Gongle Shi

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Gongle Shi is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gongle Shi has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Gongle Shi's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (58 papers), Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (45 papers) and Plant and animal studies (25 papers). Gongle Shi is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (58 papers), Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (45 papers) and Plant and animal studies (25 papers). Gongle Shi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Mongolia. Gongle Shi's co-authors include Frédéric M.B. Jacques, Haomin Li, Tao Su, Feixiang Wu, Peter R. Crane, Tim Cowan, Wenju Cai, Joachim Ribbe, Patrick S. Herendeen and Zhe‐Kun Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gongle Shi

70 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Why ‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ is a myth

2020 241 citations Robert A. Spicer, Tao Su et al. National Science Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gongle Shi China	30	1.4k	869	751	578	336	76	2.6k
N. Rubén Cúneo Argentina	34	2.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	678 1.2×	377 1.1×	79	3.2k
Viviana D. Barreda Argentina	28	1.5k 1.1×	604 0.7×	943 1.3×	678 1.2×	368 1.1×	87	2.3k
Yaowu Xing China	28	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	495 0.7×	642 1.1×	637 1.9×	79	3.0k
Yong‐Jiang Huang China	23	1.0k 0.7×	721 0.8×	351 0.5×	561 1.0×	377 1.1×	60	1.8k
Vandana Prasad India	23	552 0.4×	296 0.3×	662 0.9×	777 1.3×	294 0.9×	64	1.9k
Mike Macphail Australia	24	801 0.6×	358 0.4×	543 0.7×	823 1.4×	217 0.6×	69	1.9k
Eduardo Barrón Spain	25	1.4k 1.0×	240 0.3×	843 1.1×	603 1.0×	440 1.3×	111	2.2k
Zlatko Kvaček Czechia	31	2.3k 1.7×	1.0k 1.2×	760 1.0×	1.0k 1.8×	1.2k 3.5×	158	3.2k
Angela A Bruch Germany	27	844 0.6×	255 0.3×	1.3k 1.7×	1.5k 2.6×	332 1.0×	73	2.6k
Bainian Sun China	23	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	736 1.0×	754 1.3×	521 1.6×	136	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gongle Shi

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

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Dong, Chong, Zhuo Feng, Fabiany Herrera, et al.. (2025). A new woody stem of Piceoxylon from the Early Cretaceous of Northeast China and its implications for the early diversification of Pinaceae. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 63(6). 1401–1414. 1 indexed citations

Nosova, Natalya, et al.. (2025). Cupule-bearing cones of Jarudia (Doyleales) and associated leaves from the Early Cretaceous of the New Siberian Islands, Arctic Russia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 344. 105451–105451.

Wang, Ting, et al.. (2025). Palaeotorreya, a new genus of extinct Taxaceae from the Early Cretaceous of Northeast China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 344. 105461–105461.

Zhang, Xiaoqing, Dana L. Royer, Gongle Shi, et al.. (2024). Estimates of late Early Cretaceous atmospheric CO₂ from Mongolia based on stomatal and isotopic analysis of Pseudotorellia. American Journal of Botany. 111(7). e16376–e16376.

Dong, Chong, et al.. (2024). New record of Brachyoxylon wood from the Lower Cretaceous of Qingyuan, southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implications. Palaeoworld. 34(1). 100858–100858.

Bachelier, Julien, et al.. (2023). Flower inclusions of Canarium (Burseraceae) from Miocene Zhangpu amber (China). Palaeoworld. 32(4). 592–606. 5 indexed citations

Herrera, Fabiany, et al.. (2023). Mongolitria: A new Early Cretaceous three‐valved seed from Northeast Asia. American Journal of Botany. 111(2). e16268–e16268. 3 indexed citations

Herrera, Fabiany, Weston Testo, Ashley R. Field, et al.. (2022). A permineralized Early Cretaceous lycopsid from China and the evolution of crown clubmosses. New Phytologist. 233(5). 2310–2322. 10 indexed citations

Dong, Chong, et al.. (2022). Termite coprolites (Blattodea: Isoptera) from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Inner Mongolia, Northeast China. Palaeoentomology. 5(1). 5 indexed citations

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Shi, Gongle, Fabiany Herrera, Patrick S. Herendeen, Elizabeth Clark, & Peter R. Crane. (2022). Silicified cupulate seed-bearing structures from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Inner Mongolia, China: rethinking the corystosperm concept. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 20(1). 1–33. 6 indexed citations

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Herrera, Fabiany, Gongle Shi, Niiden Ichinnorov, et al.. (2021). Early Cretaceous abietoid Pinaceae from Mongolia and the history of seed scale shedding. American Journal of Botany. 108(8). 1483–1499. 5 indexed citations

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Shi, Gongle, Fabiany Herrera, Patrick S. Herendeen, Elizabeth Clark, & Peter R. Crane. (2021). Mesozoic cupules and the origin of the angiosperm second integument. Nature. 594(7862). 223–226. 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Zixi, et al.. (2021). A new Cercis (Leguminosae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, China. Historical Biology. 34(1). 94–101. 8 indexed citations

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Dong, Chong, Gongle Shi, Fabiany Herrera, et al.. (2021). Leaves of Taxus with cuticle micromorphology from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Inner Mongolia, Northeast China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 298. 104588–104588. 8 indexed citations

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Herrera, Fabiany, Gongle Shi, Chris Mays, et al.. (2020). Reconstructing Krassilovia mongolica supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0226779–e0226779. 23 indexed citations

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Spicer, Robert A., Tao Su, Paul J. Valdes, et al.. (2020). The topographic evolution of the Tibetan Region as revealed by palaeontology. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 101(1). 213–243. 38 indexed citations

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Dong, Chong, Gongle Shi, Fabiany Herrera, et al.. (2020). Middle–Late Jurassic fossils from northeastern China reveal morphological stasis in the catkin-yew. National Science Review. 7(11). 1765–1767. 11 indexed citations

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Dong, Chong, et al.. (2019). Umaltolepis and associated Pseudotorellia leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Yima in Henan Province, Central China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 271. 104111–104111. 6 indexed citations

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Herrera, Fabiany, Robbin C. Moran, Gongle Shi, et al.. (2017). An exquisitely preserved filmy fern (Hymenophyllaceae) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Journal of Botany. 104(9). 1370–1381. 18 indexed citations

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Shi, Gongle, et al.. (2012). A new Oligocene Calocedrus from South China and its implications for transpacific floristic exchanges. American Journal of Botany. 99(1). 108–120. 31 indexed citations

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