2026 Guangtao Fu: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	54	3185	3051	206	192	166	11013

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Engineering and Technology

3185

3051

206

192

166

11013

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

11013

World Ranking

3185

National Ranking

206

Overview

Guangtao Fu is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with a strong emphasis on water-related challenges and solutions.

The main fields of study associated with Guangtao Fu include:

Environmental Science
Engineering

Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to several subfields, notably:

Water Science and Technology
Environmental Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering
Global and Planetary Change
Ocean Engineering

Their research topics cover areas such as:

Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Water Systems and Optimization
Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
Water resources management and optimization
Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Guangtao Fu has contributed numerous papers, with recent publications including:

"The role of deep learning in urban water management: A critical review", 2022, Water Research
"Unraveling the effect of inter-basin water transfer on reducing water scarcity and its inequality in China", 2021, Water Research
"Pollution exacerbates China's water scarcity and its regional inequality", 2020, Nature Communications
"Sponge city practice in China: A review of construction, assessment, operational and maintenance", 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
"A comprehensive review on the design and optimization of surface water quality monitoring networks", 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software

Key frequent co-authors in their work include:

David Butler
Haixing Liu
Siao Sun
Zhiguo Yuan
Dragan Savić

Guangtao Fu frequently publishes in journals such as:

Water Research
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Journal of Hydrology
Journal of Environmental Management
SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to journal articles, Guangtao Fu has authored books published by UWA Publishing, including:

"Quantification and Modelling of Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Water Systems", 2022
"Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications", 2020

Best Publications

Two-Archive Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization

Ke Li;Renzhi Chen;Guangtao Fu;Xin Yao

652
Citations
The effects of low impact development on urban flooding under different rainfall characteristics.

Hua-peng Qin;Zhuo-xi Li;Guangtao Fu

621
Citations
Water-energy-food nexus: Concepts, questions and methodologies

Chi Zhang;Xiaoxian Chen;Yu Li;Wei Ding

539
Citations
A global analysis approach for investigating structural resilience in urban drainage systems

Seith N. Mugume;Diego E. Gomez;Guangtao Fu;Raziyeh Farmani

343
Citations
Reliable, resilient and sustainable water management: the Safe & SuRe approach

David Butler;Sarah Ward;Chris Sweetapple;Maryam Astaraie-Imani

319
Citations
A fuzzy optimization method for multicriteria decision making: An application to reservoir flood control operation

Guangtao Fu

257
Citations
An integrated framework for high-resolution urban flood modelling considering multiple information sources and urban features

Yuntao Wang;Yuntao Wang;Albert S. Chen;Guangtao Fu;Slobodan Djordjević

238
Citations
Global resilience analysis of water distribution systems

Kegong Diao;Kegong Diao;Chris Sweetapple;Raziyeh Farmani;Guangtao Fu

227
Citations
Multiple objective optimal control of integrated urban wastewater systems

Guangtao Fu;David Butler;Soon-Thiam Khu

226
Citations
Deep learning identifies accurate burst locations in water distribution networks.

Xiao Zhou;Zhenheng Tang;Weirong Xu;Fanlin Meng

224
Citations
Optimal Design of Water Distribution Systems Using Many-Objective Visual Analytics

Guangtao Fu;Zoran Kapelan;Joseph R. Kasprzyk;Patrick Reed

218
Citations
Unraveling the effect of inter-basin water transfer on reducing water scarcity and its inequality in China.

Siao Sun;Xian Zhou;Haixing Liu;Yunzhong Jiang

210
Citations
A new approach to urban water management: Safe and sure

David Butler;Raziyeh Farmani;Guangtao Fu;Sarah Ward

208
Citations
Topological attributes of network resilience: A study in water distribution systems.

Fanlin Meng;Guangtao Fu;Raziyeh Farmani;Chris Sweetapple

205
Citations
Sobol′’s sensitivity analysis for a distributed hydrological model of Yichun River Basin, China

Chi Zhang;Jinggang Chu;Guangtao Fu

197
Citations
Assessing the combined effects of urbanisation and climate change on the river water quality in an integrated urban wastewater system in the UK.

Maryam Astaraie-Imani;Zoran Kapelan;Guangtao Fu;David Butler

196
Citations
An Integrated Environmental Assessment of Green and Gray Infrastructure Strategies for Robust Decision Making

Arturo Casal-Campos;Guangtao Fu;David Butler;Andrew Moore

175
Citations
Multi-objective optimisation of wastewater treatment plant control to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Christine Sweetapple;Guangtao Fu;David Butler

171
Citations
Spatiotemporal patterns and source attribution of nitrogen load in a river basin with complex pollution sources.

Xiaoying Yang;Qun Liu;Guangtao Fu;Yi He

156
Citations
Battle of the Water Networks II

Angela Marchi;Elad Salomons;Avi Ostfeld;Zoran Kapelan

155
Citations
Two-Archive Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization

Ke Li;Renzhi Chen;Guangtao Fu;Xin Yao

0
Citations