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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Engineering and Technology 67 1290 1222 27 25 422 18953
Earth Science 71 903 802 29 29 473 21960

Zhongbo Su publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Zhongbo Su between 1990 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Zhongbo Su published across 36 years, from 1990 to 2025, averaging 20.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 79 publications in 2025. 111 of the 722 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1990 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 79. Peak 79 publications in 2025. 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 2 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 7 publications 2001: 12 publications 2002: 10 publications 2003: 18 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 14 publications 2006: 21 publications 2007: 19 publications 2008: 24 publications 2009: 34 publications 2010: 22 publications 2011: 28 publications 2012: 42 publications 2013: 35 publications 2014: 25 publications 2015: 28 publications 2016: 26 publications 2017: 29 publications 2018: 21 publications 2019: 25 publications 2020: 25 publications 2021: 34 publications 2022: 46 publications 2023: 37 publications 2024: 32 publications 2025: 79 publications
1990 2025

722 publications in total across all disciplines

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Zhongbo Su: publications per year, 1990 to 2025
Year Publications
1990 1
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 1
1995 2
1996 3
1997 6
1998 0
1999 7
2000 7
2001 12
2002 10
2003 18
2004 9
2005 14
2006 21
2007 19
2008 24
2009 34
2010 22
2011 28
2012 42
2013 35
2014 25
2015 28
2016 26
2017 29
2018 21
2019 25
2020 25
2021 34
2022 46
2023 37
2024 32
2025 79
Total 722
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Zhongbo Su 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 Zhongbo Su sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 468–477 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 473 publications — 97th percentile

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

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30 473
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Zhongbo Su 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 Zhongbo Su sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 71 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53 71
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Zhongbo Su is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing strongly on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's primary research topics include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent collaborators in Zhongbo Su's work include:

  • Yijian Zeng
  • Yaoming Ma
  • Jun Wen
  • R. van der Velde
  • Lianyu Yu

Zhongbo Su has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhongbo Su and colleagues include:

  • "The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade," 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission," 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "An Integrative Information Aqueduct to Close the Gaps between Satellite Observation of Water Cycle and Local Sustainable Management of Water Resources," 2020, Water
  • "Quantifying the evaporation amounts of 75 high-elevation large dimictic lakes on the Tibetan Plateau," 2020, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • The Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) for estimation of turbulent heat fluxes

    Zhongbo Su

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • S-SEBI: A simple remote sensing algorithm to estimate the surface energy balance

    G.J. Roerink;Zhongbo Su;M. Menenti

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

    Salvatore Manfreda;Matthew F. McCabe;Pauline E. Miller;Richard Lucas

  • An integrated model of soil-canopy spectral radiances, photosynthesis, fluorescence, temperature and energy balance

    C. van der Tol;W. Verhoef;J. Timmermans;A. Verhoef

  • Unified Optical-Thermal Four-Stream Radiative Transfer Theory for Homogeneous Vegetation Canopies

    W. Verhoef;Li Jia;Qing Xiao;Z. Su

  • The Tibetan plateau observatory of plateau scale soil moisture and soil temperature, Tibet - Obs, for quantifying uncertainties in coarse resolution satellite and model products

    Z. Su;J. Wen;L. Dente;R. van der Velde

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • An Evaluation of Two Models for Estimation of the Roughness Height for Heat Transfer between the Land Surface and the Atmosphere

    Zhongbo Su;T. Schmugge;W.P. Kustas;W.J. Massman

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • Assessment of vegetation dynamics and their response to variations in precipitation and temperature in the Tibetan Plateau

    Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Yaoming Ma;Yaoming Ma;Mhd. Suhyb Salama;Zhongbo Su

  • Assessment of climate impact on vegetation dynamics by using remote sensing

    G.J. Roerink;M. Menenti;W. Soepboer;Zhongbo Su

  • Surface energy fluxes with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) at the Iowa 2002 SMACEX site (USA)

    A.N. French;F. Jacob;M.C. Anderson;W.P. Kustas

  • Modeling Evapotranspiration during SMACEX: Comparing Two Approaches for Local- and Regional-Scale Prediction

    H. Su;M.F. McCabe;E.F. Wood;Zhongbo Su

  • Estimation of sensible heat flux using the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) and ATSR measurements

    Li Jia;Li Jia;Zhongbo Su;Bart van den Hurk;Massimo Menenti

  • Assessing relative soil moisture with remote sensing data: theory, experimental validation, and application to drought monitoring over the North China Plain

    Zhongbo Su;Abreham Yacob;Jun Wen;Gerbert Roerink

  • Validation of SMOS soil moisture products over the Maqu and Twente regions.

    Laura Dente;Zhongbo Su;Jun Wen

  • An Assessment of Satellite-Derived Rainfall Products Relative to Ground Observations over East Africa

    M.W. Kimani;Johannes Cornelis Bernardus Hoedjes;Z. Su

  • Evaluation of ECMWF's soil moisture analyses using observations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Zhongbo Su;P. de Rosnay;J. Wen;Lichun Wang

  • Evaluation of the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) applied to ASTER imagery with flux-measurements at the SPARC 2004 site (Barrax, Spain)

    J. van der Kwast;J. van der Kwast;W. Timmermans;A. Gieske;Z. Su

  • On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

    Salvatore Manfreda;Matthew McCabe;Pauline Miller;Richard Lucas

  • Two models for estimation of the roughness height for heat transfer between the land surface and the atmosphere

    Z. Su;T. Schmugge;W.P. Kustas;W.J. Massman

Frequent Co-Authors

Yijian Zeng
Yijian Zeng University of Twente
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Massimo Menenti
Massimo Menenti Delft University of Technology
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
José A. Sobrino
José A. Sobrino University of Valencia
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente
José Martínez-Fernández
José Martínez-Fernández University of Salamanca

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