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Pinxian Wang

Pinxian Wang

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 64 1479 1318 96 91 285 15503

Pinxian Wang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Pinxian Wang between 1982 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Pinxian Wang published across 44 years, from 1982 to 2025, averaging 6.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 45 publications in 2005. 2 of the 296 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1982 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 45. Peak 45 publications in 2005. 1982: 1 publication 1983: 3 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 2 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 10 publications 2000: 11 publications 2001: 12 publications 2002: 8 publications 2003: 40 publications 2004: 21 publications 2005: 45 publications 2006: 24 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 12 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 14 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 1 publication 2017: 3 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 1 publication
1982 2025

296 publications in total across all disciplines

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Pinxian Wang: publications per year, 1982 to 2025
Year Publications
1982 1
1983 3
1984 0
1985 0
1986 1
1987 0
1988 1
1989 0
1990 2
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 1
1995 1
1996 1
1997 2
1998 5
1999 10
2000 11
2001 12
2002 8
2003 40
2004 21
2005 45
2006 24
2007 9
2008 12
2009 11
2010 9
2011 7
2012 5
2013 5
2014 14
2015 5
2016 1
2017 3
2018 4
2019 8
2020 6
2021 2
2022 2
2023 2
2024 1
2025 1
Total 296
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Pinxian Wang publications per year - data summary

  • Pinxian Wang, a Earth Science scholar from Tongji University, has 296 publications recorded across 44 years, from 1982 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1982 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2005, with 45 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1982, 1986, 1988, 1994 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 7 of the 44 years in the span carry no publications at all (1984, 1985, 1987, 1989 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 6.7 papers per year over the whole span, or 8.0 per year counting only the 37 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 8 publications, 3% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1982-1996: 11 publications (0.7 per year); 1997-2011: 226 publications (15.1 per year); 2012-2025: 59 publications (4.2 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Pinxian Wang 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 Pinxian Wang 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, 278–287 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: 285 publications — 84th percentile

84% 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
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128 285
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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Pinxian Wang publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,176 Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 58 ranges running from 38–47 to 603+ publications.
  • Pinxian Wang, a Earth Science scholar from Tongji University, records 285 publications - the 84th percentile of the discipline.
  • 84% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Pinxian Wang, and about 16% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 168–177 publications range, and Pinxian Wang ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 128–137 publications, holding 557 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 58% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 178–187 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 603 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Pinxian Wang 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 Pinxian Wang 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, 64 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: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
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 64
65 83
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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Pinxian Wang D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,176 Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 77 ranges running from 30 to 106+ D-Index.
  • Pinxian Wang, a Earth Science scholar from Tongji University, records 64 D-Index - the 84th percentile of the discipline.
  • 84% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Pinxian Wang, and about 16% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 44 D-Index range, and Pinxian Wang ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 36 D-Index, holding 389 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 62% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 49 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more, 98 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Pinxian Wang is a researcher affiliated with Tongji University in China, focused primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, and Paleontology. The main topics Wang addresses in research encompass Geology and Paleoclimatology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Astro and Planetary Science, Drilling and Well Engineering, and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Their publication record includes papers such as:

  • Low-latitude forcing: A new insight into paleo-climate changes (2021, The Innovation)
  • Dole effect as a measurement of the low-latitude hydrological cycle over the past 800 ka (2020, Science Advances)
  • Evolution of biotic carbon pumps in Earth history: Microbial roles as a carbon sink in oceans (2021, Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version))
  • 40 (2022, Earth Science-Journal of China University of Geosciences)
  • Evolution of water cycle in deep time: Current research status and key questions (2023, Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version))

Wang collaborates frequently with other researchers, including C. Làj, Zhimin Jian, Warren L Prell, Peter Blum, and Eve Arnold. These frequent co-authorships reflect integrated work in their fields of study.

