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Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

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Earth Science
Taiwan
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
81
Citations
21401
World Ranking
501
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Chen-Tung Arthur Chen is affiliated with National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial emphasis on Environmental Science. Within these fields, Chen's work spans several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research topics notably include Marine and coastal ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Marine and fisheries research.

Chen has contributed to several recent papers published in a variety of scientific journals. Notable works include:

  • Controls on surface water carbonate chemistry along North American ocean margins, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The role of Mg2+ in inhibiting CaCO3 precipitation from seawater, 2021, Marine Chemistry
  • Best Practice Data Standards for Discrete Chemical Oceanographic Observations, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Massive shellfish farming might accelerate coastal acidification: A case study on carbonate system dynamics in a bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) farming area, North Yellow Sea, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hypoxia in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Chen collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Ting-Hsuan Huang, Hon-Kit Lui, Li-Lian Liu, Wei-Jun Cai, and Xianqiang He.

Their work is regularly published in a range of scientific outlets. The journals and venues with the highest number of publications include Sustainability, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Marine Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Chen has also contributed to academic books, including a publication with Springer Nature titled Changing Asia-Pacific Marginal Seas, released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Heavy metal pollution status in surface sediments of the coastal Bohai Bay.

    Xuelu Gao;Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

  • Reconciling opposing views on carbon cycling in the coastal ocean: Continental shelves as sinks and near-shore ecosystems as sources of atmospheric CO2

    Chen-Tung Arthur Chen;Alberto V. Borges

  • Chemical and physical fronts in the Bohai, Yellow and East China seas

    Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

  • thermodynamic properties for natural waters covering only the limnological range1

    Chen-Tung A. Chen;Frank J. Millero

  • Carbon, alkalinity and nutrient budgets on the East China Sea continental shelf

    Chen-Tung Arthur Chen;Shu-Lun Wang

  • Pollution status of the Bohai Sea: an overview of the environmental quality assessment related trace metals

    Xuelu Gao;Fengxia Zhou;Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

  • Recent changes of water discharge and sediment load in the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Basin, China

    Shurong Zhang;Xi Xi Lu;David L. Higgitt;Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

  • Achieving Highly Efficient Atmospheric CO 2 Uptake by Artificial Upwelling

    Yiwen Pan;Long You;Yifan Li;Wei Fan

  • Air–sea exchanges of CO 2 in the world's coastal seas

    C.-T. A. Chen;C.-T. A. Chen;C.-T. A. Chen;T.-H. Huang;Y.-C. Chen;Y. Bai

  • Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration

    Eduardo S. Brondizio;Karen O'Brien;Xuemei Bai;Frank Biermann

  • Current status and past trends of the global carbon cycle

    C. L. Sabine;M. Heimann;P. Artaxo;D. C. E. Bakker

  • Detrital fine-grained sediment contribution from Taiwan to the northern South China Sea and its relation to regional ocean circulation

    Zhifei Liu;Shouting Tuo;Christophe Colin;James T. Liu

  • Using geostationary satellite ocean color data to map the diurnal dynamics of suspended particulate matter in coastal waters

    Xianqiang He;Xianqiang He;Yan Bai;Delu Pan;Ningli Huang

  • Comparison of hypoxia among four river-dominated ocean margins: The Changjiang (Yangtze), Mississippi, Pearl, and Rhone rivers

    C. Rabouille;D.J. Conley;M.H. Dai;W.-J. Cai

  • Moderate Chemical Weathering of Subtropical Taiwan: Constraints from Solid‐Phase Geochemistry of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

    Kandasamy Selvaraj;Chen‐Tung Arthur Chen

  • pH of seawater

    G.M. Marion;F.J. Millero;M.F. Camões;P. Spitzer

  • Down to Earth: Contextualizing the Anthropocene

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Xuemei Bai;Ninad Bondre;Wendy Broadgate

  • The Kuroshio intermediate water is the major source of nutrients on the East China Sea continental shelf

    C.-T.A. Chen

  • A comparative overview of weathering intensity and HCO3− flux in the world's major rivers with emphasis on the Changjiang, Huanghe, Zhujiang (Pearl) and Mississippi Rivers

    Wei-Jun Cai;Xianghui Guo;Xianghui Guo;Chen-Tung Arthur Chen;Minhan Dai

  • Nutrient budgets for the South China Sea basin

    Chen-Tung Arthur Chen;Shu-Lun Wang;Bing-Jye Wang;Su-Cheng Pai

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank J. Millero
Frank J. Millero University of Miami
Kon-Kee Liu
Kon-Kee Liu National Taiwan University
Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Weidong Zhai
Weidong Zhai Shandong University
Kedong Yin
Kedong Yin Sun Yat-sen University
Chau Ron Wu
Chau Ron Wu National Chung Hsing University
Wei-Jun Cai
Wei-Jun Cai University of Delaware
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Nianzhi Jiao
Nianzhi Jiao Xiamen University
Xixi Lu
Xixi Lu National University of Singapore

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