Yubao Wang

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Yubao Wang is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yubao Wang has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Water Science and Technology, 35 papers in Environmental Engineering and 24 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yubao Wang's work include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (36 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (24 papers). Yubao Wang is often cited by papers focused on Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (36 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (24 papers). Yubao Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Yubao Wang's co-authors include Pute Wu, Shikun Sun, Xining Zhao, Shikun Sun, Bernie Engel, Xining Zhao, En Hua, Xuerui Gao, Xinchun Cao and Baoqing Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Yubao Wang

86 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yubao Wang China	31	1.4k	756	745	634	466	95	2.7k
Louise Karlberg Sweden	23	1.2k 0.9×	460 0.6×	804 1.1×	643 1.0×	264 0.6×	46	2.6k
Davide Danilo Chiarelli Italy	20	1.2k 0.9×	426 0.6×	499 0.7×	600 0.9×	378 0.8×	45	2.5k
D. Wiberg Austria	22	1.9k 1.4×	622 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	901 1.4×	335 0.7×	37	3.8k
Carole Dalin United Kingdom	21	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	534 0.7×	893 1.4×	541 1.2×	37	3.4k
Wenfeng Liu China	33	976 0.7×	509 0.7×	725 1.0×	296 0.5×	256 0.5×	98	2.6k
Tingju Zhu United States	33	1.6k 1.2×	415 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.7×	378 0.8×	77	3.9k
Pieter van Oel Netherlands	26	1.1k 0.8×	525 0.7×	978 1.3×	620 1.0×	321 0.7×	103	2.3k
Joel A. Carr United States	26	890 0.7×	760 1.0×	487 0.7×	408 0.6×	1.4k 2.9×	63	3.2k
Timothy O. Randhir United States	27	1.2k 0.9×	583 0.8×	897 1.2×	268 0.4×	438 0.9×	124	2.5k
Tim Hess United Kingdom	33	945 0.7×	611 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	373 0.6×	619 1.3×	104	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yubao Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yubao Wang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Jinfeng, et al.. (2025). Actual evapotranspiration estimation and applicability assessment based on the Y-SEBAL model in China. Journal of Hydrology. 660. 133476–133476.

Hua, En, Shikun Sun, Yali Yin, et al.. (2025). Sustainability assessment of agricultural development in China: Water-carbon footprint perspective. Agricultural Water Management. 320. 109835–109835.

Wang, Yubao, et al.. (2025). Price dynamics and forecasting of China's Tradable green Certificates: An analysis of linkages with the carbon emissions trading market. Energy Policy. 206. 114767–114767.

Liu, Xian, Yueyue Xu, Shikun Sun, Pute Wu, & Yubao Wang. (2024). Water resource efficiency evaluation of crop production in arid and semi-arid regions based on water footprint and comparative advantage. European Journal of Agronomy. 160. 127310–127310. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Fuyao, et al.. (2024). A dual-path model merging CNN and RNN with attention mechanism for crop classification. European Journal of Agronomy. 159. 127273–127273. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Yubao, et al.. (2024). Drivers and strategic options for renewable energy development in China: LMDI-elasticity analysis perspective based on photovoltaic and wind energy. Energy. 309. 133078–133078. 7 indexed citations

Hua, En, Xinxueqi Han, Bernard A. Engel, et al.. (2024). Developing a sustainable assessment framework for identifying industrial water suitability: Perspective on the water-energy-food nexus. Agricultural Systems. 220. 104065–104065. 4 indexed citations

Yin, Yali, et al.. (2024). The effect of dietary changes on the water and carbon footprints in China. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 49. 276–288.

Jin, Liping, et al.. (2023). Hydraulic characteristics and flow measurement performance analysis of portable fish-shaped flumes in U-shaped channels. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 90. 102327–102327. 5 indexed citations

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Luan, Xiaobo, Yali Yin, Pute Wu, et al.. (2018). An improved method for calculating the regional crop water footprint based on a hydrological process analysis. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(10). 5111–5123. 24 indexed citations

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Wu, Pute, La Zhuo, Guoping Zhang, et al.. (2018). Trade-offs between crop-related (physical and virtual) water flows and the associated economic benefits and values: a case study of the Yellow River Basin. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yubao, Lijie Shi, Haojie Zhang, & Shikun Sun. (2017). A data envelopment analysis of agricultural technical efficiency of Northwest Arid Areas in China. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 4(2). 195–195. 9 indexed citations

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Gao, Xuerui, et al.. (2016). Actual ET modelling based on the Budyko framework and the sustainability of vegetation water use in the loess plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 579. 1550–1559. 63 indexed citations

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Sun, Shikun, Yubao Wang, Bernie Engel, & Pute Wu. (2016). Effects of virtual water flow on regional water resources stress: A case study of grain in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 550. 871–879. 76 indexed citations

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Wang, Yubao, Zipeng Xing, Zhenzi Li, et al.. (2016). Facile synthesis of high-thermostably ordered mesoporous TiO 2 /SiO 2 nanocomposites: An effective bifunctional candidate for removing arsenic contaminations. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 485. 32–38. 40 indexed citations

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Wu, Pute, Yubao Wang, Xining Zhao, Shikun Sun, & Jiming Jin. (2015). Spatiotemporal variation in water footprint of grain production in China. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 2(2). 186–186. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Yubao, Feifei Wang, Jing Liu, et al.. (2015). Alleviating Pressure on Water Resources: A new approach could be attempted. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14006–14006. 22 indexed citations

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Geng, Qingling, Pute Wu, Qingfeng Zhang, Xining Zhao, & Yubao Wang. (2013). Dry/wet climate zoning and delimitation of arid areas of Northwest China based on a data-driven fashion. Journal of Arid Land. 6(3). 287–299. 27 indexed citations

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Sun, Shikun, Pute Wu, Yubao Wang, et al.. (2013). The impacts of interannual climate variability and agricultural inputs on water footprint of crop production in an irrigation district of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 444. 498–507. 149 indexed citations

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Wang, Yubao, Pute Wu, Xining Zhao, & Jiming Jin. (2010). Division of the water-saving crop planning system in the Heihe River basin. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. 9(54). 9108–9117. 4 indexed citations

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