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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 65 1433 1273 91 86 233 12924

Ji Shen publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Ji Shen between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Ji Shen published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 8.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 27 publications in 2015. 11 of the 259 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 27. Peak 27 publications in 2015. 1997: 1 publication 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 7 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 11 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 16 publications 2013: 18 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 27 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 16 publications 2020: 20 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 3 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 7 publications
1997 2025

259 publications in total across all disciplines

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Ji Shen: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year Publications
1997 1
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 5
2002 4
2003 1
2004 7
2005 7
2006 6
2007 12
2008 8
2009 4
2010 11
2011 15
2012 16
2013 18
2014 8
2015 27
2016 13
2017 12
2018 13
2019 16
2020 20
2021 18
2022 3
2023 3
2024 4
2025 7
Total 259
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Ji Shen 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 Ji Shen 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, 228–237 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: 233 publications — 74th percentile

74% 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
228–237 262 233
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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Ji Shen 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 Ji Shen 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, 65 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: 65 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83 65
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

Ji Shen is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their scientific work spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, addressing topics related to paleoclimatology, ecology, and environmental chemistry.

The main fields of study in their research include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these broad areas, their work extends into subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Anthropology

Ji Shen's research topics cover a range of subjects focusing on long-term environmental and climate dynamics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Their recent papers illustrate this diverse scope, with selected publications including:

  • "Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage" (2020) published in Science Bulletin
  • "Vegetation, climate and human impact since 20 ka in central Yunnan Province based on high-resolution pollen and charcoal records from Dianchi, southwestern China" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Quantification of temperature and precipitation changes in northern China during the '5000-year' Chinese History" (2021) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Paleoclimate Significance of Reconstructed Rainfall Isotope Changes in Asian Monsoon Region" (2021) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Holocene lake-level fluctuations of Selin Co on the central Tibetan plateau: Regulated by monsoonal precipitation or meltwater?" (2021) published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Ji Shen has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

  • Cheng Zhao
  • Qi Lin
  • Ke Zhang
  • Enlou Zhang
  • Xiaoping Feng

Their work frequently appears in specific academic journals, indicating a targeted engagement with key publication venues related to their fields:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • CATENA
  • Science Bulletin
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Marine Geology

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

    Jianjun Wang;Ji Shen;Yucheng Wu;Chen Tu

  • Glacial-Interglacial Indian Summer Monsoon Dynamics

    An Zhisheng;An Zhisheng;Steven C. Clemens;Ji Shen;Xiaoke Qiang

  • Asian monsoon oscillations in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau since the late glacial as interpreted from visible reflectance of Qinghai Lake sediments

    Junfeng Ji;Ji Shen;William Balsam;Jun Chen

  • Holocene environmental and climatic changes inferred from Wulungu Lake in northern Xinjiang, China

    Xingqi Liu;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ji Shen;Qingfen Jiang

  • The Holocene vegetation history of Lake Erhai, Yunnan province southwestern China: the role of climate and human forcings

    Ji Shen;Richard T. Jones;Xiangdong Yang;John A. Dearing

  • Spatial distribution, contamination and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments of Erhai Lake, a large eutrophic plateau lake in southwest China

    Qi Lin;Enfeng Liu;Enlou Zhang;Kai Li

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and climate history inferred from an alpine lacustrine record, northwestern Yunnan Province, southwestern China

    Xiayun Xiao;Simon G. Haberle;Ji Shen;Xiangdong Yang

  • Southwest monsoon changes indicated by oxygen isotope of ostracode shells from sediments in Qinghai Lake since the late Glacial

    XingQi Liu;Ji Shen;SuMin Wang;YongBo Wang

  • Using multiple archives to understand past and present climate–human–environment interactions: the lake Erhai catchment, Yunnan Province, China

    John Dearing;John Dearing;R. T. Jones;J Shen;X Yang

  • Holocene moisture and East Asian summer monsoon evolution in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by Lake Qinghai and its environs: A review of conflicting proxies

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Duo Wu;Duo Wu;Jianhui Chen;Aifeng Zhou

  • Contrasting patterns in elevational diversity between microorganisms and macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Janne Soininen;Yong Zhang;Beixin Wang

  • Late Cenozoic climate changes in China's western interior: a review of research on Lake Qinghai and comparison with other records

    Steven M. Colman;Shi-Yong Yu;Zhisheng An;Ji Shen

  • Carbon burial by shallow lakes on the Yangtze floodplain and its relevance to regional carbon sequestration

    Xuhui Dong;N. John Anderson;Xiangdong Yang;Xu chen

  • A 16000-year pollen record of Qinghai Lake and its paleo-climate and paleoenvironment

    Xingqi Liu;Ji Shen;Sumin Wang;Xiangdong Yang

  • Surface sediment diatom assemblages and epilimnetic total phosphorus in large, shallow lakes of the Yangtze floodplain: their relationships and implications for assessing long-term eutrophication

    Xiangdong Yang;N. John Anderson;Xuhui Dong;Ji Shen

  • Phylogenetic clustering increases with elevation for microbes.

    Jianjun Wang;Janne Soininen;Jizheng He;Ji Shen

  • Holocene vegetational and climatic variation in westerly-dominated areas of Central Asia inferred from the Sayram Lake in northern Xinjiang, China

    Jiang QingFeng;Jiang QingFeng;JI JunFeng;Shen Ji;Ryo Matsumoto

  • Do patterns of bacterial diversity along salinity gradients differ from those observed for macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Dongmei Yang;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang;Ji Shen

  • People, pollution and pathogens – Global change impacts in mountain freshwater ecosystems

    Dirk S Schmeller;Adeline Loyau;Kunshan Bao;Werner Brack

  • Chemical weathering since the Little Ice Age recorded in lake sediments: a high-resolution proxy of past climate

    Zhangdong Jin;Sumin Wang;Ji Shen;Enlou Zhang

  • Patterns of elevational beta diversity in micro- and macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Janne Soininen;Yong Zhang;Beixin Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Enlou Zhang
Enlou Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiangdong Yang
Xiangdong Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Enfeng Liu
Enfeng Liu Shandong Normal University
Sumin Wang
Sumin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianjun Wang
Jianjun Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Janne Soininen
Janne Soininen University of Helsinki
Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
James Shulmeister
James Shulmeister University of Canterbury
Simon G. Haberle
Simon G. Haberle Australian National University

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