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D-Index
40
Citations
6954
World Ranking
8024
National Ranking
2867

Chen Zhu 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 Chen Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 133 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Chen Zhu 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 Chen Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chen Zhu is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has published extensively in the fields of environmental science and engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, notably environmental engineering, geophysics, and environmental chemistry, with additional contributions to mechanics of materials and geochemistry and petrology.

Their work addresses a range of topics including CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, methane hydrates and related phenomena, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, as well as geological and geochemical analysis. Environmental impact and sustainability, radioactive element chemistry and processing, and hydrology and watershed management studies are also prominent areas of study.

Chen Zhu's recent publications reflect their focus on carbon emissions and sustainable building practices. Notable papers include:

  • Factors influencing embodied carbon emissions of China's building sector: An analysis based on extended STIRPAT modeling, 2021, Energy and Buildings
  • Embodied carbon emissions and mitigation potential in China's building sector: An outlook to 2060, 2022, Energy Policy

They have collaborated frequently with coauthors such as Peng Lü, Guanru Zhang, John A. Apps, Alexander Gysi, and Lei Gong.

Their research has appeared regularly in several publication venues, with multiple papers published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Chemical Geology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Best Publications

  • An improved model for the calculation of CO2 solubility in aqueous solutions containing Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl−, and SO42−

    Zhenhao Duan;Rui Sun;Chen Zhu;I-Ming Chou

  • Partitioning of F-Cl-OH between minerals and hydrothermal fluids

    Chen Zhu;Dimitri A. Sverjensky

  • Environmental Applications of Geochemical Modeling

    Chen Zhu;Greg Anderson

  • F-Cl-OH partitioning between biotite and apatite

    Chen Zhu;Dimitri A Sverjensky

  • CO2–brine–caprock interaction: Reactivity experiments on Eau Claire shale and a review of relevant literature

    Faye Liu;Peng Lu;Craig Griffith;Sheila W. Hedges

  • Accurate Thermodynamic Model for the Calculation of H2S Solubility in Pure Water and Brines

    Zhenhao Duan;Rui Sun;Rong Liu;Chen Zhu

  • In situ feldspar dissolution rates in an aquifer

    Chen Zhu

  • On the potential of CO2–water–rock interactions for CO2 storage using a modified kinetic model

    V.T.H. Pham;P. Lu;P. Aagaard;C. Zhu

  • SUPCRTBL: A revised and extended thermodynamic dataset and software package of SUPCRT92

    Kurt Zimmer;Yilun Zhang;Peng Lu;Yanyan Chen

  • Mineralogy and geochemistry of gold-bearing arsenian pyrite from the Shuiyindong Carlin-type gold deposit, Guizhou, China: implications for gold depositional processes

    Wenchao Su;Hongtao Zhang;Ruizhong Hu;Xi Ge

  • Antimony speciation and contamination of waters in the Xikuangshan antimony mining and smelting area, China

    Faye Liu;X. Chris Le;Anthony McKnight-Whitford;Yunlong Xia

  • PVTx properties of the CO2–H2O and CO2–H2O–NaCl systems below 647 K: Assessment of experimental data and thermodynamic models

    Jiawen Hu;Zhenhao Duan;Chen Zhu;I-Ming Chou

  • Alkali feldspar dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation in batch systems: 3. Saturation states of product minerals and reaction paths

    Chen Zhu;Peng Lu

  • Coupled reactive flow and transport modeling of CO2 sequestration in the Mt. Simon sandstone formation, Midwest U.S.A.

    Faye Liu;Peng Lu;Chen Zhu;Yitian Xiao

  • Iron oxide coatings on sand grains from the Atlantic coastal plain: High-resolution transmission electron microscopy characterization

    R.L. Penn;C. Zhu;H. Xu;D.R. Veblen

  • Arsenic Eh–pH diagrams at 25°C and 1 bar

    Peng Lu;Chen Zhu

  • Coupled alkali-feldspar dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation in batch systems: 1. New experiments at 200 °C and 300 bars

    Qi Fu;Peng Lu;Hiromi Konishi;Robert Dilmore

  • Naturally weathered feldspar surfaces in the Navajo Sandstone aquifer, Black Mesa, Arizona : Electron microscopic characterization

    Chen Zhu;David R. Veblen;Alex E. Blum;Stephen J. Chipera

  • Stable silicon isotopes of groundwater, feldspars, and clay coatings in the Navajo Sandstone aquifer, Black Mesa, Arizona, USA.

    R.B. Georg;R.B. Georg;C. Zhu;B.C. Reynolds;A.N. Halliday

  • Estimate of recharge from radiocarbon dating of groundwater and numerical flow and transport modeling

    Chen Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Donald Rimstidt
J. Donald Rimstidt Virginia Tech
Honglin Yuan
Honglin Yuan Northwest University
David R. Veblen
David R. Veblen Johns Hopkins University
Eric H. Oelkers
Eric H. Oelkers University of Iceland
Zhenhao Duan
Zhenhao Duan Peking University
R. Bastian Georg
R. Bastian Georg Agilent Technologies
William E. Seyfried
William E. Seyfried University of Minnesota
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Yanguo Teng
Yanguo Teng Beijing Normal University
Huifang Xu
Huifang Xu University of Wisconsin–Madison

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