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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 47 3984 3656 258 253 136 8937

Xuezheng Shi publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Xuezheng Shi between 2001 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Xuezheng Shi published across 25 years, from 2001 to 2025, averaging 6.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2010. 14 of the 171 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2010. 2001: 1 publication 2002: 0 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 14 publications 2010: 18 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 8 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 8 publications
2001 2025

171 publications in total across all disciplines

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Xuezheng Shi: publications per year, 2001 to 2025
Year Publications
2001 1
2002 0
2003 0
2004 2
2005 3
2006 9
2007 6
2008 9
2009 14
2010 18
2011 12
2012 6
2013 10
2014 4
2015 4
2016 10
2017 12
2018 13
2019 8
2020 3
2021 8
2022 2
2023 3
2024 6
2025 8
Total 171
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Xuezheng Shi 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 Xuezheng Shi sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 128–137 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 136 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557 136
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Xuezheng Shi 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 Xuezheng Shi sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 47 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 47 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202 47
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Xuezheng Shi is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed significantly to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Engineering. Their research focuses primarily on soil science, with notable work spanning soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and unsaturated flow, and soil geostatistics and mapping.

The scientist's work often intersects with specialized subfields such as civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, biomaterials, and artificial intelligence. The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements

Xuezheng Shi has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Art Frontier
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geoderma
  • Soil and Tillage Research

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Shi illustrate the focus on hyperspectral imaging and machine learning applied to soil studies as well as soil property mapping and analysis:

  • Integrating hyperspectral imaging with machine learning techniques for the high-resolution mapping of soil nitrogen fractions in soil profiles, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hyperspectral imaging for high-resolution mapping of soil carbon fractions in intact paddy soil profiles with multivariate techniques and variable selection, 2020, Geoderma
  • Spatiotemporal variations in soil organic carbon and their drivers in southeastern China during 1981-2011, 2020, Soil and Tillage Research
  • A comparison of machine learning algorithms for mapping soil iron parameters indicative of pedogenic processes by hyperspectral imaging of intact soil profiles, 2021, European Journal of Soil Science
  • Effects of porous clay ceramic rates on aeration porosity characteristics in a structurally degraded soil under greenhouse vegetable production, 2021, Pedosphere

Collaboration forms a strong part of Shi's research output, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Meiyan Wang (13 joint publications)
  • Shengxiang Xu (9 joint publications)
  • Quanbo Yu (8 joint publications)
  • Xinqiao Xie (8 joint publications)
  • Lingying Xu (7 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of land-use changes in China since the late 1980s

    Jiyuan Liu;Wenhui Kuang;Zengxiang Zhang;Xinliang Xu

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Economics- and policy-driven organic carbon input enhancement dominates soil organic carbon accumulation in Chinese croplands.

    Yongcun Zhao;Meiyan Wang;Shuijin Hu;Xudong Zhang

  • Soil Database of 1:1,000,000 Digital Soil Survey and Reference System of the Chinese Genetic Soil Classification System

    X. Z. Shi;D. S. Yu;E. D. Warner;X. Z. Pan

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Environmental assessment of small-scale vegetable farming systems in peri-urban areas of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

    Biao Huang;Xuezheng Shi;Dongsheng Yu;Ingrid Öborn

  • Cross-reference system for translating between genetic soil classification of China and soil taxonomy

    X. Z. Shi;D. S. Yu;E. D. Warner;W. X. Sun

  • Cross-reference for relating Genetic Soil Classification of China with WRB at different scales

    X.Z. Shi;D.S. Yu;S.X. Xu;E.D. Warner

  • Comparison of multivariate methods for estimating selected soil properties from intact soil cores of paddy fields by Vis–NIR spectroscopy

    Shengxiang Xu;Yongcun Zhao;Meiyan Wang;Xuezheng Shi

  • Pools and distributions of soil phosphorus in China

    Chi Zhang;Hanqin Tian;Jiyuan Liu;Shaoqiang Wang

  • On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems - a study from SE China

    Thomas Scholten;Philipp Goebes;Peter Kühn;Steffen Seitz

  • Splash erosion potential under tree canopies in subtropical SE China

    C. Geißler;P. Kühn;M. Böhnke;H. Bruelheide

  • Spatial Distribution of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils of an Industry-Based Peri-Urban Area in Wuxi, China

    Yan-Feng Zhao;Xue-Zheng Shi;Biao Huang;Dong-Sheng Yu

  • Factors determining soil nutrient distribution in a small-scaled watershed in the purple soil region of Sichuan Province, China

    H.J. Wang;X.Z. Shi;D.S. Yu;David C. Weindorf

  • Spatial interrelations and multi-scale sources of soil heavy metal variability in a typical urban-rural transition area in Yangtze River Delta region of China

    Yongcun Zhao;Zhigang Wang;Weixia Sun;Biao Huang

  • Changes in soil fertility parameters and the environmental effects in a rapidly developing region of China

    Jeremy L. Darilek;Biao Huang;Zhigang Wang;Yanbing Qi

  • Patterns of soil nitrogen storage in China

    Hanqin Tian;Shaoqiang Wang;Jiyuan Liu;Shufen Pan

  • Variation of soil organic carbon estimates in mountain regions: A case study from Southwest China

    Y. Zhang;Y.C. Zhao;X.Z. Shi;X.X. Lu

  • National Scale Analysis of Soil Organic Carbon Storage in China Based on Chinese Soil Taxonomy

    Dong-Sheng Yu;Xue-Zheng Shi;Hong-Jie Wang;Wei-Xia Sun

  • [Estimation of China soil organic carbon storage and density based on 1:1,000,000 soil database].

    Dongsheng Yu;Xuezheng Shi;Weixia Sun;Hongjie Wang

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Bohnke;Sabine Both;Fang Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongcun Zhao
Yongcun Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
David C. Weindorf
David C. Weindorf Central Michigan University
Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Peter Kühn
Peter Kühn University of Tübingen
Karsten Schmidt
Karsten Schmidt University of Tübingen
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changsheng Li
Changsheng Li University of New Hampshire

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