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Fahu Chen 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 Fahu Chen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 533 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fahu Chen 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 Fahu Chen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 107 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Fahu Chen is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, contributing extensively across numerous related subfields.

Their main subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Anthropology, and Ecology. The breadth of their work encompasses multiple key topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Tree-ring climate responses, Climate variability and models, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Geological formations and processes.

Chen's recent publications illustrate the diversity and scope of their research. These include:

  • "Estimation of China's terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink: Methods, progress and prospects" (2022) published in Science China Earth Sciences
  • "Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau" (2020) published in Science
  • "Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Unintended consequences of combating desertification in China" (2023) published in Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Chen has frequently collaborated with several co-authors including Shengqian Chen, Jianhui Chen, Duo Wu, Aifeng Zhou, and Juzhi Hou. These collaborations contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of their work, combining expertise from various scientific perspectives.

Their research has been published extensively in multiple scientific venues, with notable recurring publications in Science Bulletin, Quaternary Science Reviews, Science China Earth Sciences, Earth-Science Reviews, and the Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version).

Best Publications

  • Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

    Fahu Chen;Zicheng Yu;Zicheng Yu;Meilin Yang;Emi Ito

  • A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from an 1810-year Chinese cave record.

    Pingzhong Zhang;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Fahu Chen

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

    Fahu H. Chen;Qinghai H. Xu;Jianhui H. Chen;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

    J. Huang;Y. Li;Y. Li;C. Fu;C. Fu;F. Chen

  • Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.

    F. H. Chen;G. H. Dong;D. J. Zhang;X. Y. Liu

  • Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Jianhui Chen;Wei Huang;Shengqian Chen

  • Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

    Loukas Barton;Seth D. Newsome;Fa-Hu Chen;Hui Wang

  • Moisture changes over the last millennium in arid central Asia: a review, synthesis and comparison with monsoon region

    Fa-Hu Chen;Jian-Hui Chen;Jonathan Holmes;Ian Boomer

  • Estimation of China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink: Methods, progress and prospects

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  • El Niño modulations over the past seven centuries

    Jinbao Li;Jinbao Li;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Edward R. Cook;Mariano S. Morales

  • A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Chuan Chou Shen;Shara E. Bailey;Shara E. Bailey

  • High-resolution multi-proxy climate records from Chinese loess: evidence for rapid climatic changes over the last 75 kyr

    F.H. Chen;J. Bloemendal;J.M. Wang;J.J. Li

  • Hydroclimatic changes in China and surroundings during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age: spatial patterns and possible mechanisms

    Jianhui Chen;Fahu Chen;Song Feng;Wei Huang

  • Simultaneous determination of human and veterinary antibiotics in various environmental matrices by rapid resolution liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.

    L. J. Zhou;G. G. Ying;S. Liu;J. L. Zhao

  • Desertification in China: An assessment

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Fahu Chen;Eerdun Hasi;Jinchang Li

  • A persistent Holocene wetting trend in arid central Asia, with wettest conditions in the late Holocene, revealed by multi-proxy analyses of loess-paleosol sequences in Xinjiang, China

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Jia Jia;Jianhui Chen;Guoqiang Li

  • Holocene East Asian summer monsoon records in northern China and their inconsistency with Chinese stalagmite δ18O records

    Jianbao Liu;Jianhui Chen;Xiaojian Zhang;Yu Li

  • Vegetation response to Holocene climate change in monsoon-influenced region of China

    Yan Zhao;Zicheng Yu;Fahu Chen;Jiawu Zhang

  • The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

  • East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia.

    Huan Zhang;Johannes P. Werner;Elena García-Bustamante;Fidel González-Rouco

  • East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

    Fahu Chen;Qinghai Xu;Jianhui Chen;H. John B. Birks

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianhui Chen
Jianhui Chen Lanzhou University
Xiaohua Gou
Xiaohua Gou Lanzhou University
Aifeng Zhou
Aifeng Zhou Lanzhou University
Jinbao Li
Jinbao Li University of Hong Kong
David B. Madsen
David B. Madsen University of Nevada Reno
Mingrui Qiang
Mingrui Qiang South China Normal University
Qinghai Xu
Qinghai Xu Hebei Normal University
Yan Zhao
Yan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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