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D-Index
41
Citations
7456
World Ranking
5788
National Ranking
123

Jun Sun publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jun Sun sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 233 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Jun Sun D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jun Sun sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jun Sun is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China. Their research spans significant contributions in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on oceanographic and ecological disciplines.

The main subfields of study reflected in their work include:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Jun Sun's research topics cover a broad range of marine and environmental issues, primarily:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Heavy metals in environment

Frequent co-authors in Jun Sun's work include:

  • Yuqiu Wei
  • Guicheng Zhang
  • Haijiao Liu
  • Xingzhou Wang
  • Zhengguo Cui

The scientist has published extensively, with frequent venues including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Jun Sun has authored or co-authored several recent papers, such as:

  • Metals Bioaccumulation in 15 Commonly Consumed Fishes from the Lower Meghna River and Adjacent Areas of Bangladesh and Associated Human Health Hazards (2022, Toxics)
  • Microplastics in Sediment of Kuakata Beach, Bangladesh: Occurrence, Spatial Distribution, and Risk Assessment (2022, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Evaluation of ecosystem health and potential human health hazards in the Hangzhou Bay and Qiantang Estuary region through multiple assessment approaches (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Bioaccumulation and potential human health risks of metals in commercially important fishes and shellfishes from Hangzhou Bay, China (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Intraflagellar transport protein RABL5/IFT22 recruits the BBSome to the basal body through the GTPase ARL6/BBS3 (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Additionally, Jun Sun has contributed to book publications, including the title Microbial Response to a Rapidly Changing Marine Environment: Global Warming and Ocean Acidification, Volume II (2023) published by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Geometric models for calculating cell biovolume and surface area for phytoplankton

    Jun Sun;Dongyan Liu

  • Interactive effects of increased pCO 2 , temperature and irradiance on the marine coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi (Prymnesiophyceae)

    Yuanyuan Feng;Mark E. Warner;Yaohong Zhang;Jun Sun

  • Effects of increased pCO2 and temperature on the North Atlantic spring bloom. I. The phytoplankton community and biogeochemical response

    Yuanyuan Feng;Clinton E. Hare;Karine Leblanc;Julie M. Rose

  • Effects of changing pCO2 and phosphate availability on domoic acid production and physiology of the marine harmful bloom diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries

    Jun Sun;Jun Sun;David A. Hutchins;Yuanyuan Feng;Yuanyuan Feng;Erica L. Seubert

  • Interactive effects of iron, irradiance and CO2 on Ross Sea phytoplankton

    Y. Feng;C. E. Hare;J. M. Rose;J. M. Rose;S. M. Handy

  • A comparison of future increased CO2 and temperature effects on sympatric Heterosigma akashiwo and Prorocentrum minimum

    Fei-Xue Fu;Yaohong Zhang;Mark E. Warner;Yuanyuan Feng

  • Phytoplankton dynamics in the Bohai Sea—observations and modelling

    Hao Wei;Jun Sun;Andreas Moll;Liang Zhao

  • Seasonal variation in the phytoplankton community of a continental-shelf sea: the East China Sea

    Shujin Guo;Yuanyuan Feng;Lei Wang;Minhan Dai

  • Potential P limitation leads to excess N in the pearl river estuarine coastal plume

    Kendong Yin;Kendong Yin;Xiuxian Song;Xiuxian Song;Jun Sun;Jun Sun;Madeline C.S. Wu

  • Seasonal phytoplankton response to physical processes in the southern Yellow Sea

    Xin Liu;Bangqin Huang;Qiu Huang;Lei Wang;Lei Wang

  • SPM transport in the Bohai Sea: field experiments and numerical modelling

    Wensheng Jiang;Thomas Pohlmann;Jun Sun;Andreas Starke

  • Estuarine nutrient loading affects phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing at two contrasting sites in Hong Kong coastal waters

    Bingzhang Chen;Hongbin Liu;Michael R. Landry;Mianrun Chen

  • Comparisons of picophytoplankton abundance, size, and fluorescence between summer and winter in northern South China Sea

    Bingzhang Chen;Bingzhang Chen;Lei Wang;Shuqun Song;Shuqun Song;Bangqin Huang

  • Evaluation of ecosystem health and potential human health hazards in the Hangzhou Bay and Qiantang Estuary region through multiple assessment approaches.

    Genhai Zhu;Abu Noman;Dhiraj Dhondiram Narale;Weihua Feng

  • Seasonal variations in physico-chemical parameters and heavy metals in water and sediments of Uppanar estuary, Nagapattinam, India

    R. Sankar;L. Ramkumar;M. Rajkumar;Jun Sun

  • Response of the diatom flora in Jiaozhou Bay, China to environmental changes during the last century

    Dongyan Liu;Dongyan Liu;Jun Sun;Jing Zhang;Guangshan Liu

  • Diversity and distribution of diazotrophic communities in the South China Sea deep basin with mesoscale cyclonic eddy perturbations

    Yao Zhang;Zihao Zhao;Jun Sun;Nianzhi Jiao

  • Phytoplankton succession during a red tide of Skeletonema costatum in Jiaozhou Bay of China

    Dongyan Liu;Jun Sun;Jingzhong Zou;Jing Zhang

  • Functional trait composition and diversity patterns of marine macrobenthos across the Arctic Bering Sea

    Kun Liu;Kun Liu;Heshan Lin;Heshan Lin;Xuebao He;Yaqin Huang;Yaqin Huang

  • Enhanced Chlorophyll Concentrations Induced by Kuroshio Intrusion Fronts in the Northern South China Sea

    Lin Guo;Peng Xiu;Fei Chai;Fei Chai;Huijie Xue;Huijie Xue

  • Phylogenetic diversity and spatio-temporal distribution of nitrogenase genes (nifH) in the northern South China Sea

    Liangliang Kong;Hongmei Jing;Takafumi Kataoka;Jun Sun

  • Dynamics of heterotrophic bacterial assemblages within Synechococcus cultures

    Qiang Zheng;Yu Wang;Rui Xie;Andrew S. Lang

  • RESEARCH ARTICLES - Effects of increased pCO2 and temperature on the North Atlantic spring bloom. I. The phytoplankton community and biogeochemical response

    Y Zhang;G R DiTullio;D A Hutchins;J Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Hutchins
David A. Hutchins University of Southern California
Hongbin Liu
Hongbin Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Feng Zhou
Feng Zhou Peking University
Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Michio Aoyama
Michio Aoyama University of Tsukuba
Sumei Liu
Sumei Liu Ocean University of China
Lei Wang
Lei Wang University of California, San Francisco
Nurit Kress
Nurit Kress Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Paul J. Harrison
Paul J. Harrison University of Oxford
Gwo-Ching Gong
Gwo-Ching Gong National Taiwan Ocean University

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