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Zhongbo Yu

Zhongbo Yu

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
63
Citations
12060
World Ranking
1624
National Ranking
102

Zhongbo Yu 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 Yu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 351 publications — 90th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Zhongbo Yu 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 Yu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to modeling and simulation of advanced semiconductor devices
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Zhongbo Yu is affiliated with Hohai University in China and has an extensive research record primarily in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work encompasses diverse subfields including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, water science and technology, ecology, and environmental engineering.

Yu has contributed significantly to research topics such as hydrology and watershed management studies, cryospheric studies and observations, climate variability and models, climate change and permafrost, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, flood risk assessment and management, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Frequent collaborators in Yu's research include Dayong Zhao, Qin Ju, Jin Zeng, Ningpeng Dong, and Xuegao Chen. These coauthors have collectively contributed to advancing research in related fields through multiple joint publications.

Yu's work has appeared mainly in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Atmospheric Research

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "Disentangling the seasonal co-occurrence patterns and ecological stochasticity of planktonic and benthic bacterial communities within multiple lakes" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Xin'anjiang Nested Experimental Watershed (XAJ-NEW) for Understanding Multiscale Water Cycle: Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design" (2021, Engineering)
  • "A comprehensive assessment framework for quantifying climatic and anthropogenic contributions to streamflow changes: A case study in a typical semi-arid North China basin" (2020, Environmental Modelling & Software)
  • "Analysis of the spatial Distribution of precipitation and topography with GPM data in the Tibetan Plateau" (2020, Atmospheric Research)
  • "Spatial difference analysis of the runoff evolution attribution in the Yellow River Basin" (2022, Journal of Hydrology)

Zhongbo Yu has received recognition as an IEEE Fellow in 2009 for contributions to modeling and simulation of advanced semiconductor devices. Additionally, Yu is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Vegetation Greening and Climate Change Promote Multidecadal Rises of Global Land Evapotranspiration.

    Ke Zhang;John S. Kimball;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Steven W. Running

  • Opportunities and challenges of the Sponge City construction related to urban water issues in China

    Jun Xia;YongYong Zhang;LiHua Xiong;Shan He

  • Geographically weighted regression based methods for merging satellite and gauge precipitation

    Lijun Chao;Ke Zhang;Zhijia Li;Yuelong Zhu

  • Modeling impacts of Yangtze River water transfer on water ages in Lake Taihu, China

    Yiping Li;Yiping Li;Kumud Acharya;Zhongbo Yu

  • Simulating the river-basin response to atmospheric forcing by linking a mesoscale meteorological model and hydrologic model system

    Z Yu;M.N Lakhtakia;B Yarnal;R.A White

  • Trends in evapotranspiration and their responses to climate change and vegetation greening over the upper reaches of the Yellow River Basin

    Shiqin Xu;Zhongbo Yu;Chuanguo Yang;Xibin Ji

  • Division-based rainfall-runoff simulations with BP neural networks and Xinanjiang model

    Qin Ju;Zhongbo Yu;Zhenchun Hao;Gengxin Ou

  • Network analysis reveals seasonal variation of co-occurrence correlations between Cyanobacteria and other bacterioplankton.

    Dayong Zhao;Feng Shen;Jin Zeng;Rui Huang

  • Ground Observation-based Analysis of Soil Moisture Spatiotemporal Variability Across A Humid to Semi-Humid Transitional Zone in China

    Ke Zhang;Qingqing Wang;Lijun Chao;Jinyin Ye

  • Responses of rice yield, irrigation water requirement and water use efficiency to climate change in China: Historical simulation and future projections

    Weiguang Wang;Zhongbo Yu;Zhongbo Yu;Wei Zhang;Quanxi Shao

  • Impacts of climate change under CMIP5 RCP scenarios on streamflow in the Huangnizhuang catchment

    Fen Ouyang;Yonghua Zhu;Guobin Fu;Haishen Lü

  • Patterns and assembly processes of planktonic and sedimentary bacterial community differ along a trophic gradient in freshwater lakes

    Jin Zeng;Congcong Jiao;Congcong Jiao;Dayong Zhao;Huimin Xu;Huimin Xu

  • On continental-scale hydrologic simulations with a coupled hydrologic model

    Zhongbo Yu;Zhongbo Yu;David Pollard;Li Cheng

  • Changes in reference evapotranspiration across the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and future projections based on statistical downscaling

    Weiguang Wang;Wanqiu Xing;Quanxi Shao;Zhongbo Yu;Zhongbo Yu

  • Climate change and water storage variability over an arid endorheic region

    Tao Yang;Tao Yang;Chao Wang;Yaning Chen;Xi Chen

  • Improving the flood prediction capability of the Xinanjiang model in ungauged nested catchments by coupling it with the geomorphologic instantaneous unit hydrograph

    Cheng Yao;Ke Zhang;Ke Zhang;Zhongbo Yu;Zhijia Li

  • Assessing future climate changes and extreme indicators in east and south Asia using the RegCM4 regional climate model

    Huanghe Gu;Huanghe Gu;Guiling Wang;Zhongbo Yu;Rui Mei

  • A priori parameter estimates for a distributed, grid-based Xinanjiang model using geographically based information

    Cheng Yao;Zhijia Li;Zhongbo Yu;Zhongbo Yu;Ke Zhang

  • Effects of rainfall characteristics on infiltration and redistribution patterns in revegetation-stabilized desert ecosystems

    Xin Ping Wang;Xin Ping Wang;Yan Cui;Yan Xia Pan;Xin Rong Li

  • Changes in daily temperature and precipitation extremes in the Yellow River Basin, China

    Weiguang Wang;Quanxi Shao;Tao Yang;Shizhang Peng

  • Results of the DMIP 2 Oklahoma experiments

    Michael B. Smith;Victor Koren;Ziya Zhang;Yu Zhang

  • Statistical downscaling of extreme daily precipitation, evaporation, and temperature and construction of future scenarios

    Tao Yang;Huihui Li;Weiguang Wang;Chong-Yu Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Tao Yang
Tao Yang Hohai University
Kumud Acharya
Kumud Acharya Desert Research Institute
Quanxi Shao
Quanxi Shao Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Qinglong L. Wu
Qinglong L. Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ala Aldahan
Ala Aldahan United Arab Emirates University
Edward A. Sudicky
Edward A. Sudicky University of Waterloo
Harald Kunstmann
Harald Kunstmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ke Zhang
Ke Zhang Hohai University
Yongjian Ding
Yongjian Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Franklin W. Schwartz
Franklin W. Schwartz The Ohio State University

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