Zhigang Chen

636 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 487 citations indexed

About

Zhigang Chen is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhigang Chen has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 487 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology, 4 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 4 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhigang Chen's work include Phosphorus and nutrient management (4 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (4 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 papers). Zhigang Chen is often cited by papers focused on Phosphorus and nutrient management (4 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (4 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 papers). Zhigang Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Zhigang Chen's co-authors include Xianjin Huang, Yi Zhu, Mingshu Wang, Jing Tang, Jiayu Wan, Yi Chen, Taiyang Zhong, Jia Yu, Xianjin Huang and Hui Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, The Science of The Total Environment and Chemical Engineering Journal.

In The Last Decade

Zhigang Chen

22 papers receiving 484 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China

2022 148 citations Mingshu Wang, Yi Zhu et al. Cities profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhigang Chen China	9	137	130	71	59	56	23	487
Xiande Li China	13	122 0.9×	166 1.3×	95 1.3×	34 0.6×	62 1.1×	43	542
Yusuke Kuwayama United States	12	93 0.7×	204 1.6×	20 0.3×	22 0.4×	67 1.2×	31	536
Klaus Frohberg Germany	11	206 1.5×	52 0.4×	158 2.2×	66 1.1×	82 1.5×	38	500
Jean‐Daniel Rinaudo France	20	90 0.7×	229 1.8×	33 0.5×	128 2.2×	64 1.1×	63	886
Liuwen Liao China	12	194 1.4×	294 2.3×	172 2.4×	68 1.2×	87 1.6×	17	653
Chris Knudson United States	10	47 0.3×	111 0.9×	60 0.8×	23 0.4×	37 0.7×	17	378
Paula Novo United Kingdom	15	98 0.7×	168 1.3×	38 0.5×	13 0.2×	30 0.5×	34	536
Binganidzo Muchara South Africa	9	77 0.6×	72 0.6×	60 0.8×	16 0.3×	66 1.2×	15	386
Xueyan Sui China	8	40 0.3×	217 1.7×	84 1.2×	32 0.5×	79 1.4×	25	476

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhigang Chen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fan, Haifeng, Zhigang Chen, Fang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Seawater temperatures during the early to middle Ediacaran: Phosphate oxygen isotope records. Chemical Geology. 678. 122642–122642. 1 indexed citations

Ye, Yuntao, Xiaomei Wang, Huajian Wang, et al.. (2024). Hydrological dynamics and manganese mineralization in the wake of the Sturtian glaciation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 376. 14–24. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Hao, Xinxin Jing, Junchao Qian, et al.. (2024). One-pot synthesis of magnetic Mg-enriched MgFe2O4 composites for high recovery of phosphate from wastewater. Chemical Engineering Journal. 503. 158379–158379. 3 indexed citations

Ye, Yuntao, Xiaomei Wang, Huajian Wang, et al.. (2023). Phosphate oxygen isotopes constrain Mesoproterozoic marine temperatures and the paucity of phosphorite. Chemical Geology. 644. 121831–121831. 4 indexed citations

Ashraf, Anam, et al.. (2023). Integrated multiphase ecological risk assessment of heavy metals for migratory water birds in wetland ecosystem: A case study of Dongzhangwu Wetland, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 889. 164102–164102. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Zhigang, et al.. (2023). The effects of phosphate concentration on the recovery of phosphate from alkaline solution by hydrated lime and calcined oyster shell: recovery efficiency, capacity and hydroxyapatite purity. Environmental Advances. 12. 100363–100363. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Mingshu, et al.. (2022). Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China. Cities. 129. 103831–103831. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Han, Min Chen, Laodong Guo, et al.. (2019). The efficiency of sequential extraction of phosphorus in soil and sediment: insights from the oxygen isotope ratio of phosphate. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 20(3). 1332–1343. 13 indexed citations

Chen, Zhigang, Guizhong Wang, Chaoshu Zeng, & Lisheng Wu. (2018). Comparative study on the effects of two diatoms as diets on planktonic calanoid and benthic harpacticoid copepods. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 329(3). 140–148. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Min, et al.. (2018). Diurnal variations in the content and oxygen isotope composition of phosphate pools in a subtropical agriculture soil. Geoderma. 337. 863–870. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhigang, Jing Tang, Jiayu Wan, & Yi Chen. (2017). Promotion incentives for local officials and the expansion of urban construction land in China: Using the Yangtze River Delta as a case study. Land Use Policy. 63. 214–225. 106 indexed citations

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Jiang, Zhaohua, Han Zhang, Deb P. Jaisi, et al.. (2017). The effect of sample treatments on the oxygen isotopic composition of phosphate pools in soils. Chemical Geology. 474. 9–16. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xingfeng, Xuehong Zhang, & Zhigang Chen. (2017). Biosorption of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution by biochar derived from the leaf of Leersia hexandra Swartz. Environmental Earth Sciences. 76(2). 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Guangshan, et al.. (2015). The distribution of iodine and effects of phosphatization on it in the ferromanganese crusts from the Mid-Pacific Ocean. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 34(8). 13–19. 3 indexed citations

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Yin, Xijie & Zhigang Chen. (2014). Measuring oxygen yields of a thermal conversion/elemental analyzer‐isotope ratio mass spectrometer for organic and inorganic materials through injection of CO. Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 49(12). 1298–1305. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhigang, et al.. (2013). Exploring of clustering algorithm on class-imbalanced data. 89–93. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhigang, et al.. (2013). Constrained K-means with external information. 490–493. 4 indexed citations

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Shao, Guifang, et al.. (2013). An improved SVM method for cDNA microarray image segmentation. 1. 391–395. 5 indexed citations

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Dong, Kejun, Ming He, Hao Hu, et al.. (2011). AMS Measurement of ⁵³ Mn at CIAE. Chinese Physics Letters. 28(7). 70703–70703. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhigang. (2006). Characteristics of the seasonal variations of the near surface layer parameters on the antarcticice sheet in Princess Elizabeth Land,East Antarctica. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 3 indexed citations

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