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D-Index
45
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10896
World Ranking
6276
National Ranking
635

Gensuo Jia 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 Gensuo Jia sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 122 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gensuo Jia 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 Gensuo Jia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gensuo Jia is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans several domains within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on the dynamics affecting climate and ecosystems.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their work delves into specific subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Jia's research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

The scientist frequently publishes in these venues:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Atmospheric Research

Recent publications include:

  • "Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Climate regime shift and forest loss amplify fire in Amazonian forests", 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Weakening greenhouse gas sink of pristine wetlands under warming", 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • "Earlier leaf-out warms air in the north", 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Quantifying the response of surface urban heat island to urbanization using the annual temperature cycle model", 2021, Geoscience Frontiers

Gensuo Jia's collaborative work includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Xiyan Xu
  • Anzhi Zhang
  • Huichen Zhao
  • Yuyu Zhou
  • Yonghong Hu

Best Publications

  • Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming

    F. S. Chapin;M. Sturm;Mark C. Serreze;J.P. McFadden

  • Remote sensing of vegetation and land-cover change in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems

    Douglas A. Stow;Allen Hope;David McGuire;David Verbyla

  • Urban heat island impacts on building energy consumption: A review of approaches and findings

    Xiaoma Li;Xiaoma Li;Yuyu Zhou;Sha Yu;Gensuo Jia

  • Monitoring meteorological drought in semiarid regions using multi-sensor microwave remote sensing data

    Anzhi Zhang;Gensuo Jia

  • Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change Is Linked to Sea Ice Decline

    Uma S. Bhatt;Donald A. Walker;Martha K. Raynolds;Josefino C. Comiso

  • Greening of arctic Alaska, 1981-2001

    Gensuo J. Jia;Gensuo J. Jia;Howard E. Epstein;Donald A. Walker

  • Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils.

    Daniel R. Schlaepfer;Daniel R. Schlaepfer;John B. Bradford;William K. Lauenroth;William K. Lauenroth;Seth M. Munson

  • Recent changes in phenology over the northern high latitudes detected from multi-satellite data

    Heqing Zeng;Gensuo Jia;Howard Epstein

  • Vegetation-Soil-Thaw-Depth Relationships along a Low-Arctic Bioclimate Gradient, Alaska: Synthesis of Information from the ATLAS Studies

    D. A. Walker;G. J. Jia;H. E. Epstein;M. K. Raynolds

  • Vegetation greening in the Canadian Arctic related to decadal warming.

    Gensuo J. Jia;Howard E. Epstein;Donald A. Walker

  • Phytomass, LAI, and NDVI in northern Alaska: Relationships to summer warmth, soil pH, plant functional types, and extrapolation to the circumpolar Arctic

    D. A. Walker;H. E. Epstein;G. J. Jia;A. Balser

  • Environmental variation, vegetation distribution, carbon dynamics and water/energy exchange at high latitudes

    AD Mcguire;C Wirth;M Apps;Jason Beringer

  • Nested high‐resolution modeling of the impact of urbanization on regional climate in three vast urban agglomerations in China

    Jun Wang;Jinming Feng;Zhongwei Yan;Yonghong Hu

  • Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands

    Britta Tietjen;Daniel R. Schlaepfer;Daniel R. Schlaepfer;John B. Bradford;William K. Lauenroth

  • Influence of land use change on urban heat island derived from multi-sensor data

    Yonghong Hu;Gensuo Jia

  • Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States.

    Lin Meng;Jiafu Mao;Yuyu Zhou;Andrew D. Richardson

  • Comparison of surface and canopy urban heat islands within megacities of eastern China

    Yonghong Hu;Meiting Hou;Gensuo Jia;Chunlei Zhao

  • Deriving maximal light use efficiency from coordinated flux measurements and satellite data for regional gross primary production modeling

    Hesong Wang;Gensuo Jia;Congbin Fu;Jinming Feng

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index

    D. A. Walker;M. O. Leibman;H. E. Epstein;B. C. Forbes

  • The relative abundance of three plant functional types in temperate grasslands and shrublands of North and South America: effects of projected climate change

    Howard E. Epstein;Richard A. Gill;Jose M. Paruelo;William K. Lauenroth

  • Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions

    L. D. Hinzman;N. Bettez;W. R. Bolton;F. S. Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard E. Epstein
Howard E. Epstein University of Virginia
Donald A. Walker
Donald A. Walker University of Alaska Fairbanks
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Scott D. Wilson
Scott D. Wilson University of Regina
Martha K. Raynolds
Martha K. Raynolds University of Alaska Fairbanks
William K. Lauenroth
William K. Lauenroth Yale University
Larry D. Hinzman
Larry D. Hinzman University of Alaska Fairbanks
Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Vladimir E. Romanovsky University of Alaska Fairbanks
Yuyu Zhou
Yuyu Zhou Iowa State University
William J. Riley
William J. Riley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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