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Hongtao Duan publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hongtao Duan sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 293 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Hongtao Duan D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hongtao Duan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hongtao Duan is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. The scientist's research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields including Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The work contributes to various topics related to aquatic and marine environments, such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Quality Monitoring Technologies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Research outputs by Hongtao Duan have been published in several frequent venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Journal of Lake Sciences
  • Water Research

Significant recent papers include:

  • "A machine learning approach to estimate chlorophyll-a from Landsat-8 measurements in inland lakes" (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Tislelizumab combined with chemotherapy as neoadjuvant therapy for surgically resectable esophageal cancer: A prospective, single-arm, phase II study (TD-NICE)" (2022), International Journal of Surgery
  • "Reflections on the Catastrophic 2020 Yangtze River Basin Flooding in Southern China" (2020), The Innovation
  • "From unusual suspect to serial killer: Cyanotoxins boosted by climate change may jeopardize megafauna" (2021), The Innovation
  • "Sentinel-3 OLCI observations of water clarity in large lakes in eastern China: Implications for SDG 6.3.2 evaluation" (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of Hongtao Duan's scientific career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ming Shen
  • Tianci Qi
  • Zhigang Cao
  • Qitao Xiao
  • Juhua Luo

Best Publications

  • Two-decade reconstruction of algal blooms in China's Lake Taihu.

    Hongtao Duan;Ronghua Ma;Xiaofeng Xu;Fanxiang Kong

  • China’s lakes at present: Number, area and spatial distribution

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  • Spatial distribution of soil organic carbon and analysis of related factors in croplands of the black soil region, Northeast China

    Dianwei Liu;Dianwei Liu;Zongming Wang;Bai Zhang;Kaishan Song

  • A machine learning approach to estimate chlorophyll-a from Landsat-8 measurements in inland lakes

    Zhigang Cao;Ronghua Ma;Hongtao Duan;Nima Pahlevan

  • A half‐century of changes in China's lakes: Global warming or human influence?

    Ronghua Ma;Hongtao Duan;Chuanmin Hu;Xuezhi Feng

  • Contributions of meteorology to the phenology of cyanobacterial blooms: Implications for future climate change

    Min Zhang;Hongtao Duan;Xiaoli Shi;Yang Yu

  • Fifteen-year monitoring of the turbidity dynamics in large lakes and reservoirs in the middle and lower basin of the Yangtze River, China

    Xuejiao Hou;Lian Feng;Hongtao Duan;Xiaoling Chen

  • Changes of land use and of ecosystem service values in Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China.

    Zongming Wang;Bai Zhang;Shuqing Zhang;Xiaoyan Li

  • Assessment of chlorophyll-a concentration and trophic state for Lake Chagan using Landsat TM and field spectral data.

    Hongtao Duan;Yuanzhi Zhang;Bai Zhang;Kaishan Song

  • Climate- and human-induced changes in suspended particulate matter over Lake Hongze on short and long timescales

    Zhigang Cao;Hongtao Duan;Lian Feng;Ronghua Ma

  • Eutrophic Lake Taihu as a significant CO2 source during 2000-2015.

    Qitao Xiao;Xiaofeng Xu;Hongtao Duan;Tianci Qi

  • Reflections on the Catastrophic 2020 Yangtze River Basin Flooding in Southern China.

    Ke Wei;Chaojun Ouyang;Hongtao Duan;Hongtao Duan;Yunliang Li

  • Applying remote sensing techniques to monitoring seasonal and interannual changes of aquatic vegetation in Taihu Lake, China

    Juhua Luo;Xinchuan Li;Ronghua Ma;Fei Li

  • Evaluation of remote sensing algorithms for cyanobacterial pigment retrievals during spring bloom formation in several lakes of East China

    Hongtao Duan;Ronghua Ma;Chuanmin Hu

  • Human activities determine quantity and composition of dissolved organic matter in lakes along the Yangtze River

    Dong Liu;Yingxun Du;Shujie Yu;Juhua Luo

  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–2018

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  • A convolutional neural network regression for quantifying cyanobacteria using hyperspectral imagery

    JongCheol Pyo;Hongtao Duan;Sangsoo Baek;Moon Sung Kim

  • MODIS observations of cyanobacterial risks in a eutrophic lake: Implications for long-term safety evaluation in drinking-water source.

    Hongtao Duan;Min Tao;Steven Arthur Loiselle;Wei Zhao

  • Monitoring lake changes of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau over the past 30 years using satellite remote sensing data

    Wei Wan;Wei Wan;Pengfeng Xiao;Xuezhi Feng;Hui Li

  • From unusual suspect to serial killer: Cyanotoxins boosted by climate change may jeopardize megafauna.

    Haijun Wang;Chi Xu;Ying Liu;Erik Jeppesen

  • A novel MERIS algorithm to derive cyanobacterial phycocyanin pigment concentrations in a eutrophic lake: Theoretical basis and practical considerations

    Lin Qi;Lin Qi;Chuanmin Hu;Hongtao Duan;Jennifer Cannizzaro

  • Sentinel-3 OLCI observations of water clarity in large lakes in eastern China: Implications for SDG 6.3.2 evaluation

    Ming Shen;Hongtao Duan;Hongtao Duan;Zhigang Cao;Kun Xue

  • A lake data set for the Tibetan Plateau from the 1960s, 2005, and 2014

    Wei Wan;Di Long;Yang Hong;Yingzhao Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronghua Ma
Ronghua Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven Loiselle
Steven Loiselle University of Siena
Kaishan Song
Kaishan Song Liaocheng University
Xiaofeng Xu
Xiaofeng Xu San Diego State University
Zongming Wang
Zongming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chuanmin Hu
Chuanmin Hu University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Xuhui Lee
Xuhui Lee Yale University
Yaolin Liu
Yaolin Liu Wuhan University
Lian Feng
Lian Feng Southern University of Science and Technology
Kun Shi
Kun Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences

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