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Yutao Wang

Yutao Wang

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
11238
World Ranking
2665
National Ranking
266

Overview

Yutao Wang is affiliated with Fudan University in China and specializes in environmental science and engineering. Their research work spans multiple subfields including environmental engineering, global and planetary change, electrical and electronic engineering, environmental chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research covers key topics such as environmental impact and sustainability, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, energy-environment-economic growth, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, and biofuel production and bioconversion.

Yutao Wang has contributed to a range of recent scientific publications, including:

  • "Water-Energy-Carbon Emissions nexus analysis of China: An environmental input-output model-based approach" (2020, Applied Energy)
  • "Biochar boosts dark fermentative H2 production from sugarcane bagasse by selective enrichment/colonization of functional bacteria and enhancing extracellular electron transfer" (2021, Water Research)
  • "Shifting from fossil-based economy to bio-based economy: Status quo, challenges, and prospects" (2021, Energy)
  • "Sustainability evaluation based on the Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint and Human Development Index: A case study on the four island regions in China" (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • "Environmental-social-economic footprints of consumption and trade in the Asia-Pacific region" (2020, Nature Communications)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yutao Wang include Mingxing Sun, Bin Chen, Huajun Yu, Wei Xie, and Jiří Jaromír Klemeš.

The researcher has a consistent publication record in notable venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Cities: the core of climate change mitigation

    Zhifu Mi;Dabo Guan;Zhu Liu;Zhu Liu;Zhu Liu;Jingru Liu

  • Pattern changes in determinants of Chinese emissions

    Zhifu Mi;Jing Meng;Dabo Guan;Dabo Guan;Yuli Shan

  • Public awareness and willingness to pay for tackling smog pollution in China: a case study

    Yutao Wang;Yutao Wang;Mingxing Sun;Mingxing Sun;Xuechun Yang;Xueliang Yuan

  • Public perceptions of and willingness to pay for sponge city initiatives in China

    Yutao Wang;Mingxing Sun;Baimin Song

  • Implications of China's foreign waste ban on the global circular economy

    Shen Qu;Yuhua Guo;Zijie Ma;Wei Qiang Chen

  • How would big data support societal development and environmental sustainability? Insights and practices

    Malin Song;Ling Cen;Zhixia Zheng;Ron Fisher

  • Implementing stricter environmental regulation to enhance eco-efficiency and sustainability: a case study of Shandong Province’s pulp and paper industry, China

    Yutao Wang;Yutao Wang;Jian Liu;Lars Hansson;Lars Hansson;Kai Zhang

  • Uncovering energy use, carbon emissions and environmental burdens of pulp and paper industry: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Mingxing Sun;Mingxing Sun;Mingxing Sun;Yutao Wang;Lei Shi;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

  • Air pollution terrain nexus: A review considering energy generation and consumption

    Xue-Chao Wang;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš;Xiaobin Dong;Weiguo Fan

  • Water-Energy-Carbon Emissions nexus analysis of China: An environmental input-output model-based approach

    Xue-Chao Wang;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš;Yutao Wang;Xiaobin Dong

  • Biochar boosts dark fermentative H2 production from sugarcane bagasse by selective enrichment/colonization of functional bacteria and enhancing extracellular electron transfer

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  • Genomic Reconstruction of the History of Native Sheep Reveals the Peopling Patterns of Nomads and the Expansion of Early Pastoralism in East Asia

    Yong-Xin Zhao;Ji Yang;Feng-Hua Lv;Xiao-Ju Hu

  • Levels and sources of brominated flame retardants in human hair from urban, e-waste, and rural areas in South China

    Jing Zheng;Xiao-Jun Luo;Jian-Gang Yuan;Jing Wang

  • Study of the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and the economic growth of Russia based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve

    Xuechun Yang;Feng Lou;Mingxing Sun;Renqing Wang

  • Shifting from fossil-based economy to bio-based economy: Status quo, challenges, and prospects

    Lan Yang;Xue-Chao Wang;Min Dai;Bin Chen

  • The eco-efficiency of pulp and paper industry in China: an assessment based on slacks-based measure and Malmquist–Luenberger index

    Chang Yu;Lei Shi;Yutao Wang;Yuan Chang

  • Remarkable effects of microbial factors on soil phosphorus bioavailability: A country‐scale study

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  • Sustainability evaluation based on the Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint and Human Development Index: A case study on the four island regions in China.

    Xinyi Long;Huajun Yu;Mingxing Sun;Xue-Chao Wang

  • Extended water-energy nexus contribution to environmentally-related sustainable development goals

    Xue-Chao Wang;Peng Jiang;Peng Jiang;Lan Yang;Yee Van Fan

  • Environmental-social-economic footprints of consumption and trade in the Asia-Pacific region

    Lan Yang;Yutao Wang;Ranran Wang;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

  • Moving towards an ecologically sound society? Starting from green universities and environmental higher education

    Yutao Wang;Han Shi;Mingxing Sun;Donald Huisingh

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in two mangroves in South China

    Yutao Wang;Qiu Qiu;Zhongyi Yang;Zhijian Hu

  • Bioleaching of zinc and manganese from spent Zn-Mn batteries and mechanism exploration.

    Baoping Xin;Wenfeng Jiang;Hina Aslam;Kai Zhang

  • Exploring the environmental pressures in urban sectors: An energy-water-carbon nexus perspective

    Xuechun Yang;Yutao Wang;Mingxing Sun;Renqing Wang

  • The “APEC blue” endeavor: Causal effects of air pollution regulation on air quality in China

    Xiao Li;Yuanbo Qiao;Junming Zhu;Lei Shi

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald Huisingh
Donald Huisingh University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš Brno University of Technology
Lars Olof Björn
Lars Olof Björn Lund University
Petar Sabev Varbanov
Petar Sabev Varbanov Brno University of Technology
Jian Zuo
Jian Zuo University of Adelaide
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Liang Dong
Liang Dong City University of Hong Kong
Zhifu Mi
Zhifu Mi University College London
Jianmin Chen
Jianmin Chen Fudan University
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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