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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 53 4214 4035 448 444 100 11642

Yao Zhang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yao Zhang between 2008 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yao Zhang published across 19 years, from 2008 to 2026, averaging 17.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 62 publications in 2023. 62 of the 326 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2008 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 62. Peak 62 publications in 2023. 2008: 2 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 0 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 21 publications 2019: 14 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 39 publications 2023: 62 publications 2024: 60 publications 2025: 60 publications 2026: 2 publications
2008 2026

326 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yao Zhang: publications per year, 2008 to 2026
Year Publications
2008 2
2009 2
2010 2
2011 1
2012 0
2013 4
2014 3
2015 5
2016 9
2017 11
2018 21
2019 14
2020 15
2021 14
2022 39
2023 62
2024 60
2025 60
2026 2
Total 326
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Yao Zhang 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 Yao Zhang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 91–100 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 100 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440 100
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Yao Zhang 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 Yao Zhang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 53 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217 53
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Yao Zhang is affiliated with Peking University in China and has an extensive publication record in the field of Environmental Science. Their research primarily addresses topics within Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

Their work emphasizes several thematic areas, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Yao Zhang has published numerous papers in reputable journals. Recent papers include:

  • Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, 2023, Science Advances
  • Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness, 2020, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yao Zhang include:

  • Sha Zhou
  • Trevor F. Keenan
  • Xiangming Xiao
  • Shilong Piao
  • Pierre Gentine

The most common venues for Yao Zhang's publications are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Yao Zhang has also contributed to book publications, including a 2024 work published by Frontiers Media titled Developing Strategies to Improve Diabetes Management in College-Going Young Adults.

Best Publications

  • The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Huai Chen;Qiuan Zhu;Changhui Peng;Ning Wu;Ning Wu

  • Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity.

    Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;A. Park Williams;Alexis M. Berg;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • A global moderate resolution dataset of gross primary production of vegetation for 2000–2016

    Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Xiaocui Wu;Sha Zhou

  • A global spatially contiguous solar-induced fluorescence (CSIF) dataset using neural networks

    Yao Zhang;Joanna Joiner;Seyed Hamed Alemohammad;Sha Zhou

  • Large increase in global storm runoff extremes driven by climate and anthropogenic changes.

    Jiabo Yin;Jiabo Yin;Pierre Gentine;Sha Zhou;Sylvia C. Sullivan

  • Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events.

    Sha Zhou;Yao Zhang;A. Park Williams;Pierre Gentine

  • Multiple afforestation programs accelerate the greenness in the 'Three North' region of China from 1982 to 2013

    Yao Zhang;Yao Zhang;Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng;Weizhong Li;Liuxi Tian;Liuxi Tian

  • Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Yuanwei Qin;Xiangming Xiao;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais

  • Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

    Sha Zhou;A. Park Williams;Benjamin R. Lintner;Alexis M. Berg

  • Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review

    Pierre Gentine;Julia K Green;Marceau Guérin;Vincent Humphrey

  • Divergent shifts in peak photosynthesis timing of temperate and alpine grasslands in China

    Jilin Yang;Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao;Junhu Dai

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration based on the concept of underlying water use efficiency

    Sha Zhou;Bofu Yu;Yao Zhang;Yuefei Huang

  • Physics‐constrained machine learning of evapotranspiration

    Wen Li Zhao;Wen Li Zhao;Pierre Gentine;Markus Reichstein;Yao Zhang

  • Consistency Between Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Gross Primary Production of Vegetation in North America

    Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Cui Jin;Jinwei Dong

  • Estimation of Terrestrial Global Gross Primary Production (GPP) with Satellite Data-Driven Models and Eddy Covariance Flux Data

    Joanna Joiner;Yasuko Yoshida;Yao Zhang;Gregory Duveiller

  • Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness.

    J. K. Green;J. Berry;Philippe Ciais;Y. Zhang;Y. Zhang

  • Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot

    Yao Zhang;Yao Zhang;Yao Zhang;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Sha Zhou

  • Large increases of paddy rice area, gross primary production, and grain production in Northeast China during 2000-2017.

    Fengfei Xin;Xiangming Xiao;Jinwei Dong;Geli Zhang

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of paddy rice croplands in China and India from 2000 to 2015.

    Geli Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Chandrashekhar M. Biradar;Jinwei Dong

  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites.

    Jacob A. Nelson;Oscar Pérez-Priego;Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;Rafael Poyatos

  • The carbon stock of alpine peatlands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene and their future fate

    Huai Chen;Huai Chen;Gang Yang;Gang Yang;Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng;Yao Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma
Sha Zhou
Sha Zhou Columbia University
Yuanwei Qin
Yuanwei Qin University of Oklahoma
Jinwei Dong
Jinwei Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Huai Chen
Huai Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuefei Huang
Yuefei Huang Tsinghua University
Qiuan Zhu
Qiuan Zhu Hohai University

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