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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
77
Citations
24643
World Ranking
486
National Ranking
38

Fulu Tao 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 Fulu Tao sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 265 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fulu Tao 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 Fulu Tao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Climate change

Fulu Tao spends much of his time researching Climate change, Crop yield, Agronomy, Crop and Phenology. He combines subjects such as Productivity, Agriculture, Agricultural productivity and Yield with his study of Climate change. The concepts of his Agriculture study are interwoven with issues in Remote sensing and Precipitation.

His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Calibration, Range, Meteorology and Food security. His work on Sowing, Cultivar and Growing season as part of general Agronomy research is often related to Simulation modeling, thus linking different fields of science. His study looks at the intersection of Phenology and topics like Water-use efficiency with Standard deviation.

His most cited work include:

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production (801 citations)
  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change (749 citations)
  • Climate changes and trends in phenology and yields of field crops in China, 1981-2000 (424 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Fulu Tao focuses on Climate change, Agronomy, Crop, Crop yield and Yield. His studies deal with areas such as Agriculture, Agricultural productivity, Phenology and Precipitation as well as Climate change. His research investigates the connection between Agricultural productivity and topics such as Agroforestry that intersect with problems in Land use, land-use change and forestry.

His Phenology study combines topics in areas such as Common spatial pattern and Leaf area index. The study incorporates disciplines such as Cropping, Biomass, Yield and Spatial ecology in addition to Crop. His studies deal with areas such as Range and Remote sensing as well as Crop yield.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Climate change (50.00%)
  • Agronomy (36.49%)
  • Crop (26.58%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Leaf area index (8.11%)
  • Climate change (50.00%)
  • Crop (26.58%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Leaf area index, Climate change, Crop, Agronomy and Yield. His work carried out in the field of Leaf area index brings together such families of science as Linear regression, Land use, Coefficient of determination, Latent heat and Water content. Fulu Tao mostly deals with Crop simulation model in his studies of Climate change.

His research integrates issues of Cropping, Agriculture, Yield and Phenology in his study of Crop. His Yield research incorporates themes from Thermal, Toxicology, Statistics, Crop yield and Food security. Fulu Tao has included themes like Global warming, Mediterranean climate and Boreal in his Precipitation study.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein (97 citations)
  • Economic losses due to ozone impacts on human health, forest productivity and crop yield across China (69 citations)
  • Global wheat production with 1.5 and 2.0°C above pre-industrial warming (40 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Statistics

His primary areas of study are Yield, Agronomy, Agriculture, Climate change and Food security. The study incorporates disciplines such as Thermal and Winter wheat in addition to Yield. As part of his studies on Agronomy, Fulu Tao often connects relevant areas like Leaching.

His work in the fields of Crop management overlaps with other areas such as Scale. His Climate change research incorporates elements of Cropping, Precipitation and Local adaptation. His Food security research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Field trial, Cropping system, Agricultural productivity and Grain quality.

Best Publications

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;P. Martre;P. Martre;R. P. Rötter

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones

  • How Do Various Maize Crop Models Vary in Their Responses to Climate Change Factors

    Simona Bassu;Nadine Brisson;Jean Louis Durand;Kenneth Boote

  • Climate changes and trends in phenology and yields of field crops in China, 1981-2000

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yinlong Xu;Yousay Hayashi

  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one

    Pierre Martre;Pierre Martre;Daniel Wallach;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein

    Senthold Asseng;Pierre Martre;Andrea Maiorano;Reimund P Rötter

  • Uncertainties in predicting rice yield by current crop models under a wide range of climatic conditions

    Tao Li;Toshihiro Hasegawa;Xinyou Yin;Yan Zhu

  • Climate-crop yield relationships at provincial scales in China and the impacts of recent climate trends

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Jiyuan Liu;Zhao Zhang

  • Global warming, rice production, and water use in China: Developing a probabilistic assessment

    Fulu Tao;Yousay Hayashi;Zhao Zhang;Toshihiro Sakamoto

  • Economic losses due to ozone impacts on human health, forest productivity and crop yield across China

    Zhaozhong Feng;Alessandra De Marco;Alessandro Anav;Maurizio Gualtieri

  • Crop modelling for integrated assessment of risk to food production from climate change

    F. Ewert;R.P. Rötter;M. Bindi;H. Webber

  • The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions.

    Enli Wang;Pierre Martre;Zhigan Zhao;Zhigan Zhao;Frank Ewert

  • Integrating Multi-Source Data for Rice Yield Prediction across China using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches

    Juan Cao;Zhao Zhang;Fulu Tao;Liangliang Zhang

  • Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates

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  • Adaptation of maize production to climate change in North China Plain: Quantify the relative contributions of adaptation options

    Fulu Tao;Zhao Zhang

  • Future climate change, the agricultural water cycle, and agricultural production in China

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yousay Hayashi;Erda Lin

  • Modelling the impacts of weather and climate variability on crop productivity over a large area: A new process-based model development, optimization, and uncertainties analysis

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Zhao Zhang

  • ChinaCropPhen1km: a high-resolution crop phenological dataset for three staple crops in China during 2000–2015 based on leaf area index (LAI) products

    Yuchuan Luo;Zhao Zhang;Yi Chen;Ziyue Li

  • Single rice growth period was prolonged by cultivars shifts, but yield was damaged by climate change during 1981-2009 in China, and late rice was just opposite

    Fulu Tao;Zhao Zhang;Wenjiao Shi;Yujie Liu

  • Contributions of cultivars, management and climate change to winter wheat yield in the North China Plain in the past three decades

    Dengpan Xiao;Fulu Tao

  • Observed changes in winter wheat phenology in the North China Plain for 1981-2009.

    Dengpan Xiao;Fulu Tao;Yujie Liu;Wenjiao Shi

Frequent Co-Authors

Reimund P. Rötter
Reimund P. Rötter University of Göttingen
Zhao Zhang
Zhao Zhang Beijing Normal University
Claas Nendel
Claas Nendel University of Potsdam
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Davide Cammarano
Davide Cammarano Aarhus University
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Taru Palosuo
Taru Palosuo Natural Resources Institute Finland
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Thomas Gaiser
Thomas Gaiser University of Bonn

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