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D-Index
80
Citations
23492
World Ranking
529
National Ranking
36

Weidong Sun 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 Weidong Sun sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 397 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Weidong Sun 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 Weidong Sun sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Weidong Sun is affiliated with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans primarily across Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on various subfields, including Geophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientific work covers a variety of main topics, such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Key recent publications by Weidong Sun include:

  • The big mantle wedge and decratonic gold deposits, 2021, Science China Earth Sciences
  • Lithium systematics in global arc magmas and the importance of crustal thickening for lithium enrichment, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Extremely light K in subducted low-T altered oceanic crust: Implications for K recycling in subduction zone, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Occurrence of Halogenated Organic Pollutants in Hadal Trenches of the Western Pacific Ocean, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Basalt derived from highly refractory mantle sources during early Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc development, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Weidong Sun include:

  • Lipeng Zhang
  • Congying Li
  • Liang Zhou
  • Ying-Yu Xue
  • Hongli Zhu

Their work is often published in several key scientific venues, indicating the areas of study and disciplinary focus. These publication venues include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Chemical Geology
  • Solid Earth Sciences
  • Lithos

Best Publications

  • MPI-DING reference glasses for in situ microanalysis: New reference values for element concentrations and isotope ratios

    Klaus Peter Jochum;Brigitte Stoll;Kirstin Herwig;Matthias Willbold

  • The golden transformation of the Cretaceous plate subduction in the West Pacific

    Weidong Sun;Weidong Sun;Xing Ding;Yan-Hua Hu;Xian-Hua Li

  • Porphyry deposits and oxidized magmas

    Weidong Sun;Rui-fang Huang;He Li;Yong-bin Hu

  • CRETACEOUS RIDGE SUBDUCTION ALONG THE LOWER YANGTZE RIVER BELT, EASTERN CHINA

    Ming-Xing Ling;Fang-Yue Wang;Xing Ding;Yan-Hua Hu

  • Release of gold-bearing fluids in convergent margin magmas prompted by magnetite crystallization.

    Weidong Sun;Richard J. Arculus;Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Raymond A. Binns;Raymond A. Binns

  • The link between reduced porphyry copper deposits and oxidized magmas

    Wei-dong Sun;Hua-ying Liang;Ming-xing Ling;Mei-zhen Zhan

  • Ridge subduction and porphyry copper-gold mineralization: An overview

    WeiDong Sun;WeiDong Sun;MingXing Ling;XiaoYong Yang;WeiMing Fan

  • Zircon Ce4+/Ce3+ ratios and ages for Yulong ore-bearing porphyries in eastern Tibet

    Hua-Ying Liang;Ian H. Campbell;Charlotte Allen;Wei-Dong Sun

  • Deep carbon cycles constrained by a large-scale mantle Mg isotope anomaly in eastern China

    Shu-Guang Li;Shu-Guang Li;Wei Yang;Shan Ke;Xunan Meng

  • Timing of synorogenic granitoids in the South Qinling, Central China: Constraints on the evolution of the Qinling-Dabie orogenic belt

    Weidong Sun;Shuguang Li;Yadong Chen;Yujing Li

  • Mobilization and re-distribution of major and trace elements during extreme weathering of basalt in Hainan Island, South China

    Jin-Long Ma;Gang-Jian Wei;Yi-Gang Xu;Wen-Guo Long

  • Mesozoic large magmatic events and mineralization in SE China: oblique subduction of the Pacific plate

    Fang-Yue Wang;Ming-Xing Ling;Xing Ding;Yan-Hua Hu

  • PORPHYRY COPPER-GOLD MINERALIZATION AT YULONG, CHINA, PROMOTED BY DECREASING REDOX POTENTIAL DURING MAGNETITE ALTERATION

    Hua-Ying Liang;Weidong Sun;Wen-Chao Su;Robert E. Zartman

  • The genetic association of adakites and Cu-Au ore deposits

    Weidong Sun;Hong Zhang;Ming-Xing Ling;Xing Ding

  • A-type granite belts of two chemical subgroups in central eastern China: Indication of ridge subduction

    He Li;Ming-xing Ling;Cong-ying Li;Hong Zhang

  • Carboniferous and Triassic eclogites in the western Dabie Mountains, east-central China: evidence for protracted convergence of the North and South China Blocks

    Weidong Sun;Weidong Sun;I. S. Williams;Shuguang Li

  • The formation of the Dabaoshan porphyry molybdenum deposit induced by slab rollback

    Cong-Ying Li;Hong Zhang;Hong Zhang;Fang-Yue Wang;Ji-Qiang Liu

  • Formation of the world's largest REE deposit through protracted fluxing of carbonatite by subduction-derived fluids

    Ming-Xing Ling;Yu-Long Liu;Ian S. Williams;Fang-Zhen Teng

  • Geochemistry of magmatic and hydrothermal zircon from the highly evolved Baerzhe alkaline granite: implications for Zr-REE-Nb mineralization

    Wu-Bin Yang;He-Cai Niu;Qiang Shan;Wei-Dong Sun

  • Oxygen fugacity and porphyry mineralization: A zircon perspective of Dexing porphyry Cu deposit, China

    Chan-chan Zhang;Wei-dong Sun;Jin-tuan Wang;Li-peng Zhang

  • Fluids in deeply subducted continental crust: Petrology, mineral chemistry and fluid inclusion of UHP metamorphic veins from the Sulu orogen, eastern China

    Ze-Ming Zhang;Kun Shen;Wei-Dong Sun;Yong-Sheng Liu

  • Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Paleozoic magmatic rocks in the Lamasu-Dabate area, northwestern Tianshan (west China): Evidence for a tectonic transition from arc to post-collisional setting

    Gong-Jian Tang;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Min Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Xing Ding
Xing Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoyong Yang
Xiaoyong Yang University of Science and Technology of China
Ming-Xing Ling
Ming-Xing Ling East China University of Technology
Cong-Ying Li
Cong-Ying Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Weiming Fan
Weiming Fan University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rongqing Zhang
Rongqing Zhang Nanjing University
Gangjian Wei
Gangjian Wei Chinese Academy of Sciences
Trevor Ireland
Trevor Ireland University of Queensland
Shuguang Li
Shuguang Li China University of Geosciences

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