Lixin Gu

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 613 citations indexed

About

Lixin Gu is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lixin Gu has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 613 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25 papers in Geophysics and 7 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lixin Gu's work include Planetary Science and Exploration (27 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (27 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (21 papers). Lixin Gu is often cited by papers focused on Planetary Science and Exploration (27 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (27 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (21 papers). Lixin Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Lixin Gu's co-authors include Yangting Lin, Xu Tang, Sen Hu, Ruiying Li, Jialong Hao, Jinhua Li, Yuchen Xu, Huaiyu He, M. Anand and Jianglong Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lixin Gu

45 papers receiving 574 citations

Hit Papers

A dry lunar mantle reservoir for young mare basalts of Ch... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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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. A dry lunar mantle reservoir for young mare basalts of Chang’e-5
    2021 154 citations Sen Hu, Jianglong Ji et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lixin Gu China 11 404 170 74 61 41 50 613
K. M. Cannon United States 14 450 1.1× 68 0.4× 85 1.1× 80 1.3× 21 0.5× 29 613
Christian J. Renggli Germany 14 220 0.5× 259 1.5× 60 0.8× 51 0.8× 63 1.5× 31 469
D. M. Applin Canada 16 471 1.2× 85 0.5× 70 0.9× 38 0.6× 36 0.9× 66 728
P. Sarrazin United States 13 241 0.6× 65 0.4× 67 0.9× 30 0.5× 21 0.5× 67 616
Eddy Hill United States 7 237 0.6× 384 2.3× 34 0.5× 49 0.8× 44 1.1× 9 635
A. Sehlke United States 13 189 0.5× 256 1.5× 129 1.7× 84 1.4× 28 0.7× 35 517
Chi‐Yu Shih United States 10 485 1.2× 215 1.3× 127 1.7× 72 1.2× 18 0.4× 15 601
Xiaojia Zeng China 13 418 1.0× 81 0.5× 57 0.8× 80 1.3× 8 0.2× 49 488
Luke Daly United Kingdom 15 242 0.6× 157 0.9× 55 0.7× 12 0.2× 23 0.6× 61 539
Kurt Krenn Austria 13 204 0.5× 512 3.0× 64 0.9× 22 0.4× 96 2.3× 46 864

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lixin Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lixin Gu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lixin Gu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lixin Gu 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 Lixin Gu. Lixin Gu 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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Gu, Lixin, Yangting Lin, Yongjin Chen, et al.. (2025). Submicron-scale craters on Chang’e-5 lunar soils: records of complex space weathering processes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 398. 139–151. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Yuchen, Heng‐Ci Tian, Jialong Hao, et al.. (2025). Widespread ilmenite contributions to the surface water cycle in lunar Procellarum KREEP Terrane. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7610–7610.
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Li, Jinhua, Zheng Gong, Weiwei Wu, et al.. (2025). Magnetic signatures and origins of ferromagnetic minerals in Chang’e-6 lunar farside soils. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6218–6218.
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Zhang, Huijuan, Wei Yang, Di Zhang, et al.. (2025). A more reduced mantle beneath the lunar South Pole–Aitken basin. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6985–6985. 3 indexed citations
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Hui, Hejiu, Sen Hu, Qiuli Li, et al.. (2025). Discovery of carbonaceous chondritic fragment in Chang'e-5 regolith samples. Icarus. 429. 116454–116454. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Qin, Wei Yang, Zhu‐Yin Chu, et al.. (2025). Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from the South Pole–Aitken basin. Nature. 643(8071). 371–375. 8 indexed citations
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Gu, Lixin, et al.. (2024). First discovery of impact-induced vapor deposition of native copper, FeCo alloy and digenite from Chang'e-5 lunar soil. Icarus. 415. 116082–116082. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Yuchen, Lang Qin, Yang Liu, et al.. (2024). Petrography, Crystallography, and Geochronology of Baddeleyite With Two Morphologies in a Chang'e‐5 Lunar Basalt. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 129(11).
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Tang, Xu, Heng‐Ci Tian, Lixin Gu, et al.. (2023). Origin and implication of pentlandite in Chang'e-5 lunar soils. Lithos. 458-459. 107342–107342. 1 indexed citations
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Gu, Lixin, Yangting Lin, Yongjin Chen, et al.. (2023). Measurement of ferric iron in Chang’e-5 impact glass beads. Earth Planets and Space. 75(1). 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoying, Lixin Gu, Jing Li, et al.. (2023). First classification of iron meteorite fragment preserved in Chang’e-5 lunar soils. Science Bulletin. 69(4). 554–561. 7 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wenhao, Lixin Gu, Xu Tang, et al.. (2023). Nanoscale evidence of zircon-coffinite-xenotime solid solution observed by atom probe tomography. Chemical Geology. 638. 121697–121697. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaoguang, Yi Chen, Xu Tang, et al.. (2022). Thermally induced phase transition of troilite during micro-raman spectroscopy analysis. Icarus. 390. 115299–115299. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Nian, Guiqin Wang, Ting Zhang, et al.. (2021). Metallographic Cooling Rate and Petrogenesis of the Recently Found Huoyanshan Iron Meteorite Shower. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 126(9). 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Sen, Jianglong Ji, Yangting Lin, et al.. (2021). A dry lunar mantle reservoir for young mare basalts of Chang’e-5. Nature. 600(7887). 49–53. 154 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Yang, Yuanfeng Cai, Yang Qu, et al.. (2020). Two-stage fluid pathways generated by volume expansion reactions: insights from the replacement of pyrite by chalcopyrite. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 19993–19993. 10 indexed citations
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Hu, Sen, et al.. (2017). Discovery of First Coesite in the Martian Meteorite Northwest Africa 8657. LPICo. 80. 6152. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yinzhao, Wei Lin, Jinhua Li, et al.. (2015). Characterizing and optimizing magnetosome production ofMagnetospirillumsp. XM-1 isolated from Xi'an City Moat, China. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 362(21). fnv167–fnv167. 12 indexed citations
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Yu, Min, Lianjun Yang, Lixin Gu, & Sanxi Li. (1993). CRYSTLLIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF LDPE/EVA BLENDS. Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry. 10(2). 32–34. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Min, Lianjun Yang, Zhishen Mo, Sanxi Li, & Lixin Gu. (1992). CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF HDPE/LDPE BLENDS. Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry. 9(2). 38–41. 1 indexed citations

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