Chuanming Zhou

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Chuanming Zhou is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chuanming Zhou has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Paleontology, 62 papers in Atmospheric Science and 33 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Chuanming Zhou's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (106 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (62 papers) and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (32 papers). Chuanming Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (106 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (62 papers) and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (32 papers). Chuanming Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Chuanming Zhou's co-authors include Shuhai Xiao, Xunlai Yuan, Zhe Chen, Alan J. Kaufman, Huiming Bao, Bing Shen, Chengguo Guan, Hong Hua, Huan Cui and Kathleen A. McFadden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chuanming Zhou

114 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

2008 512 citations Alan J. Kaufman, Chuanming Zhou et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chuanming Zhou China	45	5.5k	2.9k	2.1k	1.8k	949	116	6.3k
Xunlai Yuan China	48	6.4k 1.2×	3.4k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	861 0.9×	133	7.4k
Francis A. Macdonald United States	49	5.9k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	3.6k 2.0×	977 1.0×	153	8.0k
Christoph Korte Denmark	35	5.5k 1.0×	3.2k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.4×	545 0.6×	96	6.9k
Ganqing Jiang United States	48	6.9k 1.3×	3.7k 1.3×	3.6k 1.7×	2.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	101	8.5k
Emanuela Mattioli France	42	4.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	480 0.5×	127	5.1k
Bas van de Schootbrugge Netherlands	41	3.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	400 0.4×	79	4.8k
Jinnan Tong China	48	6.3k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	351 0.4×	131	6.9k
David P.G. Bond United Kingdom	37	4.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	278 0.3×	85	5.4k
Bradley B. Sageman United States	40	4.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	701 0.7×	106	6.4k
Yanan Shen China	36	3.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	573 0.6×	122	4.8k

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Wu, Chengxi, Alexander Liu, Yarong Liu, et al.. (2025). The Quanjishan Charnia assemblage from the northern Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau, and implications for palaeoecology and taphonomy of Ediacaran fronds. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 665. 112816–112816. 4 indexed citations

Zhou, Chuanming, et al.. (2025). Effects of harvest time on rice yield and quality: A meta-analysis. European Journal of Agronomy. 169. 127674–127674.

Ouyang, Qing, Chuanming Zhou, Shuhai Xiao, et al.. (2024). Silicified microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation along a shelf margin-slope-basin transect in Hunan Province, South China, with stratigraphical implications. Journal of Paleontology. 98(S95). 1–79.

Chen, Jiana, Chuanming Zhou, Fangbo Cao, & Min Huang. (2024). Carcinogenic risks of inorganic arsenic in white rice in Asia. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. 18. 101444–101444. 4 indexed citations

Guan, Chengguo, Philippe Claeys, Chuanming Zhou, et al.. (2024). Statistical estimation of the early to middle Ediacaran ocean redox architecture in the Yangtze block of South China. Precambrian Research. 410. 107483–107483. 2 indexed citations

Wei, Guang‐Yi, Mingyu Zhao, Erik A. Sperling, et al.. (2024). Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era. Science Advances. 10(13). eadk2152–eadk2152. 21 indexed citations

Li, Guangjin, Ke Pang, Qing Tang, et al.. (2023). Tonian carbonaceous compressions indicate that Horodyskia is one of the oldest multicellular and coenocytic macro-organisms. Communications Biology. 6(1). 399–399. 8 indexed citations

You, Chen‐Feng, et al.. (2023). Mg and Sr Isotopes in Cap Dolostone: Implications for Oceanic Mixing after a Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth Event. Water. 15(15). 2688–2688. 1 indexed citations

Sang, Miao, et al.. (2023). Post-collisional magmatism associated with the final closure of the Rushan-Pshart Meso-Tethys Ocean in Pamir, Tajikistan: Inference from Cretaceous igneous rocks of the Pshart accretionary complex. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. 3 indexed citations

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Cui, Huan, Kouki Kitajima, Ian J. Orland, et al.. (2021). Deposition or diagenesis? Probing the Ediacaran Shuram excursion in South China by SIMS. Global and Planetary Change. 206. 103591–103591. 32 indexed citations

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Luo, Taiyi, Ke Pang, Chuanming Zhou, et al.. (2021). Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period. Nature Communications. 12(1). 641–641. 60 indexed citations

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Cui, Huan, Alan J. Kaufman, Shuhai Xiao, et al.. (2021). Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S and Ba cycles in response to the Shuram oxygenation event. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(2). 26 indexed citations

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Dong, Lin, Yuanlin Sun, Haoran Ma, et al.. (2019). Early animal evolution and highly oxygenated seafloor niches hosted by microbial mats. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13628–13628. 31 indexed citations

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Tang, Qing, Jie Hu, Xunlai Yuan, et al.. (2019). A problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China. Journal of Paleontology. 93(6). 1047–1057. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhe, Chuanming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan, & Shuhai Xiao. (2019). Death march of a segmented and trilobate bilaterian elucidates early animal evolution. Nature. 573(7774). 412–415. 77 indexed citations

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Li, Chao, Noah J. Planavsky, Wei Shi, et al.. (2015). Ediacaran Marine Redox Heterogeneity and Early Animal Ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17097–17097. 91 indexed citations

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Chen, Lei, Shuhai Xiao, Ke Pang, Chuanming Zhou, & Xunlai Yuan. (2014). Cell differentiation and germ–soma separation in Ediacaran animal embryo-like fossils. Nature. 516(7530). 238–241. 88 indexed citations

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Dong, Lin, et al.. (2008). Basal Cambrian microfossils from the Yangtze Gorges area (South China) and the Aksu area (Tarim block, northwestern China). Journal of Paleontology. 83(1). 30–44. 92 indexed citations

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Shen, Bing, Shuhai Xiao, Alan J. Kaufman, et al.. (2007). Stratification and mixing of a post-glacial Neoproterozoic ocean: Evidence from carbon and sulfur isotopes in a cap dolostone from northwest China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 265(1-2). 209–228. 87 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chuanming, Kui Yan, Jie Hu, et al.. (2001). The Neoproterozoic tillites at Lantian, Xiuning County, Anhui Province. Dicengxue zazhi. 13 indexed citations

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