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Woo-Kyun Lee

Woo-Kyun Lee

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
34
Citations
4694
World Ranking
7601
National Ranking
5

Woo-Kyun Lee 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 Woo-Kyun Lee sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 230 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Woo-Kyun Lee 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 Woo-Kyun Lee sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Woo-Kyun Lee is affiliated with Korea University in South Korea and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their recent research contributions include the following papers:

  • Understanding global PM2.5 concentrations and their drivers in recent decades (1998-2016), 2020, Environment International
  • Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS, 2020, Sustainability
  • Social big data informs spatially explicit management options for national parks with high tourism pressures, 2020, Tourism Management
  • Understanding global spatio-temporal trends and the relationship between vegetation greenness and climate factors by land cover during 1982-2014, 2020, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Deep Learning Applications on Multitemporal SAR (Sentinel-1) Image Classification Using Confined Labeled Data: The Case of Detecting Rice Paddy in South Korea, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Cholho Song
  • Hyun-Woo Jo
  • Chul-Hee Lim
  • Whijin Kim
  • Eunbeen Park

Woo-Kyun Lee has published extensively in several venues, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • Journal of Climate Change Research (20 publications)
  • Sustainability (9 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (9 publications)
  • Land (8 publications)
  • Forests (8 publications)

The main topics of Lee's research work cover:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Ecology and Conservation Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Best Publications

  • Detection of individual trees and estimation of tree height using LiDAR data

    Doo Ahn Kwak;Woo Kyun Lee;Jun Hak Lee;Greg S. Biging

  • Understanding global PM2.5 concentrations and their drivers in recent decades (1998-2016)

    Chul Hee Lim;Jieun Ryu;Yuyoung Choi;Seong Woo Jeon

  • Assessment of land cover change and desertification using remote sensing technology in a local region of Mongolia

    Munkhnasan Lamchin;Jong Yeol Lee;Woo Kyun Lee;Eun Jung Lee

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS

    Sonam Wangyel Wang;Belay Manjur Gebru;Munkhnasan Lamchin;Rijan Bhakta Kayastha

  • Long-term trend and correlation between vegetation greenness and climate variables in Asia based on satellite data.

    Munkhnasan Lamchin;Woo Kyun Lee;Seong Woo Jeon;Sonam Wangyel Wang

  • Modeling stem profiles for Pinus densiflora in Korea

    Woo Kyun Lee;Jeong Ho Seo;Young Mo Son;Kyeong Hak Lee

  • Multi-Temporal Analysis of Forest Fire Probability Using Socio-Economic and Environmental Variables

    Sea Jin Kim;Sea Jin Kim;Chul Hee Lim;Gang Sun Kim;Jongyeol Lee

  • Estimating Crown Variables of Individual Trees Using Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanners

    Sung Eun Jung;Doo Ahn Kwak;Taejin Park;Woo Kyun Lee

  • Allometric equations for estimating the aboveground volume of five common urban street tree species in Daegu, Korea

    Tae Kyung Yoon;Chan Woo Park;Sun Jeoung Lee;Suin Ko

  • Influences of forest tending works on carbon distribution and cycling in a Pinus densiflora S. et Z. stand in Korea

    Choonsig Kim;Yowhan Son;Woo Kyun Lee;Jaeyeob Jeong

  • Allometry and biomass of Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) in central Korea.

    Yowhan Son;Jae Woo Hwang;Zin Suh Kim;Woo Kyun Lee

  • Hyperspectral Analysis of Pine Wilt Disease to Determine an Optimal Detection Index

    So Ra Kim;Woo Kyun Lee;Chul Hee Lim;Moonil Kim;Moonil Kim

  • Socio-Ecological Niche and Factors Affecting Agroforestry Practice Adoption in Different Agroecologies of Southern Tigray, Ethiopia

    Belay Manjur Gebru;Sonam Wangyel Wang;Sea Jin Kim;Woo Kyun Lee

  • DBH growth model for Pinus densiflora and Quercus variabilis mixed forests in central Korea

    Woo Kyun Lee;Klaus Von Gadow;Dong Jun Chung;Jong Lak Lee

  • Determining the effect of green spaces on Urban heat distribution using satellite imagery

    Hyun Ah Choi;Woo Kyun Lee;Woo Hyuk Byun

  • Forest cover classification by optimal segmentation of high resolution satellite imagery.

    So Ra Kim;Woo Kyun Lee;Doo Ahn Kwak;Greg S. Biging

  • Social big data informs spatially explicit management options for national parks with high tourism pressures

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  • Estimating stem volume and biomass of Pinus koraiensis using LiDAR data

    Doo Ahn Kwak;Woo Kyun Lee;Hyun Kook Cho;Seung Ho Lee

  • Influence of stand density on soil CO2 efflux for a Pinus densiflora forest in Korea

    Nam Jin Noh;Yowhan Son;Sue Kyoung Lee;Tae Kyung Yoon

  • Understanding global spatio-temporal trends and the relationship between vegetation greenness and climate factors by land cover during 1982–2014

    Munkhnasan Lamchin;Munkhnasan Lamchin;Sonam Wangyel Wang;Chul Hee Lim;Altansukh Ochir

  • An assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation in South Asian agriculture.

    Sonam Wangyel Wang;Woo-Kyun Lee;Yo Whan Son

  • Effect of National-Scale Afforestation on Forest Water Supply and Soil Loss in South Korea, 1971–2010

    Gang Sun Kim;Chul Hee Lim;Sea Jin Kim;Jongyeol Lee

  • Assessing environmentally sensitive land to desertification using MEDALUS method in Mongolia

    Eun Jung Lee;Dongfan Piao;Cholho Song;Jiwon Kim

  • Can satellite-based data substitute for surveyed data to predict the spatial probability of forest fire? A geostatistical approach to forest fire in the Republic of Korea

    Chul Hee Lim;You Seung Kim;Myungsoo Won;Sea Jin Kim

  • Radial growth response of Pinus densiflora and Quercus spp. to topographic and climatic factors in South Korea

    Jae Gyun Byun;Woo Kyun Lee;Moonil Kim;Doo Ahn Kwak

Frequent Co-Authors

Yowhan Son
Yowhan Son Korea University
Menas Kafatos
Menas Kafatos Chapman University
Florian Kraxner
Florian Kraxner International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Hiroyuki Muraoka
Hiroyuki Muraoka Gifu University
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Dmitry Schepaschenko
Dmitry Schepaschenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Sylvain Leduc
Sylvain Leduc Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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