| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Greening of the Earth and its drivers | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 1,675 |
| 2 | Satellite-derived land surface temperature: Current status and perspectives | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2013 | 1,545 |
| 3 | An Easy-to-Use Airborne LiDAR Data Filtering Method Based on Cloth Simulation | Remote Sensing | 2016 | 723 |
| 4 | Time‐lag effects of global vegetation responses to climate change | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 672 |
| 5 | Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 597 |
| 6 | A global soil data set for earth system modeling | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2014 | 436 |
| 7 | Land surface emissivity retrieval from satellite data | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 2013 | 406 |
| 8 | A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies | International Journal of Digital Earth | 2013 | 385 |
| 9 | A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2013 | 375 |
| 10 | Reprocessing the MODIS Leaf Area Index products for land surface and climate modelling | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2011 | 312 |
| 11 | Long-Time-Series Global Land Surface Satellite Leaf Area Index Product Derived From MODIS and AVHRR Surface Reflectance | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2016 | 297 |
| 12 | Intercomparison of surface energy flux measurement systems used during the HiWATER‐MUSOEXE | Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres | 2013 | 239 |
| 13 | Delaying precipitation and lightning by air pollution over the Pearl River Delta. Part I: Observational analyses | Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres | 2016 | 212 |
| 14 | Understanding the relation between urbanization and the eco-environment in China's Yangtze River Delta using an improved EKC model and coupling analysis | Science of the Total Environment | 2016 | 211 |
| 15 | The Global Pattern of Urbanization and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Three Decades | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 210 |
| 16 | Research on Geographical Environment Unit Division Based on the Method of Natural Breaks (Jenks) | International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives | 0 | 210 |
| 17 | Development of a China Dataset of Soil Hydraulic Parameters Using Pedotransfer Functions for Land Surface Modeling | Journal of Hydrometeorology | 2013 | 208 |
| 18 | Natural and anthropogenic rates of soil erosion | International Soil and Water Conservation Research | 2017 | 207 |
| 19 | Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR Product Collection 6. Part 2: Validation and Intercomparison | Remote Sensing | 2016 | 194 |
| 20 | Third Radiation Transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Documenting progress in canopy reflectance models | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2007 | 193 |
| 21 | Spatio-temporal variation trends of satellite-based aerosol optical depth in China during 1980–2008 | Atmospheric Environment | 2011 | 184 |
| 22 | Penetration of UV‐visible solar radiation in the global oceans: Insights from ocean color remote sensing | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | 2013 | 184 |
| 23 | Scenario Simulation and the Prediction of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Beijing, China | Sustainability | 2015 | 184 |
| 24 | A model for the diffuse attenuation coefficient of downwelling irradiance | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 180 |
| 25 | Rainfall erosivity: An historical review | Catena | 2017 | 175 |
| 26 | Validation of remotely sensed evapotranspiration over the Hai River Basin, China | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2012 | 167 |
| 27 | Optimization of Causative Factors for Landslide Susceptibility Evaluation Using Remote Sensing and GIS Data in Parts of Niigata, Japan | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 167 |
| 28 | Fractional vegetation cover estimation algorithm for Chinese GF-1 wide field view data | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2016 | 167 |
| 29 | Turbulent Flux Transfer over Bare-Soil Surfaces: Characteristics and Parameterization | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 2008 | 163 |
| 30 | Changes in soil nutrient and enzyme activities under different vegetations in the Loess Plateau area, Northwest China | Catena | 2012 | 161 |
| 31 | Short- and long-chain perfluoroalkyl substances in the water, suspended particulate matter, and surface sediment of a turbid river | Science of the Total Environment | 2016 | 161 |
| 32 | Developing by borrowing? Inter-jurisdictional competition, land finance and local debt accumulation in China | Urban Studies | 2017 | 154 |
| 33 | Evaluating the fraction of vegetation cover based on NDVI spatial scale correction model | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 2006 | 153 |
| 34 | Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR Product Collection 6. Part 1: Consistency and Improvements | Remote Sensing | 2016 | 153 |
| 35 | Impact of vegetation removal and soil aridation on diurnal temperature range in a semiarid region: Application to the Sahel | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 151 |
| 36 | Characterization and intercomparison of global moderate resolution leaf area index (LAI) products: Analysis of climatologies and theoretical uncertainties | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | 2013 | 149 |
| 37 | Sediment Transport and Soil Detachment on Steep Slopes: I. Transport Capacity Estimation | Soil Science Society of America Journal | 2009 | 147 |
| 38 | Forest biomass mapping from lidar and radar synergies | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2011 | 147 |
| 39 | Preliminary evaluation of the long-term GLASS albedo product | International Journal of Digital Earth | 2013 | 147 |
| 40 | Soil detachment by overland flow under different vegetation restoration models in the Loess Plateau of China | Catena | 2014 | 147 |
| 41 | Direct-Estimation Algorithm for Mapping Daily Land-Surface Broadband Albedo From MODIS Data | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2014 | 147 |
| 42 | A soil particle-size distribution dataset for regional land and climate modelling in China | Geoderma | 2012 | 140 |
| 43 | Evaluating parameterizations of aerodynamic resistance to heat transfer using field measurements | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2007 | 139 |
| 44 | Spatial dependence of diurnal temperature range trends on precipitation from 1950 to 2004 | Climate Dynamics | 2009 | 139 |
| 45 | A Multiscale and Hierarchical Feature Extraction Method for Terrestrial Laser Scanning Point Cloud Classification | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2015 | 138 |
| 46 | Global Land Surface Fractional Vegetation Cover Estimation Using General Regression Neural Networks From MODIS Surface Reflectance | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2015 | 137 |
| 47 | Population distribution and urbanization on both sides of the Hu Huanyong Line: Answering the Premier’s question | Journal of Chinese Geography | 2016 | 127 |
| 48 | Severe summer heatwave and drought strongly reduced carbon uptake in Southern China | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 125 |
| 49 | Quantifying the influence of natural and socioeconomic factors and their interactive impact on PM2.5 pollution in China | Environmental Pollution | 2018 | 120 |
| 50 | Indirect measurement of leaf area index on the basis of path length distribution | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2014 | 119 |
