Kai Yan
Impact in
- Environmental Engineering top 1%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Ecology top 1%
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Papers in
- Ecology 63
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 61
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- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications 29
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation 15
- Co-authors
- Ranga B. Myneni (27 shared papers)Yuri V. Knyazikhin (21 shared papers)Guangjian Yan (24 shared papers)Taejin Park (13 shared papers)Chi Chen (10 shared papers)Zhao Liu (6 shared papers)Bin Yang (10 shared papers)Chi Wai Li (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (17 papers)Remote Sensing (16 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (13 papers)International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (5 papers)International Journal of Digital Earth (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- ChinaUnited StatesAustralia
In The Last Decade
Kai Yan
96 papers receiving 2.5k citations
Kai Yan's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 106
- Environmental Engineering 942
- Ecology 1.5k
- Global and Planetary Change 1.2k
- Ecological Modeling 140
- Atmospheric Science 504
Countries citing papers authored by Kai Yan
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Yan
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.
Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kai Yan, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 100 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2016 | 243 | |
| 2 | 2016 | 187 | |
| 3 | 2017 | 143 | |
| 4 | Evaluating the saturation effect of vegetation indices in forests using 3D radiative transfer simulations and satellite observations Hit paper breakdown → | 2023 | 138 |
| 5 | 2007 | 107 | |
| 6 | 2021 | 103 | |
| 7 | 2018 | 97 | |
| 8 | 2018 | 73 | |
| 9 | 2018 | 68 | |
| 10 | 2024 | 57 | |
| 11 | 2017 | 56 | |
| 12 | 2021 | 47 | |
| 13 | 2016 | 47 | |
| 14 | 2023 | 46 | |
| 15 | 2020 | 45 | |
| 16 | 2018 | 45 | |
| 17 | 2018 | 43 | |
| 18 | 2020 | 41 | |
| 19 | 2014 | 37 | |
| 20 | 2018 | 34 |
About Kai Yan
Kai Yan is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecological Modeling, having authored 100 papers that have together received 2.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (61 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (29 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (18 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (15 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers), Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement (10 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (942 citations), Ecology (1.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.2k citations), Ecological Modeling (140 citations) and Atmospheric Science (504 citations). Kai Yan has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Ranga B. Myneni, Yuri V. Knyazikhin, Guangjian Yan, Taejin Park, Chi Chen, Zhao Liu, Bin Yang, Chi Wai Li, Yelu Zeng and Jianbo Qi. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation and International Journal of Digital Earth.
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