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Xianfeng Wang

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
18311
World Ranking
3711
National Ranking
7

Xianfeng Wang 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 Xianfeng Wang sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 131 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xianfeng Wang 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 Xianfeng Wang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xianfeng Wang is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research activity spans multiple fields related to Earth and Environmental Sciences.

The main fields of study for Wang include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Wang's work encompasses several specialized subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecology

The research topics covered by Wang involve:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy metals in environment

Wang has published extensively in several journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Wang include:

  • Gut-liver crosstalk in sepsis-induced liver injury, 2020, Critical Care
  • On the glacial-interglacial variability of the Asian monsoon in speleothem δ 18O records, 2020, Science Advances
  • Metal Concentrations and Source Apportionment of PM2.5 in Chiang Rai and Bangkok, Thailand during a Biomass Burning Season, 2020, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Investigating δ13C values in stalagmites from tropical South America for the last two millennia, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Biodegradation pathway of penicillins by β-lactamase encapsulated in metal-organic frameworks, 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Wang frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Ke Lin
  • Shaoneng He
  • Reshmi Das
  • Shufang Yuan
  • Hai Cheng

Best Publications

  • Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

    Yongjin Wang;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Xinggong Kong

  • The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Ashish Sinha;Christoph Spötl

  • Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Chuan Chou Shen;Victor J. Polyak

  • A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from an 1810-year Chinese cave record.

    Pingzhong Zhang;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Fahu Chen

  • Ice age terminations.

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Wallace S. Broecker;George H. Denton

  • Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies

    Xianfeng Wang;Augusto S. Auler;Lawrence L. Edwards;Hai Cheng

  • Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Ashish Sinha;Francisco W. Cruz;Xianfeng Wang;Xianfeng Wang

  • The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

    Yanjun Cai;Liangcheng Tan;Hai Cheng;Zhisheng An

  • The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Ashish Sinha;Xianfeng Wang;Francisco W. Cruz

  • Orbitally driven east-west antiphasing of South American precipitation

    Francisco W. Cruz;Mathias Vuille;Stephen J. Burns;Xianfeng Wang

  • Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from δ18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman, and Brazil

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Dominik Fleitmann;Dominik Fleitmann;R. Lawrence Edwards;Xianfeng Wang

  • Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

    T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • Millennial‐scale precipitation changes in southern Brazil over the past 90,000 years

    Xianfeng Wang;Augusto S. Auler;R. L. Edwards;Hai Cheng

  • Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

    Xianfeng Wang;R. Lawrence Edwards;Augusto S. Auler;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng

  • A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Yongjin Wang;Xinggong Kong

  • Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y

    Yanjun Cai;Yanjun Cai;Inez Y. Fung;R. Lawrence Edwards;Zhisheng An

  • Interhemispheric anti-phasing of rainfall during the last glacial period

    Xianfeng Wang;Augusto S. Auler;R. Lawrence Edwards;Hai Cheng

  • The Holocene Indian monsoon variability over the southern Tibetan Plateau and its teleconnections

    Yanjun Cai;Yanjun Cai;Haiwei Zhang;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Zhisheng An

  • Trace element composition of PM2.5 and PM10 from Kolkata – a heavily polluted Indian metropolis

    Reshmi Das;Bahareh Khezri;Bijayen Srivastava;Subhajit Datta

  • Quaternary ecological and geomorphic changes associated with rainfall events in presently semi-arid northeastern Brazil

    Augusto S. Auler;Xianfeng Wang;R. Lawrence Edwards;Hai Cheng

  • Corrigendum: The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations.

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Ashish Sinha;Christoph Spötl

Frequent Co-Authors

Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
R. Lawrence Edwards
R. Lawrence Edwards University of Minnesota
Yongjin Wang
Yongjin Wang Nanjing Normal University
Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
Francisco W. Cruz
Francisco W. Cruz Universidade de São Paulo
Xinggong Kong
Xinggong Kong Nanjing Normal University
Yanjun Cai
Yanjun Cai Xi'an Jiaotong University
Christoph Spötl
Christoph Spötl University of Innsbruck
Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Mathias Vuille
Mathias Vuille University at Albany, State University of New York

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Russell N. Drysdale

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