Zhongli Ding

8.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
129 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Zhongli Ding is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhongli Ding has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Atmospheric Science, 36 papers in Paleontology and 34 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Zhongli Ding's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (112 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (33 papers) and Geological formations and processes (28 papers). Zhongli Ding is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (112 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (33 papers) and Geological formations and processes (28 papers). Zhongli Ding collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United Kingdom. Zhongli Ding's co-authors include Tungsheng Liu, Shiling Yang, Nat Rutter, Hanchao Jiang, Jimin Sun, Zhengtang Guo, Shangfa Xiong, Rixiang Zhu, Xu Wang and Zihua Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhongli Ding

128 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

CHINESE LOESS AND THE PALEOMONSOON

1998 552 citations Tungsheng Liu, Zhongli Ding profile →
Ice-Volume Forcing of East Asian Winter Monsoon Variations in the Past 800,000 Years

1995 441 citations Zhongli Ding, Tungsheng Liu et al. profile →
Warming-induced northwestward migration of the East Asian monsoon rain belt from the Last Glacial Maximum to the mid-Holocene

2015 255 citations Shiling Yang, Zhongli Ding et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Zhongli Ding	5.3k	2.2k	1.6k	1.1k	1.0k	129	6.8k
Shiling Yang	4.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	905 0.8×	707 0.7×	105	5.3k
Thomas Stevens	5.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	144	6.0k
Jan Bloemendal	5.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	970 0.8×	930 0.9×	94	6.7k
Daniel Arizteguí	4.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	845 0.7×	665 0.6×	187	5.7k
Weiguo Liu	6.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	505 0.5×	265	8.4k
Steven C. Clemens	9.1k 1.7×	3.1k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	806 0.8×	119	10.2k
Jörg F. W. Negendank	5.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	96	6.2k
Emi Ito	5.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	813 0.7×	2.3k 2.2×	154	8.6k
Yougui Song	3.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	800 0.5×	648 0.6×	747 0.7×	196	4.8k
Ulrich Hambach	5.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	873 0.8×	156	5.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhongli Ding

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Lu, Peng, et al.. (2025). Wetland methane feedback during the early Eocene hyperthermals. Geology. 53(5). 404–408. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Zhihui, Xin Cai, Chuyi Zhang, et al.. (2024). NEK4 modulates circadian fluctuations of emotional behaviors and synaptogenesis in male mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9180–9180. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Zhihui, Xin Cai, Zhongli Ding, et al.. (2023). Identification of a psychiatric risk gene NISCH at 3p21.1 GWAS locus mediating dendritic spine morphogenesis and cognitive function. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 254–254. 2 indexed citations

Ding, Zhongli, Jimin Sun, Shiling Yang, et al.. (2023). Freshwater ecosystem collapse and mass mortalities at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Global and Planetary Change. 227. 104175–104175. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Shihao, Shiling Yang, Wenying Jiang, et al.. (2023). BrGDGTs-based temperature and hydrological reconstruction from loess-paleosol deposits in the Eastern European Plain since 200 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews. 316. 108275–108275. 4 indexed citations

Ding, Zhongli, et al.. (2023). Strong Coupling Between Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Weathering During the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(9). 11 indexed citations

Chen, Yulu, et al.. (2022). Modern Silicate Weathering Regimes Across China Revealed by Geochemical Records From Surface Soils. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(10). 7 indexed citations

Huang, Xiaofang, Shiling Yang, Alan M. Haywood, et al.. (2022). Simulations reveal causes of inter-regional differences in Pliocene climatic periodicity. Science Bulletin. 68(2). 146–149. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Shiling, et al.. (2017). A strengthened East Asian Summer Monsoon during Pliocene warmth: Evidence from ‘red clay’ sediments at Pianguan, northern China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 155. 124–133. 35 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhongli, et al.. (2016). Paleoweathering and paleoenvironmental change recorded in lacustrine sediments of the early to middle Eocene in Fushun Basin, Northeast China. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(1). 41–51. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, et al.. (2011). CARBON-OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS OF PEDOGENIC CARBONATE FROM THE EARLY MIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE LOESS-RED CLAY IN THE VICINITY OF THE LIUPANSHAN REGION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EARLY ORIGIN OF C4 PLANTS IN THE CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU. 31(5). 799–811. 7 indexed citations

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Amiot, Romain, Xu Wang, Xiaolin Wang, et al.. (2011). Oxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(13). 5179–5183. 139 indexed citations

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Wang, Xu, et al.. (2008). On‐line measurements of δ ¹⁵ N in biological fluids by a modified continuous‐flow elemental analyzer with an isotope‐ratio mass spectrometer. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 22(8). 1196–1202. 4 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhongli, Robin B. Fong, Cynthia J. Long, Patrick S. Stayton, & Allan S. Hoffman. (2001). Size-dependent control of the binding of biotinylated proteins to streptavidin using a polymer shield. Nature. 411(6833). 59–62. 212 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhongli, Jimin Sun, & Dongsheng Liu. (1999). Stepwise advance of the Mu Us Desert since late Pliocene: Evidence from a red clay-loess record. Chinese Science Bulletin. 44(13). 1211–1214. 49 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shangfa, Zhongli Ding, & Dongsheng Liu. (1999). Comparisons of grain size characteristics of red earth from southern China with that of loess and dune sand from Bering region. Chinese Science Bulletin. 44(18). 1690–1693. 15 indexed citations

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Guo, Bin, et al.. (1999). Upper Jaramillo polarity transition and short geomagnetic event recorded in a loess section at Jingbian, northern China. Chinese Science Bulletin. 44(20). 1907–1914. 5 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhongli, Nat Rutter, & Tungsheng Liu. (1997). The onset of extensive loess deposition around the G/M boundary in China and its palaeoclimatic implications. Quaternary International. 40. 53–60. 34 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhongli, et al.. (1996). Climatic changes on millennial time scales--Evidence from a high-resolution loess record. Science China Earth Sciences. 39(5). 449–459. 21 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhongli, Nat Rutter, & Tungsheng Liu. (1993). Pedostratigraphy of Chinese loess deposits and climatic cycles in the last 2.5 Myr. CATENA. 20(1-2). 73–91. 96 indexed citations

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