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Environmental Sciences

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73
Citations
17383
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1435
National Ranking
136

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17977
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5383
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Xing Xu 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 Xing Xu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 265 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Xing Xu 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 Xing Xu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xing Xu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research focuses heavily on paleontology, with significant contributions in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, geometry and topology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's main topics of research include paleontology and evolutionary biology, evolution and paleontology studies, ichthyology and marine biology, amphibian and reptile biology, morphological variations and asymmetry, animal behavior and reproduction, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Xing Xu has published multiple papers in reputable journals covering a broad range of topics related to dinosaurs, fossil records, and evolutionary biology. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds," 2020, Current Biology
  • "Pennaraptoran Theropod Dinosaurs Past Progress and New Frontiers," 2020, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
  • "Evolution of vision and hearing modalities in theropod dinosaurs," 2021, Science
  • "Bone histology of the non-iguanodontian ornithopod Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis and its implications for dinosaur skeletochronology and development," 2020, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • "Anatomy and relationships of the early diverging Crocodylomorphs Junggarsuchus sloani and Dibothrosuchus elaphros," 2022, The Anatomical Record

The publication venues where Xing Xu frequently contributes include:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Xing Xu's work. Frequent coauthors include James M. Clark, Michael Pittman, Qi Zhao, Thomas G. Kaye, and Fenglu Han.

Best Publications

  • Four-winged dinosaurs from China

    Xing Xu;Zhonghe Zhou;Xiaolin Wang;Xuewen Kuang

  • Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China

    Carl C. Swisher;Yuan-qing Wang;Xiao-lin Wang;Xiao-lin Wang;Xing Xu

  • The smallest known non-avian theropod dinosaur

    Xing Xu;Zhonghe Zhou;Xiaolin Wang;Xiaolin Wang

  • A dromaeosaurid dinosaur with a filamentous integument from the Yixian Formation of China

    Xing Xu;Xiao-Lin Wang;Xiao-Lin Wang;Xiao-Chun Wu;Xiao-Chun Wu

  • A pre- Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus

    Dongyu Hu;Lianhai Hou;Lianhai Hou;Lijun Zhang;Xing Xu;Xing Xu

  • Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

    Fucheng Zhang;Stuart L. Kearns;Patrick J. Orr;Michael J. Benton

  • Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids

    Xing Xu;Xing Xu;Mark A. Norell;Xuewen Kuang;Xiaolin Wang

  • Further support for a Cretaceous age for the feathered-dinosaur beds of Liaoning, China: new 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Yixian and Tuchengzi formations

    Carl Swisher;Xiaolin Wang;Zhonghe Zhou;Yuanqing Wang

  • An integrative approach to understanding bird origins

    Xing Xu;Zhonghe Zhou;Robert Dudley;Susan Mackem

  • An Archaeopteryx- like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae

    Xing Xu;Xing Xu;Hailu You;Kai Du;Fenglu Han

  • A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China

    Xing Xu;Zhi-lu Tang;Xiao-lin Wang;Xiao-lin Wang

  • A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China

    Xing Xu;Mark A. Norell;Xiao Lin Wang;Peter J. Makovicky

  • A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture

    Xing Xu;Xing Xu;Mark A. Norell

  • A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies.

    Xing Xu;James M. Clark;Jinyou Mo;Jonah Choiniere

  • A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers

    Fucheng Zhang;Zhonghe Zhou;Xing Xu;Xiaolin Wang

  • Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers

    Xing Xu;Zhong-he Zhou;Richard O. Prum

  • Tyrannosaur Paleobiology: New Research on Ancient Exemplar Organisms

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Stephen L. Brusatte;Mark A. Norell;Thomas D. Carr;Gregory M. Erickson;Gregory M. Erickson

  • A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China

    Xing Xu;James M. Clark;Catherine A. Forster;Mark A. Norell

  • An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures

    Xiao-Ting Zheng;Hai-Lu You;Xing Xu;Zhi-Ming Dong

  • A new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur fossil that fills a morphological gap in avian origin

    Xing Xu;Qi Zhao;Mark Norell;Corwin Sullivan

  • A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings

    Xing Xu;Xiaoting Zheng;Corwin Sullivan;Xiaoli Wang

  • A nearly completely articulated rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur with exceptionally well-preserved wing membranes and "hairs" from Inner Mongolia, northeast China

    Xiaolin Wang;Zhonghe Zhou;Fucheng Zhang;Xing Xu

  • A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China

    Xing Xu;Kebai Wang;Ke Zhang;Qingyu Ma

  • Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers

    Xing Xu;Xiaoting Zheng;Hailu You

  • A Basal Alvarezsauroid Theropod from the Early Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China

    Jonah N. Choiniere;Xing Xu;James M. Clark;Catherine A. Forster

  • A new maniraptoran dinosaur from China with long feathers on the metatarsus

    Xing Xu;Xing Xu;Fucheng Zhang

  • Growth patterns in brooding dinosaurs reveals the timing of sexual maturity in non-avian dinosaurs and genesis of the avian condition.

    Gregory M Erickson;Kristina Curry Rogers;David J Varricchio;Mark A Norell

  • Oxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climates

    Romain Amiot;Xu Wang;Zhonghe Zhou;Xiaolin Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhonghe Zhou
Zhonghe Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lida Xing
Lida Xing China University of Geosciences
Mark A. Norell
Mark A. Norell American Museum of Natural History
Jingmai K. O’Connor
Jingmai K. O’Connor Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stephen L. Brusatte
Stephen L. Brusatte University of Edinburgh
Catherine A. Forster
Catherine A. Forster George Washington University
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Shuo Wang
Shuo Wang Nankai University
Xu Shen
Xu Shen Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Roger B. J. Benson
Roger B. J. Benson University of Oxford

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