Zhongbo Su

24.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
428 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Zhongbo Su is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhongbo Su has authored 428 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 212 papers in Atmospheric Science, 202 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 192 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhongbo Su's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (134 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (107 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (85 papers). Zhongbo Su is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (134 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (107 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (85 papers). Zhongbo Su collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and United States. Zhongbo Su's co-authors include Jun Wen, Yaoming Ma, Massimo Menenti, Yijian Zeng, R. van der Velde, G.J. Roerink, W. Verhoef, Mhd. Suhyb Salama, Christiaan van der Tol and Xuelong Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Zhongbo Su

399 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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 Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) for estimation of turbulent heat fluxes

2002 1.5k citations Zhongbo Su profile →
S-SEBI: A simple remote sensing algorithm to estimate the surface energy balance

2000 560 citations Zhongbo Su et al. profile →
An integrated model of soil-canopy spectral radiances, photosynthesis, fluorescence, temperature and energy balance

2009 512 citations Christiaan van der Tol, Zhongbo Su et al. Biogeosciences profile →
Self-assembled bilayer for perovskite solar cells with improved tolerance against thermal stresses

2025 78 citations Bitao Dong, Wei Ma et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Zhongbo Su	8.1k	5.9k	5.6k	3.1k	2.5k	428	13.7k
Matthew F. McCabe	7.4k 0.9×	4.8k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	3.3k 1.3×	225	13.0k
Pierre Gentine	11.7k 1.4×	3.2k 0.5×	5.9k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	270	15.2k
John S. Kimball	8.6k 1.1×	4.1k 0.7×	7.0k 1.3×	2.8k 0.9×	4.2k 1.7×	309	16.0k
Diego G. Miralles	14.7k 1.8×	4.3k 0.7×	7.8k 1.4×	6.3k 2.0×	2.1k 0.8×	165	19.5k
David R. Legates	6.2k 0.8×	2.8k 0.5×	4.0k 0.7×	3.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	77	11.1k
Massimo Menenti	6.8k 0.8×	4.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	2.1k 0.7×	3.4k 1.3×	318	10.7k
Wouter Dorigo	6.8k 0.8×	8.7k 1.5×	8.4k 1.5×	2.8k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	202	15.1k
Kun Yang	12.4k 1.5×	4.7k 0.8×	13.8k 2.5×	4.4k 1.4×	1.8k 0.7×	494	21.7k
Yongjiu Dai	6.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	4.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	177	9.9k
Richard de Jeu	8.6k 1.1×	9.2k 1.6×	9.4k 1.7×	3.9k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	162	17.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhongbo Su

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Raza, Faisal, Yunchao Jia, Zhiwei Zhao, et al.. (2025). An Evaporative Surface Modulation for Efficient Inverted Perovskite Photovoltaics. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(1).

Su, Zhongbo, Hao Hu, S. P. Kubrin, et al.. (2025). The structure, electrical properties and phase diagram of Sm-modified BiFeO3-PbTiO3 solid solution ceramics. Ceramics International. 51(14). 18477–18484. 2 indexed citations

Su, Zhongbo, et al.. (2025). Transient characteristics of supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle system with or without control strategy under accident conditions. Progress in Nuclear Energy. 185. 105772–105772.

Zheng, Donghai, et al.. (2025). Impact of model physics, meteorological forcing, and soil property data on simulating soil moisture and temperature profiles on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 654. 132809–132809. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Sucheng, Yizhuo Gu, Yixi Wang, et al.. (2025). Properties of moisture-cured polyurethane resins synthesized from diverse isocyanate monomers and their comparisons with two-component polyurethane. Materials Today Communications. 45. 112236–112236. 1 indexed citations

Zeng, Yijian, Bart Schilperoort, Danyang Yu, et al.. (2025). A physically consistent dataset of water-energy-carbon fluxes across the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1146–1146.

Zhang, Pei, Donghai Zheng, R. van der Velde, et al.. (2024). Assessment of long-term multisource surface and subsurface soil moisture products and estimate methods on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 640. 131713–131713. 3 indexed citations

Zeng, Yijian, et al.. (2024). Understanding the effects of revegetated shrubs on fluxes of energy, water, and gross primary productivity in a desert steppe ecosystem using the STEMMUS–SCOPE model. Biogeosciences. 21(4). 893–909. 6 indexed citations

Zeng, Yijian & Zhongbo Su. (2024). Digital twin approach for the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum: think big, model small. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Binbin, Yaoming Ma, Yan Wang, et al.. (2023). Analysis of Lake Stratification and Mixing and Its Influencing Factors over High Elevation Large and Small Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau. Water. 15(11). 2094–2094. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Mengna, Hui Qian, M. Lubczynski, et al.. (2023). Hydrogeochemical characterization and CO2 consumption in the Maqu catchment of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau by multiple hydrogeochemical methods. Journal of Hydrology. 624. 129899–129899. 9 indexed citations

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Han, Qianqian, Yijian Zeng, Egor Prikaziuk, et al.. (2023). Ensemble of optimised machine learning algorithms for predicting surface soil moisture content at a global scale. Geoscientific model development. 16(20). 5825–5845. 9 indexed citations

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Han, Qianqian, Yijian Zeng, Lijie Zhang, et al.. (2023). Global long term daily 1 km surface soil moisture dataset with physics informed machine learning. Scientific Data. 10(1). 101–101. 50 indexed citations

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Chen, Xuelong, Zhongbo Su, Yaoming Ma, Isabel F. Trigo, & Pierre Gentine. (2021). Remote Sensing of Global Daily Evapotranspiration based on a Surface Energy Balance Method and Reanalysis Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(16). 53 indexed citations

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Francos, Nicolas, Nunzio Romano, Paolo Nasta, et al.. (2021). Mapping Water Infiltration Rate Using Ground and UAV Hyperspectral Data: A Case Study of Alento, Italy. Remote Sensing. 13(13). 2606–2606. 18 indexed citations

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Trebs, Ivonne, Kaniska Mallick, Nishan Bhattarai, et al.. (2021). The role of aerodynamic resistance in thermal remote sensing-based evapotranspiration models. University of Twente Research Information. 2 indexed citations

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Zheng, Donghai, Xin Li, Tianjie Zhao, et al.. (2020). Impact of Soil Permittivity and Temperature Profile on L-Band Microwave Emission of Frozen Soil. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(5). 4080–4093. 19 indexed citations

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Stein, Alfred, et al.. (2019). The use of bivariate copulas for bias correction of reanalysis air temperature data. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0216059–e0216059. 7 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xing, Peng Ji, Linying Wang, et al.. (2018). High‐Resolution Land Surface Modeling of Hydrological Changes Over the Sanjiangyuan Region in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: 1. Model Development and Evaluation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(11). 2806–2828. 65 indexed citations

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Su, Zhongbo, et al.. (2015). EFFECT OF LAND USE CHANGE ON LAKE WATER QUALITY IN DIFFERENT BUFFER ZONES. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 13(3). 19 indexed citations

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