研究领域
研究工作跨越浅海、海岸和陆地环境的各个方面，通过研究地质时期和现代的沉积物来解释与地壳活动相关的地球表面的环境变化。碳酸盐岩沉积学，化石礁古生物学和古气候。地质微生物学，珊瑚礁区微生物碳酸盐沉积。碳酸盐沉积相关的油气资源和矿产
近期论文
Shen, J.-W.* , Yang, H.-Q., Wang, Y. et al. (2013) Coral reef community ecology and the shallow-water carbonate sedimentary characteristics of Yongxing Island, Xisha Islands. SCIENCE CHINA.Earth Sciences, 56/9, 1471–1486
Shen, J.-W.*, Long, J.-P., Pedoja, K. et al. (2013) Holocene coquina beachrock from Haishan Island, east coast of Guangdong Province, China. Quaternary International, 310, 199-212
Yang H.-Q., Shen J.-W. *, Fu, F.-X. et al. (2014) Black band disease as a possible factor of the coral decline at the northern reef-flat of Yongxing Island, South China Sea. Science China.Earth Sciences, 57/4, 569–578
Yang, H.-Q., Shen, J.-W.*, Yang, H.-J., Zhang, L.-J., Li, M., Wang, J.-P. (2014) Mixed carbonate- clastic facies in the Eocene Kalatar Formation of the southwest Tarim Basin (NW China): tectonic and climatic controls. Facies, 60, 111-131
Shen, J.-W.*, Yang, H.-J., Qing, Hairuo, Zhang, Lijuan, Yang, H.-Q. (2012) Calcimicrobes and microbialites in lagoonal sediments from Mississippian Midale Beds, Williston Basin, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada . International Journal of Earth Sciences, 101, 109–127
Wang Y., Shen J. W.*, Long J. P. (2011) Ecological-Sedimentary Zonations and Carbonate Deposition, Xiaodonghai Reef Flat, Sanya, Hainan Island, China. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 2011, 54/3, 359-371
Shen, J.-W.*, Webb, G.E., Qing, Hairuo (2010) Microbial mounds prior to the Frasnian–Famennian mass extinctions, Hantang, Guilin, South China. Sedimentology, 57, 1615–1639
Shen, J.-W.*, Qing, H.-R. (2010) Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) stromatolite mounds in a fore-reef slope setting, Laibin, Guangxi, South China. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 99, 443–458
Pedoja, K., Shen, J.-W., Kershaw, S., Tang, C. (2008) Coastal Quaternary morphologies on the northern coast of the South China Sea, China, and their implications for current tectonic models; a review and preliminary study. Marine Geology, 255, 103-117
Shen, J.-W.*, Webb, G.E., Jell, J.S. (2008) Platform margins, reef facies, and microbial carbonates; a comparison of Devonian reef complexes in the Canning Basin, Western Australia, and the Guilin region, South China. Earth-Science Reviews, 88, 33-59
Shen, J.-W.*, Webb, G.E. (2008) Role of microbes in reef building communities of the Cannindah limestone (Mississippian), Monto region, Queensland, Australia. Facies, 54/1, 89-105
Shen, J.-W.*, Wang, Y. (2008) Modern microbialites and their environmental significance, Meiji reef atoll Nansha (Spratly) Islands, South China Sea. Science in China Ser. D Earth Scineces, 51/4, 608-617
Teng, J-B, Shen, J-W.* (2008) Microbial carbonates in Holocene beachrocks, Shuiweiling, Luhuitou Peninsula, Hainan Island. Sci China Ser D-Earth Sci., 51/1: 30-40
Shen, J.-W.*, Teng, J.B., and Pedoja, K. (2005). Middle and Late Devonian microbial carbonates, reefs and mounds in Guilin, South China and their sequence stratigraphic, paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic significance. Science in China (Earth Sciences), 48/11, 2001-2007
Shen, J.-W.*, Webb, G. E. (2005) Metazoan-microbial framework fabrics in a Mississippian (Carboniferous) coral-sponge-microbial reef, Monto, Queensland, Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 178/1-2,113-133
Shen, J.-W.*, Xu, H.-L. (2005) Microbial carbonates as a contributor to Guadalupian to Lopingian reefs in carbonate platform margin setting, Ziyun County, Guizhou, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 218/3-4, 217-238
Shen, J. -W.*, Webb, G. E. (2004) Famennian (Upper Devonian) stromatolite reefs at Shatang, Guilin, Guangxi, South China. Sedimentary Geology, 170/1-2, 63-84
Shen, J. -W.*, Webb, G. E. (2004) Famennian (Upper Devonian) calcimicrobial (Renalcis) reef at Miaomen, Guilin, Guangxi, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 204, 373-39