| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The significance of small streams | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2017 | 120 |
| 2 | Three distinct global estimates of historical land-cover change and land-use conversions for over 200 years | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 116 |
| 3 | Remote sensing of soil properties in precision agriculture: A review | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2011 | 103 |
| 4 | A meta-analysis of the canopy light extinction coefficient in terrestrial ecosystems | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 96 |
| 5 | Mapping flood and flooding potential indices: a methodological approach to identifying areas susceptible to flood and flooding risk. Case study: the Prahova catchment (Romania) | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2017 | 81 |
| 6 | Toward automatic estimation of urban green volume using airborne LiDAR data and high resolution Remote Sensing images | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2013 | 76 |
| 7 | Dynamic downscaling of near-surface air temperature at the basin scale using WRF-a case study in the Heihe River Basin, China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 72 |
| 8 | Application of remote sensing and GIS analysis for identifying groundwater potential zone in parts of Kodaikanal Taluk, South India | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2013 | 70 |
| 9 | Changes of net primary productivity in China during recent 11 years detected using an ecological model driven by MODIS data | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2013 | 64 |
| 10 | Global network of embodied water flow by systems input-output simulation | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 57 |
| 11 | Grain production trends in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan: New opportunities in an increasingly unstable world? | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 56 |
| 12 | Co-occurrence of nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidizing and anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria in two Qinghai-Tibetan saline lakes | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 53 |
| 13 | Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Regression Tree (CART) applications for the indirect estimation of unsaturated soil shear strength parameters | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 53 |
| 14 | Combined analysis of land cover change and NDVI trends in the Northern Eurasian grain belt | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 51 |
| 15 | The impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland productivity in Qinghai Province, China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 51 |
| 16 | Derivative vegetation indices as a new approach in remote sensing of vegetation | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 49 |
| 17 | Mining spatiotemporal patterns of urban dwellers from taxi trajectory data | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2016 | 47 |
| 18 | Exploring coupling coordination between urbanization and ecosystem quality (1985–2010): a case study from Lianyungang City, China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2016 | 45 |
| 19 | The effects of air temperature and precipitation on the net primary productivity in China during the early 21st century | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2018 | 43 |
| 20 | Tectonic control on the drainage system in a piedmont region in tectonically active eastern Himalayas | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 41 |
| 21 | Mapping paddy rice distribution using multi-temporal Landsat imagery in the Sanjiang Plain, northeast China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2016 | 39 |
| 22 | Rapid flood inundation mapping by differencing water indices from pre- and post-flood Landsat images | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2021 | 39 |
| 23 | Monitoring variations of inland lakes in the arid region of Central Asia | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 38 |
| 24 | Social network analysis and network connectedness analysis for industrial symbiotic systems: model development and case study | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2013 | 38 |
| 25 | Coupled planning of water resources and agricultural landuse based on an inexact-stochastic programming model | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 38 |
| 26 | Impacts of climate gradients on the vegetation phenology of major land use types in Central Asia (1981–2008) | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 37 |
| 27 | A review of industrial symbiosis research: theory and methodology | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2015 | 37 |
| 28 | Influence of natural pozzolana and lime additives on the temporal variation of soil compaction and shear strength | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2011 | 36 |
| 29 | Significance of pCO2 values in determining carbonate chemistry in groundwater of Pondicherry region, India | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2011 | 35 |
| 30 | Preliminary assessment of heavy metal contamination in surface water and sediments from Honghu Lake, East Central China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 34 |
| 31 | Multi-regional input-output analysis for China’s regional CH4 emissions | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 34 |
| 32 | A comparison of single- and multi-site calibration and validation: a case study of SWAT in the Miyun Reservoir watershed, China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2017 | 34 |
| 33 | Using LMDI method to analyze the change of industrial CO2 emission from energy use in Chongqing | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2011 | 33 |
| 34 | Application of fuzzy logic approach for landslide susceptibility mapping in Garuwa sub-basin, East Nepal | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 33 |
| 35 | Comparison of multinomial logistic regression and logistic regression: which is more efficient in allocating land use? | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 32 |
| 36 | A simplified index to assess the combined impact of tropical cyclone precipitation and wind on China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2019 | 32 |
| 37 | Addressing global change challenges for Central Asian socio-ecosystems | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 31 |
| 38 | Decomposition of energy-related carbon emissions in Xinjiang and relative mitigation policy recommendations | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2015 | 31 |
| 39 | Investigation of the spatiotemporal variation and influencing factors on fine particulate matter and carbon monoxide concentrations near a road intersection | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2017 | 31 |
| 40 | Driving factors of carbon dioxide emissions in China: an empirical study using 2006-2010 provincial data | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2017 | 31 |
| 41 | Application of cluster analysis to geochemical compositional data for identifying ore-related geochemical anomalies | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2018 | 31 |
| 42 | Spatial disparities of regional forest land change based on ESDA and GIS at the county level in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 30 |
| 43 | The most typical shape of oceanic mesoscale eddies from global satellite sea level observations | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2015 | 30 |
| 44 | A Bayesian method for comprehensive water quality evaluation of the Danjiangkou Reservoir water source area, for the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 29 |
| 45 | Climate change implications of soil temperature in the Mojave Desert, USA | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 29 |
| 46 | Mesozoic-Cenozoic extension of the Bohai Sea: contribution to the destruction of North China Craton | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2014 | 29 |
| 47 | Interactive effects of carbon dioxide, low temperature, and ultraviolet-B radiation on cotton seedling root and shoot morphology and growth | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2016 | 29 |
| 48 | Land surface temperature retrieval from Landsat 8 data and validation with geosensor network | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2017 | 29 |
| 49 | Impact of dams on flood occurrence of selected rivers in the United States | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2017 | 29 |
| 50 | Regional fire monitoring and characterization using global NASA MODIS fire products in dry lands of Central Asia | Frontiers of Earth Science | 2012 | 28 |
