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D-Index
75
Citations
31022
World Ranking
1025
National Ranking
20

Xuhui Wang 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 Xuhui Wang sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 201 publications — 74th percentile

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

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

Xuhui Wang 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 Xuhui Wang sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 75 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xuhui Wang is affiliated with Peking University in China and focuses on research within Environmental Science. Their publications predominantly address topics related to changes in global and planetary systems, plant science, atmospheric science, water science, and ecology.

Their research spans several main fields and subfields, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Wang's work covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

The scientist has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers published in recognized scientific journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Estimation of China's terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink: Methods, progress and prospects, 2022, Science China Earth Sciences
  • Deceleration of China's human water use and its key drivers, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Shilong Piao
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Christoph Müller
  • Anping Chen
  • Shushi Peng

Wang's articles have appeared multiple times in several publication venues such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • National Science Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Food

Best Publications

  • Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

    Chuang Zhao;Bing Liu;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang

  • China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

    Chi Chen;Taejin Park;Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang;Taejin Park;Taejin Park;Chi Chen

  • Changes in satellite-derived vegetation growth trend in temperate and boreal Eurasia from 1982 to 2006

    Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang;Philippe Ciais;Biao Zhu

  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends.

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Stephen Sitch;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Spring temperature change and its implication in the change of vegetation growth in North America from 1982 to 2006

    Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Junsheng Li

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

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

  • Altitude and temperature dependence of change in the spring vegetation green-up date from 1982 to 2006 in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau

    Shilong Piao;Mengdi Cui;Anping Chen;Xuhui Wang

  • Estimation of China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink: Methods, progress and prospects

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  • Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models

    Bernhard Schauberger;Sotirios Archontoulis;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovic

  • Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

    Yue Li;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Anping Chen

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang;Kai Wang;Xiangyi Li

  • A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations

    Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Changes in satellite‐derived spring vegetation green‐up date and its linkage to climate in China from 1982 to 2010: a multimethod analysis

    Nan Cong;Tao Wang;Huijuan Nan;Yuecun Ma

  • Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change

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  • Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Chris Huntingford;Yue Li

  • Spring vegetation green-up date in China inferred from SPOT NDVI data: A multiple model analysis

    Nan Cong;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Xuhui Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Tao Wang
Tao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Anping Chen
Anping Chen Colorado State University
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Zhenzhong Zeng
Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology

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