Xingguo Zeng

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 789 citations indexed

About

Xingguo Zeng is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xingguo Zeng has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 789 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 3 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xingguo Zeng's work include Planetary Science and Exploration (28 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (22 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (10 papers). Xingguo Zeng is often cited by papers focused on Planetary Science and Exploration (28 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (22 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (10 papers). Xingguo Zeng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Xingguo Zeng's co-authors include Chunlai Li, Xin Ren, Wei Zuo, Weibin Wen, Wangli Chen, Xiaoxia Zhang, Xingye Gao, Yan Su, Zhoubin Zhang and Ziyuan Ouyang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xingguo Zeng

28 papers receiving 721 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.

Nature of the lunar far-side samples returned by the Chang'E-6 mission

2024 77 citations Chunlai Li, Hao Hu et al. profile →
Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin

2023 77 citations Xingguo Zeng, Dawei Liu et al. Nature Astronomy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xingguo Zeng China	11	642	220	116	89	80	32	789
Weibin Wen China	13	662 1.0×	236 1.1×	120 1.0×	86 1.0×	73 0.9×	17	810
Jianjun Liu China	13	588 0.9×	179 0.8×	71 0.6×	69 0.8×	67 0.8×	49	758
Le Qiao China	21	884 1.4×	207 0.9×	57 0.5×	166 1.9×	74 0.9×	90	1.1k
Jianfeng Yang China	12	416 0.6×	153 0.7×	78 0.7×	60 0.7×	34 0.4×	44	573
Xingye Gao China	9	362 0.6×	141 0.6×	93 0.8×	58 0.7×	52 0.7×	16	455
Meng‐Hua Zhu Macao	20	1.1k 1.8×	214 1.0×	107 0.9×	263 3.0×	146 1.8×	83	1.3k
Valérie Ciarletti France	15	374 0.6×	136 0.6×	159 1.4×	114 1.3×	79 1.0×	54	610
Sheng Gou China	15	493 0.8×	137 0.6×	37 0.3×	112 1.3×	34 0.4×	57	571
B. Bussey United States	12	698 1.1×	242 1.1×	25 0.2×	144 1.6×	69 0.9×	32	793
Wenhui Wan China	17	514 0.8×	362 1.6×	46 0.4×	79 0.9×	29 0.4×	45	793

Countries citing papers authored by Xingguo Zeng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xingguo Zeng

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Wei, Xingguo Zeng, Xin Ren, et al.. (2025). Geological characteristics of Chang’E-6 landing area in micro-scale unveiled by new observation data. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4219–4219. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Zongyu, Chunyu Ding, Yan Su, et al.. (2025). Subsoil structure at the Chang’E-6 landing site revealed by in-situ Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Head, J. W., Lionel Wilson, M. A. Kreslavsky, et al.. (2025). The role of pre-existing topography in modulating lunar lava flow widths, depths and channel structure. Icarus. 435. 116564–116564.

Zuo, Wei, Xingye Gao, Di Wu, et al.. (2025). YOLO-SCNet: A Framework for Enhanced Detection of Small Lunar Craters. Remote Sensing. 17(11). 1959–1959.

Zhang, Xiaoxia, Wangli Chen, Xingguo Zeng, et al.. (2025). A new approach to color correction and equalization for generating mars global color image mosaics from Tianwen-1 MoRIC images. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 225. 291–301.

Liu, Bin, Xingguo Zeng, Rui Xu, et al.. (2025). Lunar surface and subsurface water revealed by Chang’e-6. Nature Astronomy. 9(12). 1776–1784.

Yan, Wei, Xin Ren, Xingguo Zeng, et al.. (2024). A New Global Reference Frame for Mars From Tianwen-1 Moderate Resolution Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–5. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Jianjun, Xin Ren, Wangli Chen, et al.. (2024). A 76-m per pixel global color image dataset and map of Mars by Tianwen-1. Science Bulletin. 69(14). 2183–2186. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Jianjun, Xiaoguang Qin, Xin Ren, et al.. (2023). Martian dunes indicative of wind regime shift in line with end of ice age. Nature. 620(7973). 303–309. 17 indexed citations

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Zeng, Xingguo, Dawei Liu, Yuan Chen, et al.. (2023). Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin. Nature Astronomy. 7(10). 1188–1197. 77 indexed citations breakdown →

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Su, Yan, Zongyu Zhang, Jianfeng Zhou, et al.. (2022). Hyperfine Structure of Regolith Unveiled by Chang’E-5 Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–14. 46 indexed citations

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Zuo, Wei, et al.. (2021). China’s Lunar and Planetary Data System: Preserve and Present Reliable Chang’e Project and Tianwen-1 Scientific Data Sets. Space Science Reviews. 217(8). 8 indexed citations

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Li, Chunlai, Yan Su, Elena Pettinelli, et al.. (2020). The Moon’s farside shallow subsurface structure unveiled by Chang’E-4 Lunar Penetrating Radar. Science Advances. 6(9). eaay6898–eaay6898. 146 indexed citations

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Liu, Jianjun, Xingguo Zeng, Chunlai Li, et al.. (2020). Landing Site Selection and Overview of China’s Lunar Landing Missions. Space Science Reviews. 217(1). 35 indexed citations

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Liu, Jianjun, Xin Ren, Wei Yan, et al.. (2019). Descent trajectory reconstruction and landing site positioning of Chang’E-4 on the lunar farside. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4229–4229. 65 indexed citations

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Li, Chunlai, Dawei Liu, Bin Liu, et al.. (2019). Chang’E-4 initial spectroscopic identification of lunar far-side mantle-derived materials. Nature. 569(7756). 378–382. 148 indexed citations

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Liu, Jianjun, Chunlai Li, Wenrui Wang, et al.. (2018). Extraction of lunar domes from Chang'E-2 data with new method. Icarus. 321. 29–33. 7 indexed citations

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Zeng, Xingguo, Wei Zuo, Zhoubin Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, & Chunlai Li. (2017). Topographic and geologic analysis of the Pre-selection landing sitesfor Chang 'E 5(CE-5) lunar sample returning mission of China. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2026. 3 indexed citations

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Zeng, Xingguo, et al.. (2013). Design and implementation of a web interactive thematic cartography method based on a web service chain. Boletim de Ciências Geodésicas. 19(2). 172–190. 4 indexed citations

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Brunke, Michael A., Simon P. de Szoeke, Paquita Zuidema, & Xingguo Zeng. (2010). A comparison of ship and satellite measurements of cloud properties in the southeast Pacific stratus deck. 2 indexed citations

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