Ying Zhao

8.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
230 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Ying Zhao is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ying Zhao has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Soil Science, 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 61 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ying Zhao's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (53 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (50 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (44 papers). Ying Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (53 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (50 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (44 papers). Ying Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Ying Zhao's co-authors include Robert L. Hill, Bingcheng Si, Stephan Peth, Rainer Horn, Hao Feng, Afeng Zhang, Miles Dyck, Jiaqiang Lei, Julia Krümmelbein and Jianguo Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ying Zhao

212 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

The assessment of soil loss by water erosion in China

2020 215 citations Ying Zhao et al. profile →
Assessing soil water balance to optimize irrigation schedules of flood-irrigated maize fields with different cultivation histories in the arid region

2022 143 citations Huijie Li, Ying Zhao et al. profile →
Effects of coastal wetland reclamation on soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus in China: A meta‐analysis

2023 133 citations Bing Song, Qiuli Hu et al. profile →
Carbon storage in an arable soil combining field measurements, aggregate turnover modeling and climate scenarios

2022 122 citations Ying Zhao et al. CATENA profile →
Soil ecological stoichiometry synchronously regulates stream nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and ratios

2023 98 citations Ji Liu, Yi Wang et al. CATENA profile →
Do adaptive policy adjustments deliver ecosystem-agriculture-economy co-benefits in land degradation neutrality efforts? Evidence from southeast coast of China

2023 96 citations Chong Jiang, Yixin Wang et al. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment profile →
Black biodegradable mulching increases grain yield and net return while decreasing carbon footprint in rain-fed conditions of the Loess Plateau

2024 52 citations Ying Zhao et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ying Zhao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ying Zhao

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Land use and cover change significantly enhanced evapotranspiration in the Yellow River Delta from 2000 to 2023 2025 ·Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies ·(unknown), Zhongen Niu, Ying Zhao, Pan Li, Yi Wang, (unknown), Bin Wang, Mengyu Zhang	2
2	The fate and ecological risk of mefentrifluconazole in the water-sediment system: A systematic analysis at the enantiomer level 2025 ·Environmental Research ·(unknown), Yingjie Liu, Ying Zhao, Yantai Gan, Robert L. Hill, Hongyuan Zhang	1
3	Advances in Salinity Tolerance of Soybean: Molecular Mechanism and Breeding Strategy 2025 ·Food and Energy Security ·(unknown), Le Xu, Yitong Li, (unknown), Zhenbang Hu, Mingliang Yang, Ying Zhao, Zhaoming Qi, Qingshan Chen, Limin Hu	1
4	Formation process and depositional characteristics of mudballs in the Loess Plateau during extreme rainstorms: Dual-threshold constraints on material sources and dynamic conditions 2025 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Pengfei Du, Yin Chen, Ying Zhao, Liqin Qu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xiangyang Tian	0
5	The impact of precipitation on N2O emissions during the freeze-thaw cycle in a typical grassland in Inner Mongolia 2025 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·(unknown), Ying Zhao, Jan Frouz, Pengfei Xue, Jinbo Li, (unknown), Bing Song, Haixia Wang	3
6	Modeling the impact of long-term land use changes on deep soil hydrological processes in the Loess Plateau, China 2024 ·Journal of Hydrology ·Yakun Wang, Yanan Jiang, Ying Zhao, Xinbo Li, (unknown), (unknown), Tingting Wei, Ping Li, Huijie Li	9
7	Soil metabolic disturbance drives replant disease (intraspecific negative plant–soil feedback): Insights from an experiment examining soil impacts up to 20 years after a ginseng crop 2024 ·Geoderma ·Chongwei Li, Guozhong Chen, Xingxiao Zhang, Nan Zou, Hongxia Zhang, Haokun Li, Ping Zhu, (unknown), Ying Zhao, Yuping Hou	2
8	A bacterial nanocellulose hydrogel with moderate antioxidant activity: Reducing the loss of Phellinus igniarius polysaccharides by aminosilane modification 2024 ·Materials Chemistry and Physics ·Tao Chen, Wanli Liu, (unknown), Yao Zhang, Wei Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Hongyuan Zhang, Ying‐Jie Zhu, (unknown), Linxu Chen, Jianqun Lin, Ying Zhao	2
9	The enhancements of pore morphology and size distribution by straw return are mediated by increases in aggregate-associated carbon and nitrogen 2024 ·Journal of Integrative Agriculture ·Ying Zhao, (unknown), Chen Qiu, Wenxiu Zou, Xinchun Lu, Jun Yan, Xu Chen	1
10	Comment on “Are soils overrated in hydrology?” by Gao et al. (2023) 2024 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Ying Zhao, Mehdi Rahmati, Harry Vereecken, Dani Or	1
11	Moving forward from escaping the poverty trap in China's greenest regions: Examining four decades of socioecological evolution to re-orient sustainable development policies 2024 ·Applied Geography ·(unknown), Chong Jiang, Yixin Wang, (unknown), Ran Wang, Ying Zhao, Jie Zhang, Haiyan Zhang, (unknown), (unknown)	1
12	Coordination of available soil water content and root distribution modifies water source apportionment of the shrub plant Caragana korshinskii 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Ying Zhao, Wang Li	10
13	Effect of Ridging Shapes on the Water–Salt Spatial Distribution of Coastal Saline Soil 2023 ·Water ·(unknown), (unknown), Yinghua Pan, Qiuli Hu, Ying Zhao	1
14	Do adaptive policy adjustments deliver ecosystem-agriculture-economy co-benefits in land degradation neutrality efforts? Evidence from southeast coast of China breakdown → 2023 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Chong Jiang, Yixin Wang, Zhiyuan Yang, Ying Zhao	96
15	Soil ecological stoichiometry synchronously regulates stream nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and ratios breakdown → 2023 ·CATENA ·Ji Liu, Yi Wang, Yong Li, Josep Peñuelas, Ying Zhao, Jordi Sardans, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Jian Liu, (unknown), Yanyan Li, Ji Chen, Jinshui Wu	98
16	On Infiltration and Infiltration Characteristic Times 2022 ·Water Resources Research ·Mehdi Rahmati, Borja Latorre, David Moret‐Fernández, Laurent Lassabatère, Nima Talebian, Dane Miller, Renato Morbidelli, Massimo Iovino, Vincenzo Bagarello, Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri, Ying Zhao, Jan Vanderborght, Lutz Weihermüller, Rafael Jaramillo, Dani Or, Martinus Th. van Genuchten, Harry Vereecken	7
17	[Effects of land use types on deep soil water content in the loess hilly area of the north Shaanxi Province, China]. 2017 ·PubMed ·(unknown), (unknown), Ying Zhao, Bingcheng Si, (unknown), Rui Jiao, Jian‐Guo Zhang	6
18	[Comparative Analysis on Effect of Wheat Straw and Its Biochar Amendment on Net Global Warming Potential Under Wheat-Maize Rotation Ecosystem in the Guanzhong Plain]. 2017 ·PubMed ·Gong Cheng, Jing Chen, Jingjing Liu, Afeng Zhang, Xudong Wang, Hao Feng, Ying Zhao	4
19	[Absorption Characteristics of Particulates and CDOM in Waters of Chagan Lake and Xinlicheng Reservoir in Autumn]. 2016 ·PubMed ·Sijia Li, Kaishan Song, Ying Zhao, (unknown), (unknown), Jianhang Ma	4
20	Measurement of Soil Water Content with Dielectric Dispersion Frequency 2014 ·Soil Science Society of America Journal ·(unknown), S. D. Logsdon, Xiaoyi Ma, Robert Horton, Wenting Han, Ying Zhao	9

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