Zhi-Ming Dong

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Zhi-Ming Dong is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhi-Ming Dong has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Paleontology, 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Zhi-Ming Dong's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (36 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (32 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (21 papers). Zhi-Ming Dong is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (36 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (32 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (21 papers). Zhi-Ming Dong collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Zhi-Ming Dong's co-authors include Peiji Chen, Philip J. Currie, Dale A. Russell, Hai‐Lu You, Junchang Lü, Xing Xu, Xiaoting Zheng, Xiaochun Wu, Yoichi Azuma and Hans‐Dieter Sues and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Zhi-Ming Dong

39 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An exceptionally well-preserved theropod dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of China

1998 507 citations Zhi-Ming Dong et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhi-Ming Dong China	25	1.8k	1.1k	304	135	133	39	2.1k
Qi Zhao China	22	1.0k 0.6×	647 0.6×	181 0.6×	68 0.5×	534 4.0×	80	1.9k
Gloria Arratia United States	28	1.5k 0.8×	2.6k 2.3×	158 0.5×	131 1.0×	534 4.0×	97	3.4k
Hans‐Peter Schultze United States	28	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	148 0.5×	117 0.9×	227 1.7×	91	2.6k
Lianhai Hou China	21	1.3k 0.7×	745 0.7×	219 0.7×	178 1.3×	209 1.6×	38	1.8k
Zerina Johanson United Kingdom	30	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	175 0.6×	116 0.9×	568 4.3×	134	2.8k
Ivan J. Sansom United Kingdom	22	1.0k 0.5×	639 0.6×	63 0.2×	48 0.4×	294 2.2×	58	1.5k
Andrew R. Milner United Kingdom	26	1.8k 1.0×	969 0.9×	692 2.3×	166 1.2×	124 0.9×	85	2.1k
Ke‐Qin Gao China	33	2.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 4.2×	610 4.5×	208 1.6×	79	3.2k
Andrzej Elżanowski Poland	18	931 0.5×	632 0.6×	173 0.6×	186 1.4×	193 1.5×	47	1.5k
Sean P. Modesto Canada	31	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	386 1.3×	97 0.7×	54 0.4×	74	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhi-Ming Dong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhi-Ming Dong

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dong, Zhi-Ming, et al.. (2024). From predator to protector: Myxococcus fulvus WCH05 emerges as a potent biocontrol agent for fire blight. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1378288–1378288. 1 indexed citations

Xing, Lida, Martin G. Lockley, Hendrik Klein, et al.. (2015). A tetrapod footprint assemblage with possible swim traces from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Anning Formation, Konglongshan, Yunnan, China. Palaeoworld. 25(3). 444–452. 7 indexed citations

You, Hai‐Lu, Yoichi Azuma, Tao Wang, Yaming Wang, & Zhi-Ming Dong. (2014). The first well-preserved coelophysoid theropod dinosaur from Asia. Zootaxa. 3873(3). 233–49. 38 indexed citations

Xing, Lida, Martin G. Lockley, Tetsuto Miyashita, et al.. (2014). Large sauropod and theropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation of Lufeng County, Yunnan Province and palaeobiogeography of the Middle Jurassic sauropod tracks from southwestern China. Palaeoworld. 23(3-4). 294–303. 21 indexed citations

Xing, Lida, Eric M. Roberts, Jerald D. Harris, et al.. (2013). Novel insect traces on a dinosaur skeleton from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 388. 58–68. 28 indexed citations

Dong, Zhi-Ming, et al.. (2010). A New Juvenile Specimen ofLufengosaurus HueneiYoung, 1941 (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, Southwest China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84(1). 11–21. 7 indexed citations

Zheng, Xiaoting, Hai‐Lu You, Xing Xu, & Zhi-Ming Dong. (2009). An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures. Nature. 458(7236). 333–336. 139 indexed citations

Lü, Junchang, Yoichi Azuma, Zhi-Ming Dong, et al.. (2009). New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from western Mongolia and its palaeoecological implications. Geological Magazine. 146(5). 690–700. 40 indexed citations

Wu, Xiaochun, et al.. (2009). A New Theropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 83(1). 9–24. 24 indexed citations

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Lü, Junchang, JI Shu'an, Zhi-Ming Dong, & Xiao‐Chun Wu. (2008). An Upper Cretaceous lizard with a lower temporal arcade. Die Naturwissenschaften. 95(7). 663–669. 14 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhi-Ming & Junchang Lü. (2005). A New Ctenochasmatid Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 79(2). 164–167. 23 indexed citations

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Lü, Junchang, Yukimitsu Tomida, Yoichi Azuma, Zhi-Ming Dong, & Yuong‐Nam Lee. (2004). New Oviraptorid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Nemegt Formation of Southwestern Mongolia. 30. 95–130. 34 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaochun, et al.. (2003). A polydactylous amniote from the Triassic period. Nature. 426(6966). 516–516. 36 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiao‐Chun, Donald B. Brinkman, Anthony P. Russell, et al.. (1993). Oldest known amphisbaenian from the Upper Cretaceous of Chinese Inner Mongolia. Nature. 366(6450). 57–59. 29 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhi-Ming. (1993). Early Cretaceous dinosaur faunas in China: an introduction. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 30(10). 2096–2100. 17 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhi-Ming & Philip J. Currie. (1993). Protoceratopsian embryos from Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 30(10). 2248–2254. 22 indexed citations

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Russell, Dale A. & Zhi-Ming Dong. (1993). A nearly complete skeleton of a new troodontid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Ordos Basin, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 30(10). 2163–2173. 151 indexed citations

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Russell, Dale A. & Zhi-Ming Dong. (1993). The affinities of a new theropod from the Alxa Desert, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 30(10). 2107–2127. 107 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhi-Ming. (1993). The field activities of the Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project in China, 1987–1990. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 30(10). 1997–2001. 28 indexed citations

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Carroll, Robert L. & Zhi-Ming Dong. (1991). Hupehsuchus , an enigmatic aquatic reptile from the Triassic of China, and the problem of establishing relationships. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 331(1260). 131–153. 46 indexed citations

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