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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 54 4057 3881 313 304 149 10345

Buwen Dong publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Buwen Dong between 1995 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Buwen Dong published across 31 years, from 1995 to 2025, averaging 6 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2024. 26 of the 186 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1995 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2024. 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 4 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 3 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 5 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 13 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 10 publications 2024: 17 publications 2025: 9 publications
1995 2025

186 publications in total across all disciplines

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Buwen Dong: publications per year, 1995 to 2025
Year Publications
1995 1
1996 1
1997 4
1998 3
1999 1
2000 3
2001 2
2002 4
2003 0
2004 3
2005 4
2006 4
2007 7
2008 2
2009 3
2010 4
2011 1
2012 5
2013 6
2014 8
2015 7
2016 4
2017 13
2018 13
2019 13
2020 11
2021 12
2022 11
2023 10
2024 17
2025 9
Total 186
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Buwen Dong publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Buwen Dong sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 141–150 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 149 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541 149
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Buwen Dong D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Buwen Dong sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 54 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198 54
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Buwen Dong is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing extensively on the interactions between atmospheric processes and climate variability.

The main fields of study in Dong's work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

The subfields highlighted in their research are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics covered in Dong's body of work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Among the frequent publication venues where Dong's research has appeared are:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Dong has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Simon F. B. Tett
  • Fraser C. Lott
  • Fangxing Tian
  • Rowan Sutton
  • Nicolas Freychet

Representative recent papers authored by Dong include:

  • Recent decadal weakening of the summer Eurasian westerly jet attributable to anthropogenic aerosol emissions, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The dynamic and thermodynamic processes dominating the reduction of global land monsoon precipitation driven by anthropogenic aerosols emission, 2020, Science China Earth Sciences
  • Development, Amplification, and Decay of Atlantic/European Summer Weather Patterns Linked to Spring North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Anthropogenic Influences on the Persistent Night-Time Heat Wave in Summer 2018 over Northeast China, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Anthropogenic Influence on 2018 Summer Persistent Heavy Rainfall in Central Western China, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The concentration on atmospheric phenomena such as aerosols, their chemistry, and influence on climate models reflects Dong's scientific approach to understanding the complex dynamics of terrestrial and atmospheric systems.

Best Publications

  • The new hadley centre climate model (HadGEM1) : Evaluation of coupled simulations

    T. C. Johns;C. F. Durman;H. T. Banks;M. J. Roberts

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • Atlantic Ocean influence on a shift in European climate in the 1990s

    Rowan T. Sutton;Buwen Dong

  • Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations

    Rowan T. Sutton;Buwen Dong;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Impact of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on the Asian summer monsoon

    Riyu Lu;Buwen Dong;Hui Ding

  • The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO

    Axel Timmermann;Y. Okumura;Soon-Il An;Amy Clement

  • Decadal to multidecadal variability and the climate change background

    David Parker;Chris Folland;Adam Scaife;Jeff Knight

  • Multidecadal modulation of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variance by Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton;Adam A. Scaife

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • Westward extension of North Pacific subtropical high in summer

    Riyu Lu;Buwen Dong

  • Dominant role of greenhouse-gas forcing in the recovery of Sahel rainfall

    Buwen Dong;Rowan Sutton

  • Mechanism of interdecadal thermohaline circulation variability in a coupled ocean : Atmosphere GCM

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton

  • Adjustment of the coupled ocean–atmosphere system to a sudden change in the Thermohaline Circulation

    B.-W. Dong;R. T. Sutton

  • Intercomparison of Simulated Global Vegetation Distributions in Response to 6 kyr BP Orbital Forcing

    S. P. Harrison;D. Jolly;F. Laarif;A. Abe-Ouchi

  • Influence of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on the Asian monsoon-arid environment evolution

    XiaoDong Liu;XiaoDong Liu;BuWen Dong

  • Revisiting Asian monsoon formation and change associated with Tibetan Plateau forcing: II. Change

    Yimin Liu;Guoxiong Wu;Jieli Hong;Buwen Dong

  • Contrasting interannual and multidecadal NAO variability

    T. Woollings;C. Franzke;D. L. R. Hodson;B. Dong

  • Understanding Land–Sea Warming Contrast in Response to Increasing Greenhouse Gases. Part I: Transient Adjustment

    Buwen Dong;Jonathan Michael Gregory;Rowan Timothy Sutton

  • Variability of the North Atlantic summer storm track: mechanisms and impacts on European climate

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton;Tim Woollings;Kevin Hodges

  • Enhancement of ENSO Variability by a Weakened Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled GCM

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton

Frequent Co-Authors

Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton University of Reading
Riyu Lu
Riyu Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaodong Liu
Xiaodong Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Laura Wilcox
Laura Wilcox University of Reading
Simon F. B. Tett
Simon F. B. Tett University of Edinburgh
Len Shaffrey
Len Shaffrey University of Reading
Paul J. Valdes
Paul J. Valdes University of Bristol
Nick Dunstone
Nick Dunstone Met Office
Tim Woollings
Tim Woollings University of Oxford
Eleanor J. Highwood
Eleanor J. Highwood University of Reading

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