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63
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19685
World Ranking
1932
National Ranking
36

Wenping Yuan publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wenping Yuan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 205 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Wenping Yuan D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wenping Yuan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wenping Yuan is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

Their research addresses a range of topics centered around Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Wenping Yuan has published articles in multiple scientific venues frequently contributing to:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Scientific Data

Key recent publications include:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020) in Earth system science data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2021 (2022) in Earth system science data
  • Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis (2020) in Science
  • The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) Product Suite (2020) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982-2017 (2020) in Earth system science data

Wenping Yuan frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Philippe Ciais
  • Xiuzhi Chen
  • Bin He
  • Ruoque Shen
  • Stephen Sitch

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

    Wenping Yuan;Yi Zheng;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais

  • Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Guangsheng Zhou;Guoyi Zhou

  • Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu;Guirui Yu;Jean Marc Bonnefond

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

    Jingfeng Xiao;Frederic Chevallier;Cecile Gomez;Luis Guanter

  • A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies

    Shunlin Liang;Xiang Zhao;Suhong Liu;Wenping Yuan

  • The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) Product Suite

    Shunlin Liang;Jie Cheng;Kun Jia;Bo Jiang

  • Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: processes, data, models, and challenges

    Shuguang Liu;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

    Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Jiangzhou Xia;Jiquan Chen

  • Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity

    Xiaoping Liu;Fengsong Pei;Youyue Wen;Xia Li;Xia Li;Xia Li

  • Comparison of satellite-based evapotranspiration models over terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Yang Chen;Jiangzhou Xia;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Jinming Feng;Jinming Feng

  • Seasonal patterns of litterfall in forest ecosystem worldwide

    Haicheng Zhang;Wenping Yuan;Wenjie Dong;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu

  • North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

    D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

  • Severe summer heatwave and drought strongly reduced carbon uptake in Southern China.

    Wenping Yuan;Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Yang Chen;Shuguang Liu

  • Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming

    Chaoyang Wu;Xiaoyue Wang;Huanjiong Wang;Philippe Ciais

  • Early-season mapping of winter wheat in China based on Landsat and Sentinel images

    Jie Dong;Yangyang Fu;Jingjing Wang;Haifeng Tian

  • Developed and developing world responsibilities for historical climate change and CO2 mitigation

    Ting Wei;Shili Yang;John C. Moore;John C. Moore;John C. Moore;Peijun Shi

  • Spatial–Temporal Variability of Snow Cover and Depth in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Wenfang Xu;Lijuan Ma;Minna Ma;Haicheng Zhang

  • Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Zu-Tao Ou-Yang;Jingfeng Xiao

  • Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982–2017

    Yi Zheng;Ruoque Shen;Yawen Wang;Xiangqian Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuguang Liu
Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology
Shunlin Liang
Shunlin Liang University of Hong Kong
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Jinming Feng
Jinming Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bing Xu
Bing Xu Tsinghua University
John C. Moore
John C. Moore Beijing Normal University
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
Guangsheng Zhou
Guangsheng Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Linghao Li
Linghao Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto

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