Tianchen He

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Tianchen He is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tianchen He has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Paleontology, 20 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 19 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Tianchen He's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (35 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (20 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (18 papers). Tianchen He is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (35 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (20 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (18 papers). Tianchen He collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Italy. Tianchen He's co-authors include Graham Shields, Rosalie Tostevin, Rachel Wood, Gary Tarbuck, Matthew O Clarkson, Maoyan Zhu, Hong‐Fei Ling, Simon W. Poulton, Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann and Benjamin Mills and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Tianchen He

40 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Effective use of cerium anomalies as a redox proxy in carbonate-dominated marine settings

2016 454 citations Rosalie Tostevin, Graham Shields et al. Chemical Geology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tianchen He China	17	1.1k	750	569	445	192	43	1.4k
Ashleigh v.S. Hood Australia	23	1.2k 1.1×	659 0.9×	549 1.0×	625 1.4×	215 1.1×	47	1.5k
Julie K. Bartley United States	16	1.1k 1.0×	588 0.8×	499 0.9×	496 1.1×	194 1.0×	34	1.4k
Theodore R. Them United States	17	947 0.9×	627 0.8×	491 0.9×	532 1.2×	255 1.3×	28	1.4k
Steven M Bates United States	13	1.0k 0.9×	651 0.9×	347 0.6×	394 0.9×	366 1.9×	19	1.3k
Xinqiang Wang China	21	1.5k 1.4×	978 1.3×	537 0.9×	698 1.6×	267 1.4×	44	1.8k
Chengsheng Jin China	20	1.3k 1.2×	909 1.2×	374 0.7×	430 1.0×	367 1.9×	27	1.4k
Dongjie Tang China	24	1.1k 1.0×	748 1.0×	423 0.7×	413 0.9×	159 0.8×	65	1.3k
Huan Cui United States	24	1.5k 1.4×	759 1.0×	598 1.1×	704 1.6×	227 1.2×	55	1.8k
Maya Elrick United States	25	1.4k 1.3×	473 0.6×	557 1.0×	903 2.0×	205 1.1×	40	1.7k
Shane D. Schoepfer United States	20	1.4k 1.3×	971 1.3×	534 0.9×	515 1.2×	514 2.7×	33	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Tianchen He

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tianchen He

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Jinchao, Jian Cao, Simon W. Poulton, et al.. (2025). Resolving mercury cycling and the role of volcanism during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 658. 119323–119323. 1 indexed citations

Mills, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Orbitally‐Driven Nutrient Pulses Linked to Early Cambrian Periodic Oxygenation and Animal Radiation. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(20).

Xiong, Yan, Bo Chen, Aihua Yang, et al.. (2025). Integrated analyses of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary sequence in northern Gondwana (Anti-Atlas platform, Morocco). Gondwana Research. 145. 79–106. 2 indexed citations

Han, Zhong, et al.. (2024). Strontium isotope evidence for regional enhanced continental weathering during the early Toarcian in the Tethys Himalaya. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 641. 112136–112136. 2 indexed citations

Vlahović, Igor, et al.. (2024). Genesis of the Rovinj-1 bauxite deposit (Istria, Croatia): Record of palaeoclimatic trends and palaeoenvironmental changes during the latest Jurassic of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform. Ore Geology Reviews. 173. 106236–106236. 1 indexed citations

Bowyer, Fred, Maoyan Zhu, Yijun Xiong, et al.. (2024). Marine redox and nutrient dynamics linked to the Cambrian radiation of animals. Geology. 52(9). 729–734. 9 indexed citations

Vlahović, Igor, et al.. (2024). Tracing the evolution of the world's first mined bauxite from palaeotopography to pyritization: Insights from Minjera deposits, Istria, Croatia. Geologia Croatica. 77(2). 159–178. 3 indexed citations

Lu, Zunli, Clara L. Blättler, Tianchen He, et al.. (2024). Calcium isotopes support spatial redox gradients on the Tethys European margin across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Chemical Geology. 673. 122530–122530. 1 indexed citations

Wei, Guang‐Yi, et al.. (2024). Low oxygen levels and fluctuated redox states of continental shelf seawater after the Cambrian explosion. Global and Planetary Change. 242. 104596–104596. 1 indexed citations

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Mills, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Modeling hyperthermal events in the Mesozoic-Paleogene periods: a review. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Yang, Mingyu Zhao, Tianchen He, Xingqi Li, & Simon W. Poulton. (2023). Formation of molar tooth structures in low sulfate Precambrian oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 354. 62–73. 2 indexed citations

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Shi, Wei, Benjamin Mills, Thomas J. Algeo, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous sulfide reoxidation buffered oxygen release in the Ediacaran Shuram ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 356. 149–164. 4 indexed citations

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Yao, Suping, Simon W. Poulton, Paul B. Wignall, et al.. (2023). Widespread marine euxinia along the western Yangtze Platform caused by oxygen minimum zone expansion during the Capitanian mass extinction. Global and Planetary Change. 230. 104273–104273. 7 indexed citations

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Shi, Wei, Benjamin Mills, Chao Li, et al.. (2022). Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 591. 117619–117619. 28 indexed citations

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Kemp, David B., Tianchen He, Robert J. Newton, et al.. (2022). Shallow- and deep-ocean Fe cycling and redox evolution across the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in Panthalassa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 602. 117959–117959. 13 indexed citations

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Wei, Guang‐Yi, Tianyu Chen, Simon W. Poulton, et al.. (2021). A chemical weathering control on the delivery of particulate iron to the continental shelf. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 308. 204–216. 25 indexed citations

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Chen, Bo, Benjamin Mills, Tianchen He, et al.. (2021). A short-lived oxidation event during the early Ediacaran and delayed oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 577. 117274–117274. 29 indexed citations

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He, Tianchen, Maoyan Zhu, Benjamin Mills, et al.. (2019). Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals. Nature Geoscience. 12(6). 468–474. 139 indexed citations

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Wang, Dan, Hong‐Fei Ling, Ulrich Struck, et al.. (2018). Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2575–2575. 112 indexed citations

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He, Tianchen, et al.. (2016). Theory of a Kaptiza-Dirac Interferometer with Cold Trapped Atoms. Journal of Modern Physics. 7(15). 2043–2062. 4 indexed citations

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