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D-Index
51
Citations
8780
World Ranking
4782
National Ranking
500

Yong Liu 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 Yong Liu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 314 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Yong Liu 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 Yong Liu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions in power electronics packaging

Overview

Yong Liu is affiliated with Peking University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their research spans various subfields, including Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, such as:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis

Recent academic publications include:

  • Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Changes in China's river water quality since 1980: management implications from sustainable development, 2023, npj Clean Water
  • Enhanced food system efficiency is the key to China's 2060 carbon neutrality target, 2023, Nature Food
  • Influences of eutrophication on methanogenesis pathways and methanogenic microbial community structures in freshwater lakes, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Buffering effect of suspended particulate matter on phosphorus cycling during transport from rivers to lakes, 2022, Water Research

Yong Liu frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Qingsong Jiang
  • Jincheng Li
  • Yanxin Sun
  • Shouliang Huo
  • Rui Zou

The scientist has published in multiple venues with notable frequency, such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Ocean Engineering
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Yong Liu has contributed to the scholarly community beyond articles, having authored a book published by Frontiers Media titled Big data and artificial intelligence in ophthalmology - clinical application and future exploration in 2023.

Among their recognitions, Yong Liu was named an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions in power electronics packaging.

Best Publications

  • Application of multivariate statistical methods to water quality assessment of the watercourses in Northwestern New Territories, Hong Kong.

    Feng Zhou;Yong Liu;Huaicheng Guo

  • Distribution of sediment bacterial and archaeal communities in plateau freshwater lakes.

    Jingxu Zhang;Yuyin Yang;Lei Zhao;Yuzhao Li

  • Bacterial Heavy-Metal and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in a Copper Tailing Dam Area in Northern China

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  • Internal cycling, not external loading, decides the nutrient limitation in eutrophic lake: A dynamic model with temporal Bayesian hierarchical inference.

    Zhen Wu;Yong Liu;Zhongyao Liang;Sifeng Wu

  • An integrated GIS-based analysis system for land-use management of lake areas in urban fringe

    Yong Liu;Xiaojian Lv;Xiaosheng Qin;Huaicheng Guo

  • Chemometrics data analysis of marine water quality and source identification in Southern Hong Kong.

    Feng Zhou;Huaicheng Guo;Yong Liu;Yumei Jiang

  • Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes

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  • Quantitative evaluation of lake eutrophication responses under alternative water diversion scenarios: a water quality modeling based statistical analysis approach.

    Yong Liu;Yilin Wang;Hu Sheng;Feifei Dong

  • Risk assessment of heavy metals in road and soil dusts within PM2.5, PM10 and PM100 fractions in Dongying city, Shandong Province, China

    Shaofei Kong;Bing Lu;Yaqin Ji;Xueyan Zhao

  • Spatiotemporal variation of planktonic and sediment bacterial assemblages in two plateau freshwater lakes at different trophic status.

    Yu Dai;Yuyin Yang;Zhen Wu;Qiuyuan Feng

  • Analysis of Regional Differences and Influencing Factors on China’s Carbon Emission Efficiency in 2005–2015

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  • Simulate the forecast capacity of a complicated water quality model using the long short-term memory approach

    Zhongyao Liang;Rui Zou;Xing Chen;Tingyu Ren

  • Water quality modeling for load reduction under uncertainty: A Bayesian approach

    Yong Liu;Yong Liu;Pingjian Yang;Cheng Hu;Huaicheng Guo

  • An integrated system dynamics model developed for managing lake water quality at the watershed scale

    Hui Liu;Gaboury Benoit;Tao Liu;Yong Liu

  • A three-dimensional water quality modeling approach for exploring the eutrophication responses to load reduction scenarios in Lake Yilong (China)

    Lei Zhao;Yuzhao Li;Rui Zou;Bin He

  • Exploring the influence of lake water chemistry on chlorophyll a: a multivariate statistical model analysis.

    Yong Liu;Yong Liu;Huaicheng Guo;Pingjian Yang

  • Three-dimensional hydrodynamic and water quality model for TMDL development of Lake Fuxian, China.

    Lei Zhao;Xiaoling Zhang;Yong Liu;Bin He

  • Potential threat of heavy metals in re-suspended dusts on building surfaces in oilfield city

    Shaofei Kong;Bing Lu;Zhipeng Bai;Xueyan Zhao

  • Heavy Metal Contamination of Agricultural Soils in Taiyuan, China

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  • Quinolones antibiotics in the Baiyangdian Lake, China: Occurrence, distribution, predicted no-effect concentrations (PNECs) and ecological risks by three methods.

    Lulu Zhang;Lina Shen;Shan Qin;Jiansheng Cui

  • Analysis of cyanobacteria bloom in the Waihai part of Dianchi Lake, China

    Hu Sheng;Hui Liu;Hui Liu;Cuiyu Wang;Huaicheng Guo

  • Controlling embedded carbon emissions of sectors along the supply chains: A perspective of the power-of-pull approach

    Zhen Wang;Liyuan Wei;Beibei Niu;Beibei Niu;Yong Liu

  • Mixed uncertainty analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon inhalation and risk assessment in ambient air of Beijing

    Yajuan Yu;Huaicheng Guo;Yong Liu;Kai Huang

  • Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: exploring increasing sensitivity to nitrogen loads.

    Yong Liu;Mary Anne Evans;Donald Scavia

  • An optimization method based on scenario analysis for watershed management under uncertainty.

    Yong Liu;Huaicheng Guo;Zhenxing Zhang;Lijing Wang

  • Bacterioplankton communities in a high-altitude freshwater wetland

    Jingxu Zhang;Xiaoling Zhang;Yong Liu;Shuguang Xie

  • Eutrophication influences methanotrophic activity, abundance and community structure in freshwater lakes.

    Yuyin Yang;Jianfei Chen;Tianli Tong;Baoqin Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Huaicheng Guo
Huaicheng Guo Peking University
Shuguang Xie
Shuguang Xie Peking University
Feng Zhou
Feng Zhou Peking University
Qiuhua Liang
Qiuhua Liang Loughborough University
Donald Scavia
Donald Scavia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Xiaosheng Qin
Xiaosheng Qin Nanyang Technological University
Tyler Wagner
Tyler Wagner United States Geological Survey
Yufeng Zheng
Yufeng Zheng Peking University
Yi Wan
Yi Wan Peking University
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana

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