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7200
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7093
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700

Gui-Peng Yang 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 Gui-Peng Yang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 280 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gui-Peng Yang 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 Gui-Peng Yang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gui-Peng Yang is affiliated with the Ocean University of China in China. Their research spans a broad range of topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with specific focus on oceanography, atmospheric science, pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and ecology.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes several significant papers:

  • Bacteria are important dimethylsulfoniopropionate producers in marine aphotic and high-pressure environments (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Pollution characteristics, spatial variation, and potential risks of phthalate esters in the water-sediment system of the Yangtze River estuary and its adjacent East China Sea (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Aerobic oxidation of methane significantly reduces global diffusive methane emissions from shallow marine waters (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Effects of microplastics exposure on ingestion, fecundity, development, and dimethylsulfide production in Tigriopus japonicus (Harpacticoida, copepod) (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • A novel ATP dependent dimethylsulfoniopropionate lyase in bacteria that releases dimethyl sulfide and acryloyl-CoA (2021, eLife)

Their work covers numerous research topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, ocean acidification effects and responses, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and microplastics and plastic pollution.

Frequent co-authors in Gui-Peng Yang's publications include:

  • Honghai Zhang
  • Chun-Ying Liu
  • Peifeng Li
  • Zhen He
  • Juan Yu

They have contributed regularly to several specialized scientific journals, predominantly:

  • Environmental Pollution (16 publications)
  • Marine Environmental Research (11 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (10 publications)
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin (8 publications)
  • Marine Chemistry (7 publications)

Their research fields are rooted primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work in Environmental Science. Subfield expertise includes oceanography, atmospheric science, and pollution among others, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex marine and environmental processes.

Best Publications

  • Dimethylsulfoniopropionate biosynthesis in marine bacteria and identification of the key gene in this process.

    Andrew R J Curson;Ji Liu;Ji Liu;Ana Bermejo Martínez;Robert T Green

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the sediments of the South China Sea.

    Gui-Peng Yang

  • Occurrence, distribution, and ecological risks of phthalate esters in the seawater and sediment of Changjiang River Estuary and its adjacent area.

    Ze-Ming Zhang;Hong-Hai Zhang;Jing Zhang;Qian-Wen Wang

  • Photochemical degradation of dimethyl phthalate by Fenton reagent

    Xue-Kun Zhao;Gui-Peng Yang;Yu-Jue Wang;Xian-Chi Gao

  • Distribution and ecotoxicological state of phthalate esters in the sea-surface microlayer, seawater and sediment of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea

    Ze-Ming Zhang;Hong-Hai Zhang;Ya-Wen Zou;Gui-Peng Yang;Gui-Peng Yang

  • Oxidative degradation of diethyl phthalate by photochemically-enhanced Fenton reaction.

    Gui-Peng Yang;Xue-Kun Zhao;Xiao-Jing Sun;Xiao-Lan Lu

  • Composition, abundance and age of total organic carbon in surface sediments from the inner shelf of the East China Sea

    Xinxin Li;Xinxin Li;Thomas S. Bianchi;Mead A. Allison;Piers Chapman

  • Historical trends of hypoxia in Changjiang River estuary: Applications of chemical biomarkers and microfossils

    Xinxin Li;Xinxin Li;Thomas S. Bianchi;Zuosheng Yang;Lisa E. Osterman

  • Bacteria are important dimethylsulfoniopropionate producers in marine aphotic and high-pressure environments.

    Yanfen Zheng;Jinyan Wang;Shun Zhou;Yunhui Zhang

  • Biogenic production of DMSP and its degradation to DMS-their roles in the global sulfur cycle

    Xiao-Hua Zhang;Ji Liu;Jingli Liu;Guipeng Yang

  • Studies on the sorption behaviors of nitrobenzene on marine sediments.

    Xue-Kun Zhao;Gui-Peng Yang;Xian-Chi Gao

  • Pollution characteristics, spatial variation, and potential risks of phthalate esters in the water-sediment system of the Yangtze River estuary and its adjacent East China Sea.

    Ze-Ming Zhang;Jing Zhang;Hong-Hai Zhang;Xi-Zhi Shi

  • Temporal and spatial variations of dimethylsulfide (DMS) and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea

    Gui-Peng Yang;Hong-Hai Zhang;Li-Min Zhou;Jian Yang

  • Distribution and cycling of dimethylsulfide (DMS) and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in the sea-surface microlayer of the Yellow Sea, China, in spring

    Hong-Hai Zhang;Gui-Peng Yang;Tong Zhu

  • Speciation and spatial distribution of solid-phase iron in surface sediments of the East China Sea continental shelf

    Mao-Xu Zhu;Mao-Xu Zhu;Xiao-Chen Hao;Xiao-Chen Hao;Xiao-Ning Shi;Xiao-Ning Shi;Gui-Peng Yang;Gui-Peng Yang

  • Biogenic emission of dimethylsulfide (DMS) from the North Yellow Sea, China and its contribution to sulfate in aerosol during summer

    Gui-Peng Yang;Hong-Hai Zhang;Lu-Ping Su;Li-Min Zhou

  • Spatial variation of biogenic sulfur in the south Yellow Sea and the East China Sea during summer and its contribution to atmospheric sulfate aerosol.

    Sheng-Hui Zhang;Gui-Peng Yang;Gui-Peng Yang;Hong-Hai Zhang;Hong-Hai Zhang;Jian Yang;Jian Yang

  • Effects of microplastics exposure on ingestion, fecundity, development, and dimethylsulfide production in Tigriopus japonicus (Harpacticoida, copepod).

    Juan Yu;Ji-Yuan Tian;Rui Xu;Zheng-Yu Zhang

  • Molecular insight into bacterial cleavage of oceanic dimethylsulfoniopropionate into dimethyl sulfide

    Chun-Yang Li;Tian-Di Wei;Sheng-Hui Zhang;Xiu-Lan Chen

  • Dimethylsulfide enrichment in the surface microlayer of the South China Sea

    Gui-Peng Yang

  • Biogeochemistry of dimethylsulfide (DMS) and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in the surface microlayer of the western North Pacific

    Gui-Peng Yang;Gui-Peng Yang;Shizuo Tsunogai

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu-Zhong Zhang
Yu-Zhong Zhang Shandong University
Maurice Levasseur
Maurice Levasseur Université Laval
Xiu-Lan Chen
Xiu-Lan Chen Shandong University
Shizuo Tsunogai
Shizuo Tsunogai Hokkaido University
Hermann W. Bange
Hermann W. Bange GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Thomas S. Bianchi
Thomas S. Bianchi University of New Hampshire
Jean-Éric Tremblay
Jean-Éric Tremblay Université Laval
Mead A. Allison
Mead A. Allison Tulane University
Philippe D. Tortell
Philippe D. Tortell University of British Columbia
Andrew McMinn
Andrew McMinn University of Tasmania

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