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Earth Science 44 4805 4428 1822 1618 226 5979

Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh between 1985 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh published across 41 years, from 1985 to 2025, averaging 6.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 31 publications in 2019. 23 of the 280 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1985 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 31. Peak 31 publications in 2019. 1985: 1 publication 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 2 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 3 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 0 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 14 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 22 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 23 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 31 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 8 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 20 publications 2024: 11 publications 2025: 12 publications
1985 2025

280 publications in total across all disciplines

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Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh: publications per year, 1985 to 2025
Year Publications
1985 1
1986 1
1987 0
1988 0
1989 2
1990 0
1991 1
1992 2
1993 0
1994 0
1995 2
1996 1
1997 1
1998 3
1999 0
2000 0
2001 0
2002 1
2003 0
2004 6
2005 8
2006 8
2007 8
2008 9
2009 10
2010 4
2011 4
2012 6
2013 14
2014 11
2015 22
2016 11
2017 23
2018 16
2019 31
2020 17
2021 8
2022 6
2023 20
2024 11
2025 12
Total 280
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Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh publications per year - data summary

  • Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, a Earth Science scholar from University of Arizona, has 280 publications recorded across 41 years, from 1985 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1985 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2019, with 31 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1985, 1986, 1991, 1996 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 9 of the 41 years in the span carry no publications at all (1987, 1988, 1990, 1993 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 6.8 papers per year over the whole span, or 8.8 per year counting only the 32 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 57 publications, 20% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1985-1998: 14 publications (1.0 per year); 1999-2012: 64 publications (4.6 per year); 2013-2025: 202 publications (15.5 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh 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 Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh 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, 218–227 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: 226 publications — 72nd percentile

72% 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
218–227 290 226
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
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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Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh 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.
  • Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, a Earth Science scholar from University of Arizona, records 226 publications - the 72nd percentile of the discipline.
  • 72% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, and about 28% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 168–177 publications range, and Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh 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).

Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh 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 Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh 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, 44 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: 44 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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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 44
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
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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Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh 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.
  • Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, a Earth Science scholar from University of Arizona, records 44 D-Index - the 50th percentile of the discipline.
  • 50% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, and about 50% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 44 D-Index range, and Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh falls inside that same range.
  • 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

Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, and Ocean Engineering as notable subfields.

Their work addresses topics including groundwater flow and contamination studies, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, landslides and related hazards, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Yeh has contributed scholarly articles to several publication venues, with the most frequent being the Journal of Hydrology, Water Resources Research, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Hydrological Processes, and Computers and Geotechnics.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Using multivariate statistical techniques and geochemical modelling to identify factors controlling the evolution of groundwater chemistry in a typical transitional area between Taihang Mountains and North China Plain (2020, Hydrological Processes)
  • Spatial-temporal behavior of precipitation driven karst spring discharge in a mountain terrain (2022, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Analysis of the spatiotemporal variation of groundwater storage in Ordos Basin based on GRACE gravity satellite data (2024, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Potential of Hydraulic Tomography in Identifying Boundary Conditions of Groundwater Basins (2020, Water Resources Research)
  • Simulation of spring discharge using graph neural networks at Niangziguan Springs, China (2023, Journal of Hydrology)

Yeh collaborates regularly with researchers such as Yonghong Hao, Fei Liu, Huiqing Hao, Yuanyuan Zha, and Yanhui Dong.

In book publications, Yeh has authored "An Introduction to Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Geologic Media," published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of aquifer heterogeneity using transient hydraulic tomography

    Junfeng Zhu;Tian Chyi J. Yeh

  • Hydraulic tomography in fractured granite: Mizunami Underground Research site, Japan

    Walter A. Illman;Xiaoyi Liu;Shinji Takeuchi;Tian Chyi Jim Yeh

  • Traditional analysis of aquifer tests: Comparing apples to oranges?

