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Jinfeng Chang

Jinfeng Chang

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
50
Citations
15584
World Ranking
314
National Ranking
103

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
18517
World Ranking
2644
National Ranking
58

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Jinfeng Chang is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and has made substantial contributions to the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on various critical subfields and topics related to climate and ecological dynamics.

Their research spans several main subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Soil Science
  • Environmental Engineering

The topics covered across their extensive body of work include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Among recent notable publications by Jinfeng Chang are:

  • "A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks," 2020, Nature
  • "Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality," 2022, Science China Life Sciences
  • "Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes," 2021, Science
  • "Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "China's future food demand and its implications for trade and environment," 2021, Nature Sustainability

Jinfeng Chang frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Philippe Ciais
  • Zhou Shi
  • Hanqin Tian
  • Shushi Peng
  • Peter Havlík

The scientist's work has appeared primarily in high-impact and specialized publication venues such as:

  • Nature Food
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality

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  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

    Wim Thiery;Stefan Lange;Joeri Rogelj;Carl Friedrich Schleussner

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the preindustrial era estimated by an ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models: Magnitude, attribution, and uncertainty.

    Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment

    Hao Zhao;Hao Zhao;Jinfeng Chang;Jinfeng Chang;Petr Havlík;Michiel van Dijk;Michiel van Dijk

  • Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands.

    Jinfeng Chang;Philippe Ciais;Thomas Gasser;Pete Smith

  • Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands.

    Martin Brandt;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Jérôme Chave;Torbern Tagesson

  • The Global N2O Model Intercomparison Project

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Chaoqun Lu;Rongting Xu

  • ORCHIDEE-MICT (v8.4.1), a land surface model for the high latitudes: model description and validation

    Matthieu Guimberteau;Dan Zhu;Fabienne Maignan;Ye Huang

  • Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock

    Daniel S. Goll;Daniel S. Goll;Philippe Ciais;Thorben Amann;Wolfgang Buermann

  • Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales

    Stefan Lange;Jan Volkholz;Tobias Geiger;Tobias Geiger;Fang Zhao

  • The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models

    Fang Zhao;Ted I. E. Veldkamp;Katja Frieler;Jacob Schewe

  • Global and regional phosphorus budgets in agricultural systems and their implications for phosphorus-use efficiency

    Fei Lun;Junguo Liu;Philippe Ciais;Thomas Nesme

  • Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations

    Yuzhong Zhang;Yuzhong Zhang;Daniel J. Jacob;Xiao Lu;Joannes D. Maasakkers

  • Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration

    Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais;Yitong Yao;Thomas Gasser;Alessandro Baccini

  • Revisiting enteric methane emissions from domestic ruminants and their δ13CCH4 source signature

    Jinfeng Chang;Shushi Peng;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication

    Camelia-Eliza Telteu;Hannes Müller Schmied;Wim Thiery;Guoyong Leng

  • Declining snow cover may affect spring phenological trend on the Tibetan Plateau

    Tao Wang;Shushi Peng;Xin Lin;Xin Lin;Jinfeng Chang

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the pre-industrial era estimated by an ensemble of Terrestrial Biosphere Models: Magnitude, attribution and uncertainty

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • The greenhouse gas balance of European grasslands

    Jinfeng Chang;Jinfeng Chang;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Viovy;Nicolas Vuichard

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Shufen Pan
Shufen Pan Auburn University
Jia Yang
Jia Yang Oklahoma State University
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Ronny Lauerwald
Ronny Lauerwald University of Paris-Saclay
Daniel S. Goll
Daniel S. Goll Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christopher P.O. Reyer
Christopher P.O. Reyer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Wei Li
Wei Li Tsinghua University

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