1.近五年发表文章44篇、授权专利6项。
2.五篇代表性论文：
(1). Sun, Z., Jian, Z., Stock, J.M., Larsen, H.C., Klaus, A., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and the Expedition 367/368 Scientists, 2018. South China Sea Rifted Mar？gin. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 367/368: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.367368.2018
(2).Sun, Z. *, Lin, J. *, Qiu, N., Jian, Z.M., Wang, P. X., Pang, X., Zheng, J. Y., Zhu, B. D., 2019. The magmatism in the thinning and breakup process of the South China Sea continental margin. In Special Topic: The South China Sea Ocean Drilling. National Science Review, nwz116, 6(5):871-876. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz116
(3).Sun, Z. *, Ding, W.W. *, Zhao, X. X. *, Qiu, N.,Lin, J., Li, C. F., 2019. The latest spreading periods of the South China Sea: New constraints from macrostructure analysis of IODP Expedition 349 cores and geophysical data. J. Geophys. Res., 124. doi: 10.1029/2019JB017584
(4).Fucheng Li, Zhen Sun*, Hongfeng Yang*. (2018). Possible spatial distribution of the Mesozoic volcanic arc in the present-day South China Sea continental margin and its tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 6215–6235. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB014861
(5).Li, F. *, Sun, Z. *, Yang, H., Lin, J., Stock, J. M., Zhao, Z., et al. (2020). Continental interior and edge breakup at convergent margins induced by subduction direction reversal: A numerical modeling study applied to the South China Sea margin. Tectonics, 39, e2020TC006409. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006409
