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Xianguang Hou

Xianguang Hou

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
4694
World Ranking
6281
National Ranking
397

Xianguang Hou publications per year

1988: 1 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 3 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 1 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 1 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 1 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 1 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 3 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 8 publications 2021: 13 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 8 publications 2025: 6 publications
1988 2025

146 publications in total across all disciplines

Xianguang Hou 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 Xianguang Hou sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 117 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Xianguang Hou 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 Xianguang Hou sits on this spectrum.

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: 39 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China

    Unknown

  • Preservation of Early Cambrian animals of the Chengjiang biota

    Sarah E. Gabbott;Hou Xian-guang;Michael J. Norry;David J. Siveter

  • Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

    Robert R. Gaines;Emma U. Hammarlund;Xianguang Hou;Changshi Qi

  • Composition and preservation of the Chengjiang fauna –a Lower Cambrian soft‐bodied biota

    Unknown

  • Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

    Gengo Tanaka;Xianguang Hou;Xiaoya Ma;Xiaoya Ma;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • CAMBRIAN LOBOPODIANS-ANCESTORS OF EXTANT ONYCHOPHORANS?

    Unknown

  • SIMS U-Pb zircon age of a tuff layer in the Meishucun section, Yunnan, southwest China: Constraint on the age of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary

    RiXiang Zhu;XianHua Li;XianGuang Hou;YongXin Pan

  • Appendages of the arthropod Kunmingella from the early Cambrian of China: Its bearing on the systematic position of the Bradoriida and the fossil record of the Ostracoda

    Hou Xianguang;David J. Siveter;Mark Williams;Dieter Walossek

  • New evidence on the anatomy and phylogeny of the earliest vertebrates.

    Hou Xian-guang;Richard J. Aldridge;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • Arthropod eyes: The early Cambrian fossil record and divergent evolution of visual systems.

    Nicholas J. Strausfeld;Nicholas J. Strausfeld;Xiaoya Ma;Xiaoya Ma;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Richard A. Fortey

  • New early Cambrian animal and onychophoran affinities of enigmatic metazoans

    Unknown

  • Palaeoscolecid worms may be nematomorphs rather than annelids

    Unknown

  • Early Cambrian oxygen minimum zone-like conditions at Chengjiang

    Emma U. Hammarlund;Robert R. Gaines;Maria G. Prokopenko;Changshi Qi

  • The Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of vetulicolians

    Richard J. Aldridge;Richard J. Aldridge;Hou Xian-Guang;David J. Siveter;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • Three-Dimensionally Preserved Appendages in an Early Cambrian Stem-Group Pancrustacean

    Unknown

  • An exceptionally preserved arthropod cardiovascular system from the early Cambrian

    Xiaoya Ma;Peiyun Cong;Xianguang Hou;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • Cambrian Onychophora or Xenusians

    Unknown

  • Morphology of Luolishania longicruris (Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang Lagerstätte, SW China) and the phylogenetic relationships within lobopodians.

    Unknown

  • A monograph of the Bradoriid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of SW China

    Hou Xian-guang;David J. Siveter;Mark Williams;Feng Xiang-hong

  • The functional head of the Cambrian radiodontan (stem-group Euarthropoda) Amplectobelua symbrachiata

    Peiyun Cong;Peiyun Cong;Allison C. Daley;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Xianguang Hou

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek J. Siveter
Derek J. Siveter University of Oxford
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
Richard J. Aldridge
Richard J. Aldridge University of Leicester
David J. Siveter
David J. Siveter University of Leicester
Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Nicholas J. Strausfeld University of Arizona
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University
Gerhard Scholtz
Gerhard Scholtz Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Richard G. Bromley
Richard G. Bromley University of Copenhagen
Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark

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