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Wenjun Zheng 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 Wenjun Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Wenjun Zheng 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 Wenjun Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Wenjun Zheng is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and primarily works in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics. Their research spans various subfields including atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, geology, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law related to earth sciences.

The scientist's main topics of research cover earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological formations and processes, landslides and related hazards, and combined geological and geophysical studies.

Wenjun Zheng has contributed to numerous scientific publications, including these recent works:

  • Pulsed rise and growth of the Tibetan Plateau to its northern margin since ca. 30 Ma, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cenozoic Exhumation of the Qilian Shan in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence From Low-Temperature Thermochronology, 2020, Tectonics
  • Slip partitioning and crustal deformation patterns in the Tianshan orogenic belt derived from GPS measurements and their tectonic implications, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Slip Rates Along the Laohushan Fault and Spatial Variation in Slip Rate Along the Haiyuan Fault Zone, 2022, Tectonics
  • Orthogonal Fault Rupture and Rapid Postseismic Deformation Following 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence Revealed From Geodetic Observations, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Tectonics, Tectonophysics, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, and Geomorphology.

Throughout their career, Wenjun Zheng has collaborated with other researchers including Peizhen Zhang, Weitao Wang, Dongli Zhang, Zhuqi Zhang, and Haiyun Bi.

Best Publications

  • The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large‐scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies

    Dao Yang Yuan;Wei Peng Ge;Zhen Wei Chen;Chuan You Li

  • Erosion, fault initiation and topographic growth of the North Qilian Shan (northern Tibetan Plateau)

    Dewen Zheng;Marin K. Clark;Peizhen Zhang;Wenjun Zheng

  • Transformation of displacement between strike-slip and crustal shortening in the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from decadal GPS measurements and late Quaternary slip rates on faults

    Wen-jun Zheng;Pei-zhen Zhang;Wen-gui He;Dao-yang Yuan

  • Comparison of soil moisture in GLDAS model simulations and in situ observations over the Tibetan Plateau

    Haiyun Bi;Jianwen Ma;Wenjun Zheng;Jiangyuan Zeng

  • Lushan M S7.0 earthquake: A blind reserve-fault event

    XiWei Xu;XueZe Wen;ZhuJun Han;GuiHua Chen

  • Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene

    Weitao Wang;Wenjun Zheng;Peizhen Zhang;Qiang Li

  • Progressive northward growth of the northern Qilian Shan-Hexi Corridor (northeastern Tibet) during the Cenozoic

    Dewen Zheng;Weitao Wang;Jinglin Wan;Daoyang Yuan

  • Late Quaternary slip rate of the South Heli Shan Fault (northern Hexi Corridor, NW China) and its implications for northeastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau

    Wen-Jun Zheng;Pei-Zhen Zhang;Wei-Peng Ge;Peter Molnar

  • The Cenozoic growth of the Qilian Shan in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: A sedimentary archive from the Jiuxi Basin

    Weitao Wang;Peizhen Zhang;Jianzhang Pang;Carmala Garzione

  • Pulsed rise and growth of the Tibetan Plateau to its northern margin since ca. 30 Ma

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  • Landslides triggered by the 22 July 2013 Minxian–Zhangxian, China, Mw 5.9 earthquake: Inventory compiling and spatial distribution analysis

    Chong Xu;Chong Xu;Xiwei Xu;J. Bruce H. Shyu;Wenjun Zheng

  • Late Quaternary right-lateral slip rates of faults adjacent to the lake Qinghai, northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Dao-Yang Yuan;Jean-Daniel Champagnac;Jean-Daniel Champagnac;Wei-Peng Ge;Peter Molnar

  • Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Hui-Ping Zhang;William H. Craddock;Richard O. Lease;Wei-tao Wang

  • Clustering of offsets on the Haiyuan fault and their relationship to paleoearthquakes

    Zhikun Ren;Zhuqi Zhang;Tao Chen;Shouliang Yan;Shouliang Yan

  • Late Quaternary slip rates of the thrust faults in western Hexi Corridor (Northern Qilian Shan, China) and their implications for northeastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau

    Zheng Wen-Jun;Zhang Hui-Ping;Zhang Pei-Zhen;Peter Molnar

  • Landslides triggered by the 20 April 2013 Lushan, China, Mw 6.6 earthquake from field investigations and preliminary analyses

    Chong Xu;Chong Xu;Xiwei Xu;J. Bruce H. Shyu;Mingxing Gao

  • Cenozoic Exhumation of the Qilian Shan in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology

    Weitao Wang;Dewen Zheng;Chaopeng Li;Ying Wang

  • Constraints on mountain building in the northeastern Tibet: Detrital zircon records from synorogenic deposits in the Yumen Basin

    Weitao Wang;Peizhen Zhang;Jingxing Yu;Yizhou Wang

  • Slip rate at the north‐eastern front of the Qilian Shan, China

    Jean-Daniel Champagnac;Dao-Yang Yuan;Wei-Peng Ge;Peter Molnar

  • Deep crustal deformation of the Longmen Shan, eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, from seismic reflection and Finite Element modeling

    Shao-ying Feng;Pei-zhen Zhang;Bao-jin Liu;Ming Wang

  • Contemporary Deformation of the North China Plain From Global Positioning System Data

    Y. G. Zhang;W. J. Zheng;Y. J. Wang;D. L. Zhang

  • Pulsed growth of the West Qinling at -30 Ma in northeastern Tibet: Evidence from Lanzhou Basin magnetostratigraphy and provenance

    Weitao Wang;Peizhen Zhang;Caicai Liu;Dewen Zheng

  • Transforming the Miocene Altyn Tagh fault slip into shortening of the north-western Qilian Shan: insights from the drainage basin geometry

    Hui-ping Zhang;Pei-zhen Zhang;De-Wen Zheng;Wen-Jun Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Peizhen Zhang
Peizhen Zhang Sun Yat-sen University
Dewen Zheng
Dewen Zheng China Earthquake Administration
Weitao Wang
Weitao Wang Sun Yat-sen University
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder
Eric Kirby
Eric Kirby Oregon State University
Marin K. Clark
Marin K. Clark University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carmala N. Garzione
Carmala N. Garzione University of Arizona
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley California Institute of Technology

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