Sha Zhou

9.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
101 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Sha Zhou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sha Zhou has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 32 papers in Water Science and Technology and 20 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sha Zhou's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (55 papers), Climate variability and models (47 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (30 papers). Sha Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (55 papers), Climate variability and models (47 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (30 papers). Sha Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Sha Zhou's co-authors include Yao Zhang, Pierre Gentine, Bofu Yu, Yuefei Huang, Park Williams, Guangqian Wang, Xiangming Xiao, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Joanna Joiner and Jinwei Dong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sha Zhou

97 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Land–atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity

2019 447 citations Sha Zhou, Yao Zhang et al. profile →
A global moderate resolution dataset of gross primary production of vegetation for 2000–2016

2017 421 citations Yao Zhang, Xiangming Xiao et al. profile →
A global spatially contiguous solar-induced fluorescence (CSIF) dataset using neural networks

2018 347 citations Yao Zhang, Joanna Joiner et al. profile →
Large increase in global storm runoff extremes driven by climate and anthropogenic changes

2018 346 citations Pierre Gentine, Sha Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →
Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events

2019 326 citations Sha Zhou, Yao Zhang et al. profile →
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

2021 253 citations Sha Zhou, Yao Zhang et al. profile →
Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

2022 199 citations Yao Zhang, Pierre Gentine et al. Nature Communications profile →
Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change

2023 171 citations Sha Zhou, Bofu Yu et al. profile →
Soil moisture determines the recovery time of ecosystems from drought

2023 133 citations Yanxu Liu, Sha Zhou et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Sha Zhou

