2026 Qi Hu: 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	49	5203	4982	1915	1769	95	9853

Overview

Qi Hu is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States and conducts research primarily focused on agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science. Their work intersects several subfields including soil science, global and planetary change, plant science, civil and structural engineering, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research addresses topics related to irrigation practices and water management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil and unsaturated flow, climate change impacts on agriculture, potato plant research, agronomic practices and intercropping systems, and soil erosion and sediment transport.

Qi Hu has published in a variety of scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

Field Crops Research
Soil and Tillage Research
The Science of The Total Environment
Agricultural Water Management
Journal of Environmental Management

Frequent co-authors in Qi Hu's collaborations include:

Xianyue Li
Haibin Shi
Ning Chen
Yuehong Zhang
Xuebiao Pan

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Qi Hu encompass:

Effects of residual plastic-film mulch on field corn growth and productivity, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
Extraction and identification methods of microplastics and nanoplastics in agricultural soil: A review, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
Effect of biodegradable film mulching on crop yield, soil microbial and enzymatic activities, and optimal levels of irrigation and nitrogen fertilizer for the Zea mays crops in arid region, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
Evaluating the effects of biodegradable and plastic film mulching on soil temperature in a drip-irrigated field, 2021, Soil and Tillage Research
Evaluating soil nitrate dynamics in an intercropping dripped ecosystem using HYDRUS-2D, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

An evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index, the China-Z Index and the statistical Z-Score

Hong Wu;Michael J. Hayes;Albert Weiss;Qi Hu

631
Citations
Annual and seasonal streamflow responses to climate and land-cover changes in the Poyang Lake basin, China

Hua Guo;Qi Hu;Tong Jiang

556
Citations
Quality control of daily meteorological data in China, 1951-2000: a new dataset

Song Feng;Qi Hu;Weihong Qian

553
Citations
Effects of the Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River flow and river interaction with Poyang Lake, China: 2003-2008

Hua Guo;Qi Hu;Qi Zhang;Song Feng

452
Citations
Changes in near-surface wind speed in China: 1969-2005

Hua Guo;Ming Xu;Ming Xu;Qi Hu

414
Citations
Groundwater influences on soil moisture and surface evaporation

Xi Chen;Qi Hu

380
Citations
Temperature Changes in Central Asia from 1979 to 2011 Based on Multiple Datasets

Zengyun Hu;Chi Zhang;Qi Hu;Hanqin Tian

361
Citations
Interactions of the Yangtze river flow and hydrologic processes of the Poyang Lake, China

Qi Hu;Song Feng;Hua Guo;Guiya Chen

351
Citations
North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

Eric D. Maloney;Suzana J. Camargo;Edmund Chang;Brian Colle

330
Citations
North American Climate in CMIP5 experiments. Part I: Evaluation of historical simulations of continental and regional climatology

Justin Sheffield;Andrew P. Barrett;Brian Colle;D. Nelun Fernando;D. Nelun Fernando

317
Citations
Environmental effects on pregnancy rate in beef cattle

J. L. Amundson;Terry L. Mader;Richard J. Rasby;Q. S. Hu

248
Citations
Projected climate regime shift under future global warming from multi-model, multi-scenario CMIP5 simulations

Song Feng;Qi Hu;Wei Huang;Chang Hoi Ho

246
Citations
A Daily Soil Temperature Dataset and Soil Temperature Climatology of the Contiguous United States

Qi Hu;Song Feng

223
Citations
Low-Frequency Oscillations in Radiative-Convective Systems

Qi Hu;David A. Randall

218
Citations
Changes in winter snowfall/precipitation ratio in the contiguous United States

Song Feng;Qi Hu

204
Citations
Evaluation of reanalysis, spatially interpolated and satellite remotely sensed precipitation data sets in central Asia

Zengyun Hu;Zengyun Hu;Qi Hu;Chi Zhang;Chi Zhang;Xi Chen

182
Citations
EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES ON THE PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX IN THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES

Qi Hu;Gary D. Willson

180
Citations
How the North Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation may have influenced the Indian summer monsoon during the past two millennia

Song Feng;Qi Hu

175
Citations
North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

Justin Sheffield;Suzana J. Camargo;Rong Fu;Qi Hu

167
Citations
Climate Effects on Corn Yield in Missouri(.

Qi Hu;Gregory Buyanovsky

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Song Feng University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Robert J. Oglesby University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Qi Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kenneth G. Hubbard University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Weihong Qian Peking University

Rong Fu University of California, Los Angeles

Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University

James L. Kinter George Mason University

Justin Sheffield University of Southampton

J. David Neelin University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

Personal website of Qi Hu Google Scholar page

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