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D-Index
45
Citations
7607
World Ranking
4456
National Ranking
284

Xu Chen 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 Xu Chen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 179 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xu Chen 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 Xu Chen 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: 181 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: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • The new chronostratigraphic classification of the Ordovician System and its relations to major regional series and stages and to δ13C chemostratigraphy

    Stig M. Bergström;Xu Chen;Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco;Andrei Dronov

  • Facies patterns and geography of the Yangtze region, South China, through the Ordovician and Silurian transition

    Chen Xu;Rong Jia-yu;Li Yue;A.J. Boucot

  • Late Ordovician to earliest Silurian graptolite and brachiopod biozonation from the Yangtze region, South China, with a global correlation

    Chen Xu;Rong Jiayu;Charles E. Mitchell;David A. T. Harper

  • The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Hirnantian Stage (the uppermost of the Ordovician System)

    Xu Chen;Jiayu Rong;Junxuan Fan;Renbin Zhan

  • The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau

    Cuicui Mu;Benjamin W. Abbott;Adam J. Norris;Mei Mu

  • Extending the timescale and range of ecosystem services through paleoenvironmental analyses, exemplified in the lower Yangtze basin

    John A. Dearing;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enlou Zhang

  • Carbon burial by shallow lakes on the Yangtze floodplain and its relevance to regional carbon sequestration

    Xuhui Dong;N. John Anderson;Xiangdong Yang;Xu chen

  • The latest Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna (Brachiopoda) in time and space

    Rong Jia-Yu;Chen Xu;David A.T. Harper

  • Toward a stepwise Kwangsian Orogeny

    Xu Chen;Jun Xuan Fan;Qing Chen;Lan Tang

  • Onset of the Kwangsian Orogeny as evidenced by biofacies and lithofacies

    Xu Chen;YuanDong Zhang;JunXuan Fan;Lan Tang

  • PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF LATEST ORDOVICIAN GRAPTOLITE EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY BASED ON DATA FROM SOUTH CHINA

    Chen Xu;Michael J. Melchin;H. David Sheets;Charles E. Mitchell

  • Nutrient dynamics linked to hydrological condition and anthropogenic nutrient loading in Chaohu Lake (southeast China)

    Xu Chen;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Xuhui Dong;Qian Liu;Qian Liu

  • Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China

    Tonggang Zhang;Yanan Shen;Renbin Zhan;Shuzhong Shen

  • Biostratigraphy and geography of the Ordovician-Silurian Lungmachi black shales in South China

    Fan JunXuan (樊隽轩);Michael J. Melchin;Chen Xu (陈旭);Wang Yi (王怿)

  • Environmental changes in Chaohu Lake (southeast, China) since the mid 20th century: The interactive impacts of nutrients, hydrology and climate

    Xu Chen;Xu Chen;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enfeng Liu

  • Stage-progressive distribution pattern of the Lungmachi black graptolitic shales from Guizhou to Chongqing, Central China

    Xu Chen;JunXuan Fan;WenHui Wang;HongYan Wang

  • A proposed global boundary stratotype for the base of the Upper Series of the Ordovician System: The Fagelsang section, Scania, southern Sweden

    Stig M. Bergström;S. C. Finney;Chen Xu;Christian Pålsson

  • Paired δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg records of Upper Ordovician (Sandbian–Katian) carbonates in North America and China: Implications for paleoceanographic change

    Seth A. Young;Matthew R. Saltzman;Stig M. Bergström;Stephen A. Leslie

  • Ordovician graptolite-bearing strata in southern Jiangxi with a special reference to the Kwangsian Orogeny

    Xu Chen;YuanDong Zhang;JunXuan Fan;JunFeng Cheng

  • HIRNANTIAN (LATEST ORDOVICIAN) GRAPTOLITES FROM THE UPPER YANGTZE REGION, CHINA

    Chen Xu;Fan Jun-Xuan;M. J. Melchin;C. E. Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Junxuan Fan
Junxuan Fan Nanjing University
Stig M. Bergström
Stig M. Bergström The Ohio State University
David A. T. Harper
David A. T. Harper Durham University
Michael J. Melchin
Michael J. Melchin St. Francis Xavier University
Ping'an Peng
Ping'an Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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