Xiaoping Xia

14.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
283 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Xiaoping Xia is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoping Xia has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 225 papers in Geophysics, 90 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 24 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Xiaoping Xia's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (225 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (138 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (130 papers). Xiaoping Xia is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (225 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (138 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (130 papers). Xiaoping Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Australia. Xiaoping Xia's co-authors include Min Sun, Guochun Zhao, Fu‐Yuan Wu, Xiaoping Long, Chao Yuan, Sanzhong Li, Yan Luo, Alfred Kröner, Wenjiao Xiao and Guanshu Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoping Xia

266 papers receiving 12.2k citations

Hit Papers

The Yanbian Terrane (Southern Sichuan Province, SW China)... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2010 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. The Yanbian Terrane (Southern Sichuan Province, SW China): A Neoproterozoic arc assemblage in the western margin of the Yangtze Block
    2005 462 citations Xiaoping Xia, Min Sun et al. profile →
  2. Detrital and xenocrystic zircon ages from Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic arc terranes of Mongolia: Significance for the origin of crustal fragments in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
    2010 402 citations Xiaoping Xia, Min Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaoping Xia China 56 11.0k 5.0k 1.5k 624 618 283 12.5k
Michel Faure France 76 15.2k 1.4× 5.5k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 2.0k 3.2× 969 1.6× 350 17.9k
Qiuli Li China 70 17.3k 1.6× 6.7k 1.4× 2.4k 1.6× 736 1.2× 1.6k 2.6× 486 21.2k
Lian Zhou China 44 4.6k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 2.0k 1.4× 311 0.5× 1.9k 3.0× 161 7.4k
Honglin Yuan China 46 9.6k 0.9× 4.2k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 334 0.5× 670 1.1× 182 11.2k
Yuejun Wang China 67 15.5k 1.4× 6.3k 1.3× 2.2k 1.5× 2.7k 4.4× 1.2k 1.9× 251 16.9k
David J. Waters United Kingdom 57 6.6k 0.6× 1.7k 0.3× 419 0.3× 312 0.5× 304 0.5× 134 8.4k
Yongsheng Liu China 77 27.1k 2.5× 11.7k 2.4× 5.1k 3.4× 898 1.4× 1.7k 2.7× 459 31.2k
Shuwen Dong China 52 9.2k 0.8× 2.4k 0.5× 569 0.4× 1.6k 2.6× 328 0.5× 202 10.4k
R. N. Thompson United Kingdom 49 7.5k 0.7× 3.3k 0.7× 954 0.6× 485 0.8× 716 1.2× 139 8.5k
Jingbin Wang China 36 2.7k 0.3× 1.4k 0.3× 771 0.5× 159 0.3× 667 1.1× 140 4.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaoping Xia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoping Xia

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Luo, Tao, Chenxi Zhang, James L. Crowley, et al.. (2025). Zircon S513 – A New Gem‐Quality Reference Material for In Situ Microbeam U‐Th‐Pb, (U‐Th)/He Geochronology and Hf‐O Isotope Measurement. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. 49(2). 403–423.
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Hong, Tao, Matthieu Harlaux, Mingguo Zhai, et al.. (2025). Syn-tectonic emplacement of Li-bearing pegmatites related to detachment faulting in the Dahongliutan pegmatite belt, Western Kunlun, NW China. Mineralium Deposita. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Rucao, Shu‐zhong Shen, Xiaoping Xia, et al.. (2024). Atmospheric ozone destruction and the end-Permian crisis: Evidence from multiple sulfur isotopes. Chemical Geology. 647. 121936–121936. 4 indexed citations
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Ma, Siyuan, Bin He, Xiaoping Xia, et al.. (2024). The development of a pull-apart basin in response to collision of the irregular South China continental margin with Indochina. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 137(3-4). 1687–1702. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Yi‐Gang, Xiaoping Xia, Jin‐Hui Yang, et al.. (2024). Light δD apatites reveal deep origin water in North China Craton intracontinental granites and basalts. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8727–8727. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Qiong, Mei‐Fu Zhou, Xiaoping Xia, & Ping‐Ping Liu. (2023). Li and O isotopes of mantle xenoliths from deep fault-related Cenozoic basalts in eastern China: The role of subducted components in the generation of the heterogeneous lithospheric mantle. Chemical Geology. 628. 121471–121471. 4 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Eiichi, et al.. (2023). Absence of water content contrast between lithosphere and asthenosphere in subduction zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 603. 117981–117981.
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Zhang, Wanfeng, Xiaoping Xia, Zexian Cui, et al.. (2023). Potential clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene reference materials for SIMS water content analysis. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 38(3). 609–618. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Junyong, Ming Tang, Cin‐Ty A. Lee, et al.. (2021). Rapid endogenic rock recycling in magmatic arcs. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3533–3533. 21 indexed citations
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Dien, Hamed Gamal El, Zheng‐Xiang Li, Mohamed Abu Anbar, et al.. (2021). The largest plagiogranite on Earth formed by re-melting of juvenile proto-continental crust. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 25 indexed citations
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Hao, Lu‐Lu, Qiang Wang, Derek A. Wyman, et al.. (2019). First identification of postcollisional A-type magmatism in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen. Geology. 47(2). 187–190. 36 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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Zhang, Wanfeng, Xiaoping Xia, Li Li, et al.. (2019). Optimization of SIMS analytical parameters for water content measurement of olivine. Surface and Interface Analysis. 52(5). 224–233. 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiao‐Lei, et al.. (2019). Neoproterozoic Low‐δ18O Zircons Revisited: Implications for Rodinia Configuration. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(2). 678–688. 40 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi‐Xiang, Attila Demény, Hans‐Peter Schertl, et al.. (2019). Tracing subduction zone fluids with distinct Mg isotope compositions: Insights from high-pressure metasomatic rocks (leucophyllites) from the Eastern Alps. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 271. 154–178. 34 indexed citations
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Xia, Xiaoping, Rui Rui, Sheng Quan, et al.. (2013). MNS16A Tandem Repeats Minisatellite of Human Telomerase Gene and Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e73367–e73367. 7 indexed citations
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He, Yanhong, Guochun Zhao, Min Sun, & Xiaoping Xia. (2008). SHRIMP and LA ICP MS zircon analyses on the Xiong'er volcanic rocks along the southern margin of the North China Craton. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 72(12). 1 indexed citations

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