| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis | Precambrian Research | 2008 | 2,747 |
| 2 | Atlas of Zircon Textures | Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry | 2003 | 2,521 |
| 3 | Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic evolution of the North China Craton: key issues revisited | Precambrian Research | 2005 | 2,147 |
| 4 | Geochronology of the Phanerozoic granitoids in northeastern China | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2011 | 1,343 |
| 5 | Nature and significance of the Early Cretaceous giant igneous event in eastern China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 1,260 |
| 6 | A Paleo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent: assembly, growth and breakup | Earth-Science Reviews | 2004 | 1,093 |
| 7 | Amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China: Constraints from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd–Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu volcanic rocks | Precambrian Research | 2009 | 857 |
| 8 | Amalgamation of the North China Craton: Key issues and discussion | Precambrian Research | 2012 | 806 |
| 9 | Oxygen-isotope evidence from ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth's surface 4,300 Myr ago | Nature | 2001 | 747 |
| 10 | Grenvillian continental collision in south China: New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon results and implications for the configuration of Rodinia | Geology | 2002 | 723 |
| 11 | Episodic growth of the Gondwana supercontinent from hafnium and oxygen isotopes in zircon | Nature | 2006 | 640 |
| 12 | Rapid carbon mineralization for permanent disposal of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions | Science | 2016 | 565 |
| 13 | Linking accretionary orogenesis with supercontinent assembly | Earth-Science Reviews | 2007 | 562 |
| 14 | Age and evolution of a late Archean to Paleoproterozoic upper to lower crustal section in the Wutaishan/Hengshan/Fuping terrain of northern China | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2005 | 551 |
| 15 | Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria | Nature | 2008 | 547 |
| 16 | Magmatic and metamorphic events during the early Paleozoic Wuyi-Yunkai orogeny, southeastern South China: New age constraints and pressure-temperature conditions | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2010 | 542 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Constraints on the timing of uplift of the Yanshan Fold and Thrust Belt, North China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2006 | 537 |
| 19 | Strategies towards statistically robust interpretations of in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology | Geoscience Frontiers | 2016 | 503 |
| 20 | U–Pb zircon geochronology, geochemistry and Nd isotopic study of Neoproterozoic bimodal volcanic rocks in the Kangdian Rift of South China: implications for the initial rifting of Rodinia | Precambrian Research | 2002 | 492 |
| 21 | A hybrid origin for the Qianshan A-type granite, northeast China: Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic evidence | Lithos | 2006 | 483 |
| 22 | A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic | Gondwana Research | 2017 | 474 |
| 23 | Nd isotopic constraints on crustal formation in the North China Craton | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2005 | 471 |
| 24 | Global crustal stress pattern based on the World Stress Map database release 2008 | Tectonophysics | 2010 | 453 |
| 25 | Understanding Mesozoic accretion in Southeast Asia: Significance of Triassic thermotectonism (Indosinian orogeny) in Vietnam | Geology | 2001 | 448 |
| 26 | Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Jurassic granites in the Liaodong Peninsula, NE China | Chemical Geology | 2005 | 439 |
| 27 | Tracing magma mixing in granite genesis: in situ U–Pb dating and Hf-isotope analysis of zircons | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 2006 | 434 |
| 28 | Pre-Rodinia supercontinent Nuna shaping up: A global synthesis with new paleomagnetic results from North China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2012 | 434 |
| 29 | Timing of Paleoproterozoic ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the North China Craton: Evidence from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology | Precambrian Research | 2007 | 432 |
| 30 | Destruction of the North China Craton in the Mesozoic | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2019 | 428 |
| 31 | Global record of 1600–700Ma Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs): Implications for the reconstruction of the proposed Nuna (Columbia) and Rodinia supercontinents | Precambrian Research | 2008 | 425 |
| 32 | Geochronology of the Mesozoic volcanic rocks in the Great Xing'an Range, northeastern China: Implications for subduction-induced delamination | Chemical Geology | 2010 | 419 |
| 33 | Single zircon grains record two Paleoproterozoic collisional events in the North China Craton | Precambrian Research | 2010 | 414 |
| 34 | The Heilongjiang Group: A Jurassic accretionary complex in the Jiamusi Massif at the western Pacific margin of northeastern China | Island Arc | 2007 | 409 |
| 35 | Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity | Science | 2008 | 408 |
| 36 | Thermobarometric modelling of zircon and monazite growth in melt‐bearing systems: examples using model metapelitic and metapsammitic granulites | Journal of Metamorphic Geology | 2008 | 408 |
| 37 | Recrystallisation of oscillatory zoned zircon: some geochronological and petrological implications | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 1992 | 405 |
| 38 | A review of the geodynamic setting of large-scale Late Mesozoic gold mineralization in the North China Craton: an association with lithospheric thinning | Ore Geology Reviews | 2003 | 390 |
| 39 | Mesoproterozoic paleogeography: Supercontinent and beyond | Precambrian Research | 2014 | 389 |
| 40 | The Hulan Group: Its role in the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt of NE China | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2007 | 386 |
| 41 | Highly fractionated I-type granites in NE China (II): isotopic geochemistry and implications for crustal growth in the Phanerozoic | Lithos | 2003 | 371 |
| 42 | Ti-in-zircon thermometry: applications and limitations | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 2008 | 371 |
| 43 | The effect of Mn on mineral stability in metapelites revisited: new a–x relations for manganese‐bearing minerals | Journal of Metamorphic Geology | 2014 | 357 |
| 44 | Final amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt in NE China: Paleo-Asian Ocean closure versus Paleo-Pacific plate subduction — A review of the evidence | Tectonophysics | 2015 | 356 |
| 45 | Zircon Th/U ratios in magmatic environs | Lithos | 2015 | 356 |
| 46 | Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isotope systems in zircon | Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry | 2003 | 354 |
| 47 | Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics | American Mineralogist | 2018 | 347 |
| 48 | Mesozoic decratonization of the North China block | Geology | 2008 | 341 |
| 49 | SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages of granitoid rocks in the Lüliang Complex: Implications for the accretion and evolution of the Trans-North China Orogen | Precambrian Research | 2008 | 339 |
| 50 | Magmatic δ18O in 4400–3900 Ma detrital zircons: A record of the alteration and recycling of crust in the Early Archean | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 331 |
