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| 1 | High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China | Nature | 2014 | 3,736 |
| 2 | Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate | Science | 2005 | 2,423 |
| 3 | Evolution of Asian monsoons and phased uplift of the Himalaya–Tibetan plateau since Late Miocene times | Nature | 2001 | 2,356 |
| 4 | The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate | Science | 2005 | 2,183 |
| 5 | Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt | Tectonics | 2003 | 1,681 |
| 6 | The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene | Science | 2016 | 1,610 |
| 7 | Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years | Nature | 2008 | 1,606 |
| 8 | Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China | Nature | 2002 | 1,564 |
| 9 | Accurate U-Pb Age and Trace Element Determinations of Zircon by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | 2004 | 1,214 |
| 10 | U-Pb Ages from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China | Science | 2005 | 1,116 |
| 11 | Persistent sulfate formation from London Fog to Chinese haze | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 1,089 |
| 12 | Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon | Science | 2004 | 1,036 |
| 13 | Adakites from continental collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet | Geology | 2003 | 976 |
| 14 | A Tale of Amalgamation of Three Permo-Triassic Collage Systems in Central Asia: Oroclines, Sutures, and Terminal Accretion | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2015 | 973 |
| 15 | Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean | Nature | 2008 | 908 |
| 16 | Geological records of the Lhasa-Qiangtang and Indo-Asian collisions in the Nima area of central Tibet | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2007 | 815 |
| 17 | End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental growth, and metallogeny of Central Asia | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 813 |
| 18 | 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 | 803 |
| 19 | Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon | Nature | 2007 | 800 |
| 20 | Cretaceous-Tertiary shortening, basin development, and volcanism in central Tibet | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2005 | 698 |
| 21 | Balancing green and grain trade | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 692 |
| 22 | Earliest domestication of common millet ( Panicum miliaceum ) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 664 |
| 23 | Magnetoferritin nanoparticles for targeting and visualizing tumour tissues | Nature Nanotechnology | 2012 | 659 |
| 24 | Severe haze in northern China: A synergy of anthropogenic emissions and atmospheric processes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2019 | 658 |
| 25 | Qinghu zircon: A working reference for microbeam analysis of U-Pb age and Hf and O isotopes | Science Bulletin | 2013 | 654 |
| 26 | Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka | Scientific Reports | 2012 | 653 |
| 27 | Crustal deformation of the eastern Tibetan plateau revealed by magnetotelluric imaging | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 639 |
| 28 | Black soot and the survival of Tibetan glaciers | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 624 |
| 29 | “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022 | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2013 | 593 |
| 30 | Timing, scale and mechanism of the destruction of the North China Craton | Science China Earth Sciences | 2011 | 572 |
| 31 | High-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 572 |
| 32 | East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation | Scientific Reports | 2015 | 570 |
| 33 | 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 | 566 |
| 34 | Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis | Climate Dynamics | 2011 | 559 |
| 35 | CHINESE LOESS AND THE PALEOMONSOON | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1998 | 556 |
| 36 | Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2019 | 556 |
| 37 | In situ simultaneous determination of trace elements, U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircon and baddeleyite | Science Bulletin | 2008 | 545 |
| 38 | Paleocene-Eocene record of ophiolite obduction and initial India-Asia collision, south central Tibet | Tectonics | 2005 | 542 |
| 39 | Mesozoic lithosphere destruction beneath the North China Craton: evidence from major-, trace-element and Sr–Nd–Pb isotope studies of Fangcheng basalts | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 2002 | 537 |
| 40 | The possible subduction of continental material to depths greater than 200 km | Nature | 2000 | 531 |
| 41 | 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 | 529 |
| 42 | Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 523 |
| 43 | Environmental magnetism: Principles and applications | Reviews of Geophysics | 2012 | 523 |
| 44 | The new chronostratigraphic classification of the Ordovician System and its relations to major regional series and stages and to δ 13 C chemostratigraphy | Lethaia | 2009 | 522 |
| 45 | Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization | Science | 2013 | 501 |
| 46 | A major reorganization of Asian climate by the early Miocene | Climate of the Past | 2008 | 492 |
| 47 | Two-phase growth of high topography in eastern Tibet during the Cenozoic | Nature Geoscience | 2012 | 491 |
| 48 | Stacked 2.6-Ma grain size record from the Chinese loess based on five sections and correlation with the deep-sea δ18O record | Paleoceanography | 2002 | 487 |
| 49 | NiO/CoN Porous Nanowires as Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Zn–Air Batteries | ACS Nano | 2017 | 483 |
| 50 | Destruction of the North China Craton in the Mesozoic | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2019 | 474 |
