| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust | Lithos | 2008 | 2,568 |
| 2 | Zircon chemistry and magma mixing, SE China: In-situ analysis of Hf isotopes, Tonglu and Pingtan igneous complexes | Lithos | 2002 | 2,383 |
| 3 | An overview of adakite, tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution | Lithos | 2005 | 2,254 |
| 4 | Adakitic magmas: modern analogues of Archaean granitoids | Lithos | 1999 | 1,419 |
| 5 | The A-type granitoids: A review of their occurrence and chemical characteristics and speculations on their petrogenesis | Lithos | 1990 | 1,279 |
| 6 | A review of the relationships between granitoid types, their origins and their geodynamic environments | Lithos | 1999 | 1,255 |
| 7 | Post-collisional strongly peraluminous granites | Lithos | 1998 | 1,161 |
| 8 | Boundary lines within petrologic diagrams which use oxides of major and minor elements | Lithos | 1989 | 1,147 |
| 9 | Aluminium saturation in I- and S-type granites and the characterization of fractionated haplogranites | Lithos | 1999 | 1,125 |
| 10 | A-type granites and related rocks: Evolution of a concept, problems and prospects | Lithos | 2007 | 1,104 |
| 11 | High Sr/Y and La/Yb ratios: The meaning of the “adakitic signature” | Lithos | 2009 | 806 |
| 12 | Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Permian–Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China | Lithos | 2001 | 785 |
| 13 | Derivation of some A-type magmas by fractionation of basaltic magma: An example from the Padthaway Ridge, South Australia | Lithos | 1992 | 724 |
| 14 | The geochemistry of shales, siltstones and sandstones of Pennsylvanian–Permian age, Colorado, USA: implications for provenance and metamorphic studies | Lithos | 2000 | 714 |
| 15 | Fluid inclusions in hydrothermal ore deposits | Lithos | 2001 | 698 |
| 16 | The growth of the continental crust: Constraints from zircon Hf-isotope data | Lithos | 2010 | 697 |
| 17 | Forty years of TTG research | Lithos | 2012 | 697 |
| 18 | Orogenic gold: Common or evolving fluid and metal sources through time | Lithos | 2015 | 667 |
| 19 | U–Pb zircon, geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic constraints on age and origin of Jurassic I- and A-type granites from central Guangdong, SE China: A major igneous event in response to foundering of a subducted flat-slab? | Lithos | 2007 | 654 |
| 20 | The late Archean record: a puzzle in ca. 35 pieces | Lithos | 2003 | 618 |
| 21 | Do coeval mafic and felsic magmas in post-collisional to within-plate regimes necessarily imply two contrasting, mantle and crustal, sources? A review | Lithos | 2004 | 617 |
| 22 | Adakite petrogenesis | Lithos | 2012 | 608 |
| 23 | Vein-plus-wall-rock melting mechanisms in the lithosphere and the origin of potassic alkaline magmas | Lithos | 1992 | 600 |
| 24 | TTGs and adakites: are they both slab melts? | Lithos | 2005 | 584 |
| 25 | Highly fractionated I-type granites in NE China (I): geochronology and petrogenesis | Lithos | 2003 | 578 |
| 26 | High-potassium, calc-alkaline I-type plutonism in the European Variscides: northern Vosges (France) and northern Schwarzwald (Germany) | Lithos | 2000 | 576 |
| 27 | The diversity and evolution of late-Archean granitoids: Evidence for the onset of “modern-style” plate tectonics between 3.0 and 2.5Ga | Lithos | 2014 | 557 |
| 28 | Contrasting origin of post-collisional high-K calc-alkaline and shoshonitic versus alkaline and peralkaline granitoids. The use of sliding normalization | Lithos | 1998 | 555 |
| 29 | Mafic magmatic enclaves and mafic rocks associated with some granitoids of the central Sierra Nevada batholith, California: nature, origin, and relations with the hosts | Lithos | 2005 | 538 |
| 30 | Mantle contributions to crustal thickening during continental collision: Evidence from Cenozoic igneous rocks in southern Tibet | Lithos | 2007 | 538 |
| 31 | High field strength element ratios in Archean basalts: a window to evolving sources of mantle plumes? | Lithos | 2005 | 531 |
| 32 | Aqueous fluids and hydrous melts in high-pressure and ultra-high pressure rocks: Implications for element transfer in subduction zones | Lithos | 2006 | 531 |
| 33 | Integration of geology, geophysics and geochemistry: A key to understanding the North China Craton | Lithos | 2007 | 529 |
| 34 | SIMS determination of trace element partition coefficients between garnet, clinopyroxene and hydrous basaltic liquids at 2–7.5 GPa and 1080–1200°C | Lithos | 2000 | 520 |
| 35 | The composite Archaean grey gneisses: Petrological significance, and evidence for a non-unique tectonic setting for Archaean crustal growth | Lithos | 2011 | 515 |
| 36 | Geochemistry of subduction zone serpentinites: A review | Lithos | 2013 | 514 |
| 37 | Contrasting zircon Hf and O isotopes in the two episodes of Neoproterozoic granitoids in South China: Implications for growth and reworking of continental crust | Lithos | 2007 | 510 |
| 38 | Petrology and geochemistry of spinel peridotite xenoliths from Hannuoba and Qixia, North China craton | Lithos | 2004 | 505 |
| 39 | Overview of the genesis and emplacement of Mesozoic ophiolites in the Eastern Mediterranean Tethyan region | Lithos | 2002 | 504 |
| 40 | A hybrid origin for the Qianshan A-type granite, northeast China: Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic evidence | Lithos | 2006 | 483 |
| 41 | Highly evolved juvenile granites with tetrad REE patterns: the Woduhe and Baerzhe granites from the Great Xing'an Mountains in NE China | Lithos | 2001 | 472 |
| 42 | 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 |
| 43 | Phase relations of epidote-blueschists | Lithos | 1990 | 462 |
| 44 | Raman microspectrometry of fluid inclusions | Lithos | 2001 | 461 |
| 45 | Element recycling from subducting slabs to arc crust: A review | Lithos | 2013 | 442 |
| 46 | Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of the ∼850 Ma Gangbian alkaline complex in South China: Evidence from in situ zircon U–Pb dating, Hf–O isotopes and whole-rock geochemistry | Lithos | 2010 | 437 |
| 47 | Assembly of the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes in central Tibet by divergent double subduction | Lithos | 2016 | 432 |
| 48 | Characteristics and tectonic setting of the shoshonite rock association | Lithos | 1980 | 429 |
| 49 | Evolution of a Permian intraoceanic arc–trench system in the Solonker suture zone, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, China and Mongolia | Lithos | 2010 | 422 |
| 50 | Interpreting magmatic fabric patterns in plutons | Lithos | 1998 | 419 |
