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Yanjun Shen 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 Yanjun Shen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 175 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Yanjun Shen 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 Yanjun Shen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yanjun Shen is affiliated with Xi'an University of Science and Technology in China and has a significant research presence in the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

Their research topics focus extensively on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture. Other topics addressed in their work include Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Landslides and Related Hazards, and Climate Variability and Models.

Yanjun Shen has published frequently in several academic venues. These include:

  • Agricultural Water Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Frequent collaborators with whom Shen has coauthored papers include Leilei Min, Yucui Zhang, Yongqing Qi, Hongwei Pei, and Shiqin Wang.

Among notable recent papers, Shen contributed to the study titled "Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health", published in 2024 in Nature Communications.

Other significant publications include:

  • "Baichuan 2: Open Large-scale Language Models", 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Future climate change impacts on grain yield and groundwater use under different cropping systems in the North China Plain", 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • "Decadal water storage decrease driven by vegetation changes in the Yellow River Basin", 2020, Science Bulletin
  • "LUCC-Driven Changes in Gross Primary Production and Actual Evapotranspiration in Northern China", 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Best Publications

  • Evaluating urban expansion and land use change in Shijiazhuang, China, by using GIS and remote sensing

    Jieying Xiao;Yanjun Shen;Jingfeng Ge;Ryutaro Tateishi

  • An integrated model for the assessment of global water resources – Part 1: Model description and input meteorological forcing

    N. Hanasaki;S. Kanae;T. Oki;K. Masuda

  • Effects of irrigation on water balance, yield and WUE of winter wheat in the North China Plain

    Hong-Yong Sun;Chang-Ming Liu;Xi-Ying Zhang;Yan-Jun Shen

  • An integrated model for the assessment of global water resources - Part 2: Applications and assessments

    N. Hanasaki;S. Kanae;T. Oki;K. Masuda

  • Drought and flood monitoring for a large karst plateau in Southwest China using extended GRACE data

    Di Long;Di Long;Yanjun Shen;Alexander Sun;Yang Hong;Yang Hong

  • Effect of precipitation change on water balance and WUE of the winter wheat–summer maize rotation in the North China Plain

    Hongyong Sun;Yanjun Shen;Qiang Yu;Gerald N. Flerchinger

  • Evaluation of the FAO AquaCrop model for winter wheat on the North China Plain under deficit irrigation from field experiment to regional yield simulation

    M. Anjum Iqbal;Yanjun Shen;Ruzica Stricevic;Hongwei Pei

  • Projection of future world water resources under SRES scenarios: water withdrawal

    Yanjun Shen;Taikan Oki;Nobuyuki Utsumi;Shinjiro Kanae

  • Development of topsoil grain size index for monitoring desertification in arid land using remote sensing

    J. Xiao;Y. Shen;R. Tateishi;W. Bayaer

  • Estimation of regional irrigation water requirement and water supply risk in the arid region of Northwestern China 1989–2010

    Yanjun Shen;Shuo Li;Shuo Li;Yaning Chen;Yongqing Qi

  • Wastewater irrigation: past, present, and future

    Yucui Zhang;Yanjun Shen

  • Influence of surface roughness and hydrophilicity on bonding strength of concrete-rock interface

    Yanjun Shen;Yongzhi Wang;Yang Yang;Qiang Sun

  • Detection of human-induced evapotranspiration using GRACE satellite observations in the Haihe River basin of China

    Yun Pan;Chong Zhang;Huili Gong;Pat J.-F. Yeh

  • Morphology and genome of a snailfish from the Mariana Trench provide insights into deep-sea adaptation.

    Kun Wang;Kun Wang;Yanjun Shen;Yongzhi Yang;Xiaoni Gan

  • Evolution in sandstone pore structures with freeze-thaw cycling and interpretation of damage mechanisms in saturated porous rocks

    Hailiang Jia;Shun Ding;Fan Zi;Yuanhong Dong

  • Evapotranspiration and its partitioning in an irrigated winter wheat field: A combined isotopic and micrometeorologic approach

    Yucui Zhang;Yanjun Shen;Hongyong Sun;John B. Gates

  • Global perspective on hydrology, water balance, and water resources management in arid basins

    Yanjun Shen;Yaning Chen

  • Agricultural water supply/demand changes under projected future climate change in the arid region of northwestern China

    Ying Guo;Yanjun Shen

  • Analysis of changing pan evaporation in the arid region of Northwest China

    Zhi Li;Yaning Chen;Yanjun Shen;Yongbo Liu

  • Spatial and temporal trends of climate change in Xinjiang, China

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  • Energy/water budgets and productivity of the typical croplands irrigated with groundwater and surface water in the North China Plain

    Yanjun Shen;Yucui Zhang;Bridget R. Scanlon;Huimin Lei

  • A SRES-based gridded global population dataset for 1990–2100

    Magnus Bengtsson;Yanjun Shen;Yanjun Shen;Taikan Oki

Frequent Co-Authors

Yaning Chen
Yaning Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changming Liu
Changming Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changyuan Tang
Changyuan Tang Chiba University
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shinjiro Kanae
Shinjiro Kanae Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naota Hanasaki
Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Alexander Brenning
Alexander Brenning Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Weihong Li
Weihong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiying Zhang
Xiying Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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