Maowen Li

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
153 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Maowen Li is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Analytical Chemistry and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maowen Li has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 53 papers in Analytical Chemistry and 49 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Maowen Li's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (137 papers), Petroleum Processing and Analysis (52 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (47 papers). Maowen Li is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (137 papers), Petroleum Processing and Analysis (52 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (47 papers). Maowen Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Maowen Li's co-authors include Steve Larter, Xiongqi Pang, Shuichang Zhang, Martin G. Fowler, L R Snowdon, Tonglou Guo, Chunqing Jiang, Sumei Li, Qigui Jiang and Zhijun Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Analytical Chemistry and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Maowen Li

147 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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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.

Movable oil content evaluation of lacustrine organic-rich shales: Methods and a novel quantitative evaluation model

2021 167 citations Tao Hu, Xiongqi Pang et al. profile →

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Maowen Li

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Xiongqi Pang China

M. Vandenbroucke France

Lianhua Hou China

L R Snowdon Canada

Paul C. Hackley United States

D. Leythaeuser Germany

Sheng He China

A. S. Mackenzie United Kingdom

Mohammed Hail Hakimi Yemen

Xianming Xiao China

Xiongqi Pang China

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Enze, Maowen Li, Xiaoxiao Ma, et al.. (2025). Inter-strata oil migration and its implications of hydrocarbon accumulation in the lacustrine shale system of the Lucaogou Formation, Jimusaer Sag, Junggar Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 181. 107533–107533. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Enze, et al.. (2024). A new approach for predicting oil mobilities and unveiling their controlling factors in a lacustrine shale system: Insights from interpretable machine learning model. Fuel. 379. 132958–132958. 18 indexed citations

Wang, Enze, Yue Feng, Tonglou Guo, & Maowen Li. (2024). Novel model for quantitating the hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, and mobility characteristic of lacustrine shale during thermal evolution. Fuel. 381. 133254–133254. 3 indexed citations

Ma, Yongsheng, Xunyu Cai, Maowen Li, et al.. (2024). Research advances on the mechanisms of reservoir formation and hydrocarbon accumulation and the oil and gas development methods of deep and ultra-deep marine carbonates. Petroleum Exploration and Development. 51(4). 795–812. 22 indexed citations

Wang, Enze, Yue Feng, Tonglou Guo, et al.. (2023). Sedimentary differentiation triggered by the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event and formation of lacustrine shale oil reservoirs: Organic matter accumulation and pore system evolution of the Early Jurassic sedimentary succession, Sichuan Basin, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 256. 105825–105825. 12 indexed citations

Hu, Tao, Yuan Liu, Fujie Jiang, et al.. (2023). A novel method for quantifying hydrocarbon micromigration in heterogeneous shale and the controlling mechanism. Energy. 288. 129712–129712. 30 indexed citations

Wang, Enze, et al.. (2023). Favorable Exploration Lithofacies and Their Formation Mechanisms in Lacustrine Shales Deposited under Different Salinity Conditions: Insights into Organic Matter Accumulation and Pore Systems. Energy & Fuels. 37(16). 11838–11852. 6 indexed citations

Pan, Yinhua, et al.. (2023). Characterization of free and bound bitumen fractions in a thermal maturation shale sequence. Part 2: Structural evolution of kerogen and bitumen during shale oil generation, expulsion and retention. Organic Geochemistry. 182. 104640–104640. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Enze, et al.. (2022). Depositional Environment Variation and Organic Matter Accumulation Mechanism of Marine–Continental Transitional Shale in the Upper Permian Longtan Formation, Sichuan Basin, SW China. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 6(9). 2199–2214. 22 indexed citations

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Guo, Tonglou, Yongsheng Ma, Guoli Wang, et al.. (2022). Fracture development and inter-well interference for shale gas production from the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation in a gentle syncline area of Weirong shale gas field, southern Sichuan, China. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 212. 110207–110207. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhuoheng, et al.. (2021). Beaufort–Mackenzie Tectono-Sedimentary Element. Geological Society London Memoirs. 57(1). 821–831. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Maowen, Zhuoheng Chen, Xiaoxiao Ma, et al.. (2019). Shale oil resource potential and oil mobility characteristics of the Eocene-Oligocene Shahejie Formation, Jiyang Super-Depression, Bohai Bay Basin of China. International Journal of Coal Geology. 204. 130–143. 104 indexed citations

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Li, Maowen, Zhuoheng Chen, Xiaoxiao Ma, et al.. (2018). A numerical method for calculating total oil yield using a single routine Rock-Eval program: A case study of the Eocene Shahejie Formation in Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China. International Journal of Coal Geology. 191. 49–65. 73 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhenkai, Tian Liang, Zhao‐Wen Zhan, et al.. (2018). Chemical structure evolution of kerogen during oil generation. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 98. 422–436. 63 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhuoheng, Maowen Li, Xiaoxiao Ma, et al.. (2018). Generation kinetics based method for correcting effects of migrated oil on Rock-Eval data – An example from the Eocene Qianjiang Formation, Jianghan Basin, China. International Journal of Coal Geology. 195. 84–101. 28 indexed citations

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Ma, Yuanyuan, Tingting Cao, L R Snowdon, et al.. (2017). Impact of Different Experimental Heating Rates on Calculated Hydrocarbon Generation Kinetics. Energy & Fuels. 31(10). 10378–10392. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhuoheng, Maowen Li, Tingting Cao, et al.. (2017). Hydrocarbon Generation Kinetics of a Heterogeneous Source Rock System: Example from the Lacsutrine Eocene-Oligocene Shahejie Formation, Bohai Bay Basin, China. Energy & Fuels. 31(12). 13291–13304. 29 indexed citations

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Jiang, Qigui, et al.. (2016). Quantitative characterization of shale oil in different occurrence states and its application. 38(6). 842–849. 92 indexed citations

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Li, Maowen, et al.. (2010). Application and Progress of Microbial Oil Survey Technique(MOST). Xinjiang shiyou dizhi. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Maowen. (2000). Quantification of petroleum secondary migration distances: fundamentals and case histories. Petroleum Exploration and Development. 9 indexed citations

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