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Xihui Gu 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 Xihui Gu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 62 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xihui Gu 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 Xihui Gu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Xihui Gu is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China and has authored a significant body of research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work encompasses a wide range of topics related to climate, hydrology, and remote sensing, reflecting expertise in both theoretical and applied aspects of environmental research.

The main fields of study for Xihui Gu include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The research subfields covered are diverse, indicating a focus on various environmental processes and technologies:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology

The primary research topics featured in Xihui Gu's publications are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Xihui Gu include:

  • Dongdong Kong
  • Jianyu Liu
  • Jianfeng Li
  • Xiang Zhang
  • Louise Slater

Published research appears in multiple scientific outlets, with a notable presence in journals specializing in hydrology, climate, and geophysical research. The venues frequently featuring Xihui Gu's work are:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Climate
  • Remote Sensing

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Xihui Gu are:

  • phenofit: An R package for extracting vegetation phenology from time series remote sensing, 2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Greater flood risks in response to slowdown of tropical cyclones over the coast of China, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Response of global land evapotranspiration to climate change, elevated CO2, and land use change, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Contributions of Global Warming and Urbanization to the Intensification of Human-Perceived Heatwaves Over China, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Asymmetrical Shift Toward Less Light and More Heavy Precipitation in an Urban Agglomeration of East China: Intensification by Urbanization, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Spatiotemporal behavior of floods and droughts and their impacts on agriculture in China

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Dongdong Kong

  • Evaluation of flood frequency under non-stationarity resulting from climate indices and reservoir indices in the East River basin, China

    Qiang Zhang;Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Mingzhong Xiao

  • Evaluation of impacts of climate change and human activities on streamflow in the Poyang Lake basin, China

    Qiang Zhang;Jianyu Liu;Vijay P. Singh;Xihui Gu

  • Evaluation of ecological instream flow using multiple ecological indicators with consideration of hydrological alterations

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Xiaohong Chen

  • Greater flood risks in response to slowdown of tropical cyclones over the coast of China

    Yangchen Lai;Yangchen Lai;Jianfeng Li;Xihui Gu;Yongqin David Chen

  • The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Extreme Precipitation over Coastal and Inland Areas of China and Its Association to ENSO

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Jianfeng Li;Peijun Shi

  • Evaluation of ecological instream flow considering hydrological alterations in the Yellow River basin, China

    Qiang Zhang;Zongjiao Zhang;Peijun Shi;Vijay P. Singh

  • Contributions of Global Warming and Urbanization to the Intensification of Human-Perceived Heatwaves Over China

    Dongdong Kong;Xihui Gu;Xihui Gu;Jianfeng Li;Guoyu Ren;Guoyu Ren

  • Attribution of Global Soil Moisture Drying to Human Activities: A Quantitative Viewpoint

    Xihui Gu;Xihui Gu;Qiang Zhang;Jianfeng Li;Vijay P. Singh

  • Flood frequency analysis with consideration of hydrological alterations: Changing properties, causes and implications

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Mingzhong Xiao

  • Changes in magnitude and frequency of heavy precipitation across China and its potential links to summer temperature

    Xihui Gu;Qiang Zhang;Vijay P. Singh;Peijun Shi

  • Impact of urbanization on nonstationarity of annual and seasonal precipitation extremes in China.

    Xihui Gu;Xihui Gu;Qiang Zhang;Jianfeng Li;Vijay P. Singh

  • Magnitude, frequency and timing of floods in the Tarim River basin, China: Changes, causes and implications

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Peng Sun

  • Consistency and Discrepancy of Global Surface Soil Moisture Changes From Multiple Model-Based Data Sets Against Satellite Observations

    Xihui Gu;Xihui Gu;Jianfeng Li;Yongqin David Chen;Dongdong Kong

  • Impacts of ENSO and ENSO Modoki+A regimes on seasonal precipitation variations and possible underlying causes in the Huai River basin, China

    Qiang Zhang;Yue Wang;Vijay P. Singh;Xihui Gu

  • Hydrological effects of climate variability and vegetation dynamics on annual fluvial water balance in global large river basins

    Jianyu Liu;Qiang Zhang;Vijay P. Singh;Changqing Song

  • Homogenization of precipitation and flow regimes across China: Changing properties, causes and implications

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Chong-Yu Xu

  • Intensification and Expansion of Soil Moisture Drying in Warm Season Over Eurasia Under Global Warming

    Xihui Gu;Xihui Gu;Qiang Zhang;Jianfeng Li;Vijay P. Singh

  • Stationarity of annual flood peaks during 1951–2010 in the Pearl River basin, China

    Qiang Zhang;Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Mingzhong Xiao;Mingzhong Xiao

  • Impact of tropical cyclones on flood risk in southeastern China: Spatial patterns, causes and implications

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Peijun Shi;Vijay P. Singh

  • Flood-induced agricultural loss across China and impacts from climate indices

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Lin Liu

  • More frequent flooding? Changes in flood frequency in the Pearl River basin, China, since 1951 and over the past 1000 years

    Qiang Zhang;Xihui Gu;Vijay P. Singh;Peijun Shi

Frequent Co-Authors

Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University
Vijay P. Singh
Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University
Jianfeng Li
Jianfeng Li Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peijun Shi
Peijun Shi Beijing Normal University
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaohong Chen
Xiaohong Chen Sun Yat-sen University
Yongqin David Chen
Yongqin David Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chong-Yu Xu
Chong-Yu Xu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Thian Yew Gan
Thian Yew Gan University of Alberta

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