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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 65 2201 2101 223 220 205 15494

Rong Ji publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Rong Ji between 2000 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Rong Ji published across 27 years, from 2000 to 2026, averaging 12.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 41 publications in 2024. 41 of the 343 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2000 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 41. Peak 41 publications in 2024. 2000: 2 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 0 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 4 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 1 publication 2010: 5 publications 2011: 10 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 21 publications 2020: 29 publications 2021: 29 publications 2022: 31 publications 2023: 31 publications 2024: 41 publications 2025: 34 publications 2026: 7 publications
2000 2026

343 publications in total across all disciplines

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Rong Ji: publications per year, 2000 to 2026
Year Publications
2000 2
2001 2
2002 1
2003 0
2004 1
2005 4
2006 4
2007 3
2008 4
2009 1
2010 5
2011 10
2012 8
2013 12
2014 11
2015 11
2016 11
2017 14
2018 16
2019 21
2020 29
2021 29
2022 31
2023 31
2024 41
2025 34
2026 7
Total 343
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Rong Ji 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 Rong Ji 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, 201–210 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: 205 publications — 66th percentile

66% 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
191–200 377
201–210 318 205
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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Rong Ji 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 Rong Ji 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, 65 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: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% 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
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119 65
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

Rong Ji is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and has a research portfolio primarily focused on Environmental Science. Their work spans several specialized subfields including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Frequent research topics covered by Rong Ji include:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties

Their recent publications illustrate active engagement in various environmental and chemical research areas. Notable papers include:

  • Nano-Biotechnology in Agriculture: Use of Nanomaterials to Promote Plant Growth and Stress Tolerance, 2020, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Simultaneous nanocatalytic surface activation of pollutants and oxidants for highly efficient water decontamination, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Interactions between microplastics and organic pollutants: Effects on toxicity, bioaccumulation, degradation, and transport, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microplastics in agricultural soils: sources, effects, and their fate, 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
  • Silver Nanoparticles Alter Soil Microbial Community Compositions and Metabolite Profiles in Unplanted and Cucumber-Planted Soils, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Rong Ji has frequently collaborated with several researchers including Wenchao Du, Hongyan Guo, Lijuan Zhao, Yuming Dong, and Ying Yin.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several scientific journals, which are prominent venues for environmental research:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (21 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology (20 publications)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials (11 publications)
  • Environmental Pollution (8 publications)
  • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (8 publications)

Best Publications

  • How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils

    Bernd Marschner;Sonja Brodowski;Alexander Dreves;Gerd Gleixner

  • Microplastics in aquatic environments: Occurrence, accumulation, and biological effects.

    Shen Xu;Jie Ma;Rong Ji;Ke Pan

  • TiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles negatively affect wheat growth and soil enzyme activities in agricultural soil

    Wenchao Du;Yuanyuan Sun;Rong Ji;Jianguo Zhu

  • Effects of nanoplastics and microplastics on toxicity, bioaccumulation, and environmental fate of phenanthrene in fresh water

    Yini Ma;Anna Huang;Siqi Cao;Feifei Sun

  • Aging Significantly Affects Mobility and Contaminant-Mobilizing Ability of Nanoplastics in Saturated Loamy Sand.

    Jin Liu;Tong Zhang;Lili Tian;Xinlei Liu

  • Separation and identification of microplastics from soil and sewage sludge

    Qinglan Li;Jiangtong Wu;Xiaopeng Zhao;Xueyuan Gu

  • Interactions between microplastics and organic pollutants: Effects on toxicity, bioaccumulation, degradation, and transport.

    Ting Wang;Lin Wang;Qianqian Chen;Nicolas Kalogerakis

  • Interaction of metal oxide nanoparticles with higher terrestrial plants: Physiological and biochemical aspects.

    Wenchao Du;Wenjuan Tan;Jose R. Peralta-Videa;Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey

  • Polystyrene Nanoplastics-Enhanced Contaminant Transport: Role of Irreversible Adsorption in Glassy Polymeric Domain.

    Jin Liu;Yini Ma;Dongqiang Zhu;Tianjiao Xia

  • Metabolomics Reveals How Cucumber ( Cucumis sativus) Reprograms Metabolites To Cope with Silver Ions and Silver Nanoparticle-Induced Oxidative Stress.

    Huiling Zhang;Wenchao Du;Jose R. Peralta-Videa;Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey

  • Steam disinfection releases micro(nano)plastics from silicone-rubber baby teats as examined by optical photothermal infrared microspectroscopy.

    Yu Su;Xi Hu;Hongjie Tang;Kun Lu

  • Physiological and Biochemical Changes Imposed by CeO2 Nanoparticles on Wheat: A Life Cycle Field Study

    Wenchao Du;Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey;Rong Ji;Ying Yin

  • Photodegradation of carbon dots cause cytotoxicity

    Yue-Yue Liu;Nan-Yang Yu;Wen-Di Fang;Qiao-Guo Tan

  • Silver Nanoparticles Alter Soil Microbial Community Compositions and Metabolite Profiles in Unplanted and Cucumber-Planted Soils.

    Huiling Zhang;Min Huang;Wenhui Zhang;Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey

  • Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

    Madhav Prakash Thakur;Alexandru Milcu;Pete Manning;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Toxicity and bioaccumulation kinetics of arsenate in two freshwater green algae under different phosphate regimes.

    Ning-Xin Wang;Yan Li;Xi-Hai Deng;Ai-Jun Miao

  • Metabolomics Reveals the "Invisible" Responses of Spinach Plants Exposed to CeO2 Nanoparticles.

    Huiling Zhang;Li Lu;Xiaopeng Zhao;Sheng Zhao

  • Degradation, metabolism, and bound-residue formation and release of Tetrabromobisphenol A in soil during sequential anoxic-oxic incubation.

    Jie Liu;Yongfeng Wang;Bingqi Jiang;Lianhong Wang

  • CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing of the filamentous fungi: the state of the art.

    Tian-Qiong Shi;Guan-Nan Liu;Rong-Yu Ji;Kun Shi

  • Biotic and abiotic degradation of four cephalosporin antibiotics in a lake surface water and sediment

    Muxian Jiang;Lianhong Wang;Rong Ji

  • Solution by dilution?--A review on the pollution status of the Yangtze River.

    Tilman Floehr;Hongxia Xiao;Björn Scholz-Starke;Lingling Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe F.-X. Corvini
Philippe F.-X. Corvini University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Andreas Schäffer
Andreas Schäffer RWTH Aachen University
Andreas Brune
Andreas Brune Max Planck Society
Jichun Wu
Jichun Wu Nanjing University
Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey
Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey The University of Texas at El Paso
Liuyan Yang
Liuyan Yang Nanjing University
Jason C. White
Jason C. White Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Jianguo Zhu
Jianguo Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei Chen
Wei Chen Nankai University
Xiaoyuan Yan
Xiaoyuan Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences

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