Ling Chen

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
275 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Ling Chen is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ling Chen has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Geophysics, 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 19 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Ling Chen's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (132 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (130 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (116 papers). Ling Chen is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (132 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (130 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (116 papers). Ling Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Iran. Ling Chen's co-authors include Tianyu Zheng, Rixiang Zhu, Liang Zhao, Fu‐Yuan Wu, Junlai Liu, Zigen Wei, Yinshuang Ai, Cheng Cheng, Mingming Jiang and Lingxin Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ling Chen

247 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

Timing, scale and mechanism of the destruction of the Nor... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 200 400 600
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. Timing, scale and mechanism of the destruction of the North China Craton
    2011 621 citations Rixiang Zhu, Ling Chen et al. Science China Earth Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ling Chen China 40 5.3k 904 393 390 386 275 6.6k
Qinghua Huang China 40 2.6k 0.5× 933 1.0× 531 1.4× 557 1.4× 322 0.8× 218 4.9k
Xiaodong Song China 37 4.0k 0.8× 417 0.5× 367 0.9× 334 0.9× 191 0.5× 200 5.4k
Liang Zhao China 39 3.6k 0.7× 525 0.6× 178 0.5× 97 0.2× 313 0.8× 184 5.1k
John H. Shaw United States 41 3.7k 0.7× 378 0.4× 652 1.7× 232 0.6× 453 1.2× 192 6.8k
Barbara Romanowicz United States 63 13.3k 2.5× 790 0.9× 184 0.5× 719 1.8× 250 0.6× 291 13.9k
Peter E. van Keken United States 47 7.6k 1.4× 596 0.7× 315 0.8× 82 0.2× 183 0.5× 118 8.2k
Michael D. Higgins Canada 33 3.2k 0.6× 1.3k 1.5× 406 1.0× 74 0.2× 118 0.3× 84 4.0k
Wenbo Wei China 28 2.5k 0.5× 313 0.3× 90 0.2× 328 0.8× 277 0.7× 135 3.5k
J. E. Vidale United States 57 9.3k 1.8× 1.6k 1.7× 274 0.7× 700 1.8× 144 0.4× 202 10.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ling Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ling Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ling Chen. 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 Ling Chen. The network helps show where Ling Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ling Chen

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

All Works

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Li, Shaoyang, et al.. (2025). Large Megathrust Earthquakes Tend to Sustain an Increasingly Longer Duration Than Expected. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(8). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Jian, Zhigang Zhang, Jianming He, et al.. (2025). Seismic Evidence for Large‐Scale Intraslab Heterogeneity Beneath Northeast Japan. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(4). 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Shengji, Xin Wang, Zhangfeng Ma, et al.. (2025). Supershear rupture sustained through a thick fault zone in the 2025 M w 7.8 Mandalay earthquake. Science. 390(6772). 468–475. 3 indexed citations
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He, Lingyun, et al.. (2024). Does heterogeneous media sentiment matter the ‘green premium’? An empirical evidence from the Chinese bond market. International Review of Economics & Finance. 92. 1016–1027. 11 indexed citations
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Chen, Ling, et al.. (2024). Is There a Carbonated Mid‐Lithosphere Discontinuity in Cratons?. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 129(6). 2 indexed citations
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Li, Jiannan, Ling Chen, Song Li, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of the fitting-based reactivity-equivalent physical transformation method for double heterogeneity phenomena of plate-type fuel in pressurized water reactors. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 207. 110677–110677. 1 indexed citations
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He, Zhiqiang, et al.. (2024). In situ temperature-preserved coring for deep oil and gas reservoir: Thermal insulation materials. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. 17(9). 5601–5614.
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Liu, Qiancheng, Ling Chen, & Liang Zhao. (2024). Seismic True-Amplitude Imaging: A Data-Domain Amplitude-Matching Perspective. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–4.
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Chen, Ling, Zhifei Liu, Xun Yu, et al.. (2024). Clay minerals control silicon isotope variations of fine-grained river sediments: Implication for the trade-off between physical erosion and chemical weathering. Chemical Geology. 662. 122249–122249. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Shaoyang, V. Schulte‐Pelkum, William D. Barnhart, et al.. (2024). Weak, Vertically Stronger Main Himalayan Thrust in the India‐Asia Collision. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(16). 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2023). Uplifting mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau inferred from the characteristics of crustal structures. Science China Earth Sciences. 66(12). 2770–2790. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Ling, et al.. (2023). Segmented Up‐Bending of the Arabian Continental Plate Revealed by Pn Attenuation Tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(12). 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Ling, et al.. (2023). Meso-macro constitutive model for frozen salinized sandy soil. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 210. 103849–103849. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Tao, et al.. (2023). Subduction‐Induced Asthenospheric Flow Around the Songliao Basin in NE China Revealed by Shear Wave Splitting Measurements of Dense Seismic Arrays. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(3). 7 indexed citations
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Kaus, Boris, Jianfeng Yang, Kun Wang, et al.. (2021). 3D Geodynamic Models for HP‐UHP Rock Exhumation in Opposite‐Dip Double Subduction‐Collision Systems. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(8). 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Ling, Morteza Talebian, Xu Wang, et al.. (2020). Lateral Structural Variation of the Lithosphere‐Asthenosphere System in the Northeastern to Eastern Iranian Plateau and Its Tectonic Implications. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(1). 28 indexed citations
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He, Lanfang, et al.. (2017). Mapping chromite deposits with audio magnetotellurics in the Luobusa ophiolite of southern Tibet. Geophysics. 83(2). B47–B57. 21 indexed citations

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