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61
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13882
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1785
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Changming Liu publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Changming Liu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 171 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Changming Liu D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Changming Liu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Changming Liu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

Liu's research topics include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Water Resources Management and Optimization.

Frequent collaborators in Liu's research include Xiaomang Liu, Yongqiang Zhang, Kaiwen Wang, Peng Bai, and Wei Tian.

Liu has published multiple research articles in several key academic venues, most notably: Journal of Hydrology with seven publications, Water Resources Research with six publications, Earth's Future with three, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science with three, and SSRN Electronic Journal with three.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Liu include:

  • Assessing the Impacts of Vegetation Greenness Change on Evapotranspiration and Water Yield in China (2020, Water Resources Research)
  • Evaluation of Typical Methods for Baseflow Separation in the Contiguous United States (2020, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Southern Hemisphere Dominates Recent Decline in Global Water Availability (2023, Science)
  • Potential Role of Permafrost Thaw on Increasing Siberian River Discharge (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Future Global Streamflow Declines Are Probably More Severe Than Previously Estimated (2023, Nature Water)

Best Publications

  • A Gauge-Based Analysis of Daily Precipitation over East Asia

    Pingping Xie;Akiyo Yatagai;Mingyue Chen;Tadahiro Hayasaka

  • Determination of daily evaporation and evapotranspiration of winter wheat and maize by large-scale weighing lysimeter and micro-lysimeter

    Changming Liu;Xiying Zhang;Yongqiang Zhang

  • Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components

    Yongqiang Zhang;Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Francis H. S. Chiew

  • Effects of irrigation on water balance, yield and WUE of winter wheat in the North China Plain

    Hong-Yong Sun;Chang-Ming Liu;Xi-Ying Zhang;Yan-Jun Shen

  • Responses of streamflow to climate and land surface change in the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin

    Hongxing Zheng;Lu Zhang;Ruirui Zhu;Changming Liu

  • Trends in pan evaporation and reference and actual evapotranspiration across the Tibetan Plateau

    Yongqiang Zhang;Changming Liu;Yanhong Tang;Yonghui Yang

  • Hydro-climatic trends of the Yellow River basin for the last 50 years

    Guobin Fu;Guobin Fu;Shulin Chen;Changming Liu;Dawn Shepard

  • Improving water use efficiency of irrigated crops in the North China Plain : measurements and modelling

    Huixiao Wang;Lu Zhang;W.R Dawes;Changming Liu

  • Effect of precipitation change on water balance and WUE of the winter wheat–summer maize rotation in the North China Plain

    Hongyong Sun;Yanjun Shen;Qiang Yu;Gerald N. Flerchinger

  • Water problems and hydrological research in the Yellow River and the Huai and Hai River basins of China

    Changming Liu;Changming Liu;Jun Xia;Jun Xia

  • A soil-water-balance approach to quantify groundwater recharge from irrigated cropland in the North China Plain

    Eloise Kendy;Pierre Gérard-Marchant;M. Todd Walter;Yongqiang Zhang

  • Groundwater recharge from irrigated cropland in the North China Plain: case study of Luancheng County, Hebei Province, 1949-2000

    Eloise Kendy;Yongqiang Zhang;Changming Liu;Jinxia Wang

  • Comparison of the MK test and EMD method for trend identification in hydrological time series

    Yan-Fang Sang;Zhonggen Wang;Changming Liu

  • Assessing the Impacts of Vegetation Greenness Change on Evapotranspiration and Water Yield in China

    Peng Bai;Xiaomang Liu;Yongqiang Zhang;Changming Liu

  • Linkages between ENSO/PDO signals and precipitation, streamflow in China during the last 100 years

    Rulin(欧阳如琳) Ouyang;W. Liu;G. Fu;C. Liu

  • Water-saving agriculture in China: An overview

    Huixiao Wang;Changming Liu;Lu Zhang

  • Effects of harvest and sowing time on the performance of the rotation of winter wheat-summer maize in the North China Plain

    Hongyong Sun;Xiying Zhang;Suying Chen;Dong Pei

  • Recent changes in pan-evaporation dynamics in China

    Xiaomang Liu;Xiaomang Liu;Yuzhou Luo;Dan Zhang;Minghua Zhang

  • Evaluating the streamflow simulation capability of PERSIANN-CDR daily rainfall products in two river basins on the Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaomang Liu;Xiaomang Liu;Tiantian Yang;Koulin Hsu;Changming Liu

  • Decadal Climatic Variability, Trends, and Future Scenarios for the North China Plain

    Guobin Fu;Stephen P. Charles;Jingjie Yu;Changming Liu

  • Changes in stream flow regime in headwater catchments of the Yellow River basin since the 1950s

    Hongxing Zheng;Lu Zhang;Changming Liu;Changming Liu;Quanxi Shao

  • Towards better water security in North China

    Jun Xia;Jun Xia;Lu Zhang;Changming Liu;Jingjie Yu

  • Effects of deficit irrigation on yield and water use of greenhouse grown cucumber in the North China Plain

    Xuesen Mao;Mengyu Liu;Xinyuan Wang;Changming Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaomang Liu
Xiaomang Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jun Xia
Jun Xia Wuhan University
Yanjun Shen
Yanjun Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jingjie Yu
Jingjie Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guobin Fu
Guobin Fu Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Changyuan Tang
Changyuan Tang Chiba University
Xianfang Song
Xianfang Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Fanghua Hao
Fanghua Hao Beijing Normal University

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