| Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y CC Treat, T Kleinen, N Broothaerts, AS Dalton, R Dommain, TA Douglas, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (11), 4822-4827, 2019 | 131 | 2019 |
| The competing effects of terrestrial evapotranspiration and raindrop re-evaporation on the deuterium excess of continental precipitation Z Xia, MJ Winnick Earth and Planetary Science Letters 572, 117120, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
| Environmental controls on the carbon and water (H and O) isotopes in peatland Sphagnum mosses Z Xia, Y Zheng, JM Stelling, J Loisel, Y Huang, Z Yu Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 277, 265-284, 2020 | 33 | 2020 |
| The seasonality of deuterium excess in non‐polar precipitation Z Xia, JM Welker, MJ Winnick Global Biogeochemical Cycles 36, e2021GB007245, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| Centennial-scale dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds across the Drake Passage over the past two millennia Z Xia, Z Yu, J Loisel Geology 46 (10), 855-858, 2018 | 25 | 2018 |
| The response and sensitivity of deuterium and 17O excess parameters in precipitation to hydroclimate processes Z Xia, J Surma, MJ Winnick Earth-Science Reviews 242, 104432, 2023 | 17 | 2023 |
| Ecological response of a glacier-fed peatland to late Holocene climate and glacier changes on subantarctic South Georgia Z Xia, LT Oppedal, N Van der Putten, J Bakke, Z Yu Quaternary Science Reviews 250, 106679, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Quantifying the fingerprint of oceanic moisture source conditions in deuterium and 17O excess parameters of precipitation Z Xia Geophysical Research Letters 50, e2022GL101901, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| Temperature-dependent oxygen isotope fractionation in plant cellulose biosynthesis revealed by a global dataset of peat mosses Z Xia, Z Yu Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 307, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Kill dates from re-exposed black mosses constrain past glacier advances in the northern Antarctic Peninsula DV Groff, DW Beilman, Z Yu, D Ford, Z Xia Geology 51 (3), 257–261, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| The zonal patterns in late Quaternary tropical South American precipitation T Kukla, MJ Winnick, MM Laguë, Z Xia Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38 (4), e2022PA004498, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| The influence of synoptic weather types and moisture transport pathways on precipitation isotopes in southern Patagonia Z Xia, N Butorovic, Z Yu Atmosphere 11 (5), 514, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| Applications of stable isotopes to studies of paleohydrology and paleoclimatology Z Xia, Z Yu Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology, and Society; Maurice, PA, Ed, 1-17, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Late-Holocene ecosystem dynamics and climate sensitivity of a permafrost peatland in Northeast China Y Xia, Z Yang, J Sun, Z Xia, Z Yu Quaternary Science Reviews 324, 108466, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
| Concordant changes in late Holocene hydroclimate across southern Patagonia modulated by westerly winds and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation J Loisel, K Sarna, Z Xia, Y Huang, Z Yu Geology 51 (3), 247–251, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| The growth and carbon sink of tundra peat patches in Arctic Alaska KG Cleary, Z Xia, Z Yu Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129 (6), e2023JG007890, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mid-to-late Holocene temperature variability in southwestern China H Zhong, C Zhang, J Sun, Z Xia, Z Yu, C Zhao Quaternary Science Reviews 353, 109231, 2025 | | 2025 |
| A millennium of cold and humid climate decreased carbon accumulation in the subtropical monsoon peatland B Liu, H Liu, Y Wang, Z Yu, Y Fu, Z Xia, C Miao, J Jia Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1), 12, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Major moisture shifts in inland Northeast Asia during the last millennium Z Xia, W Yang, Z Yu Environmental Research Letters 19 (12), 124005, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Synoptic-scale climate dynamics in southern Patagonia revealed through stable isotopes in precipitation and peat mosses Z Xia Lehigh University, 2020 | | 2020 |