Fangchen Zhao

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Fangchen Zhao is a scholar working on Paleontology, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fangchen Zhao has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Paleontology, 27 papers in Oceanography and 22 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Fangchen Zhao's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (62 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (26 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers). Fangchen Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (62 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (26 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers). Fangchen Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Fangchen Zhao's co-authors include Maoyan Zhu, Zongjun Yin, Han Zeng, Shixue Hu, Junming Zhang, Guoxiang Li, Lu Miao, David J. Bottjer, Aihua Yang and Rachel Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fangchen Zhao

67 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

2018 212 citations Maoyan Zhu, Aihua Yang et al. Science China Earth Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fangchen Zhao China	25	1.9k	837	577	447	376	73	2.2k
Hong Hua China	25	2.2k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	520 0.9×	566 1.3×	495 1.3×	90	2.4k
Yuanlong Zhao China	25	2.2k 1.1×	816 1.0×	710 1.2×	636 1.4×	385 1.0×	89	2.5k
Margaret L. Fraiser United States	22	1.8k 0.9×	783 0.9×	447 0.8×	437 1.0×	407 1.1×	37	2.0k
Matthew E. Clapham United States	27	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	672 1.2×	441 1.0×	478 1.3×	54	2.8k
Michael Hautmann Switzerland	27	1.9k 1.0×	529 0.6×	718 1.2×	328 0.7×	446 1.2×	61	2.1k
Sylvie Crasquin France	28	2.2k 1.1×	656 0.8×	612 1.1×	522 1.2×	599 1.6×	105	2.4k
Thijs R.A. Vandenbroucke Belgium	25	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	609 1.1×	252 0.6×	390 1.0×	84	1.9k
Fred Bowyer United Kingdom	19	1.5k 0.8×	658 0.8×	303 0.5×	649 1.5×	472 1.3×	47	1.7k
Oliver Lehnert Germany	26	1.7k 0.9×	815 1.0×	389 0.7×	386 0.9×	719 1.9×	92	2.0k
Mats E. Eriksson Sweden	24	1.6k 0.8×	781 0.9×	521 0.9×	241 0.5×	372 1.0×	114	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Fangchen Zhao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fangchen Zhao

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All Works

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Xiong, Yan, Bo Chen, Aihua Yang, et al.. (2025). Integrated analyses of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary sequence in northern Gondwana (Anti-Atlas platform, Morocco). Gondwana Research. 145. 79–106. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Aihua, El Hafid Bouougri, Fangchen Zhao, et al.. (2025). Late Ediacaran vendotaenid fossils from North Gondwana margin (Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Spatiotemporal distribution and stratigraphic significance. Precambrian Research. 427. 107882–107882. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Aihua, Jian Han, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev, et al.. (2024). Niche expansion of archaeocyaths during their palaeogeographic migration: Evidence from the Chengjiang Biota. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 653. 112419–112419. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Fangchen, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal distribution and morphological diversity of the Cambrian Wiwaxia: New insights from South China. Global and Planetary Change. 239. 104507–104507. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Lang, Chuan Yang, Bing Pan, et al.. (2024). Cryogenian and Ediacaran integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Science China Earth Sciences. 67(4). 919–949. 4 indexed citations

Miao, Lanyun, et al.. (2024). New SIMS U–Pb zircon age on the macroscopic multicellular eukaryotes from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation, North China. Geological Magazine. 161. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Dezhi, et al.. (2024). First report of lepidocystid echinoderm in the Cambrian of North China: Evolutionary and Palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 644. 112194–112194. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Wenyu, et al.. (2024). First report of the Pingding locality of the Balang Lagerstätte (Cambrian Stage 4), South China: Implications for community complexity and geographic variation. Global and Planetary Change. 245. 104641–104641.

Yang, Aihua, Fangchen Zhao, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev, et al.. (2023). New trilobite assemblage from the lower Cambrian (upper Stage 4) of the Lake Zone, western Mongolia. Journal of Paleontology. 97(3). 577–590. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yuyan, Han Zeng, Yao Liu, & Fangchen Zhao. (2023). New artiopodan euarthropods from the Chengjiang fauna (Cambrian Stage 3) at Malong, Yunnan, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 68. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Kai, Lanyun Miao, Fangchen Zhao, & Maoyan Zhu. (2023). Carbonaceous macrofossils from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation in the Yanshan Range, North China. Precambrian Research. 392. 107074–107074. 7 indexed citations

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Xiang, Kai, Zongjun Yin, Wei Liu, Fangchen Zhao, & Maoyan Zhu. (2023). Early Cambrian Cambroclavus is a scleritomous eumetazoan unrelated to bryozoan or dasyclad algae. Geology. 52(2). 130–134.

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Hu, Shixue, Fangchen Zhao, Alexander Liu, & Maoyan Zhu. (2022). A new Cambrian frondose organism: ‘Ediacaran survivor’ or convergent evolution?. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(2). 5 indexed citations

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Lan, Tian, Yuanlong Zhao, Fangchen Zhao, et al.. (2021). Leanchoiliidae reveals the ancestral organization of the stem euarthropod brain. Current Biology. 31(19). 4397–4404.e2. 17 indexed citations

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Zeng, Han, et al.. (2020). An early Cambrian euarthropod with radiodont-like raptorial appendages. Nature. 588(7836). 101–105. 48 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fangchen, Martin R. Smith, Zongjun Yin, et al.. (2017). Orthrozanclus elongata n. sp. and the significance of sclerite-covered taxa for early trochozoan evolution. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16232–16232. 27 indexed citations

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Zhu, Shixing, Maoyan Zhu, Andrew H. Knoll, et al.. (2016). Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11500–11500. 143 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fangchen, Jean‐Bernard Caron, David J. Bottjer, et al.. (2013). Diversity and species abundance patterns of the Early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China. Paleobiology. 40(1). 50–69. 65 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fangchen, David J. Bottjer, Shixue Hu, Zongjun Yin, & Maoyan Zhu. (2013). Complexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2751–2751. 22 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fangchen. (2012). COMPARATIVE COMMUNITY PALEOECOLOGY OF THE EARLY CAMBRIAN (SERIES 2, STAGE 3) CHENGJIANG BIOTA FROM CHINA. 2012 GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte. 1 indexed citations

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