Bailing Li

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Bailing Li is a scholar working on Oceanography, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Bailing Li has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Oceanography, 11 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Bailing Li's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (19 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (9 papers) and Climate variability and models (9 papers). Bailing Li is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (19 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (9 papers) and Climate variability and models (9 papers). Bailing Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Italy. Bailing Li's co-authors include Matthew Rodell, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Rolf H. Reichle, Rasmus Houborg, Sujay V. Kumar, David M. Mocko, Tian‐Chyi Jim Yeh, C. D. Peters‐Lidard, H. K. Beaudoing and Randal D. Koster and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Climate and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Bailing Li

29 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO

2023 170 citations Matthew Rodell, Bailing Li Nature Water profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bailing Li United States	17	806	740	519	498	288	30	1.7k
Wenting Yang China	7	530 0.7×	438 0.6×	438 0.8×	340 0.7×	258 0.9×	10	1.3k
Maike Schumacher Germany	18	1.0k 1.3×	582 0.8×	452 0.9×	231 0.5×	173 0.6×	49	1.6k
Eugene Yan United States	20	447 0.6×	435 0.6×	460 0.9×	383 0.8×	146 0.5×	46	1.4k
A. Milewski United States	24	462 0.6×	691 0.9×	549 1.1×	631 1.3×	363 1.3×	61	1.7k
Mehdi Khaki Australia	20	540 0.7×	500 0.7×	344 0.7×	232 0.5×	204 0.7×	44	1.1k
Zhiyong Huang China	14	628 0.8×	301 0.4×	275 0.5×	212 0.4×	109 0.4×	23	1.1k
Natthachet Tangdamrongsub United States	19	550 0.7×	299 0.4×	246 0.5×	240 0.5×	150 0.5×	51	911
Zhangli Sun China	9	516 0.6×	681 0.9×	326 0.6×	226 0.5×	339 1.2×	25	1.3k
A Geruo United States	12	838 1.0×	678 0.9×	270 0.5×	106 0.2×	398 1.4×	17	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bailing Li

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Springer, Anne, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Matthew Rodell, et al.. (2025). A Review of Current Best Practices and Future Directions in Assimilating GRACE/-FO Terrestrial Water Storage Data into Numerical Models. VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet).

Li, Bailing, Matthew Rodell, & Himanshu Save. (2025). Terrestrial water storage in 2024. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(4). 261–263. 1 indexed citations

Li, Bailing & Matthew Rodell. (2024). Terrestrial water storage in 2023. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(4). 247–249. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Yong, et al.. (2023). Correlating Groundwater Storage Change and Precipitation in Alabama, United States from 2000–2021 by Combining the Water Table Fluctuation Method and Statistical Analyses. Sustainability. 15(21). 15324–15324. 6 indexed citations

Li, Bailing & Matthew Rodell. (2023). How Have Hydrological Extremes Changed over the Past 20 Years?. Journal of Climate. 36(24). 8581–8599. 14 indexed citations

Rodell, Matthew & Bailing Li. (2023). Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO. Nature Water. 1(3). 241–248. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Bailing, Matthew Rodell, C. D. Peters‐Lidard, et al.. (2020). Groundwater Recharge Estimated by Land Surface Models: An Evaluation in the Conterminous United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 22(2). 499–522. 15 indexed citations

Li, Bailing, Matthew Rodell, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, & Edwin H. Sutanudjaja. (2019). Long-term, non-anthropogenic groundwater storage changes simulated by three global-scale hydrological models. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10746–10746. 75 indexed citations

Nie, Wanshu, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Matthew Rodell, et al.. (2019). Assimilating GRACE Into a Land Surface Model in the Presence of an Irrigation‐Induced Groundwater Trend. Water Resources Research. 55(12). 11274–11294. 57 indexed citations

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Arsenault, Kristi R., Sujay V. Kumar, Shugong Wang, et al.. (2018). The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT v7.2) – a data fusion environment for land data assimilation systems. Geoscientific model development. 11(9). 3605–3621. 45 indexed citations

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Li, Bailing, Matthew Rodell, Justin Sheffield, & Eric F. Wood. (2017). Long term, non-anthropogenic groundwater storage changes simulated by a global land surface model. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Arsenault, Kristi R., Sujay V. Kumar, Shugong Wang, et al.. (2017). The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT). Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Bhanja, Soumendra N., Matthew Rodell, Bailing Li, Dipankar Saha, & Abhijit Mukherjee. (2016). Spatio-temporal variability of groundwater storage in India. Journal of Hydrology. 544. 428–437. 44 indexed citations

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Kumar, Sujay V., Benjamin F. Zaitchik, C. D. Peters‐Lidard, et al.. (2016). Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 17(7). 1951–1972. 141 indexed citations

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Li, Bailing, Matthew Rodell, & J. S. Famiglietti. (2015). Groundwater variability across temporal and spatial scales in the central and northeastern U.S.. Journal of Hydrology. 525. 769–780. 30 indexed citations

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Reager, J. T., Eric A. Sproles, Matthew Rodell, et al.. (2015). Assimilation of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Observations into a Land Surface Model for the Assessment of Regional Flood Potential. Remote Sensing. 7(11). 14663–14679. 72 indexed citations

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Li, Bailing & Matthew Rodell. (2013). Spatial variability and its scale dependency of observed and modeled soil moisture over different climate regions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(3). 1177–1188. 67 indexed citations

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Houborg, Rasmus, Matthew Rodell, Bailing Li, Rolf H. Reichle, & Benjamin F. Zaitchik. (2012). Drought indicators based on model‐assimilated Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage observations. Water Resources Research. 48(7). 324 indexed citations

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Li, Bailing, Matthew Rodell, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, et al.. (2012). Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage into a land surface model: Evaluation and potential value for drought monitoring in western and central Europe. Journal of Hydrology. 446-447. 103–115. 157 indexed citations

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Li, Bailing & Tian‐Chyi Jim Yeh. (1999). Cokriging estimation of the conductivity field under variably saturated flow conditions. Water Resources Research. 35(12). 3663–3674. 64 indexed citations

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