Zengqian Hou

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Zengqian Hou is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zengqian Hou has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Geophysics, 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Zengqian Hou's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (86 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (57 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (45 papers). Zengqian Hou is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (86 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (57 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (45 papers). Zengqian Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Canada. Zengqian Hou's co-authors include Zhiming Yang, Nigel J. Cook, Zhidan Zhao, Hongrui Zhang, Rui Wang, Yongjun Lu, Xuanxue Mo, Shan Ke, Guochen Dong and Zhusen Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Zengqian Hou

88 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Contribution of syncollisional felsic magmatism to continental crust growth: A case study of the Paleogene Linzizong volcanic Succession in southern Tibet

2008 588 citations Xuanxue Mo, Guochen Dong et al. profile →
Lithospheric Architecture of the Lhasa Terrane and Its Control on Ore Deposits in the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

2015 436 citations Zengqian Hou, Yuanchuan Zheng et al. Economic Geology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zengqian Hou China	29	3.7k	2.2k	455	262	178	98	4.2k
Pei Ni China	37	3.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	663 1.5×	185 0.7×	364 2.0×	185	4.1k
Jianxin Zhang China	45	5.5k 1.5×	2.4k 1.1×	559 1.2×	182 0.7×	240 1.3×	139	6.0k
Ming‐Xing Ling China	35	4.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	720 1.6×	173 0.7×	129 0.7×	99	4.7k
Chunji Xue China	32	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	424 0.9×	109 0.4×	241 1.4×	142	2.8k
Xian‐Wu Bi China	43	4.6k 1.2×	3.1k 1.4×	871 1.9×	242 0.9×	207 1.2×	142	5.3k
Lu Wang China	36	3.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	444 1.0×	110 0.4×	188 1.1×	162	4.2k
Leon Bagas China	37	4.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.4×	764 1.7×	173 0.7×	228 1.3×	179	4.6k
Hua‐Ning Qiu China	29	2.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	328 0.7×	122 0.5×	210 1.2×	96	3.4k
Craig J.R. Hart Canada	31	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	501 1.1×	114 0.4×	165 0.9×	85	3.7k
Christina Yan Wang China	42	4.7k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	879 1.9×	187 0.7×	129 0.7×	148	5.2k

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Zhang, Hongrui, Pinghua Liu, Shujuan Yang, et al.. (2025). Generation of the Zarshuran Gold Deposit in Northwest Iran Triggered by Exhumation of the Iman Khan Metamorphic Core Complex. Economic Geology. 120(6). 1503–1519.

Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2025). Texture and geochemistry of multi-stage hydrothermal scheelite in the Dongyuan porphyry-type W-Mo deposit, South China: Implications for the ore-forming process and fluid metasomatism. American Mineralogist. 110(12). 1977–1995. 1 indexed citations

Ouyang, Yongpeng, et al.. (2025). Geochronological, geochemical and isotopic constraints on the genesis of Cu mineralization in the giant Zhuxi W–Cu deposit, South China. Ore Geology Reviews. 184. 106767–106767.

Zhang, Hongrui, et al.. (2025). Formation of the Shuixie Cu–Co ore district in response to structural reactivation during block rotation in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Mineralium Deposita. 60(8). 1595–1621.

Zhang, Hongrui, Tom Blenkinsop, & Zengqian Hou. (2024). The Baiyangping vein-type polymetallic mineralization as a response to shear zone development and block rotation in SE Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Structural Geology. 189. 105272–105272. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Tao, et al.. (2024). Evolution of Silurian to Devonian magmatism associated with the Acadian orogenic cycle in eastern and southern Newfoundland Appalachians: Evidence for a three-stage evolution characterized by episodic hinterland- and foreland-directed migration of granitoid magmatism. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 136(11-12). 4648–4670. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yi, Jianping Zheng, Qing Xiong, et al.. (2023). Survived carbonates in orogenic dunites from recycling of subduction-related sediments. Lithos. 458-459. 107362–107362. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yanjuan, Xiangping Gu, Guochen Dong, et al.. (2023). Calcioancylite-(La), (La,Ca)₂(CO₃)₂(OH,H₂O)₂, a new member of the ancylite group from Gejiu nepheline syenite, Yunnan Province, China. Mineralogical Magazine. 87(4). 554–560. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yufei, et al.. (2023). Zircon xenocryst geochronology and implications for the Lhasa terrane evolution: Insights from Cenozoic volcanic rocks (Coqen, Tibet). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 255. 105763–105763. 1 indexed citations

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Chai, Peng, et al.. (2023). Implications of Nd isotopic mapping for crustal composition and metallogenesis in the Sanjiang orogenic belt (SW China). Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Lin, et al.. (2023). A machine learning approach to discrimination of igneous rocks and ore deposits by zircon trace elements. American Mineralogist. 109(6). 1129–1142. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanjuan, Fabrizio Nestola, Huaikun Li, et al.. (2023). In situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction of olivine inclusion in diamond from Shandong, China: implications for the depth of diamond formation. European Journal of Mineralogy. 35(3). 361–372. 4 indexed citations

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Hou, Zengqian, et al.. (2022). Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Granite Xenolith within the Lamprophyre at the Zhenyuan Gold Deposit (Yunnan Province, SW China). Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 96(2). 477–489. 6 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2021). Petrogenesis and Geodynamic Implications of a Newly Discovered Basanite Dike in Zaolin, Jingdezhen City, South China. Lithosphere. 2021(1). 1 indexed citations

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Chai, Peng, Hongrui Zhang, Zengqian Hou, & Zhiyu Zhang. (2019). Geochronological framework of the Damoqujia gold deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, China: Implications for the timing and geologic setting of gold mineralization. Geological Journal. 55(1). 596–613. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Zhenqing, et al.. (2018). Mineralogy and Chemistry of Sulfides from the Longqi and Duanqiao Hydrothermal Fields in the Southwest Indian Ridge. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 92(5). 1798–1822. 6 indexed citations

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Chai, Peng, Zengqian Hou, & Zhiyu Zhang. (2017). Geology, Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Constraints on the Fluid Evolution and Resource Potential of the Xiadian Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula. Resource Geology. 67(3). 341–359. 28 indexed citations

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Liu, Yingchao, et al.. (2016). Geology and chronology of the Zhaofayong carbonate-hosted Pb–Zn ore cluster: Implication for regional Pb–Zn metallogenesis in the Sanjiang belt, Tibet. Gondwana Research. 35. 15–26. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Yong, et al.. (2007). Stable isotope characteristics and origin of ore-forming fluids in copper-gold-polymetallic deposits within strike-slip pull-apart basin of Weishan-Yongping continental collision orogenic belt, Yunnan Province, China. Frontiers of Earth Science in China. 1(3). 322–332.

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Yuan, Wanming, Zengqian Hou, Sheng‐Rong Li, & Shicheng Wang. (2001). Fission track evidence on thermal history of Jiama polymetallic ore district, Tibet. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 44(S1). 139–145. 4 indexed citations

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