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53
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9675
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2885
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Yongjian Ding 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 Yongjian Ding sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 180 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Yongjian Ding 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 Yongjian Ding sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yongjian Ding is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their scholarly work focuses primarily on topics such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Yongjian Ding has authored and coauthored a number of scientific papers published in diverse academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Increasing cryospheric hazards in a warming climate, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • An overview of climate change impacts on the society in China, 2021, Advances in Climate Change Research

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Yongjian Ding feature prominently in their research endeavors. These coauthors include Donghui Shangguan, Jia Qin, Yaping Chang, Shiqiang Zhang, and Tandong Yao.

The scientist's work is regularly published in respected venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Advances in Climate Change Research
  • Remote Sensing
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hydrology

In addition to journal articles, Yongjian Ding has contributed to book publications, including "Introduction to Cryospheric Science" published by Springer International Publishing in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Recent and Future Climate Change in Northwest China

    Yafeng Shi;Yongping Shen;Ersi Kang;Dongliang Li

  • Changes of climate and seasonally frozen ground over the past 30 years in Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau, China

    Lin Zhao;Chien-Lu Ping;Daqing Yang;Guodong Cheng

  • Temporal and spatial variations of the active layer along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway in a permafrost region

    Ren Li;Lin Zhao;YongJian Ding;TongHua Wu

  • The retreat of glaciers in response to recent climate warming in western China

    Yongjian Ding;Shiyin Liu;Jing Li;Donghui Shangguan

  • Projecting climate change impacts on hydrological processes on the Tibetan Plateau with model calibration against the glacier inventory data and observed streamflow

    Qiudong Zhao;Yongjian Ding;Jian Wang;Hongkai Gao

  • Increasing cryospheric hazards in a warming climate

    Yongjian Ding;Cuicui Mu;Tonghua Wu;Guojie Hu

  • A Bias-Corrected Precipitation Climatology for China

    Baisheng Ye;Daqing Yang;Yongjian Ding;Tianding Han

  • Evaluation of snow cover and snow depth on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau derived from passive microwave remote sensing

    Liyun Dai;Liyun Dai;Tao Che;Yongjian Ding;Xiaohua Hao

  • Global warming weakening the inherent stability of glaciers and permafrost

    Yongjian Ding;Shiqiang Zhang;Lin Zhao;Zhongqin Li

  • Performance evaluation of latest integrated multi-satellite retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) over the northern highlands of Pakistan

    Muhammad Naveed Anjum;Yongjian Ding;Donghui Shangguan;Ijaz Ahmad

  • Inter-Calibrating SMMR, SSM/I and SSMI/S Data to Improve the Consistency of Snow-Depth Products in China

    Liyun Dai;Tao Che;Yongjian Ding

  • Changes of glacial lakes and implications in Tian Shan, central Asia, based on remote sensing data from 1990 to 2010

    Xin Wang;Xin Wang;Yongjian Ding;Shiyin Liu;Lianghong Jiang

  • Observed degree-day factors and their spatial variation on glaciers in western China

    Yong Zhang;Shiyin Liu;Yongjian Ding

  • Permafrost Hydrology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A Review of Processes and Modeling

    Hongkai Gao;Jingjing Wang;Yuzhong Yang;Xicai Pan

  • Glacier retreat as a result of climate warming and increased precipitation in the Tarim river basin, northwest China

    Shiyin Liu;Yongjian Ding;Donghui Shangguan;Yong Zhang

  • Responses of alpine grassland on Qinghai–Tibetan plateau to climate warming and permafrost degradation: a modeling perspective

    Shuhua Yi;Xiaoyun Wang;Yu Qin;Bo Xiang

  • Cryospheric Science: research framework and disciplinary system

    Dahe Qin;Yongjian Ding;Cunde Xiao;Shichang Kang

  • An approach for estimating the breach probabilities of moraine-dammed lakes in the Chinese Himalayas using remote-sensing data

    X. Wang;S. Liu;Y. Ding;W. Guo

  • Contributions of climate and human activities to changes in runoff of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers from 1950 to 2008

    Yan Wang;YongJian Ding;BaiSheng Ye;FengJing Liu

  • Glacier changes during the last forty years in the Tarim Interior River basin, northwest China

    Donghui Shangguan;Shiyin Liu;Yongjian Ding;Lianfu Ding

  • Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen pools in permafrost zones of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Lin Zhao;Xiaodong Wu;Zhiwei Wang;Yu Sheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiyin Liu
Shiyin Liu Yunnan University
Lin Zhao
Lin Zhao Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Dahe Qin
Dahe Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaodong Wu
Xiaodong Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhongbo Yu
Zhongbo Yu Hohai University
Tonghua Wu
Tonghua Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mika Sillanpää
Mika Sillanpää University of Johannesburg
Qingbai Wu
Qingbai Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guojie Hu
Guojie Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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