2026 Song Xi Chen: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	40	2026	1779	109	106	106	7609

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mathematics

2026

1779

109

106

7609

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Song Xi Chen is affiliated with Peking University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Mathematics. Their research spans multiple subfields including Statistics and Probability, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, and Modeling and Simulation.

The major topics of Song Xi Chen's work include:

Air Quality and Health Impacts
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Statistical Methods and Inference
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Song Xi Chen are:

Yumou Qiu
Yuru Zhu
Jia Gu
Yaxuan Huang
Haoxuan Sun

Song Xi Chen has published in several notable venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Annals of Statistics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Atmospheric Environment
Environmetrics

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Song Xi Chen include:

"Estimating the aboveground biomass of coniferous forest in Northeast China using spectral variables, land surface temperature and soil moisture," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
"Tracking and Predicting COVID-19 Epidemic in China Mainland," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Relative importance of meteorological variables on air quality and role of boundary layer height," 2021, Atmospheric Environment
"Tracking Reproductivity of COVID-19 Epidemic in China with Varying Coefficient SIR Model," 2021, Journal of Data Science
"Distributed statistical inference for massive data," 2021, The Annals of Statistics

In recognition of professional contributions, Song Xi Chen was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2009.

Best Publications

Beta kernel estimators for density functions

Song Xi Chen

514
Citations
Probability Density Function Estimation Using Gamma Kernels

Song Xi Chen

458
Citations
Tests for High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices

Song Xi Chen;Li Xin Zhang;Ping Shou Zhong

390
Citations
Assessing Beijing's PM2.5 pollution: Severity, weather impact, APEC and winter heating

Xuan Liang;Tao Zou;Bin Guo;Shuo Li

326
Citations
Smoothed empirical likelihood confidence intervals for quantiles

Song Xi Chen;Peter Hall

300
Citations
Two sample tests for high-dimensional covariance matrices

Jun Li;Song Xi Chen

249
Citations
Nonparametric estimation of copula functions for dependence modelling

Song Xi Chen;Tzee-Ming Huang

233
Citations
Nonparametric Estimation of Expected Shortfall

Song Xi Chen

233
Citations
Cautionary tales on air-quality improvement in Beijing.

Shuyi Zhang;Bin Guo;Anlan Dong;Jing He

227
Citations
Nonparametric Inference of Value-at-Risk for Dependent Financial Returns

Song Xi Chen;Cheng Yong Tang

227
Citations
Parameter estimation and bias correction for diffusion processes

Cheng Yong Tang;Song Xi Chen;Song Xi Chen

204
Citations
A review on empirical likelihood methods for regression

Song Xi Chen;Song Xi Chen;Ingrid Van Keilegom

193
Citations
PM2.5 Data Reliability, Consistency and Air Quality Assessment in Five Chinese Cities†

Xuan Liang;Shuo Li;Shuyi Zhang;Hui Huang

169
Citations
EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD FOR ESTIMATING EQUATIONS WITH MISSING VALUES

Dong Wang;Song Xi Chen

165
Citations
Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for Linear Regression Coefficients

S.X. Chen

157
Citations
On the accuracy of empirical likelihood confidence regions for linear regression model

Song Xi Chen

152
Citations
Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for nonparametric density estimation

Song Xi Chen

144
Citations
Tests for high-dimensional regression coefficients with factorial designs

Ping Shou Zhong;Song Xi Chen

139
Citations
Effects of data dimension on empirical likelihood

Song Xi Chen;Liang Peng;Ying-Li Qin

118
Citations
An empirical likelihood goodness-of-fit test for time series

Song Xi Chen;Wolfgang Härdle;Ming Li

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Van Keilegom KU Leuven

Jiti Gao Monash University

Liang Peng Georgia State University

Wolfgang Karl Härdle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Aurore Delaigle University of Melbourne

Dan Nettleton Iowa State University

Yuming Guo Monash University

Paul S. F. Yip University of Hong Kong

External Links

Personal website of Song Xi Chen Google Scholar page

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