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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Rising Stars 51 295 295 98 98 128 9380
Environmental Sciences 57 3418 3267 365 361 235 13104

Yuting Yang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yuting Yang between 2005 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yuting Yang published across 22 years, from 2005 to 2026, averaging 13.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 74 publications in 2025. 77 of the 305 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2005 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 74. Peak 74 publications in 2025. 2005: 1 publication 2006: 1 publication 2007: 0 publications 2008: 0 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 0 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 21 publications 2016: 12 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 16 publications 2020: 26 publications 2021: 22 publications 2022: 23 publications 2023: 32 publications 2024: 38 publications 2025: 74 publications 2026: 3 publications
2005 2026

305 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yuting Yang: publications per year, 2005 to 2026
Year Publications
2005 1
2006 1
2007 0
2008 0
2009 2
2010 1
2011 0
2012 5
2013 5
2014 7
2015 21
2016 12
2017 7
2018 9
2019 16
2020 26
2021 22
2022 23
2023 32
2024 38
2025 74
2026 3
Total 305
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Yuting Yang 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 Yuting Yang 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, 231–240 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: 235 publications — 74th percentile

74% 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
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220 235
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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Yuting Yang 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 Yuting Yang 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, 57 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: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% 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 57
58 166
59 177
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Yuting Yang is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Plant Science, and Ecology. Their research addresses complex interactions within natural systems affected by climatic and environmental factors.

The scientist's work spans key topics including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate Variability and Models, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, and Climate Change and Permafrost.

Yuting Yang has contributed extensively to these fields through publications in various peer-reviewed venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world" (2021) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation" (2020) in Science Advances
  • "Hydrological cycle and water resources in a changing world: A review" (2021) in Geography and Sustainability
  • "Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth" (2023) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau" (2020) in Science Advances

Yuting Yang often collaborates with various researchers, with frequent co-authors including Dawen Yang, Tim R. McVicar, Shulei Zhang, Juntai Han, and Hong-Gang Ni. These collaborations have contributed to the multidisciplinary nature of their investigations into environmental processes and climate impacts.

Best Publications

  • Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002-2017

    Yongqiang Zhang;Yongqiang Zhang;Dongdong Kong;Rong Gan;Rong Gan;Francis H.S. Chiew

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Quantifying the impacts of climate change and ecological restoration on streamflow changes based on a Budyko hydrological model in China's Loess Plateau

    Wei Liang;Dan Bai;Feiyu Wang;Bojie Fu

  • Drought and flood monitoring for a large karst plateau in Southwest China using extended GRACE data

    Di Long;Di Long;Yanjun Shen;Alexander Sun;Yang Hong;Yang Hong

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • Hydrologic implications of vegetation response to elevated CO2 in climate projections

    Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Michael L. Roderick;Michael L. Roderick;Shulei Zhang;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar

  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

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  • Contrasting responses of water use efficiency to drought across global terrestrial ecosystems

    Yuting Yang;Huade Guan;Okke Batelaan;Tim R. McVicar

  • Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Chris Huntingford;Yue Li

  • Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau

    Taihua Wang;Dawen Yang;Yuting Yang;Shilong Piao

  • Global estimation of effective plant rooting depth: Implications for hydrological modeling

    Yuting Yang;Randall J. Donohue;Randall J. Donohue;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar

  • Deriving scaling factors using a global hydrological model to restore GRACE total water storage changes for China's Yangtze River Basin

    Di Long;Yuting Yang;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Yang Hong;Yang Hong

  • Unraveling the influence of atmospheric evaporative demand on drought and its response to climate change

    Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano;Tim R. McVicar;Diego G. Miralles;Yuting Yang

  • Excessive Afforestation and Soil Drying on China's Loess Plateau

    Shuilei Zhang;Dawen Yang;Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Shilong Piao

  • Analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of net primary production and their climate controls in China from 1982 to 2010

    Wei Liang;Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Dongmei Fan;Huade Guan

  • Remote sensing temporal and spatial patterns of evapotranspiration and the responses to water management in a large irrigation district of North China

    Yuting Yang;Songhao Shang;Lei Jiang

  • Changes in autumn vegetation dormancy onset date and the climate controls across temperate ecosystems in China from 1982 to 2010

    Yuting Yang;Huade Guan;Miaogen Shen;Miaogen Shen;Wei Liang

  • Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Tao Wang

  • Use of satellite leaf area index estimating evapotranspiration and gross assimilation for Australian ecosystems

    Rong Gan;Rong Gan;Yongqiang Zhang;Hao Shi;Yuting Yang

  • GRACE satellite observed hydrological controls on interannual and seasonal variability in surface greenness over mainland Australia

    Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Di Long;Di Long;Huade Guan;Bridget R. Scanlon

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Michael L. Roderick
Michael L. Roderick Australian National University
Dawen Yang
Dawen Yang Tsinghua University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Huade Guan
Huade Guan Flinders University
Di Long
Di Long Tsinghua University
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hylke E. Beck
Hylke E. Beck King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Bojie Fu
Bojie Fu Peking University
Lei Jiang
Lei Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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