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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 55 3896 3723 422 418 183 9913

Qianggong Zhang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Qianggong Zhang between 2001 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Qianggong Zhang published across 26 years, from 2001 to 2026, averaging 8.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 28 publications in 2016. 25 of the 229 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 28. Peak 28 publications in 2016. 2001: 1 publication 2002: 0 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 0 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 4 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 13 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 28 publications 2017: 16 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 18 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 18 publications 2023: 11 publications 2024: 16 publications 2025: 20 publications 2026: 5 publications
2001 2026

229 publications in total across all disciplines

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Qianggong Zhang: publications per year, 2001 to 2026
Year Publications
2001 1
2002 0
2003 0
2004 0
2005 0
2006 1
2007 4
2008 6
2009 5
2010 5
2011 4
2012 13
2013 4
2014 5
2015 10
2016 28
2017 16
2018 14
2019 18
2020 11
2021 14
2022 18
2023 11
2024 16
2025 20
2026 5
Total 229
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Qianggong Zhang 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 Qianggong Zhang 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, 181–190 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: 183 publications — 58th percentile

58% 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
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400 183
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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Qianggong Zhang 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 Qianggong Zhang 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, 55 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: 55 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% 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
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177 55
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

Qianggong Zhang is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, primarily focusing on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work encompasses a wide range of topics related to environmental chemistry, ecology, and atmospheric processes.

They have produced 128 publications in the field of Environmental Science and 48 in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of study include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Pollution.

The principal research topics covered by Qianggong Zhang include:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Heavy metals in environment

Their recent scholarly output features several papers spanning environmental microbiology, air pollution, and carbon cycling, including:

  • Soil microbial trait-based strategies drive metabolic efficiency along an altitude gradient, 2021, ISME Communications
  • Local temperature increases reduce soil microbial residues and carbon stocks, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Light absorption properties of elemental carbon (EC) and water-soluble brown carbon (WS-BrC) in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: A 5-year study, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Spatio-temporal characteristics of air pollutants over Xinjiang, northwestern China, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Black carbon and organic carbon dataset over the Third Pole, 2022, Earth system science data

Frequent co-authors with whom Qianggong Zhang has collaborated extensively include Shichang Kang, Junming Guo, Xiufeng Yin, Lekhendra Tripathee, and Yindong Tong.

The research contributions are often published in several notable venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Best Publications

  • Aerosol mass spectrometer constraint on the global secondary organic aerosol budget

    D. V. Spracklen;J. L. Jimenez;K. S. Carslaw;D. R. Worsnop

  • Sources of black carbon to the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau glaciers

    Chaoliu Li;Carme Bosch;Shichang Kang;August Andersson

  • Linking atmospheric pollution to cryospheric change in the Third Pole region: current progress and future prospects

    Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang;Yun Qian;Zhenming Ji

  • Decline in Chinese lake phosphorus concentration accompanied by shift in sources since 2006

    Yindong Tong;Wei Zhang;Xuejun Wang;Raoul-Marie Couture;Raoul-Marie Couture

  • Highly time-resolved chemical characterization of atmospheric submicron particles during 2008 Beijing Olympic Games using an Aerodyne High-Resolution Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

    X.-F. Huang;L.-Y. He;M. Hu;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning: Recent progress and perspectives

    Hemraj Bhattarai;Eri Saikawa;Xin Wan;Hongxia Zhu

  • Major ionic composition of precipitation in the Nam Co region, Central Tibetan Plateau

    Chaoliu Li;Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang;Susan Kaspari

  • Water-Soluble Brown Carbon in Atmospheric Aerosols from Godavari (Nepal), a Regional Representative of South Asia

    Guangming Wu;Kirpa Ram;Kirpa Ram;Pingqing Fu;Wan Wang

  • Atmospheric Mercury Depositional Chronology Reconstructed from Lake Sediments and Ice Core in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau.

    Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Jie Huang;Jie Huang;Jie Huang;Feiyue Wang;Qianggong Zhang;Qianggong Zhang

  • Soil microbial trait-based strategies drive metabolic efficiency along an altitude gradient

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  • Elemental composition of Tibetan Plateau top soils and its effect on evaluating atmospheric pollution transport.

    Chaoliu Li;Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang

  • Simulation of carbonaceous aerosols over the Third Pole and adjacent regions: distribution, transportation, deposition, and climatic effects

    Zhenming Ji;Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Zhiyuan Cong;Zhiyuan Cong;Qianggong Zhang;Qianggong Zhang

  • Atmospheric transport of mercury to the Tibetan Plateau.

    Mark Loewen;Shichang Kang;Debbie Armstrong;Qianggong Zhang

  • Organic molecular tracers in the atmospheric aerosols from Lumbini, Nepal, in the northern Indo-Gangetic Plain: influence of biomass burning

    Xin Wan;Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Quanlian Li;Dipesh Rupakheti

  • Spatial and seasonal variations of elemental composition in Mt. Everest (Qomolangma) snow/firn

    Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang;Susan Kaspari;Dahe Qin

  • Mercury Distribution and Deposition in Glacier Snow over Western China

    Qianggong Zhang;Jie Huang;Feiyue Wang;Loewen Mark

  • Heavy metals in surface sediments in the trans-Himalayan Koshi River catchment: Distribution, source identification and pollution assessment.

    Mingyue Li;Qianggong Zhang;Qianggong Zhang;Xuejun Sun;Kabita Karki

  • Recent temperature increase recorded in an ice core in the source region of Yangtze River

    ShiChang Kang;YongJun Zhang;DaHe Qin;JiaWen Ren

  • Top-down constraints on atmospheric mercury emissions and implications for global biogeochemical cycling

    Shaoije Song;Noelle Eckley Selin;Anne L. Soerensen;Anne L. Soerensen;Hélène Angot

  • Wet deposition of mercury at a remote site in the Tibetan Plateau: Concentrations, speciation, and fluxes

    Jie Huang;Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang;Haiyu Yan

  • Characteristics and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in atmospheric aerosols in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

    Pengfei(陈鹏飞) Chen;Shichang(康世昌) Kang;Chaoliu(李潮流) Li;Maheswar Rupakheti

  • Carbonaceous aerosol characteristics on the Third Pole: A primary study based on the Atmospheric Pollution and Cryospheric Change (APCC) network.

    Pengfei Chen;Shichang Kang;Chaoliu Li;Qianggong Zhang

  • Surface ozone at Nam Co in the inland Tibetan Plateau: variation, synthesis comparison and regional representativeness

    Xiufeng Yin;Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Benjamin de Foy;Zhiyuan Cong

Frequent Co-Authors

Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhiyuan Cong
Zhiyuan Cong Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chaoliu Li
Chaoliu Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jie Huang
Jie Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mika Sillanpää
Mika Sillanpää University of Johannesburg
Maheswar Rupakheti
Maheswar Rupakheti Research Institute for Sustainability
Dahe Qin
Dahe Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuejun Wang
Xuejun Wang Peking University
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jiawen Ren
Jiawen Ren Chinese Academy of Sciences

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