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D-Index
51
Citations
9991
World Ranking
3641
National Ranking
74

Junhua Yan publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Junhua Yan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 143 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Junhua Yan D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Junhua Yan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Junhua Yan is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and specializes in environmental and agricultural sciences. Their research has primarily focused on understanding complex interactions within soil and forest ecosystems, with a strong emphasis on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations, and vegetation ecology.

The primary fields of study for Junhua Yan are Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science. This broad scope reflects a multidisciplinary approach to environmental research.

Major topics covered in their research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Forest Ecology and Management

Junhua Yan has published extensively in notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Sustainability

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Junhua Yan include:

  • The response of soil respiration to precipitation change is asymmetric and differs between grasslands and forests (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Mapping forest type and age in China's plantations (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Effects of diversity, climate and litter on soil organic carbon storage in subtropical forests (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Nitrogen deposition and increased precipitation interact to affect fine root production and biomass in a temperate forest: Implications for carbon cycling (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Antagonistic and additive interactions dominate the responses of belowground carbon-cycling processes to nitrogen and phosphorus additions (2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Junhua Yan's research activity. Frequent co-authors with multiple joint publications include:

  • Ying-Ping Wang
  • Mengxiao Yu
  • Jun Jiang
  • Xuli Tang
  • Zhongbing Chang

Best Publications

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Old-growth forests can accumulate carbon in soils.

    Guoyi Zhou;Shuguang Liu;Zhian Li;Deqiang Zhang

  • Water-use efficiency of forest ecosystems in eastern China and its relations to climatic variables.

    Guirui Yu;Xia Song;Qiufeng Wang;Yunfen Liu

  • Spatial patterns and climate drivers of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of China

    Gui-Rui Yu;Xian-Jin Zhu;Yu-Ling Fu;Hong-Lin He

  • Quantifying the hydrological responses to climate change in an intact forested small watershed in Southern China

    Guoyi Zhou;Xiaohua Wei;Yiping Wu;Shuguang Liu

  • Hydrological impacts of reafforestation with eucalypts and indigenous species: a case study in southern China

    G.Y. Zhou;J.D. Morris;J.H. Yan;Z.Y. Yu

  • Development of a two-leaf light use efficiency model for improving the calculation of terrestrial gross primary productivity

    Mingzhu He;Mingzhu He;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Yanlian Zhou;Jingming Chen;Jingming Chen

  • A climate change‐induced threat to the ecological resilience of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broad‐leaved forest in Southern China

    Guoyi Zhou;Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng;Yuelin Li;Shizhong Liu

  • Environmental controls over carbon exchange of three forest ecosystems in eastern China

    Gui-Rui Yu;Lei-Ming Zhang;Xiao-Min Sun;Yu-Ling Fu

  • Litterfall Production Along Successional and Altitudinal Gradients of Subtropical Monsoon Evergreen Broadleaved Forests in Guangdong, China

    Guoyi Zhou;Lili Guan;Xiaohua Wei;Deqiang Zhang

  • Estimates of soil respiration and net primary production of three forests at different succession stages in South China

    Junhua Yan;Yingping Wang;Guoyi Zhou;Deqiang Zhang

  • Climate and litter C/N ratio constrain soil organic carbon accumulation

    Guoyi Zhou;Guoyi Zhou;Shan Xu;Philippe Ciais;Stefano Manzoni

  • Linkage of microbial residue dynamics with soil organic carbon accumulation during subtropical forest succession

    Shuai Shao;Yu Zhao;Wei Zhang;Guoqing Hu;Guoqing Hu

  • Factors influencing leaf litter decomposition: an intersite decomposition experiment across China

    Guoyi Zhou;Lili Guan;Xiaohua Wei;Xuli Tang

  • Soil organic matter is important for acid buffering and reducing aluminum leaching from acidic forest soils

    Jun Jiang;Ying-Ping Wang;Mengxiao Yu;Nannan Cao

  • CAN Canopy Addition of Nitrogen Better Illustrate the Effect of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Forest Ecosystem

    Wei Zhang;Weijun Shen;Shidan Zhu;Shiqiang Wan

  • Drivers of tree carbon storage in subtropical forests.

    Yin Li;Weikai Bao;Frans Bongers;Bin Chen

  • Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes

    Mi Zhang;Xuhui Lee;Guirui Yu;Shijie Han

  • Temperature and precipitation control of the spatial variation of terrestrial ecosystem carbon exchange in the Asian region

    Zhi Chen;Guirui Yu;Jianping Ge;Xiaomin Sun

  • Global parameterization and validation of a two-leaf light use efficiency model for predicting gross primary production across FLUXNET sites

    Yanlian Zhou;Xiaocui Wu;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen

  • Spatial variability of water use efficiency in China's terrestrial ecosystems

    Xian-Jin Zhu;Gui-Rui Yu;Qiu-Feng Wang;Zhong-Min Hu

  • Effects of cloudiness change on net ecosystem exchange, light use efficiency, and water use efficiency in typical ecosystems of China

    Mi Zhang;Gui-Rui Yu;Jie Zhuang;Randy Gentry

Frequent Co-Authors

Guoyi Zhou
Guoyi Zhou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shijie Han
Shijie Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Juxiu Liu
Juxiu Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yingnian Li
Yingnian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yiping Zhang
Yiping Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peili Shi
Peili Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenggong Li
Shenggong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences

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