Enming Rao

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Enming Rao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Enming Rao has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Soil Science and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Enming Rao's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (9 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers). Enming Rao is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (9 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers). Enming Rao collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Enming Rao's co-authors include Zhiyun Ouyang, Yi Xiao, Hua Zheng, Yang Xiao, Ling Jiang, Fei Lu, Wu Yang, Weihua Xu, Xiaoke Wang and Stephen Polasky and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Enming Rao

25 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in na... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2017 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital
    2016 1.3k citations Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng et al. Science profile →
  2. Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China
    2017 572 citations Weihua Xu, Yi Xiao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Enming Rao China 12 1.8k 660 362 339 309 25 2.4k
Emma H. van der Zanden Netherlands 19 1.3k 0.7× 448 0.7× 355 1.0× 369 1.1× 261 0.8× 23 2.0k
Leah L. Bremer United States 26 1.5k 0.8× 514 0.8× 308 0.9× 155 0.5× 447 1.4× 56 2.3k
Georg Leitinger Austria 26 1.2k 0.6× 431 0.7× 312 0.9× 261 0.8× 109 0.4× 65 1.9k
Francis Turkelboom Belgium 18 1.1k 0.6× 489 0.7× 400 1.1× 513 1.5× 196 0.6× 52 2.0k
Nicola Clerici Colombia 23 1.1k 0.6× 781 1.2× 313 0.9× 240 0.7× 99 0.3× 52 2.1k
Xiaowei Tong China 19 1.7k 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 357 1.0× 471 1.4× 111 0.4× 33 2.6k
Xiubo Yu China 25 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 1.7× 285 0.8× 206 0.6× 102 0.3× 129 2.6k
Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi India 18 2.3k 1.2× 1.1k 1.6× 230 0.6× 330 1.0× 122 0.4× 48 3.2k
Derric Pennington United States 15 1.5k 0.8× 500 0.8× 303 0.8× 111 0.3× 455 1.5× 20 2.0k
Guangbin Yang China 7 1.2k 0.6× 374 0.6× 202 0.6× 151 0.4× 197 0.6× 18 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Enming Rao

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Enming Rao's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Enming Rao with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Enming Rao more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Enming Rao

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Enming Rao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Enming Rao. The network helps show where Enming Rao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Enming Rao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Enming Rao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Enming Rao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Enming Rao. Enming Rao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Ying, Lingxiao, Lijing Wang, Xuan Huang, et al.. (2024). Climate change impairs the effects of vegetation improvement on soil erosion control in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. CATENA. 241. 108062–108062. 12 indexed citations
2.
Rao, Enming, Yi Xiao, Fei Lu, Hongbo Yang, & Zhiyun Ouyang. (2023). Preservation of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) through Ecosystems’ Soil Retention Services in China. Land. 12(9). 1718–1718. 2 indexed citations
3.
Lin, Ziyan, Tong Wu, Yi Xiao, et al.. (2022). Protecting biodiversity to support ecosystem services: An analysis of trade‐offs and synergies in southwestern China. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(9). 2440–2451. 17 indexed citations
4.
Kong, Lingqiao, Fei Lu, Enming Rao, & Zhiyun Ouyang. (2022). Carbon Sink under Different Carbon Density Levels of Forest and Shrub, a Case in Dongting Lake Basin, China. Remote Sensing. 14(11). 2672–2672. 5 indexed citations
5.
Lin, Ziyan, et al.. (2020). [Relationships among different types of ecosystem service in Southwest China].. PubMed. 31(3). 978–986. 4 indexed citations
6.
Zhang, Lu, Yiyong Xiao, Hua Zheng, et al.. (2018). A spatial dataset of ecosystem services in China (2010). China Scientific Data. 3(4). 21.86101.1/csdata.180.2017.0145–21.86101.1/csdata.180.2017.0145. 8 indexed citations
7.
Wang, Liyan, Yi Xiao, Enming Rao, et al.. (2018). An Assessment of the Impact of Urbanization on Soil Erosion in Inner Mongolia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(3). 550–550. 57 indexed citations
8.
Kong, Lingqiao, Hua Zheng, Enming Rao, et al.. (2018). Evaluating indirect and direct effects of eco-restoration policy on soil conservation service in Yangtze River Basin. The Science of The Total Environment. 631-632. 887–894. 111 indexed citations
9.
Rao, Enming, et al.. (2018). Ecological risk assessment in Southwest China based on multiple risk sources. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 38(24). 9 indexed citations
10.
Lin, Ziyan, et al.. (2018). Assessment of the ecological importance patterns in southwest China. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 38(24). 13 indexed citations
11.
Xu, Weihua, Yi Xiao, Jingjing Zhang, et al.. (2017). Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(7). 1601–1606. 572 indexed citations breakdown →
12.
Ouyang, Zhiyun, Hua Zheng, Yi Xiao, et al.. (2016). Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital. Science. 352(6292). 1455–1459. 1318 indexed citations breakdown →
13.
Zhiyun, 欧阳志云 Ouyang, et al.. (2016). Spatial patterns of ecosystem quality in Inner Mongolia and its driving forces analysis. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 36(19). 11 indexed citations
14.
Jiang, Bo, et al.. (2015). Final ecosystem services valuation of Bosten Lake.. Shengtaixue zazhi. 34(4). 1113. 4 indexed citations
15.
Rao, Enming, Yi Xiao, Zhiyun Ouyang, & Xinxiao Yu. (2015). National assessment of soil erosion and its spatial patterns in china. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. 1(4). 1–10. 27 indexed citations
16.
Xiao, Yi, Cheng Cheng, Wu Yang, Zhiyun Ouyang, & Enming Rao. (2015). Evaluating value of natural landscapes in China. Chinese Geographical Science. 26(2). 244–255. 6 indexed citations
17.
Rao, Enming, Yi Xiao, Zhiyun Ouyang, & Hua Zheng. (2015). Changes in ecosystem service of soil conservation between 2000 and 2010 and its driving factors in southwestern China. Chinese Geographical Science. 26(2). 165–173. 37 indexed citations
18.
Yi, 肖燚 Xiao, et al.. (2013). Natural landscape valuation of Wulingyuan Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie City. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 33(3). 771–779. 5 indexed citations
19.
Rao, Enming, Zhiyun Ouyang, Xinxiao Yu, & Yi Xiao. (2013). Spatial patterns and impacts of soil conservation service in China. Geomorphology. 207. 64–70. 101 indexed citations
20.
Rao, Enming, 肖燚 Xiao Yi, 欧阳志云 Ouyang Zhiyun, & Hua Zheng. (2013). Spatial characteristics of soil conservation service and its impact factors in Hainan Island. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 33(3). 746–755. 21 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Emma H. van der Zanden Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Leah L. Bremer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Georg Leitinger Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Francis Turkelboom Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nicola Clerici Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Xiaowei Tong Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Xiubo Yu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Derric Pennington Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Guangbin Yang
Rankless by CCL
2026