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15122
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3389
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Jiafu Mao 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 Jiafu Mao sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 174 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jiafu Mao 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 Jiafu Mao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jiafu Mao is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change. Their research encompasses several subfields including ecology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and plant science.

The principal topics of Mao's work include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, remote sensing in agriculture, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, urban heat island mitigation, and land use and ecosystem services.

Mao has contributed extensively to scientific literature with notable papers including:

  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Decisions and coordination of retailer-led low-carbon supply chain under altruistic preference, 2021, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Fertilizer management for global ammonia emission reduction, 2024, Nature
  • Rapid Net Carbon Loss From a Whole-Ecosystem Warmed Peatland, 2020, AGU Advances

Among frequent collaborators are Xiaoying Shi, Daniel Ricciuto, Mingzhou Jin, Yaoping Wang, and Anping Chen.

Jiafu Mao publishes often in several scientific journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • PNAS Nexus

Best Publications

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP v1.0) for CMIP6

    Reindert J. Haarsma;Malcolm J. Roberts;Pier Luigi Vidale;Catherine A. Senior

  • Detection and Attribution of Vegetation Greening Trend in China over the Last 30 Years

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Guodong Yin;Jianguang Tan;Lei Cheng

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Liming Zhou

  • Change in terrestrial ecosystem water‐use efficiency over the last three decades

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Yan Sun;Philippe Ciais

  • Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions.

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Jia Yang;Kamaljit Banger

  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change

    Ryan S. Padrón;Lukas Gudmundsson;Bertrand Decharme;Agnès Ducharne

  • Impact of large‐scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anna M. Michalak;Christopher Schwalm;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Weakening temperature control on the interannual variations of spring carbon uptake across northern lands

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Zhuo Liu;Tao Wang;Shushi Peng

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design

    D. N. Huntzinger;C. Schwalm;A. M. Michalak;K. Schaefer

  • Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions.

    D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak;C. Schwalm;C. Schwalm;P. Ciais

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data

    Y. Wei;S. Liu;D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak

  • LS3MIP (v1.0) Contribution to CMIP6: The Land Surface, Snow and Soil Moisture Model Intercomparison Project Aims, Setup and Expected Outcome.

    Bart Van Den Hurk;Hyungjun Kim;Gerhard Krinner;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Tao Wang

  • Response of vegetation phenology to urbanization in the conterminous United States

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou;Ghassem R. Asrar;Jiafu Mao

  • Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

    Jiafu Mao;Aurélien Ribes;Binyan Yan;Xiaoying Shi

  • Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States.

    Lin Meng;Jiafu Mao;Yuyu Zhou;Andrew D. Richardson

  • Seasonal responses of terrestrial ecosystem water-use efficiency to climate change.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Zhenzhong Zeng;Shushi Peng;Shushi Peng

  • Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

    Jiafu Mao;Wenting Fu;Xiaoying Shi;Daniel M. Ricciuto

  • Weakening temperature control on the interannual variations of spring carbon uptake across northern lands

    S. Piao;S. Peng;Z. Liu;P. Ciais

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoying Shi
Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Daniel M. Ricciuto
Daniel M. Ricciuto Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Ning Zeng
Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park
Deborah N. Huntzinger
Deborah N. Huntzinger Northern Arizona University

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