    Cheng-Mau Wu;Tian-Chyi J. Yeh;Junfeng Zhu;Tim Hau Lee

  • Laboratory sandbox validation of transient hydraulic tomography

    X. Liu;W. A. Illman;A. J. Craig;J. Zhu;J. Zhu

  • A simultaneous successive linear estimator and a guide for hydraulic tomography analysis

    Jianwei Xiang;Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Cheng Haw Lee;Kuo Chin Hsu

  • Analysis of hydraulic tomography using temporal moments of drawdown recovery data

    Junfeng Zhu;Tian Chyi J. Yeh

  • Sequential aquifer tests at a well field, Montalto Uffugo Scalo, Italy

    S. Straface;Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh;Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh;J. Zhu;S. Troisi

  • Flow through Heterogeneous Geologic Media

    Tian Chyi Jim Yeh;Raziuddin Khaleel;Kenneth C. Carroll

  • Simulation of spring flows from a karst aquifer with an artificial neural network

    Caihong Hu;Yonghong Hao;Yonghong Hao;Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Bo Pang

  • A temporal sampling strategy for hydraulic tomography analysis

    Ronglin Sun;Tian Chyi Jim Yeh;Deqiang Mao;Menggui Jin

  • Hydraulic Tomography for Detecting Fracture Zone Connectivity

    Yonghong Hao;Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Jianwei Xiang;Walter A. Illman

  • Field Tracer Tests on the Mobility of Natural Organic Matter in a Sandy Aquifer

    J. F. McCarthy;B. Gu;L. Liang;J. Mas-Pla

  • Robustness of joint interpretation of sequential pumping tests: Numerical and field experiments

    Shao Yang Huang;Jet Chau Wen;Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Wenxi Lu

  • A gray system model for studying the response to climatic change: The Liulin karst springs, China

    Yonghong Hao;Yonghong Hao;Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Zongqiang Gao;Yanrong Wang

  • Hydraulic/partitioning tracer tomography for characterization of dense nonaqueous phase liquid source zones

    Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh;Junfeng Zhu

  • Stochastic Fusion of Information for Characterizing and Monitoring the Vadose Zone

    Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Jirka Šimůnek

  • Sensitivity and moment analyses of head in variably saturated regimes

    B. Li;T.-C.J. Yeh

  • Uniqueness, scale, and resolution issues in groundwater model parameter identification

    Tian chyi J. Yeh;Tian chyi J. Yeh;De qiang Mao;Yuan yuan Zha;Yuan yuan Zha;Jet chau Wen

  • Transient hydraulic tomography in a fractured dolostone: Laboratory rock block experiments

    Rubaiat Sharmeen;Walter A. Illman;Steven J. Berg;Steven J. Berg;Tian Chyi J. Yeh

  • Estimation of effective unsaturated hydraulic conductivity tensor using spatial moments of observed moisture plume

    Tian Chyi J. Yeh;Ming Ye;Raziuddin Khaleel

  • Time to Change the Way We Collect and Analyze Data for Aquifer Characterization

    Tian Chyi Jim Yeh;Cheng Haw Lee

  • Simulation of karst spring discharge using a combination of time–frequency analysis methods and long short-term memory neural networks

    Lixing An;Yonghong Hao;Tian Chyi Jim Yeh;Tian Chyi Jim Yeh;Yan Liu

  • Applied Stochastic Hydrogeology.

    Tian-Chyi J. Yeh

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter A. Illman
Walter A. Illman University of Waterloo
Bruno Brunone
Bruno Brunone University of Perugia
Christian Massari
Christian Massari National Research Council (CNR)
Ming Ye
Ming Ye Florida State University
Cheinway Hwang
Cheinway Hwang National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Edward A. Sudicky
Edward A. Sudicky University of Waterloo
Andreas Kemna
Andreas Kemna University of Bonn
Qingyun Duan
Qingyun Duan Hohai University
Mark L. Brusseau
Mark L. Brusseau University of Arizona
Ying Zhao
Ying Zhao Ludong University

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