Yanping Qu

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Yanping Qu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanping Qu has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Water Science and Technology and 8 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yanping Qu's work include Hydrology and Drought Analysis (25 papers), Climate variability and models (19 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Yanping Qu is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Drought Analysis (25 papers), Climate variability and models (19 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Yanping Qu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Portugal. Yanping Qu's co-authors include Qianfeng Wang, Virgílio A. Bento, Jingyu Zeng, Junyu Qi, Rongrong Zhang, Wei Shui, Tao Zhou, Xiaoping Wu, Huimin Zhao and Fang Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Yanping Qu

38 papers receiving 822 citations

Hit Papers

Understanding climate change impacts on drought in China ... 2024 2026 2025 2024 20 40 60
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. Understanding climate change impacts on drought in China over the 21st century: a multi-model assessment from CMIP6
    2024 65 citations Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento et al. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanping Qu China 15 587 191 146 126 118 42 839
J. E. Bagley United States 14 589 1.0× 114 0.6× 221 1.5× 108 0.9× 63 0.5× 18 784
Jinchi Zhang China 16 647 1.1× 121 0.6× 214 1.5× 201 1.6× 49 0.4× 32 1000
Anzhi Zhang China 15 664 1.1× 111 0.6× 224 1.5× 239 1.9× 56 0.5× 34 845
Xiucang Li China 16 868 1.5× 324 1.7× 346 2.4× 77 0.6× 152 1.3× 26 1.1k
Zongqiang Chang China 13 207 0.4× 128 0.7× 114 0.8× 124 1.0× 36 0.3× 32 560
Indrani Pal United States 14 637 1.1× 249 1.3× 212 1.5× 98 0.8× 301 2.6× 27 978
Xianglan Li China 13 538 0.9× 234 1.2× 137 0.9× 193 1.5× 30 0.3× 33 751
Francisco José Jiménez Espejo Spain 5 759 1.3× 244 1.3× 208 1.4× 66 0.5× 109 0.9× 11 911

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanping Qu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanping Qu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yanping Qu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yanping Qu 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 Yanping Qu. Yanping Qu 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
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Chen, Yu, Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento, et al.. (2025). Global rainfall erosivity: Observation, attribution, and projection. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 100605–100605.
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Qu, Yanping, et al.. (2024). Increasing Socioeconomic Exposure to Compound Dry and Hot Events Under a Warming Climate in the Yangtze River Basin. Sustainability. 16(24). 11264–11264. 1 indexed citations
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Qu, Yanping, Virgílio A. Bento, Hongquan Song, et al.. (2024). Understanding climate change impacts on drought in China over the 21st century: a multi-model assessment from CMIP6. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 65 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qu, Yanping, et al.. (2024). Attribution analysis of hydrological drought after the impoundment of the Danjiangkou reservoir in the Hanjiang River Basin. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 56. 102038–102038.
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Sun, Hao, et al.. (2024). Interpretation of the Budyko framework for monthly evapotranspiration prediction of individual basins. Atmospheric Research. 315. 107895–107895. 4 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xue, Yanping Qu, Jingtian Yang, et al.. (2024). Long-term ecological restoration increased plant diversity and soil total phosphorus content of the alpine flowing sand land in northwest Sichuan, China. Heliyon. 10(2). e24035–e24035. 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Fei, Hexin Lai, Yanbin Li, et al.. (2024). Dynamic relationships and propagation characteristics between meteorological drought and vegetation drought based on a three-dimensional identification algorithm. Global and Planetary Change. 240. 104535–104535. 8 indexed citations
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Bento, Virgílio A., et al.. (2023). Projections of Global Drought and Their Climate Drivers Using CMIP6 Global Climate Models. Water. 15(12). 2272–2272. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Fei, Hexin Lai, Qingqing Tian, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporal evolution and teleconnection factor analysis of groundwater drought based on the GRACE mascon model in the Yellow River Basin. Journal of Hydrology. 626. 130349–130349. 22 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xue, He Li, Yanping Qu, et al.. (2023). Effects of grazing exclusion on vegetation community characteristics over 22 years in the Zoige alpine meadows from China. Acta Oecologica. 118. 103892–103892. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Fei, et al.. (2023). Study on the Optimization of Multi-Objective Water Resources Allocation in the Henan Yellow River Water Supply Zone. Water. 15(22). 4009–4009. 9 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xue, et al.. (2023). The development and future frontiers of global ecological restoration projects in the twenty-first century: a systematic review based on scientometrics. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(12). 32230–32245. 11 indexed citations
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Zeng, Jingyu, Tao Zhou, Yanping Qu, et al.. (2023). An improved global vegetation health index dataset in detecting vegetation drought. Scientific Data. 10(1). 338–338. 62 indexed citations
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Wan, Lingling, Virgílio A. Bento, Yanping Qu, et al.. (2023). Drought characteristics and dominant factors across China: Insights from high-resolution daily SPEI dataset between 1979 and 2018. The Science of The Total Environment. 901. 166362–166362. 75 indexed citations
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Xia, Wenxiang, et al.. (2023). Shock tube and modeling study of ignition delay times of propane mixtures in ultra-lean conditions. Combustion and Flame. 254. 112826–112826. 1 indexed citations
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Qu, Yanping, Xiaojing Yang, Wenjuan Chang, Juan Lv, & Zhicheng Su. (2022). Recurrence analysis of extreme historical drought under the current defense conditions in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 822. 153400–153400. 5 indexed citations
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Tang, Jia, Jingyu Zeng, Yanping Qu, et al.. (2018). Spatial-temporal evolution of vegetation evapotranspiration in Hebei Province, China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 17(9). 2107–2117. 28 indexed citations
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Wang, Qianfeng, Jingyu Zeng, Song Leng, et al.. (2018). The effects of air temperature and precipitation on the net primary productivity in China during the early 21st century. Frontiers of Earth Science. 12(4). 818–833. 44 indexed citations

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