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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 45 6406 6149 650 646 103 7831

Lihai Shang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Lihai Shang between 2003 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Lihai Shang published across 24 years, from 2003 to 2026, averaging 4.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2018. 2 of the 112 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2003 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2018. 2003: 5 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 7 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 2 publications 2015: 2 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 0 publications 2026: 2 publications
2003 2026

112 publications in total across all disciplines

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Lihai Shang: publications per year, 2003 to 2026
Year Publications
2003 5
2004 3
2005 2
2006 6
2007 1
2008 7
2009 5
2010 6
2011 7
2012 4
2013 3
2014 2
2015 2
2016 9
2017 4
2018 17
2019 4
2020 5
2021 4
2022 4
2023 5
2024 5
2025 0
2026 2
Total 112
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Lihai Shang 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 Lihai Shang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 101–110 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 103 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492 103
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Lihai Shang 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 Lihai Shang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 45 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348 45
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Lihai Shang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Pollution, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their recent academic output includes a diverse set of publications addressing environmental contaminants, heavy metals, and their effects on ecosystems and human health. Notable recent papers include:

  • Distribution patterns and sources of heavy metals in soils from an industry undeveloped city in Southern China, 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Status and risks of selenium deficiency in a traditional selenium-deficient area in Northeast China, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Heavy metal(loid)s in farmland soils on the Karst Plateau, Southwest China: An integrated analysis of geochemical baselines, source apportionment, and associated health risk, 2022, Land Degradation and Development
  • Mercury distribution in a typical shallow lake in northern China and its re-emission from sediment, 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Recycling of phosphate tailings for an efficient hydroxyapatite-based adsorbent to immobilize heavy metal cations, 2023, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frequent co-authors in Shang's work include Guangyi Sun, Xinbin Feng, Yanju Ma, Wei Zhang, and Liwei Cui. These collaborations contribute to research published regularly in several key journals.

Their primary publication venues reflect the focus of the research and include:

  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Environmental Pollution
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Land Degradation and Development
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Lihai Shang's main topics of study cover mercury impact and mitigation, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, marine animal studies, and environmental heavy metal distribution. Specific topics include:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Selenium in Biological Systems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

This scope of work contributes to understanding environmental risks related to heavy metals, selenium nutrition deficiencies, and pollutant bioavailability in various ecological contexts.

Best Publications

  • Remediation of mercury contaminated sites - A review

    Jianxu Wang;Xinbin Feng;Christopher W.N. Anderson;Ying Xing

  • Mercury pollution in Asia: a review of the contaminated sites.

    P. Li;X.B. Feng;G.L. Qiu;L.H. Shang

  • Human exposure to methylmercury through rice intake in mercury mining areas, Guizhou province, China.

    Xinbin Feng;Ping Li;Guangle Qiu;Shaofeng Wang

  • Bioaccumulation of Methylmercury versus Inorganic Mercury in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Grain

    Hua Zhang;Xinbin Feng;Thorjørn Larssen;Lihai Shang

  • Methylmercury accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown at abandoned mercury mines in Guizhou, China.

    Guangle Qiu;Xinbin Feng;Ping Li;Shaofeng Wang

  • The Process of Methylmercury Accumulation in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

    Bo Meng;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Peng Liang

  • Mercury and methylmercury in riparian soil, sediments, mine-waste calcines, and moss from abandoned Hg mines in east Guizhou province, southwestern China

    Guangle Qiu;Xinbin Feng;Shaofeng Wang;Lihai Shang

  • Distribution patterns of inorganic mercury and methylmercury in tissues of rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants and possible bioaccumulation pathways.

    Bo Meng;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Yong Cai

  • Environmental contamination of mercury from Hg-mining areas in Wuchuan, northeastern Guizhou, China.

    Guangle Qiu;Xinbin Feng;Shaofeng Wang;Lihai Shang

  • Re‐evaluation of distillation and comparison with HNO3 leaching/solvent extraction for isolation of methylmercury compounds from sediment/soil samples

    Lian Liang;Milena Horvat;Xinbin Feng;Lihai Shang

  • Mass-Dependent and -Independent Fractionation of Mercury Isotope during Gas-Phase Oxidation of Elemental Mercury Vapor by Atomic Cl and Br.

    Guangyi Sun;Jonas Sommar;Xinbin Feng;Che-Jen Lin

  • Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Mercury in China: New Evidence for Sources and Transformation Processes in Air and in Vegetation.

    Ben Yu;Xuewu Fu;Runsheng Yin;Hui Zhang

  • Speciated atmospheric mercury and its potential source in Guiyang, China

    Xuewu Fu;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Lihai Shang

  • Temporal variation of total gaseous mercury in the air of Guiyang, China

    Xinbin Feng;Lihai Shang;Shaofeng Wang;Shunlin Tang

  • Total gaseous mercury in the atmosphere of Guiyang, PR China.

    Xinbin Feng;Shunlin Tang;Lihai Shang;Haiyu Yan

  • Mercury methylation in rice paddies and its possible controlling factors in the Hg mining area, Guizhou province, Southwest China.

    Lei Zhao;Guangle Qiu;Christopher W.N. Anderson;Bo Meng

  • Mercury exposure in the population from Wuchuan mercury mining area, Guizhou, China.

    Ping Li;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Lihai Shang

  • Mercury distribution and speciation in water and fish from abandoned Hg mines in Wanshan, Guizhou province, China

    Guangle Qiu;Xinbin Feng;Shaofeng Wang;Xuewu Fu

  • Mercury pollution from artisanal mercury mining in Tongren, Guizhou, China

    Ping Li;Xinbin Feng;Lihai Shang;Guangle Qiu

  • Mercury pollution in Wuchuan mercury mining area, Guizhou, Southwestern China: the impacts from large scale and artisanal mercury mining.

    Ping Li;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Lihai Shang

  • Seasonal variation of gaseous mercury exchange rate between air and water surface over Baihua reservoir, Guizhou, China

    Xinbin Feng;Haiyu Yan;Shaofeng Wang;Guangle Qiu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangle Qiu
Guangle Qiu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuewu Fu
Xuewu Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Che-Jen Lin
Che-Jen Lin Lamar University
Jonas Sommar
Jonas Sommar Chinese Academy of Sciences
Thorjørn Larssen
Thorjørn Larssen Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Runsheng Yin
Runsheng Yin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Yan
Hong Yan City University of Hong Kong
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Xun Wang
Xun Wang Tsinghua University

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