1. Shen, Y., Zhang, Q., Xu, Y., Li, M., Thiemens, M.H., 2024. Sulfur isotope anomalies in coal combustion: Applications to the present and early Earth environments. PNAS 121: e2408199121.
2. Li, M., Xu, Y., Sun, L., Chen, J., Zhang, K., Li, D., Farquhar, J., Zhang, X., Sun, R., Macdonald, F.A., Grasby, S.E., Fu, Y., Shen, Y., 2023. Deglacial volcanism and reoxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth. Science Advances 9: eadh9502.
3. Pohl, A., Lu, Z., Lu, W., Stockey, R.G., Elrick, M., Li, M., Desrochers, A., Shen, Y., He, R., Finnegan, S., Ridgwell, A., 2021. Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation. Nature Geoscience 14: 868-873.
4. Jiang, S., Zhou, X., Sachs, J.P., Luo, W., Tu, L., Liu, X., Zeng, L., Peng, S., Yan, Q., Liu, F., Zheng, J., Zhang, J., Shen, Y., 2021. Central eastern China hydrological changes and ENSO-like variability over the past 1,800 yr. Geology 49: 1386-1390.
5. Chen, X., Jiang, Z., Shen, Y., Li, R., Fu, Y., Liu, J., Han, H., Liao, H., Cheng, X., Jones, D.B.A., Worden, H., González Abad, G., 2021. Chinese regulations are working - why is surface ozone over industrialized areas still high? Applying lessons from Northeast US air quality evolution. Geophysical Research Letters 48: e2021GL092816.
6. Li, M., Grasby, S.E., Wang, S.-J., Zhang, X., Wasylenki, L.E., Xu, Y., Sun, M., Beauchamp, B., Hu, D., Shen, Y., 2021. Nickel isotopes link Siberian Traps aerosol particles to the end-Permian mass extinction. Nature Communications 12: 2024.
7. Hu, D., Li, M., Zhang, X., Turchyn, A.V., Gong, Y., Shen, Y., 2020. Large mass-independent sulphur isotope anomalies link stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Nature Communications 11: 2297.
8. Lin, M., Zhang, X., Li, M., Xu, Y., Zhang, Z., Tao, J., Su, B., Liu, L., Shen Y., Thiemens, M.H., 2018. Five-S-isotope evidence of two distinct mass-independent sulfur isotope effects and implications for the modern and Archean atmospheres. PNAS 115: 8541-8546.
9. Li, D., Zhang, X., Hu, D., Chen, X., Huang, W., Zhang, X., Li, M., Qin, L., Peng, S., Shen, Y., 2018. Evidence of a large δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg depth gradient for deep-water anoxia during the late Cambrian SPICE event. Geology 46: 631-634.
10.Shen, J., Pearson, A., Henkes, G.A., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., Li, D., Wankel, S.D., Stanley C. Finney, S.C., Shen, Y., 2018. Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the Late Ordovician glaciation. Nature Geoscience 11: 510-514.
11.Lu, W., Ridgwell, A., Thomas, E., Hardisty, D.S., Luo, G., Algeo, T.J., Saltzman, M.R., Gill, B.C., Shen, Y., Hong-Fei Ling, Edwards, C.T., Whalen, M., Zhou, X., Gutchess, K.M., Li, J., Rickaby, R.E.M., Jenkyns, H.C., Lyons, T.W., Lenton, T., Kump, L.R., and Lu, Z., 2018. Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean. Science 361: 174-177.
12.Sun, H., Xiao, Y., Gao, Y., Zhang, G., Casey, J.F., Shen, Y., 2018. Rapid enhancement of chemical weathering recorded by extremely light seawater lithium isotope at the Permian-Triassic boundary. PNAS 115: 3782-3787.
13.Zhang, G., Zhang, X., Hu, D., Li, D., Algeo, T.J., Farquhar, J., Henderson, C.M., Qin, L., Shen, M., Shen, D., Schoepfer, S.D., Chen, K., Shen, Y., 2017. Redox chemistry changes in the Panthalassic Ocean linked to the end-Permian mass extinction and delayed Early Triassic biotic recovery. PNAS 114: 1806-1810.
14.Zhang, G., Zhang, X., Li, D., Farquhar, J., Shen, S., Chen, X., Shen, Y., 2015. Widespread shoaling of sulfidic waters linked to the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction. Geology 43:1091-1094.
15.Shen, Y., Farquhar, J., Zhang, H., Masterson, A., Zhang, T., Wing, B.A., 2011. Multiple S-isotopic evidence for episodic shoaling of anoxic water during Late Permian mass extinction. Nature Communications 2: 210.
16.Zhang, T., Trela, W., Jiang, S-Y., Nielsen, J.K., Shen, Y., 2011. Major oceanic redox condition change correlated with the rebound of marine animal diversity during the Late Ordovician. Geology 39: 675-678.
17.Shen, S.Z., Crowley, J.L., Wang, Y., Bowring, S.A., Erwin, D.H., Sadler, P.M., Cao, C.Q., Rothman, D.H., Henderson, C.M., Ramezani, J.,Zhang, H., Shen, Y., Wang, X.D., Wang, W., Mu, L., Li, W.Z., Tang, Y.G., Liu, X.L., Liu, L.J., Zeng, Y., Jiang, Y.F., Jin, Y.G., 2011. Calibrating the end-Permian mass extinction. Science 334: 1367-1372.
18.Zhang, T., Shen, Y., Zhan, R., Shen, S., Chen, X., 2009. Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China. Geology 37: 299-302.
19.Nagy, R.M., Porter, S.M., Dehler, C.M., Shen, Y., 2009. Biotic turnover driven by eutrophication before the Sturtian low-latitude glaciation. Nature Geoscience 2: 415-418.
20.Shen, Y., Zhang, T., Hoffman, P.F., 2008. On the coevolution of Ediacaran oceans and animals. PNAS 105: 7376-7381.
21.Scott, C.,Lyons, T.W., Bekker, A., Shen, Y., Poulton, S.W.,Chu, X., Anbar, A.D., 2008. Tracing stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean. Nature 452: 456-459.
22.Nielsen, J.K., Shen, Y., 2004. Evidence for sulfidic deep water during the Late Permian in the East Greenland Basin. Geology 32: 1037-1040.
23.Shen, Y., Knoll, A.H., Walter, M.R., 2003. Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature 423: 632-635.
24.Shen, Y., Buick, R., Canfield, D.E., 2001. Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era. Nature 410: 77-81. (+Shen and Buick, 2004. Earth-Sci Rev 64: 243-272, and Shen et al., 2009. EPSL 279: 383-391).
25.Shen, Y., Schidlowski, M., 2000. New C isotope stratigraphy from southwest China: implications for the placement of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary on the Yangtze Platform and global correlations. Geology 28: 623-626.