Shengli Yang

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

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Shengli Yang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shengli Yang has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Atmospheric Science, 27 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 18 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Shengli Yang's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (46 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers) and Geological formations and processes (16 papers). Shengli Yang is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (46 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers) and Geological formations and processes (16 papers). Shengli Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Shengli Yang's co-authors include Xiaomin Fang, Yunfa Miao, Xiaoli Yan, Fuli Wu, Mark Herrmann, Zhisheng An, Jijun Li, Jinbo Zan, Wenxia Han and Yongxiang Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Shengli Yang

52 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

What controlled Mid–Late Miocene long-term aridification in Central Asia? — Global cooling or Tibetan Plateau uplift: A review

2012 371 citations Yunfa Miao, Shengli Yang et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shengli Yang China	21	1.2k	560	338	257	242	55	1.6k
Qiuzhen Yin Belgium	25	2.2k 1.8×	617 1.1×	443 1.3×	304 1.2×	453 1.9×	93	2.6k
Wenying Jiang China	21	1.5k 1.3×	537 1.0×	399 1.2×	151 0.6×	401 1.7×	45	1.8k
J. J. Wei China	3	1.4k 1.2×	554 1.0×	547 1.6×	429 1.7×	162 0.7×	5	2.1k
Hong Ao China	22	1.4k 1.2×	495 0.9×	657 1.9×	326 1.3×	516 2.1×	52	1.9k
Guangrong Dong China	20	904 0.7×	513 0.9×	312 0.9×	115 0.4×	316 1.3×	52	1.5k
Kangyou Huang China	26	1.7k 1.4×	500 0.9×	421 1.2×	127 0.5×	477 2.0×	72	2.1k
Wenxia Han China	23	986 0.8×	382 0.7×	375 1.1×	167 0.6×	101 0.4×	47	1.3k
Hanchao Jiang China	21	1.1k 0.9×	435 0.8×	327 1.0×	109 0.4×	102 0.4×	64	1.3k
Hongbo Zheng China	18	939 0.8×	545 1.0×	229 0.7×	137 0.5×	184 0.8×	28	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shengli Yang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Shengli, et al.. (2025). Study on the factors and paths of optimizing and upgrading the regional industrial structure: A hybrid analysis based on extended NCA and fsQCA. Economic Analysis and Policy. 87. 2083–2102. 1 indexed citations

Feng, Xuesong, et al.. (2025). Global research trends of home pharmaceutical care: a bibliometric analysis via CiteSpace. Frontiers in Medicine. 12. 1489720–1489720.

Yang, Shengli, Dongxue Li, Rui Li, et al.. (2025). New luminescence chronology of a loess-paleosol sequence at Jinchuan and its implications for aeolian deposition processes in the Tibetan Plateau. Geomorphology. 478. 109730–109730.

Yang, Shengli, Jingzhao Zhang, Rui Li, et al.. (2024). First investigation of the luminescence dating of loess in the eastern Tibetan Plateau using K-feldspar MAR MET-pIRIR protocol. Quaternary Geochronology. 86. 101648–101648. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Shengli, Xiaojing Liu, Jinbo Zan, et al.. (2024). Multi-method luminescence dating of young aeolian dunes in the central Tibetan plateau. Quaternary Geochronology. 83. 101595–101595.

Yang, Shengli, Wen Chen, Xuechao Xu, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic effects on soils in the eastern Tibetan Plateau revealed by geochemical elemental characteristics. Environmental Research. 252(Pt 1). 118794–118794. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, Han Hu, Zaijun Li, et al.. (2024). Spatial heterogeneity in the formation of large deserts in midlatitude Asia revealed by drill core evidence. Science Bulletin. 69(22). 3512–3515. 3 indexed citations

Ling, Zhiyong, Junhuai Yang, Zhenqian Wang, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal differences in Holocene climate change in the Yarlung Tsangpo catchment, southern Tibetan Plateau, reconstructed from two sandy loess sequences. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 616. 111473–111473. 7 indexed citations

Li, Yue, Liang Peng, Yougui Song, et al.. (2023). Unraveling source-to-sink dust transport in Central and East Asia by identifying provenances of aeolian sediments. Atmospheric Research. 293. 106929–106929. 10 indexed citations

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Zan, Jinbo, et al.. (2021). A Combined Rock Magnetic and Meteorological Investigation of the Precipitation Boundary Across the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(18). 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Shengli, et al.. (2021). Stepwise Weakening of Aeolian Activities During the Holocene in the Gannan Region, Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Shengli, Li Liu, Xiaojing Liu, et al.. (2021). HIRM variation in the Ganzi loess of the eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last interglacial period and its paleotemperature implications for the source region. Gondwana Research. 101. 233–242. 15 indexed citations

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Fang, Xiaomin, Zhisheng An, Steven C. Clemens, et al.. (2020). The 3.6-Ma aridity and westerlies history over midlatitude Asia linked with global climatic cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(40). 24729–24734. 95 indexed citations

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Miao, Yunfa, et al.. (2017). Vegetation and fire anomalies during the last ~ 70 kain the Ili Basin, Central Asia, and their implications for the ecology change caused by human activities. 3 indexed citations

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Zan, Jinbo, Xiaomin Fang, Shengli Yang, & Maodu Yan. (2015). Bulk particle size distribution and magnetic properties of particle‐sized fractions from loess and paleosol samples in Central Asia. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 16(1). 101–111. 25 indexed citations

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Zan, Jinbo, Xiaomin Fang, Shengli Yang, & Maodu Yan. (2013). Evolution of the arid climate in High Asia since ∼1 Ma: Evidence from loess deposits on the surface and rims of the Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary International. 313-314. 210–217. 15 indexed citations

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Wu, Wenyong, et al.. (2012). The Correlationship between Urban Greenness and Heat Island Effect with RS Technology:A Case Study within 5th Ring Road in Beijing. Geo-information Science. 14(4). 481–489. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Shengli, et al.. (2009). Grain size profiles in the Chengdu Clay, eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for significant drying of Asia since ∼500 ka B.P.. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 38(1-2). 57–64. 17 indexed citations

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Fang, Xiaomin, Yongxiang Han, Jinghui Ma, et al.. (2004). Dust storms and loess accumulation on the Tibetan Plateau: A case study of dust event on 4 March 2003 in Lhasa. Chinese Science Bulletin. 49(9). 953–960. 119 indexed citations

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Yan, Maodu, Xiaomin Fang, Shiyue Chen, et al.. (2001). Pleistocene magnetic susceptibility and paleomagnetism of the Tibetan loess and its implications on large climatic change events. Science China Earth Sciences. 44(1). 227–232. 15 indexed citations

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