2026 Laurent Li: 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	66	2059	1965	73	72	222	18696

Laurent Li 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 Laurent Li sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 222 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Laurent Li 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 Laurent Li sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Laurent Li is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and the interactions between plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Their work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, plant science, and electrical and electronic engineering. The main topics covered in their research include:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Laurent Li's recent notable publications feature the following works:

"Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model" (2020) published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
"Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation" (2020) published in Science Advances
"Does CMIP6 Inspire More Confidence in Simulating Climate Extremes over China?" (2020) published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
"Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield" (2021) published in Nature Communications

The frequent coauthors of Laurent Li include:

Philippe Ciais
Shilong Piao
Zhihong Jiang
Zhenzhong Zeng
Xuhui Wang

Their publications appear most often in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Climate Dynamics
Geoscientific Model Development
Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

Olivier Boucher;Jérôme Servonnat;Anna Lea Albright;Olivier Aumont

1549
Citations
The Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC-CSM): the main progress from CMIP5 to CMIP6

Tongwen Wu;Yixiong Lu;Yongjie Fang;Xiaoge Xin

858
Citations
Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

Shu-Shi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Zhenzhong Zeng;Philippe Ciais

779
Citations
The Mediterranean climate: An overview of the main characteristics and issues

P Lionello;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli;Roberta Boscolo;Pinhas Alpert

712
Citations
Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

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

604
Citations
Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Su-Jong Jeong;Liming Zhou

557
Citations
Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

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

512
Citations
Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

Yue Li;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Anping Chen

505
Citations
A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

469
Citations
Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

452
Citations
The Beijing Climate Center atmospheric general circulation model: description and its performance for the present-day climate

Tongwen Wu;Rucong Yu;Fang Zhang;Zaizhi Wang

348
Citations
An overview of BCC climate system model development and application for climate change studies

Tongwen Wu;Lianchun Song;Weiping Li;Zaizhi Wang

347
Citations
Does CMIP6 Inspire More Confidence in Simulating Climate Extremes over China

Huanhuan Zhu;Zhihong Jiang;Juan Li;Wei Li

321
Citations
The contribution of China’s emissions to global climate forcing

Bengang G. Li;Thomas Gasser;Philippe Ciais;Shilong L. Piao;Shilong L. Piao

301
Citations
Extremes in temperature and precipitation around the Mediterranean basin in an ensemble of future climate scenario simulations

K. Goubanova;L. Li

299
Citations
Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition to drier 21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3 simulations

Annarita Mariotti;Annarita Mariotti;Ning Zeng;Jin-Ho Yoon;Vincenzo Artale

299
Citations
Extreme Precipitation Indices over China in CMIP5 Models. Part I: Model Evaluation

Zhihong Jiang;Wei Li;Jianjun Xu;Laurent Li

297
Citations
Future evolution of Marine Heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea

Sofia Darmaraki;Samuel Somot;Florence Sevault;Pierre Nabat

289
Citations
Global carbon budgets simulated by the Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model for the last century

Tongwen Wu;Weiping Li;Jinjun Ji;Jinjun Ji;Xiaoge Xin

283
Citations
Probabilistic Projections of Climate Change over China under the SRES A1B Scenario Using 28 AOGCMs

Weilin Chen;Zhihong Jiang;Laurent Li

248
Citations
Extreme climate events in China: IPCC-AR4 model evaluation and projection

Zhihong Jiang;Jie Song;Jie Song;Laurent Li;Laurent Li;Weilin Chen

217
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shilong Piao Peking University

Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology

Samuel Somot Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

Florence Sevault Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Xuhui Wang Peking University

Gianmaria Sannino National Agency For New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Sophie Bastin French National Centre for Scientific Research

Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research

Masa Kageyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

External Links

Personal website of Laurent Li

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