.. (2019). Rapid Invasion of Spartina Alterniflora in the Coastal Zone of Mainland China: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Human Prevention. Sensors. 19(10). 2308–2308. 115 indexed citations
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