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D-Index
49
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12004
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3524
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237

Guoqing Zhang 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 Guoqing Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 93 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Guoqing Zhang 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 Guoqing Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Guoqing Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive publication record in earth and environmental sciences. Their research primarily falls within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions across various subfields and topics related to climate, hydrology, and cryospheric studies.

The main subfields of study that Zhang focuses on include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Zhang's research topics cover:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Several recent papers highlight Zhang's research output:

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Comprehensive estimation of lake volume changes on the Tibetan Plateau during 1976-2019 and basin-wide glacier contribution, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya, 2023, Nature Geoscience

The frequent coauthors who collaborate with Zhang are:

  • Wenfeng Chen
  • Fenglin Xu
  • Simon Allen
  • Tobias Bolch
  • Tandong Yao

Frequent publication venues where Zhang's work appears include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Best Publications

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower

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  • Monitoring lake level changes on the Tibetan Plateau using ICESat altimetry data (2003-2009)

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Hongjie Xie;Shichang Kang;Donghui Yi

  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Kun Yang;Kun Yang

  • An inventory of glacial lakes in the Third Pole region and their changes in response to global warming

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Weicai Wang

  • Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;C. K. Shum;Shuang Yi

  • Regional differences of lake evolution across China during 1960s–2015 and its natural and anthropogenic causes

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Wenfeng Chen;Guoxiong Zheng

  • Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation

    Guoxiong Zheng;Guoxiong Zheng;Simon Keith Allen;Simon Keith Allen;Anming Bao;Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas

  • Increased mass over the Tibetan Plateau: From lakes or glaciers?

    Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Shichang Kang

  • Extensive and drastically different alpine lake changes on Asia's high plateaus during the past four decades

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch

  • A robust but variable lake expansion on the Tibetan Plateau

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Wei Luo;Wenfeng Chen;Guoxiong Zheng

  • Status and change of the cryosphere in the Extended Hindu Kush Himalaya Region

    Tobias Bolch;Joseph M. Shea;Joseph M. Shea;Joseph M. Shea;Shiyin Liu;Farooq M. Azam

  • Response of inland lake dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau to climate change

    Yanbin Lei;Kun Yang;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Yongwei Sheng

  • Lakes’ state and abundance across the Tibetan Plateau

    Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Kexiang Zhang

  • Potentially dangerous glacial lakes across the Tibetan Plateau revealed using a large-scale automated assessment approach

    Simon Keith Allen;Guoqing Zhang;Weicai Wang;Tandong Yao

  • Estimating surface temperature changes of lakes in the Tibetan Plateau using MODIS LST data

    Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Jun Qin

  • Tibetan Plateau's Lake Level and Volume Changes From NASA's ICESat/ICESat-2 and Landsat Missions

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Wenfeng Chen;Hongjie Xie

  • Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya

    Unknown

  • Comprehensive estimation of lake volume changes on the Tibetan Plateau during 1976-2019 and basin-wide glacier contribution.

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tobias Bolch;Wenfeng Chen;Jean-François Crétaux

  • Water level variation of Lake Qinghai from satellite and in situ measurements under climate change

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Hongjie Xie;Shuiqiang Duan;Mingzhong Tian

  • Snow cover dynamics of four lake basins over Tibetan Plateau using time series MODIS data (2001–2010)

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Hongjie Xie;Tandong Yao;Tiangang Liang

  • Ground-based evaluation of MODIS snow cover product V6 across China: Implications for the selection of NDSI threshold

    Hongbo Zhang;Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tao Che

  • Water balance estimates of ten greatest lakes in China using ICESat and Landsat data

    GuoQing Q. Zhang;HongJie J. Xie;TanDong D. Yao;ShiChang C. Kang

  • An inventory of glacial lakes in the Third Pole region and their changes in response to global warming

    Y. Dai;G. Zhang;T. Yao;H. Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongjie Xie
Hongjie Xie The University of Texas at San Antonio
Tobias Bolch
Tobias Bolch Graz University of Technology
Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
C. K. Shum
C. K. Shum The Ohio State University
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huopo Chen
Huopo Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Simon J. Allen
Simon J. Allen University of Zurich
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Huijun Wang
Huijun Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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