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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 60 1903 1716 118 113 221 12595

Fei Chai publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Fei Chai between 1956 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Fei Chai published across 71 years, from 1956 to 2026, averaging 4.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2020. 20 of the 335 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1956 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2020. 1956: 1 publication 1957: 0 publications 1958: 0 publications 1959: 0 publications 1960: 0 publications 1961: 0 publications 1962: 0 publications 1963: 0 publications 1964: 0 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 0 publications 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 2 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 1 publication 2001: 1 publication 2002: 5 publications 2003: 9 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 14 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 16 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 22 publications 2020: 25 publications 2021: 23 publications 2022: 15 publications 2023: 24 publications 2024: 25 publications 2025: 19 publications 2026: 1 publication
1956 2026

335 publications in total across all disciplines

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Fei Chai: publications per year, 1956 to 2026
Year Publications
1956 1
1957 0
1958 0
1959 0
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 0
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 1
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 1
1996 2
1997 1
1998 2
1999 1
2000 1
2001 1
2002 5
2003 9
2004 10
2005 5
2006 9
2007 14
2008 5
2009 12
2010 10
2011 16
2012 7
2013 12
2014 16
2015 7
2016 10
2017 9
2018 14
2019 22
2020 25
2021 23
2022 15
2023 24
2024 25
2025 19
2026 1
Total 335
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Fei Chai publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fei Chai sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 218–227 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 221 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290 221
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Fei Chai D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fei Chai sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 60 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135 60
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Fei Chai is affiliated with the Ministry of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Oceanography and related subfields. The scientist's work intersects with areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Marine and fisheries research

Fei Chai has published numerous papers in several prominent scientific journals. Some of their recent works include:

  • Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Persistent eutrophication and hypoxia in the coastal ocean, 2023, Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures
  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coupling and Decoupling of High Biomass Phytoplankton Production and Hypoxia in a Highly Dynamic Coastal System: The Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Distribution and variability of sea surface temperature fronts in the south China sea, 2020, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Progress In Oceanography

Frequent collaborators with Fei Chai include Yuntao Wang, Peng Xiu, Xiaogang Xing, Huijie Xue, and Wentao Ma.

Best Publications

  • Iron and grazing constraints on primary production in the central equatorial Pacific: An EqPac synthesis

    Michael R. Lundry;Richard T. Barber;Robert R. Bidare;Fei Chai

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • Physical-Biological Oceanographic Coupling Influencing Phytoplankton and Primary Production in the South China Sea

    X. Ning;Fei Chai;Huijie Xue;Y. Cai

  • Kuroshio intrusion and the circulation in the South China Sea

    Huijie Xue;Fei Chai;Neal Pettigrew;Danya Xu

  • A Census of Eddy Activities in the South China Sea During 1993-2007

    Peng Xiu;Fei Chai;Lei Shi;Huijie Xue

  • One-dimensional ecosystem model of the equatorial Pacific upwelling system. Part I: model development and silicon and nitrogen cycle

    F. Chai;R.C. Dugdale;T.-H. Peng;F.P. Wilkerson

  • Primary productivity and its regulation in the equatorial Pacific during and following the 1991–1992 El Niño

    Richard T. Barber;Marta P. Sanderson;Steven T. Lindley;Fei Chai

  • Assessment of skill and portability in regional marine biogeochemical models : Role of multiple planktonic groups

    Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Jeffrey A. Dusenberry;Laurence A. Anderson;Robert A. Armstrong

  • Regional estimates of the export flux of particulate organic carbon derived from thorium-234 during the JGOFS EqPac program

    Ken O. Buesseler;John A. Andrews;Mary C. Hartman;Rebecca Belastock

  • Modelling climate‐related variability of tuna populations from a coupled ocean–biogeochemical‐populations dynamics model

    Patrick Lehodey;Fei Chai;John Hampton

  • Pelagic functional group modeling: Progress, challenges and prospects

    Raleigh R. Hood;Edward A. Laws;Robert A. Armstrong;Nicholas R. Bates

  • Assessing the uncertainties of model estimates of primary productivity in the tropical Pacific Ocean

    Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Mary-Elena Carr;Richard T. Barber;Michele Scardi

  • Upper ocean export of particulate organic carbon in the Arabian Sea derived from thorium-234

    Ken Buesseler;Lary Ball;John Andrews;Claudia Benitez-Nelson

  • Challenges of Modeling Ocean Basin Ecosystems

    Brad deYoung;Mike Heath;Francisco Werner;Fei Chai

  • Ocean iron fertilization-Moving forward in a sea of uncertainty

    Ken O. Buesseler;Scott C. Doney;David M. Karl;Philip W. Boyd

  • Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms

    Fei Chai;Fei Chai;Kenneth S. Johnson;Hervé Claustre;Xiaogang Xing

  • Future changes in coastal upwelling ecosystems with global warming: The case of the California Current System.

    Peng Xiu;Fei Chai;Fei Chai;Enrique N. Curchitser;Frederic S. Castruccio

  • Identification of different types of Kuroshio intrusion into the South China Sea

    Feng Nan;Feng Nan;Huijie Xue;Fei Chai;Lei Shi

  • Modeled biogeochemical responses to mesoscale eddies in the South China Sea

    Peng Xiu;Fei Chai

  • Persistent eutrophication and hypoxia in the coastal ocean

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  • Geochemistry of the Permian Kalatongke Mafic Intrusions, Northern Xinjiang, Northwest China: Implications for the Genesis of Magmatic Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposits

    Zhaochong Zhang;Jingwen Mao;Fengmei Chai;Shenghao Yan

  • Origin and maintenance of a high nitrate condition in the equatorial Pacific

    Fei Chai;Steven T. Lindley;Richard T. Barber

Frequent Co-Authors

Huijie Xue
Huijie Xue University of Maine
Richard C. Dugdale
Richard C. Dugdale San Francisco State University
Frances P. Wilkerson
Frances P. Wilkerson San Francisco State University
Richard T. Barber
Richard T. Barber Duke University
Yi Chao
Yi Chao University of California, Los Angeles
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Mark L. Wells
Mark L. Wells University of Maine
Emmanuel Boss
Emmanuel Boss University of Maine
Tsung-Hung Peng
Tsung-Hung Peng Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia

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