Pingping Zhang

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Pingping Zhang is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Pingping Zhang has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 22 papers in Environmental Engineering and 21 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Pingping Zhang's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (14 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (14 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (12 papers). Pingping Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (14 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (14 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (12 papers). Pingping Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and France. Pingping Zhang's co-authors include Tongsheng Zhang, Qijun Yu, Jiangxiong Wei, Mingan Shao, Yunqiang Wang, Jianxin Li, Jingxiong Zhou, Xingchang Zhang, Hui Sun and E Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Pingping Zhang

56 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Soil moisture decline in China’s monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change

2024 55 citations Yunqiang Wang, Wei Hu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pingping Zhang China	20	545	277	244	201	182	59	1.1k
James C. Thomas United States	24	346 0.6×	217 0.8×	204 0.8×	54 0.3×	117 0.6×	126	1.8k
K. Ravi India	23	584 1.1×	358 1.3×	180 0.7×	63 0.3×	163 0.9×	77	1.3k
Bujang B. K. Huat Malaysia	29	2.3k 4.2×	494 1.8×	129 0.5×	333 1.7×	147 0.8×	125	2.9k
Henglin Xiao China	20	959 1.8×	170 0.6×	89 0.4×	237 1.2×	66 0.4×	140	1.4k
André Peters Germany	24	1.2k 2.3×	999 3.6×	661 2.7×	74 0.4×	156 0.9×	61	2.6k
R. Jones United Kingdom	14	335 0.6×	276 1.0×	491 2.0×	94 0.5×	32 0.2×	26	1.4k
Ali Hassanli Australia	20	210 0.4×	268 1.0×	436 1.8×	120 0.6×	26 0.1×	45	1.3k
S. Sreedeep India	25	1.4k 2.6×	453 1.6×	274 1.1×	109 0.5×	26 0.1×	83	1.9k
Rudolf Plagge Germany	17	738 1.4×	846 3.1×	147 0.6×	464 2.3×	32 0.2×	40	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pingping Zhang

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Tong, Yongping, Yunqiang Wang, Jingxiong Zhou, et al.. (2025). Expanding scales: Achieving prediction of van Genuchten model hydraulic parameters in deep profiles by incorporating broad in situ soil information in pedotransfer functions. Journal of Hydrology. 656. 132912–132912. 1 indexed citations

Tong, Yongping, Yunqiang Wang, Zimin Li, et al.. (2025). Deciphering spatial pattern and environmental drivers of deep soil moisture security: insights from integrating spatial non-stationarity in large-scale analysis. CATENA. 261. 109516–109516.

Bai, Xiaoyan, et al.. (2024). A novel multivariate multiscale index for drought-flood abrupt alternations: Considering precipitation, evapotranspiration, and soil moisture. Journal of Hydrology. 643. 132039–132039. 7 indexed citations

Tong, Yongping, Yunqiang Wang, Jingxiong Zhou, et al.. (2024). Dataset of soil hydraulic parameters in the Yellow River Basin based on in situ deep sampling. Scientific Data. 11(1). 740–740. 4 indexed citations

Zhou, Jingxiong, Yunqiang Wang, Ruijie Li, et al.. (2024). Response of deep soil water deficit to afforestation, soil depth, and precipitation gradient. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 352. 110024–110024. 17 indexed citations

Zhao, Yali, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal variation and controlling factors of dried soil layers in a semi-humid catchment and relevant land use management implications. CATENA. 240. 107973–107973. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Yunqiang, Wei Hu, Yali Zhao, et al.. (2024). Soil moisture decline in China’s monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(15). e2322127121–e2322127121. 55 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Zhaolei, et al.. (2023). Fluorescence detection of amantadine based on competitive β-Cyclodextrin host-guest inclusion process. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 681. 132801–132801. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, Hui Sun, Pingping Zhang, et al.. (2023). Review of Managing Soil Organic C Sequestration from Vegetation Restoration on the Loess Plateau. Forests. 14(10). 1964–1964. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Wenchao, Jiehua Wang, Yunkai Zhou, Pingping Zhang, & Xiuling Bai. (2023). Effects of heavy rain on the concentrations and forms of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in urban rivers of northern China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(24). 64971–64981. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jingxiong, Yunqiang Wang, Yongping Tong, et al.. (2023). Regional spatial variability of soil organic carbon in 0–5 m depth and its dominant factors. CATENA. 231. 107326–107326. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunqiang, et al.. (2022). Spatial–temporal dynamics and recovery mechanisms of dried soil layers under Robinia pseudoacacia forest based on in‐situ field data from 2017 to 2020. Land Degradation and Development. 33(14). 2500–2511. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunqiang, Zhisheng An, Hui Sun, et al.. (2021). Watershed spatial heterogeneity of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity as affected by landscape unit in the critical zone. CATENA. 203. 105322–105322. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Pingping, Yunqiang Wang, & Xingchang Zhang. (2020). Effects of the sampling spacing on the spatial variability in soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus across a semiarid watershed. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science. 67(10). 1359–1374. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunqiang, Yali Zhao, Pingping Zhang, et al.. (2020). Assessing the value of electrical resistivity derived soil water content: Insights from a case study in the Critical Zone of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 589. 125132–125132. 21 indexed citations

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Zhang, Pingping, Mingan Shao, & Xingchang Zhang. (2017). Spatial pattern of plant species diversity and the influencing factors in a Gobi Desert within the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China. Journal of Arid Land. 9(3). 379–393. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Pingping & Mingan Shao. (2014). Spatial Variability and Stocks of Soil Organic Carbon in the Gobi Desert of Northwestern China. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e93584–e93584. 30 indexed citations

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Bouvet, Alexandre, et al.. (2006). ASSESSMENT OF ENVISAT ASAR ALTERNATING POLARISATION DATA FOR RICE MAPPING IN JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA. ESASP. 611. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Pingping & Xu Chang. (2006). The study on amplitude-preserving migration. Progress in geophysics. 1 indexed citations

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Toan, Thuy Le, et al.. (2006). RICE MAPPING AND PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL USING ASAR DATA IN JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA. 611. 2 indexed citations

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