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Zhongbo Yu

Zhongbo Yu

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 63 1624 1454 102 97 351 12060

Zhongbo Yu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Zhongbo Yu between 1996 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Zhongbo Yu published across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025, averaging 16.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 40 publications in 2014. 42 of the 490 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 40. Peak 40 publications in 2014. 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 2 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 3 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 1 publication 2006: 3 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 13 publications 2009: 16 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 19 publications 2013: 31 publications 2014: 40 publications 2015: 39 publications 2016: 28 publications 2017: 34 publications 2018: 28 publications 2019: 29 publications 2020: 36 publications 2021: 31 publications 2022: 20 publications 2023: 29 publications 2024: 28 publications 2025: 14 publications
1996 2025

490 publications in total across all disciplines

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Zhongbo Yu: publications per year, 1996 to 2025
Year Publications
1996 1
1997 1
1998 2
1999 5
2000 5
2001 3
2002 1
2003 3
2004 1
2005 1
2006 3
2007 4
2008 13
2009 16
2010 12
2011 13
2012 19
2013 31
2014 40
2015 39
2016 28
2017 34
2018 28
2019 29
2020 36
2021 31
2022 20
2023 29
2024 28
2025 14
Total 490
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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.

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, 348–357 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: 351 publications — 91st percentile

91% 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 87 351
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
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 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.

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, 63 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: 63 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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 63
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
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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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
  • 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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