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Social Sciences and Humanities
China
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
96
Citations
36264
World Ranking
121
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award

Overview

Xiaoling Zhang is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and has a research focus within the field of Environmental Science, with a total of 223 publications. Their work spans multiple subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a range of environmental topics and interdisciplinary approaches. Selected recent papers include:

  • Impacts of urbanization and landscape pattern on habitat quality using OLS and GWR models in Hangzhou, China (2020) published in Ecological Indicators
  • Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China (2021) published in Nature Food
  • Industrial agglomeration, technological innovation and carbon productivity: Evidence from China (2020) published in Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Automatic detection of 39 fundus diseases and conditions in retinal photographs using deep neural networks (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • Emissions trading system (ETS) implementation and its collaborative governance effects on air pollution: The China story (2020) published in Energy Policy

Zhang frequently publishes in journals such as Land Use Policy, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, PubMed, and Resources Conservation and Recycling. The number of publications in these venues ranges from 8 to 15.

The primary research topics associated with their work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Among frequent co-authors are Shigong Wang, Kai Wu, Qian Zhou, Xianyu Yang, and Ping Kang, with collaboration counts ranging between 7 and 18 papers each.

Best Publications

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • The application of urban sustainability indicators – A comparison between various practices

    Li-Yin Shen;J. Jorge Ochoa;Mona N. Shah;Xiaoling Zhang

  • Carbon emission of global construction sector

    Lizhen Huang;Guri Krigsvoll;Fred Johansen;Yongping Liu

  • MicroRNAs as modulators of smoking-induced gene expression changes in human airway epithelium.

    Frank Schembri;Sriram Sridhar;Catalina Perdomo;Adam M. Gustafson

  • Seasonal and diurnal variations of ambient PM2.5 concentration in urban and rural environments in Beijing

    Xiujuan Zhao;Xiaoling Zhang;Xiaofeng Xu;Jing Xu

  • Green strategy for gaining competitive advantage in housing development: a China study

    Xiaoling Zhang;Liyin Shen;Yuzhe Wu

  • Impacts of urbanization and landscape pattern on habitat quality using OLS and GWR models in Hangzhou, China

    Congmou Zhu;Xiaoling Zhang;Mengmeng Zhou;Shan He

  • Key assessment indicators for the sustainability of infrastructure projects

    Liyin Shen;Yuzhe Wu;Xiaoling Zhang

  • Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China

    Sitong Wang;Xuemei Bai;Xiaoling Zhang;Stefan Reis

  • Urban resilience and urban sustainability: What we know and what do not know?

    Xiaoling Zhang;Xiaoling Zhang;Xiaoling Zhang;Huan Li;Huan Li

  • The role of renewable energy consumption and commercial services trade in carbon dioxide reduction: Evidence from 25 developing countries

    Hui Hu;Nan Xie;Debin Fang;Xiaoling Zhang

  • Green property development practice in China: Costs and barriers

    Xiaoling Zhang;Andrew Platten;Liyin Shen

  • The effect of natural and anthropogenic factors on haze pollution in Chinese cities: A spatial econometrics approach

    Haimeng Liu;Chuanglin Fang;Xiaoling Zhang;Zheye Wang

  • Sustainable urbanization in China: A comprehensive literature review

    Yongtao Tan;Hui Xu;Hui Xu;Xiaoling Zhang

  • The impact of land-use change on water-related ecosystem services: a study of the Guishui River Basin, Beijing, China

    Jie Gao;Feng Li;Hui Gao;Chuanbin Zhou

  • China's energy consumption in the building sector: A Statistical Yearbook-Energy Balance Sheet based splitting method

    Tengfei Huo;Tengfei Huo;Hong Ren;Xiaoling Zhang;Weiguang Cai;Weiguang Cai

  • Industrial agglomeration, technological innovation and carbon productivity: Evidence from China

    Xiping Liu;Xiaoling Zhang

  • Urban ecological infrastructure: an integrated network for ecosystem services and sustainable urban systems

    Feng Li;Xusheng Liu;Xiaoling Zhang;Dan Zhao

  • Barriers to implement extensive green roof systems: A Hong Kong study

    Xiaoling Zhang;Liyin Shen;Vivian W.Y. Tam;Winnie Wing Yan Lee

  • Whole exome sequencing study identifies novel rare and common Alzheimer's-Associated variants involved in immune response and transcriptional regulation

    Joshua C Bis;Xueqiu Jian;Brian W Kunkle;Yuning Chen

  • Structural transformation of manufacturing, natural resource dependence, and carbon emissions reduction: Evidence of a threshold effect from China

    Zhi Li;Shuai Shao;Xunpeng Shi;Yongping Sun

  • Exploring the challenges to industrialized residential building in China

    Xiaoling Zhang;Martin Skitmore;Yi Peng

  • Emissions trading system (ETS) implementation and its collaborative governance effects on air pollution: The China story

    Yaxue Yan;Xiaoling Zhang;Jihong Zhang;Kai Li

  • Interpretive Structural Modeling based factor analysis on the implementation of Emission Trading System in the Chinese building sector

    Liyin Shen;Xiangnan Song;Ya Wu;Shiju Liao

  • The origin and adaptive evolution of domesticated populations of yeast from Far East Asia.

    Shou-Fu Duan;Pei-Jie Han;Qi-Ming Wang;Wan-Qiu Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Liyin Shen
Liyin Shen Chongqing University
Lindsay A. Farrer
Lindsay A. Farrer Boston University
Kathryn L. Lunetta
Kathryn L. Lunetta Boston University
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance University of Miami
Gerard D. Schellenberg
Gerard D. Schellenberg University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan L. Haines
Jonathan L. Haines Case Western Reserve University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Philip L. De Jager
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University
Avrum Spira
Avrum Spira Boston University
Adam C. Naj
Adam C. Naj University of Pennsylvania

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