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sha Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sha Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sha Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sha Zhou 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 Sha Zhou. Sha Zhou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Quantifying the relative contributions of key drivers to future changes in PAHs health risks over the Yangtze River Delta: A multi-scenario modeling approach 2025 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), Xinran Liu, Xiaodan Guan, Sha Zhou, Min Liu, Dengzhong Zhao	0
2	Concurrent Heat Extremes in Relation to Global Warming, High Atmospheric Pressure and Low Soil Moisture in the Northern Hemisphere 2025 ·Earth s Future ·(unknown), Sha Zhou, Kai Kornhuber, Bofu Yu	2
3	Increased early-season productivity drives earlier peak of vegetation photosynthesis across the Northern Hemisphere 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Yongshuo H. Fu, Deliang Chen, Thomas W. Crowther, Ruiqiang Ding, (unknown), Yann Vitasse, Xuan Zhang, Sha Zhou, Constantin M. Zohner	4
4	Soil moisture-atmosphere interactions drive terrestrial carbon-water trade-offs 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Wenqi Sun, Sha Zhou, Bofu Yu, Yao Zhang, Trevor F. Keenan, Bojie Fu	8
5	Immediate and lagged vegetation responses to dry spells revealed by continuous solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence observations in a tall-grass prairie 2024 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yao Zhang, (unknown), Xiangming Xiao, Xi Yang, Mirco Migliavacca, Jeffrey B. Basara, Sha Zhou, (unknown)	18
6	Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Jun Li, Yao Zhang, Emanuele Bevacqua, Jakob Zscheischler, Trevor F. Keenan, Xu Lian, Sha Zhou, Hongying Zhang, Mingzhu He, Shilong Piao	13
7	Table of Contents 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ·Yatrik M. Shah, (unknown), Yongjae Lee, Ruth Madigan, (unknown), Natasha Merat, Richard M. Romano, (unknown), Yinghui Li, Sha Zhou, Shuang Wang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
8	Compound hot–dry events greatly prolong the recovery time of dryland ecosystems 2024 ·National Science Review ·Ying Yao, Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Yao Zhang, Jingyi Ding, Yan Li, Sha Zhou, Jiaxi Song, Shuai Wang, Changjia Li, Wenwu Zhao	14
9	Climate change drives flooding risk increases in the Yellow River Basin 2024 ·Geography and sustainability ·Hengxing Lan, Zheng Zhao, Langping Li, Junhua Li, Bojie Fu, (unknown), (unknown), Sha Zhou, Yanbo Zhu, Fanyu Zhang, Jianbing Peng, John J. Clague	37
10	The responses of ecosystem water use efficiency to CO2, nitrogen deposition, and climatic drivers across China 2023 ·Journal of Hydrology ·Xitian Cai, (unknown), Joshua B. Fisher, Zhenzhong Zeng, Sha Zhou, Xuezhi Tan, Bingjun Liu, Xiaohong Chen	15
11	Ecological restoration exacerbates the agriculture-induced water crisis in North China Region 2023 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Yan Zhou, Jinwei Dong, Yaoping Cui, Meng Zhao, Xinxin Wang, Qiuhong Tang, Yongqiang Zhang, Sha Zhou, Graciela Metternicht, (unknown), Geli Zhang, Xiangming Xiao	34
12	Satellite solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence tracks physiological drought stress development during 2020 southwest US drought 2023 ·Global Change Biology ·Yao Zhang, (unknown), William K. Smith, Xian Wang, Pierre Gentine, Russell L. Scott, Mirco Migliavacca, Sujong Jeong, M. E. Litvak, Sha Zhou	35
13	Contribution of Tibetan Plateau ecosystems to local and remote precipitation through moisture recycling 2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Yan Li, Ru Xu, Kun Yang, Yanxu Liu, Shuai Wang, Sha Zhou, Zhao Yang, Xiaoming Feng, Chunyang He, (unknown), Wenwu Zhao	30
14	Contrasting Soil Microbial Functional Potential for Phosphorus Cycling in Subtropical and Temperate Forests 2022 ·Forests ·Sha Zhou, Yi Li, Jieying Wang, Liyuan He, Jun Wang, Yaoxin Guo, Fazhu Zhao	4
15	Modeling Transpiration with Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Observations via Carbon-Water Coupling Methods 2021 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Tongren Xu, Liangyun Liu, Sha Zhou, Jingxue Zhao, Shaomin Liu, Ziwei Xu, Kebiao Mao, Xinlei He, Zhongli Zhu, Linna Chai	21
16	Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Chengjie Ren, Jieying Wang, Felipe Bastida, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Yuanhe Yang, Jun Wang, Zekun Zhong, Zhenghu Zhou, Shuohong Zhang, Yaoxin Guo, Sha Zhou, Gehong Wei, Xinhui Han, Gaihe Yang, Fazhu Zhao	72
17	On the relationship between sub-daily instantaneous and daily total gross primary production: Implications for interpreting satellite-based SIF retrievals 2017 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yao Zhang, Xiangming Xiao, Yongguang Zhang, Sebastian Wolf, Sha Zhou, Joanna Joiner, Luis Guanter, Manish Verma, Ying Sun, Xi Yang, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, Christopher M. Gough, Georg Wohlfahrt, Beniamino Gioli, Christiaan van der Tol, Yann Nouvellon, Magnus Lund, A. de Grandcourt	110
18	Response of Water Use Efficiency to Global Environmental Change Based on Output From Terrestrial Biosphere Models 2017 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Sha Zhou, Bofu Yu, Christopher R. Schwalm, Philippe Ciais, Yao Zhang, Joshua B. Fisher, A. M. Michalak, Weile Wang, Benjamin Poulter, D. N. Huntzinger, Shuli Niu, Jiafu Mao, Atul K. Jain, Daniel Ricciuto, Xiaoying Shi, Akihiko Ito, Yaxing Wei, Yuefei Huang, Guangqian Wang	79
19	Changes in the ecological environment and there determining factors in the middle Heihe River Basin 2014 ·China Environmental Science ·Sha Zhou	1
20	CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF SODIUM SULFATE DECAHYDRATE IN AN MSMPR STIRRED CRYSTALLIZER 2009 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Liqin Yang, Sha Zhou, Junfeng Du, (unknown), (unknown)	1

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