Haijun Song

6.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
132 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Haijun Song is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Haijun Song has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Paleontology, 38 papers in Geophysics and 36 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Haijun Song's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (115 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (38 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (36 papers). Haijun Song is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (115 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (38 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (36 papers). Haijun Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Haijun Song's co-authors include Jinnan Tong, Paul B. Wignall, Huyue Song, Daoliang Chu, Li Tian, Zhong‐Qiang Chen, Benjamin Mills, Xu Dai, Christopher R. Scotese and Douwe G. van der Meer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Haijun Song

121 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years

2021 445 citations Haijun Song et al. profile →
Two pulses of extinction during the Permian–Triassic crisis

2012 327 citations Haijun Song, Paul B. Wignall et al. profile →
Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

2020 156 citations Jacopo Dal Corso, Massimo Bernardi et al. Science Advances profile →
Environmental crises at the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

2022 120 citations Jacopo Dal Corso, Haijun Song et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Haijun Song China	38	4.2k	1.5k	1.5k	1.5k	731	132	5.0k
David P.G. Bond United Kingdom	37	4.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	669 0.9×	85	5.4k
Xulong Lai China	33	4.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	806 1.1×	116	5.6k
Sylvain Richoz Austria	34	3.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	497 0.7×	92	3.7k
Aymon Baud Switzerland	34	3.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	715 1.0×	92	4.5k
Bas van de Schootbrugge Netherlands	41	3.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	376 0.5×	79	4.8k
Hugo Bucher Switzerland	47	5.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	995 1.4×	178	6.5k
Jinnan Tong China	48	6.3k 1.5×	2.4k 1.6×	1.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	1.2k 1.7×	131	6.9k
Axel Munnecke Germany	35	4.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	2.5k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	590 0.8×	158	5.2k
Gregory D. Price United Kingdom	43	3.8k 0.9×	853 0.6×	2.5k 1.7×	1.3k 0.9×	603 0.8×	128	4.8k
Grzegorz Racki Poland	33	2.9k 0.7×	839 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	529 0.7×	139	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Haijun Song

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haijun Song

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Yuyang, Haijun Song, Daoliang Chu, et al.. (2025). Microbial metabolism amplified warming in three Phanerozoic hyperthermal events. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11372–11372.

Wang, Feng‐Yu, Seth Finnegan, Jacopo Dal Corso, et al.. (2025). Brachiopods and forams reduced calcification costs through morphological simplification during mass extinction events. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(8). 1456–1468. 1 indexed citations

Dai, Xu, Joshua H.F.L. Davies, Huyue Song, et al.. (2025). Geochronology of the Early Triassic based on coupled Bayesian zircon eruption age and Bayesian age–depth models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(44). e2509247122–e2509247122.

Shu, Xinhua, Haijun Song, Yong Lei, et al.. (2025). Global Acritarch Database ( > 110 000 occurrences). Earth system science data. 17(7). 3567–3582.

Du, Yong, Huyue Song, Eva E. Stüeken, et al.. (2024). Large nitrogen cycle perturbations during the Early Triassic hyperthermal. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 382. 13–25. 4 indexed citations

Lei, Yanli, et al.. (2024). Ancient Hybridisation Fuelled Diversification in Acropora Corals. Molecular Ecology. 34(22). e17615–e17615. 1 indexed citations

Song, Haijun, et al.. (2024). High extinction risk in large foraminifera during past and future mass extinctions. Science Advances. 10(32). eadj8223–eadj8223. 3 indexed citations

Song, Huyue, Zhihui An, Qin Ye, et al.. (2023). Mid-latitudinal habitable environment for marine eukaryotes during the waning stage of the Marinoan snowball glaciation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1564–1564. 30 indexed citations

Du, Yong, Huyue Song, Jacopo Dal Corso, et al.. (2023). Paleoenvironments of the Lower Triassic Chaohu Fauna, South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 617. 111497–111497. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Mingtao, Li Tian, Paul B. Wignall, et al.. (2023). Expansion of microbial-induced carbonate factory into deeper water after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Global and Planetary Change. 230. 104274–104274. 3 indexed citations

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Du, Yong, Huyue Song, Stephen E. Grasby, et al.. (2022). Recovery from persistent nutrient-N limitation following the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 602. 117944–117944. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaokang, Rui Wu, Wenchao Shu, et al.. (2022). Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks. Paleobiology. 49(1). 1–22. 23 indexed citations

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Song, Haijun, et al.. (2021). Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour. Palaeontology. 64(5). 597–608. 7 indexed citations

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Corso, Jacopo Dal, Massimo Bernardi, Yadong Sun, et al.. (2020). Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic). Science Advances. 6(38). 156 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dai, Xu & Haijun Song. (2020). Toward an understanding of cosmopolitanism in deep time: a case study of ammonoids from the middle Permian to the Middle Triassic. Paleobiology. 46(4). 533–549. 20 indexed citations

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Song, Haijun, et al.. (2020). Flat latitudinal diversity gradient caused by the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(30). 17578–17583. 62 indexed citations

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Li, Mingtao, Haijun Song, Paul B. Wignall, et al.. (2019). Early Triassic oceanic red beds coupled with deep sea oxidation in South Tethys. Sedimentary Geology. 391. 105519–105519. 15 indexed citations

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Song, Haijun, et al.. (2019). Carbonate thermoluminescence and its implication for marine productivity change during the Permian-Triassic transition. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 526. 72–79. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Mingtao, et al.. (2018). Lower Triassic deep sea carbonate precipitates from South Tibet, China. Sedimentary Geology. 376. 60–71. 7 indexed citations

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Song, Haijun, Jinnan Tong, & Weihong He. (2006). LATEST PERMIAN SMALL FORAMINIFERAL FAUNA AT THE MEISHAN SECTION, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE. Weiti gushengwu xuebao. 23(2). 87–104. 8 indexed citations

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