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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy 60 1245 1139 110 109 178 9506

Fucang Zhang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Fucang Zhang between 2001 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Fucang Zhang published across 26 years, from 2001 to 2026, averaging 9 papers a year. Output peaked at 39 publications in 2024. 27 of the 234 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 39. Peak 39 publications in 2024. 2001: 2 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 2 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 1 publication 2008: 2 publications 2009: 0 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 1 publication 2013: 5 publications 2014: 1 publication 2015: 1 publication 2016: 2 publications 2017: 3 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 36 publications 2022: 35 publications 2023: 27 publications 2024: 39 publications 2025: 26 publications 2026: 1 publication
2001 2026

234 publications in total across all disciplines

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Fucang Zhang: publications per year, 2001 to 2026
Year Publications
2001 2
2002 2
2003 1
2004 2
2005 0
2006 1
2007 1
2008 2
2009 0
2010 2
2011 3
2012 1
2013 5
2014 1
2015 1
2016 2
2017 3
2018 12
2019 20
2020 9
2021 36
2022 35
2023 27
2024 39
2025 26
2026 1
Total 234
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Fucang Zhang publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fucang Zhang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 36–40 to 467+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 255. Most scientists, 255, have 111–115 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 176–180 publications, is where this scientist sits. 36–40 publications: 2 scientists 41–45 publications: 7 scientists 46–50 publications: 40 scientists 51–55 publications: 58 scientists 56–60 publications: 60 scientists 61–65 publications: 107 scientists 66–70 publications: 130 scientists 71–75 publications: 153 scientists 76–80 publications: 191 scientists 81–85 publications: 199 scientists 86–90 publications: 206 scientists 91–95 publications: 218 scientists 96–100 publications: 226 scientists 101–105 publications: 227 scientists 106–110 publications: 247 scientists 111–115 publications: 255 scientists 116–120 publications: 253 scientists 121–125 publications: 233 scientists 126–130 publications: 219 scientists 131–135 publications: 201 scientists 136–140 publications: 194 scientists 141–145 publications: 176 scientists 146–150 publications: 157 scientists 151–155 publications: 147 scientists 156–160 publications: 151 scientists 161–165 publications: 159 scientists 166–170 publications: 137 scientists 171–175 publications: 128 scientists 176–180 publications: 126 scientists 181–185 publications: 98 scientists 186–190 publications: 114 scientists 191–195 publications: 100 scientists 196–200 publications: 90 scientists 201–205 publications: 71 scientists 206–210 publications: 98 scientists 211–215 publications: 70 scientists 216–220 publications: 86 scientists 221–225 publications: 61 scientists 226–230 publications: 58 scientists 231–235 publications: 53 scientists 236–240 publications: 64 scientists 241–245 publications: 39 scientists 246–250 publications: 46 scientists 251–255 publications: 51 scientists 256–260 publications: 36 scientists 261–265 publications: 44 scientists 266–270 publications: 35 scientists 271–275 publications: 30 scientists 276–280 publications: 33 scientists 281–285 publications: 35 scientists 286–290 publications: 36 scientists 291–295 publications: 26 scientists 296–300 publications: 26 scientists 301–305 publications: 31 scientists 306–310 publications: 30 scientists 311–315 publications: 21 scientists 316–320 publications: 29 scientists 321–325 publications: 14 scientists 326–330 publications: 15 scientists 331–335 publications: 15 scientists 336–340 publications: 17 scientists 341–345 publications: 15 scientists 346–350 publications: 12 scientists 351–355 publications: 17 scientists 356–360 publications: 18 scientists 361–365 publications: 12 scientists 366–370 publications: 11 scientists 371–375 publications: 6 scientists 376–380 publications: 6 scientists 381–385 publications: 11 scientists 386–390 publications: 9 scientists 391–395 publications: 10 scientists 396–400 publications: 8 scientists 401–405 publications: 4 scientists 406–410 publications: 9 scientists 411–415 publications: 11 scientists 416–420 publications: 4 scientists 421–425 publications: 7 scientists 426–430 publications: 4 scientists 431–435 publications: 3 scientists 436–440 publications: 5 scientists 441–445 publications: 8 scientists 446–450 publications: 6 scientists 451–455 publications: 7 scientists 456–460 publications: 5 scientists 461–465 publications: 6 scientists 466 publications: 2 scientists 467+ publications: 99 scientists
36–40 publications 467+

