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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
14427
World Ranking
2472
National Ranking
95

Ling 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 Ling Li sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 379 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ling 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 Ling Li sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% 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 Australia Leader Award

Overview

Ling Li is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their work spans a variety of subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics Ling Li focuses on include:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Ling Li has published numerous papers across a range of influential journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry (2021), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Peroxydisulfate activation by sulfur-doped ordered mesoporous carbon: Insight into the intrinsic relationship between defects and 1O2 generation (2022), published in Water Research
  • Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions in Salt Marshes and Their Impact on Plant Ecology and Coastal Biogeochemistry (2022), published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • Enhancing iron redox cycling for promoting heterogeneous Fenton performance: A review (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Heteroatom doping in metal-free carbonaceous materials for the enhancement of persulfate activation (2021), published in Chemical Engineering Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ling Li include:

  • S. A. Galindo-Torres
  • Alexander Scheuermann
  • Senjie Lin
  • Cui Lai
  • D. A. Barry

The researcher regularly contributes to several prominent publication venues, such as:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Water Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Proximate Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid Behaviour in {lpha}-RuCl$_3$

    A. Banerjee;C.A. Bridges;J-Q. Yan;A.A. Aczel

  • Submarine groundwater discharge and associated chemical input to a coastal sea

    L. Li;D. A. Barry;F. Stagnitti;J.-Y. Parlange

  • Effect of tidal forcing on a subterranean estuary

    C. Robinson;L. Li;L. Li;D.A. Barry

  • Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry

    Isaac R. Santos;Isaac R. Santos;Xiaogang Chen;Alanna L. Lecher;Audrey H. Sawyer

  • Analytical approximations for real values of the Lambert W -function

    D. A. Barry;J.-Y. Parlange;L. Li;H. Prommer

  • Groundwater dynamics in subterranean estuaries of coastal unconfined aquifers: Controls on submarine groundwater discharge and chemical inputs to the ocean

    Clare E. Robinson;Pei Xin;Isaac R. Santos;Matthew A. Charette

  • Driving mechanisms for groundwater flow and salt transport in a subterranean estuary

    C. Robinson;B. Gibbes;L. Li;L. Li

  • Has the Three-Gorges Dam made the Poyang Lake wetlands wetter and drier?

    Q. Zhang;L. Li;Y-G. Wang;A. D. Werner

  • Effects of wave forcing on a subterranean estuary

    Pei Xin;Pei Xin;Clare Robinson;Ling Li;David Andrew Barry

  • Water resources: Groundwater maintains dune landscape

    Jian Sheng Chen;Ling Li;Ling Li;Ji Yang Wang;D. A. Barry

  • Beach water table fluctuations due to spring-neap tides: moving boundary effects

    L. Li;D.A. Barry;F. Stagnitti;J.-Y. Parlange

  • Tide‐induced recirculation across the aquifer‐ocean interface

    C. Robinson;L. Li;L. Li;H. Prommer

  • Tidal influence on seawater intrusion in unconfined coastal aquifers

    Woei Keong Kuan;Woei Keong Kuan;Guangqiu Jin;Pei Xin;Clare Robinson

  • Temporal and spatial variability of annual extreme water level in the Pearl River Delta region, China

    Wei Zhang;Yixin Yan;Jinhai Zheng;Ling Li

  • Numerical modelling of tide-induced beach water table fluctuations

    L. Li;D.A. Barry;Charitha Pattiaratchi

  • Tidal influence on behaviour of a coastal aquifer adjacent to a low-relief estuary

    X. Mao;P. Enot;D. A. Barry;D. A. Barry;L. Li;L. Li

  • Effects of crab burrows on pore water flows in salt marshes

    Pei Xin;Pei Xin;Guangqiu Jin;Ling Li;D.A. Barry

  • Wave-induced beach groundwater flow

    L Li;D.A Barry

  • Salt-freshwater dynamics in a subterranean estuary over a spring-neap tidal cycle

    C. Robinson;B. Gibbes;H. Carey;L. Li;L. Li

  • Three-dimensional model for multi-component reactive transport with variable density groundwater flow

    X. Mao;H. Prommer;D. A. Barry;C. D. Langevin

  • Beach water table fluctuations due to wave run‐up: Capillarity effects

    L. Li;D.A. Barry;J.-Y. Parlange;Charitha Pattiaratchi

Frequent Co-Authors

David Andrew Barry
David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dong-Sheng Jeng
Dong-Sheng Jeng Griffith University
David Lockington
David Lockington University of Queensland
Frank Stagnitti
Frank Stagnitti Deakin University
Peter Nielsen
Peter Nielsen University of Queensland
Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
Isaac R. Santos
Isaac R. Santos University of Gothenburg
Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University
Charitha Pattiaratchi
Charitha Pattiaratchi University of Western Australia
Jiaqiang Yan
Jiaqiang Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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