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Sheng-Ao 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 Sheng-Ao Liu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 147 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sheng-Ao 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 Sheng-Ao Liu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sheng-Ao Liu is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research interests span several subfields, including Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with a particular focus on geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Sheng-Ao Liu has published papers in various scientific journals and has been involved in research presented in the following frequent publication venues:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Lithos
  • Chemical Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction" (2021), Science Advances
  • "The fate of subducting carbon tracked by Mg and Zn isotopes: A review and new perspectives" (2022), Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Antimony isotope fractionation in hydrothermal systems" (2021), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Mg and Zn Isotope Evidence for Two Types of Mantle Metasomatism and Deep Recycling of Magnesium Carbonates" (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Evolution of Intraplate Alkaline to Tholeiitic Basalts via Interaction Between Carbonated Melt and Lithospheric Mantle" (2021), Journal of Petrology

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Sheng-Ao Liu's most common coauthors include:

  • Ze-Zhou Wang
  • Shuguang Li
  • Chun Yang
  • Tianhao Wu
  • Yuan-Ru Qu

Best Publications

  • Assembly of the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes in central Tibet by divergent double subduction

    Di Cheng Zhu;Shi Min Li;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Qing Wang

  • Magmatic record of India-Asia collision

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Qing Wang;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Sun-Lin Chung

  • Geochemical contrasts between early Cretaceous ore-bearing and ore-barren high-Mg adakites in central-eastern China: Implications for petrogenesis and Cu–Au mineralization

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Shuguang Li;Yongsheng He;Fang Huang

  • Post-collisional granitoids from the Dabie orogen: New evidence for partial melting of a thickened continental crust

    Yongsheng He;Yongsheng He;Shuguang Li;Jochen Hoefs;Fang Huang;Fang Huang

  • High-precision copper and iron isotope analysis of igneous rock standards by MC-ICP-MS

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Dandan Li;Shuguang Li;Fang-Zhen Teng;Fang-Zhen Teng

  • Investigation of magnesium isotope fractionation during granite differentiation: Implication for Mg isotopic composition of the continental crust

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Sheng-Ao Liu;Fang-Zhen Teng;Yongsheng He;Shan Ke;Shan Ke

  • Zinc isotope evidence for a large-scale carbonated mantle beneath eastern China

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Ze-Zhou Wang;Shu-Guang Li;Shu-Guang Li;Jian Huang

  • Zinc isotope fractionation during mantle melting and constraints on the Zn isotope composition of Earth’s upper mantle

    Ze-Zhou Wang;Sheng-Ao Liu;Jingao Liu;Jian Huang

  • Magnesium Isotopic Compositions of International Geological Reference Materials

    Fang Zhen Teng;Fang Zhen Teng;Wang Ye Li;Shan Ke;Wei Yang

  • Northward subduction of Bangong-Nujiang Tethys: Insight from Late Jurassic intrusive rocks from Bangong Tso in western Tibet

    Shi-Min Li;Di-Cheng Zhu;Qing Wang;Zhi-Dan Zhao

  • Contrasting zircon Hf–O isotopes and trace elements between ore-bearing and ore-barren adakitic rocks in central-eastern China: Implications for genetic relation to Cu–Au mineralization

    Fangyue Wang;Sheng-Ao Liu;Shuguang Li;Shuguang Li;Yongsheng He

  • Copper isotopic composition of the silicate Earth

    Sheng Ao Liu;Jian Huang;Jingao Liu;Gerhard Wörner

  • Copper and iron isotope fractionation during weathering and pedogenesis: Insights from saprolite profiles

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Fang-Zhen Teng;Shuguang Li;Shuguang Li;Gang-Jian Wei

  • Origin of the ca. 90 Ma magnesia-rich volcanic rocks in SE Nyima, central Tibet: Products of lithospheric delamination beneath the Lhasa-Qiangtang collision zone

    Qing Wang;Di-Cheng Zhu;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Sheng-Ao Liu

  • Synthesis of higher diamondoids and implications for their formation in petroleum.

    Jeremy E. P. Dahl;J. Michael Moldowan;Zhibin Wei;Paul A. Lipton

  • Slab-derived adakites and subslab asthenosphere-derived OIB-type rocks at 156 ± 2 Ma from the north of Gerze, central Tibet: Records of the Bangong–Nujiang oceanic ridge subduction during the Late Jurassic

    Shi-Min Li;Di-Cheng Zhu;Di-Cheng Zhu;Qing Wang;Zhidan Zhao

  • Copper and zinc isotope fractionation during deposition and weathering of highly metalliferous black shales in central China

    Yiwen Lv;Sheng-Ao Liu;Jian-Ming Zhu;Jian-Ming Zhu;Shuguang Li

  • Zinc isotope evidence for intensive magmatism immediately before the end-Permian mass extinction

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Huaichun Wu;Shu-zhong Shen;Ganqing Jiang

  • High-temperature inter-mineral magnesium isotope fractionation in mantle xenoliths from the North China craton

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Sheng-Ao Liu;Fang-Zhen Teng;Wei Yang;Wei Yang;Fu-Yuan Wu

  • Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction.

    Hua Zhang;Feifei Zhang;Jiu-bin Chen;Douglas H. Erwin;Douglas H. Erwin

  • Mg, Sr, and O isotope geochemistry of syenites from northwest Xinjiang, China: Tracing carbonate recycling during Tethyan oceanic subduction

    Shan Ke;Fang-Zhen Teng;Shu-Guang Li;Ting Gao

  • Compositional transition in natural alkaline lavas through silica-undersaturated melt–lithosphere interaction

    Ze-Zhou Wang;Sheng-Ao Liu;Li-Hui Chen;Shu-Guang Li;Shu-Guang Li

  • Cu and Zn isotope fractionation during oceanic alteration: Implications for Oceanic Cu and Zn cycles

    Sheng-Ao Liu;Ping-Ping Liu;Yiwen Lv;Ze-Zhou Wang

  • Corrigendum: Magmatic record of India-Asia collision

    Di Cheng Zhu;Qing Wang;Zhi Dan Zhao;Sun Lin Chung

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuguang Li
Shuguang Li China University of Geosciences
Di-Cheng Zhu
Di-Cheng Zhu China University of Geosciences
Zhidan Zhao
Zhidan Zhao China University of Geosciences
Shan Ke
Shan Ke China University of Geosciences
Fang-Zhen Teng
Fang-Zhen Teng University of Washington
Fang Huang
Fang Huang University of Science and Technology of China
Peter A. Cawood
Peter A. Cawood Monash University
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuanxue Mo
Xuanxue Mo China University of Geosciences

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