Their research appears regularly in venues such as:

  • Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Innovation
  • Science Advances

In 2006, Pinxian Wang was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • How old is the Asian monsoon system?—Palaeobotanical records from China

    Xiangjun Sun;Xiangjun Sun;Pinxian Wang

  • Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon system: state of the art and outstanding issues.

    Pinxian Wang;Steven Clemens;Luc Beaufort;Pascale Braconnot

  • Response of Western Pacific marginal seas to glacial cycles: paleoceanographic and sedimentological features

    Pinxian Wang

  • Holocene variability of the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough, northwestern Pacific Ocean

    Zhimin Jian;Zhimin Jian;Pinxian Wang;Yoshiki Saito;Jiliang Wang

  • The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

    Pin Xian Wang;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;John Fasullo

  • Clay mineral assemblages in the northern South China Sea: implications for East Asian monsoon evolution over the past 2 million years

    Zhifei Liu;Alain Trentesaux;Steven C Clemens;Christophe Colin

  • Sedimentary facies and Holocene progradation rates of the Changjiang (Yangtze) delta, China

    Kazuaki Hori;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Xinrong Cheng

  • Global monsoon in a geological perspective

    PinXian Wang

  • Late Quaternary paleoceanography of the South China Sea: surface circulation and carbonate cycles

    Pinxian Wang;Luejiang Wang;Yunhua Bian;Zhimi Jian

  • Architecture and evolution of the tide-dominated Changjiang (Yangtze) River delta, China

    Kazuaki Hori;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Pinxian Wang

  • Sedimentary facies of the tide-dominated paleo-Changjiang (Yangtze) estuary during the last transgression

    Kazuaki Hori;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Xinrong Cheng

  • Deep-sea pollen from the South China Sea: Pleistocene indicators of East Asian monsoon

    Xiangjun Sun;Xiangjun Sun;Yunli Luo;Fei Huang;Jun Tian

  • Vegetation and climate changes in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Delta, China, during the past 13,000 years inferred from pollen records

    Sangheon Yi;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Pinxian Wang

  • Geochemical and Nd isotopic variations in sediments of the South China Sea: a response to Cenozoic tectonism in SE Asia

    Xian-hua Li;Gangjian Wei;Lei Shao;Ying Liu

  • The South China Sea : paleoceanography and sedimentology

    Pinxian Wang;Qianyu Li

  • Plio–Quaternary sedimentation processes and neotectonics of the northern continental margin of the South China Sea

    T Lüdmann;How Kin Wong;Pinxian Wang

  • MINERALOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENT IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (ODP SITE 1144)

    Pleistocene Sediment;S. Boulay

  • Astronomically tuned Plio–Pleistocene benthic δ 18 O record from South China Sea and Atlantic–Pacific comparison

    Jun Tian;Pinxian Wang;Xinrong Cheng;Qianyu Li

  • The global monsoon across timescales: coherent variability of regional monsoons

    P. X. Wang;B. Wang;H. Cheng;H. Cheng;J. Fasullo

  • Distinct distribution pattern of abundance and diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in the global ocean

    Nianzhi Jiao;Yao Zhang;Yonghui Zeng;Ning Hong

  • Ecological anomalies in the East China Sea: Impacts of the three gorges dam?

    Nianzhi Jiao;Yao Zhang;Yonghui Zeng;Wilford D. Gardner

  • Continent-ocean interactions within the East Asian Marginal seas

    Peter D. Clift;Pinxian Wang;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Robert Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Tian
Jun Tian Tongji University
Qianyu Li
Qianyu Li Tongji University
Warren L Prell
Warren L Prell Brown University
Zhimin Jian
Zhimin Jian Tongji University
Michael Sarnthein
Michael Sarnthein Kiel University
Wolfgang Kuhnt
Wolfgang Kuhnt Kiel University
Markus Kienast
Markus Kienast Dalhousie University
Kefu Yu
Kefu Yu Guangxi University
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Min-Te Chen
Min-Te Chen National Taiwan Ocean University

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