This scientist: 178 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
36–40 2
41–45 7
46–50 40
51–55 58
56–60 60
61–65 107
66–70 130
71–75 153
76–80 191
81–85 199
86–90 206
91–95 218
96–100 226
101–105 227
106–110 247
111–115 255
116–120 253
121–125 233
126–130 219
131–135 201
136–140 194
141–145 176
146–150 157
151–155 147
156–160 151
161–165 159
166–170 137
171–175 128
176–180 126 178
181–185 98
186–190 114
191–195 100
196–200 90
201–205 71
206–210 98
211–215 70
216–220 86
221–225 61
226–230 58
231–235 53
236–240 64
241–245 39
246–250 46
251–255 51
256–260 36
261–265 44
266–270 35
271–275 30
276–280 33
281–285 35
286–290 36
291–295 26
296–300 26
301–305 31
306–310 30
311–315 21
316–320 29
321–325 14
326–330 15
331–335 15
336–340 17
341–345 15
346–350 12
351–355 17
356–360 18
361–365 12
366–370 11
371–375 6
376–380 6
381–385 11
386–390 9
391–395 10
396–400 8
401–405 4
406–410 9
411–415 11
416–420 4
421–425 7
426–430 4
431–435 3
436–440 5
441–445 8
446–450 6
451–455 7
456–460 5
461–465 6
466 2
467+ 99
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Fucang Zhang D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fucang Zhang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 80 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 109+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 60 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 200 scientists 31 D-Index: 236 scientists 32 D-Index: 253 scientists 33 D-Index: 283 scientists 34 D-Index: 288 scientists 35 D-Index: 240 scientists 36 D-Index: 246 scientists 37 D-Index: 243 scientists 38 D-Index: 247 scientists 39 D-Index: 229 scientists 40 D-Index: 232 scientists 41 D-Index: 230 scientists 42 D-Index: 228 scientists 43 D-Index: 219 scientists 44 D-Index: 193 scientists 45 D-Index: 164 scientists 46 D-Index: 158 scientists 47 D-Index: 143 scientists 48 D-Index: 131 scientists 49 D-Index: 127 scientists 50 D-Index: 122 scientists 51 D-Index: 122 scientists 52 D-Index: 110 scientists 53 D-Index: 102 scientists 54 D-Index: 98 scientists 55 D-Index: 79 scientists 56 D-Index: 85 scientists 57 D-Index: 88 scientists 58 D-Index: 91 scientists 59 D-Index: 62 scientists 60 D-Index: 61 scientists 61 D-Index: 59 scientists 62 D-Index: 54 scientists 63 D-Index: 61 scientists 64 D-Index: 59 scientists 65 D-Index: 58 scientists 66 D-Index: 41 scientists 67 D-Index: 49 scientists 68 D-Index: 39 scientists 69 D-Index: 32 scientists 70 D-Index: 40 scientists 71 D-Index: 47 scientists 72 D-Index: 38 scientists 73 D-Index: 28 scientists 74 D-Index: 29 scientists 75 D-Index: 28 scientists 76 D-Index: 22 scientists 77 D-Index: 21 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 26 scientists 80 D-Index: 19 scientists 81 D-Index: 16 scientists 82 D-Index: 12 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 14 scientists 85 D-Index: 11 scientists 86 D-Index: 17 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 10 scientists 89 D-Index: 12 scientists 90 D-Index: 18 scientists 91 D-Index: 16 scientists 92 D-Index: 16 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 12 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 9 scientists 97 D-Index: 9 scientists 98 D-Index: 11 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 5 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 4 scientists 103 D-Index: 11 scientists 104 D-Index: 5 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 8 scientists 109+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 200
31 236
32 253
33 283
34 288
35 240
36 246
37 243
38 247
39 229
40 232
41 230
42 228
43 219
44 193
45 164
46 158
47 143
48 131
49 127
50 122
51 122
52 110
53 102
54 98
55 79
56 85
57 88
58 91
59 62
60 61 60
61 59
62 54
63 61
64 59
65 58
66 41
67 49
68 39
69 32
70 40
71 47
72 38
73 28
74 29
75 28
76 22
77 21
78 25
79 26
80 19
81 16
82 12
83 16
84 14
85 11
86 17
87 13
88 10
89 12
90 18
91 16
92 16
93 17
94 12
95 8
96 9
97 9
98 11
99 12
100 5
101 8
102 4
103 11
104 5
105 9
106 7
107 4
108 8
109+ 99
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Overview

Fucang Zhang is affiliated with Northwest A&F University in China and has an extensive research record predominantly in agricultural and environmental sciences. Their work spans a variety of fields, primarily focusing on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several specialized subfields, including plant science, soil science, agronomy and crop science, global and planetary change, and ecology. Their research interests cover a broad range of topics such as irrigation practices and water management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, crop yield and soil fertility, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, greenhouse technology and climate control, and rice cultivation and yield improvement.

Fucang Zhang has published research in numerous academic venues. The most frequent venues include Agricultural Water Management, where they have 51 publications, Agronomy with 14 publications, Field Crops Research and Plants each with 13 publications, and Computers and Electronics in Agriculture with 10 publications.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their body of work include Junliang Fan, Youzhen Xiang, Zijun Tang, Jinjin Guo, and Zhenqi Liao. These collaborations have resulted in numerous joint publications across their fields of study.

