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D-Index
60
Citations
16013
World Ranking
2884
National Ranking
286

Chunyang He publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chunyang He sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 137 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Chunyang He D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chunyang He sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chunyang He is affiliated with Beijing Normal University in China and has made significant contributions in the domain of Environmental Science. Their research predominantly spans into subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's recent publications include: Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions (2021) published in Nature Communications, Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data (2020) in Environmental Research Letters, Stronger policy required to substantially reduce deaths from PM2.5 pollution in China (2020) in Nature Communications, Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands (2022) in Nature Sustainability, and Disaster Risk Science: A Geographical Perspective and a Research Framework (2020) in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.

The scientist's work covers key topics that include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chunyang He are Qingxu Huang, Zhifeng Liu, Tao Qi, Qiang Ren, and Brett A. Bryan.

Publication venues where Chunyang He has frequently contributed include:

  • Landscape Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Nature Communications
  • Research Square

This researcher's work reflects a focus on environmental challenges related to urbanization, air quality, and the interaction between human activity and ecological systems. Their extensive output of studies underlines engagement with interdisciplinary research approaches bridging environmental science and policy-relevant applications.

Best Publications

  • Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions.

    Chunyang He;Zhifeng Liu;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Xinhao Pan

  • China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

    Brett A Bryan;Brett A Bryan;Lei Gao;Yangqiong Ye;Yangqiong Ye;Xiufeng Sun;Xiufeng Sun

  • Extracting the dynamics of urban expansion in China using DMSP-OLS nighttime light data from 1992 to 2008

    Zhifeng Liu;Chunyang He;Qiaofeng Zhang;Qingxu Huang

  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

    Xuecao Li;Peng Gong;Yuyu Zhou;Jie Wang;Jie Wang

  • Land-use/land-cover change detection using improved change-vector analysis

    Jing Chen;Peng Gong;Chunyang He;Ruiliang Pu

  • Urban expansion dynamics and natural habitat loss in China: a multiscale landscape perspective

    Chunyang He;Zhifeng Liu;Jie Tian;Qun Ma

  • How much of the world’s land has been urbanized, really? A hierarchical framework for avoiding confusion

    Zhifeng Liu;Chunyang He;Yuyu Zhou;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

  • Improving the normalized difference built-up index to map urban built-up areas using a semiautomatic segmentation approach

    Chunyang He;Peijun Shi;Dingyong Xie;Yuanyuan Zhao

  • Modeling urban expansion scenarios by coupling cellular automata model and system dynamic model in Beijing, China

    Chunyang He;Chunyang He;Norio Okada;Qiaofeng Zhang;Peijun Shi

  • Stronger policy required to substantially reduce deaths from PM2.5 pollution in China.

    Huanbi Yue;Chunyang He;Qingxu Huang;Dan Yin

  • Assessing the potential impacts of urban expansion on regional carbon storage by linking the LUSD-urban and InVEST models

    Chunyang He;Da Zhang;Qingxu Huang;Yuanyuan Zhao

  • Modelling dynamic urban expansion processes incorporating a potential model with cellular automata

    Chunyang He;Chunyang He;Norio Okada;Qiaofeng Zhang;Peijun Shi

  • Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light Observations: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Min Zhao;Yuyu Zhou;Xuecao Li;Wenting Cao

  • A global map of urban extent from nightlights

    Yuyu Zhou;Steven J. Smith;Kaiguang Zhao;Marc L. Imhoff

  • The Relationship between Habitat Loss and Fragmentation during Urbanization: An Empirical Evaluation from 16 World Cities.

    Zhifeng Liu;Chunyang He;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

  • Impacts of urban expansion on ecosystem services in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, China: A scenario analysis based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

    Da Zhang;Qingxu Huang;Chunyang He;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

  • Urban expansion brought stress to food security in China: Evidence from decreased cropland net primary productivity.

    Chunyang He;Zhifeng Liu;Min Xu;Qun Ma

  • Environmental degradation in the urban areas of China: Evidence from multi-source remote sensing data

    Chunyang He;Bin Gao;Qingxu Huang;Qun Ma

  • How does sprawl differ across cities in China? A multi-scale investigation using nighttime light and census data

    Bin Gao;Qingxu Huang;Chunyang He;Zexiang Sun

  • Restoring urbanization process in China in the 1990s by using non-radiance-calibrated DMSP/OLS nighttime light imagery and statistical data

    Chunyang He;Peijun Shi;Jinggang Li;Jin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University
Peijun Shi
Peijun Shi Beijing Normal University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Peking University
Jin Chen
Jin Chen Beijing Normal University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University
Yuyu Zhou
Yuyu Zhou Iowa State University
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Brett A. Bryan
Brett A. Bryan Deakin University
Xuemei Bai
Xuemei Bai Australian National University
Ruiliang Pu
Ruiliang Pu University of South Florida

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