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Pinxian Wang

Pinxian Wang

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Earth Science

D-Index
64
Citations
15503
World Ranking
1479
National Ranking
96

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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