Jihua Hao

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jihua Hao is a scholar working on Paleontology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jihua Hao has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Paleontology, 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 13 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Jihua Hao's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (19 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (13 papers) and Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers). Jihua Hao is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (19 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (13 papers) and Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers). Jihua Hao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Jihua Hao's co-authors include Robert M. Hazen, Ming Tang, Xu Chu, Bing Shen, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, I. M. Daniel, Fang Huang, James P. Basilion, Songping D. Huang and Chris A. Flask and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jihua Hao

52 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Orogenic quiescence in Earth’s middle age 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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.

  1. Orogenic quiescence in Earth’s middle age
    2021 160 citations Jihua Hao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jihua Hao United States 19 270 264 222 207 183 57 1.2k
E. C. Sklute United States 19 261 1.0× 93 0.4× 197 0.9× 72 0.3× 461 2.5× 64 1.4k
V. B. Polyakov Russia 17 745 2.8× 253 1.0× 491 2.2× 126 0.6× 140 0.8× 51 1.4k
Douglas Galante Brazil 20 95 0.4× 292 1.1× 86 0.4× 158 0.8× 188 1.0× 82 1.1k
Frédéric Foucher France 25 283 1.0× 529 2.0× 225 1.0× 130 0.6× 780 4.3× 63 1.8k
Fériel Skouri‐Panet France 27 71 0.3× 421 1.6× 308 1.4× 697 3.4× 70 0.4× 47 2.1k
Roberto Barbieri Italy 26 231 0.9× 398 1.5× 165 0.7× 139 0.7× 230 1.3× 97 1.6k
A. U. Gehring Switzerland 24 380 1.4× 104 0.4× 327 1.5× 772 3.7× 76 0.4× 119 2.1k
Daniel R. Hummer United States 19 389 1.4× 82 0.3× 120 0.5× 72 0.3× 76 0.4× 38 972
Anna M. Carnerup Sweden 19 88 0.3× 415 1.6× 83 0.4× 350 1.7× 144 0.8× 35 1.3k
Ryoji Tanaka Japan 27 545 2.0× 65 0.2× 189 0.9× 108 0.5× 222 1.2× 110 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jihua Hao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jihua Hao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jihua Hao

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

All Works

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Xing, Li, Peter W. Crockford, Yuntao Ye, et al.. (2025). Isotopic evidence for oceanic barium cycling in the initial stage of the mesoproterozoic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 658. 119314–119314. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinqiang, et al.. (2025). Enhanced phosphorus regeneration linked to Ediacaran ocean oxygenation. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Walton, Craig R., Jihua Hao, Maria Schönbächler, & Oliver Shorttle. (2025). Large closed-basin lakes sustainably supplied phosphate during the origins of life. Science Advances. 11(8). eadq0027–eadq0027. 1 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, et al.. (2025). Active redox cycling of phosphorus on the early Earth. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4596–4596.
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Lau, Maggie C. Y., et al.. (2025). Enough Sulfur and Iron for Potential Life Make Enceladus’s Ocean Fully Habitable. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 980(1). L10–L10. 1 indexed citations
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Lau, Maggie C. Y., et al.. (2024). The Potential for Organic Synthesis in the Ocean of Enceladus. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 51–51. 3 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, et al.. (2023). Archean phosphorus recycling facilitated by ultraviolet radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(30). e2307524120–e2307524120. 9 indexed citations
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Walton, Craig R., John D. Coates, Ruth E. Blake, et al.. (2023). Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life. Nature Geoscience. 16(5). 399–409. 51 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, et al.. (2023). Environmental Stability and Its Importance for the Emergence of Darwinian Evolution. Life. 13(10). 1960–1960. 1 indexed citations
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Jin, Jing, Yaguang Nie, Jihua Hao, et al.. (2023). Historical population changes of Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica, and its climatic forcings. Quaternary Science Reviews. 318. 108308–108308. 2 indexed citations
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Walton, Craig R., Jihua Hao, Fang Huang, et al.. (2023). Evolution of the crustal phosphorus reservoir. Science Advances. 9(18). eade6923–eade6923. 22 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, Christopher R. Glein, Fang Huang, et al.. (2022). Abundant phosphorus expected for possible life in Enceladus’s ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(39). e2201388119–e2201388119. 34 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, Jennifer L. Goff, Jeffrey A. Steadman, et al.. (2022). Anoxic photochemical weathering of pyrite on Archean continents. Science Advances. 8(26). eabn2226–eabn2226. 10 indexed citations
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Moore, Eli K., Jihua Hao, Stephanie J. Spielman, & Nathan Yee. (2020). The evolving redox chemistry and bioavailability of vanadium in deep time. Geobiology. 18(2). 127–138. 25 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, & Robert M. Hazen. (2019). Redox states of Archean surficial environments: The importance of H2,g instead of O2,g for weathering reactions. Chemical Geology. 521. 49–58. 15 indexed citations
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Moore, Eli K., Jihua Hao, Anirudh Prabhu, et al.. (2018). Geological and Chemical Factors that Impacted the Biological Utilization of Cobalt in the Archean Eon. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(3). 743–759. 29 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, et al.. (2018). Transition Metals Enhance the Adsorption of Nucleotides onto Clays: Implications for the Origin of Life. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 3(1). 109–119. 17 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, & Robert M. Hazen. (2017). Mobility of nutrients and trace metals during weathering in the late Archean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 471. 148–159. 26 indexed citations
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Hao, Jihua, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, & Robert M. Hazen. (2016). A model for late Archean chemical weathering and world average river water. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 457. 191–203. 48 indexed citations

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