2026 Liangzhi You: 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	51	4662	4461	1719	1586	174	12712

Overview

Liangzhi You is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research spans several areas within environmental and agricultural sciences, with a focus on the intersection of climate, agriculture, and sustainability.

The scientist has contributed extensively to two primary research fields: Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work includes significant engagement with various subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering, and Soil Science.

The main topics explored in their research include:

Climate change impacts on agriculture
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Agricultural risk and resilience
Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Liangzhi You has published papers in frequently accessed venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Earth system science data, Environmental Research Letters, The Science of The Total Environment, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Recent notable publications by this scientist include:

South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing's groundwater levels, 2020, Nature Communications
A cultivated planet in 2010 - Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps, 2020, Earth system science data
Estimating and understanding crop yields with explainable deep learning in the Indian Wheat Belt, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers, 2020, The Economic Journal
Global crop-specific nitrogen fertilization dataset in 1961-2020, 2023, Scientific Data

Their book publication includes a work titled Estimating Local Agricultural GDP across the World, published in 2022 by the World Bank policy research working paper series.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Liangzhi You include Linda See, Wenbin Wu, Miao Lu, Fritz Steffen, and Steffen Fritz, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the research community.

Best Publications

Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options

Gerald Nelson;Mark W. Rosegrant;Amanda Palazzo;Ian Gray

803
Citations
A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

Junguo Liu;Liangzhi You;Manouchehr Amini;Michael Obersteiner

714
Citations
Mapping global cropland and field size

Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Ian McCallum;Liangzhi You

602
Citations
Integrating satellite and climate data to predict wheat yield in Australia using machine learning approaches

Yaping Cai;Kaiyu Guan;David Lobell;Andries B. Potgieter

554
Citations
South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing’s groundwater levels

Di Long;Wenting Yang;Bridget R. Scanlon;Jianshi Zhao

522
Citations
Impact of growing season temperature on wheat productivity in China

Liangzhi You;Mark W. Rosegrant;Stanley Wood;Dongsheng Sun

489
Citations
What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A Combined Biophysical and Socioeconomic Approach

Liangzhi You;Claudia Ringler;Ulrike Wood-Sichra;Richard Robertson

474
Citations
Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward

Junguo Liu;Junguo Liu;Chuanfu Zang;Shiying Tian;Jianguo Liu

462
Citations
Generating global crop distribution maps: from census to grid

Liangzhi You;Stanley Wood;Ulrike Wood-Sichra

361
Citations
An entropy approach to spatial disaggregation of agricultural production

Liangzhi You;Stanley Wood

334
Citations
A comparison of global agricultural monitoring systems and current gaps

Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Juan Carlos Laso Bayas;François Waldner;François Waldner

321
Citations
A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change

Junguo Liu;Steffen Fritz;C.F.A. van Wesenbeeck;Michael Fuchs

314
Citations
A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps

Qiangyi Yu;Liangzhi You;Ulrike Wood-Sichra;Yating Ru

310
Citations
Generating plausible crop distribution maps for Sub-Saharan Africa using a spatially disaggregated data fusion and optimization approach.

Liangzhi You;Stanley Wood;Ulrike Wood-Sichra

260
Citations
Estimating the potential for expanding smallholder irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hua Xie;Liangzhi You;Benjamin Wielgosz;Claudia Ringler

228
Citations
Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains

Lian Song;Lian Song;Luis Guanter;Kaiyu Guan;Liangzhi You;Liangzhi You

227
Citations
Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion

Wenbin Wu;Qiangyi Yu;Liangzhi You;Kevin Chen

218
Citations
Synchronous crop failures and climate-forced production variability

W. B. Anderson;W. B. Anderson;R. Seager;W. Baethgen;M. Cane

193
Citations
A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data

Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Christoph Perger;Ian McCallum

182
Citations
Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security

Linda See;Steffen Fritz;Liangzhi You;Navin Ramankutty

137
Citations
Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: challenges to 2050 and beyond

Gerald C. Nelson;Mark W. Rosegrant;Amanda Palazzo;Gray I

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffen Fritz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford

Xinshen Diao International Food Policy Research Institute

Derek Headey International Food Policy Research Institute

Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute

Yongguang Zhang United Way

Junguo Liu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power

Guiling Wang University of Connecticut

External Links

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