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D-Index
67
Citations
13311
World Ranking
2019
National Ranking
199

Quanfa Zhang 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 Quanfa Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 210 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Quanfa Zhang 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 Quanfa Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Quanfa Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive publication record in environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on ecological and environmental processes, with a significant emphasis on soil, water, and atmospheric interactions.

The scientist has contributed notably to the field of Environmental Science and its subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology

Quanfa Zhang's main research topics encompass:

  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Zhang include:

  • Xiang Tan (24 joint works)
  • Haishan Dang (22 joint works)
  • Kerong Zhang (19 joint works)
  • Hao Jiang (18 joint works)
  • Hang Shi (15 joint works)

Common publication venues for Zhang's research encompass:

  • Water Research (8 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (6 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (5 publications)
  • CATENA (4 publications)
  • Journal of Environmental Management (4 publications)

Notable recent papers include:

  • Meta-analysis shows the impacts of ecological restoration on greenhouse gas emissions, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Divergent effects of hydrological alteration and nutrient addition on greenhouse gas emissions in the water level fluctuation zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China, 2021, Water Research
  • Nanoplastics alter ecosystem multifunctionality and may increase global warming potential, 2023, Global Change Biology
  • Soil properties alter plant and microbial communities to modulate denitrification rates in subtropical riparian wetlands, 2020, Land Degradation and Development
  • A simultaneous enhancement of both strength and ductility by a novel differential-thermal ECAP process in Mg-Sn-Zn-Zr alloy, 2021, Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Best Publications

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • Risk assessment and seasonal variations of dissolved trace elements and heavy metals in the Upper Han River, China.

    Siyue Li;Quanfa Zhang

  • Water quality in relation to land use and land cover in the upper Han River Basin, China

    Siyue Li;Sheng Gu;Wenzhi Liu;Hongyin Han

  • Water quality in the upper Han River basin, China: the impacts of land use/land cover in riparian buffer zone

    Siyue Li;Sheng Gu;Xiang Tan;Quanfa Zhang

  • Spatial characterization of dissolved trace elements and heavy metals in the upper Han River (China) using multivariate statistical techniques.

    Siyue Li;Quanfa Zhang

  • Assessing soil heavy metal pollution in the water-level-fluctuation zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China.

    Chen Ye;Siyue Li;Yulong Zhang;Quanfa Zhang

  • Large greenhouse gases emissions from China's lakes and reservoirs.

    Siyue Li;Richard T. Bush;Isaac R. Santos;Quanfa Zhang

  • Soil microbial community and its interaction with soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics following afforestation in central China.

    Qi Deng;Xiaoli Cheng;Dafeng Hui;Qian Zhang

  • Temporal and spatial variations of water quality in the Jinshui River of the South Qinling Mts., China.

    Hongmei Bu;Xiang Tan;Siyue Li;Quanfa Zhang

  • The South‐to‐North Water Transfer Project of China: Environmental Implications and Monitoring Strategy 1

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  • Effect of Pb toxicity on leaf growth, antioxidant enzyme activities, and photosynthesis in cuttings and seedlings of Jatropha curcas L.

    Xiao Shu;LiYan Yin;QuanFa Zhang;WeiBo Wang

  • CH4 and N2O emissions from Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis in experimental mesocosms

    Xiaoli Cheng;Ronghao Peng;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo

  • Change in soil organic carbon following the ‘Grain-for-Green’ programme in China

    K. Zhang;H. Dang;S. Tan;X. Cheng

  • Alterations in soil microbial community composition and biomass following agricultural land use change

    Qian Zhang;Junjun Wu;Fan Yang;Yao Lei

  • The environmental changes and mitigation actions in the Three Gorges Reservoir region, China

    Quanfa Zhang;Zhiping Lou

  • Water quality assessment in the rivers along the water conveyance system of the Middle Route of the South to North Water Transfer Project (China) using multivariate statistical techniques and receptor modeling

    Siyue Li;Jia Li;Quanfa Zhang

  • The under-financing of protected areas in the Congo Basin: so many parks and so little willingness-to-pay

    David S. Wilkie;Julia F. Carpenter;Quanfa Zhang

  • Lake eutrophication associated with geographic location, lake morphology and climate in China

    Wenzhi Liu;Quanfa Zhang;Guihua Liu

  • Dissolved trace elements and heavy metals in the Danjiangkou Reservoir, China

    Siyue Li;Zhifang Xu;Xiaoli Cheng;Quanfa Zhang

  • Spatio-temporal dynamics of nutrients in the upper Han River basin, China.

    Siyue Li;Wenzhi Liu;Sheng Gu;Xiaoli Cheng

  • The impact of agricultural land use changes on soil organic carbon dynamics in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area of China

    Xiaoli Cheng;Yuanhe Yang;Ming Li;Xiaolin Dou

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoli Cheng
Xiaoli Cheng Yunnan University
Siyue Li
Siyue Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Conghe Song
Conghe Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Dafeng Hui
Dafeng Hui Tennessee State University
Christopher O. Justice
Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Stuart E. Bunn
Stuart E. Bunn Griffith University
Michele A. Burford
Michele A. Burford Griffith University
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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