Kai Yan

95 papers and 2.2k indexed citations
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About

Kai Yan is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Yan has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecology, 42 papers in Environmental Engineering and 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kai Yan’s work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (59 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (29 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). Kai Yan is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (59 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (29 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). Kai Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Kai Yan's co-authors include Ranga B. Myneni, Guangjian Yan, Yuri Knyazikhin, Taejin Park, Chi Chen, Zhao Liu, Bin Yang, Chi Wai Li, Yelu Zeng and Ramakrishna Nemani and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Yan

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

Kai Yan

88 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kai Yan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kai Yan. The network helps show where Kai Yan may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Yan

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This map shows the geographic impact of Kai Yan's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Kai Yan with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Kai Yan more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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