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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 34 8127 7539 527 521 66 3422

Guangyao Gao publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Guangyao Gao between 2012 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Guangyao Gao published across 14 years, from 2012 to 2025, averaging 10.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 19 publications in 2024. 34 of the 148 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2012 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 19. Peak 19 publications in 2024. 2012: 7 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 2 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 18 publications 2023: 16 publications 2024: 19 publications 2025: 15 publications
2012 2025

148 publications in total across all disciplines

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Guangyao Gao: publications per year, 2012 to 2025
Year Publications
2012 7
2013 4
2014 2
2015 5
2016 13
2017 7
2018 15
2019 11
2020 9
2021 7
2022 18
2023 16
2024 19
2025 15
Total 148
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Guangyao Gao 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 Guangyao Gao sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 58–67 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 66 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94 66
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Guangyao Gao 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 Guangyao Gao sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 34 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366 34
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Guangyao Gao is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research covers important aspects of global and planetary change, soil science, water science and technology, atmospheric science, and ecology.

Their work includes significant focus on topics such as plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and watershed management studies, land use and ecosystem services, tree-ring climate responses, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, as well as hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Guangyao Gao are:

  • Spatiotemporal changes and driving forces of ecosystem vulnerability in the Yangtze River Basin, China: Quantification using habitat-structure-function framework (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Long-term trends of streamflow, sediment load and nutrient fluxes from the Mississippi River Basin: Impacts of climate change and human activities (2022, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Extreme streamflow and sediment load changes in the Yellow River Basin: Impacts of climate change and human activities (2023, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Distinguishing the effects of climate change and vegetation greening on soil moisture variability along aridity gradient in the drylands of northern China (2023, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • A global synthesis of transpiration rate and evapotranspiration partitioning in the shrub ecosystems (2022, Journal of Hydrology)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Bojie Fu, Zongshan Li, Lishan Ran, Lei Jiao, and Cong Wang. These partnerships have resulted in multiple publications, with Bojie Fu being the most frequent co-author.

Guangyao Gao's research is published predominantly in several key scientific journals, including:

  • Journal of Hydrology (11 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (10 publications)
  • Ecological Indicators (5 publications)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (3 publications)
  • Water Resources Research (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Effects of precipitation and restoration vegetation on soil erosion in a semi-arid environment in the Loess Plateau, China

    Ji Zhou;Bojie Fu;Guangyao Gao;Yihe Lü

  • Responses of soil moisture in different land cover types to rainfall events in a re-vegetation catchment area of the Loess Plateau, China

    Shuai Wang;Bojie Fu;Guangyao Gao;Yu Liu

  • Determining the hydrological responses to climate variability and land use/cover change in the Loess Plateau with the Budyko framework.

    Guangyao Gao;Bojie Fu;Shuai Wang;Wei Liang

  • Hydrological responses and soil erosion potential of abandoned cropland in the Loess Plateau, China

    Yu Liu;Bojie Fu;Yihe Lü;Zhi Wang

  • The effects of vegetation on runoff and soil loss:Multidimensional structure analysis and scale characteristics

    Jianbo Liu;Guangyao Gao;Shuai Wang;Lei Jiao

  • Soil moisture decline following the plantation of Robinia pseudoacacia forests: evidence from the Loess Plateau.

    Haibin Liang;Yayong Xue;Zongshan Li;Shuai Wang

  • A new mobile-immobile model for reactive solute transport with scale-dependent dispersion

    Guangyao Gao;Guangyao Gao;Hongbin Zhan;Shaoyuan Feng;Bojie Fu

  • Ecological effects and potential risks of the water diversion project in the Heihe River Basin

    Mengmeng Zhang;Shuai Wang;Bojie Fu;Guangyao Gao

  • Changes in soil organic and inorganic carbon stocks in deep profiles following cropland abandonment along a precipitation gradient across the Loess Plateau of China

    Xiaoyang Han;Guangyao Gao;Ruiying Chang;Zongshan Li

  • Coupling the modified SCS-CN and RUSLE models to simulate hydrological effects of restoring vegetation in the Loess Plateau of China

    G. Y. Gao;B. J. Fu;Y. H. Lü;Y. Liu

  • Effects of revegetation and precipitation gradient on soil carbon and nitrogen variations in deep profiles on the Loess Plateau of China

    Dengfeng Tuo;Guangyao Gao;Ruiying Chang;Zongshan Li

  • Comparison of alternative models for simulating anomalous solute transport in a large heterogeneous soil column

    Guangyao Gao;Guangyao Gao;Hongbin Zhan;Shaoyuan Feng;Guanhua Huang

  • Relative contributions of wind and water erosion to total soil loss and its effect on soil properties in sloping croplands of the Chinese Loess Plateau.

    Dengfeng Tuo;Dengfeng Tuo;Mingxiang Xu;Guangyao Gao

  • Spatio-temporal patterns of the effects of precipitation variability and land use/cover changes on long-term changes in sediment yield in the Loess Plateau, China

    Guangyao Gao;Jianjun Zhang;Yu Liu;Zheng Ning

  • Extreme streamflow and sediment load changes in the Yellow River Basin: Impacts of climate change and human activities

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  • Multiscale temporal variability of flow-sediment relationships during the 1950s-2014 in the Loess Plateau, China.

    Guangyao Gao;Bojie Fu;Jianjun Zhang;Ying Ma

  • Multi-temporal scale changes of streamflow and sediment load in a loess hilly watershed of China

    Guangyao Gao;Ying Ma;Bojie Fu

  • Stemflow of a xerophytic shrub (Salix psammophila) in northern China: Implication for beneficial branch architecture to produce stemflow

    Chuan Yuan;Guangyao Gao;Bojie Fu

  • Streamflow and sediment load changes from China's large rivers: Quantitative contributions of climate and human activity factors.

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  • Spatiotemporal variations of sediment discharge and in-reach sediment budget in the Yellow River from the headwater to the delta

    Shihua Yin;Guangyao Gao;Lishan Ran;Xixi Lu

  • Quantifying the effects of human activities and climate variability on vegetation cover change in a hyper‐arid endorheic basin

    Qin Shen;Guangyao Gao;Fei Han;Feiyan Xiao

  • Contaminant transport in soil with depth-dependent reaction coefficients and time-dependent boundary conditions

    Guangyao Gao;Bojie Fu;Hongbin Zhan;Hongbin Zhan;Ying Ma

  • Predicting available water of soil from particle-size distribution and bulk density in an oasis–desert transect in northwestern China

    Danfeng Li;Guangyao Gao;Ming’an Shao;Bojie Fu

  • Temporal Variations of Flow–sediment Relationships in a Highly Erodible Catchment of the Loess Plateau, China

    Guangyao Gao;Ying Ma;Bojie Fu

Frequent Co-Authors

Bojie Fu
Bojie Fu Peking University
Yihe Lü
Yihe Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongbin Zhan
Hongbin Zhan Texas A&M University
Hoshin V. Gupta
Hoshin V. Gupta University of Arizona
Guanhua Huang
Guanhua Huang China Agricultural University
Yu Liu
Yu Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiaohua Wei
Xiaohua Wei University of British Columbia
Bingfang Wu
Bingfang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jie Zhou
Jie Zhou Delft University of Technology

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