| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The early Precambrian odyssey of the North China Craton: A synoptic overview | Gondwana Research | 2011 | 1,421 |
| 2 | Configuration of Columbia, a Mesoproterozoic Supercontinent | Gondwana Research | 2002 | 1,171 |
| 3 | The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 1,045 |
| 4 | Lithotectonic elements of Precambrian basement in the North China Craton: Review and tectonic implications | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 886 |
| 5 | Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional tectonics of the Chinese Tianshan orogenic collage | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 874 |
| 6 | Phanerozoic tectonics of the South China Block: Key observations and controversies | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 858 |
| 7 | A review of the western part of the Altaids: A key to understanding the architecture of accretionary orogens | Gondwana Research | 2010 | 814 |
| 8 | Tectonic architecture and multiple orogeny of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China | Gondwana Research | 2016 | 750 |
| 9 | Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt | Gondwana Research | 2014 | 713 |
| 10 | Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tectonic evolution and palaeogeography of East Asian crustal fragments: The Korean Peninsula in context | Gondwana Research | 2006 | 702 |
| 11 | Tectonic evolution of a composite collision orogen: An overview on the Qinling–Tongbai–Hong'an–Dabie–Sulu orogenic belt in central China | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 619 |
| 12 | Metallogeny of the North China Craton: Link with secular changes in the evolving Earth | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 584 |
| 13 | Granitoid events in space and time: Constraints from igneous and detrital zircon age spectra | Gondwana Research | 2009 | 579 |
| 14 | Tectonic framework and Phanerozoic evolution of Sundaland | Gondwana Research | 2011 | 574 |
| 15 | The western Central Asian Orogenic Belt: A window to accretionary orogenesis and continental growth | Gondwana Research | 2014 | 573 |
| 16 | The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay | Gondwana Research | 2014 | 549 |
| 17 | Evolution of the Rheic Ocean | Gondwana Research | 2010 | 540 |
| 18 | Development of the North China Craton During the Late Archaean and its Final Amalgamation at 1.8 Ga: Some Speculations on its Position Within a Global Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinent | Gondwana Research | 2002 | 535 |
| 19 | Tectonics of the North Qilian orogen, NW China | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 534 |
| 20 | New insight into a subduction-related orogen: A reappraisal of the geotectonic framework and evolution of the Japanese Islands | Gondwana Research | 2010 | 503 |
| 21 | A review of the Paleozoic tectonics in the eastern part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt | Gondwana Research | 2017 | 501 |
| 22 | Tethys tectonic evolution and its bearing on the distribution of important mineral deposits in the Sanjiang region, SW China | Gondwana Research | 2014 | 484 |
| 23 | Gondwana from top to base in space and time | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 476 |
| 24 | A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic | Gondwana Research | 2017 | 474 |
| 25 | Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551Ma) in South China | Gondwana Research | 2011 | 466 |
| 26 | Middle Paleozoic convergent orogenic belts in western Inner Mongolia (China): framework, kinematics, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 465 |
| 27 | Phanerozoic continental growth and gold metallogeny of Asia | Gondwana Research | 2014 | 459 |
| 28 | The Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana and its relationship to the Ediacaran–Cambrian radiation | Gondwana Research | 2008 | 446 |
| 29 | Gold mineralization in China: Metallogenic provinces, deposit types and tectonic framework | Gondwana Research | 2016 | 439 |
| 30 | Anatomy of a Cambrian suture in Gondwana: Pacific-type orogeny in southern India? | Gondwana Research | 2009 | 424 |
| 31 | The crustal accretion history and tectonic evolution of the NE China segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 424 |
| 32 | Accretionary complexes in the Asia-Pacific region: Tracing archives of ocean plate stratigraphy and tracking mantle plumes | Gondwana Research | 2014 | 418 |
| 33 | The Paleoproterozoic North Hebei Orogen: North China craton's collisional suture with the Columbia supercontinent | Gondwana Research | 2007 | 410 |
| 34 | Tectonics and surface effects of the supercontinent Columbia | Gondwana Research | 2009 | 408 |
| 35 | Supercontinents in Earth History | Gondwana Research | 2003 | 394 |
| 36 | Superplume, supercontinent, and post-perovskite: Mantle dynamics and anti-plate tectonics on the Core–Mantle Boundary | Gondwana Research | 2007 | 394 |
| 37 | The longest voyage: Tectonic, magmatic, and paleoclimatic evolution of the Indian plate during its northward flight from Gondwana to Asia | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 392 |
| 38 | Two plates — Many subduction zones: The Variscan orogeny reconsidered | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 392 |
| 39 | Antarctica — Before and after Gondwana | Gondwana Research | 2011 | 391 |
| 40 | Configuration of the Late Paleoproterozoic supercontinent Columbia: Insights from radiating mafic dyke swarms | Gondwana Research | 2008 | 389 |
| 41 | Discovery of sapphirine-bearing Mg–Al granulites in the North China Craton: Implications for Paleoproterozoic ultrahigh temperature metamorphism | Gondwana Research | 2007 | 386 |
| 42 | Jiangnan Orogen in South China: Developing from divergent double subduction | Gondwana Research | 2015 | 386 |
| 43 | The making and breaking of supercontinents: Some speculations based on superplumes, super downwelling and the role of tectosphere | Gondwana Research | 2009 | 383 |
| 44 | 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 |
| 45 | New Zealand's Geological Foundations | Gondwana Research | 2004 | 377 |
| 46 | The Grenvillian and Pan-African orogens: World's largest orogenies through geologic time, and their implications on the origin of superplume | Gondwana Research | 2008 | 377 |
| 47 | A New Understanding of the Provinces of the Amazon Craton Based on Integration of Field Mapping and U-Pb and Sm-Nd Geochronology | Gondwana Research | 2000 | 362 |
| 48 | Growth and reworking of the early Precambrian continental crust in the North China Craton: Constraints from zircon Hf isotopes | Gondwana Research | 2012 | 362 |
| 49 | The Indus–Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites from Nanga Parbat to Namche Barwa syntaxes, southern Tibet: First synthesis of petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology with incidences on geodynamic reconstructions of Neo-Tethys | Gondwana Research | 2012 | 360 |
| 50 | Timing of metamorphism in the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt: New SHRIMP U–Pb zircon dating of granulites, gneisses and marbles of the Jiaobei massif in the North China Craton | Gondwana Research | 2011 | 356 |
