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D-Index
131
Citations
69777
World Ranking
69
National Ranking
6

Peng Gong 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 Peng Gong sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 571 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peng Gong 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 Peng Gong sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 131 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Peng Gong is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers a wide range of main topics, among which are Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Remote Sensing and Land Use, and the Impact of Light on Environment and Health.

Peng Gong has published several recent papers notable within the scientific community. These include:

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises, 2020, The Lancet
  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels, 2022, The Lancet
  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future, 2021, The Lancet
  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Global supply-chain effects of COVID-19 control measures, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Le Yu
  • Бин Чэн
  • Bing Xu
  • Xuecao Li
  • Wenjia Cai

Peng Gong frequently publishes in several scientific venues, with the highest number of publications found in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Science Bulletin
  • Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version)
  • The Lancet

Among awards, they became a Member of Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

    Sarah Whitmee;Andy Haines;Chris Beyrer;Frederick Boltz

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

    Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Le Yu;Yongchao Zhao

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future.

    Marina Romanello;Alice McGushin;Claudia Di Napoli;Paul Drummond

  • Urbanisation and health in China

    Peng Gong;Song Liang;Elizabeth J Carlton;Qingwu Jiang

  • The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • Stable classification with limited sample: transferring a 30-m resolution sample set collected in 2015 to mapping 10-m resolution global land cover in 2017

    Peng Gong;Han Liu;Meinan Zhang;Congcong Li

  • Managing nitrogen to restore water quality in China

    ChaoQing Yu;Xiao Huang;Han Chen;H. Charles J. Godfray

  • Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018

    Peng Gong;Xuecao Li;Jie Wang;Jie Wang;Yuqi Bai

  • Object-based Detailed Vegetation Classification with Airborne High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

    Qian Yu;Peng Gong;Nick Clinton;Greg Biging

  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • Quantifying air pollution removal by green roofs in Chicago

    Jun Yang;Jun Yang;Qian Yu;Peng Gong

  • The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Huai Chen;Qiuan Zhu;Changhui Peng;Ning Wu;Ning Wu

  • Global supply-chain effects of COVID-19 control measures.

    Dabo Guan;Daoping Wang;Stephane Hallegatte;Steven J. Davis

  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

    Xiaoping Liu;Yinghuai Huang;Xiaocong Xu;Xuecao Li

  • Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Zhu Liu;Philippe Ciais;Zhu Deng;Ruixue Lei

  • Isolating individual trees in a savanna woodland using small footprint lidar data

    Qi Chen;Dennis Baldocchi;Peng Gong;Maggi Kelly

  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

    Xuecao Li;Peng Gong;Yuyu Zhou;Jie Wang;Jie Wang

  • Comparison of IKONOS and QuickBird images for mapping mangrove species on the Caribbean coast of Panama

    Le Wang;Wayne P. Sousa;Peng Gong;Gregory S. Biging

Frequent Co-Authors

Le Yu
Le Yu Tsinghua University
Bing Xu
Bing Xu Tsinghua University
Ruiliang Pu
Ruiliang Pu University of South Florida
Nicholas Clinton
Nicholas Clinton Google (United States)
Xuecao Li
Xuecao Li China Agricultural University
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu United States Geological Survey
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Hui Lu
Hui Lu Tsinghua University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Peking University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University

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