1. Wang Licheng*, Garzanti Eduardo, Cai Fulong, Zhang Jian, Shen Lijian, Nulay Pradit, Siritongkham Nuchit, Ding Lin, Wang Chengshan. 2023. The underestimated role of tectonics in the mid-Late Cretaceous desertification in SE Asia. GSA Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36839.1
2. Wang Licheng, Malkowski Matthew, Cai Fulong*, Shen Lijian, Saboor Abdus, Liu Chenglin, Ding Lin. 2023. A climate-driven transcontinental drainage system in the southeast Tibetan Plateau during the Early Cretaceous. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 248, 105615.
3. Licheng Wang, Lijian Shen*, Chenglin Liu, Nuchit Siritongkham. 2023. Formation of marine sylvite on the Khorat Plateau, Southeast Asia: Evidence from B isotopes, trace elements, and petrography. Sedimentary Geology, 444, 106315.
4. Wang Licheng*, Garzanti Eduardo, Shen Lijian, Nulay Pradit, Siritongkham Nuchit. 2022. Mid-Cretaceous drainage reorganization and exorheic to endorheic transition in Southeast Tibet. Sedimentary Geology, 439, 106221.
5. Shen Lijian, Wang Licheng*, Liu Chenglin. 2022. Age of the Mengyejing potash deposit in the Simao Basin, southwest China: constraints from detrital zircon U-Pb ages. Ore Geology Reviews, 149, 105097.
6. Wang Licheng*, Yuan Qin*, Shen Lijian,Ding Lin. 2022. Middle Eocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Gonjo Basin, eastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from palynological and evaporite records. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 818418.
7. Wang Licheng, Zhong Yisi*, Xi Dangpeng, Hu Jianfang, Shen Lijian, Dong Haowei, Liu Chenglin, Ding Lin. 2021. The Middle to Late Cretaceous marine incursion of the Proto-Paratethys Sea and Asian aridification: A case study from the Simao-Khorat salt giant, Southeast Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 567, 110300.
8. Wang Licheng*, Shen Lijian, Liu Chenglin, Chen Ke, Ding Lin, 2021. The Late Cretaceous source-to-sink system at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the provenance of the Lanping Basin. Geoscience Frontiers, 21, 101102.
9. Shen Lijian, Wang Licheng*, Liu Chenglin, Zhao Yanjun. 2021. Sr, S and O isotope compositions of evaporites in the Lanping-Simao Basin, China. Minerals, 11, 96.
10. Wang Licheng*, Shen Lijian, Liu Chenglin, Ding Lin, 2020. Evolution of the paleo-Mekong River in the Early Cretaceous: Insights from the provenance of sandstones in the Vientiane Basin, central Laos. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 545, 109651.
11. Zhong Yisi, Wang Licheng *, Xu Yuan, Zhang Yongming, Liu Chenglin, 2020. Microfacies and multi-isotope records of Anisian sequences from the Upper Yangtze Block: possible responses to tectonics and climate-driven relative sea-level change. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 109: 489-509.
12. Wang Xiaonan, Wang Licheng *, Chen Jianping, Zhang Shouting, Tarolli Paolo, 2020. Assessment of the external costs of life cycle of coal: The case study of southwestern China. Energies, 13, 4002.
13. Wang Licheng*, Liu Chenglin, Wang Chunlian, Xu Haiming, Zhang Yongming, 2017. Lithium isotope evidence for the source of potassium-rich brine solutes in the Jiangling Depression of central China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 91(1): 363-364.
14. Wang Yanlu, Wang Licheng*, Wei Yushuai, Shen Lijian, Chen Ke, Yu Xiaocan, Liu Chenglin, 2017. Provenance and paleogeography of the Mesozoic strata in the Muang Xai Basin, northern Laos: Petrology, whole-rock geochemistry, and U-Pb geochronology constraints. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106: 1409-1427.
15. Fei Mingming, Wang Licheng *, Li Yalin, Wei Yushuai, 2016. Thermal history of the Jurassic marine sequences in the Qiangtang Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau: implication for the hydrocarbon preservation. Geosciences Journal, 20(4): 463-375.
16. Wang Licheng*, Liu Chenglin, Fei Mingming, Shen Lijian, Zhang Hua, Zhao Yanjun. 2015. First SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages of the potash-bearing Mengyejing Formation, Simao Basin, southwestern Yunnan, China. Cretaceous Research, 52: 238-250.
17. Ma Pengfei, Wang Licheng *, Wang Chengshan, Wu Xinhe, Wei Yushuai, 2015. Organic-matter accumulation of the lacustrine Lunpola oil shale, central Tibetan Plateau: Controlled by the paleoclimate, provenance, and drainage system. International Journal of Coal Geology, 147-148: 58-70.
