Fenglin Niu

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
176 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Fenglin Niu is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Fenglin Niu has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Geophysics, 15 papers in Ocean Engineering and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Fenglin Niu's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (127 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (118 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (73 papers). Fenglin Niu is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (127 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (118 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (73 papers). Fenglin Niu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Fenglin Niu's co-authors include Hitoshi Kawakatsu, Lianxing Wen, A. Levander, S. P. Grand, Paul G. Silver, Min Chen, Huafeng Liu, Kai Tao, Masayuki Obayashi and Jieyuan Ning and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Fenglin Niu

167 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Seismic Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Eastern Asi... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Seismic Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Eastern Asia From Full Waveform Seismic Tomography
    2018 198 citations S. P. Grand, Fenglin Niu et al. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems profile →

Peers

Fenglin Niu
Jiwen Teng China
Bor‐Shouh Huang Taiwan
H. Benz United States
S. Hung Taiwan
Kuo‐Fong Ma Taiwan
Juanjo Ledo Spain
Yang Shen United States
Rongjiang Wang Germany
G. Poupinet France
James Wookey United Kingdom
Jiwen Teng China
Fenglin Niu
Citations per year, relative to Fenglin Niu Fenglin Niu (= 1×) peers Jiwen Teng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fenglin Niu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fenglin Niu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fenglin Niu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fenglin Niu 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 Fenglin Niu. Fenglin Niu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Shi, Changliang, et al.. (2025). Mechanism of dynamic interaction between aging microplastics and heavy metal ions under different hydrodynamic environments. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 71. 107232–107232. 4 indexed citations
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Yao, Gang, et al.. (2024). Improved elastic full‐waveform inversion of ocean bottom node data. Geophysical Prospecting. 73(3). 923–941.
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Li, Xiang, et al.. (2024). A three-dimensional immersed boundary method for accurate simulation of acoustic wavefields with complex surface topography. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering. 21(4). 1339–1355.
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Ding, Zhifeng, et al.. (2023). New constraints on structures of the mantle transition zone beneath the Trans-north China orogen and western north China craton revealed by receiver functions. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 245. 105554–105554. 3 indexed citations
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Qiu, Hongrui, et al.. (2022). Semi‐Supervised Surface Wave Tomography With Wasserstein Cycle‐Consistent GAN: Method and Application to Southern California Plate Boundary Region. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(3). 22 indexed citations
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Yao, Gang, et al.. (2022). Waveform inversion of seismic first arrivals acquired on irregular surface. Geophysics. 87(3). R291–R304. 8 indexed citations
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Shi, Yanan, Fenglin Niu, Zhong‐Hai Li, & Pengpeng Huangfu. (2020). Craton destruction links to the interaction between subduction and mid-lithospheric discontinuity: Implications for the eastern North China Craton. Gondwana Research. 83. 49–62. 19 indexed citations
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Liu, Huafeng, Nanxun Dai, Fenglin Niu, & Wei Wu. (2014). An explicit time evolution method for acoustic wave propagation. Geophysics. 79(3). T117–T124. 37 indexed citations
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Grand, S. P., Fenglin Niu, Hitoshi Kawakatsu, et al.. (2012). Seismic evidence for possible lithospheric drips beneath the Greater Xiang'an Range by NECESSArray. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Obayashi, Masayuki, Hitoshi Kawakatsu, Satoru Tanaka, et al.. (2011). P-wave tomography of Northeastern China observed with NECESSArray. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 3 indexed citations
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Niu, Fenglin, et al.. (2009). Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow beneath western Venezuela. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 2 indexed citations
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Levander, A., Fenglin Niu, & Meghan S. Miller. (2008). The Moho and the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary under the western U.S. from USArray PdS Receiver Functions. AGUFM. 2008. 3 indexed citations
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Vanacore, Elizabeth, et al.. (2007). Topography of the 660-km discontinuity beneath northeast China: Implications for a retrograde motion of the subducting Pacific slab. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations
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Levander, A., et al.. (2007). USArray Receiver Function Images of the Lithosphere in the Western U.S.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 2 indexed citations
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Levander, A., et al.. (2005). Pre-Stack Kirchhoff Depth Migrated Images of the Upper Mantle. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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