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D-Index
44
Citations
9101
World Ranking
6663
National Ranking
670

Xuemei Shao 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 Xuemei Shao sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Xuemei Shao 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 Xuemei Shao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xuemei Shao is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of research encompass areas such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Education
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Water Science and Technology

Research topics frequently addressed by Shao include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Recent notable publications by Xuemei Shao are:

  • "An efficient scheduling approach for an iron-steel plant equipped with self-generation equipment under time-of-use electricity tariffs," 2020, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
  • "Hydrological Extremes in the Upper Yangtze River Over the Past 700 yr Inferred From a Tree Ring δ18O Record," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "A reconstruction of June-July temperature since AD 1383 for Western Sichuan Plateau, China using tree-ring width," 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • "Ensemble standardization constraints on the influence of the tree growth trends in dendroclimatology," 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • "Impacts of Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Volcanic Forcing on the Late Summer Temperature of the Southern Tibetan Plateau," 2023, Journal of Climate

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Shao are:

  • Mingqi Li
  • Guofu Deng
  • Yong Zhang
  • Zhi-Yong Yin
  • Changyuan NIE

Publication venues commonly featuring Shao's work include:

  • GCdataPR
  • Climatic Change
  • Forests
  • Ecological Indicators
  • PubMed

Best Publications

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Information from paleoclimate archives

    Valerie Masson-Delmotte;Michael Schulz;A Abe-Ouchi;J Beer

  • Reconstruction of precipitation variation from tree rings in recent 1000 years in Delingha, Qinghai

    Xuemei Shao;Lei Huang;Hongbin Liu;Eryuan Liang

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Temporal trends and variability of daily maximum and minimum, extreme temperature events, and growing season length over the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau during 1961-2003

    Xiaodong Liu;Zhi-Yong Yin;Xuemei Shao;Ningsheng Qin

  • Climatic implications of a 3585-year tree-ring width chronology from the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    X. Shao;Y. Xu;Z.-Y. Yin;E. Liang

  • The 1920S Drought Recorded by Tree Rings and Historical Documents in the Semi-Arid and Arid Areas of Northern China

    Eryuan Liang;Xiaohong Liu;Yujiang Yuan;Ningsheng Qin

  • Tree-ring based summer temperature reconstruction for the source region of the Yangtze River on the Tibetan Plateau

    Eryuan Liang;Xuemei Shao;Ningsheng Qin

  • Temperature changes over the past 2000 yr in China and comparison with the Northern Hemisphere

    Q. Ge;Z. Hao;J. Zheng;X. Shao

  • Temperature variations recovered from tree-rings in the middle Qilian Mountain over the last millennium

    Xiaohong Liu;Dahe Qin;Xuemei Shao;Tuo Chen

  • Growth variation in Abies georgei var. smithii along altitudinal gradients in the Sygera Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Eryuan Liang;Yafeng Wang;Yan Xu;Bo Liu

  • Topography- and species-dependent growth responses of Sabina przewalskii and Picea crassifolia to climate on the northeast Tibetan Plateau

    Eryuan Liang;Xuemei Shao;Dieter Eckstein;Lei Huang

  • Temperature variation through 2000 years in China: An uncertainty analysis of reconstruction and regional difference

    Q.-S. Ge;J.-Y. Zheng;Z.-X. Hao;X.-M. Shao

  • Millennial temperature reconstruction based on tree-ring widths of Qilian juniper from Wulan, Qinghai Province, China

    HaiFeng Zhu;YongHong Zheng;XueMei Shao;XiaoHong Liu

  • August temperature variability in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since AD 1385 inferred from tree rings

    Hai-Feng Zhu;Xue-Mei Shao;Zhi-Yong Yin;Peng Xu

  • The extreme drought in the 1920s and its effect on tree growth deduced from tree ring analysis: a case study in North China

    Eryuan Liang;Xuemei Shao;Zhaochen Kong;Jinxing Lin

  • Tree ring-based February–April temperature reconstruction for Changbai Mountain in Northeast China and its implication for East Asian winter monsoon

    H. F. Zhu;H. F. Zhu;X. Q. Fang;X. M. Shao;Z. Y. Yin

  • Twentieth-Century Droughts and Their Impacts on Terrestrial Carbon Cycling in China

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Eryuan Liang;Xuemei Shao

  • Tree-ring based PDSI reconstruction since AD 1842 in the ortindag sand land, east inner mongolia

    ErYuan Liang;XueMei Shao;HongYan Liu;Dieter Eckstein

  • Dendroclimatic evaluation of climate-growth relationships of Meyer spruce (Picea meyeri ) on a sandy substrate in semi-arid grassland, north China

    Eryuan Liang;Xuemei Shao;Yuxi Hu;Jinxing Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Eryuan Liang
Eryuan Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dahe Qin
Dahe Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jinxing Lin
Jinxing Lin University of Minnesota
Jiawen Ren
Jiawen Ren Chinese Academy of Sciences
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Takeshi Nakatsuka Nagoya University
Peng Xu
Peng Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Quansheng Ge
Quansheng Ge Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven W. Leavitt
Steven W. Leavitt University of Arizona
Shugui Hou
Shugui Hou Nanjing University
Jens Zinke
Jens Zinke University of Leicester

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