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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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 →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chunlai Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chunlai Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chunlai Li based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chunlai Li. Chunlai Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Geological characteristics of Chang’E-6 landing area in micro-scale unveiled by new observation data 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Wei Yan, Xingguo Zeng, Xin Ren, Wangli Chen, Xingye Gao, Wei Zuo, Bin Liu, (unknown), Qiang Fu, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li	2
2	Lunar Farside South Pole‐Aitken Basin Interior: Evidence for More Extensive Central Cryptomaria in the South Pole‐Aitken Compositional Anomaly (SPACA) 2024 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ·Xing Wang, J. W. Head, (unknown), (unknown), M. A. Kreslavsky, Lionel Wilson, Yuqi Qian, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li	13
3	A reinforced lunar dynamo recorded by Chang’e-6 farside basalt 2024 ·Nature ·Shuhui Cai, (unknown), Saihong Yang, Jie Fang, (unknown), Zhongshan Shen, Min Zhang, Huafeng Qin, Chi Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, (unknown), Yi Chen, Jinhua Li, Huaiyu He, Chenglong Deng, Chunlai Li, Yongxin Pan, Rixiang Zhu	13
4	Lunar Farside Samples Returned by Chang’E-6 Mission: Significance for Understanding the South Pole-Aitken Basin Stratigraphic History 2024 ·The Astronomical Journal ·Xing Wang, J. W. Head, (unknown), (unknown), Qin Zhou, (unknown), Bo Wu, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li	2
5	Revealing regolith substructure by Chang’E-5 LRPR with optimized cable delay calibration method 2023 ·Icarus ·Zongyu Zhang, Yan Su, Shun Dai, (unknown), Xin Ren, (unknown), Chunlai Li	2
6	A Potential Earthquake with Magnitude Mw 7.2 on the Northern Xiaojiang Fault Revealed by GNSS Measurement 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Lisheng Xu, (unknown), Ming Hao, Chunlai Li	3
7	Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Astronomy ·Xingguo Zeng, Dawei Liu, Yuan Chen, Qin Zhou, Xin Ren, Zhoubin Zhang, Wei Yan, (unknown), Q. Wang, (unknown), Hao Hu, Jianjun Liu, Wei Zuo, J. W. Head, Chunlai Li	77
8	Wavelength Calibration for the LIBS Spectra of the Zhurong Mars Rover 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Xin Ren, Zhaopeng Chen, Wangli Chen, Zhenqiang Zhang, Xiangfeng Liu, Weiming Xu, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li	9
9	Comprehensive mapping of lunar surface chemistry by adding Chang'e-5 samples with deep learning 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Chen Yang, (unknown), Lorenzo Bruzzone, Bin Liu, Dawei Liu, Xin Ren, Jón Atli Benediktsson, Yanchun Liang, Bo Yang, Minghao Yin, (unknown), Renchu Guan, Chunlai Li, Ziyuan Ouyang	27
10	Martian dunes indicative of wind regime shift in line with end of ice age 2023 ·Nature ·Jianjun Liu, Xiaoguang Qin, Xin Ren, Xu Wang, Yong Sun, Xingguo Zeng, Haibin Wu, Zhaopeng Chen, (unknown), Yuan Chen, Cheng Wang, Zezhou Sun, (unknown), Ziyuan Ouyang, Zhengtang Guo, J. W. Head, Chunlai Li	17
11	Study on the Influencing Factors of the Permittivity Estimation Method Considering Antenna Layout Based on Lunar Penetrating Radar 2022 ·Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics ·(unknown), Yan Su, Zongyu Zhang, Qing Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Shuning Liu, Wei Du, Shun Dai, Chunyu Ding, Chunlai Li	3
12	The New Wuqing 70 m Radio Telescope and Measurements of Main Electronic Properties in the X -band 2022 ·Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Deqing Kong, Chunlai Li, Hongbo Zhang, Yan Su, Jianjun Liu, Xinying Zhu, (unknown), (unknown), Li Chen	4
13	In-Flight Calibration of Visible and Near-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (VNIS) Onboard Chang’E-4 Unmanned Lunar Rover 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Rui Xu, Honglei Lin, (unknown), Bin Liu, Wei Yan, Chengyu Liu, Gang Lv, Liyin Yuan, Chunlai Li, Rong Wang, Dawei Liu, Yazhou Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Lei Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Zhiping He	1
14	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 2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Xing Wang, Jianjun Liu, Dawei Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Qing Zhang, (unknown), Bin Liu, (unknown), Xin Ren, Chunlai Li	5
15	Surface microstructures of lunar soil returned by Chang’e-5 mission reveal an intermediate stage in space weathering process 2022 ·Science Bulletin ·Jiangang Guo, (unknown), (unknown), Chen Xu, (unknown), (unknown), Ting Lin, Qinghua Zhang, Qiang Zheng, Chunlai Li, Yi‐Gang Xu, Xiaolong Chen	13
16	The Global Search for Liquid Water on Mars from Orbit: Current and Future Perspectives 2020 ·Life ·R. Orosei, Chunyu Ding, Wenzhe Fa, Antonios Giannopoulos, Alain Hèrique, W. Kofman, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Chunlai Li, Elena Pettinelli, Yan Su, S. Xing, Yi Xu	23
17	Pitfalls in GPR Data Interpretation: False Reflectors Detected in Lunar Radar Cross Sections by Chang’e-3 2017 ·IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Chunlai Li, S. Xing, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Yan Su, Shun Dai, Jianqing Feng, Barbara Cosciotti, Federico Di Paolo, Elisabetta Mattei, Yuan Xiao, Chunyu Ding, Elena Pettinelli	53
18	Topographic and geologic analysis of the Pre-selection landing sitesfor Chang 'E 5(CE-5) lunar sample returning mission of China 2017 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Xingguo Zeng, Wei Zuo, Zhoubin Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Chunlai Li	3
19	Detection Capability Evaluation on Chang'e-5 Lunar Mineralogical Spectrometer (LMS) 2016 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Bin Liu, Xin Ren, Wei Yan, (unknown), (unknown), Dawei Liu, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li	1
20	The Chang’e-3 lander and rover mission to the Moon 2014 ·Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Wing‐Huen Ip, (unknown), Chunlai Li, Ziyuan Ouyang	3

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