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D-Index
44
Citations
5105
World Ranking
6890
National Ranking
2452

Chi-hua Huang 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 Chi-hua Huang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 102 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chi-hua Huang 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 Chi-hua Huang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Chi-hua Huang is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on soil science, ecology, earth-surface processes, environmental chemistry, and water science and technology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and sediment transport processes, aeolian processes and effects, hydrology and watershed management studies, phosphorus and nutrient management, soil and water nutrient dynamics, as well as aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics.

Recent publications by Huang include:

  • Effects of root morphological traits on soil detachment for ten herbaceous species in the Loess Plateau, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Grain yield and greenhouse gas emissions from maize and wheat fields under plastic film and straw mulching: A meta-analysis, 2021, Field Crops Research
  • An updated isoerodent map of the conterminous United States, 2021, International Soil and Water Conservation Research
  • Deposition- and transport-dominated erosion regime effects on the loss of dissolved and sediment-bound organic carbon: Evaluation in a cultivated soil with laboratory rainfall simulations, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Using Steel Slag for Dissolved Phosphorus Removal: Insights from a Designed Flow-Through Laboratory Experimental Structure, 2020, Water

Huang frequently publishes in venues such as Soil Erosion Research Under a Changing Climate, Water, The Science of The Total Environment, International Soil and Water Conservation Research, and the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Collaborations with other researchers appear with regularity; frequent coauthors include Dennis C. Flanagan, Mark A. Weltz, Ryan P. McGehee, Puneet Srivastava, and Bernard A. Engel.

Best Publications

  • Applications of a Laser Scanner to Quantify Soil Microtopography

    Chi-hua Huang;Joe M. Bradford

  • Does soil surface roughness increase or decrease water and particle transfers

    Frédéric Darboux;Chi-hua Huang

  • An Instantaneous‐Profile Laser Scanner to Measure Soil Surface Microtopography

    Frédéric Darboux;Chi-hua Huang

  • Fractal features of soil particle-size distribution as affected by plant communities in the forested region of Mountain Yimeng, China

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  • Effects of soil surface roughness on interrill erosion processes and sediment particle size distribution

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  • Sediment transport capacity and erosion processes: model concepts and reality

    C. Huang;L. K. Wells;L. D. Norton

  • Impervious surface impacts to runoff and sediment discharge under laboratory rainfall simulation

    E.A. Pappas;D.R. Smith;C. Huang;W.D. Shuster

  • Seepage and Soil Erosion for a Clay Loam Soil

    Chi-hua Huang;John M. Laften

  • Vertical hydraulic gradient and run-on water and sediment effects on erosion processes and sediment regimes.

    Fen-li Zheng;Chi-hua Huang;L. Darrell Norton

  • Depressional storage for Markov-Gaussian surfaces.

    Chi-hua Huang;Joe M. Bradford

  • Sediment phosphorus dynamics for three tile fed drainage ditches in Northeast Indiana

    D.R. Smith;B.E. Haggard;E.A. Warnemuende;C. Huang

  • Evaluation of the Detachment-Transport Coupling Concept in the WEPP Rill Erosion Equation

    Chi-hua Huang;John M. Laflen;Joe M. Bradford

  • Aggregate Stability as Affected by Polyacrylamide Molecular Weight, Soil Texture, and Water Quality

    A. I. Mamedov;S. Beckmann;C. Huang;G. J. Levy

  • Effects of root morphological traits on soil detachment for ten herbaceous species in the Loess Plateau.

    Bing Wang;Bing Wang;Bing Wang;Pan-Pan Li;Chi-Hua Huang;Guo-Bin Liu

  • Polyacrylamide effects on aggregate and structure stability of soils with different clay mineralogy.

    A. I. Mamedov;L. E. Wagner;C. Huang;L. D. Norton

  • Phosphorus losses from monitored fields with conservation practices in the Lake Erie Basin, USA.

    Douglas R. Smith;Wendy Francesconi;Stan J. Livingston;Chi-hua Huang

  • Interrill soil erosion as affected by tillage and residue cover

    Joe M. Bradford;Chi-hua Huang

  • Effects of Near-Surface Hydraulic Gradients on Nitrate and Phosphorus Losses in Surface Runoff

    Fen-Li Zheng;Chi-Hua Huang;L. Darrell Norton

  • Nutrient losses from row crop agriculture in Indiana

    D.R. Smith;S.J. Livingston;B.W. Zuercher;M. Larose

  • A Noncontact Laser System for Measuring Soil Surface Topography

    C. Huang;I. White;E. G. Thwaite;A. Bendeli

  • Measurements and Models of Soil Loss Rates

    M. A. Nearing;M. J. M. Romkens;L. D. Norton;D. E. Stott

  • Portable laser scanner for measuring soil surface roughness.

    Chi-hua Huang;Joe M. Bradford

  • Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming

    John M. Laflen;Junliang Tian;Chi-Hua Huang

  • Landscape position, surface hydraulic gradients and erosion processes

    D. S. Gabbard;C. Huang;L. D. Norton;G. C. Steinhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis C. Flanagan
Dennis C. Flanagan Agricultural Research Service
Donald Gabriëls
Donald Gabriëls Ghent University
Douglas R. Smith
Douglas R. Smith Agricultural Research Service
Guy J. Levy
Guy J. Levy Agricultural Research Organization
Fenli Zheng
Fenli Zheng Northwest A&F University
Brian E. Haggard
Brian E. Haggard University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Wim Cornelis
Wim Cornelis Ghent University
Bernard A. Engel
Bernard A. Engel Purdue University West Lafayette
José Miguel Reichert
José Miguel Reichert Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Mark A. Nearing
Mark A. Nearing Agricultural Research Service

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