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Maoyan Zhu 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 Maoyan Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 185 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Maoyan Zhu 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 Maoyan Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Maoyan Zhu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research principally spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Paleontology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scope of their work covers diverse topics within earth sciences, highlighting:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Maoyan Zhu has contributed extensively to multiple peer-reviewed journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Precambrian Research
  • Geology
  • Science Advances
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhu include:

  • "The tempo of Ediacaran evolution" (2021), Science Advances
  • "Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen" (2020), Nature Geoscience
  • "U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology tracks stratigraphic condensation in the Sturtian snowball Earth aftermath" (2020), Geology
  • "Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran - Cambrian radiation of animals" (2021), Earth-Science Reviews
  • "The Evolution Pathway of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Shaped by Major Geological Events" (2021), Molecular Biology and Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Fangchen Zhao
  • Zongjun Yin
  • Han Zeng
  • Tianchen He
  • Chuan Yang

Best Publications

  • U-Pb ages from the neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China

    Daniel Condon;Maoyan Zhu;Samuel Bowring;Wei Wang

  • Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of the Yangtze Platform (China)

    Michael Steiner;Guoxiang Li;Yi Qian;Maoyan Zhu

  • Integrated Ediacaran (Sinian) chronostratigraphy of South China

    Maoyan Zhu;Junming Zhang;Aihua Yang

  • Advances in Cambrian stratigraphy and paleontology: Integrating correlation techniques, paleobiology, taphonomy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction

    Mao-Yan Zhu;Loren E. Babcock;Shan-Chi Peng

  • Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts

    Leiming Yin;Maoyan Zhu;Andrew H. Knoll;Xunlai Yuan

  • Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals

    Xi Chen;Hong-Fei Ling;Derek Vance;Graham A. Shields-Zhou

  • Cerium anomaly variations in Ediacaran–earliest Cambrian carbonates from the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Implications for oxygenation of coeval shallow seawater

    Hong-Fei Ling;Xi Chen;Da Li;Dan Wang

  • Sinian-Cambrian stratigraphic framework for shallow- to deep-water environments of the Yangtze Platform: an integrated approach

    Maoyan Zhu;Junming Zhang;Micheal Steiner;Aihua Yang

  • Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

    Maoyan Zhu;Maoyan Zhu;Aihua Yang;Jingliang Yuan;Guoxiang Li

  • Trace element chemostratigraphy of two Ediacaran-Cambrian successions in South China: Implications for organosedimentary metal enrichment and silicification in the early Cambrian

    Qingjun Guo;Qingjun Guo;Graham A. Shields;Graham A. Shields;Congqiang Liu;Harald Strauss

  • sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian

    Zongjun Yin;Maoyan Zhu;Eric H. Davidson;David J. Bottjer

  • Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and sedimentary facies evolution of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in western Hubei, South China

    Maoyan Zhu;Miao Lu;Junming Zhang;Fangchen Zhao

  • Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China.

    Shixing Zhu;Maoyan Zhu;Andrew H. Knoll;Zongjun Yin

  • Lower Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils of northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi (China), and their biostratigraphic importance

    Michael Steiner;Guoxiang Li;Yi Qian;Maoyan Zhu

  • From snowball earth to the Cambrian bioradiation: Calibration of Ediacaran-Cambrian earth history in South China

    Maoyan (朱茂炎) Zhu;Harald Strauss;Graham A. Shields

  • Eight-armed Ediacara fossil preserved in contrasting taphonomic windows from China and Australia

    Maoyan Zhu;James G. Gehling;Shuhai Xiao;Yuanlong Zhao

  • The tempo of Ediacaran evolution.

    Chuan Yang;Alan D. Rooney;Daniel J. Condon;Xian-Hua Li

  • Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals

    Tianchen He;Tianchen He;Maoyan Zhu;Benjamin J. W. Mills;Peter M. Wynn

  • Evolution of C isotopes in the Cambrian of China: implications for Cambrian subdivision and trilobite mass extinctions

    Mao-Yan Zhu;Jun-Ming Zhang;Guo-Xiang Li;Ai-Hua Yang

  • Stabilization of the coupled oxygen and phosphorus cycles by the evolution of bioturbation

    Richard Boyle;Richard Boyle;Tais Wittchen Dahl;Tais Wittchen Dahl;A. W. Dale;G. A. Shields-Zhou

  • A deep root for the Cambrian explosion: Implications of new bio- and chemostratigraphy from the Siberian Platform

    M. Zhu;A.Yu. Zhuravlev;R.A. Wood;F. Zhao

  • Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China

    Michael Steiner;Maoyan Zhu;Yuanlong Zhao;Bernd-Dietrich Erdtmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham A. Shields
Graham A. Shields University College London
Hong-Fei Ling
Hong-Fei Ling Nanjing University
Daniel J. Condon
Daniel J. Condon British Geological Survey
Xian-Hua Li
Xian-Hua Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Loren E. Babcock
Loren E. Babcock The Ohio State University
Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton University of Leeds
David J. Bottjer
David J. Bottjer University of Southern California
Philip C. J. Donoghue
Philip C. J. Donoghue University of Bristol
Harald Strauss
Harald Strauss University of Münster
Francis A. Macdonald
Francis A. Macdonald University of California, Santa Barbara

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