Dawen Yang

19.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
275 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Dawen Yang is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dawen Yang has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Water Science and Technology, 176 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 91 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Dawen Yang's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (166 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (76 papers) and Climate variability and models (67 papers). Dawen Yang is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (166 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (76 papers) and Climate variability and models (67 papers). Dawen Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Dawen Yang's co-authors include Hanbo Yang, Huimin Lei, Bing Gao, Yuting Yang, Katumi MUSIAKE, Zhidong Lei, Toshio Koike, Yue Qin, Fubao Sun and Xiangyu Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Dawen Yang

267 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

New analytical derivation of the mean annual water‐energy balance equation

2008 549 citations Hanbo Yang, Dawen Yang et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Global potential soil erosion with reference to land use and climate changes

2003 540 citations Dawen Yang, Shinjiro Kanae et al. profile →
Spatio-temporal variation of drought in China during 1961–2012: A climatic perspective

2014 498 citations Dawen Yang, Hanbo Yang et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →
Hydrological cycle and water resources in a changing world: A review

2021 270 citations Dawen Yang, Yuting Yang et al. profile →
Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

2023 262 citations Yuting Yang, Yongqiang Zhang et al. profile →
Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau

2020 207 citations Taihua Wang, Dawen Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dawen Yang China	68	9.7k	9.0k	4.5k	2.5k	1.9k	275	14.9k
Changming Liu China	59	8.1k 0.8×	6.8k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	320	13.6k
Francis H. S. Chiew Australia	67	10.1k 1.0×	9.1k 1.0×	2.8k 0.6×	3.7k 1.4×	1.0k 0.5×	256	13.8k
Vazken Andréassian France	48	8.7k 0.9×	10.2k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	3.6k 1.4×	984 0.5×	157	12.0k
Ross Woods United Kingdom	53	6.6k 0.7×	8.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.7×	3.1k 1.2×	805 0.4×	148	10.9k
Patrick Willems Belgium	57	8.6k 0.9×	5.9k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	3.1k 1.2×	681 0.4×	474	12.3k
Chiyuan Miao China	61	7.3k 0.8×	4.4k 0.5×	4.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	195	11.6k
H. S. Wheater United Kingdom	57	6.7k 0.7×	7.0k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	831 0.4×	264	11.2k
Zhongbo Yu China	57	5.3k 0.6×	4.6k 0.5×	2.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	746 0.4×	406	10.8k
Andrew W. Western Australia	50	5.4k 0.6×	7.1k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	5.6k 2.2×	1.9k 1.0×	224	12.3k
Jan Seibert Sweden	74	10.1k 1.0×	13.2k 1.5×	5.0k 1.1×	4.3k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	298	18.6k

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Liu, Hu, Yang Yu, Wenzhi Zhao, et al.. (2025). Diverse vegetation responses to solar farm installation are also driven by climate change. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 5 indexed citations

Liu, Ziwei, et al.. (2025). Transitioning Climate Control on Snow and Streamflow Dynamics Over the Past 70 Years. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(6).

Yan, Zihan, Taihua Wang, T. Ma, & Dawen Yang. (2024). Water-carbon-sediment synergies and trade-offs: Multi-faceted impacts of large-scale ecological restoration in the Middle Yellow River Basin. Journal of Hydrology. 634. 131099–131099. 11 indexed citations

Ishidaira, Hiroshi, et al.. (2024). Integrated urban and riverine flood risk management in the Fujiang River Basin-Mianyang city. Journal of Hydrology. 645. 132150–132150. 3 indexed citations

Yang, Dawen, et al.. (2024). Flood Risk Analysis of Urban Agglomerations in the Yangtze River Basin Under Extreme Precipitation Based on Remote Sensing Technology. Remote Sensing. 16(22). 4289–4289. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Baoxu, et al.. (2024). Derivation of flood elasticity under climate and forest change for a tropical monsoon basin of Thailand. Journal of Hydrology. 637. 131420–131420.

Yang, Hanbo, Ziwei Liu, Changming Li, et al.. (2024). Assessment of Meteorological Drought in a Changing Environment: An Example in the Upper Yangtze River. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(20). 1 indexed citations

Xu, Yang, et al.. (2023). Evaluating main drivers of terrestrial water storage depletion in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China. Journal of Hydrology. 626. 130242–130242. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Shuyu, Baoxu Zhao, Dawen Yang, et al.. (2023). Future changes in water resources, floods and droughts under the joint impact of climate and land-use changes in the Chao Phraya basin, Thailand. Journal of Hydrology. 620. 129454–129454. 28 indexed citations

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Li, Jiaxian, Xingjie Lu, Zhongwang Wei, et al.. (2023). Impact of Reservoirs on Local Precipitation‐Temperature Coupling Relationships. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(14). 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Dawen, et al.. (2023). Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Assimilation in the Distributed Hydrological Model Based on the Error Subspace Transform Kalman Filter. Remote Sensing. 15(7). 1852–1852. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Yuting, Tim R. McVicar, Dawen Yang, et al.. (2021). Low and contrasting impacts of vegetation CO ₂ fertilization on global terrestrial runoff over 1982–2010: accounting for aboveground and belowground vegetation–CO ₂ effects. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(6). 3411–3427. 17 indexed citations

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Qin, Yue, Jinsong Chen, Dawen Yang, & Taihua Wang. (2018). Estimating Seasonally Frozen Ground Depth From Historical Climate Data and Site Measurements Using a Bayesian Model. Water Resources Research. 54(7). 4361–4375. 27 indexed citations

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Yang, Dawen, et al.. (2018). Analysis on the relationship between fish diversity and watershed features in the Yangtze River Basin. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 58(7). 650–657. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Dawen. (2011). Physically distributed hydrological model simulations of runoff in the Three Gorges Region. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Dawen, et al.. (2009). Yukon River Hydrology and Climate Changes, 1977-2006. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Dawen. (2009). MODIS-based water surface area estimation method of the Dongting Lake. Yangtze River. 2 indexed citations

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Gao, Bing & Dawen Yang. (2009). Impacts of climate variation and land-use change on river discharge in the upstream of the Miyun Reservoir.. IAHS-AISH publication. 64–71.

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Yang, Dawen, Guangheng Ni, Shinjiro Kanae, Chong Li, & Tetsuya Kusuda. (2005). Water resources variability from the past to future in the Yellow River, China. IAHS-AISH publication. 174–182. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Dawen, et al.. (2002). Changes in Lena River Streamflow Hydrology: Human Impacts vs. Natural Variations. AGUFM. 2002. 7 indexed citations

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