Liang Liu

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Liang Liu is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liang Liu has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Geophysics, 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Liang Liu's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (57 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (43 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (38 papers). Liang Liu is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (57 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (43 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (38 papers). Liang Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Liang Liu's co-authors include Chung-Wei Feng, Scott A. Burns, Tami C. Bond, Steven J. Smith, Wenqiang Yang, Tyler Pitkanen, Zifeng Lü, Nazar Kholod, Patrick O’Rourke and Rachel Hoesly and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Liang Liu

89 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Historical (1750–2014) anthropogenic emissions of reactive gases and aerosols from the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS)

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liang Liu China	30	1.4k	974	817	541	487	99	4.0k
Chung‐Ho Wang Taiwan	35	635 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	535 0.7×	385 0.7×	337 0.7×	132	4.2k
Xuechao Wang China	27	484 0.4×	120 0.1×	1.1k 1.3×	30 0.1×	296 0.6×	105	3.3k
杨兰 YANG Lan China	45	1.1k 0.8×	46 0.0×	331 0.4×	195 0.4×	1.4k 2.9×	243	6.3k
Zhi Yang China	45	644 0.5×	113 0.1×	1.3k 1.5×	72 0.1×	598 1.2×	288	9.7k
Hugo A. Loáiciga United States	40	124 0.1×	461 0.5×	1.7k 2.1×	189 0.3×	266 0.5×	283	6.2k
Jason Levy United States	23	173 0.1×	216 0.2×	487 0.6×	179 0.3×	136 0.3×	81	1.9k
Nahid Mohajeri United Kingdom	27	93 0.1×	111 0.1×	475 0.6×	59 0.1×	502 1.0×	87	2.4k
Olivier Pourret France	34	411 0.3×	401 0.4×	67 0.1×	35 0.1×	418 0.9×	85	3.4k
Richard S. Middleton United States	36	170 0.1×	316 0.3×	1.5k 1.8×	38 0.1×	102 0.2×	112	5.7k
R. J. Andres United States	31	262 0.2×	3.6k 3.7×	3.9k 4.8×	43 0.1×	175 0.4×	59	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Liang Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liang Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liang Liu

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

All Works

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Wang, Chengyuan, Yuqi Qian, Jintuan Wang, et al.. (2025). The source and thermal driver of young (<3.0 Ga) lunar volcanism. Science Advances. 11(34). eadv9085–eadv9085. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yuanhong, Q. Lin, Wenqiang Zheng, et al.. (2025). Hunting for exotic bosons with flying quantum sensors in space. Physical review. D. 112(9).

Yang, Jie‐Hua, Ruizhong Hu, Liang Liu, et al.. (2025). Constraints of in-situ elemental and B isotopic compositions of tourmaline on the origin of the Nong Sua Sn deposit, Thailand. Mineralium Deposita. 60(8). 1623–1642.

Zheng, Jianghua, et al.. (2024). A greater negative impact of future climate change on vegetation in Central Asia: Evidence from trajectory/pattern analysis. Environmental Research. 262(Pt 2). 119898–119898. 4 indexed citations

Li, Jianhao, et al.. (2024). Changes in vegetation phenology and its response to different layers of soil moisture in the dry zone of Central Asia, 1982–2022. Journal of Hydrology. 646. 132314–132314. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Liang, Ruizhong Hu, Yazhou Fu, et al.. (2024). Cassiterite and zircon U-Pb ages and compositions from ore-bearing and barren granites in Thailand: Constraints on the formation of tin deposits in Southeast Asia. Ore Geology Reviews. 174. 106282–106282. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Feng, et al.. (2024). Molecular diversity and seasonal dynamics of Ostreococcus (Mamiellophyceae, Chlorophyta) in typical mariculture bays based on metabarcoding analysis. Marine Environmental Research. 202. 106764–106764. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Liang, Hongyan Li, Lijun Liu, et al.. (2024). Horizontally forced initiation of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction zone. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 7 indexed citations

Huang, Xiao‐Long, Yi‐Gang Xu, Le Zhang, et al.. (2024). Excessive subsidence of oceanic basins caused by recycled oceanic crust in the mantle source: A new perspective on the oceanic topography within Southeast Asia. Geology. 52(7). 550–554. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xian, Liang Liu, Yan Chai, et al.. (2024). Reimagining the meninges from a neuroimmune perspective: a boundary, but not peripheral. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 21(1). 299–299. 4 indexed citations

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Mao, Wei, Hong Zhong, Jie‐Hua Yang, et al.. (2023). Molybdenum cycling in Andean-type subduction and metallogenic implications. Mineralium Deposita. 58(7). 1263–1278.

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Tang, Yanwen, Na Liu, Jie‐Hua Yang, et al.. (2022). A new calibrated strategy for the in situ U–Th–Pb dating of bastnasite by xenotime. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 37(12). 2599–2614. 11 indexed citations

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Qian, S., Li-Ying Zhu, Liang Liu, et al.. (2020). Contact binaries at different evolutionary stages. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 20(10). 163–163. 59 indexed citations

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Gou, Longlong, Jian‐Wei Zi, Yunpeng Dong, et al.. (2019). Timing of two separate granulite-facies metamorphic events in the Helanshan complex, North China Craton: Constraints from monazite and zircon U–Pb dating of pelitic granulites. Lithos. 350-351. 105216–105216. 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Hai‐Quan, et al.. (2016). B isotopes of Carboniferous‐Permian volcanic rocks in the Tuha basin mirror a transition from subduction to intraplate setting in Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 121(11). 7946–7964. 17 indexed citations

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Wu, Jialin, Huafeng Zhang, Mingguo Zhai, et al.. (2016). Discovery of pelitic high-pressure granulite from Manjinggou of the Huai’an Complex, North China Craton: Metamorphic P–T evolution and geological implications. Precambrian Research. 278. 323–336. 56 indexed citations

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Liu, Liang, et al.. (2012). Petrogenesis of the Early Cretaceous quartz monzonite pluton at Muchen in Longyou County, Zhejiang Province: Evidences from elemental and isotopic geochemistry of mafic microgranular enclaves and their host rocks. Acta Petrologica Sinica. 28. 3993–4006. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Danling, et al.. (2012). Chronology and geochemistry of the mafic rocks in Xitieshan area, North Qaidam. Dizhi tongbao. 31(12). 2079–2089. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Chao & Liang Liu. (2007). Late Paleozoic post-collisional magmatism in the Southwestern Tianshan orogenic belt,take the Baleigong pluton in the Kokshal region as an example.. Acta Petrologica Sinica. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Danling, et al.. (2007). In situ LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb age of ultrahigh-pressure eclogites in the Yukahe area, northern Qaidam Basin. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 50(S2). 322–330. 21 indexed citations

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