Yuejun Wang

19.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
251 papers, 16.9k citations indexed

About

Yuejun Wang is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuejun Wang has authored 251 papers receiving a total of 16.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 214 papers in Geophysics, 72 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 58 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Yuejun Wang's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (210 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (146 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (116 papers). Yuejun Wang is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (210 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (146 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (116 papers). Yuejun Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United Kingdom. Yuejun Wang's co-authors include Weiming Fan, Peter A. Cawood, Yuzhi Zhang, Guochun Zhao, Yanhua Zhang, Touping Peng, Guowei Zhang, Feng Guo, Aimei Zhang and Sanzhong Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Bioresource Technology.

In The Last Decade

Yuejun Wang

245 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

Phanerozoic tectonics of the South China Block: Key obser... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2012 2018 2013 2013 2017 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Phanerozoic tectonics of the South China Block: Key observations and controversies
    2012 966 citations Yuejun Wang, Weiming Fan et al. Gondwana Research profile →
  2. Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea
    2018 775 citations Yuejun Wang, Yunpeng Dong et al. profile →
  3. Locating South China in Rodinia and Gondwana: A fragment of greater India lithosphere?
    2013 587 citations Peter A. Cawood, Yuejun Wang et al. profile →
  4. Tectonics of South China continent and its implications
    2013 528 citations Yuejun Wang, Yunpeng Dong et al. profile →
  5. Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents
    2017 476 citations Peter A. Cawood, Yuejun Wang et al. profile →
  6. The onset of Pacific margin accretion in NE China: Evidence from the Heilongjiang high-pressure metamorphic belt
    2009 424 citations Yuejun Wang et al. profile →
  7. Tectonic setting of the South China Block in the early Paleozoic: Resolving intracontinental and ocean closure models from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology
    2010 400 citations Yuejun Wang, Weiming Fan et al. Tectonics profile →
  8. Closure of the East Paleotethyan Ocean and amalgamation of the Eastern Cimmerian and Southeast Asia continental fragments
    2017 302 citations Yuejun Wang, Xin Qian et al. profile →
  9. The giant South China Mesozoic low-temperature metallogenic domain: Reviews and a new geodynamic model
    2016 285 citations Yuejun Wang et al. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yuejun Wang China 67 15.5k 6.3k 2.7k 2.2k 1.2k 251 16.9k
Weiming Fan China 76 16.5k 1.1× 6.6k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 692 0.6× 184 17.1k
Zhidan Zhao China 63 16.5k 1.1× 6.9k 1.1× 976 0.4× 1.9k 0.8× 724 0.6× 293 17.4k
Xiaoping Xia China 56 11.0k 0.7× 5.0k 0.8× 624 0.2× 1.5k 0.7× 618 0.5× 283 12.5k
Xuanxue Mo China 51 12.0k 0.8× 5.2k 0.8× 605 0.2× 1.3k 0.6× 497 0.4× 157 12.7k
Qiang Wang China 63 12.5k 0.8× 5.8k 0.9× 573 0.2× 1.5k 0.7× 675 0.6× 403 14.3k
Franco Pirajno Australia 69 14.1k 0.9× 9.8k 1.6× 508 0.2× 2.4k 1.1× 846 0.7× 257 16.0k
Shuwen Dong China 52 9.2k 0.6× 2.4k 0.4× 1.6k 0.6× 569 0.3× 328 0.3× 202 10.4k
Honglin Yuan China 46 9.6k 0.6× 4.2k 0.7× 334 0.1× 1.7k 0.8× 670 0.6× 182 11.2k
Qing‐Ren Meng China 37 5.5k 0.4× 2.2k 0.4× 919 0.3× 674 0.3× 607 0.5× 84 6.4k
Qingchen Wang China 47 5.2k 0.3× 1.4k 0.2× 855 0.3× 950 0.4× 883 0.7× 181 7.0k

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All Works

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Jin, Jingjie, et al.. (2025). Provenance and Paleogeographic Evolution of the Upper Paleozoic–Lower Mesozoic Strata in Northern Laos. Journal of Earth Science. 36(3). 861–879.
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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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Zhang, Feifei, Yuejun Wang, Xin Qian, et al.. (2023). Paleo-Pacific subduction in Southeast Vietnam: Evidence from Late Cretaceous intrusive rocks in the Dalat zone. Lithos. 454-455. 107233–107233. 3 indexed citations
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Gan, Chengshi, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporal framework of the Jurassic mafic rocks in South China: Implications for two stages of intra-continental extension. Lithos. 466-467. 107456–107456. 3 indexed citations
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Qian, Xin, et al.. (2023). Multiple stages of continental rifting in Eastern Peninsular Malaysia: new insights from Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoids. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(5). 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Yang, Yan Gao, C.K. Morley, et al.. (2023). Pleistocene Accelerated Exhumation Within the Sumatran Fault: Implications for Late Cenozoic Evolution of Sumatra (Indonesia). Geophysical Research Letters. 50(2). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Zi, Xin Qian, Chengshi Gan, et al.. (2022). Migration and tectonic implications of Late Jurassic mafic magmatism in South China. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(6). 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuejun, Xin Qian, Peter A. Cawood, et al.. (2022). Cretaceous Tethyan subduction in SE Borneo: Geochronological and geochemical constraints from the igneous rocks in the Meratus Complex. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 226. 105084–105084. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuejun, Xin Qian, Peter A. Cawood, et al.. (2021). Prototethyan Accretionary Orogenesis Along the East Gondwana Periphery: New Insights From the Early Paleozoic Igneous and Sedimentary Rocks in the Sibumasu. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 22(5). 25 indexed citations
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Qian, Xin, et al.. (2021). Late Permian ultrapotassic rhyolites in SE Thailand: evidence for a Palaeotethyan continental rift basin. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(2). 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Yang, Yuejun Wang, Lindsay M. Schoenbohm, et al.. (2020). Cenozoic Exhumation of the Ailaoshan‐Red River Shear Zone: New Insights From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology. Tectonics. 39(9). 53 indexed citations
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Wang, Yang, et al.. (2020). Exhumation and landscape evolution in eastern South China since the Cretaceous: New insights from fission-track thermochronology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 191. 104239–104239. 30 indexed citations
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Gan, Chengshi, Yuejun Wang, Yuzhi Zhang, & Jian Zhang. (2016). The earliest Jurassic A-type granite in the Nanling Range of southeastern South China: petrogenesis and geological implications. International Geology Review. 59(3). 274–292. 39 indexed citations
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Cai, Yongfeng, Yuejun Wang, Peter A. Cawood, et al.. (2014). Neoproterozoic subduction along the Ailaoshan zone, South China: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from amphibolite. Precambrian Research. 245. 13–28. 106 indexed citations

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