2026 Ling 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	63	2472	2358	95	91	379	14427

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

817
Citations
Submarine groundwater discharge and associated chemical input to a coastal sea

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

578
Citations
Effect of tidal forcing on a subterranean estuary

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

523
Citations
Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry

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

466
Citations
Analytical approximations for real values of the Lambert W -function

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

297
Citations
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

291
Citations
Driving mechanisms for groundwater flow and salt transport in a subterranean estuary

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

288
Citations
Has the Three-Gorges Dam made the Poyang Lake wetlands wetter and drier?

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

276
Citations
Effects of wave forcing on a subterranean estuary

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

274
Citations
Water resources: Groundwater maintains dune landscape

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

253
Citations
Beach water table fluctuations due to spring-neap tides: moving boundary effects

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

225
Citations
Tide‐induced recirculation across the aquifer‐ocean interface

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

225
Citations
Tidal influence on seawater intrusion in unconfined coastal aquifers

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

216
Citations
Temporal and spatial variability of annual extreme water level in the Pearl River Delta region, China

Wei Zhang;Yixin Yan;Jinhai Zheng;Ling Li

196
Citations
Numerical modelling of tide-induced beach water table fluctuations

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

182
Citations
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

178
Citations
Effects of crab burrows on pore water flows in salt marshes

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

174
Citations
Wave-induced beach groundwater flow

L Li;D.A Barry

172
Citations
Salt-freshwater dynamics in a subterranean estuary over a spring-neap tidal cycle

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

170
Citations
Three-dimensional model for multi-component reactive transport with variable density groundwater flow

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

167
Citations
Beach water table fluctuations due to wave run‐up: Capillarity effects

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

166
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dong-Sheng Jeng Griffith University

David Lockington University of Queensland

Frank Stagnitti Deakin University

Peter Nielsen University of Queensland

Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island

Isaac R. Santos University of Gothenburg

Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University

Charitha Pattiaratchi University of Western Australia

Jiaqiang Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory

External Links

Personal website of Ling Li

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