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D-Index
68
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18436
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1129
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69

Zhengtang Guo 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 Zhengtang Guo sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 241 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zhengtang Guo 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 Zhengtang Guo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Zhengtang Guo is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Geophysics, Paleontology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics of Zhengtang Guo's work focus on geology and paleoclimatology research, tree-ring climate responses, climate variability and models, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geological and geochemical analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and geological formations and processes.

Zhengtang Guo has authored papers in several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Science China Earth Sciences
  • National Science Review
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Several recent papers highlight the scope and impact of their research:

  • "Perspectives on the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the 'carbon neutrality' strategy," 2022, Science China Earth Sciences
  • "ENSO modulates wildfire activity in China," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Evolution of vegetation and climate variability on the Tibetan Plateau over the past 1.74 million years," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Rapid drift of the Tethyan Himalaya terrane before two-stage India-Asia collision," 2020, National Science Review
  • "Holocene seasonal temperature evolution and spatial variability over the Northern Hemisphere landmass," 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Chenglong Deng
  • Feng Shi
  • Chenxi Xu
  • Qiuzhen Yin
  • Zhilin He

Zhengtang Guo was awarded the title of Fellow by The World Academy of Sciences in 2018. This recognition marks a notable point in their academic career connected to their contributions in science.

Best Publications

  • Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China

    Z. T. Guo;William F. Ruddiman;Q. Z. Hao;H. B. Wu

  • A major reorganization of Asian climate by the early Miocene

    Z.T. Guo;B. Sun;Z.S. Zhang;S.Z. Peng

  • Ice-Volume Forcing of East Asian Winter Monsoon Variations in the Past 800,000 Years

    Zhongli Ding;Tungsheng Liu;Nat W. Rutter;Zhiwei Yu

  • The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

    Pin Xian Wang;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;John Fasullo

  • Delayed build-up of Arctic ice sheets during 400,000-year minima in insolation variability

    Qingzhen Hao;Luo Wang;Frank Oldfield;Shuzhen Peng

  • Land use induced changes of organic carbon storage in soils of China

    Haibin Wu;Zhengtang Guo;Changhui Peng

  • Variation of East Asian monsoon precipitation during the past 21 k.y. and potential CO2 forcing

    Huayu Lu;Huayu Lu;Shuangwen Yi;Zhengyu Liu;Joseph A. Mason

  • Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia.

    RX Zhu;KA Hoffman;R Potts;CL Deng

  • Reconstruction of climate and vegetation changes of Lake Bayanchagan (Inner Mongolia): Holocene variability of the East Asian monsoon

    Wenying Jiang;Wenying Jiang;Zhengtang Guo;Xiangjun Sun;Haibin Wu

  • Danube loess stratigraphy — Towards a pan-European loess stratigraphic model

    Slobodan B. Marković;Thomas Stevens;George J. Kukla;Ulrich Hambach

  • Climate extremes in Loess of China coupled with the strength of deep-water formation in the North Atlantic

    Zhengtang Guo;Tungsheng Liu;Nicolas Fedoroff;Lanying Wei

  • Multiple expansions of C4 plant biomass in East Asia since 7 Ma coupled with strengthened monsoon circulation

    An Zhisheng;An Zhisheng;Huang Yongsong;Liu Weiguo;Guo Zhengtang

  • Climatic changes in Eurasia and Africa at the last glacial maximum and mid-Holocene: reconstruction from pollen data using inverse vegetation modelling

    Haibin Wu;Haibin Wu;Joël Guiot;Simon Brewer;Zhengtang Guo

  • Distribution of soil inorganic carbon storage and its changes due to agricultural land use activity in China.

    Haibin Wu;Haibin Wu;Zhengtang Guo;Qiong Gao;Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng

  • Summer monsoon variations over the last 1.2 Ma from the weathering of loess-soil sequences in China

    Zhengtang Guo;Pierre Biscaye;Lanying Wei;Xihui Chen

  • Distribution and storage of soil organic carbon in China

    Haibin Wu;Zhengtang Guo;Changhui Peng

  • Geochemical evidence for the provenance of middle Pleistocene loess deposits in southern China

    Qingzhen Hao;Zhengtang Guo;Yansong Qiao;Bing Xu

  • What triggers the transition of palaeoenvironmental patterns in China;the Tibetan Plateau uplift or the Paratethys Sea retreat?

    Zhang Zhongshi;Huijun Wang;Zhengtang Guo;Dabang Jiang

  • Correlations between microbial tetraether lipids and environmental variables in Chinese soils: Optimizing the paleo-reconstructions in semi-arid and arid regions

    Huan Yang;Richard D. Pancost;Xinyue Dang;Xinying Zhou

  • Late Miocene–Pliocene development of Asian aridification as recorded in the Red-Earth Formation in northern China

    Zhengtang Guo;Shuzhen Peng;Qingzhen Hao;Pierre E Biscaye

Frequent Co-Authors

Qingzhen Hao
Qingzhen Hao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chenglong Deng
Chenglong Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frank Oldfield
Frank Oldfield University of Liverpool
André Berger
André Berger Université Catholique de Louvain
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Jan Bloemendal
Jan Bloemendal University of Liverpool
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Rixiang Zhu
Rixiang Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tungsheng Liu
Tungsheng Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University

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