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K. Max Zhang 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 K. Max Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 112 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

K. Max Zhang 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 K. Max Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

K. Max Zhang is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science. Their work spans several specialized subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Automotive Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, notably:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on air quality, renewable energy, and utility-scale solar technology. Notable works include:

  • "Four-Month Changes in Air Quality during and after the COVID-19 Lockdown in Six Megacities in China," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "The potential for agrivoltaics to enhance solar farm cooling," 2022, Applied Energy
  • "Integrating social considerations in multicriteria decision analysis for utility-scale solar photovoltaic siting," 2021, Applied Energy
  • "Enhancing the Evaluation and Interpretability of Data-Driven Air Quality Models," 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • "Evaluating mobile monitoring of on-road emission factors by comparing concurrent PEMS measurements," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

K. Max Zhang frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors including Zachary E. Lee, Khaled Hashad, Bo Yang, Shaojun Zhang, and Jeffrey A. Sward. These collaborations contribute to their multidisciplinary research output.

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • Applied Energy
  • ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Energy
  • Environmental Science Advances

Best Publications

  • On-road vehicle emissions and their control in China: A review and outlook.

    Ye Wu;Shaojun Zhang;Jiming Hao;Huan Liu

  • Evolution of particle number distribution near roadways. Part II: the 'Road-to-Ambient' process

    K.Max Zhang;Anthony S. Wexler;Yi Fang Zhu;William C. Hinds

  • Roadside vegetation barrier designs to mitigate near-road air pollution impacts

    Zheming Tong;Richard W. Baldauf;Vlad Isakov;Parikshit Deshmukh

  • Air quality and health benefits from fleet electrification in China

    Xinyu Liang;Shaojun Zhang;Shaojun Zhang;Ye Wu;Jia Xing

  • Evolution of particle number distribution near roadways—Part I: analysis of aerosol dynamics and its implications for engine emission measurement

    K. Max Zhang;Anthony S. Wexler

  • Characterization of on-road vehicle emission factors and microenvironmental air quality in Beijing, China

    Dane Westerdahl;Xing Wang;Xiaochuan Pan;K. Max Zhang

  • Four-Month Changes in Air Quality during and after the COVID-19 Lockdown in Six Megacities in China

    Yunjie Wang;Yifan Wen;Yue Wang;Shaojun Zhang

  • Evaluating the air quality impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: On-road emission factors and black carbon profiles

    Xing Wang;Dane Westerdahl;Lung Chi Chen;Ye Wu

  • Exploration of effects of a vegetation barrier on particle size distributions in a near-road environment

    Jonathan T. Steffens;Yan Jason Wang;K. Max Zhang

  • On-road diesel vehicle emission factors for nitrogen oxides and black carbon in two Chinese cities

    Xing Wang;Dane Westerdahl;Jingnan Hu;Ye Wu

  • High-resolution mapping of vehicle emissions of atmospheric pollutants based on large-scale, real-world traffic datasets

    Daoyuan Yang;Shaojun Zhang;Shaojun Zhang;Tianlin Niu;Yunjie Wang

  • On-road emission factor distributions of individual diesel vehicles in and around Beijing, China

    Xing Wang;Dane Westerdahl;Ye Wu;Xiaochuan Pan

  • Evolution of particle number distribution near roadways. Part III: Traffic analysis and on-road size resolved particulate emission factors

    K. Max Zhang;Anthony S. Wexler;Debbie A. Niemeier;Yi Fang Zhu

  • Size distribution of sea-salt emissions as a function of relative humidity

    K. Max Zhang;Eladio M. Knipping;Anthony S. Wexler;Prakash V. Bhave

  • Fine-grained vehicle emission management using intelligent transportation system data

    Shaojun Zhang;Tianlin Niu;Ye Wu;K. Max Zhang

  • A hypothesis for growth of fresh atmospheric nuclei

    K. Max Zhang;Anthony S. Wexler

  • Cleanroom energy efficiency strategies: Modeling and simulation

    K. Kircher;X. Shi;S. Patil;K. Max Zhang

  • Considerations for evaluating green infrastructure impacts in microscale and macroscale air pollution dispersion models

    Arvind Tiwari;Prashant Kumar;Prashant Kumar;Richard Baldauf;K. Max Zhang

  • Modeling near-road air quality using a computational fluid dynamics model, CFD-VIT-RIT.

    Y. Jason Wang;K. Max Zhang

  • The effects of roadside vegetation characteristics on local, near-road air quality

    Parikshit Deshmukh;Vlad Isakov;Akula Venkatram;Bo Yang

  • Modeling the number distributions of urban and regional aerosols: theoretical foundations

    K. Max Zhang;Anthony S. Wexler

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaojun Zhang
Shaojun Zhang Tsinghua University
Ye Wu
Ye Wu Tsinghua University
Richard Baldauf
Richard Baldauf Environmental Protection Agency
Anthony S. Wexler
Anthony S. Wexler University of California, Davis
Jiming Hao
Jiming Hao Tsinghua University
Prakash V. Bhave
Prakash V. Bhave Duke University
Philip K. Hopke
Philip K. Hopke Clarkson University
Xiaochuan Pan
Xiaochuan Pan Peking University
Vlad Isakov
Vlad Isakov Environmental Protection Agency
Roy M. Harrison
Roy M. Harrison University of Birmingham

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