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Yongguang Zhang

Yongguang Zhang

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 59 3089 2955 1198 1112 175 13189

Yongguang Zhang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yongguang Zhang between 2007 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yongguang Zhang published across 19 years, from 2007 to 2025, averaging 13.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 32 publications in 2025. 62 of the 255 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2007 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 32. Peak 32 publications in 2025. 2007: 2 publications 2008: 1 publication 2009: 1 publication 2010: 2 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 4 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 23 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 21 publications 2020: 23 publications 2021: 25 publications 2022: 24 publications 2023: 22 publications 2024: 30 publications 2025: 32 publications
2007 2025

255 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yongguang Zhang: publications per year, 2007 to 2025
Year Publications
2007 2
2008 1
2009 1
2010 2
2011 1
2012 4
2013 7
2014 7
2015 9
2016 23
2017 6
2018 15
2019 21
2020 23
2021 25
2022 24
2023 22
2024 30
2025 32
Total 255
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Yongguang 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 Yongguang 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, 171–180 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: 175 publications — 54th percentile

54% 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
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444 175
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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Yongguang 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 Yongguang 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, 59 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: 59 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% 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
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177 59
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

Yongguang Zhang is affiliated with United Way in the United States, contributing extensively to research in Environmental Science with a focus on global environmental and ecological dynamics. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work engages with several main topics related to environmental processes and remote sensing applications:

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

Yongguang Zhang has authored and co-authored multiple research papers in well-regarded scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis (2020) in Science
  • Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Tracking the seasonal and inter-annual variations of global gross primary production during last four decades using satellite near-infrared reflectance data (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine (2021) in Remote Sensing
  • Satellite-based survey of extreme methane emissions in the Permian basin (2021) in Science Advances

Their frequent co-authors highlight collaboration across a network of researchers, including Weimin Ju, Zhaoying Zhang, Jing M. Chen, and Yunfei Wu.

The primary venues for Yongguang Zhang's publications illustrate a strong emphasis on remote sensing and environmental monitoring, with repeat contributions to:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • National Remote Sensing Bulletin
  • Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence

    Luis Guanter;Yongguang Zhang;Martin Jung;Joanna Joiner

  • Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

    Guillermo E. Ponce Campos;M. Susan Moran;Alfredo Huete;Yongguang Zhang

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • Integrating satellite and climate data to predict wheat yield in Australia using machine learning approaches

    Yaping Cai;Kaiyu Guan;David Lobell;Andries B. Potgieter

  • The seasonal cycle of satellite chlorophyll fluorescence observations and its relationship to vegetation phenology and ecosystem atmosphere carbon exchange

    J. Joiner;Y. Yoshida;Ap. Vasilkov;K. Schaefer

  • Estimation of vegetation photosynthetic capacity from space-based measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence for terrestrial biosphere models

    Yongguang Zhang;Luis Guanter;Joseph A. Berry;Joanna Joiner

  • Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence

    Kaiyu Guan;Joseph A. Berry;Yongguang Zhang;Joanna Joiner

  • Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops

    Benjamin Dechant;Youngryel Ryu;Grayson Badgley;Yelu Zeng

  • Satellite chlorophyll fluorescence measurements reveal large‐scale decoupling of photosynthesis and greenness dynamics in boreal evergreen forests

    Sophia Walther;Maximilian Voigt;Tea Thum;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Progress and Trends in the Application of Google Earth and Google Earth Engine

    Qiang Zhao;Le Yu;Xuecao Li;Dailiang Peng

  • Tracking the seasonal and inter-annual variations of global gross primary production during last four decades using satellite near-infrared reflectance data

    Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Bo Qiu

  • Model-based analysis of the relationship between sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production for remote sensing applications

    Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Luis Guanter;Joseph A. Berry;Christiaan van der Tol

  • 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

  • Satellite-based survey of extreme methane emissions in the Permian basin

    Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate;Luis Guanter;Yin-Nian Liu;Daniel J. Varon

  • Characteristics and factors controlling the development of ephemeral gullies in cultivated catchments of black soil region, Northeast China

    Yongguang Zhang;Yongqiu Wu;Baoyuan Liu;Qiuhong Zheng

  • Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains

    Lian Song;Lian Song;Luis Guanter;Kaiyu Guan;Liangzhi You;Liangzhi You

  • Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science.

    Albert Porcar-Castell;Zbyněk Malenovský;Troy Magney;Shari Van Wittenberghe;Shari Van Wittenberghe

  • Estimating crop primary productivity with Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 using machine learning methods trained with radiative transfer simulations

    Aleksandra Wolanin;Gustau Camps-Valls;Luis Gómez-Chova;Gonzalo Mateo-García

  • Chlorophyll fluorescence tracks seasonal variations of photosynthesis from leaf to canopy in a temperate forest

    Hualei Yang;Hualei Yang;Xi Yang;Xi Yang;Yongguang Zhang;Mary A. Heskel

  • NIRvP: a robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales

    Benjamin Dechant;Youngryel Ryu;Grayson Badgley;Philipp Köhler

  • Projected rainfall erosivity changes under climate change from multimodel and multiscenario projections in Northeast China

    Y.-G. Zhang;Y.-G. Zhang;M.A. Nearing;X.-C. Zhang;Y. Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Wen-Jun Li
Wen-Jun Li Sun Yat-sen University
Weimin Ju
Weimin Ju Nanjing University
Luis Guanter
Luis Guanter Universitat Politècnica de València
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
Joanna Joiner
Joanna Joiner Goddard Space Flight Center
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma

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