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D-Index
35
Citations
4784
World Ranking
7596
National Ranking
481

Y. John 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 Y. John Chen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 118 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.

Y. John 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 Y. John Chen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Changbaishan volcanism in northeast China linked to subduction-induced mantle upwelling

    Youcai Tang;Youcai Tang;Masayuki Obayashi;Fenglin Niu;Fenglin Niu;Stephen P. Grand

  • A nonlinear rheology model for mid-ocean ridge axis topography

    Yongshun Chen;W. Jason Morgan

  • Dependence of ridge-axis morphology on magma supply and spreading rate

    Jason Phipps Morgan;Y. John Ghen

  • First active hydrothermal vents on an ultraslow-spreading center: Southwest Indian Ridge

    Chunhui Tao;Jian Lin;Shiqin Guo;Yongshun John Chen

  • Rift valley/no rift valley transition at mid‐ocean ridges

    Yongshun Chen;W. Jason Morgan

  • Oceanic crustal thickness versus spreading rate

    Unknown

  • 3D imaging of subducting and fragmenting Indian continental lithosphere beneath southern and central Tibet using body-wave finite-frequency tomography

    Xiaofeng Liang;Yun Chen;Xiaobo Tian;Xiaobo Tian;Yongshun John Chen

  • A complex Tibetan upper mantle: A fragmented Indian slab and no south-verging subduction of Eurasian lithosphere

    Xiaofeng Liang;Eric Sandvol;Y. John Chen;Thomas Hearn

  • Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Han Yue;Y. John Chen;Eric Sandvol;James Ni

  • Three-dimensional conductivity model of crust and uppermost mantle at the northern Trans North China Orogen: Evidence for a mantle source of Datong volcanoes

    Huiqian Zhang;Qinghua Huang;Guoze Zhao;Zhen Guo;Zhen Guo

  • Seismic anisotropy beneath the southern Ordos block and the Qinling-Dabie orogen, China: Eastward Tibetan asthenospheric flow around the southern Ordos

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  • Seismic observation of an extremely magmatic accretion at the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge

    Jiabiao Li;Hanchao Jian;Hanchao Jian;Yongshun John Chen;Satish C. Singh

  • Crustal thickness anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean basin from gravity analysis

    Tingting Wang;Jian Lin;Brian Tucholke;Yongshun John Chen

  • Mountain building at northeastern boundary of Tibetan Plateau and craton reworking at Ordos block from joint inversion of ambient noise tomography and receiver functions

    Unknown

  • Rayleigh wave tomography of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Qie Zhang;Eric Sandvol;James Ni;Yingjie Yang

  • Receiver function images of the mantle transition zone beneath NE China: New constraints on intraplate volcanism, deep subduction and their potential link

    Zheng Liu;Zheng Liu;Fenglin Niu;Fenglin Niu;Yongshun John Chen;Steve Grand

  • The effects of spreading rate, the magma budget, and the geometry of magma emplacement on the axial heat flux at mid‐ocean ridges

    Yongshun John Chen;Jason Phipps Morgan

  • High resolution regional seismic attenuation tomography in eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions

    Xueyang Bao;Eric Sandvol;James Ni;Thomas Hearn

  • Thermochemical structure of the North China Craton from multi-observable probabilistic inversion: Extent and causes of cratonic lithosphere modification

    Zhen Guo;Zhen Guo;Juan Carlos Afonso;Mehdi Tork Qashqai;Yingjie Yang

  • The Origin and Mantle Dynamics of Quaternary Intraplate Volcanism in Northeast China From Joint Inversion of Surface Wave and Body Wave

    Zhen Guo;Kai Wang;Yingjie Yang;Youcai Tang

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