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4688
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301

Chuan-Zhou Liu publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chuan-Zhou Liu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 102 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Chuan-Zhou Liu D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chuan-Zhou Liu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chuan-Zhou Liu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing particularly on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence applications, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, and Geology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Several frequent coauthors have appeared alongside Liu in publications, notably Tong Liu, Wei-Qi Zhang, Fu-Yuan Wu, Chang Zhang, and H. J. Dick. These collaborations span various projects and studies related to tectonic processes and geological formations.

Liu has published numerous papers in prominent scientific venues. Some of the frequent venues include Lithos with 16 publications, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta with 5, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology with 5, Zenodo through CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research with 5, and Chemical Geology with 4 publications.

Notable papers authored or coauthored by Liu include:

  • "Archean cratonic mantle recycled at a mid-ocean ridge," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Evidence for Multi-stage Melt Transport in the Lower Ocean Crust: the Atlantis Bank Gabbroic Massif (IODP Hole U1473A, SW Indian Ridge)," 2020, Journal of Petrology
  • "An origin of ultraslow spreading ridges for the Yarlung-Tsangpo ophiolites," 2021, Fundamental Research
  • "Subduction initiation triggered by accretion of a Jurassic oceanic plateau along the Bangong-Nujiang Suture in central Tibet," 2020, Terra Nova
  • "The Xigaze ophiolite: fossil ultraslow-spreading ocean lithosphere in the Tibetan Plateau," 2020, Journal of the Geological Society

Best Publications

  • Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

    Wei-Qiang Ji;Fu-Yuan Wu;Sun-Lin Chung;Jin-Xiang Li

  • Early Paleozoic to Devonian multiple-accretionary model for the Qilian Shan, NW China

    Wenjiao Xiao;Brian F. Windley;Yong Yong;Zhen Yan

  • Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic data from the Xigaze fore-arc basin: Constraints on Transhimalayan magmatic evolution in southern Tibet

    Fu-Yuan Wu;Wei-Qiang Ji;Chuan-Zhou Liu;Sun-Lin Chung

  • Ancient, highly heterogeneous mantle beneath Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean

    Chuan Zhou Liu;Chuan Zhou Liu;Jonathan E. Snow;Jonathan E. Snow;Eric Hellebrand;Eric Hellebrand;Gerhard Brügmann

  • Accretionary Tectonics of the Western Kunlun Orogen, China: A Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic, Long-Lived Active Continental Margin with Implications for the Growth of Southern Eurasia

    W. J. Xiao;B. F. Windley;D. Y. Liu;P. Jian

  • Zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the onset time of India-Asia collision

    Fu-Yuan Wu;Wei-Qiang Ji;Jian-Gang Wang;Chuan-Zhou Liu

  • Tethyan suturing in Southeast Asia: Zircon U-Pb and Hf-O isotopic constraints from Myanmar ophiolites

    Chuan-Zhou Liu;Chuan-Zhou Liu;Sun-Lin Chung;Sun-Lin Chung;Fu-Yuan Wu;Fu-Yuan Wu;Chang Zhang

  • Petrogenesis of the Ramba leucogranite in the Tethyan Himalaya and constraints on the channel flow model

    Zhi-Chao Liu;Fu-Yuan Wu;Wei-Qiang Ji;Jian-Gang Wang

  • Eocene Neo-Tethyan slab breakoff constrained by 45 Ma oceanic island basalt–type magmatism in southern Tibet

    Wei-Qiang Ji;Wei-Qiang Ji;Fu-Yuan Wu;Fu-Yuan Wu;Sun-Lin Chung;Sun-Lin Chung;Xuan-Ce Wang

  • Geochronology and petrogenesis of granitic rocks in Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

    WeiQiang Ji;FuYuan Wu;ChuanZhou Liu;SunLin Chung

  • Presence of an intralithospheric discontinuity in the central and western North China Craton: Implications for destruction of the craton

    Ling Chen;Mingming Jiang;Jinhui Yang;Zigen Wei

  • Early Eocene crustal thickening in southern Tibet: New age and geochemical constraints from the Gangdese batholith

    Wei-Qiang Ji;Fu-Yuan Wu;Chuan-Zhou Liu;Sun-Lin Chung

  • Anorthitic plagioclase and pargasitic amphibole in mantle peridotites from the Yungbwa ophiolite (southwestern Tibetan Plateau) formed by hydrous melt metasomatism

    Chuan-Zhou Liu;Fu-Yuan Wu;Simon A. Wilde;Liang-Jun Yu

  • Repeated kimberlite magmatism beneath Yakutia and its relationship to Siberian flood volcanism: Insights from in situ U–Pb and Sr–Nd perovskite isotope analysis

    Jing Sun;Chuan Zhou Liu;Sebastian Tappe;Sergey I. Kostrovitsky

  • The Gangdese magmatic constraints on a latest Cretaceous lithospheric delamination of the Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet

    Wei-Qiang Ji;Fu-Yuan Wu;Sun-Lin Chung;Sun-Lin Chung;Chuan-Zhou Liu

  • Fragments of hot and metasomatized mantle lithosphere in Middle Miocene ultrapotassic lavas, southern Tibet

    Chuan-Zhou Liu;Fu-Yuan Wu;Sun-Lin Chung;Zhi-Dan Zhao

  • Mesozoic accretion of juvenile sub-continental lithospheric mantle beneath South China and its implications: Geochemical and Re–Os isotopic results from Ningyuan mantle xenoliths

    Chuan-Zhou Liu;Zhi-Chao Liu;Fu-Yuan Wu;Zhu-Yin Chu

  • Formation of gabbronorites in the Purang ophiolite (SW Tibet) through melting of hydrothermally altered mantle along a detachment fault

    Chuan-Zhou Liu;Chang Zhang;Liu-Yang Yang;Liang-Liang Zhang

  • Zedong terrane revisited: An intra-oceanic arc within Neo-Tethys or a part of the Asian active continental margin?

    Liang-Liang Zhang;Chuan-Zhou Liu;Fu-Yuan Wu;Wei-Qiang Ji

  • Magmatic evolution of the Western Myanmar Arc documented by U–Pb and Hf isotopes in detrital zircon

    Jian-Gang Wang;Fu-Yuan Wu;Xiu-Cheng Tan;Chuan-Zhou Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei-Qiang Ji
Wei-Qiang Ji Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Zhu-Yin Chu
Zhu-Yin Chu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christopher J. MacLeod
Christopher J. MacLeod Cardiff University
Tomoaki Morishita
Tomoaki Morishita Kanazawa University
Riccardo Tribuzio
Riccardo Tribuzio University of Pavia
Mark A. Kendrick
Mark A. Kendrick Australian National University
Donna K. Blackman
Donna K. Blackman University of California, San Diego
Michael J. Cheadle
Michael J. Cheadle University of Wyoming

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