Shiling Yang

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
105 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Shiling Yang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Shiling Yang has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Atmospheric Science, 32 papers in Paleontology and 26 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Shiling Yang's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (85 papers), Geological formations and processes (23 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (22 papers). Shiling Yang is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (85 papers), Geological formations and processes (23 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (22 papers). Shiling Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Shiling Yang's co-authors include Z. L. Ding, Zhongli Ding, Jimin Sun, Shangfa Xiong, T.S. Liu, Edward Derbyshire, Wenying Jiang, Yu Zhang, Tao Liu and Xiaofang Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Shiling Yang

99 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

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 Shiling Yang, Shangfa Xiong et al. profile →
Warming-induced northwestward migration of the East Asian monsoon rain belt from the Last Glacial Maximum to the mid-Holocene

2015 255 citations Shiling Yang, Zhongli Ding et al. profile →
Rates and causes of black soil erosion in Northeast China

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

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shiling Yang China	35	4.3k	1.8k	1.2k	905	775	105	5.3k
Yougui Song China	42	3.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	800 0.7×	648 0.7×	659 0.9×	196	4.8k
Z. L. Ding China	26	3.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	803 0.7×	733 0.8×	807 1.0×	44	3.9k
Daniel Arizteguí Switzerland	45	4.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	845 0.9×	365 0.5×	187	5.7k
Jijun Li China	42	3.7k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	533 0.6×	651 0.8×	101	5.9k
Ulrich Hambach Germany	43	5.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 2.1×	715 0.9×	156	5.9k
Jule Xiao China	29	3.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	871 0.7×	982 1.1×	409 0.5×	74	4.3k
Bernd Zolitschka Germany	48	5.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	485 0.6×	186	7.1k
Jan Bloemendal United Kingdom	47	5.8k 1.3×	2.8k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	970 1.1×	2.4k 3.1×	94	6.7k
William Balsam United States	41	3.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	679 0.6×	423 0.5×	877 1.1×	91	5.2k
Hongbo Zheng China	37	3.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	802 0.7×	389 0.4×	446 0.6×	127	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Shiling Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shiling Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shiling Yang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wei, Yong, Feng Shi, Xichen Li, et al.. (2025). Cascading impacts of the Maunder Minimum on rainfall and society in the Joseon dynasty. National Science Review. 12(10). nwaf283–nwaf283.

Jiang, Shijun, Ying Cui, B. David A. Naafs, et al.. (2025). Millennial-timescale thermogenic CO2 release preceding the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5375–5375.

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

Ramezani, Jahandar, Qiang Fang, Jinghui Guo, et al.. (2025). High-precision U–Pb geochronology of the Guttenberg Carbon Isotope Excursion (GICE) recorded in the Tarim Basin, NW China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 675. 113083–113083. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Shiling, Songhao Wu, Liwei Liu, et al.. (2025). High responsivity β-Ga2O3 Schottky photodiodes on off-axis sapphire substrate. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1020. 179391–179391. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Xiaofang, et al.. (2024). Identification of climatic tipping points and transitions in Chinese loess grain-size records utilizing nonlinear time series analysis. Quaternary International. 702. 24–33.

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

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

Huang, Xiaofang, Shiling Yang, Alan M. Haywood, et al.. (2023). Response of East Asian summer monsoon to precession change during the mid-Pliocene warm period. Quaternary International. 667. 61–67. 1 indexed citations

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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

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Ding, Zhongli, Jimin Sun, Shiling Yang, et al.. (2023). Freshwater ecosystem collapse and mass mortalities at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Global and Planetary Change. 227. 104175–104175. 8 indexed citations

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Jiang, Wenying, et al.. (2023). Holocene hydroclimate and dust activity, as reconstructed from the sediments of Lake Bayanchagan, on the northern margin of the East Asian summer monsoon. Quaternary Research. 120. 62–70.

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Zhang, Shihao, Shiling Yang, Wenying Jiang, et al.. (2023). BrGDGTs-based temperature and hydrological reconstruction from loess-paleosol deposits in the Eastern European Plain since 200 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews. 316. 108275–108275. 4 indexed citations

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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

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Huang, Xiaofang, Shiling Yang, Alan M. Haywood, et al.. (2022). Simulations reveal causes of inter-regional differences in Pliocene climatic periodicity. Science Bulletin. 68(2). 146–149. 2 indexed citations

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Wei, Hai‐Bo, et al.. (2021). Leaf phenology, paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental insights derived from an Agathoxylon stem from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, Northwest China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 289. 104416–104416. 12 indexed citations

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Bi, Shundong, et al.. (2018). An Early Cretaceous eutherian and the placental–marsupial dichotomy. Nature. 558(7710). 390–395. 60 indexed citations

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Yang, Shiling, et al.. (2017). A strengthened East Asian Summer Monsoon during Pliocene warmth: Evidence from ‘red clay’ sediments at Pianguan, northern China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 155. 124–133. 35 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhongli, et al.. (2016). Paleoweathering and paleoenvironmental change recorded in lacustrine sediments of the early to middle Eocene in Fushun Basin, Northeast China. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(1). 41–51. 20 indexed citations

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Jiang, Wenying, et al.. (2015). Negative impacts of afforestation and economic forestry on the Chinese Loess Plateau and proposed solutions. Quaternary International. 399. 165–173. 26 indexed citations

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