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D-Index
46
Citations
5914
World Ranking
6207
National Ranking
270

Budong Qian 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 Budong Qian sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 121 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Budong Qian 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 Budong Qian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Budong Qian is affiliated with Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada in Canada. Their research focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, particularly in areas related to environmental science.

Their work spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Plant Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Soil Science

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Climate variability and models
  • Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Budong Qian has published in a variety of journals, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Canadian Journal of Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Agronomy
  • Agronomy Journal

Recent research papers by Budong Qian include:

  • Estimating crop biomass using leaf area index derived from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 data, 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Are soybean models ready for climate change food impact assessments?, 2022, European Journal of Agronomy
  • Detection of Crop Seeding and Harvest through Analysis of Time-Series Sentinel-1 Interferometric SAR Data, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Modelling adaptation strategies to reduce adverse impacts of climate change on maize cropping system in Northeast China, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Budong Qian include:

  • Qi Jing
  • Ward Smith
  • Brian Grant
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom
  • Daniel Wallach

Best Publications

  • Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Assessment of red-edge vegetation indices for crop leaf area index estimation.

    Taifeng Dong;Jiangui Liu;Jiali Shang;Budong Qian

  • Regional climate change in Portugal: precipitation variability associated with large‐scale atmospheric circulation

    João Corte-Real;Budong Qian;Hong Xu

  • Observed soil temperature trends associated with climate change in Canada

    Budong Qian;Edward G. Gregorich;Sam Gameda;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins

  • Assessing the effects of climate change on crop production and GHG emissions in Canada

    W.N. Smith;B.B. Grant;R.L. Desjardins;R. Kroebel

  • Estimating winter wheat biomass by assimilating leaf area index derived from fusion of Landsat-8 and MODIS data

    Taifeng Dong;Jiangui Liu;Budong Qian;Ting Zhao

  • Evaluation of the integrated Canadian crop yield forecaster (ICCYF) model for in-season prediction of crop yield across the Canadian agricultural landscape

    Aston Chipanshi;Yinsuo Zhang;Louis Kouadio;Nathaniel Newlands

  • Is the North Atlantic Oscillation the most important atmospheric pattern for precipitation in Europe

    Budong Qian;João Corte-Real;Hong Xu

  • Litter decay controlled by temperature, not soil properties, affecting future soil carbon.

    Edward G. Gregorich;Henry Janzen;Benjamin H. Ellert;Bobbi L. Helgason

  • Estimating crop biomass using leaf area index derived from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 data

    Taifeng Dong;Jiangui Liu;Budong Qian;Liming He

  • Long-term Trends in Corn Yields and Soil Carbon under Diversified Crop Rotations.

    Marek Jarecki;Brian Grant;Ward Smith;Bill Deen

  • Comparison of LARS-WG and AAFC-WG stochastic weather generators for diverse Canadian climates

    B. Qian;S. Gameda;H. Hayhoe;R. De Jong

  • Statistical spring wheat yield forecasting for the Canadian prairie provinces.

    Budong Qian;Reinder De Jong;Richard Warren;Aston Chipanshi

  • Observed Long-Term Trends for Agroclimatic Conditions in Canada

    Budong Qian;Xuebin Zhang;Kai Chen;Yang Feng

  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise

    Daniel Wallach;Taru Palosuo;Peter Thorburn;Zvi Hochman

  • Summer snow extent heralding of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation

    Mark A. Saunders;Budong Qian;Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes

  • Estimating the impacts of climate change on crop yields and N2O emissions for conventional and no-tillage in Southwestern Ontario, Canada

    Wentian He;Wentian He;J.Y. Yang;C.F. Drury;W.N. Smith

  • Multisite stochastic weather models for impact studies

    Budong Qian;Budong Qian;João Corte‐Real;João Corte‐Real;Hong Xu;Hong Xu

  • Assessment of Portable Chlorophyll Meters for Measuring Crop Leaf Chlorophyll Concentration

    Taifeng Dong;Jiali Shang;Jing M. Chen;Jiangui Liu

  • Are soybean models ready for climate change food impact assessments?

    Unknown

  • Evaluation of the stochastic weather generators LARS-WG and AAFC-WG for climate change impact studies

    Budong Qian;Henry Hayhoe;Sam Gameda

  • Seasonal predictability of the winter NAO from north Atlantic sea surface temperatures

    Mark A. Saunders;Budong Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

Qi Jing
Qi Jing Environment and Climate Change Canada
Jiali Shang
Jiali Shang Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Gerrit Hoogenboom University of Florida
Ward Smith
Ward Smith Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Brian McConkey
Brian McConkey Viresco Solutions Inc.
Gilles Bélanger
Gilles Bélanger Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Craig F. Drury
Craig F. Drury Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Sebastian Gayler
Sebastian Gayler University of Hohenheim

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