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D-Index
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9996
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3376
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Hongjie Xie 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 Hongjie Xie sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 225 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hongjie Xie 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 Hongjie Xie sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hongjie Xie is affiliated with The University of Texas at San Antonio in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science. Other notable subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Polymers and Plastics, Surgery, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, emphasizing areas related to cryospheric and climate studies. The main topics of their research are:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Climate variability and models
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Hongjie Xie has contributed to several recent papers in respected journals, focusing largely on environmental and climate-related issues. Some of their recent publications include:

  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Sea-ice freeboard and thickness in the Ross Sea from airborne (IceBridge 2013) and satellite (ICESat 2003-2008) observations, 2020, Annals of Glaciology
  • Deriving Antarctic Sea-Ice Thickness From Satellite Altimetry and Estimating Consistency for NASA's ICESat/ICESat-2 Missions, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Estimation of thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to sea ice growth in the Central Arctic using ICESat-2 and MOSAiC SIMBA buoy data, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Risk factors for new-onset diabetes mellitus after kidney transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Diabetes Investigation

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Stephen F. Ackley
  • Younghyun Koo
  • Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez
  • N. T. Kurtz
  • Weibing Shuang

Hongjie Xie has a consistent publication record in several journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Best Publications

  • 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

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

    Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Shichang Kang

  • Different responses of MODIS-derived NDVI to root-zone soil moisture in semi-arid and humid regions

    Xianwei Wang;Hongjie Xie;Huade Guan;Xiaobing Zhou

  • 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

  • Lakes’ state and abundance across the Tibetan Plateau

    Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Kexiang Zhang

  • Evaluation of MODIS snow cover and cloud mask and its application in Northern Xinjiang, China

    Xianwei Wang;Hongjie Xie;Tiangang Liang

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

    Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Jun Qin

  • Modeling grassland above-ground biomass based on artificial neural network and remote sensing in the Three-River Headwaters Region

    Shuxia Yang;Qisheng Feng;Tiangang Liang;Baokang Liu

  • A Review on Applications of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Water Resources and Flood Risk Management

    Xianwei Wang;Hongjie Xie

  • Toward advanced daily cloud-free snow cover and snow water equivalent products from Terra-Aqua MODIS and Aqua AMSR-E measurements

    Yang Gao;Yang Gao;Yang Gao;Hongjie Xie;Ning Lu;Ning Lu;Tandong Yao

  • New methods for studying the spatiotemporal variation of snow cover based on combination products of MODIS Terra and Aqua

    Xianwei Wang;Hongjie Xie

  • Estimating root zone soil moisture at distant sites using MODIS NDVI and EVI in a semi-arid region of southwestern USA

    Mark T. Schnur;Hongjie Xie;Xianwei Wang

  • 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

  • Integrated assessment on multi-temporal and multi-sensor combinations for reducing cloud obscuration of MODIS snow cover products of the Pacific Northwest USA

    Yang Gao;Yang Gao;Yang Gao;Hongjie Xie;Tandong Yao;Chongsheng Xue

  • Statistical evaluation of remotely sensed snow-cover products with constraints from streamflow and SNOTEL measurements

    Xiaobing Zhou;Hongjie Xie;Jan M.H. Hendrickx

  • Toward improved daily snow cover mapping with advanced combination of MODIS and AMSR-E measurements

    Tiangang Liang;Xuetong Zhang;Hongjie Xie;Caixia Wu

  • Comparison and validation of MODIS standard and new combination of Terra and Aqua snow cover products in northern Xinjiang, China

    Xianwei Wang;Hongjie Xie;Tiangang Liang;Xiaodong Huang

  • 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

  • Multi-factor modeling of above-ground biomass in alpine grassland: A case study in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China

    Tiangang Liang;Shuxia Yang;Qisheng Feng;Baokang Liu

  • 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

Guoqing Zhang
Guoqing Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stephen F. Ackley
Stephen F. Ackley The University of Texas at San Antonio
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Huade Guan
Huade Guan Flinders University
Jan M. H. Hendrickx
Jan M. H. Hendrickx New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
John L. Wilson
John L. Wilson New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
Tobias Bolch
Tobias Bolch Graz University of Technology

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