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Shuh-Ji Kao

Shuh-Ji Kao

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 70 1015 894 61 59 266 14324

Shuh-Ji Kao publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Shuh-Ji Kao between 1996 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Shuh-Ji Kao published across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025, averaging 13.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 37 publications in 2023. 55 of the 402 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 37. Peak 37 publications in 2023. 1996: 2 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 17 publications 2009: 14 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 26 publications 2013: 16 publications 2014: 15 publications 2015: 15 publications 2016: 24 publications 2017: 29 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 29 publications 2023: 37 publications 2024: 27 publications 2025: 28 publications
1996 2025

402 publications in total across all disciplines

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Shuh-Ji Kao: publications per year, 1996 to 2025
Year Publications
1996 2
1997 1
1998 4
1999 0
2000 3
2001 4
2002 3
2003 2
2004 4
2005 9
2006 9
2007 11
2008 17
2009 14
2010 9
2011 11
2012 26
2013 16
2014 15
2015 15
2016 24
2017 29
2018 15
2019 9
2020 15
2021 14
2022 29
2023 37
2024 27
2025 28
Total 402
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Shuh-Ji Kao publications per year - data summary

  • Shuh-Ji Kao, a Earth Science scholar from Hainan University, has 402 publications recorded across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1996 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2023, with 37 publications.
  • The least productive year with any output is 1997, with 1 publication.
  • 1 of the 30 years in the span carries no publications at all (1999).
  • The rate of publication averages 13.4 papers per year over the whole span, or 13.9 per year counting only the 29 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 135 publications, 34% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1996-2005: 32 publications (3.2 per year); 2006-2015: 143 publications (14.3 per year); 2016-2025: 227 publications (22.7 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Shuh-Ji Kao 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 Shuh-Ji Kao 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, 258–267 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: 266 publications — 81st percentile

81% 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
258–267 185 266
268–277 147
278–287 128
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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Shuh-Ji Kao 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.
  • Shuh-Ji Kao, a Earth Science scholar from Hainan University, records 266 publications - the 81st percentile of the discipline.
  • 81% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Shuh-Ji Kao, and about 19% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 168–177 publications range, and Shuh-Ji Kao 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).

Shuh-Ji Kao 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 Shuh-Ji Kao 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, 70 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: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75 70
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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Shuh-Ji Kao 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.
  • Shuh-Ji Kao, a Earth Science scholar from Hainan University, records 70 D-Index - the 90th percentile of the discipline.
  • 90% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Shuh-Ji Kao, and about 10% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 44 D-Index range, and Shuh-Ji Kao 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).

Overview

Shuh-Ji Kao is affiliated with Hainan University in China and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research output spans several key domains with a focus on oceanography, ecology, and environmental chemistry.

The main fields of Kao's research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study further specify areas of expertise as:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Pollution

Kao's research topics are diverse, with significant contributions to the understanding of:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

The scientist has published frequently in several venues, notably:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Frequent collaborators include Ehui Tan, Minhan Dai, Min Xu, Wenbin Zou, and Xianhui Wan, reflecting a network of strong interdisciplinary scientific partnerships.

Recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of Kao's research. These include:

  • Nitrifier adaptation to low energy flux controls inventory of reduced nitrogen in the dark ocean, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Warming stimulates sediment denitrification at the expense of anaerobic ammonium oxidation, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Upper Ocean Biogeochemistry of the Oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: From Nutrient Sources to Carbon Export, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Particle-associated denitrification is the primary source of N2O in oxic coastal waters, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Pathways of N2O production by marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea determined from dual-isotope labeling, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • A review of nitrogen isotopic alteration in marine sediments

    Rebecca S. Robinson;Markus Kienast;Ana Luiza Albuquerque;Mark Altabet

  • Yangtze- and Taiwan-derived sediments on the inner shelf of East China Sea

    Kehui Xu;John D. Milliman;Anchun Li;J. Paul Liu

  • Sources, solubility, and dry deposition of aerosol trace elements over the East China Sea

    Shih-Chieh Hsu;George T.F. Wong;Gwo-Ching Gong;Fuh-Kwo Shiah;Fuh-Kwo Shiah

  • Water and Sediment Discharge from Small Mountainous Rivers, Taiwan : The Roles of Lithology, Episodic Events, and Human Activities

