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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 58 3338 3192 141 133 214 9640

Bing Cheng Si publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Bing Cheng Si between 1999 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Bing Cheng Si published across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026, averaging 12.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 37 publications in 2024. 37 of the 338 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 37. Peak 37 publications in 2024. 1999: 1 publication 2000: 5 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 2 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 7 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 20 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 16 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 27 publications 2022: 16 publications 2023: 34 publications 2024: 37 publications 2025: 32 publications 2026: 5 publications
1999 2026

338 publications in total across all disciplines

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Bing Cheng Si: publications per year, 1999 to 2026
Year Publications
1999 1
2000 5
2001 1
2002 2
2003 1
2004 7
2005 4
2006 7
2007 8
2008 8
2009 5
2010 2
2011 20
2012 11
2013 13
2014 7
2015 14
2016 15
2017 10
2018 16
2019 16
2020 14
2021 27
2022 16
2023 34
2024 37
2025 32
2026 5
Total 338
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Bing Cheng Si 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 Bing Cheng Si 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, 211–220 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: 214 publications — 69th percentile

69% 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
201–210 318
211–220 282 214
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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Bing Cheng Si 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 Bing Cheng Si 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, 58 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: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% 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 58
59 177
60 166
61 152
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

Bing Cheng Si is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and engineering, focusing extensively on soil, water, and atmospheric interactions.

The scientist has published numerous papers across a range of reputable journals. Some notable recent publications include:

  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Precipitation dominates the transpiration of both the economic forest (Malus pumila) and ecological forest (Robinia pseudoacacia) on the Loess Plateau after about 15 years of water depletion in deep soil, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Technical Note: Improved partial wavelet coherency for understanding scale-specific and localized bivariate relationships in geosciences, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • A review of time domain reflectometry (TDR) applications in porous media, 2021, Advances in agronomy
  • Room for improvement: A review and evaluation of 24 soil thermal conductivity parameterization schemes commonly used in land-surface, hydrological, and soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer models, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews

Their frequent coauthors include Huijie Li, Hailong He, Yanwei Lu, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, and Ze Tao. Collaboration with these researchers reflects multidisciplinary efforts involving environmental engineering and hydrological sciences.

Bing Cheng Si has published extensively in certain venues, with the largest numbers appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural Water Management

Their main fields of study are concentrated in Environmental Science and Engineering. Within these broader categories, subfields include:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Soil Science
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

The main topics covered in their body of work reflect interdisciplinary environmental and hydrological research priorities:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate change and permafrost

Best Publications

  • Effects of straw and plastic film mulching on greenhouse gas emissions in Loess Plateau, China: A field study of 2 consecutive wheat-maize rotation cycles

    Haixin Chen;Jingjing Liu;Afeng Zhang;Jing Chen

  • Technical note: Multiple wavelet coherence for untangling scale-specific andlocalized multivariate relationships in geosciences

    Wei Hu;Wei Hu;Bing Cheng Si;Bing Cheng Si

  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils.

    Jiaping Liang;Yi Li;Bingcheng Si;Yanzi Wang

  • Nitrous oxide emissions and biogeochemical responses to soil freezing-thawing and drying-wetting

    K.A. Congreves;C. Wagner-Riddle;B.C. Si;T.J. Clough

  • Probability Distribution and Spatial Dependence of Nitrous Oxide Emission

    T. T. Yates;B. C. Si;R. E. Farrell;D. J. Pennock

  • Near‐saturated surface soil hydraulic properties under different land uses in the St Denis National Wildlife Area, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Waduwawatte Bodhinayake;Bing Cheng Si

  • Development and Application of the Heat Pulse Method for Soil Physical Measurements

    Hailong He;Miles F. Dyck;Robert Horton;Tusheng Ren

  • Scaling Relationships between Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Soil Physical Properties

    Takele B. Zeleke;Bing Cheng Si

  • Scale-Dependent Relationship between Wheat Yield and Topographic Indices

    Bing Cheng Si;Richard E. Farrell

  • Spatial Scaling Analyses of Soil Physical Properties: A Review of Spectral and Wavelet Methods

    Bing Cheng Si

  • Seasonal changes in surface bulk density and saturated hydraulic conductivity of natural landscapes

    W. Hu;M. A. Shao;B. C. Si

  • Determination of groundwater recharge mechanism in the deep loessial unsaturated zone by environmental tracers.

    Zhi Li;Xi Chen;Wenzhao Liu;Bingcheng Si;Bingcheng Si

  • Determination of hydraulic properties in sloping landscapes from tension and double-ring infiltrometers

    Waduwawatte Bodhinayake;Bing Cheng Si;Kosuke Noborio

  • Characterizing scale-dependent spatial relationships between soil properties using multifractal techniques

    Takele B. Zeleke;Bing C. Si

  • Water mining from the deep critical zone by apple trees growing on loess

    Huijie Li;Bingcheng Si;Bingcheng Si;Pute Wu;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • A modified normalized model for predicting effective soil thermal conductivity

    Hailong He;Hailong He;Ying Zhao;Miles F. Dyck;Bingcheng Si;Bingcheng Si

  • Soil water prediction based on its scale-specific control using multivariate empirical mode decomposition

    Wei Hu;Bing Cheng Si

  • Infiltration and drainage processes in multi-layered coarse soils

    Mingbin Huang;Mingbin Huang;S. Lee Barbour;Amin Elshorbagy;Julie D. Zettl

  • Influence of textural layering on field capacity of coarse soils

    Julie D. Zettl;S. Lee Barbour;Mingbin Huang;Bing C. Si

  • Quantifying dual recharge mechanisms in deep unsaturated zone of Chinese Loess Plateau using stable isotopes

    Wei Xiang;Bing Cheng Si;Bing Cheng Si;Asim Biswas;Zhi Li

  • Representative Soil Water Benchmarking for Environmental Monitoring

    L. K. Tallon;B. C. Si

Frequent Co-Authors

Asim Biswas
Asim Biswas University of Guelph
Ying Zhao
Ying Zhao Ludong University
Mingan Shao
Mingan Shao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hao Feng
Hao Feng Northwest A&F University
Pute Wu
Pute Wu Northwest A&F University
Jeff J. Schoenau
Jeff J. Schoenau University of Saskatchewan
Dan Pennock
Dan Pennock University of Saskatchewan
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Huijun Jin
Huijun Jin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xining Zhao
Xining Zhao Northwest A&F University

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