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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 61 2732 2609 275 271 198 16221

Le Yu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Le Yu between 2006 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Le Yu published across 20 years, from 2006 to 2025, averaging 20.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 70 publications in 2024. 123 of the 414 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2006 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 70. Peak 70 publications in 2024. 2006: 4 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 10 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 13 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 17 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 19 publications 2019: 25 publications 2020: 25 publications 2021: 30 publications 2022: 41 publications 2023: 55 publications 2024: 70 publications 2025: 53 publications
2006 2025

414 publications in total across all disciplines

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Le Yu: publications per year, 2006 to 2025
Year Publications
2006 4
2007 1
2008 10
2009 3
2010 13
2011 5
2012 5
2013 4
2014 11
2015 5
2016 17
2017 18
2018 19
2019 25
2020 25
2021 30
2022 41
2023 55
2024 70
2025 53
Total 414
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Le Yu 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 Le Yu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 191–200 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 198 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377 198
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Le Yu 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 Le Yu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 61 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152 61
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Le Yu is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and specializes in Environmental Science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change. Their research spans several subfields, including ecology, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Le Yu has contributed to several frequent publication venues. These include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Earth system science data
  • Scientific Data
  • The Lancet Public Health

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Quantization of the coupling mechanism between eco-environmental quality and urbanization from multisource remote sensing data," 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change," 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • "Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields," 2022, Nature Climate Change

Le Yu collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Peng Gong
  • Dailiang Peng
  • Zhenrong Du
  • Yidi Xu
  • Wei Li

Best Publications

  • Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

    Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Le Yu;Yongchao Zhao

  • Stable classification with limited sample: transferring a 30-m resolution sample set collected in 2015 to mapping 10-m resolution global land cover in 2017

    Peng Gong;Han Liu;Meinan Zhang;Congcong Li

  • Managing nitrogen to restore water quality in China

    ChaoQing Yu;Xiao Huang;Han Chen;H. Charles J. Godfray

  • Deep Learning Based Oil Palm Tree Detection and Counting for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

    Weijia Li;Haohuan Fu;Le Yu;Arthur P. Cracknell

  • Google Earth as a virtual globe tool for Earth science applications at the global scale: progress and perspectives

    Le Yu;Peng Gong

  • China’s urban expansion from 1990 to 2010 determined with satellite remote sensing

    Lei Wang;Lei Wang;CongCong Li;Qing Ying;Xiao Cheng;Xiao Cheng

  • Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity

    Xiaoping Liu;Fengsong Pei;Youyue Wen;Xia Li;Xia Li;Xia Li

  • Spatial multi-objective land use optimization: extensions to the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II

    Kai Cao;Michael Batty;Bo Huang;Yan Liu

  • Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine

    Qiang Zhao;Le Yu;Xuecao Li;Dailiang Peng

  • Detailed dynamic land cover mapping of Chile: Accuracy improvement by integrating multi-temporal data

    Yuanyuan Zhao;Duole Feng;Le Yu;Xiaoyi Wang;Xiaoyi Wang

  • Towards automatic lithological classification from remote sensing data using support vector machines

    Le Yu;Alok Porwal;Eun-Jung Holden;Michael C. Dentith

  • Semantic Segmentation-Based Building Footprint Extraction Using Very High-Resolution Satellite Images and Multi-Source GIS Data

    Weijia Li;Conghui He;Jiarui Fang;Juepeng Zheng

  • Quantization of the coupling mechanism between eco-environmental quality and urbanization from multisource remote sensing data

    Dong Xu;Feng Yang;Le Yu;Yuyu Zhou

  • Automated mapping of soybean and corn using phenology

    Liheng Zhong;Lina Hu;Le Yu;Peng Gong;Peng Gong

  • Towards a common validation sample set for global land-cover mapping

    Yuanyuan Zhao;Peng Gong;Le Yu;Luanyun Hu

  • A fast and fully automatic registration approach based on point features for multi-source remote-sensing images

    Le Yu;Dengrong Zhang;Eun-Jung Holden

  • Improving 30 m global land-cover map FROM-GLC with time series MODIS and auxiliary data sets: a segmentation-based approach

    Le Yu;Jie Wang;Peng Gong

  • The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change.

    Wenjia Cai;Chi Zhang;Hoi Ping Suen;Siqi Ai

  • The first all-season sample set for mapping global land cover with Landsat-8 data

    Congcong Li;Congcong Li;Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Zhiliang Zhu

  • Stacked Autoencoder-based deep learning for remote-sensing image classification: a case study of African land-cover mapping

    Weijia Li;Haohuan Fu;Le Yu;Peng Gong

  • Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research

    Le Yu;Lu Liang;Jie Wang;Yuanyuan Zhao

  • FROM-GC: 30 m global cropland extent derived through multisource data integration

    Le Yu;Jie Wang;Nicholas Clinton;Qinchuan Xin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Xuecao Li
Xuecao Li China Agricultural University
Hui Lu
Hui Lu Tsinghua University
Nicholas Clinton
Nicholas Clinton Google (United States)
Bing Xu
Bing Xu Tsinghua University
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu United States Geological Survey
Xiaoping Liu
Xiaoping Liu Sun Yat-sen University
Bin Chen
Bin Chen Beijing Normal University
Wei Li
Wei Li Tsinghua University
Arthur P. Cracknell
Arthur P. Cracknell University of Dundee

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