Qiang Ma

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Qiang Ma is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Qiang Ma has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Geophysics, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Qiang Ma's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (46 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (36 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (32 papers). Qiang Ma is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (46 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (36 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (32 papers). Qiang Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Qiang Ma's co-authors include Yi‐Gang Xu, Jianping Zheng, William L. Griffin, Yuping Su, Liang Ma, Huayun Tang, Xianquan Ping, Lu‐Bing Hong, Ming Zhang and Jun‐Hong Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Qiang Ma

51 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Magmatic perspective on subduction of Paleo-Pacific plate and initiation of big mantle wedge in East Asia

2020 139 citations Qiang Ma, Yi‐Gang Xu profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qiang Ma China	21	1.5k	510	179	153	139	61	1.8k
Flavien Choulet France	20	1.7k 1.2×	820 1.6×	277 1.5×	182 1.2×	119 0.9×	46	2.0k
Michael B. Stephens Sweden	26	1.7k 1.1×	970 1.9×	174 1.0×	105 0.7×	162 1.2×	80	1.9k
Abdel-Rahman Fowler United Arab Emirates	19	1.7k 1.1×	877 1.7×	138 0.8×	141 0.9×	221 1.6×	48	2.0k
Shengsi Sun China	25	2.4k 1.6×	1.1k 2.1×	295 1.6×	186 1.2×	174 1.3×	71	2.7k
Jens C. Grimmer Germany	14	1.3k 0.9×	483 0.9×	138 0.8×	158 1.0×	109 0.8×	28	1.5k
Wen Chen China	25	1.8k 1.2×	831 1.6×	159 0.9×	182 1.2×	114 0.8×	97	2.0k
Erdi̇nç Yi̇ği̇tbaş Türkiye	21	1.3k 0.9×	474 0.9×	76 0.4×	109 0.7×	62 0.4×	41	1.6k
P. Agard France	18	2.4k 1.6×	510 1.0×	100 0.6×	81 0.5×	168 1.2×	19	2.6k
I.H.C. Henderson Norway	19	1.0k 0.7×	469 0.9×	175 1.0×	105 0.7×	145 1.0×	39	1.4k
T.R.K. Chetty India	26	2.3k 1.5×	520 1.0×	123 0.7×	87 0.6×	48 0.3×	69	2.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Architecture and evolution of the lithosphere beneath the northern South China sea: Implications for plate-edge lithospheric thinning and rifting. Fundamental Research. 1 indexed citations

Ping, Xianquan, et al.. (2025). Late Mesozoic Tectonic‐Magmatic Evolution of the Tongbai Orogen, Central China: Implications for Granites Petrogenesis and Gold Mineralization. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 26(5). 1 indexed citations

Huyskens, Magdalena H., Hongwei Yang, Jianfang Hu, et al.. (2025). High-precision geochronology of the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation: Temporal constraints on the late phase of the Jehol Biota. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 671. 119688–119688.

Zheng, Jianping, et al.. (2024). Genesis of the Devonian Habaqin ultramafic arc complex and associated low-grade Fe–Ti oxide mineralization in the northern North China Craton. Lithos. 478-479. 107625–107625. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Qiang, Huaiyang Zhou, & H. J. Dick. (2024). Role of syn-magmatic strain localization in oceanic detachment faulting at ultraslow-spreading ridges. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 643. 118892–118892.

Zhang, Chao, Qiang Ma, Hong‐Kun Dai, et al.. (2024). Bulk Rock and Olivine Chemistry and Isotopes of 106–58 Ma Basalts from Liaodong Peninsula and its Adjacent Areas: Implications for Secular Evolution of the Big Mantle Wedge in Eastern China. Journal of Petrology. 65(7). 1 indexed citations

Ping, Xianquan, et al.. (2022). Early Cretaceous high-silica granite in the central southern part of North China: Implications for thinning and reworking of lower crust. Lithos. 428-429. 106838–106838. 3 indexed citations

Ma, Qiang, et al.. (2021). Practice and Thinking on Construction of Science Communication System of National Research Institutions—Taking Chinese Academy of Sciences as Example. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 36(4). 456–463.

Yin, Rong, Xiao‐Long Huang, Yi‐Gang Xu, et al.. (2019). Mineralogical constraints on the magmatic–hydrothermal evolution of rare-elements deposits in the Bailongshan granitic pegmatites, Xinjiang, NW China. Lithos. 352-353. 105208–105208. 36 indexed citations

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Liu, Liang, Liang Liu, Yi‐Gang Xu, et al.. (2019). Development of a Dense Cratonic Keel Prior to the Destruction of the North China Craton: Constraints From Sedimentary Records and Numerical Simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(12). 13192–13206. 20 indexed citations

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Ma, Qiang, Yi‐Gang Xu, Xiao‐Long Huang, et al.. (2019). Eoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution in the North China Craton: Evidence from U-Pb and Hf-O isotopes of zircons from deep-crustal xenoliths. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 278. 94–109. 58 indexed citations

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Deng, Yangfan, Jiangtao Li, Touping Peng, et al.. (2019). Lithospheric structure in the Cathaysia block (South China) and its implication for the Late Mesozoic magmatism. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 291. 24–34. 44 indexed citations

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Ma, Qiang, Yi‐Gang Xu, Yangfan Deng, et al.. (2018). Similar crust beneath disrupted and intact cratons: Arguments against lower-crust delamination as a decratonization trigger. Tectonophysics. 750. 1–8. 15 indexed citations

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Ping, Xianquan, Jianping Zheng, Huayun Tang, et al.. (2017). Hadean continental crust in the southern North China Craton: Evidence from the Xinyang felsic granulite xenoliths. Precambrian Research. 307. 155–174. 9 indexed citations

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Hong, Lu‐Bing, Yinhui Zhang, Yi‐Gang Xu, et al.. (2017). Hydrous orthopyroxene-rich pyroxenite source of the Xinkailing high magnesium andesites, Western Liaoning: Implications for the subduction-modified lithospheric mantle and the destruction mechanism of the North China Craton. Lithos. 282-283. 10–22. 21 indexed citations

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Ma, Qiang, et al.. (2015). Are continental “adakites” derived from thickened or foundered lower crust?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 419. 125–133. 180 indexed citations

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Liu, Bo, Yuanlin Meng, Xinning Li, et al.. (2015). Petrologic characteristics and genetic model of lacustrine lamellar fine-grained rock and its significance for shale oil exploration: A case study of Permian Lucaogou Formation in Malang sag, Santanghu Basin, NW China. Petroleum Exploration and Development. 42(5). 656–666. 76 indexed citations

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Xiao, Henglin, et al.. (2014). Research on Direct Shear Test of Undisturbed Root-soil Composition. Research Journal of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology. 7(6). 1183–1186. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Qiang, Jianping Zheng, William L. Griffin, et al.. (2012). Triassic “adakitic” rocks in an extensional setting (North China): Melts from the cratonic lower crust. Lithos. 149. 159–173. 204 indexed citations

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Ma, Qiang, et al.. (2009). De qué forma enfrenta la crisis económica mundial el sector forestal de China. Hispana. 60(233). 43–48. 1 indexed citations

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