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80
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18720
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546
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Dawen Yang 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 Dawen Yang sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 252 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Dawen Yang 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 Dawen Yang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dawen Yang is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans prominent subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The main topics Dawen Yang focuses on include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Climate Change and Permafrost, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Yang has contributed to several publications, including: Hydrological cycle and water resources in a changing world: A review (2021, Geography and Sustainability), Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth (2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment), Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau (2020, Science Advances), A physical process and machine learning combined hydrological model for daily streamflow simulations of large watersheds with limited observation data (2020, Journal of Hydrology), and Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate (2022, Nature Climate Change).

Dawen Yang regularly collaborates with several researchers, the most frequent co-authors being Taihua Wang, Yuting Yang, Ziwei Liu, Lihua Tang, and Hanbo Yang.

The scientist's research outputs are predominantly published in venues such as the Journal of Hydrology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Best Publications

  • Global potential soil erosion with reference to land use and climate changes

    Dawen Yang;Shinjiro Kanae;Taikan Oki;Toshio Koike

  • New analytical derivation of the mean annual water-energy balance equation

    Hanbo Yang;Dawen Yang;Zhidong Lei;Fubao Sun

  • Spatio-temporal variation of drought in China during 1961–2012: A climatic perspective

    Kai Xu;Dawen Yang;Hanbo Yang;Zhe Li

  • Analyzing spatial and temporal variability of annual water-energy balance in nonhumid regions of China using the Budyko hypothesis

    Dawen Yang;Fubao Sun;Zhiyu Liu;Zhentao Cong

  • Hydrological cycle and water resources in a changing world: A review

    Dawen Yang;Yuting Yang;Jun Xia

  • Attribution analysis based on the Budyko hypothesis for detecting the dominant cause of runoff decline in Haihe basin

    Xiangyu Xu;Dawen Yang;Hanbo Yang;Huimin Lei

  • Impact of vegetation coverage on regional water balance in the nonhumid regions of China

    Dawen Yang;Weiwei Shao;Pat J.-F. Yeh;Hanbo Yang

  • Analysis of water resources variability in the Yellow River of China during the last half century using historical data

    Dawen Yang;Chong Li;Heping Hu;Zhidong Lei

  • Impact of climate variability and human activity on streamflow decrease in the Miyun Reservoir catchment

    Huan Ma;Dawen Yang;Soon Keat Tan;Bing Gao

  • Global assessment of current water resources using total runoff integrating pathways

    Taikan Oki;Yasushi Agata;Shinjiro Kanae;Takao Saruhashi

  • Hydrological Cycle in the Heihe River Basin and Its Implication for Water Resource Management in Endorheic Basins

    Xin Li;Guodong Cheng;Guodong Cheng;Yingchun Ge;Hongyi Li

  • Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau

    Taihua Wang;Dawen Yang;Yuting Yang;Shilong Piao

  • Interpreting the complementary relationship in non‐humid environments based on the Budyko and Penman hypotheses

    Dawen Yang;Fubao Sun;Zhiyu Liu;Zhentao Cong

  • Copula based drought frequency analysis considering the spatio-temporal variability in Southwest China

    Kai Xu;Dawen Yang;Xiangyu Xu;Huimin Lei

  • Excessive Afforestation and Soil Drying on China's Loess Plateau

    Shuilei Zhang;Dawen Yang;Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Shilong Piao

  • Impact of climate change and human activities on runoff in the Weihe River Basin, China

    Jianxia Chang;Yimin Wang;Erkan Istanbulluoglu;Tao Bai

  • Derivation of climate elasticity of runoff to assess the effects of climate change on annual runoff

    Hanbo Yang;Dawen Yang

  • Quantifying the effect of vegetation change on the regional water balance within the Budyko framework

    Shulei Zhang;Hanbo Yang;Dawen Yang;A. W. Jayawardena

  • Multi-scale evaluation of high-resolution multi-sensor blended global precipitation products over the Yangtze River

    Zhe Li;Dawen Yang;Yang Hong

  • A physical process and machine learning combined hydrological model for daily streamflow simulations of large watersheds with limited observation data

    Shuyu Yang;Dawen Yang;Jinsong Chen;Jerasorn Santisirisomboon

  • Hydrological trend analysis in the Yellow River basin using a distributed hydrological model

    Zhentao Cong;Dawen Yang;Bing Gao;Hanbo Yang

  • Interannual and seasonal variability in evapotranspiration and energy partitioning over an irrigated cropland in the North China Plain

    Huimin Lei;Dawen Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuting Yang
Yuting Yang Tsinghua University
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Guodong Cheng
Guodong Cheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Toshio Koike
Toshio Koike University of Tokyo
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Shinjiro Kanae
Shinjiro Kanae Tokyo Institute of Technology
Michael L. Roderick
Michael L. Roderick Australian National University
Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Ximing Cai
Ximing Cai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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