Notable recent papers authored by Fucang Zhang include the following:

  • Estimation of daily maize transpiration using support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting, artificial and deep neural networks models, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Determining irrigation amount and fertilization rate to simultaneously optimize grain yield, grain nitrogen accumulation and economic benefit of drip-fertigated spring maize in northwest China, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Nitrogen fertilizer management effects on soil nitrate leaching, grain yield and economic benefit of summer maize in Northwest China, 2021, Agricultural Water Management
  • Blending urea and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer increases dryland maize yield and nitrogen use efficiency while mitigating ammonia volatilization, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Extreme Gradient Boosting for predicting daily global solar radiation using temperature and precipitation in humid subtropical climates: A case study in China

    Junliang Fan;Xiukang Wang;Lifeng Wu;Hanmi Zhou

  • Evaluation of SVM, ELM and four tree-based ensemble models for predicting daily reference evapotranspiration using limited meteorological data in different climates of China

    Junliang Fan;Wenjun Yue;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Light Gradient Boosting Machine: An efficient soft computing model for estimating daily reference evapotranspiration with local and external meteorological data

    Junliang Fan;Xin Ma;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Empirical and machine learning models for predicting daily global solar radiation from sunshine duration: A review and case study in China

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang;Huanjie Cai

  • The Effects of Mulch and Nitrogen Fertilizer on the Soil Environment of Crop Plants

    Xiukang Wang;Junliang Fan;Yingying Xing;Guoce Xu

  • Coupling effects of water and fertilizer on yield, water and fertilizer use efficiency of drip-fertigated cotton in northern Xinjiang, China

    Haidong Wang;Lifeng Wu;Minghui Cheng;Junliang Fan

  • Climate change effects on reference crop evapotranspiration across different climatic zones of China during 1956–2015

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang;Youzhen Xiang

  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils.

    Jiaping Liang;Yi Li;Bingcheng Si;Yanzi Wang

  • Hybrid support vector machines with heuristic algorithms for prediction of daily diffuse solar radiation in air-polluted regions

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Xin Ma;Hanmi Zhou

  • Determining irrigation amount and fertilization rate to simultaneously optimize grain yield, grain nitrogen accumulation and economic benefit of drip-fertigated spring maize in northwest China

    Fulai Yan;Fucang Zhang;Xingke Fan;Junliang Fan

  • Evaluation and development of empirical models for estimating daily and monthly mean daily diffuse horizontal solar radiation for different climatic regions of China

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang;Huanjie Cai

  • Daily reference evapotranspiration prediction based on hybridized extreme learning machine model with bio-inspired optimization algorithms: Application in contrasting climates of China

    Lifeng Wu;Hanmi Zhou;Xin Ma;Junliang Fan

  • New combined models for estimating daily global solar radiation based on sunshine duration in humid regions: A case study in South China

    Junliang Fan;Xiukang Wang;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Potential of kernel-based nonlinear extension of Arps decline model and gradient boosting with categorical features support for predicting daily global solar radiation in humid regions

    Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Guomin Huang;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang

  • Evaluation and development of temperature-based empirical models for estimating daily global solar radiation in humid regions

    Junliang Fan;Baiquan Chen;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Nitrogen fertilizer management effects on soil nitrate leaching, grain yield and economic benefit of summer maize in Northwest China

    Junsheng Lu;Tiantian Hu;Baocheng Zhang;Li Wang

  • Multi-objective optimization of water and fertilizer management for potato production in sandy areas of northern China based on TOPSIS

    Haidong Wang;Xiukang Wang;Lifei Bi;Ying Wang

  • Effects of plant density, nitrogen rate and supplemental irrigation on photosynthesis, root growth, seed yield and water-nitrogen use efficiency of soybean under ridge-furrow plastic mulching

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  • Yield and water productivity of crops, vegetables and fruits under subsurface drip irrigation: A global meta-analysis

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  • Rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow and interception loss by maize canopy on the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China

    Jing Zheng;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Shicheng Yan

  • Effects of water and fertilizer management on grain filling characteristics, grain weight and productivity of drip-fertigated winter wheat

    Shicheng Yan;You Wu;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang

  • Daily pan evaporation modeling from local and cross-station data using three tree-based machine learning models

    Xianghui Lu;Yan Ju;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Junliang Fan

  • Interactive effects of mulching practice and nitrogen rate on grain yield, water productivity, fertilizer use efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions of rainfed summer maize in northwest China

    Jing Zheng;Jing Zheng;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Jinjin Guo

  • Blending urea and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer increases dryland maize yield and nitrogen use efficiency while mitigating ammonia volatilization.

    Jinjin Guo;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Shicheng Yan

  • Benefits of CO2 enrichment on crop plants are modified by soil water status

    Shaozhong Kang;Fucang Zhang;Xiaotao Hu;Jianhua Zhang

  • Crop yield and water productivity under salty water irrigation: A global meta-analysis

    Minghui Cheng;Haidong Wang;Junliang Fan;Xiukang Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Junliang Fan
Junliang Fan Northwest A&F University
Xin Ma
Xin Ma Southwest University of Science and Technology
Qianlai Zhuang
Qianlai Zhuang Purdue University West Lafayette
Fusheng Li
Fusheng Li Guangxi University
Huanjie Cai
Huanjie Cai Northwest A&F University
Shaozhong Kang
Shaozhong Kang China Agricultural University
Hao Feng
Hao Feng Northwest A&F University
Qingfang Han
Qingfang Han Northwest A&F University
Bing Cheng Si
Bing Cheng Si University of Saskatchewan
Zhikuan Jia
Zhikuan Jia Northwest A&F University

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