Shangfa Xiong

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Shangfa Xiong is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shangfa Xiong has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 16 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 13 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Shangfa Xiong's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers), Geological formations and processes (12 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (11 papers). Shangfa Xiong is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers), Geological formations and processes (12 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (11 papers). Shangfa Xiong collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Azerbaijan. Shangfa Xiong's co-authors include Shiling Yang, Haijian Lu, Z. L. Ding, Zhongli Ding, Yu Zhang, Tao Liu, Edward Derbyshire, Jimin Sun, Z. Gu and Ru Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Shangfa Xiong

37 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Stacked 2.6‐Ma grain size record from the Chinese loess based on five sections and correlation with the deep‐sea δ¹⁸O record

2002 507 citations Z. L. Ding, Shiling Yang et al. profile →
Rates and causes of black soil erosion in Northeast China

2022 111 citations Heng Wang, Shiling Yang et al. CATENA profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shangfa Xiong China	17	1.4k	685	484	402	279	38	1.9k
Donghuai Sun China	24	2.2k 1.5×	1.4k 2.1×	435 0.9×	454 1.1×	234 0.8×	34	2.7k
S. J. Sangode India	21	1.1k 0.8×	615 0.9×	436 0.9×	260 0.6×	337 1.2×	93	1.7k
Björn Buggle Germany	19	1.7k 1.2×	372 0.5×	268 0.6×	286 0.7×	242 0.9×	26	2.0k
N. Basavaiah India	27	1.4k 1.0×	601 0.9×	370 0.8×	268 0.7×	328 1.2×	89	2.1k
Christian Rolf Germany	21	929 0.6×	289 0.4×	337 0.7×	310 0.8×	158 0.6×	54	1.3k
John P. McGeehin United States	27	1.4k 1.0×	617 0.9×	633 1.3×	302 0.8×	56 0.2×	71	2.2k
Rob A. Kemp United Kingdom	24	1.5k 1.0×	832 1.2×	265 0.5×	284 0.7×	216 0.8×	40	1.8k
Jibao Dong China	17	1.0k 0.7×	432 0.6×	212 0.4×	273 0.7×	100 0.4×	34	1.4k
Sidonie Révillon France	24	1.0k 0.7×	510 0.7×	828 1.7×	419 1.0×	67 0.2×	69	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shangfa Xiong

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xiong, Shangfa, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Continental Weathering Contributed to the Termination of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(17).

Xiong, Shangfa, Benjamin Mills, Terry T. Isson, et al.. (2024). Acceleration of phosphorus weathering under warm climates. Science Advances. 10(28). eadm7773–eadm7773. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Shihao, Shiling Yang, Shangfa Xiong, et al.. (2024). Origin and depositional background of the Holocene black soil in Northeast China: Evidence from grain-size analysis and optically stimulated luminescence dating. CATENA. 239. 107963–107963. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Shiling, Yongda Wang, Xiaofang Huang, et al.. (2024). Pliocene CO2 rise due to sea-level fall as a mechanism for the delayed ice age. Global and Planetary Change. 236. 104431–104431. 3 indexed citations

Xiong, Shangfa, et al.. (2023). Total organic carbon content as an early warning indicator of soil degradation. Science Bulletin. 68(2). 150–153. 12 indexed citations

Xiong, Shangfa, et al.. (2023). Soil organic carbon induces a decrease in erodibility of black soil with loess parent materials in northeast China. Quaternary Research. 120. 83–92. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Yulu, et al.. (2022). Modern Silicate Weathering Regimes Across China Revealed by Geochemical Records From Surface Soils. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(10). 7 indexed citations

Lu, Haijian, Marco G. Malusà, Zhiyong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Syntectonic Sediment Recycling Controls Eolian Deposition in Eastern Asia Since ∼8 Ma. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(3). 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Bin, et al.. (2022). Shifts in the silicate weathering regime in South China during the Meso-Cenozoic linked to Asian summer monsoon evolution. Global and Planetary Change. 212. 103809–103809. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Heng, Shiling Yang, Yongda Wang, et al.. (2022). Rates and causes of black soil erosion in Northeast China. CATENA. 214. 106250–106250. 111 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiong, Shangfa, Shiqi Wang, Zihua Tang, et al.. (2019). New Magnetic Constraints on Early‐Middle Miocene Uplift of the Liupan Shan, Northeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 20(3). 1340–1357. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Yangyang, Shiling Yang, Pan Luo, & Shangfa Xiong. (2019). Aridity-controlled hydrogen isotope fractionation between soil n-alkanes and precipitation in China. Organic Geochemistry. 133. 53–64. 8 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, et al.. (2018). Human activity induced asynchronous dune mobilization in the deserts of NE China during the late Holocene. Aeolian Research. 34. 49–55. 7 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, et al.. (2017). Holocene environmental changes in the Horqin desert revealed by OSL dating and δ 13 C analyses of paleosols. Quaternary International. 469. 11–19. 23 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, Z. L. Ding, Wenying Jiang, Shiling Yang, & Tao Liu. (2003). Initial intensification of East Asian winter monsoon at about 2.75 Ma as seen in the Chinese eolian loess‐red clay deposit. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(10). 29 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, et al.. (2002). East Asian monsoon instability at the stage 5a/4 transition. Boreas. 31(2). 126–132. 8 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, Zhongli Ding, & Shiling Yang. (2001). Abrupt shifts in the late Cenozoic environment of north‐western China recorded in loess–palaeosol–red clay sequences. Terra Nova. 13(5). 376–381. 6 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, Zhongli Ding, & Dongsheng Liu. (1999). Comparisons of grain size characteristics of red earth from southern China with that of loess and dune sand from Bering region. Chinese Science Bulletin. 44(18). 1690–1693. 15 indexed citations

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Ding, Z. L., et al.. (1999). Pedostratigraphy and paleomagnetism of a ∼7.0 Ma eolian loess–red clay sequence at Lingtai, Loess Plateau, north-central China and the implications for paleomonsoon evolution. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 152(1-2). 49–66. 312 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, Dongsheng Liu, & Zhongli Ding. (1999). A climatic reversal at the last interglacial-last glacial transition recorded in the loess section at Zhaitang, Beijing. Chinese Science Bulletin. 44(6). 571–575. 4 indexed citations

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