| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton | Geology | 1992 | 1,283 |
| 2 | The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2011 | 1,096 |
| 3 | Partially Molten Middle Crust Beneath Southern Tibet: Synthesis of Project INDEPTH Results | Science | 1996 | 1,063 |
| 4 | The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 1,045 |
| 5 | Collision of the North China and Yangtse Blocks and formation of coesite-bearing eclogites: Timing and processes | Chemical Geology | 1993 | 981 |
| 6 | Adakites from continental collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet | Geology | 2003 | 948 |
| 7 | U/Pb zircon ages constrain the architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling–Dabie Orogen, China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1998 | 877 |
| 8 | Origin of adakitic intrusives generated during mid-Miocene east–west extension in southern Tibet | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 801 |
| 9 | Penglai Zircon Megacrysts: A Potential New Working Reference Material for Microbeam Determination of Hf–O Isotopes and U–Pb Age | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | 2010 | 777 |
| 10 | Tectonics of the Qinling (Central China): tectonostratigraphy, geochronology, and deformation history | Tectonophysics | 2003 | 768 |
| 11 | The breakup of Rodinia: did it start with a mantle plume beneath South China? | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1999 | 739 |
| 12 | Major types and time–space distribution of Mesozoic ore deposits in South China and their geodynamic settings | Mineralium Deposita | 2013 | 726 |
| 13 | Rocky desertification in Southwest China: Impacts, causes, and restoration | Earth-Science Reviews | 2014 | 710 |
| 14 | Spatial–temporal relationships of Mesozoic volcanic rocks in NE China: Constraints on tectonic overprinting and transformations between multiple tectonic regimes | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2013 | 667 |
| 15 | Underplating in the Himalaya-Tibet Collision Zone Revealed by the Hi-CLIMB Experiment | Science | 2009 | 662 |
| 16 | Landslide hazards triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China | Landslides | 2009 | 661 |
| 17 | Deep seismic reflection evidence for continental underthrusting beneath southern Tibet | Nature | 1993 | 636 |
| 18 | The closing of Tethys and the tectonics of the Himalaya | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1987 | 633 |
| 19 | Qinghu zircon: A working reference for microbeam analysis of U-Pb age and Hf and O isotopes | Science Bulletin | 2013 | 626 |
| 20 | Tectonics of the Qinling Belt: build-up and evolution of eastern Asia | Nature | 1985 | 611 |
| 21 | Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2002 | 603 |
| 22 | Zircon M257 ‐ a Homogeneous Natural Reference Material for the Ion Microprobe U‐Pb Analysis of Zircon | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | 2008 | 591 |
| 23 | 3800 to 2500 Ma crustal evolution in the Anshan area of Liaoning Province, northeastern China | Precambrian Research | 1996 | 574 |
| 24 | Seismic Images of Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Tibet: Evidence for Eurasian Plate Subduction | Science | 2002 | 570 |
| 25 | Contribution of syncollisional felsic magmatism to continental crust growth: A case study of the Paleogene Linzizong volcanic Succession in southern Tibet | Chemical Geology | 2008 | 570 |
| 26 | SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology of Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the North China Craton: Evidence for a major Late Palaeoproterozoic tectonothermal event | Precambrian Research | 2006 | 540 |
| 27 | Mantle contributions to crustal thickening during continental collision: Evidence from Cenozoic igneous rocks in southern Tibet | Lithos | 2007 | 538 |
| 28 | Did the Indo-Asian collision alone create the Tibetan plateau? | Geology | 1997 | 532 |
| 29 | Phanerozoic evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Sino-Korean craton | Geodynamic Series | 1998 | 524 |
| 30 | Spatial distribution of landslides triggered by the 2008 Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, China | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2011 | 512 |
| 31 | Tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, NW China: geochemical and age constraints of granitoid rocks | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 509 |
| 32 | Sedimentary record and climatic implications of recurrent deformation in the Tian Shan: Evidence from Mesozoic strata of the north Tarim, south Junggar, and Turpan basins, northwest China | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1992 | 497 |
| 33 | Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: fission-track constraints | Tectonophysics | 2001 | 479 |
| 34 | Early Cenozoic two-phase extension and late Cenozoic thermal subsidence and inversion of the Bohai Basin, northern China | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1997 | 475 |
| 35 | Time scale of an early to mid-Paleozoic orogenic cycle of the long-lived Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Inner Mongolia of China: Implications for continental growth | Lithos | 2008 | 471 |
| 36 | A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals | Nature | 2011 | 470 |
| 37 | Cretaceous tectonic evolution of South China: A preliminary synthesis | Earth-Science Reviews | 2014 | 458 |
| 38 | The assembly of Rodinia: The correlation of early Neoproterozoic (ca. 900 Ma) high-grade metamorphism and continental arc formation in the southern Beishan Orogen, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) | Precambrian Research | 2017 | 453 |
| 39 | Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 3): Structural geology, sedimentation, and regional tectonic reconstruction | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2008 | 452 |
| 40 | Depleted-mantle source for the Ulungur River A-type granites from North Xinjiang, China: geochemistry and Nd–Sr isotopic evidence, and implications for Phanerozoic crustal growth | Chemical Geology | 1997 | 451 |
| 41 | Zircon SHRIMP U–Pb ages of the Gangdese Batholith and implications for Neotethyan subduction in southern Tibet | Chemical Geology | 2008 | 427 |
| 42 | Evolution of a Permian intraoceanic arc–trench system in the Solonker suture zone, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, China and Mongolia | Lithos | 2010 | 422 |
| 43 | Three (nearly) complete inventories of landslides triggered by the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan Mw 7.9 earthquake of China and their spatial distribution statistical analysis | Landslides | 2014 | 421 |
| 44 | Age, geochemistry, and tectonic implications of a late Paleozoic stitching pluton in the North Tian Shan suture zone, western China | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2010 | 411 |
| 45 | The earliest known eutherian mammal | Nature | 2002 | 410 |
| 46 | Petrogenesis of Cretaceous adakitic and shoshonitic igneous rocks in the Luzong area, Anhui Province (eastern China): Implications for geodynamics and Cu–Au mineralization | Lithos | 2006 | 409 |
| 47 | Tectonics and structural zonation of southern Tibet, China | Nature | 1984 | 404 |
| 48 | Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 1): The southern Qilian Shan-Nan Shan thrust belt and northern Qaidam basin | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2008 | 401 |
| 49 | Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Southeast China Block: New insights from basin analysis | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2009 | 383 |
| 50 | Detrital and xenocrystic zircon ages from Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic arc terranes of Mongolia: Significance for the origin of crustal fragments in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt | Gondwana Research | 2011 | 380 |
