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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 44 4826 4448 313 307 111 5341

Hong Zhong publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Hong Zhong between 1998 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Hong Zhong published across 28 years, from 1998 to 2025, averaging 4.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2020. 6 of the 119 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2020. 1998: 1 publication 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 0 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 1 publication 2005: 3 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 3 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 7 publications 2020: 13 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 4 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 1 publication
1998 2025

119 publications in total across all disciplines

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Hong Zhong: publications per year, 1998 to 2025
Year Publications
1998 1
1999 0
2000 1
2001 0
2002 1
2003 1
2004 1
2005 3
2006 3
2007 3
2008 4
2009 3
2010 5
2011 5
2012 5
2013 8
2014 10
2015 5
2016 3
2017 5
2018 7
2019 7
2020 13
2021 9
2022 6
2023 4
2024 5
2025 1
Total 119
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Hong Zhong 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 Hong Zhong 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, 108–117 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: 111 publications — 17th percentile

17% 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
108–117 484 111
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
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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Hong Zhong 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 Hong Zhong 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, 44 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: 44 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% 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 44
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
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

Hong Zhong is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics. Over a substantial body of work comprising 77 publications, their research encompasses various subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ophthalmology, and Geology.

The main topics explored in their research include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping. Additional areas cover Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Intraocular Surgery and Lenses.

Frequent collaboration has been a notable aspect of their academic career. Their most common coauthors are:

  • Zhong-Jie Bai
  • Weiguang Zhu
  • Wei Mao
  • Ruizhong Hu
  • Yanjun Wang

The research outputs are primarily published in the following venues:

  • Economic Geology
  • Lithos
  • Mineralium Deposita
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Minerals

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Hong Zhong include:

  • Granite-Related Tin Metallogenic Events and Key Controlling Factors in Peninsular Malaysia, Southeast Asia: New Insights from Cassiterite U-Pb Dating and Zircon Geochemistry, 2020, Economic Geology
  • Combined Zircon, Molybdenite, and Cassiterite Geochronology and Cassiterite Geochemistry of the Kuntabin Tin-Tungsten Deposit in Myanmar, 2020, Economic Geology
  • Petrogenesis of multistage S-type granites from the Malay Peninsula in the Southeast Asian tin belt and their relationship to Tethyan evolution, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Early sulfide saturation in arc volcanic rocks of southeast China: Implications for the formation of co-magmatic porphyry-epithermal Cu-Au deposits, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Late Cretaceous granitic magmatism and Sn mineralization in the giant Yinyan porphyry tin deposit, South China: constraints from zircon and cassiterite U-Pb and molybdenite Re-Os geochronology, 2020, Mineralium Deposita

Best Publications

  • Shrimp U-Pb zircon geochronology, geochemistry, and Nd-Sr isotopic study of contrasting granites in the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China

    Hong Zhong;Wei-Guang Zhu;Zhu-Yin Chu;De-Feng He

  • Early Neoproterozoic (̃850Ma) back-arc basin in the Central Jiangnan Orogen (Eastern South China): Geochronological and petrogenetic constraints from meta-basalts

    Yuzhi Zhang;Yuejun Wang;Hongyan Geng;Yanhua Zhang

  • Timing and source constraints on the relationship between mafic and felsic intrusions in the Emeishan large igneous province

    Hong Zhong;Ian H. Campbell;Wei-Guang Zhu;Charlotte M. Allen

  • Zircon U-Pb ages, Hf-O isotopes and whole-rock Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic geochemistry of granitoids in the Jinshajiang suture zone, SW China:Constraints on petrogenesis and tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean

    Jing-Jing Zhu;Rui-Zhong Hu;Xian-Wu Bi;Hong Zhong

  • Geochronology of layered mafic intrusions from the Pan–Xi area in the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China

    Hong Zhong;Wei-Guang Zhu

  • Zircon U–Pb geochronology and major, trace elemental and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic geochemistry of mafic dykes in western Shandong Province, east China: Constrains on their petrogenesis and geodynamic significance

    Shen Liu;Shen Liu;RuiZhong Hu;Shan Gao;CaiXia Feng

  • Zircon U-Pb age and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope geochemistry of the Panzhihua A-type syenitic intrusion in the Emeishan large igneous province, southwest China and implications for growth of juvenile crust

