Yaolin Liu

15.6k citations

346 papers · 11.6k · 2 hit papers · h-index 63

Impact in

Transportation top 0.2%
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 132
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 106
Environmental Engineering 67
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping 39

Co-authors: Yiyun Chen (49 shared papers)Limin Jiao (32 shared papers)Guofeng Wu (19 shared papers)Baoxia Mi (7 shared papers)Shiyuan Hu (6 shared papers)Deyi Li (3 shared papers)LI Deren (1 shared paper)Xuesong Kong (14 shared papers)
Journals: Remote Sensing (11 papers)Journal of Cleaner Production (11 papers)Geo-spatial Information Science (10 papers)ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (10 papers)Sustainable Cities and Society (10 papers)
Partner nations: China United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Yaolin Liu

325 papers receiving 11.4k citations

Yaolin Liu's Hit Papers

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Visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy—An alternative for monitoring soil contamination by heavy metals 2013 · 319 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Journal of Hazardous Materials
2006 Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University

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1	Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University Shiyuan Hu, LI Deren, Yaolin Liu, Deyi Li Hit paper breakdown →	2006	787
2	Visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy—An alternative for monitoring soil contamination by heavy metals Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Tiezhu Shi, Yiyun Chen, Yaolin Liu, Guofeng Wu Hit paper breakdown →	2013	319
3	What factors affect the synergy and tradeoff between ecosystem services, and how, from a geospatial perspective? Journal of Cleaner Production ·Ziyi Zhang, Yanfang Liu, Yiheng Wang, Yaolin Liu, Yan Zhang, Yang Zhang	2020	224
4	Combined fouling of forward osmosis membranes: Synergistic foulant interaction and direct observation of fouling layer formation Journal of Membrane Science ·Yaolin Liu, Baoxia Mi	2012	184
5	Urban expansion and form changes across African cities with a global outlook: Spatiotemporal analysis of urban land densities Journal of Cleaner Production ·Gang Xu, Ting Dong, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Limin Jiao, Neema Simon Sumari, Baohui Chai, Yaolin Liu	2019	183
6	Application of fractional-order derivative in the quantitative estimation of soil organic matter content through visible and near-infrared spectroscopy Geoderma ·Yongsheng Hong, Yaolin Liu, Yiyun Chen, Yanfang Liu, Lei Yu, Yi Liu, Hang Cheng	2018	175
7	The spatial integration and coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China Cities ·Yaolin Liu, Xianghui Zhang, Xingyu Pan, Xiuxin Ma, Mingyang Tang	2020	155
8	A comparative analysis of urban and rural construction land use change and driving forces: Implications for urban–rural coordination development in Wuhan, Central China Habitat International ·Yaolin Liu, Ti Luo, Zhongqiu Liu, Xuesong Kong, Jiwei Li, Ronghui Tan	2015	140
9	A bibliometric study of earthquake research: 1900–2010 Scientometrics ·Xingjian Liu, F. Benjamin Zhan, Song Hong, Beibei Niu, Yaolin Liu	2012	132
10	Socioeconomic drivers of forest loss and fragmentation: A comparison between different land use planning schemes and policy implications Land Use Policy ·Yaolin Liu, Yuhao Feng, Zhe Zhao, Qianwen Zhang, Shiliang Su	2016	129
11	Concurrent monitoring of vessels and water turbidity enhances the strength of evidence in remotely sensed dredging impact assessment Water Research ·Guofeng Wu, Jan de Leeuw, Andrew K. Skidmore, H.H.T. Prins, Yaolin Liu	2007	126
12	Grafting polyzwitterions onto polyamide by click chemistry and nucleophilic substitution on nitrogen: A novel approach to enhance membrane fouling resistance Journal of Membrane Science ·Hai‐Yin Yu, Yan Kang, Yaolin Liu, Baoxia Mi	2013	124
13	Urban growth and its determinants across the Wuhan urban agglomeration, central China Habitat International ·Ronghui Tan, Yaolin Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Qingsong He, Licai Ming, Shuohua Tang	2014	122
14	Methods and strategy for modeling daily global solar radiation with measured meteorological data – A case study in Nanchang station, China Energy Conversion and Management ·Guofeng Wu, Yaolin Liu, Tiejun Wang	2007	119
15	Estimating spatiotemporal variations of city-level energy-related CO2 emissions: An improved disaggregating model based on vegetation adjusted nighttime light data Journal of Cleaner Production ·Xiaoping Liu, Jinpei Ou, (unknown), Xia Li, Yuchao Yan, Limin Jiao, Yaolin Liu	2017	119
16	A novel framework for rural homestead land transfer under collective ownership in China Land Use Policy ·Xuesong Kong, Yaolin Liu, Ping Jiang, Yasi Tian, Yafeng Zou	2018	117
17	Geographic Field Model based hedonic valuation of urban open spaces in Wuhan, China Landscape and Urban Planning ·Limin Jiao, Yaolin Liu	2010	109
18	Rapid identification of soil organic matter level via visible and near-infrared spectroscopy: Effects of two-dimensional correlation coefficient and extreme learning machine The Science of The Total Environment ·Yongsheng Hong, Songchao Chen, Yong Zhang, Yiyun Chen, Lei Yu, Yanfang Liu, Yaolin Liu, Hang Cheng, Yi Liu	2018	108
19	A land-use spatial optimization model based on genetic optimization and game theory Computers Environment and Urban Systems ·Yaolin Liu, Wei Tang, Jianhua He, (unknown), (unknown), Tinghua Ai, Dianfeng Liu	2014	108
20	Comparing laboratory and airborne hyperspectral data for the estimation and mapping of topsoil organic carbon: Feature selection coupled with random forest Soil and Tillage Research ·Yongsheng Hong, Songchao Chen, Yiyun Chen, Marc Linderman, Abdul Mounem Mouazen, Yaolin Liu, (unknown), Long Guo, Lei Yu, Yanfang Liu, Hang Cheng, Yi Liu	2020	104

About Yaolin Liu

Yaolin Liu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Artificial Intelligence and Transportation, having authored 346 papers that have together received 11.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (106 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (43 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (39 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (37 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (31 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (29 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (24 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Transportation (1.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (4.4k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.6k citations), Water Science and Technology (1.2k citations) and Analytical Chemistry (803 citations). Yaolin Liu has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Yiyun Chen, Limin Jiao, Guofeng Wu, Baoxia Mi, Shiyuan Hu, Deyi Li, LI Deren, Xuesong Kong, Yongsheng Hong and Yi Liu. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing, Journal of Cleaner Production, Geo-spatial Information Science, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information and Sustainable Cities and Society.

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