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D-Index
89
Citations
35631
World Ranking
608
National Ranking
67

Qihao Weng 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 Qihao Weng sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 276 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Qihao Weng 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 Qihao Weng sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to urban remote sensing

Overview

Qihao Weng is affiliated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and engineering. Their research spans several key subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, renewable energy, sustainability, and health-related toxicology.

Their work covers a range of topics, with particular emphasis on urban heat island mitigation, land use and ecosystem services, urban green space and health, remote sensing in agriculture, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies, and the impact of light on the environment and health.

Qihao Weng has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Yingying Han, Zhengrong Yuan, Zhongwei An, Pei Chen, and Xinbing Chen.

  • Yingying Han
  • Zhengrong Yuan
  • Zhongwei An
  • Pei Chen
  • Xinbing Chen

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Recent papers authored by Qihao Weng include:

  • Predicting Heavy Metal Adsorption on Soil with Machine Learning and Mapping Global Distribution of Soil Adsorption Capacities (2021), Environmental Science & Technology
  • Spatial heterogeneity modeling of water quality based on random forest regression and model interpretation (2021), Environmental Research
  • Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: Progress, challenges, and prospects (2023), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Cloud and cloud shadow detection for optical satellite imagery: Features, algorithms, validation, and prospects (2022), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • A large-scale change monitoring of wetlands using time series Landsat imagery on Google Earth Engine: a case study in Newfoundland (2020), GIScience & Remote Sensing

Qihao Weng has been recognized with awards including the IEEE Fellow in 2018 for contributions to urban remote sensing, and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • A survey of image classification methods and techniques for improving classification performance

    D. Lu;Q. Weng

  • Estimation of land surface temperature-vegetation abundance relationship for urban heat island studies

    Qihao Weng;Dengsheng Lu;Jacquelyn Schubring

  • Per-pixel vs. object-based classification of urban land cover extraction using high spatial resolution imagery

    Soe W. Myint;Patricia Gober;Anthony Brazel;Susanne Grossman-Clarke;Susanne Grossman-Clarke

  • Thermal infrared remote sensing for urban climate and environmental studies: Methods, applications, and trends

    Qihao Weng

  • Remote sensing of impervious surfaces in the urban areas: Requirements, methods, and trends

    Qihao Weng

  • Land use change analysis in the Zhujiang Delta of China using satellite remote sensing, GIS and stochastic modelling

    Qihao Weng

  • A remote sensing-GIS evaluation of urban expansion and its impact on surface temperature in the Zhujiang Delta, China

    Q. Weng

  • Use of impervious surface in urban land-use classification

    Dengsheng Lu;Qihao Weng

  • Generating daily land surface temperature at Landsat resolution by fusing Landsat and MODIS data

    Qihao Weng;Peng Fu;Feng Gao

  • Modeling Urban Growth Effects on Surface Runoff with the Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS

    Qihao Weng

  • A time series analysis of urbanization induced land use and land cover change and its impact on land surface temperature with Landsat imagery

    Peng Fu;Qihao Weng

  • Spatial-temporal dynamics of land surface temperature in relation to fractional vegetation cover and land use/cover in the Tabriz urban area, Iran.

    Reza Amiri;Qihao Weng;Abbas Alimohammadi;Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

  • Spectral Mixture Analysis of the Urban Landscape in Indianapolis with Landsat ETM+ Imagery

    Dengsheng Lu;Qihao Weng

  • Fractal Analysis of Satellite-Detected Urban Heat Island Effect

    Qihao Weng

  • Remote Sensing Sensors and Applications in Environmental Resources Mapping and Modelling.

    Assefa M Melesse;Qihao Weng;Prasad S Thenkabail;Gabriel B Senay

  • A sub-pixel analysis of urbanization effect on land surface temperature and its interplay with impervious surface and vegetation coverage in Indianapolis, United States

    Qihao Weng;Dengsheng Lu

  • Estimating impervious surfaces from medium spatial resolution imagery using the self-organizing map and multi-layer perceptron neural networks.

    Xuefei Hu;Qihao Weng

  • Managing the adverse thermal effects of urban development in a densely populated Chinese city.

    Qihao Weng;Shihong Yang

  • The impact of land use and land cover changes on land surface temperature in a karst area of China.

    Honglin Xiao;Qihao Weng

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change in Guangzhou, China, from 1998 to 2003, Based on Landsat TM /ETM+ Imagery.

    Fenglei Fan;Qihao Weng;Yunpeng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Dengsheng Lu
Dengsheng Lu Fujian Normal University
Xiaohua Tong
Xiaohua Tong Tongji University
Yuyu Zhou
Yuyu Zhou Iowa State University
Paolo Gamba
Paolo Gamba University of Pavia
Guangxing Wang
Guangxing Wang Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Huadong Guo
Huadong Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Soe W. Myint
Soe W. Myint Arizona State University
Ni-Bin Chang
Ni-Bin Chang University of Central Florida
Janet E. Nichol
Janet E. Nichol University of Sussex
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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