Zhou Chuanming, Yan Kui, Hu Jie et al., 2001. The Neoproterozoic tillites at Lantian, Xiuning County, Anhui Province. Journal of Stratigraphy, 25(4):247-252,258.

Li Jun, Servais, T., Yan Kui, Zhu Huaicheng, 2004. A nearshore-offshore trend in the acritarch distribution of the Early-Middle Ordovician of the Yangtze Platform, South China. Review of Palaeonbotany and Palynology, 130 (1-4): 141-161.

Yan Kui, Li Jun and Liu Jianbo, 2005. Biodiversity of Early-Middle Ordovician acritarchs and sea level changes in South China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 50(20): 2362-2368.

Yan Kui and Li Jun, 2005. Ordovician biostratigraphy of acritarchs from the Meitan Formation of Honghuayuan Section, Tongzi, Guizhou, Southwest China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 29(3):236-256.

Meng Fanwei, Zhou Chuanming, Yan Kui, Yuan Xunlai, Yin Leiming, 2006. Biological origin of early palaeozoic and Precambrian Hydrocarbon source rocks based on C27/C29 sterane ratio and organic carbon isotope. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 23(1):51-56.(in Chinese with English abstract)

Li Jun, Wicander, R., Yan Kui, Zhu Huaicheng. 2006. An Upper Ordovician acritarch and prasinophyte assemblage from Dawangou, Xinjiang, northwestern China: biostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 139(1-4): 97-128.

Li Jun, Yan Kui, 2006. Radiation of Early-Middle Ordovician acritarchs in South China. In: Rong Jiayu, Fang Zongjie, Zhou Zhonghe, Zhan Renbin, Wang Xiangdong, Yuan Xunlai (eds.) Originations, Radiations and Biodiversity Changes-evidences from the Chinese Fossil Record. Bei Jing: Science Press. 317-333,871-873.

Yan Kui and Li Jun. 2007.Ordovician acritarchs from the Miaopo Formation of Yichang, hubei. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 24 (4): 422-433.

Li Jun, Servais, T., Yan Kui, Su Wenbo, 2007: Microphytoplankton diversity curves of the Chinese Ordovician. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, 178(5): 399-409.

Yan Kui, Li Jun, 2010. The palaeoenvironmental implication of Early-Middle Ordovician acritarch communities from South China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55 (10): 957？964.

Ji Liming, Yan Kui, Meng Fanwei, Zhao Min, 2010. The oleaginous Botryococcus from the Triassic Yanchang Formation in Ordos Basin, northwestern China: morphology and its paleoenvironmental significance. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 38: 175–185.

Li Jun, Servais, T., Yan Kui, 2010. Acritarch biostratigraphy of the Lower-Middle Ordovician boundary (Dapingian) at the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), Huanghuachang, South China. Newsletter on Stratigraphy, 43/3, 235–250.

Yan Kui, Servais, T., Li Jun, 2010. Revision of the Ordovician acritarch genus Ampullula Righi 1991. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 163: 11-25.

Yan Kui, Servais, T., Li Jun, Wu Rongchang, Tang Peng, 2011. Biodiversity patterns of Early–Middle Ordovician marine microphytoplankton in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299: 318-334.

Ji Liming, Meng Fanwei, Yan Kui, Song Zhiguang. 2011. The dinoflagellate cyst Subtilisphaera from the Eocene of the Qaidam Basin, northwest China, and its implications for hydrocarbon exploration. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 167: 40–50.

Yan Kui, Li Jun, Servais, T., 2013. An Early–Middle Ordovician acritarch and prasinophyte assemblage from Houping, Chongqing city, South China: Biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 198: 110–133.

Kui Yan, Jun Li, Fanwei Meng, 2014. An Early-Middle Ordovician acritarch and prasinophyte assemblage from the Meitan Formation in Qijiang, Chongqing, South China. GFF, 136: 298–302.

Servais, T., Jun Li, Molyneux, S. G., Rubinstein, C. V., Vecoli, M., Kui Yan, 2014. The palaeobiogeographical spread of the acritarch Veryhachium in the Early and Middle Ordovician and its impact on biostratigraphical applications. GFF, 136: 234-237.

Jun Li, Servais, T., Kui Yan, 2014. The Ordovician acritarch genus Rhopaliophora: Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 208, 1-24. （SCI收录刊物）

Wenhui Wang, Servais, T., Kui Yan, Vecoli, M., Jun Li, 2015. The Ordovician acritarch Dactylofusa velifera Cocchio 1982: a biostratigraphical and palaeogeographical index species. Palynology, 39: 125-141.

Kui Yan, Jun Li, and Servais, T., 2016. An overview of Chinese Silurian acritarch research. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53 (8): 808-814.

Kui Yan, Jun Li, Molyneux, S. G., Raevskaya, E. G., Servais, T., 2017. A review of the Ordovician acritarch genus Barakella Cramer & Díez 1977. Palynology, 41 (S1): 80–94.

Tang Peng, Huang Bing, Wu Rongchang, Fan Junxuan, Yan Kui, Wang Guangxu, Liu Jianbo, Wang Yi, Zhan Renbin, Rong Jiayu, 2017. On the upper Ordovician Daduhe Formation of the upper Yangtze region. Journal of Stratigraphy, 42(2): 119-133.

Servais, T., Molyneux, S. G., Jun Li, Nowak, H., Rubinstein, C. V., Vecoli, M., Wen Hui Wang, Kui Yan, 2018. First Appearance Datums (FADs) of selected acritarch taxa and correlation between Lower and Middle Ordovician stages. Lethaia, 51: 228-253.

Shan Longlong, Yan Kui, Li Jun, 2019. Abundance of dominant acritarch genera and the relative sea level changes. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 36(1): 45-56.

Zhang Yuandong, Zhang Junpeng, Yan Kui, Fang Xiang, Li Wenjie, Ma Xuan, Wu Xuejin, 2019. Early evolution of marine planktonic and nektonic ecosystems: questions and Chinese approaches. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93(supp.1): 169-172.

Chen Qing, Tang Peng, Yan Kui, Li Yue, 2019. Microfacies of limestones and sedimentary environment of the Pingliang Formation in Pingliang, Gansu, western margin of the North China Craton. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 36(2): 130-139.

Yan Kui, Servais, T., Shan Longlong, Li, Jun, 2020. Acritarch assemblages from the Middle– Upper Ordovician in the Aksu area, northwestern margin of the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Pal？ontologie, Abhandlungen, 295(2): 169-183.