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Chaopeng Hong

Chaopeng Hong

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
38
Citations
13467
World Ranking
712
National Ranking
244

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
39
Citations
16433
World Ranking
8212
National Ranking
757

Chaopeng Hong 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 Chaopeng Hong sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 76 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Chaopeng Hong 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 Chaopeng Hong sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Chaopeng Hong is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has a research focus centered on environmental science, with a substantial record of publications and collaborations. Their work spans multiple subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and pollution.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas related to environmental impact and atmospheric dynamics. These include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality

Hong's recent scholarly contributions include papers published between 2020 and 2023, with notable works such as:

  • Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961-2017 (2021) published in Nature
  • Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002-2017 (2021) in Nature Geoscience
  • Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt (2020) in Nature Climate Change
  • Dynamic projection of anthropogenic emissions in China: methodology and 2015-2050 emission pathways under a range of socio-economic, climate policy, and pollution control scenarios (2020) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Record-high CO2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021 (2023) in Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hong include:

  • Steven J. Davis
  • Qiang Zhang
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Zhu Liu
  • Bo Zheng

Key venues where Hong's research has appeared include:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Their body of work contributes significantly to the understanding of factors influencing air quality, atmospheric chemistry, climate change effects on health and environment, as well as modeling anthropogenic emissions over multiple decades. The diversity in publication venues and collaboration networks indicates engagement with a broad spectrum of environmental science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Trends in China's anthropogenic emissions since 2010 as the consequence of clean air actions

    Bo Zheng;Bo Zheng;Dan Tong;Meng Li;Fei Liu

  • Drivers of improved PM2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017.

    Qiang Zhang;Yixuan Zheng;Dan Tong;Min Shao

  • Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China

    Z Liu;Dabo Guan;Wei Wei;Steven J Davis

  • MIX: a mosaic Asian anthropogenic emission inventory under the international collaboration framework of the MICS-Asia and HTAP

    Meng Li;Qiang Zhang;Jun-ichi Kurokawa;Jung-Hun Woo

  • Anthropogenic emission inventories in China: a review

    Meng Li;Meng Li;Huan Liu;Guannan Geng;Chaopeng Hong

  • Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target

    Dan Tong;Dan Tong;Qiang Zhang;Yixuan Zheng;Yixuan Zheng;Ken Caldeira

  • Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017

    Chaopeng Hong;Jennifer A. Burney;Julia Pongratz;Julia Pongratz;Julia E. M. S. Nabel

  • Persistent growth of anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC) emissions in China during 1990–2017: drivers, speciation and ozone formation potential

    Meng Li;Meng Li;Meng Li;Qiang Zhang;Bo Zheng;Dan Tong

  • Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017

    Guannan Geng;Yixuan Zheng;Qiang Zhang;Tao Xue

  • Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

    Yue Qin;Yue Qin;John T. Abatzoglou;John T. Abatzoglou;Stefan Siebert;Laurie S. Huning

  • Impacts of climate change on future air quality and human health in China

    Chaopeng Hong;Qiang Zhang;Yang Zhang;Steven J. Davis;Steven J. Davis

  • Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units

    Dan Tong;Qiang Zhang;Steven J. Davis;Steven J. Davis;Fei Liu

  • Co-benefits of CO2 emission reduction from China’s clean air actions between 2013-2020

    Unknown

  • Record-high CO2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021

    Unknown

  • Dynamic projection of anthropogenic emissions in China: methodology and 2015–2050 emission pathways under a range of socio-economic, climate policy, and pollution control scenarios

    Dan Tong;Jing Cheng;Yang Liu;Sha Yu

  • Land-use emissions embodied in international trade

    Unknown

  • Current Emissions and Future Mitigation Pathways of Coal-Fired Power Plants in China from 2010 to 2030.

    Dan Tong;Qiang Zhang;Fei Liu;Guannan Geng

  • Flexibility and intensity of global water use

    Yue Qin;Nathaniel D. Mueller;Stefan Siebert;Stefan Siebert;Robert B. Jackson

  • MIX: a mosaic Asian anthropogenic emission inventory for the MICS-Asia and the HTAP projects

    M. Li;Q. Zhang;J. Kurokawa;J. H. Woo

  • Resolution dependence of uncertainties in gridded emission inventories: a case study in Hebei, China

    Bo Zheng;Qiang Zhang;Dan Tong;Chuchu Chen

  • Integrating mitigation of air pollutants and greenhouse gases in Chinese cities: development of GAINS-City model for Beijing

    Fei Liu;Z. Klimont;Qiang Zhang;J. Cofala

  • Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda.

    Robert B. Jackson;Sam Abernethy;Josep G. Canadell;Matteo Cargnello

  • Committed Emissions from Existing Energy Infrastructure Jeopardize 1.5 °C Climate Target

    S. J. Davis;D. Tong;Z. Qiang;Y. Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University
Kebin He
Kebin He Tsinghua University
Meng Li
Meng Li Peking University
Bo Zheng
Bo Zheng Tsinghua University
Guannan Geng
Guannan Geng Tsinghua University
Yixuan Zheng
Yixuan Zheng Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Zhu Liu
Zhu Liu Tsinghua University
Yang Zhang
Yang Zhang Northeastern University

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