Meng Cheng

2.4k total citations
48 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Meng Cheng is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Meng Cheng has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Paleontology, 32 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 20 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Meng Cheng's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (45 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (32 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers). Meng Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (45 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (32 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers). Meng Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Meng Cheng's co-authors include Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, Chengsheng Jin, Wei Shi, Zihu Zhang, Shucheng Xie, Timothy W. Lyons, Feifei Zhang, Junhua Huang and Genming Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Meng Cheng

44 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers

Meng Cheng

PALEO

GEOPH

Xinqiang Wang China

Shane D. Schoepfer United States

Chengsheng Jin China

Marcus Kunzmann Australia

Huan Cui United States

Lawrence M. Och United Kingdom

Ashleigh v.S. Hood Australia

Yusuke Sawaki Japan

Hengye Wei China

Steven C. Turgeon United States

Xinqiang Wang China

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1.5k ×0.9

PALEO

978 ×0.9

698 ×1.2

537 ×1.0

GEOPH

267 ×0.7

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Countries citing papers authored by Meng Cheng

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Meng, et al.. (2025). Reconciling redox proxy contradiction with active Fe Mn shuttle in the Cryogenian Nanhua Basin of South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 667. 112899–112899. 1 indexed citations

Tong, Jinnan, Meng Cheng, Jun Hu, et al.. (2025). Zinc isotopic evidence for enhanced oceanic primary productivity during termination of the late Ediacaran Shuram Excursion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 405. 66–79.

Li, Chao, Yongbo Peng, Junpeng Zhang, et al.. (2025). Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface. Nature. 645(8081). 665–671.

Cheng, Meng, Zihu Zhang, Chengsheng Jin, et al.. (2023). Salinity variation and hydrographic dynamics in the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin (South China). Science China Earth Sciences. 66(6). 1268–1278. 16 indexed citations

Peng, Yongbo, et al.. (2023). Sulfate triple-oxygen-isotope evidence confirming oceanic oxygenation 570 million years ago. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4315–4315. 23 indexed citations

Dodd, Matthew S., Wei Shi, Chao Li, et al.. (2023). Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle. Nature. 618(7967). 974–980. 60 indexed citations

Shi, Wei, Benjamin Mills, Chao Li, et al.. (2022). Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 591. 117619–117619. 28 indexed citations

Chang, Biao, Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, et al.. (2022). A ∼60-Ma-long, high-resolution record of Ediacaran paleotemperature. Science Bulletin. 67(9). 910–913. 6 indexed citations

Jin, Chengsheng, Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, et al.. (2021). Spatial heterogeneity of redox-sensitive trace metal enrichments in upper Ediacaran anoxic black shales. Journal of the Geological Society. 178(5). 11 indexed citations

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Cheng, Meng, Chao Li, Chengsheng Jin, et al.. (2020). Evidence for high organic carbon export to the early Cambrian seafloor. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 287. 125–140. 64 indexed citations

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Li, Chao, Wei Shi, Meng Cheng, Chengsheng Jin, & Thomas J. Algeo. (2020). The redox structure of Ediacaran and early Cambrian oceans and its controls. Science Bulletin. 65(24). 2141–2149. 97 indexed citations

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Wang, Haiyang, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal redox heterogeneity and transient marine shelf oxygenation in the Mesoproterozoic ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 270. 201–217. 54 indexed citations

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Jin, Chengsheng, Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, et al.. (2019). Controls on organic matter accumulation on the early-Cambrian western Yangtze Platform, South China. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 111. 75–87. 64 indexed citations

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Zhang, Feifei, Shuhai Xiao, Stephen J. Romaniello, et al.. (2019). Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota. Geobiology. 17(6). 594–610. 115 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zihu, Chao Li, Meng Cheng, et al.. (2018). Evidence for Highly Complex Redox Conditions and Strong Water‐Column Stratification in an Early Cambrian Continental‐Margin Sea. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 19(8). 2397–2410. 25 indexed citations

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Shen, Jun, Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, et al.. (2017). Controls on regional marine redox evolution during Permian-Triassic transition in South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 486. 17–32. 42 indexed citations

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Cheng, Meng, Chao Li, Lian Zhou, et al.. (2016). Marine Mo biogeochemistry in the context of dynamically euxinic mid-depth waters: A case study of the lower Cambrian Niutitang shales, South China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 183. 79–93. 98 indexed citations

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Cheng, Meng, et al.. (2015). A Euxinic-Wedge Model for Mo Cycling in the Early Cambrian Oceans. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Chao, Noah J. Planavsky, Wei Shi, et al.. (2015). Ediacaran Marine Redox Heterogeneity and Early Animal Ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17097–17097. 91 indexed citations

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Cheng, Meng, Chao Li, Lian Zhou, & Shucheng Xie. (2015). Mo marine geochemistry and reconstruction of ancient ocean redox states. Science China Earth Sciences. 58(12). 2123–2133. 17 indexed citations

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