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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
12868
World Ranking
3245
National Ranking
1148

Conghe Song publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Conghe Song sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 151 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Conghe Song D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Conghe Song sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Conghe Song is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work addresses numerous topics, notably:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Conghe Song has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • "Analysis of surface urban heat islands based on local climate zones via spatiotemporally enhanced land surface temperature," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China," 2021, Journal of Rural Studies
  • "Vegetation structural change and CO2 fertilization more than offset gross primary production decline caused by reduced solar radiation in China," 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Reviewing the evidence on the roles of forests and tree-based systems in poverty dynamics," 2021, Forest Policy and Economics
  • "Plant Diversity Along the Urban-Rural Gradient and Its Relationship with Urbanization Degree in Shanghai, China," 2020, Forests

Frequent collaborators in Conghe Song's research include:

  • Junxiang Li
  • Qi Zhang
  • Richard E. Bilsborrow
  • Caiyan Wu
  • Yulong Zhang

Best Publications

  • Classification and Change Detection Using Landsat TM Data: When and How to Correct Atmospheric Effects?

    Conghe Song;Curtis E. Woodcock;Karen C. Seto;Mary Pax Lenney

  • Impacts of landscape structure on surface urban heat islands: A case study of Shanghai, China

    Junxiang Li;Conghe Song;Lu Cao;Feige Zhu

  • Radiometric correction of multi-temporal Landsat data for characterization of early successional forest patterns in western Oregon

    Todd A. Schroeder;Warren B. Cohen;Conghe Song;Morton J. Canty

  • Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

    Liming Zhou;Yuhong Tian;Ranga B. Myneni;Philippe Ciais

  • Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: Browning or greening?

    Yulong Zhang;Conghe Song;Conghe Song;Lawrence E. Band;Ge Sun

  • Spectral mixture analysis for subpixel vegetation fractions in the urban environment: How to incorporate endmember variability?

    Conghe Song

  • Long-term land cover dynamics by multi-temporal classification across the Landsat-5 record

    Joseph O. Sexton;Joseph O. Sexton;Dean L. Urban;Michael J. Donohue;Conghe Song

  • Vegetation temperature condition index and its application for drought monitoring

    Peng-xin Wang;Xiao-wen Li;Jian-ya Gong;Conghe Song

  • Monitoring forest succession with multitemporal Landsat images: factors of uncertainty

    C. Song;C.E. Woodcock

  • Forest mapping with a generalized classifier and Landsat TM data

    Mary Pax-Lenney;Curtis E Woodcock;Scott A Macomber;Sucharita Gopal

  • Influence of Park Size and Its Surrounding Urban Landscape Patterns on the Park Cooling Effect

    Xiaoyun Cheng;Bensheng Wei;Guojian Chen;Junxiang Li

  • Understanding the relationship between urban blue infrastructure and land surface temperature.

    Caiyan Wu;Junxiang Li;Chunfang Wang;Conghe Song

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of urbanization in Shanghai, China between 1989 and 2005

    Junxiang Li;Cheng Li;Feige Zhu;Conghe Song;Conghe Song

  • Downscaling real-time vegetation dynamics by fusing multi-temporal MODIS and Landsat NDVI in topographically complex terrain

    Taehee Hwang;Conghe Song;Paul V. Bolstad;Lawrence E. Band

  • Topography-mediated controls on local vegetation phenology estimated from MODIS vegetation index

    Taehee Hwang;Conghe Song;James M. Vose;Lawrence E. Band

  • A regional forest ecosystem carbon budget model: impacts of forest age structure and landuse history

    Conghe Song;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Estimating average tree crown size using spatial information from Ikonos and QuickBird images: Across-sensor and across-site comparisons

    Conghe Song;Matthew B. Dickinson;Lihong Su;Su Zhang

  • Mapping leaf area index using spatial, spectral, and temporal information from multiple sensors

    Josh Gray;Conghe Song

  • Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on terrestrial net primary productivity in the Yangtze River Basin, China, from 2001 to 2010

    Yulong Zhang;Yulong Zhang;Conghe Song;Conghe Song;Kerong Zhang;Xiaoli Cheng

  • Development of a coupled carbon and water model for estimating global gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration based on eddy flux and remote sensing data

    Yulong Zhang;Conghe Song;Conghe Song;Ge Sun;Lawrence E. Band

  • Mapping impervious surface expansion using medium-resolution satellite image time series: a case study in the Yangtze River Delta, China

    Feng Gao;Eric Brown de Colstoun;Ronghua Ma;Qihao Weng

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
Richard E. Bilsborrow
Richard E. Bilsborrow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Quanfa Zhang
Quanfa Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
James M. Vose
James M. Vose North Carolina State University
Robert K. Peet
Robert K. Peet University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ge Sun
Ge Sun US Forest Service
Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University
Xiaowen Li
Xiaowen Li Tsinghua University
Paul V. Bolstad
Paul V. Bolstad University of Minnesota

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