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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.

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38 publications 510+

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

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.

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The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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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