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Environmental Sciences
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2023

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 105 273 254 34 33 433 38582

Tianjun Zhou publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Tianjun Zhou between 1999 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Tianjun Zhou published across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026, averaging 22 papers a year. Output peaked at 60 publications in 2023. 50 of the 617 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 60. Peak 60 publications in 2023. 1999: 1 publication 2000: 1 publication 2001: 1 publication 2002: 1 publication 2003: 2 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 17 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 18 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 14 publications 2013: 33 publications 2014: 47 publications 2015: 28 publications 2016: 26 publications 2017: 24 publications 2018: 31 publications 2019: 37 publications 2020: 37 publications 2021: 43 publications 2022: 36 publications 2023: 60 publications 2024: 57 publications 2025: 48 publications 2026: 2 publications
1999 2026

617 publications in total across all disciplines

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Tianjun Zhou: publications per year, 1999 to 2026
Year Publications
1999 1
2000 1
2001 1
2002 1
2003 2
2004 7
2005 3
2006 4
2007 9
2008 17
2009 15
2010 18
2011 15
2012 14
2013 33
2014 47
2015 28
2016 26
2017 24
2018 31
2019 37
2020 37
2021 43
2022 36
2023 60
2024 57
2025 48
2026 2
Total 617
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Tianjun Zhou 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 Tianjun Zhou 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, 431–440 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: 433 publications — 95th percentile

95% 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
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 25 433
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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Tianjun Zhou 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 Tianjun Zhou 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, 105 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: 105 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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
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 20 105
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Tianjun Zhou is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans across multiple domains within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a particular focus on climate variability, modeling, and atmospheric phenomena.

The scientist's primary fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. More specialized subfields in their research portfolio encompass Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Their frequent co-authors include Xiaolong Chen, Wenxia Zhang, Lixia Zhang, Bo Wu, and Jie Jiang, with collaboration counts ranging from 30 to 60 joint publications.

Prominent publication venues for this scientist are:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers by Tianjun Zhou include:

  • "Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world," 2021, Science Advances
  • "The Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model Grid-Point Version 3 (FGOALS-g3): Description and Evaluation," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Monsoons Climate Change Assessment," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Global Land Monsoon Precipitation Changes in CMIP6 Projections," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Future changes in precipitation over Central Asia based on CMIP6 projections," 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Atmospheric water vapor transport associated with typical anomalous summer rainfall patterns in China

    Tian-Jun Zhou;Ru-Cong Yu

  • The Asian Summer Monsoon: An Intercomparison of CMIP5 vs. CMIP3 Simulations of the Late 20th Century

    K. R. Sperber;H. Annamalai;I. Kang;A. Kitoh

  • Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

  • Why the Western Pacific Subtropical High Has Extended Westward since the Late 1970s

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu;Jie Zhang;Helge Drange

  • Tropospheric cooling and summer monsoon weakening trend over East Asia

    Rucong Yu;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Tianjun Zhou

  • Detecting and understanding the multi-decadal variability of the East Asian Summer Monsoon: Recent progress and state of affairs

    Tianjun Zhou;Daoyi Gong;Jian Li;Bo Li

  • Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

    Bin Wang;June Yi Lee;In Sik Kang;J. Shukla

  • Monsoons in a changing world: A regional perspective in a global context

    Akio Kitoh;Hirokazu Endo;K. Krishna Kumar;Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti

  • Responses of East Asian summer monsoon to historical SST and atmospheric forcing during 1950-2000

    Hongmei Li;Aiguo Dai;Tianjun Zhou;Jian Lu

  • Twentieth-Century Surface Air Temperature over China and the Globe Simulated by Coupled Climate Models

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu

  • Diurnal variations of summer precipitation over contiguous China

    Rucong Yu;Tianjun Zhou;Anyuan Xiong;Yanjun Zhu

  • Seasonally evolving dominant interannual variability modes of East Asian climate.

    Bo Wu;Tianjun Zhou;Tim Li

  • Relative Contributions of the Indian Ocean and Local SST Anomalies to the Maintenance of the Western North Pacific Anomalous Anticyclone during the El Niño Decaying Summer

    Bo Wu;Tim Li;Tianjun Zhou

  • Summer Precipitation Frequency, Intensity, and Diurnal Cycle over China: A Comparison of Satellite Data with Rain Gauge Observations

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu;Haoming Chen;Aiguo Dai

  • Drought over East Asia: A Review

    Lixia Zhang;Tianjun Zhou

  • Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world.

    Wenxia Zhang;Kalli Furtado;Peili Wu;Tianjun Zhou

  • Theories on formation of an anomalous anticyclone in western North Pacific during El Niño: A review

    Tim Li;Tim Li;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Bo Wu;Tianjun Zhou

  • Seasonality and Three-Dimensional Structure of Interdecadal Change in the East Asian Monsoon

    Rucong Yu;Tianjun Zhou

  • Water vapor transport for summer precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Multidata set analysis

    Lei Feng;Lei Feng;Tianjun Zhou

  • Responses of East Asian summer monsoon to natural and anthropogenic forcings in the 17 latest CMIP5 models

    Fengfei Song;Tianjun Zhou;Yun Qian

  • The Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model, Grid-point Version 2: FGOALS-g2

    Lijuan Li;Pengfei Lin;Yongqiang Yu;Bin Wang;Bin Wang

  • Relative contributions of the Indian Ocean and local SST anomalies to the maintenance of the western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone during El Niño decaying summer

    Bo Wu;Tim Li;Tianjun Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Rucong Yu
Rucong Yu China Meteorological Administration
Tim Li
Tim Li University of Hawaii at Manoa
Yun Qian
Yun Qian Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peili Wu
Peili Wu Met Office
Laurent Li
Laurent Li École Normale Supérieure
Aiguo Dai
Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York
Minghuai Wang
Minghuai Wang Nanjing University
James L. Kinter
James L. Kinter George Mason University
Yimin Liu
Yimin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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