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Zhen-Hua Zhao

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
35
Citations
7167
World Ranking
9247
National Ranking
793

Zhen-Hua Zhao 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 Zhen-Hua Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 64 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Zhen-Hua Zhao 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 Zhen-Hua Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Zhen-Hua Zhao is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including geophysics, geochemistry and petrology, pollution, ecology, and molecular biology. Zhao's work notably covers topics such as groundwater and isotope geochemistry, karst systems and hydrogeology, geological and geochemical analysis, microbial community ecology and physiology, high-pressure geophysics and materials, water quality and pollution assessment, and groundwater flow and contamination studies.

Frequent coauthors with whom Zhao has collaborated include Liling Xia, Zhirui Qin, Liting Xing, Qiang Wang, and Derek A. Wyman.

Zhao has published in several prominent scientific venues. Some of the most common publication venues are:

  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Water
  • Environmental Research
  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Zhao include:

  • Assessment of the water quality of groundwater in Bohai Rim and the controlling factors-a case study of northern Shandong Peninsula, north China, 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • Phenanthrene removal and response of bacterial community in the combined system of photocatalysis and PAH-degrading microbial consortium in laboratory system, 2020, Bioresource Technology
  • Responses of abundant and rare prokaryotic taxa in a controlled organic contaminated site subjected to vertical pollution-induced disturbances, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Columbite-group minerals and mica of peraluminous granite record the magmatic-hydrothermal processes that formed the Zhaojinggou Ta Nb deposit in the North China Craton, 2020, Lithos
  • Coupled photocatalytic-bacterial degradation of pyrene: Removal enhancement and bacterial community responses, 2020, Environmental Research

Best Publications

  • Highly evolved juvenile granites with tetrad REE patterns: the Woduhe and Baerzhe granites from the Great Xing'an Mountains in NE China

    Bor-ming Jahn;Fuyuan Wu;Fuyuan Wu;R. Capdevila;F. Martineau

  • Petrogenesis of Cretaceous adakitic and shoshonitic igneous rocks in the Luzong area, Anhui Province (eastern China): Implications for geodynamics and Cu–Au mineralization

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Ji-Feng Xu;Zhen-Hua Zhao

  • Early Cretaceous adakitic granites in the Northern Dabie Complex, central China: Implications for partial melting and delamination of thickened lower crust

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Jifeng Xu;Ping Jian

  • Geochemistry of mineralization with exchangeable REY in the weathering crusts of granitic rocks in South China

    Zhiwei Bao;Zhenhua Zhao

  • Ridge subduction and crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Late Carboniferous adakites and high-Mg diorites in the western Junggar region, northern Xinjiang (west China)

    Gongjian Tang;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Petrogenesis of Carboniferous adakites and Nb-enriched arc basalts in the Alataw area, northern Tianshan Range (western China): Implications for Phanerozoic crustal growth in the Central Asia orogenic belt

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zhen-Hua Zhao;Ji-Feng Xu

  • Alkaline syenites in eastern Cathaysia (South China): link to Permian-Triassic transtension

    Qiang Wang;Jian-Wei Li;Ping Jian;Zhen-Hua Zhao

  • Triassic Nb-enriched basalts, magnesian andesites, and adakites of the Qiangtang terrane (Central Tibet): evidence for metasomatism by slab-derived melts in the mantle wedge

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Jifeng Xu;Yusheng Wan

  • Cretaceous high-potassium intrusive rocks in the Yueshan-Hongzhen area of east China: Adakites in an extensional tectonic regime within a continent

    Qiang Wang;Ji-Feng Xu;Zhen-Hua Zhao;Zhi-Wei Bao

  • Partial Melting of Thickened or Delaminated Lower Crust in the Middle of Eastern China: Implications for Cu-Au Mineralization

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Ji‐Feng Xu;Zhen‐Hua Zhao

  • Petrology, geochronology and geochemistry of ca. 780 Ma A-type granites in South China: Petrogenesis and implications for crustal growth during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia

    Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zheng-Xiang Li;Zhi-Wei Bao

  • Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Paleozoic magmatic rocks in the Lamasu-Dabate area, northwestern Tianshan (west China): Evidence for a tectonic transition from arc to post-collisional setting

    Gong-Jian Tang;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Min Sun

  • Asthenosphere–lithosphere interaction triggered by a slab window during ridge subduction: Trace element and Sr–Nd–Hf–Os isotopic evidence from Late Carboniferous tholeiites in the western Junggar area (NW China)

    Gong-Jian Tang;Derek A. Wyman;Qiang Wang;Jie Li

  • Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of the Tongshankou and Yinzu Adakitic Intrusive Rocks and the Associated Porphyry Copper‐Molybdenum Mineralization in Southeast Hubei, East China

    Qiang Wang;Zhen-Hua Zhao;Zhi-Wei Bao;Ji-Feng Xu

  • Late Carboniferous high εNd(t)–εHf(t) granitoids, enclaves and dikes in western Junggar, NW China: Ridge-subduction-related magmatism and crustal growth

    Gong-Jian Tang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Extremely high-Na adakite-like magmas derived from alkali-rich basaltic underplate:The Late Cretaceous Zhantang andesites in the Huichang Basin,SE China

    Xiao-Lin Xiong;Xian-Hua Li;Ji-Feng Xu;Wu-Xian Li

  • Late Triassic high-Mg andesite/dacite suites from northern Hohxil, North Tibet: Geochronology, geochemical characteristics, petrogenetic processes and tectonic implications

    Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Zheng-Xiang Li;Sun-Lin Chung;Derek A. Wyman

  • Recycling oceanic crust for continental crustal growth: Sr-Nd-Hf isotope evidence from granitoids in the western Junggar region, NW China

    Gong-Jian Tang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Short episodes of crust generation during protracted accretionary processes: Evidence from Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China

    Gong Jian Tang;Sun Lin Chung;Chris J. Hawkesworth;P. A. Cawood;P. A. Cawood

  • Petrogenesis of the Mesozoic intrusive rocks in the Tongling area, Anhui Province, China and their constraint on geodynamic process

    Qiang Wang;Jifeng Xu;Zhenhua Zhao;Xiaolin Xiong

  • Petrogenesis of a Late Carboniferous mafic dike–granitoid association in the western Tianshan: Response to the geodynamics of oceanic subduction

    Gong-Jian Tang;Gong-Jian Tang;Sun-Lin Chung;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek A. Wyman
Derek A. Wyman University of Sydney
Ji-Feng Xu
Ji-Feng Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zheng-Xiang Li
Zheng-Xiang Li Curtin University
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Z.G. Wang
Z.G. Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yi-Gang Xu
Yi-Gang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter A. Cawood
Peter A. Cawood Monash University
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Weidong Sun
Weidong Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chris J. Hawkesworth
Chris J. Hawkesworth University of Bristol

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