Yunfa Miao

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
80 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yunfa Miao is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunfa Miao has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Atmospheric Science, 31 papers in Paleontology and 18 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Yunfa Miao's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (69 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (15 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (15 papers). Yunfa Miao is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (69 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (15 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (15 papers). Yunfa Miao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yunfa Miao's co-authors include Xiaomin Fang, Fuli Wu, Mark Herrmann, Chunhui Song, Xiaoli Yan, Qingquan Meng, Weilin Zhang, Shengli Yang, Shuang Dai and Gao Jun-ping and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Yunfa Miao

76 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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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.

High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Huaitoutala section in the eastern Qaidam Basin on the NE Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Province, China and its implication on tectonic uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau

2007 473 citations Xiaomin Fang, Weilin Zhang et al. profile →
What controlled Mid–Late Miocene long-term aridification in Central Asia? — Global cooling or Tibetan Plateau uplift: A review

2012 371 citations Yunfa Miao, Mark Herrmann et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →
A new biologic paleoaltimetry indicating Late Miocene rapid uplift of northern Tibet Plateau

2022 112 citations Yunfa Miao, Xiaomin Fang et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	How “wet islands” form – A case study of the Qilian Mountains on the arid northern Tibetan Plateau during the Middle Miocene 2025 ·Earth-Science Reviews ·Yongheng Yang, Yunfa Miao, Xuelian Wang, Jie Wu, (unknown), Tao Zhang, Liwu Li, Xiaomin Fang	2
2	Increased desertification exposure in dryland areas 2025 ·Ecological Indicators ·(unknown), Bao Yang, Guangjian Wu, Guangcai Feng, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Tao Che, Ying Zhang, Hong Yang, Xiaodan Guan, Chunlin Huang, (unknown), Yunfa Miao	0
3	A new method of automatic microcharcoal identification and its demonstration in revealing the spatial heterogeneity of fire over the past 40,000 years in China 2025 ·Quaternary International ·(unknown), Yunfa Miao, Yimin Li, (unknown), Ziyue Zhang, Yongtao Zhao, (unknown), Ping Zhang, (unknown)	0
4	High-elevation Qilian Mountains and its inspiration for tectonics and biodiversity during the late Middle Miocene 2024 ·Global and Planetary Change ·Yongheng Yang, Yunfa Miao, Xuelian Wang, Tao Zhang, Liwu Li	4
5	A visible light-mediated deoxygenation protocol for the synthesis of dipeptides, amides and esters without racemization 2024 ·Organic Chemistry Frontiers ·Ji‐Wei Ren, Qinglong Tan, Jianping Zuo, Yunfa Miao, Pan Zhang, (unknown), Yinfeng Han	0
6	Pollen assemblages reflect a Mid-Miocene precipitation gradient in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau 2023 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·Yunfa Miao, Teng Zhang, Kangyou Huang, Xiaoxin Wang, (unknown), Xuelian Wang, Yongheng Yang, (unknown), Hongyan Xu, Torsten Utescher	13
7	Tectonic and orbital forcing of the South Asian monsoon in central Tibet during the late Oligocene 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Chunsheng Jin, Deke Xu, Mingsong Li, Pengxiang Hu, Zhaoxia Jiang, Jianxing Liu, Yunfa Miao, Fuli Wu, (unknown), Qiang Zhang, (unknown), Qingsong Liu, Ran Zhang, Jimin Sun	20
8	Revised chronology of the middle−upper Cenozoic succession in the Tuotuohe Basin, central-northern Tibetan Plateau, and its paleoelevation implications 2023 ·Geological Society of America Bulletin ·Leyi Li, Hong Chang, Alex Farnsworth, Nathan A. Niemi, Peter D. Clift, Xiaoke Qiang, Chunsheng Jin, Jimin Sun, (unknown), Peng Zhang, Hongxuan Lu, Weiguo Liu, Balázs Bradák, Peng Lü, Yunfa Miao, Zhisheng An	5
9	Extreme-wind events in China in the past 50 years and their impacts on sandstorm variations 2023 ·Frontiers in Earth Science ·Yingsha Jiang, Yunfa Miao, Yongtao Zhao, Jingjing Liu, Yanhong Gao	8
10	Microcharcoals Reveal More Grass Than Trees During the Mid‐Holocene Optimum on the Chinese Loess Plateau 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Yunfa Miao, (unknown), Yongtao Zhao, Wenxia Han, Hongliang Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Ziyue Zhang, Yin Lu	7
11	Progress, problems and prospects of palynology in reconstructing environmental change in inland arid areas of Asia 2021 ·Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions ·Yongtao Zhao, Yunfa Miao, (unknown), Xianyong Cao, (unknown)	3
12	Miocene C₄ Grassland Expansion as Recorded by the Indus Fan 2020 ·Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ·Sarah J. Feakins, Hannah M. Liddy, Lisa Tauxe, Valier Galy, Xiaojuan Feng, Jessica E. Tierney, Yunfa Miao, Sophie Warny	33
13	Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and its constraints on paleontological, sedimentological and tectonomorphological evolution 2019 ·Earth-Science Reviews ·Xiaomin Fang, (unknown), Jinbo Zan, Weilin Zhang, Chunhui Song, Erwin Appel, Qingquan Meng, Yunfa Miao, Shuang Dai, Yin Lu, Tao Zhang	115
14	Paleoclimatic evolution of the SW and NE South China Sea and its relationship with spectral reflectance data over various age scales 2019 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·C. Liu, Peter D. Clift, Liviu Giosan, Yunfa Miao, Sophie Warny, Shiming Wan	19
15	Vegetation and fire anomalies during the last ~ 70 kain the Ili Basin, Central Asia, and their implications for the ecology change caused by human activities 2017 ·Yunfa Miao, Yougui Song, Yue Li, Shengli Yang, (unknown)	3
16	Holocene fire on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in relation to climate change and human activity 2016 ·Quaternary International ·Yunfa Miao, Dongju Zhang, Xiaomin Cai, Fang Li, (unknown), Yuanping Wang, Bing Liu	39
17	Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China 2016 ·Scientific Reports ·Yunfa Miao, Heling Jin, Jianxin Cui	28
18	Late Cenozoic continuous aridification in the western Qaidam Basin: evidence from sporopollen records 2013 ·Climate of the past ·Yunfa Miao, Xiaomin Fang, Fuli Wu, Maotang Cai, Chunhui Song, Qingquan Meng, Li Xu	94
19	Late early Oligocene East Asian summer monsoon in the NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from a palynological record from the Lanzhou Basin, China 2013 ·Journal of Asian Earth Sciences ·Yunfa Miao, Fuli Wu, Mark Herrmann, Xiaoli Yan, Qingquan Meng	45
20	Pollen evidence from Baode of the northern Loess Plateau of China and strong East Asian summer monsoons during the Early Pliocene 2011 ·Chinese Science Bulletin ·(unknown), Xiaomin Fang, Fuli Wu, Yunfa Miao	35

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