Jianjun Liu

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 758 citations indexed

About

Jianjun Liu is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jianjun Liu has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 758 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jianjun Liu's work include Planetary Science and Exploration (33 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (26 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (10 papers). Jianjun Liu is often cited by papers focused on Planetary Science and Exploration (33 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (26 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (10 papers). Jianjun Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Jianjun Liu's co-authors include Chunlai Li, Xin Ren, Wei Zuo, Yan Su, Xingguo Zeng, Ziyuan Ouyang, Xu Tan, Weibin Wen, Hongbo Zhang and Zhiping He and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Jianjun Liu

47 papers receiving 687 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin
    2023 77 citations Xingguo Zeng, Dawei Liu et al. Nature Astronomy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jianjun Liu China 13 588 179 71 69 67 49 758
Le Qiao China 21 884 1.5× 207 1.2× 57 0.8× 166 2.4× 74 1.1× 90 1.1k
Weibin Wen China 13 662 1.1× 236 1.3× 120 1.7× 86 1.2× 73 1.1× 17 810
Xingguo Zeng China 11 642 1.1× 220 1.2× 116 1.6× 89 1.3× 80 1.2× 32 789
Jianfeng Yang China 12 416 0.7× 153 0.9× 78 1.1× 60 0.9× 34 0.5× 44 573
Wenhui Wan China 17 514 0.9× 362 2.0× 46 0.6× 79 1.1× 29 0.4× 45 793
Meng‐Hua Zhu Macao 20 1.1k 1.9× 214 1.2× 107 1.5× 263 3.8× 146 2.2× 83 1.3k
G. Paulsen United States 18 888 1.5× 394 2.2× 103 1.5× 66 1.0× 35 0.5× 95 1.1k
Sheng Gou China 15 493 0.8× 137 0.8× 37 0.5× 112 1.6× 34 0.5× 57 571
P. Beauchamp United States 11 306 0.5× 153 0.9× 35 0.5× 77 1.1× 36 0.5× 49 544
J. N. Maki United States 15 805 1.4× 325 1.8× 34 0.5× 159 2.3× 32 0.5× 58 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Jianjun Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jianjun Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jianjun Liu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jianjun Liu. The network helps show where Jianjun Liu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jianjun Liu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yan, Wei, Xingguo Zeng, Xin Ren, et al.. (2025). Geological characteristics of Chang’E-6 landing area in micro-scale unveiled by new observation data. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4219–4219. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, He, et al.. (2025). Small-body exploration with an in situ probe. Nature Astronomy. 9(9). 1404–1404.
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Zhang, Zongyu, Chunyu Ding, Yan Su, et al.. (2025). Subsoil structure at the Chang’E-6 landing site revealed by in-situ Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xing, J. W. Head, Qin Zhou, et al.. (2024). Lunar Farside Samples Returned by Chang’E-6 Mission: Significance for Understanding the South Pole-Aitken Basin Stratigraphic History. The Astronomical Journal. 168(6). 247–247. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Wei, Xin Ren, Xingguo Zeng, et al.. (2024). A New Global Reference Frame for Mars From Tianwen-1 Moderate Resolution Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–5. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianjun, Xin Ren, Wangli Chen, et al.. (2024). A 76-m per pixel global color image dataset and map of Mars by Tianwen-1. Science Bulletin. 69(14). 2183–2186. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianjun, Xiaoguang Qin, Xin Ren, et al.. (2023). Martian dunes indicative of wind regime shift in line with end of ice age. Nature. 620(7973). 303–309. 17 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qing, Dawei Liu, Xin Ren, et al.. (2023). Dust Deposition at Zhurong Landing Site From Multispectral Camera Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(13). 3 indexed citations
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Zeng, Xingguo, Dawei Liu, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2023). Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin. Nature Astronomy. 7(10). 1188–1197. 77 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xing, Jianjun Liu, Dawei Liu, et al.. (2022). Dusty Mafic Rocks Along the Path of Chang'E‐4 Rover: Initial Analysis of the Image Cubes of the Onboard Visible and Near‐Infrared Imaging Spectrometer. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(2). 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianjun, et al.. (2019). Interplanetary shock-associated aurora. ADVANCES IN POLAR SCIENCE. 11–23. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianjun, et al.. (2019). Invariant Cantor manifolds of quasi-periodic solutions for the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Journal of Differential Equations. 267(2). 1322–1375. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianjun, et al.. (2018). Scientific Objectives and Payload Configuration of China's First Mars Exploration Mission. 5(5). 406–413. 23 indexed citations
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Ren, Xin, et al.. (2018). Preliminary Scientific Exploration Programs for Mars Surface Composition Detection Package of China's First Mars Exploration. European Planetary Science Congress. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianjun, et al.. (2013). Lunar Image Data Preprocessing and Quality Evaluation of CCD Stereo Camera on Chang'E-2. Wuhan Daxue xuebao. Xinxi kexue ban. 38(2). 186–190. 5 indexed citations
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Cui, Jun, et al.. (2012). Observations of lunar mini-magnetospheres. 41(6). 392–397. 1 indexed citations
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Wei, Yong, Qiugang Zong, Z. Y. Pu, et al.. (2011). Enhanced anti-sunward flow near local noon during a period of horizontal IMF and high solar wind velocity V Y. Chinese Science Bulletin. 56(11). 1117–1122. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianzhong, Xin Ren, Guangliang Zhang, et al.. (2011). Data Analysis of Chang'E‐1 Gamma‐Ray Spectrometer and Global Distribution of U, K, and Th Elemental Abundances. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 85(6). 1299–1309. 8 indexed citations
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Ren, Xin, Jianjun Liu, Weibin Wen, et al.. (2011). Image coverage analysis of Chang'E-2. 28. 2066–2071. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianjun, et al.. (2003). Stochastic Inversion of Seabottom Scattering Coefficients from Shallow-Water Reverberation. Chinese Physics Letters. 20(12). 2188–2191. 3 indexed citations

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