| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Hf isotopic compositions of the standard zircons and baddeleyites used in U–Pb geochronology | Chemical Geology | 2006 | 2,230 |
| 2 | Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt | Tectonics | 2003 | 1,625 |
| 3 | Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China | Nature | 2002 | 1,514 |
| 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 | Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U–Pb dating of zircons | Cretaceous Research | 2012 | 1,215 |
| 7 | Tibetan tectonic evolution inferred from spatial and temporal variations in post-collisional magmatism | Earth-Science Reviews | 2005 | 1,197 |
| 8 | Accurate U-Pb Age and Trace Element Determinations of Zircon by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | 2004 | 1,191 |
| 9 | The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2011 | 1,096 |
| 10 | Adakites from continental collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet | Geology | 2003 | 948 |
| 11 | 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 | 931 |
| 12 | Lithotectonic elements of Precambrian basement in the North China Craton: Review and tectonic implications | Gondwana Research | 2013 | 886 |
| 13 | Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean | Nature | 2008 | 883 |
| 14 | A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record | Science | 2008 | 873 |
| 15 | Middle Cambrian to Permian subduction-related accretionary orogenesis of Northern Xinjiang, NW China: Implications for the tectonic evolution of central Asia | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2008 | 858 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Paleozoic accretionary and collisional tectonics of the eastern Tianshan (China): Implications for the continental growth of central Asia | Numerische Mathematik | 2004 | 814 |
| 18 | A review of the western part of the Altaids: A key to understanding the architecture of accretionary orogens | Gondwana Research | 2010 | 814 |
| 19 | 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 | 794 |
| 20 | Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet | Chemical Geology | 2009 | 793 |
| 21 | Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Permian–Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China | Lithos | 2001 | 785 |
| 22 | Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon | Nature | 2007 | 781 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Geologic framework and tectonic evolution of the Qinling orogen, central China | Tectonophysics | 2000 | 748 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Qinghu zircon: A working reference for microbeam analysis of U-Pb age and Hf and O isotopes | Science Bulletin | 2013 | 626 |
| 27 | Magnetoferritin nanoparticles for targeting and visualizing tumour tissues | Nature Nanotechnology | 2012 | 623 |
| 28 | 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 | 614 |
| 29 | Crustal deformation of the eastern Tibetan plateau revealed by magnetotelluric imaging | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 607 |
| 30 | What drove late Mesozoic extension of the northern China–Mongolia tract? | Tectonophysics | 2003 | 579 |
| 31 | The timing of India-Asia collision onset – Facts, theories, controversies | Earth-Science Reviews | 2016 | 572 |
| 32 | “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022 | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2013 | 569 |
| 33 | Timing, scale and mechanism of the destruction of the North China Craton | Science China Earth Sciences | 2011 | 554 |
| 34 | 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 |
| 35 | Constraints on the timing of uplift of the Yanshan Fold and Thrust Belt, North China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2006 | 537 |
| 36 | Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis | Climate Dynamics | 2011 | 536 |
| 37 | East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation | Scientific Reports | 2015 | 534 |
| 38 | Experimental investigation of main controls to methane adsorption in clay-rich rocks | Applied Geochemistry | 2012 | 533 |
| 39 | Integration of geology, geophysics and geochemistry: A key to understanding the North China Craton | Lithos | 2007 | 529 |
| 40 | 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 | 527 |
| 41 | The possible subduction of continental material to depths greater than 200 km | Nature | 2000 | 524 |
| 42 | A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean | Science | 2010 | 520 |
| 43 | Spatial distribution of landslides triggered by the 2008 Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, China | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2011 | 512 |
| 44 | 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 |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 507 |
| 47 | Rift melting of juvenile arc-derived crust: Geochemical evidence from Neoproterozoic volcanic and granitic rocks in the Jiangnan Orogen, South China | Precambrian Research | 2008 | 501 |
| 48 | Environmental magnetism: Principles and applications | Reviews of Geophysics | 2012 | 491 |
| 49 | In situ simultaneous determination of trace elements, U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircon and baddeleyite | Science Bulletin | 2008 | 488 |
| 50 | Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization | Science | 2013 | 487 |
