代表性科研项目：
1.国家重点研发计划课题，2016YFC0402102，长江生态航道架构及评价方法体系，2016.7–2020.12，骨干
2.水利部委托科研项目，全面建立河长制工作中期评估技术支撑与服务工作方案，2017.12–2018.6，参加
3.国家自然科学基金面上项目，51379010，流域泥沙运动的环境效应及其机理研究，2014–2017，参加
代表性论文：
1.Wang YC, Ni JR*, Yue Y, Li JY, Borthwick AGL, Cai XM, Xue A, Li L, Wang GQ. Solving the mystery of vanishing rivers in China. National Science Review, 2019, 6(6), 1239–1246.
2.Wang YC#, Chen XB#, Borthwick AGL, Li TH, Liu HH, Yang SF, Zheng CM, Xu JH, Ni JR*. Sustainability of Global Golden Inland Waterways. Nature Communications, 2020, 11(1553)，https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15354-1.
3.Wang YC, Gao XW, Li TJ, Yue Y, Fang HQ, Ni JR*. Geocode-based aquatic habitats in hierarchical system of the Yellow River basin. Journal of Environmental Informatics, 2018, 32(2), 69–81.
4. Chen XB,Wang YC*, Ni JR. Structural characteristics of river networks and their relations to basin factors in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins. Science China Technological Sciences, 2019, 62(11), 1885–1895.
5. Yue Y, Ni JR*, Ciais P, Piao SL, Wang T, Huang MT, Borthwick AGL, Li TH,Wang YC, Chappell A, Oost KV. Lateral transport of soil carbon and land−atmosphere CO2flux induced by water erosion in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, 113(24), 6617–6622.
6. Li L, Ni JR*, Chang F, Yue Y, Frolova N, Dmitry Magritsky D, Borthwick AGL, Ciais P,Wang YC,Zheng CM, Walling DE. Global trends in water and sediment fluxes of the world’s large rivers. Science Bulletin, 2020, 65(1), 62–69.