18. Wang Licheng*, Liu Chenglin, Gao Xiang, Zhang Hua, 2014. Provenance and paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous Mengyejing Formation, Simao Basin, southeastern Tibetan Plateau: Whole-rock geochemistry, U-Pb geochronology, and Hf isotopic constraints. Sedimentary Geology, 304:44-58.
19. Wang Licheng*, Wei Yushuai, 2013. Apatite fission track thermochronology evidence for the Mid-Cretaceous tectonic event in the Qiangtang Basin, Tibet. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 29(3):1039-1047.
20. Wang Licheng*, Wang Chengshan, Li Yalin, Zhu Lidong, Wei Yushuai, 2011. Sedimentary and organic geochemical investigation of Tertiary nonmarine oil shales in the central Tibet Plateau: Palaeolimnological and palaeoclimatic significances. International Journal of Coal Geology, 86(2-3):254-265.
21. Wang Licheng*, Wang Chengshan, Li Yalin, Zhu Lidong, Wei Yushuai, 2011. Organic geochemistry of potential source rock of the Tertiary Dingqinghu Formation in the Nima Basin, central Tibet. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 34(1):67-85.
22. Shen Lijian, Siritongkham, Nuchit, Wang Licheng, Liu Chenglin, Nontaso, A., Khadsri, W., Hu Yufei. 2021. The brine depth of the Khorat Basin in Thailand as indicated by high-resolution Br profile. Scientific Reports, 11, 1-8.
23. Liu Chenglin, Wang Licheng, Yan Maodu, Zhao Yanjun, Cao Yangtong, Fang Xiaomin, Shen Lijian, Wu Chihua, Lv Fenglin, Ding Ting, 2018. The Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic settings, paleogeography and evaporitic sedimentation of Tethyan blocks within China: Implications for potash formation. Ore Geology Reviews, 102: 406-425.
24. Shen Lijian, Liu Chenglin, Zhao Jianxin, Feng Yuexing, Wang Licheng, Zhou Jiaxi, 2017. The remaking of the Mengyejing potash deposit in Yunnan, China: Evidence from Rb-Sr isotopic systematics. Ore Geology Reviews, 89: 876-886.
25. Shen Lijian, Liu Chenglin, Wang Licheng, Hu Yufei, Hu Mingyue, Feng Yuexing, 2017. Degree of brine evaporation and origin of the Mengyejing potash deposit: evidence from fluid inclusions in halite. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 91(1): 175-185.
26. Wu Chihua, Liu Chenglin, Yi Haisheng, Xia Gguoqing, Zhang Hua, Wang Licheng, Li Gaojie, Wagreich Michael, 2017. Mid-Cretaceous desert system in the Simao Basin, southwestern China, and its implications for sea-level change during a greenhouse climate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 468: 529-544.
27. Ma Pengfei, Wang Chengshan, Wang Licheng, Li Yalin, Hu Jian, 2015. Sedimentology and organic properties of lower Tertiary lacustrine source rocks, Lunpola Basin, central Tibetan Plateau: Implications for hydrocarbon potential. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66: 1029-1041.
28. Bo Ying, Liu Chenglin, Zhao Yanjun, Wang Licheng. 2015. Chemical and isotopic characteristics and origin of spring waters in the Lanping–Simao Basin, Yunnan, Southwestern China. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry, 75(3): 287-300.
29. Liu Chenglin, Jiao Pengcheng, Lv Fenglin, Wang Yongzhi, Sun Xiaohong, Zhang Hua, Wang Licheng, Yao Fojun, 2015. The impact of the linked factors of provenance, tectonics and climate on potash formation: An Example from the potash deposits of Lop Nur depression in Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, Western China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 89(6): 2030-47.
30. Zhao Yanjun, Liu Chenglin, Zhang Hua, Wang Licheng, Liu Baokun, Lv Fenglin, 2015. Characteristics and formation mode of salt-bearing series in typical rift valley basin, Eastern China. Geosciences Journal, 19(1): 69-80.
31. Zhao, Y. J., Zhang, H., Liu, C. L., Liu, B. K., Ma, L. C., Wang Licheng, 2014. Late Eocene to early Oligocene quantitative paleotemperature record: Evidence from continental halite fluid inclusions. Scientific reports, 4:5776.
32. Pengfei Ma, Licheng Wang, Bo Ran, 2013. Subsidence analysis of the Cenozoic Lunpola Basin, central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 29(3): 990-1002.
33. Sun Tao, Wang Chengshan, Li Yalin, Wang Licheng, 2013. Geochemical investigation of lacustrine oil shale in the Lunpola Basin (Tibet): Implication for palaeoenvironment and Paleoclimate. Oil Shale, 30(2):101-116.