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44
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6473
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6844
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686

Yu Zhao 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 Yu Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 136 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yu Zhao 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 Yu Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yu Zhao is a researcher affiliated with Nanjing University in China, contributing extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans a range of topics focusing on air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and environmental health impacts.

Yu Zhao's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their work delves into several subfields, notably:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering

Research topics prominently covered by Yu Zhao include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Yu Zhao has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Pollution

Frequent collaborators include Lei Zhang, Yue Zhao, Mingrui Ma, Xinping Wang, and Bo Zheng. Collaboration counts indicate substantial ongoing partnerships, with up to 16 joint publications with Lei Zhang.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Yu Zhao are:

  • Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Sustained emission reductions have restrained the ozone pollution over China, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Co-benefits of carbon and pollution control policies on air quality and health till 2030 in China, 2021, Environment International
  • Environmental impacts of nitrogen emissions in China and the role of policies in emission reduction, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Performance and application of air quality models on ozone simulation in China - A review, 2022, Atmospheric Environment

Best Publications

  • Quantifying the uncertainties of a bottom-up emission inventory of anthropogenic atmospheric pollutants in China

    Y. Zhao;Y. Zhao;Chris P. Nielsen;Yu Lei;Michael Brendon McElroy

  • Primary air pollutant emissions of coal-fired power plants in China: Current status and future prediction

    Yu Zhao;Shuxiao Wang;Lei Duan;Yu Lei

  • Establishment of a database of emission factors for atmospheric pollutants from Chinese coal-fired power plants

    Yu Zhao;Yu Zhao;Shuxiao Wang;Chris P. Nielsen;Xinghua Li

  • Soil acidification in China: is controlling SO2 emissions enough?

    Yu Zhao;Lei Duan;Jia Xing;Thorjorn Larssen

  • Air pollution and lung cancer risks in China--a meta-analysis

    Yu Zhao;Shuxiao Wang;Kristin Aunan;Hans Martin Seip

  • Modeling biogenic and anthropogenic secondary organic aerosol in China

    Jianlin Hu;Peng Wang;Qi Ying;Qi Ying;Hongliang Zhang

  • The effects of recent control policies on trends in emissions of anthropogenic atmospheric pollutants and CO 2 in China

    Y. Zhao;Junying Zhang;Chris Nielsen

  • Comparison of emissions inventories of anthropogenic air pollutants and greenhouse gases in China

    Eri Saikawa;Hankyul Kim;Min Zhong;Alexander Avramov

  • Seasonal variation of urban carbonaceous aerosols in a typical city Nanjing in Yangtze River Delta, China

    Bing Li;Jie Zhang;Yu Zhao;Siyu Yuan

  • Benefits of China's efforts in gaseous pollutant control indicated by the bottom-up emissions and satellite observations 2000–2014

    Yinmin Xia;Yu Zhao;Yu Zhao;Chris P. Nielsen

  • Recent Changes in Particulate Air Pollution over China Observed from Space and the Ground: Effectiveness of Emission Control

    Jintai Lin;Chris Nielsen;Yu Zhao;Yu Lei

  • China's CO2 emissions estimated from the bottom up: Recent trends, spatial distributions, and quantification of uncertainties

    Yu Zhao;Yu Zhao;Chris Nielsen;Michael Brendon McElroy

  • Development of a high-resolution emission inventory and its evaluation and application through air quality modeling for Jiangsu Province, China

    Yaduan Zhou;Yu Zhao;Yu Zhao;Pan Mao;Qiang Zhang

  • CO emissions in China: Uncertainties and implications of improved energy efficiency and emission control

    Yu Zhao;Yu Zhao;Chris Nielsen;Michael Brendon McElroy;Lin Zhang

  • Co-benefits of carbon and pollution control policies on air quality and health till 2030 in China.

    Jinzhao Yang;Yu Zhao;Jing Cao;Chris P. Nielsen

  • Improved provincial emission inventory and speciation profiles of anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compounds: a case study for Jiangsu, China

    Yu Zhao;Yu Zhao;Pan Mao;Yaduan Zhou;Yang Yang

  • Developmental and metabolic responses of zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos and larvae to short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) exposure.

    Xiaoqian Ren;Haijun Zhang;Ningbo Geng;Liguo Xing

  • A two-year study of carbonaceous aerosols in ambient PM2.5 at a regional background site for western Yangtze River Delta, China

    Dong Chen;Hongfei Cui;Yu Zhao;Yu Zhao;Lina Yin

  • Comparison of particle emissions from an engine operating on biodiesel and petroleum diesel

    Jie Zhang;Jie Zhang;Kebin He;Xiaoyan Shi;Yu Zhao

  • Spatial–temporal patterns of inorganic nitrogen air concentrations and deposition in eastern China

    Wen Xu;Wen Xu;Lei Liu;Miaomiao Cheng;Yuanhong Zhao

  • Advantages of a city-scale emission inventory for urban air quality research and policy: the case of Nanjing, a typical industrial city in the Yangtze River Delta, China

    Y. Zhao;Y. Zhao;L. P. Qiu;R. Y. Xu;F. J. Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris P. Nielsen
Chris P. Nielsen Harvard University
Yuxuan Wang
Yuxuan Wang University of Houston
Jiming Hao
Jiming Hao Tsinghua University
Shuxiao Wang
Shuxiao Wang Tsinghua University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University
Jia Xing
Jia Xing Tsinghua University
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Yuefeng F. Xie
Yuefeng F. Xie Penn State Harrisburg
Thorjørn Larssen
Thorjørn Larssen Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Kari E. J. Lehtinen
Kari E. J. Lehtinen University of Eastern Finland

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