Pengfei Ma

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Pengfei Ma is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Pengfei Ma has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Geophysics, 16 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Pengfei Ma's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (14 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (12 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Pengfei Ma is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (14 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (12 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Pengfei Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Brunei. Pengfei Ma's co-authors include Michael Gurnis, Bo Zhang, Shaofeng Liu, Chengshan Wang, Yalin Li, Zhongpeng Han, Juan He, Yushuai Wei, Ming Xu and Jian Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Pengfei Ma

40 papers receiving 933 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Reconstruction of northeast Asian deformation integrated with western Pacific plate subduction since 200 Ma
    2017 213 citations Shaofeng Liu, Michael Gurnis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pengfei Ma China 15 684 244 223 159 156 41 973
M. V. Korotaev Russia 9 887 1.3× 315 1.3× 212 1.0× 236 1.5× 161 1.0× 22 1.2k
Jeffrey A. Benowitz United States 23 1.2k 1.7× 189 0.8× 363 1.6× 126 0.8× 343 2.2× 105 1.4k
Bjørn T. Larsen Norway 17 937 1.4× 189 0.8× 228 1.0× 206 1.3× 153 1.0× 28 1.1k
Sihua Yuan China 13 1.2k 1.7× 186 0.8× 500 2.2× 142 0.9× 173 1.1× 45 1.4k
Nathan Cogné France 16 774 1.1× 136 0.6× 300 1.3× 76 0.5× 193 1.2× 43 957
Sylvain Calassou France 18 1.2k 1.8× 172 0.7× 175 0.8× 174 1.1× 204 1.3× 41 1.4k
Tonny B. Thomsen Denmark 19 977 1.4× 279 1.1× 365 1.6× 210 1.3× 67 0.4× 58 1.2k
Quanshu Yan China 17 882 1.3× 508 2.1× 170 0.8× 169 1.1× 79 0.5× 76 1.2k
Cari L. Johnson United States 21 925 1.4× 299 1.2× 342 1.5× 332 2.1× 288 1.8× 59 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Pengfei Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pengfei Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pengfei Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pengfei Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pengfei Ma 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 Pengfei Ma. Pengfei Ma 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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Yang, Xingchuan, Lei Shi, Zhiqiang Yang, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric effects of daytime and nighttime warming on vegetation greenness in the Mongolian Plateau. Journal of Arid Environments. 229. 105394–105394.
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Zhu, Yonghua, et al.. (2024). Spatial and temporal characteristics of drought in the Mu Us Sandy Land based on the Standardized Precipitation Index. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yulong, Yanwei Zhang, Pengfei Ma, Xiaodong Zhang, & Zhifei Liu. (2024). Sediment remobilization over subaqueous sand waves: In-situ observation in the northern South China Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 643. 118927–118927. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yulong, Zhifei Liu, Yanwei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Formation mechanism of drift-moat contourite systems revealed by in-situ observations in the South China Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 628. 118585–118585. 6 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengfei, et al.. (2023). East Asian summer monsoon evolution recorded by the middle Miocene pelagic reddish clay, South China Sea. Global and Planetary Change. 222. 104072–104072. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2023). Wind regime features and their impacts on the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River on the Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Arid Land. 15(10). 1174–1195. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhengcai, et al.. (2022). Aeolian sediment provenance and transport in the upper and middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Tibet Plateau. Basin Research. 35(2). 762–783. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhengcai, et al.. (2022). Aeolian sediment transport rates in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Tibet Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 826. 154238–154238. 15 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengfei, et al.. (2022). Effect of meteorological conditions on PM10 concentrations in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Tibet Plateau. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 151(1-2). 725–737. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Shaofeng, Pengfei Ma, Bo Zhang, & Michael Gurnis. (2021). The Horizontal Slab Beneath East Asia and Its Subdued Surface Dynamic Response. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(3). 22 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengfei, Xiaoping Xia, Chun–Kit Lai, et al.. (2021). Evolution of the Tethyan Bangong-Nujiang Ocean and its SE Asian connection: Perspective from the Early Cretaceous high-Mg granitoids in SW China. Lithos. 388-389. 106074–106074. 12 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengfei, et al.. (2021). Early-Cretaceous highly fractionated granites from the Tengchong terrane: Petrogenesis and tectonic implication. Acta Petrologica Sinica. 37(4). 1177–1195. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Shaofeng, et al.. (2020). Reconstruction of the Cenozoic deformation of the Bohai Bay Basin, North China. Basin Research. 33(1). 364–381. 47 indexed citations
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Xu, Jian, Xiaoping Xia, Chun–Kit Lai, Meiling Zhou, & Pengfei Ma. (2019). First Identification of Late Permian Nb‐Enriched Basalts in Ailaoshan Region (SW Yunnan, China): Contribution From Emeishan Plume to Subduction of Eastern Paleotethys. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(5). 2511–2523. 43 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengfei, et al.. (2016). The Geological Resources Survey and Geoscience Significance of Dunhuang Yardang National Geopark in China. 36(3). 615. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengfei, et al.. (2013). Climate Change and Its Effect on Steppe Animal Husbandry in Northwest Tibet. Arid Zone Research. 30(2). 308–314. 4 indexed citations
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Yuan, Lei, et al.. (2010). Responses of climatic potential grassland productivity to climatic change in an alpine meadow area over the Nujiang Basin, Tibet from 1980 to 2008.. Acta Pratacultural Science. 19(5). 17–24. 1 indexed citations

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