    Hong Zhong;Wei-Guang Zhu;Rui-Zhong Hu;Lie-Wen Xie

  • Platinum-group element geochemistry of the Hongge Fe–V–Ti deposit in the Pan-Xi area, southwestern China

    Hong Zhong;Xin-Hua Zhou;Mei-Fu Zhou;Min Sun

  • The early Jurassic mafic-ultramafic intrusion and A-type granite from northeastern Guangdong, SE China: Age, origin, and tectonic significance

    Wei-Guang Zhu;Hong Zhong;Xian-Hua Li;De-Feng He

  • Whole-Rock and Mineral Composition Constraints on the Genesis of the Giant Hongge Fe-Ti-V Oxide Deposit in the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, Southwest China

    Zhong-Jie Bai;Hong Zhong;Anthony J. Naldrett;Wei-Guang Zhu

  • Ca. 1.5 Ga mafic magmatism in South China during the break-up of the supercontinent Nuna/Columbia: The Zhuqing Fe–Ti–V oxide ore-bearing mafic intrusions in western Yangtze Block

    Hong-Peng Fan;Wei-Guang Zhu;Zheng-Xiang Li;Hong Zhong

  • Geological and geochemical constraints on the origin of the giant Lincang coal seam-hosted germanium deposit, Yunnan, SW China: A review

    Rui-Zhong Hu;Hua-Wen Qi;Mei-Fu Zhou;Wen-Chao Su

  • REE geochemistry of carbonates from the Guanmenshan Formation, Liaohe Group, NE Sino-Korean Craton: Implications for seawater compositional change during the Great Oxidation Event

    Hao-Shu Tang;Hao-Shu Tang;Yan-Jing Chen;Yan-Jing Chen;M. Santosh;Hong Zhong

  • Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Cretaceous igneous intrusions and Mo–Cu–(W) mineralization in the southern Yidun Arc, SW China: Implications for metallogenesis and geodynamic setting

    Xin-Song Wang;Xian-Wu Bi;Cheng-Biao Leng;Hong Zhong

  • SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronology, elemental, and Nd isotopic geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic mafic dykes in the Yanbian area, SW China

    Wei-Guang Zhu;Hong Zhong;Xian-Hua Li;Hai-Lin Deng

  • Zircon U-Pb and molybdenite Re-Os geochronology and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic constraints on the genesis of the Xuejiping porphyry copper deposit in Zhongdian, Northwest Yunnan, China

    Cheng-Biao Leng;Xing-Chun Zhang;Rui-Zhong Hu;Shou-Xu Wang

  • Petrogenesis of the early Eocene I-type granites in west Yingjiang (SW Yunnan) and its implication for the eastern extension of the Gangdese batholiths

    Liyan Ma;Yuejun Wang;Weiming Fan;Hongyan Geng

  • Trace-element and Sr–Nd isotopic geochemistry of the PGE-bearing Xinjie layered intrusion in SW China

    Hong Zhong;Hong Zhong;Yong Yao;Stephen A. Prevec;Allan H. Wilson

  • Petrogenesis of the Pt–Pd mineralized Jinbaoshan ultramafic intrusion in the Permian Emeishan Large Igneous Province, SW China

    Yan Tao;Chusi Li;Ruizhong Hu;Edward M. Ripley

  • Petrogenesis of metaluminous A-type granitoids in the Tengchong–Lianghe tin belt of southwestern China: Evidences from zircon U–Pb ages and Hf–O isotopes, and whole-rock Sr–Nd isotopes

    Xiao-Cui Chen;Rui-zhong Hu;Xian-Wu Bi;Hong Zhong

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruizhong Hu
Ruizhong Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xian-Wu Bi
Xian-Wu Bi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chusi Li
Chusi Li Indiana University
Liang Qi
Liang Qi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mei-Fu Zhou
Mei-Fu Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xian-Hua Li
Xian-Hua Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xie-Yan Song
Xie-Yan Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yan-Jing Chen
Yan-Jing Chen Peking University
Zhu-Yin Chu
Zhu-Yin Chu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Edward M. Ripley
Edward M. Ripley Indiana University

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