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D-Index
32
Citations
3737
World Ranking
8711
National Ranking
561

Le Zhang 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 Le Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 205 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Le Zhang 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 Le Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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: 181 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: 32 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • IsotopeMaker: A Matlab program for isotopic data reduction

    Le Zhang;Zhong-Yuan Ren;Xiao-Ping Xia;Jie Li

  • Molybdenum Mass Fractions and Isotopic Compositions of International Geological Reference Materials

    Pei-Pei Zhao;Jie Li;Le Zhang;Zhi-Bing Wang

  • Lead isotope analysis of melt inclusions by LA-MC-ICP-MS

    Le Zhang;Zhong-Yuan Ren;Alexander R. L. Nichols;Yin-Hui Zhang

  • Oxidation State of Arc Mantle Revealed by Partitioning of V, Sc, and Ti Between Mantle Minerals and Basaltic Melts

    Jintuan Wang;Xiaolin Xiong;Eiichi Takahashi;Le Zhang

  • A sample of the Moon’s far side retrieved by Chang’e-6 contains 2.83-billion-year-old basalt

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  • Primary magmas and mantle sources of Emeishan basalts constrained from major element, trace element and Pb isotope compositions of olivine-hosted melt inclusions

    Zhong-Yuan Ren;Ya-Dong Wu;Le Zhang;Alexander R.L. Nichols

  • Silurian high-pressure granulites from Central Qiangtang, Tibet: Constraints on early Paleozoic collision along the northeastern margin of Gondwana

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  • Evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the Siberian margin from Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic accretion to Devonian trench retreat and a comparison with Phanerozoic eastern Australia

    Pengfei Li;Min Sun;Chutian Shu;Chao Yuan

  • In situ determination of trace elements in melt inclusions using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma sector field mass spectrometry.

    Le Zhang;Zhong-Yuan Ren;Xiao-Ping Xia;Qing Yang

  • Isotopic Compositions (Li‐B‐Si‐O‐Mg‐Sr‐Nd‐Hf‐Pb) and Fe 2+ /ΣFe Ratios of Three Synthetic Andesite Glass Reference Materials (ARM‐1, ARM‐2, ARM‐3)

    Shitou Wu;Yueheng Yang;Klaus Peter Jochum;Rolf L. Romer

  • Fe (hydro) oxide controls Mo isotope fractionation during the weathering of granite

    Zhibing Wang;Jinlong Ma;Jie Li;Gangjian Wei

  • Initial Rifting of the Lhasa Terrane from Gondwana: Insights From the Permian (~262 Ma) Amphibole-Rich Lithospheric Mantle-Derived Yawa Basanitic Intrusions in Southern Tibet

    Yun Chuan Zeng;Yun Chuan Zeng;Ji Feng Xu;Ji Feng Xu;Mihai N. Ducea;Mihai N. Ducea;Jian Lin Chen;Jian Lin Chen

  • Chemical and Pb isotope composition of olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Hannuoba basalts, North China Craton: Implications for petrogenesis and mantle source

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  • Combined Zircon, Molybdenite, and Cassiterite Geochronology and Cassiterite Geochemistry of the Kuntabin Tin-Tungsten Deposit in Myanmar

    Wei Mao;Hong Zhong;Jiehua Yang;Yanwen Tang

  • Linking source and sink: Detrital zircon provenance record of drainage systems in Vietnam and the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea

    Ce Wang;Xinquan Liang;David A. Foster;Chuanxin Tong

  • Petrogenesis of high-Ti mafic dykes from Southern Qiangtang, Tibet: Implications for a ca. 290 Ma large igneous province related to the early Permian rifting of Gondwana

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  • RMJG Rutile: A New Natural Reference Material for Microbeam U‐Pb Dating and Hf Isotopic Analysis

    Le Zhang;Jia‐Lin Wu;Jia‐Run Tu;Dan Wu

  • Texture and geochemistry of multi-stage hydrothermal scheelite in the Tongshankou porphyry-skarn Cu-Mo(-W) deposit, eastern China: Implications for ore-forming process and fluid metasomatism

    Jinsheng Han;Huayong Chen;Wei Hong;Pete Hollings

  • The origins of high-Ti and low-Ti magmas in large igneous provinces, insights from melt inclusion trace elements and Sr-Pb isotopes in the Emeishan large Igneous Province

    Le Zhang;Zhong-Yuan Ren;Monica R. Handler;Ya-Dong Wu

  • In situ rutile U-Pb dating by laser ablation-MC-ICPMS

    Xiaoping Xia;Zhongyuan Ren;Gangjian Wei;Le Zhang

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