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Yanni Cao

Environmental Science · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 1987Rising activity

Publications

47

Citations

751

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

40

Publishing since 1987

Research summary
AI-generated

This publication record appears to blend several distinct research areas, including land surface temperature and ecosystem changes in China (such as the Loess Plateau and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region), environmental health impacts of wildfire smoke and greenspace, and unrelated biomedical topics like DNA methylation in cancer and nanoparticle-based cancer therapy. Given the diversity of subjects and venues, this may represent a common author name shared across multiple researchers rather than a single coherent research program. Prospective students should verify which specific publications and topics belong to the PI they are interested in before drawing conclusions about research focus.

Land surface temperature and remote sensingEcosystem services and land urbanizationEnvironmental health (wildfire smoke, greenspace)Cancer epigenetics and DNA methylation (possibly unrelated body of work)Regional sustainability in China

Publication output was low and sporadic through the late 2010s and early 2020s, then increased sharply in 2025, suggesting either a recent surge in productivity or aggregation of records from multiple same-named authors.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.6/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 1 publication18192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 3 publications242025: 12 publications12252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Remote Sensing×2
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×2
  • Land Use Policy×1
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics×1
  • Advanced Science×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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