2026 Jianping Huang: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	95	478	451	53	52	385	33155

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Jianping Huang is affiliated with Lanzhou University in China and focuses substantially on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research encompasses a variety of topics related to climate, atmospheric phenomena, and environmental dynamics.

Their publication record includes notable papers such as:

Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Indirect Virus Transmission in Cluster of COVID-19 Cases, Wenzhou, China, 2020, Emerging Infectious Diseases
Towards an Artificial Intelligence Framework for Data-Driven Prediction of Coronavirus Clinical Severity, 2020, Computers, Materials & Continua
Global desertification vulnerability to climate change and human activities, 2020, Land Degradation and Development
Impact of city lockdown on the air quality of COVID-19-hit of Wuhan city, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jianping Huang include:

Xiaoyue Liu
Xiaodan Guan
Xinbo Lian
Yongkun Xie
Yingjie Zhao

Their research has been published extensively in several venues such as:

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Geophysical Research Letters
The Science of The Total Environment
SSRN Electronic Journal
Atmospheric Research

Jianping Huang's fields of study primarily include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their work addresses subfields like:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Modeling and Simulation
Infectious Diseases
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Main topics covered by their research involve:

Climate variability and models
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Jianping Huang has contributed to book publications with Frontiers Media and World Scientific. Titles include Global Spread and Prediction of COVID-19 Pandemic (2024) and Semi-Arid Climate Change (2023).

Best Publications

Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

Jianping Huang;Haipeng Yu;Xiaodan Guan;Guoyin Wang

2517
Citations
Dust cycle: An emerging core theme in Earth system science

Yaping Shao;Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll;Adrian Chappell;Jianping Huang

1143
Citations
Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

J. Huang;Y. Li;Y. Li;C. Fu;C. Fu;F. Chen

864
Citations
Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

851
Citations
Drylands face potential threat under 2[thinsp][deg]C global warming target

Jianping Huang;Haipeng Yu;Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;Yun Wei

738
Citations
Global semi-arid climate change over last 60 years

Jianping Huang;Mingxia Ji;Yongkun Xie;Shanshan Wang

724
Citations
Evolution of land surface air temperature trend

Fei Ji;Fei Ji;Zhaohua Wu;Jianping Huang;Eric P. Chassignet

645
Citations
Climate effects of dust aerosols over East Asian arid and semiarid regions

Jianping Huang;Tianhe Wang;Wencai Wang;Wencai Wang;Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li

611
Citations
Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

604
Citations
Long-range transport and vertical structure of Asian dust from CALIPSO and surface measurements during PACDEX

Jianping Huang;Patrick Minnis;Bin Chen;Zhongwei Huang

491
Citations
An overview of the Semi-arid Climate and Environment Research Observatory over the Loess Plateau

Jianping Huang;Wu Zhang;Jinqing Zuo;Jianrong Bi

436
Citations
Summer dust aerosols detected from CALIPSO over the Tibetan Plateau

Jianping Huang;Patrick Minnis;Yuhong Yi;Qiang Tang

423
Citations
CALIPSO/CALIOP Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm

Yongxiang Hu;David Winker;Mark Vaughan;Bing Lin

388
Citations
Occurrence, liquid water content, and fraction of supercooled water clouds from combined CALIOP/IIR/MODIS measurements

Yongxiang Hu;Sharon Rodier;Kuan-man Xu;Wenbo Sun

377
Citations
Satellite-Based Assessment of Possible Dust Aerosols Semi-Direct Effect on Cloud Water Path over East Asia

Jianping Huang;Bing Lin;Patrick Minnis;Tianhe Wang

367
Citations
Enhanced cold-season warming in semi-arid regions

J. Huang;X. Guan;F. Ji

365
Citations
Possible influences of Asian dust aerosols on cloud properties and radiative forcing observed from MODIS and CERES

Jianping Huang;Patrick Minnis;Bing Lin;Tianhe Wang

347
Citations
Airborne dust distributions over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas derived from the first year of CALIPSO lidar observations

Zhaoyan Liu;Dong Liu;Jianping Huang;M. Vaughan

346
Citations
Global desertification vulnerability to climate change and human activities

Jianping Huang;Guolong Zhang;Yanting Zhang;Xiaodan Guan

333
Citations
Impact of city lockdown on the air quality of COVID-19-hit of Wuhan city.

Xinbo Lian;Jianping Huang;Jianping Huang;Rujin Huang;Chuwei Liu

323
Citations
Global semi-arid climate change over last 60 years

Mingxia Ji;Jianping Huang

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Qiang Fu University of Washington

Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center

Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park

Yun Qian Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Xuhui Lee Yale University

Yongxiang Hu Langley Research Center

Bing Lin Langley Research Center

Chun Zhao University of Science and Technology of China

Zhaoyan Liu Langley Research Center

Si-Chee Tsay Goddard Space Flight Center

External Links

Personal website of Jianping Huang

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