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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 44 4619 4251 297 291 232 9648

Tonghua Wu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Tonghua Wu between 2004 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Tonghua Wu published across 22 years, from 2004 to 2025, averaging 13 papers a year. Output peaked at 51 publications in 2022. 49 of the 287 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2004 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 51. Peak 51 publications in 2022. 2004: 1 publication 2005: 1 publication 2006: 0 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 0 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 2 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 16 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 20 publications 2021: 46 publications 2022: 51 publications 2023: 39 publications 2024: 24 publications 2025: 25 publications
2004 2025

287 publications in total across all disciplines

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Tonghua Wu: publications per year, 2004 to 2025
Year Publications
2004 1
2005 1
2006 0
2007 3
2008 0
2009 6
2010 1
2011 2
2012 4
2013 4
2014 7
2015 4
2016 16
2017 13
2018 5
2019 15
2020 20
2021 46
2022 51
2023 39
2024 24
2025 25
Total 287
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Tonghua Wu publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tonghua Wu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 228–237 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 232 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262 232
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Tonghua Wu D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tonghua Wu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 44 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248 44
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Tonghua Wu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Tonghua Wu has published papers in various scientific journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • CATENA
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Advances in Climate Change Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers authored by Tonghua Wu include:

  • Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences (2021) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (2022) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai-Tibet (Xizang) Plateau, China (2021) in Earth System Science Data
  • Increasing cryospheric hazards in a warming climate (2020) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go? (2023) in Earth System Science Data

The scientist's collaborations have involved several frequent coauthors, including Xiaodong Wu, Guojie Hu, Ren Li, Xiaofan Zhu, and Lin Zhao. The extent of collaboration is reflected in the number of joint publications, with counts ranging from 47 to 78 papers with these colleagues.

Best Publications

  • Northern Hemisphere permafrost map based on TTOP modelling for 2000–2016 at 1 km2 scale

    Jaroslav Obu;Sebastian Westermann;Annett Bartsch;Nikolai M. Berdnikov

  • Responses of permafrost to climate change and their environmental significance, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Guodong Cheng;Tonghua Wu

  • A new map of permafrost distribution on the Tibetan Plateau

    Defu Zou;Lin Zhao;Yu Sheng;Ji Chen

  • Temporal and spatial variations of the active layer along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway in a permafrost region

    Ren Li;Lin Zhao;YongJian Ding;TongHua Wu

  • A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) Plateau, China

    Lin Zhao;Lin Zhao;Defu Zou;Guojie Hu;Tonghua Wu

  • Increasing cryospheric hazards in a warming climate

    Yongjian Ding;Cuicui Mu;Tonghua Wu;Guojie Hu

  • Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole

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  • Recent ground surface warming and its effects on permafrost on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Tonghua Wu;Lin Zhao;Ren Li;Qinxue Wang

  • Simulation of the present and future projection of permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with statistical and machine learning models

    Jie Ni;Tonghua Wu;Xiaofan Zhu;Guojie Hu

  • Numerical Modeling of the Active Layer Thickness and Permafrost Thermal State Across Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Yanhui Qin;Tonghua Wu;Lin Zhao;Xiaodong Wu

  • Variations in soil temperature from 1980 to 2015 in permafrost regions on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau based on observed and reanalysis products

    Guojie Hu;Lin Zhao;Ren Li;Xiaodong Wu

  • Magnitudes and patterns of large-scale permafrost ground deformation revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Jie Chen;Tonghua Wu;Defu Zou;Lin Liu

  • Mapping the vegetation distribution of the permafrost zone on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Zhi-wei Wang;Qian Wang;Lin Zhao;Xiao-dong Wu

  • Evaluation of reanalysis soil temperature and soil moisture products in permafrost regions on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Shuhua Yang;Ren Li;Tonghua Wu;Guojie Hu

  • Review of algorithms and parameterizations to determine unfrozen water content in frozen soil

    Guojie Hu;Lin Zhao;Xiaofan Zhu;Xiaodong Wu

  • A 1 km resolution soil organic carbon dataset for frozen ground in the Third Pole

    Dong Wang;Tonghua Wu;Lin Zhao;Lin Zhao;Cuicui Mu

  • New Fourier-series-based analytical solution to the conduction–convection equation to calculate soil temperature, determine soil thermal properties, or estimate water flux

    Guojie Hu;Lin Zhao;Xiaodong Wu;Ren Li

  • Soil thermal conductivity and its influencing factors at the Tanggula permafrost region on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

    Ren Li;Lin Zhao;Tonghua Wu;Qinxue Wang

  • Mapping and inventorying active rock glaciers in the northern Tien Shan of China using satellite SAR interferometry

    Xiaowen Wang;Lin Liu;Lin Zhao;Tonghua Wu

  • Using ground-penetrating radar to detect permafrost degradation in the northern limit of permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau

    Tonghua Wu;Shuxun Li;Guodong Cheng;Zhuotong Nan

  • Spatial distribution and changes of permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau revealed by statistical models during the period of 1980 to 2010

    Tianye Wang;Tonghua Wu;Ping Wang;Ren Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaodong Wu
Xiaodong Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guojie Hu
Guojie Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lin Zhao
Lin Zhao Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Zhiwei Wang
Zhiwei Wang Tongji University
Yongjian Ding
Yongjian Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guodong Cheng
Guodong Cheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuxin Zhang
Yuxin Zhang Chongqing University
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen

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