Xiaoqiang Li

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
129 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Xiaoqiang Li is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoqiang Li has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Atmospheric Science, 57 papers in Paleontology and 52 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Xiaoqiang Li's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (71 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (51 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers). Xiaoqiang Li is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (71 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (51 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers). Xiaoqiang Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Germany. Xiaoqiang Li's co-authors include Xinying Zhou, John Dodson, Keliang Zhao, Zhisheng An, Zhou Weijian, Stephen C. Porter, Wu Xihao, Xiaodong Liu, Suming Wang and John E. Kutzbach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoqiang Li

121 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Asynchronous Holocene optimum of the East Asian monsoon

2000 834 citations Xiaoqiang Li et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →
Transcriptional regulation of strigolactone signalling in Arabidopsis

2020 248 citations Xiaoqiang Li et al. profile →
5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange

2020 158 citations Xinying Zhou, Yu JianJun et al. Nature Plants profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoqiang Li China	35	2.4k	1.5k	1.1k	815	812	129	4.3k
Elisabetta Boaretto Israel	42	1.4k 0.6×	3.7k 2.5×	1.8k 1.7×	367 0.5×	633 0.8×	237	6.4k
Xinying Zhou China	30	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	942 0.9×	762 0.9×	561 0.7×	127	3.3k
Houyuan Lü China	54	4.8k 2.0×	3.4k 2.3×	1.8k 1.7×	2.3k 2.8×	1.4k 1.7×	169	8.2k
Luo Wang China	34	2.3k 1.0×	687 0.5×	534 0.5×	229 0.3×	674 0.8×	120	3.5k
Daniel H. Sandweiss United States	26	1.0k 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	740 0.7×	665 0.8×	686 0.8×	60	2.9k
Mayke Wagner Germany	23	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	720 0.7×	482 0.6×	534 0.7×	63	3.0k
Anna Maria Mercuri Italy	34	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	746 0.7×	132 0.2×	347 0.4×	185	3.9k
Anne Alexandre France	28	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	596 0.5×	349 0.4×	307 0.4×	62	3.7k
Matthew J. Wooller United States	42	2.2k 0.9×	914 0.6×	620 0.6×	139 0.2×	2.6k 3.3×	149	4.6k
Lydie M Dupont Germany	42	3.3k 1.4×	971 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	68 0.1×	1.2k 1.5×	112	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoqiang Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoqiang Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Xinying, Hui Shen, Jingyi Wang, et al.. (2025). Morphological diversity of the Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) from Oxus civilization 4000 BP, Central Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science. 181. 106299–106299.

Li, Yanpeng, Xinying Zhou, Keliang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Cultivation and morphology of jujube (Ziziphus Jujuba Mill.) in the Qi River Basin of Northern China during the Neolithic Period. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2305–2305. 11 indexed citations

Dodson, John, et al.. (2024). Agriculture and Holocene deforestation in eastern China. Quaternary International. 691. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

Shên, Hui, Robert N. Spengler, Xinying Zhou, et al.. (2024). Seeing the wood for the trees: active human–environmental interactions in arid northwestern China. Earth system science data. 16(5). 2483–2499.

Zhou, Xinying, Shiqi Wang, Jie Ye, et al.. (2024). Two‐Stage Climate and Vegetation Change at the East Asian Monsoonal Margin Across the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39(9). 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Xinying, Jian Ma, Junchi Liu, et al.. (2024). Oasis civilization collapse under 3.9 ka climate event in Bactria, Central Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 337. 108793–108793. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Fan, Nan Sun, Xiaoqiang Li, et al.. (2023). Winter determines the annual:seasonal temperature change of Asia temperate monsoon region since mid-Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 322. 108386–108386. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Xinying, Jilong Yang, Guoqiao Xiao, et al.. (2023). Megacycles of climate and vegetation in East Asia since 3 Ma. CATENA. 229. 107195–107195. 7 indexed citations

Han, Fei, Huapei Wang, Xinying Zhou, et al.. (2022). Low dinosaur biodiversity in central China 2 million years prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(39). e2211234119–e2211234119. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinying, Yu JianJun, Robert N. Spengler, et al.. (2020). 5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange. Nature Plants. 6(2). 78–87. 158 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shên, Hui, Xinying Zhou, Alison Betts, et al.. (2018). Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 28(2). 187–197. 7 indexed citations

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Wei, Xueping, et al.. (2018). Distributional dynamics of a vulnerable species in response to past and future climate change: a window for conservation prospects. PeerJ. 6. e4287–e4287. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoqiang, et al.. (2017). Late Miocene Pseudolarix amabilis bract-scale complex from Zhejiang, East China. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0180979–e0180979. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Qing, Xiaoqiang Li, Xinying Zhou, Keliang Zhao, & Nan Sun. (2016). Quantitative reconstruction of summer precipitation using a mid-Holocene δ ¹³ C common millet record from Guanzhong Basin, northern China. Climate of the past. 12(12). 2229–2240. 12 indexed citations

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Dodson, John, Richard B. Banati, Xiaoqiang Li, et al.. (2014). Oldest Directly Dated Remains of Sheep in China. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 7170–7170. 36 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoqiang, et al.. (2013). Holocene climate and environmental changes reconstructed from elemental geochemistry in the Western Hexi Corridor. Acta Anthropologica Sinica. 32(1). 110. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoqiang. (2013). Research on Faunal Remains from the Yangjiesha Site in Hengshan County,Shaanxi Province. Acta Anthropologica Sinica. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jian, et al.. (2010). Molecular phylogeny of partial longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) inferred from 16S rDNA sequences.. Entomotaxonomia. 32. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jie, et al.. (2003). Study on younger forest population structure of Pinus bungeana in the Luliang Mountains. Xibei zhiwu xuebao. 23(2). 200–204.

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Li, Xiaoqiang. (2002). PALEOVEGETATION AND PALEOENVIRONMENT IN MIDDLE-LATE PLIOCENE YUSHE AND TAIGU BASINS, EASTERN SHANXI,CHINA. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology. 3 indexed citations

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