Xin-Fu Zhao

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Xin-Fu Zhao is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin-Fu Zhao has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Geophysics, 60 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 29 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Xin-Fu Zhao's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (91 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (60 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (48 papers). Xin-Fu Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (91 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (60 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (48 papers). Xin-Fu Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Australia. Xin-Fu Zhao's co-authors include Mei‐Fu Zhou, Jianwei Li, Paulo Vasconcelos, Xiao-Dong Deng, Xiaochun Li, Wei Terry Chen, Changqian Ma, Jianfeng Gao, Zorano Sérgio de Souza and Yue‐Heng Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Xin-Fu Zhao

88 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Giant Mesozoic gold provinces related to the destruction of the North China craton

2012 315 citations Jianwei Li, Mei‐Fu Zhou et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xin-Fu Zhao China	32	4.1k	2.6k	1.0k	203	187	98	4.5k
Pete Hollings Canada	38	5.1k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	889 0.8×	226 1.1×	194 1.0×	180	5.5k
Leon Bagas China	37	4.1k 1.0×	3.1k 1.2×	764 0.7×	135 0.7×	173 0.9×	179	4.6k
Kui‐Feng Yang China	38	3.6k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	996 0.9×	117 0.6×	155 0.8×	107	4.0k
Ming‐Xing Ling China	35	4.2k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	720 0.7×	223 1.1×	173 0.9×	99	4.7k
Hong‐Rui Fan China	47	6.2k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	171 0.8×	262 1.4×	191	6.8k
Noel C. White Australia	30	3.1k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	512 0.5×	104 0.5×	141 0.8×	97	3.5k
Zhaochong Zhang China	46	6.5k 1.6×	3.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	326 1.6×	168 0.9×	248	6.9k
F. P. Bierlein Australia	33	3.8k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	808 0.8×	117 0.6×	78 0.4×	98	4.1k
Hong Zhong China	41	3.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	698 0.7×	169 0.8×	126 0.7×	107	4.0k
T. Campbell McCuaig Australia	40	4.6k 1.1×	3.9k 1.5×	735 0.7×	121 0.6×	141 0.8×	74	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin-Fu Zhao

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All Works

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Spandler, Carl, Yingying Liu, Johannes Hammerli, et al.. (2025). The role of evaporites in Kiruna-type iron oxide-apatite deposits in the Northern Norrbotten region, Sweden: Evidence from in situ halogen analyses of scapolite. Chemical Geology. 694. 123009–123009.

Zhao, Xin-Fu, et al.. (2025). Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold (IOCG) deposits in the southwestern margin of the Yangtze Block and their relationship with the late Paleoproterozoic rift event. Science China Earth Sciences. 68(11). 3439–3453.

Zhao, Xin-Fu, et al.. (2025). Linking two types of breccias to sediment-hosted stratiform copper (SSC) and iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in the Kangdian metallogenic belt, SW China. Mineralium Deposita. 60(7). 1479–1502. 1 indexed citations

Moreto, Carolina Penteado Natividade, Roberto Perez Xavier, Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, et al.. (2025). Apatite cathodoluminescence and trace element geochemistry of Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits of the Carajás domain, Brazil: implications for fluid evolution and metallogenesis. Mineralium Deposita. 61(1). 189–218.

Li, Wanting, et al.. (2025). Magmatic-hydrothermal processes forming the Meishan iron oxide-apatite deposit in the Ningwu volcanic basin (Eastern China): Insights from trace element and Fe-O isotope data of magnetite. Ore Geology Reviews. 180. 106576–106576.

Wang, Jian, et al.. (2025). Origin and evolution of granitic pegmatite rare metal deposits in the northern Mufushan batholith, South China: Insights from muscovite chemistry. American Mineralogist. 110(11). 1702–1718. 1 indexed citations

Luo, Biji, Xin-Fu Zhao, Chao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Plagioclase as archive of the incremental assembly of the Quxu batholith, South Tibet: Implication for the nature of magma reservoir. Lithos. 472-473. 107564–107564.

Li, Xiaochun, et al.. (2024). Giant Rare Earth Element Accumulation Related to Voluminous, Highly Evolved Carbonatite: A Microanalytical Study of Carbonate Minerals From the Bayan Obo Deposit, China. Economic Geology. 119(2). 373–393. 15 indexed citations

Wen, Guang, Jianwei Li, Albert H. Hofstra, et al.. (2024). Trace element fractionation in magnetite as a function of Fe depletion from ore fluids at the Baijian Fe-(Co) skarn deposit, eastern China: Implications for Co mineralization in Fe skarns. American Mineralogist. 109(10). 1657–1669. 12 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xin-Fu, et al.. (2024). The role of iron-rich hydrosaline liquids in the formation of Kiruna-type iron oxide–apatite deposits. Science Advances. 10(17). eadk2174–eadk2174. 9 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xin-Fu, Liping Zeng, Stefan Weyer, et al.. (2023). Iron isotope fractionation during fluid metasomatism and ore-forming processes in magmatic-hydrothermal systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 355. 161–172. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Zhan-Ke, Jianwei Li, Huashan Sun, et al.. (2023). Gold mineralized diorite beneath the Linglong ore field, North China craton: New insights into the origin of decratonization-related gold deposits. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 12 indexed citations

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Li, Zhan-Ke, et al.. (2023). Magmatic fluids responsible for lode gold mineralization in the giant Linglong deposit at Jiaodong, North China Craton: Constraints from Li O isotopes. Chemical Geology. 638. 121696–121696. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaochun, et al.. (2022). Cathodoluminescent, chemical and strontium isotopic characteristics of apatite from Lanniping Fe-Cu deposit, southwestern China: Implications for fluid evolution in IOCG systems. Ore Geology Reviews. 145. 104882–104882. 8 indexed citations

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Zuo, Renguang, et al.. (2022). A geologically-constrained deep learning algorithm for recognizing geochemical anomalies. Computers & Geosciences. 162. 105100–105100. 41 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xin-Fu, et al.. (2020). Fingerprinting REE mineralization and hydrothermal remobilization history of the carbonatite-alkaline complexes, Central China: Constraints from in situ elemental and isotopic analyses of phosphate minerals. American Mineralogist. 106(10). 1545–1558. 21 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xin-Fu, Wei Terry Chen, Xiaochun Li, & Mei‐Fu Zhou. (2019). Chapter 13 Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits in China: A Review and Perspectives on Ore Genesis. 553–580. 7 indexed citations

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Deng, Xiao-Dong, et al.. (2014). In-situ LA-ICPMS trace elements and U–Pb analysis of titanite from the Mesozoic Ruanjiawan W–Cu–Mo skarn deposit, Daye district, China. Ore Geology Reviews. 65. 990–1004. 54 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xin-Fu & Mei‐Fu Zhou. (2011). Fe–Cu deposits in the Kangdian region, SW China: a Proterozoic IOCG (iron-oxide–copper–gold) metallogenic province. Mineralium Deposita. 46(7). 731–747. 146 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xin-Fu, et al.. (2010). Late Paleoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic Dongchuan Group in Yunnan, SW China: Implications for tectonic evolution of the Yangtze Block. Precambrian Research. 182(1-2). 57–69. 356 indexed citations

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