2026 Bing Zhang: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	149	306	293	179	171	1076	75967

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Research.com Recognitions

2020 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to hyperspectral image acquisition and processing
2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his significant scientific contributions to the understanding of the physical mechanisms of highenergy astrophysical sources, especially the prompt emission and afterglows of cosmological gammaray bursts

Overview

Bing Zhang is a researcher affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States, with a research focus in Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly work primarily spans the subfields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues, including arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and PubMed. Their research topics cover a wide range within astrophysics and related fields, emphasizing Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, as well as Astro and Planetary Science.

Recent significant publications include:

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source (2022, Nature)
A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source (2021, Nature)
A long-duration gamma-ray burst with a peculiar origin (2022, Nature)
A unified picture of Galactic and cosmological fast radio bursts (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Characterizing the Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxy Population and its Connection to Transients in the Local and Extragalactic Universe (2022, The Astronomical Journal)

Bing Zhang collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Pei Wang, Di Li, Chenhui Niu, Yongkun Zhang, and Jiarui Niu.

Awards received by this scientist include the IEEE Fellow title awarded in 2020 for contributions to hyperspectral image acquisition and processing and the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2014. The APS citation acknowledges significant scientific contributions to understanding the physical mechanisms of high-energy astrophysical sources, particularly the prompt emission and afterglows of cosmological gamma-ray bursts.

Best Publications

Physical processes shaping GRB X-ray afterglow lightcurves: theoretical implications from the Swift XRT observations

Bing Zhang;Y. Z. Fan;Jaroslaw Dyks;Shiho Kobayashi

1394
Citations
Physical Processes Shaping Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Afterglow Light Curves: Theoretical Implications from the Swift X-Ray Telescope Observations

Bing Zhang;Y. Z. Fan;Y. Z. Fan;Jaroslaw Dyks;Shiho Kobayashi;Shiho Kobayashi

1272
Citations
TRIGONOMETRIC PARALLAXES OF MASSIVE STAR-FORMING REGIONS. VI. GALACTIC STRUCTURE, FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS, AND NONCIRCULAR MOTIONS

M. J. Reid;K. M. Menten;X. W. Zheng;A. Brunthaler

1175
Citations
The association of GRB 060218 with a supernova and the evolution of the shock wave

Sergio Campana;V. Mangano;A.J. Blustin;P. Brown

1011
Citations
The Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Relativistic Jets

Pawan Kumar;Bing Zhang

986
Citations
The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets

Pawan Kumar;Bing Zhang

974
Citations
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Progress, Problems & Prospects

Bing Zhang;Peter Mészáros

921
Citations
The Internal-collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) Model of Gamma-ray Bursts

Bing Zhang;Huirong Yan;Huirong Yan

858
Citations
A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225

Neil Gehrels;C.L. Sarazin;Paul T. O'Brien;B. Zhang

743
Citations
Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole

D.N. Burrows;F.E. Marshall;S.T. Holland;M. Eracleous

731
Citations
Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B

J. L. Racusin;S. V. Karpov;M. Sokolowski;J. Granot

708
Citations
Bright X-ray Flares in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows

David N. Burrows;Patrizia Romano;Abraham Falcone;Shiho Kobayashi

670
Citations
GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOW WITH CONTINUOUS ENERGY INJECTION: SIGNATURE OF A HIGHLY MAGNETIZED MILLISECOND PULSAR

Bing Zhang;Peter Mészáros

621
Citations
Relativistic jet activity from the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole

D. N. Burrows;J. A. Kennea;G. Ghisellini;V. Mangano

605
Citations
DISCERNING THE PHYSICAL ORIGINS OF COSMOLOGICAL GAMMA-RAY BURSTS BASED ON MULTIPLE OBSERVATIONAL CRITERIA: THE CASES OF z = 6.7 GRB 080913, z = 8.2 GRB 090423, AND SOME SHORT/HARD GRBs

Bing Zhang;Bin-Bin Zhang;Francisco J. Virgili;En-Wei Liang

590
Citations
The Early X-Ray Emission from GRBs

P. T. O’Brien;R. Willingale;J. Osborne;M. R. Goad

484
Citations
Discerning the physical origins of cosmological Gamma-ray bursts based on multiple observational criteria: the cases of z=6.7 GRB 080913, z=8.3 GRB 090423, and some short/hard GRBs

Bing Zhang;Bin-Bin Zhang;Francisco J. Virgili;En-Wei Liang

478
Citations
A Possible Connection between Fast Radio Bursts and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Bing Zhang

465
Citations
An origin for short gamma-ray bursts unassociated with current star formation

S D Barthelmy;G Chincarini;G Chincarini;D N Burrows;N Gehrels

463
Citations
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star

Ligo Sci, Virgo, Antares;Z. Cano;Antonio de Ugarte Postigo

0
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