Denghai Bai

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Denghai Bai is a scholar working on Geophysics, Geology and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Denghai Bai has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Geophysics, 5 papers in Geology and 3 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Denghai Bai's work include Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (13 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (5 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (5 papers). Denghai Bai is often cited by papers focused on Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (13 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (5 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (5 papers). Denghai Bai collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Russia. Denghai Bai's co-authors include Xiaobing Ma, Lifeng Wang, Jie Sun, Jiwen Teng, Xiangru Kong, Max A. Meju, Martyn Unsworth, Yi Sun, Mei Liu and Pengfei Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Nature Geoscience and Tectonophysics.

In The Last Decade

Denghai Bai

14 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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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.

Crustal deformation of the eastern Tibetan plateau revealed by magnetotelluric imaging

2010 693 citations Denghai Bai, Martyn Unsworth et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Denghai Bai China	11	1.0k	96	89	71	40	16	1.1k
H. C. Tewari India	17	763 0.8×	106 1.1×	44 0.5×	84 1.2×	23 0.6×	31	814
P. R. Reddy India	21	1.1k 1.1×	116 1.2×	54 0.6×	106 1.5×	28 0.7×	52	1.1k
Zhanwu Lu China	17	923 0.9×	108 1.1×	37 0.4×	137 1.9×	56 1.4×	66	993
Jieyuan Ning China	21	1.8k 1.8×	85 0.9×	65 0.7×	125 1.8×	72 1.8×	66	1.8k
Elena Kozlovskaya Finland	17	802 0.8×	33 0.3×	99 1.1×	94 1.3×	39 1.0×	59	859
Hai Lou China	18	1.0k 1.0×	168 1.8×	33 0.4×	67 0.9×	74 1.9×	34	1.1k
Mariusz Majdański Poland	16	594 0.6×	58 0.6×	89 1.0×	34 0.5×	76 1.9×	42	686
R. F. Mereu Canada	20	1.3k 1.3×	58 0.6×	90 1.0×	142 2.0×	47 1.2×	68	1.4k
Ciping Zhao China	5	699 0.7×	62 0.6×	22 0.2×	59 0.8×	40 1.0×	8	770
Zhifeng Ding China	26	2.0k 2.0×	94 1.0×	72 0.8×	139 2.0×	48 1.2×	103	2.1k

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Li, Xin, Yangfan Deng, Nian Yu, et al.. (2025). Magnetotelluric Evidence for Lithospheric Hydration and Thinning Beneath the Youjiang Basin in Southwestern China. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(2).

Li, Xin, et al.. (2022). Magnetotelluric signatures of Neoproterozoic subduction, and subsequent lithospheric reactivation and thinning beneath central South China. Tectonophysics. 833. 229365–229365. 10 indexed citations

Xue, Shuai, Yun Chen, Xiaofeng Liang, et al.. (2021). Deep electrical resistivity structure across the Gyaring Co Fault in Central Tibet revealed by magnetotelluric data and its implication. Tectonophysics. 809. 228835–228835. 19 indexed citations

Ma, Xiaobing, et al.. (2020). A plume-modified lithospheric barrier to the southeastward flow of partially molten Tibetan crust inferred from magnetotelluric data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 548. 116493–116493. 59 indexed citations

Xue, Shuai, Denghai Bai, Yun Chen, et al.. (2019). Contrasting crustal deformation mechanisms in the Longmenshan and West Qinling orogenic belts, NE Tibet, revealed by magnetotelluric data. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 176. 120–128. 12 indexed citations

Bai, Denghai, et al.. (2019). Electrical resistivity structure of the Xiaojiang strike-slip fault system (SW China) and its tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 176. 57–67. 43 indexed citations

Xu, Cheng & Denghai Bai. (2010). Research of the electromagnetic terrain conductivity measurement at low induction numbers. Progress in geophysics.

Bai, Denghai, Martyn Unsworth, Max A. Meju, et al.. (2010). Crustal deformation of the eastern Tibetan plateau revealed by magnetotelluric imaging. Nature Geoscience. 3(5). 358–362. 693 indexed citations breakdown →

Teng, Jiwen, et al.. (2009). Deep Processes and Dynamic Responses Associated with the Wenchuan M_s8.0 Earthquake of 2008. Chinese Journal of Geophysics. 52(1). 260–276. 34 indexed citations

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Bai, Denghai, et al.. (2007). Deep electrical anomaly in the M7.5 Qiongzhou earthquake region and its relation with future seismicity. Acta Seismologica Sinica. 20(3). 273–279. 14 indexed citations

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Sun, Jie, et al.. (2003). Sounding of electrical structure of the crust and upper mantle along the eastern border of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its tectonic significance. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 46(S2). 243–253. 44 indexed citations

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Bai, Denghai, et al.. (2003). Numerical calculation of All‐Time Apparent Resistivity for Central Loop Transient Electromagnetic Method. Chinese Journal of Geophysics. 46(5). 998–1010. 26 indexed citations

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Sun, Jie, et al.. (2003). Decomposition for the Impedance Tensor Distortion of Magnetotelluric Data from the West Sichuan‐East Xizang Profile. Chinese Journal of Geophysics. 46(4). 781–789. 2 indexed citations

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Bai, Denghai & M.A. Meju. (2003). Deep structure of the Longling–Ruili fault underneath Ruili basin near the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: insights from magnetotelluric imaging. Tectonophysics. 364(3-4). 135–146. 20 indexed citations

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Bai, Denghai, et al.. (2001). Magnetotelluric images of deep crustal structure of the Rehai geothermal field near Tengchong, southern China. Geophysical Journal International. 147(3). 677–687. 95 indexed citations

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Bai, Denghai, et al.. (1993). A magnetotelluric study of the Paleozoic collision zone in the East of Inner-Mongolia. I: Observations and data analysis. 36(3). 326–336. 6 indexed citations

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