Chunlai Li

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
156 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Chunlai Li is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chunlai Li has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 41 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 20 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Chunlai Li's work include Planetary Science and Exploration (121 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (84 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (29 papers). Chunlai Li is often cited by papers focused on Planetary Science and Exploration (121 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (84 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (29 papers). Chunlai Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Macao. Chunlai Li's co-authors include Ziyuan Ouyang, Xin Ren, Wei Zuo, Yan Su, Chi Wang, Yongliao Zou, Jianzhong Liu, Yangting Lin, Yong Wei and Yongchun Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chunlai Li

151 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Two-billion-year-old volcanism on the Moon from Chang’e-5 basalts

2021 296 citations Qin Zhou, Jinhua Li et al. Nature profile →
Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin

2023 77 citations Xingguo Zeng, Dawei Liu et al. Nature Astronomy profile →
Nature of the lunar far-side samples returned by the Chang'E-6 mission

2024 77 citations Chunlai Li, Hao Hu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chunlai Li China	29	2.7k	896	424	378	338	156	3.5k
Ziyuan Ouyang China	30	2.0k 0.7×	495 0.6×	168 0.4×	411 1.1×	444 1.3×	92	2.9k
Xin Ren China	25	1.3k 0.5×	475 0.5×	216 0.5×	245 0.6×	114 0.3×	114	2.2k
Kaichang Di China	32	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	578 1.4×	375 1.0×	93 0.3×	195	3.0k
Yongliao Zou China	21	1.5k 0.5×	455 0.5×	161 0.4×	163 0.4×	123 0.4×	96	1.8k
D. A. Paige United States	45	6.2k 2.2×	1.8k 2.0×	118 0.3×	1.1k 2.9×	235 0.7×	265	6.7k
C. Stoker United States	24	1.7k 0.6×	409 0.5×	158 0.4×	306 0.8×	266 0.8×	138	2.3k
Hiroshi Murakami Japan	33	1.4k 0.5×	439 0.5×	152 0.4×	1.2k 3.2×	230 0.7×	351	4.7k
Jianzhong Liu China	26	1.8k 0.6×	512 0.6×	66 0.2×	293 0.8×	591 1.7×	166	2.8k
M. Ohtake Japan	32	2.9k 1.0×	716 0.8×	72 0.2×	643 1.7×	245 0.7×	159	3.1k
J. Haruyama Japan	30	3.0k 1.1×	802 0.9×	103 0.2×	631 1.7×	265 0.8×	147	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chunlai Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Wei, Xingguo Zeng, Xin Ren, et al.. (2025). Geological characteristics of Chang’E-6 landing area in micro-scale unveiled by new observation data. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4219–4219. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xing, J. W. Head, M. A. Kreslavsky, et al.. (2024). Lunar Farside South Pole‐Aitken Basin Interior: Evidence for More Extensive Central Cryptomaria in the South Pole‐Aitken Compositional Anomaly (SPACA). Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 129(5). 13 indexed citations

Cai, Shuhui, Saihong Yang, Jie Fang, et al.. (2024). A reinforced lunar dynamo recorded by Chang’e-6 farside basalt. Nature. 643(8071). 361–365. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Xing, J. W. Head, Qin Zhou, et al.. (2024). Lunar Farside Samples Returned by Chang’E-6 Mission: Significance for Understanding the South Pole-Aitken Basin Stratigraphic History. The Astronomical Journal. 168(6). 247–247. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Zongyu, et al.. (2023). Revealing regolith substructure by Chang’E-5 LRPR with optimized cable delay calibration method. Icarus. 402. 115630–115630. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Lisheng, et al.. (2023). A Potential Earthquake with Magnitude Mw 7.2 on the Northern Xiaojiang Fault Revealed by GNSS Measurement. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 944–944. 3 indexed citations

Zeng, Xingguo, Dawei Liu, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2023). Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin. Nature Astronomy. 7(10). 1188–1197. 77 indexed citations breakdown →

Ren, Xin, Zhaopeng Chen, Wangli Chen, et al.. (2023). Wavelength Calibration for the LIBS Spectra of the Zhurong Mars Rover. Remote Sensing. 15(6). 1494–1494. 9 indexed citations

Yang, Chen, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Bin Liu, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive mapping of lunar surface chemistry by adding Chang'e-5 samples with deep learning. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7554–7554. 27 indexed citations

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Liu, Jianjun, Xiaoguang Qin, Xin Ren, et al.. (2023). Martian dunes indicative of wind regime shift in line with end of ice age. Nature. 620(7973). 303–309. 17 indexed citations

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Su, Yan, Zongyu Zhang, Qing Zhang, et al.. (2022). Study on the Influencing Factors of the Permittivity Estimation Method Considering Antenna Layout Based on Lunar Penetrating Radar. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 22(10). 105002–105002. 3 indexed citations

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Kong, Deqing, Chunlai Li, Hongbo Zhang, et al.. (2022). The New Wuqing 70 m Radio Telescope and Measurements of Main Electronic Properties in the X -band. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 22(3). 35013–35013. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Rui, Honglei Lin, Bin Liu, et al.. (2022). In-Flight Calibration of Visible and Near-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (VNIS) Onboard Chang’E-4 Unmanned Lunar Rover. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–11. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Xing, Jianjun Liu, Dawei Liu, et al.. (2022). Dusty Mafic Rocks Along the Path of Chang'E‐4 Rover: Initial Analysis of the Image Cubes of the Onboard Visible and Near‐Infrared Imaging Spectrometer. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(2). 5 indexed citations

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Guo, Jiangang, Chen Xu, Ting Lin, et al.. (2022). Surface microstructures of lunar soil returned by Chang’e-5 mission reveal an intermediate stage in space weathering process. Science Bulletin. 67(16). 1696–1701. 13 indexed citations

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Orosei, R., Chunyu Ding, Wenzhe Fa, et al.. (2020). The Global Search for Liquid Water on Mars from Orbit: Current and Future Perspectives. Life. 10(8). 120–120. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Chunlai, S. Xing, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, et al.. (2017). Pitfalls in GPR Data Interpretation: False Reflectors Detected in Lunar Radar Cross Sections by Chang’e-3. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(3). 1325–1335. 53 indexed citations

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Zeng, Xingguo, Wei Zuo, Zhoubin Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, & Chunlai Li. (2017). Topographic and geologic analysis of the Pre-selection landing sitesfor Chang 'E 5(CE-5) lunar sample returning mission of China. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2026. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Bin, Xin Ren, Wei Yan, et al.. (2016). Detection Capability Evaluation on Chang'e-5 Lunar Mineralogical Spectrometer (LMS). EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Ip, Wing‐Huen, et al.. (2014). The Chang’e-3 lander and rover mission to the Moon. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 14(12). 1511–1513. 3 indexed citations

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