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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

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93
Citations
38357
World Ranking
388
National Ranking
5

Zhiyun Ouyang publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhiyun Ouyang sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 407 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Zhiyun Ouyang D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhiyun Ouyang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award

Overview

Zhiyun Ouyang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research contributions encompass a significant body of work focused on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Environmental Engineering.

The scope of their research covers a range of main topics including Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Urban Green Space and Health, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Ouyang's recent papers illustrate their active engagement in addressing ecological issues with practical implications. Notable papers include:

  • Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The balance between economic development and ecosystem service value in the process of land urbanization: A case study of China's land urbanization from 2000 to 2015, 2021, Land Use Policy
  • The IPBES Global Assessment: Pathways to Action, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Time and space catch up with restoration programs that ignore ecosystem service trade-offs, 2021, Science Advances
  • Beyond city expansion: multi-scale environmental impacts of urban megaregion formation in China, 2021, National Science Review

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Key co-authors include Hua Zheng, Lingqiao Kong, Tong Wu, Xiaoke Wang, and Weihua Xu.

Ouyang's work has been published extensively in several prominent academic journals. The most frequent venues for their publications are Global Ecology and Conservation, Environmental Research Letters, Ecological Indicators, Forests, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

  • Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

    Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Marina Alberti

  • Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective.

    Gregory N. Bratman;Christopher B. Anderson;Marc G. Berman;Bobby Cochran

  • Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

    Zhiyun Ouyang;Hua Zheng;Yi Xiao;Stephen Polasky

  • Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

    Jianguo Liu;Shuxin Li;Zhiyun Ouyang;Christine Tam

  • Coupled Human and Natural Systems

    Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Carl Folke

  • Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

    Anne D. Guerry;Anne D. Guerry;Stephen Polasky;Jane Lubchenco;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer

  • Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

  • Impacts of sewage irrigation on heavy metal distribution and contamination in Beijing, China

    Wen-hua Liu;Jing-zhu Zhao;Zhi-yun Ouyang;Leif Söderlund

  • Ecological degradation in protected areas : The case of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas

    Jianguo Liu;Marc Linderman;Zhiyun Ouyang;Li An

  • Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China

    Weihua Xu;Yi Xiao;Jingjing Zhang;Wu Yang

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban soils of Beijing: status, sources, distribution and potential risk.

    Chi Peng;Weiping Chen;Xiaolan Liao;Meie Wang

  • Soil carbon sequestrations by nitrogen fertilizer application, straw return and no-tillage in China's cropland

    Fei Lu;Xiaoke Wang;Bing Han;Zhiyun Ouyang

  • Spatial pattern of greenspace affects land surface temperature: evidence from the heavily urbanized Beijing metropolitan area, China

    Xiaoma Li;Weiqi Zhou;Zhiyun Ouyang;Weihua Xu

  • Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making.

    Zhiyun Ouyang;Changsu Song;Hua Zheng;Stephen Polasky

  • Relationship between land surface temperature and spatial pattern of greenspace: What are the effects of spatial resolution?

    Xiaoma Li;Weiqi Zhou;Zhiyun Ouyang

  • Forty years of urban expansion in Beijing: What is the relative importance of physical, socioeconomic, and neighborhood factors?

    Xiaoma Li;Weiqi Zhou;Zhiyun Ouyang

  • Protecting China's Biodiversity

    Jianguo Liu;Zhiyun Ouyang;Stuart L. Pimm;Peter H. Raven

  • Spatial characteristics between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a human-dominated watershed

    Yang Bai;Changwei Zhuang;Zhiyun Ouyang;Hua Zheng

  • A primary study on Chinese terrestrial ecosystem services and their ecological-economic values

    Zhiyun Ouyang;Xiaoke Wang;Hong Miao

  • Spatial pattern of impervious surfaces and their impacts on land surface temperature in Beijing, China.

    Rong-bo Xiao;Zhi-yun Ouyang;Hua Zheng;Wei-feng Li

  • Culturable Airborne Bacteria in Outdoor Environments in Beijing, China

    Zhiguo Fang;Zhiyun Ouyang;Hua Zheng;Xiaoke Wang

  • A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Human Factors on Wildlife Habitat: the Case of Giant Pandas

    Jianguo Liu;Zhiyun Ouyang;William W. Taylor;Richard Groop

Frequent Co-Authors

Hua Zheng
Hua Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoke Wang
Xiaoke Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianguo Liu
Jianguo Liu Michigan State University
Weihua Xu
Weihua Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andrés Viña
Andrés Viña Michigan State University
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Weiqi Zhou
Weiqi Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Mary Ruckelshaus
Mary Ruckelshaus Stanford University

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