    S. J. Kao;John D. Milliman

  • Nitrification and inorganic nitrogen distribution in a large perturbed river/estuarine system: the Pearl River Estuary, China

    Minhan Dai;Lifang Wang;Xianghui Guo;Weidong Zhai

  • Provenance, structure, and formation of the mud wedge along inner continental shelf of the East China Sea: A synthesis of the Yangtze dispersal system

    Kehui Xu;Anchun Li;J. Paul Liu;John D. Milliman

  • The role of mega dams in reducing sediment fluxes: A case study of large Asian rivers

    Harish Gupta;Shuh-Ji Kao;Shuh-Ji Kao;Minhan Dai

  • Flux and fate of small mountainous rivers derived sediments into the Taiwan Strait

    J. P. Liu;C. S. Liu;K. H. Xu;J. D. Milliman

  • Eutrophication-Driven Hypoxia in the East China Sea off the Changjiang Estuary

    Hongjie Wang;Minhan Dai;Jinwen Liu;Shuh-Ji Kao

  • Particulate organic carbon export from a subtropical mountainous river (Lanyang Hsi) in Taiwan

    Shuh-Ji Kao;Kon-Kee Liu

  • Organic carbon and nitrogen contents and their isotopic compositions in surficial sediments from the East China Sea shelf and the southern Okinawa Trough

    S.J Kao;F.J Lin;K.K Liu

  • Nutrient dynamics and biological consumption in a large continental shelf system under the influence of both a river plume and coastal upwelling

    Aiqin Han;Minhan Dai;Shuh-Ji Kao;Shuh-Ji Kao;Jianping Gan

  • Carbon-sulfur-iron relationships in sedimentary rocks from southwestern Taiwan: influence of geochemical environment on greigite and pyrrhotite formation

    Shuh-Ji Kao;Chorng-Shern Horng;Andrew P Roberts;Kon-Kee Liu

  • Hyperpycnal Discharge of Fluvial Sediment to the Ocean: Impact of Super‐Typhoon Herb (1996) on Taiwanese Rivers

    John D. Milliman;Shuh‐Ji Kao

  • Widespread dispersal and aging of organic carbon in shallow marginal seas

    Rui Bao;Cameron McIntyre;Meixun Zhao;Chun Zhu

  • Impact of the Kuroshio intrusion on the nutrient inventory in the upper northern South China Sea: insights from an isopycnal mixing model

    C. Du;Z. Liu;M. Dai;S.-J. Kao

  • Preservation of terrestrial organic carbon in marine sediments offshore Taiwan: mountain building and atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration

    S.-J. Kao;S.-J. Kao;R. G. Hilton;K. Selvaraj;K. Selvaraj;M. Dai

  • A review of Holocene solar-linked climatic variation on centennial to millennial timescales: Physical processes, interpretative frameworks and a new multiple cross-wavelet transform algorithm

    Willie Soon;Victor M. Velasco Herrera;Kandasamy Selvaraj;Rita Traversi

  • Aerosols as a source of dissolved black carbon to the ocean.

    Hongyan Bao;Jutta Niggemann;Li Luo;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Short-term changes in seafloor character due to flood-derived hyperpycnal discharge: Typhoon Mindulle, Taiwan, July 2004

    J.D. Milliman;S.W. Lin;S.J. Kao;J.P. Liu

  • Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope systematics in a human‐disturbed watershed (Lanyang‐Hsi) in Taiwan and the estimation of biogenic particulate organic carbon and nitrogen fluxes

    S. J. Kao;K. K. Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Shih-Chieh Hsu
Shih-Chieh Hsu Academia Sinica
J.C. Huang
J.C. Huang City University of Hong Kong
Fuh-Kwo Shiah
Fuh-Kwo Shiah Academia Sinica
Kon-Kee Liu
Kon-Kee Liu National Taiwan University
Min-Te Chen
Min-Te Chen National Taiwan Ocean University
John D. Milliman
John D. Milliman William & Mary
James T. Liu
James T. Liu National Sun Yat-sen University
Shih-Chun Candice Lung
Shih-Chun Candice Lung Academia Sinica
Gwo-Ching Gong
Gwo-Ching Gong National Taiwan Ocean University

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