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2649
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Wenwu Zhao 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 Wenwu Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 216 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wenwu Zhao 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 Wenwu Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wenwu Zhao is affiliated with Beijing Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on global and planetary change. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist has actively published in a number of journals, with frequent submissions to:

  • Geography and Sustainability
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • CATENA
  • Science Bulletin

Zhao's work often centers on the following research topics:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Among recent scientific papers, the following have been published:

  • "Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau" (2022) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Reconsidering the efficiency of grazing exclusion using fences on the Tibetan Plateau" (2020) in Science Bulletin
  • "Loess Plateau: from degradation to restoration" (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Spatio-temporal changes of ecological vulnerability across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau" (2021) in Ecological Indicators
  • "Trading-off ecosystem services for better ecological restoration: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China" (2020) in Journal of Cleaner Production

Zhao frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Paulo Pereira
  • Yanxu Liu
  • Bojie Fu
  • Francesco Cherubini
  • Xiangping Hu

Best Publications

  • Assessment of soil erosion at large watershed scale using RUSLE and GIS: a case study in the Loess Plateau of China

    BJ Fu;WW Zhao;LD Chen;QJ Zhang

  • Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

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  • Quantitative synthesis on the ecosystem services of cover crops

    Stefani Daryanto;Bojie Fu;Lixin Wang;Pierre-André Jacinthe

  • Ecosystem service trade-offs and their influencing factors: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China

    Qiang Feng;Wenwu Zhao;Bojie Fu;Jingyi Ding

  • Reconsidering the efficiency of grazing exclusion using fences on the Tibetan Plateau

    Jian Sun;Miao Liu;Bojie Fu;David Kemp

  • Loess Plateau: from degradation to restoration.

    Yang Yu;Wenwu Zhao;Juan F. Martinez-Murillo;Paulo Pereira

  • Influence of land use change on the ecosystem service trade-offs in the ecological restoration area: Dynamics and scenarios in the Yanhe watershed, China.

    Siqi Yang;Wenwu Zhao;Yanxu Liu;Shuai Wang

  • Source-sink landscape theory and its ecological significance

    Liding Chen;Bojie Fu;Wenwu Zhao

  • Multifractal characteristics of soil particle size distribution under different land-use types on the Loess Plateau, China

    De Wang;Bojie Fu;Wenwu Zhao;Huifeng Hu

  • Spatio-temporal changes of ecological vulnerability across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Mu Xia;Kun Jia;Wenwu Zhao;Shiliang Liu

  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era

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  • Trading-off ecosystem services for better ecological restoration: A case study in the Loess Plateau of China

    Qiang Feng;Qiang Feng;Wenwu Zhao;Xiangping Hu;Yue Liu

  • Temporal change in land use and its relationship to slope degree and soil type in a small catchment on the Loess Plateau of China

    Bo-Jie Fu;Qiu-Ju Zhang;Li-Ding Chen;Wen-Wu Zhao

  • Prioritizing sustainable development goals and linking them to ecosystem services: A global expert's knowledge evaluation

    Siqi Yang;Wenwu Zhao;Yanxu Liu;Francesco Cherubini

  • Wetlands as nature-based solutions for water management in different environments

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  • Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15.

    Junze Zhang;Bojie Fu;Bojie Fu;Mark Stafford-Smith;Shuai Wang

  • Effects of land use on soil erosion and nitrogen loss in the hilly area of the Loess Plateau, China

    B. J. Fu;Q. H. Meng;Y. Qiu;W. W. Zhao

  • Landscape functional zoning at a county level based on ecosystem services bundle: Methods comparison and management indication.

    Yanxu Liu;Tong Li;Wenwu Zhao;Shuai Wang

  • Mapping the complexity of the food-energy-water nexus from the lens of Sustainable Development Goals in China

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  • The increasing contribution of potential evapotranspiration to severe droughts in the Yellow River basin

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  • Dynamics and driving factors of agricultural landscape in the semiarid hilly area of the Loess Plateau, China

    Qiu-Ju Zhang;Bo-Jie Fu;Li-Ding Chen;Wen-Wu Zhao

  • Integrate ecosystem services into socio-economic development to enhance achievement of sustainable development goals in the post-pandemic era

    Caichun Yin;Wenwu Zhao;Francesco Cherubini;Paulo Pereira

  • Spatial distribution characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing and its relationship with environmental factors.

    Yi Han;Lan Yang;Kun Jia;Jie Li

  • Effects of Different Land-Use Types on Soil Erosion Under Natural Rainfall in the Loess Plateau, China

    Qiang Feng;Qiang Feng;Wenwu Zhao;Jun Wang;Xiao Zhang

  • Influence of land use change on the ecosystem service trade-offs in the ecological restoration area: Dynamics and scenarios in the Yanhe watershed, China

    S. Yang;W. Zhao;Y. Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Bojie Fu
Bojie Fu Peking University
Lixin Wang
Lixin Wang Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Paulo Pereira
Paulo Pereira Mykolas Romeris University
Francesco Cherubini
Francesco Cherubini Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Liding Chen
Liding Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael E. Meadows
Michael E. Meadows University of Cape Town
Pierre-André Jacinthe
Pierre-André Jacinthe Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Shiliang Liu
Shiliang Liu Beijing Normal University
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Yihe Lü
Yihe Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences

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