Zhiming Han

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Zhiming Han is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhiming Han has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Water Science and Technology and 10 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Zhiming Han's work include Climate variability and models (15 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers). Zhiming Han is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (15 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers). Zhiming Han collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Australia. Zhiming Han's co-authors include Guoyong Leng, Shengzhi Huang, Qingjun Bai, Jing Zhao, Hao Wang, Qiang Huang, Qiang Huang, Lu Wang, Hao Liang and Wei Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Hydrology and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Zhiming Han

36 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Drought trigger thresholds for different levels of vegetation loss in China and their dynamics

2023 85 citations Shengzhi Huang, Qiang Huang et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhiming Han China	19	900	431	167	151	136	40	1.2k
Suning Liu China	19	959 1.1×	549 1.3×	220 1.3×	166 1.1×	49 0.4×	41	1.3k
Renata Vezzoli Italy	12	527 0.6×	215 0.5×	167 1.0×	99 0.7×	87 0.6×	34	769
Miaoling Liang China	11	812 0.9×	363 0.8×	345 2.1×	220 1.5×	79 0.6×	14	1.1k
Xuanze Zhang China	18	836 0.9×	422 1.0×	299 1.8×	195 1.3×	68 0.5×	58	1.2k
Keir Soderberg United States	12	441 0.5×	240 0.6×	227 1.4×	132 0.9×	26 0.2×	17	812
Xieyao Ma China	24	1.1k 1.2×	448 1.0×	516 3.1×	99 0.7×	50 0.4×	60	1.4k
Yin Tang China	19	826 0.9×	909 2.1×	285 1.7×	83 0.5×	143 1.1×	57	1.4k
Zeli Tan United States	20	519 0.6×	254 0.6×	394 2.4×	219 1.5×	170 1.3×	55	1.0k
János Józsa Hungary	19	475 0.5×	456 1.1×	158 0.9×	263 1.7×	124 0.9×	58	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhiming Han

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gao, Chao, Jinxia Fu, Zhiming Han, et al.. (2025). Local and downwind precipitation has been boosted by evapotranspiration change-induced moisture recycling in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 371. 110623–110623. 2 indexed citations

Ali, Shoaib, Behnam Khorrami, Mohammad Mansoob Khan, et al.. (2025). Bridging the resolution gap: Machine learning for local-scale groundwater drought monitoring in Punjab, Pakistan. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 31. 101545–101545.

Han, Zhiming, et al.. (2025). Vapor pressure deficit dominates dryness stress on forest biomass carbon in China under global warming. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 364. 110440–110440. 1 indexed citations

Han, Mengjiao, et al.. (2024). Research on the new passive optimization strategies for improving the performance of combined solar chimney. Energy and Buildings. 320. 114578–114578. 2 indexed citations

Zeng, Wei, et al.. (2024). CFD-DEM investigation on effects of particle size distribution and gas temperature on minimum fluidization velocity of pyrites. Particuology. 96. 244–255. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Huimin, et al.. (2024). Analyzing convective heat transfer in combined solar chimneys: A theoretical and numerical study of key influencing parameters. Renewable Energy. 238. 121933–121933.

Zhang, Chengyuan, et al.. (2024). Accelerated Atmospheric to Hydrological Spread of Drought in the Yangtze River Basin under Climate. Remote Sensing. 16(16). 3033–3033. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Qianqian, Fang Yang, Haiqing Liao, et al.. (2024). Seasonal Variations of Ice-Covered Lake Ecosystems in the Context of Climate Warming: A Review. Water. 16(19). 2727–2727.

He, Panxing, Zhiming Han, Mingzhu He, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric dryness thresholds of grassland productivity decline in China. Journal of Environmental Management. 338. 117780–117780. 14 indexed citations

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Huang, Shengzhi, Qiang Huang, Zhiming Han, et al.. (2023). Drought trigger thresholds for different levels of vegetation loss in China and their dynamics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 331. 109349–109349. 85 indexed citations breakdown →

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He, Panxing, et al.. (2023). Early Evidence That Soil Dryness Causes Widespread Decline in Grassland Productivity in China. Land. 12(2). 484–484. 3 indexed citations

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He, Panxing, Jun Ma, Huawei Ye, et al.. (2022). Satellite greenness and solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence reveal reverse desertification in Gurbantunggut Desert. Ecological Applications. 33(2). e2757–e2757. 4 indexed citations

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He, Panxing, et al.. (2021). Dynamic characteristics and driving factors of vegetation greenness under changing environments in Xinjiang, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(31). 42516–42532. 36 indexed citations

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Huang, Shengzhi, Wei Fang, Beibei Hou, et al.. (2020). Multivariable flood risk and its dynamics considering project reasonable service life in a changing environment. Journal of Hydrology. 590. 125524–125524. 8 indexed citations

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Huang, Shengzhi, Dengfeng Liu, Qiang Huang, et al.. (2020). Dry and wet combination dynamics and their possible driving forces in a changing environment. Journal of Hydrology. 589. 125211–125211. 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Lu, Shengzhi Huang, Qiang Huang, et al.. (2020). Vegetation vulnerability and resistance to hydrometeorological stresses in water- and energy-limited watersheds based on a Bayesian framework. CATENA. 196. 104879–104879. 40 indexed citations

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Han, Zhiming, Shengzhi Huang, Qiang Huang, et al.. (2020). Effects of vegetation restoration on groundwater drought in the Loess Plateau, China. Journal of Hydrology. 591. 125566–125566. 110 indexed citations

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Li, Changyou, et al.. (2019). Change of ice phenology in the Hulun Lake from 1986 to 2017. 地理科学进展. 38(12). 1933–1943. 9 indexed citations

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Jiang, Tao, Sheng Zhang, Shengnan Zhao, et al.. (2019). Exchange characteristics of ammonia nitrogen at the water and sediment interface during the ice-sealing period in Lake Ulansuhai. Journal of Lake Sciences. 31(1). 81–87.

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Han, Zhiming, Mitsuharu Terashima, Bing Liu, & Hidenari Yasui. (2018). Impact of Modified Spacer on Flow Pattern in Narrow Spacer-Filled Channels for Spiral-Wound Membrane Modules. Environments. 5(11). 116–116. 6 indexed citations

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